ABOUT US

Our Organisation

Deal Century Investments (DCI) are a boutique consultancy Group with strong knowledge and experience in financing and specialise in funding packages, mergers and acquisitions and debt/equity placement. We have an extensive network of strategic relationships across a multitude of industries that include property, infrastructure, mining, transport, construction, manufacturing and agriculture.
Our clients have access to our strong network of private and public corporations (from start-ups to NYSE-listed companies), broker-dealers, investment advisors, corporate investors, partnerships and hedge funds. DCI Group provides options to meet your needs and work directly with your Financials Advisors, Lawyers and Accountants to achieve the best outcomes.

Executive team

Maurice Byrne - Managing Director

Maurice is qualified in Finance and Financial Planning, Insurance, and Real Estate, and provides comprehensive technical expertise within finance, mergers and acquisitions, asset management, joint-venture arrangements, tapping equity markets, and banking syndicates. He has extensive experience in preparing off-take development finance packages, insurance wraps, commodity trade exports and trade credit certificates. He cultivates business relationships to introduce strategic investors and operations partners to all our projects to drive new and existing business development.

Contact Maurice: maurice@dciprojectfunding.com

Daniel Fowler - Director

Daniel has more than 13 years’ experience in finance, business banking, and producing shareholder reports for ASX listed companies. He worked for 7 years at a major bank in a high-paced business banking role specialising in all types of secured and unsecured lending and was recognised for achieving exceptional performance. Daniel has a MBA (Strategy and Planning) and also holds qualifications in Finance, Project Management, Governance and Science

Daniel sources funds from the major, second tier and private lending markets for large scale projects such as property developments, business acquisitions, out-of-the box scenarios, and unique commercial funding scenarios. Daniel also links investors with business opportunities to maximise and enhance business investment outcomes. He brings an entrepreneurial flair delivering new and effective ways to access finance.

Contact Daniel: daniel@dciprojectfunding.com
Ph: +61 421 757 917

Terry Smith - Chief Financial Officer - Director

Terrence J. Smith ( B.Com, ACA). Terry is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in corporate and management planning and strategies and specialises in corporate taxation law, acquisitions and mergers. Terry has recently been involved with the M&A Team securing the successful acquisition of one of Australia’s transport operations with depots across Australia, London and Singapore for $635 million. Terry previously was a partner in a large Chartered Accountancy firm for many years . He presently has extensive mining/quarrying operations near Toowoomba. Terry is also a Non Executive Director of private company groups specialising in Corrosion, Exporting, Building and Construction. Terry brings a very high level of financial experience to our company.

Laurence Oliver

Larry Olivier (nickname “Ziggy”) served as an Executive Director of one of Africa’s largest corporations with extensive international interests in mining, agriculture, retail, chain restaurants, franchised food groups and property before taking up a directorship with one of Australia’s largest companies. He has been responsible for developing many shopping centres and other commercial property throughout Australia and Africa.

When he retired from the corporate world at the relatively young age of 43, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Marketing, and a Fellow of the Retail Management Institute.
He started his own consultancy ‘’to keep busy’’ and over the past 32 years he has advised many private individuals and Companies throughout the world. Ziggy focuses on start- ups, mergers & acquisitions, strategic management, and property.

Patrick Brodnik - Chief Information Officer

Patrick specialises in Internet Marketing, Copyrighting, Administration and Global Communications. Patrick holds a Securities and Derivatives License and is certified in Financial Services and capital raising. Patrick has over 20 years’ experience within IT industry and 5 years’ experience in securing Intellectual Property rights for new technologies and inventions. Patrick is RG146 certified and is a corporate authorised representative under Ausfirst Compliance Partners.

Gavin Brown - Corporate Consultant - Mining and Civil

Gavin brings almost 50 years of mining experience to GMUI; having completed major civil and mining projects throughout Australia including but not limited to major road construction, civil earthworks and drainage, major Local Government infrastructure and mining projects. Gavin specializes in open-cut development and the infrastructure pertaining to and utilized in the overall production of the product through to the final process stage. During the past decade I have been involved at Senior Management level of major infrastructure expansion in the coal mining area for companies such as BMA, Xstrata and West farmers.

Gavin is a member of the Civil Engineering Institute of Engineering in Australia and hold diplomas in Local Government Engineering in both Queensland and New South Wales. Gavin also has qualifications in Plant Management [both mobile and stationary] within major projects and local and state government organizations. Over the last 5 years, Gavin has been helping prepare feasibility studies and assessing new mining projects with GMUI Geological teams both here in Australia and USA.