Wattlestone is a private investment company.
Wattlestone was established in 2015 as a private investment group owned by the Northcott family
Our portfolio spans across the energy, business services, financial and real estate sectors actively acquiring and operating businesses for the long term.
The core strategy of Wattlestone is to acquire or create new opportunities that are well positioned for profitable, long term growth and success, whilst focusing on developing and aligning top tier management to ensure enduring success of each group business. Wattlestone, leverages its proven systems and processes, Wattlestone Business Systems (WBS), to gain operational efficiency and promoting real time data driven analytical decision making. Our passionate and driven community of leaders are at the center of our existence and operate in a true meritocratic environment.
The forward thinking, systemised and disciplined approach by Wattlestone drives industry leading innovation, creating significant efficiencies and low cost operating models through our group businesses with a long established reputation for an absolute focus on the customer experience whilst maintaining the absolute highest of standards of professionalism, integrity and operational excellence.
The Wattlestone management team leverages prior management experience, our proven Wattlestone Business Systems and an extensive global network to successfully perpetuate the enduring success of the group businesses.
Andrew Northcott
Chairman
Andrew Northcott is the founder and Executive Chairman of Wattlestone having started multiple successful business ventures across a range of sectors including workforce management, technology, agriculture, tourism and real estate.
Alex Dignam
Chief Executive Officer
Alex is a corporate finance and capital markets executive with 17 years experience gained through various roles at Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank. His most recent role prior to joining Wattlestone was as Managing Director, Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets at UBS for Australia and New Zealand. Throughout his investment banking career, Alex worked on over 130 transactions, advising small, mid-cap and large companies in relation to acquisitions, divestments, capital structure changes, equity and debt raisings as well as equity derivatives spanning a broad range of sectors, including industrials, financials, infrastructure, energy, resources and real estate.
Wattlestone Core Values
Building something of
significance that will endure.
Momentum is
everything.
We aspire to be the best
at what we do.
Our disciplined approach
extends throughout the group.
We share a common passion
and inspire each other.
We are quietly confident
and openly humble.
We work only with people
whom we like, respect
and admire.
Continuous learning and
education is at our core.
Remain patiently opportunistic
and achieve great things.
Innovation is core
to our DNA.