Sam Sicilia is Chief Investment Officer at Hostplus, one of Australia’s largest and most successful superannuation funds.  With its roots serving the hospitality and related industries, Hostplus has a unique member profile with an average member age of just 37.

As the leader of the investment team, Sam is also quite unique. Described by some as a polymath, Sam loves numbers, finds human behaviour fascinating and has a special affection for the beauty and precision of well-crafted language.

While he certainly would not include this on his business card, Sam has a PhD in mathematical modelling and theoretical physics and really stumbled into finance by accident via academia in 1994. 12 years later found himself establishing what would become one of the most successful investment teams in the country, and key supporter of Australia’s then nascent venture capital ecosystem.

What I really liked when researching Sam’s background, is that he is much less interested in listing his qualifications and much more interested in talking about the skills that have helped him achieve success:

• Lateral Thinking.
• Intuitive Reasoning.
• Problem Resolution.
• and Decision-making under uncertainty.

All of which have been required in very good measure over the last decade and a half in financial markets.

Companies

Zoox -  acquired by Amazon for well more than $1 billion 

Vaxxas – Vaccine delivery patches

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