APTA Board of Directors
APTA Board of Directors
Regina Meani -
President
Regina is a freelance
consultant in market analysis; her work includes report writing for
research companies and broking houses with regular columns in the
financial press and she often appears in other media
forums.
Her company provides private tutoring and larger seminars, training
investors and traders in market psychology, CFD and share trading
and Technical Analysis. Prior to this she was an Associate Director
and Chief Technical Analyst for Deutsche Bank’s Australian Equities
Division.
She has lectured for FINSIA, Sydney University and the Australian
Stock Exchange (ASX) and is the author of the book Charting, An
Australian Investor’s Guide.
Regina is a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) and is President
of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts (APTA), is a
Director of the Australian Technical Analysts Association and has
belonged to the Society of Technical Analysts, UK (STA) for nearly
thirty years (MSTA). She is a Director of The International
Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) and Committee Chair and
Editor for the IFTA Journal.
John Gajewski - Treasurer
John has more than 20 years experience in Technical Analysis and
the foreign exchange, fixed interest and commodity markets and is a
foundation member of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts
(APTA) Inc.
Working with the Commonwealth Bank over that time he produced
the successful Chartpoints commentaries, providing analysis and
recommendations on forex, bonds and commodities to the bank's
traders and sales staff, institutional, corporate and business
clients.
In 2002 he was rated the best technical analyst on currencies in
Sydney.
John has also been an active participant in Technical Analysis
education, working with the Australian Technical Analysis
Association, the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) and FINSIA
(now Kaplan Professional) in developing and running Technical
Analysis courses.
John has 20 years experience in Technical Analysis and the foreign
exchange, fixed interest and commodity
markets.
Peter Pontikis - Director
Peter is an Alternative Investment Specialist at ANZ Private Bank in Brisbane. Peter’s previous roles included Group Treasury Strategist for Suncorp Australia, Head of Trading & Research for a hedge fund and Senior Financial Markets Strategist for Westpac Investment Bank. Prior to this, he ran an investment consultancy business.
Peter is also a Senior Fellow of FINSIA and sits on their National Policy Advisory Council.
He is also a Committee Member on CPA Australia’s Finance and Treasury Centre of Excellence Committee.
He has co-authored several
books on foreign exchange and trading in financial markets.
Peter is a CPA and holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finanance
and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA), a
B.Ec in Economics & Economic Statistics and an M.A. in
Historiography from the University of Sydney and a B.A. (Hons) in
Modern Greek & History from the University of New
England.
He is a foundation member of the Australian Technical Analysts (APTA) Inc and is a member of Society of Technical Analysts New Zealand (STANZ). He has been a foundation lecturer and examiner for the Kaplan Australia level 1 and 2 IFTA accredited Technical Analysis courses since 1995.
David Hunt - Vice
President
David is the immediate past President and a foundation member of the Australian Professional Technical Analysts Inc.
He is the principal of ADEST, a firm which provides education services to participants in the financial services industry.
He was previously a proprietary trader for Macquarie Bank and Forex Treasury Manager for Qantas.
He has 23 years trading experience in forex, options, shares and CFDs.
David regularly appears on the Your Money, Your Call program on the Australian Sky News Business Channel on TV.
Larry Lovrencic - Vice
President
Larry Lovrencic is a
trader, a teacher, an author, an international speaker and is a
regular guest on financial television on the Your Money, Your Call
program on the Australian Sky News Business Channel.
Larry is a foundation
member and a Vice President of the Australian Professional
Technical Analysts (APTA) Inc. He is a Life Member, a
member of the Board of Directors and a former National Vice
President of the Australian Technical Analysts Association.
He has more than 20 years experience trading financial markets and
more than 10 years experience in teaching Technical Analysis.
Larry holds the Diploma in Technical Analysis awarded by the
Australian Technical Analysts Association and has also been awarded
the designation of Ceritfied Financial Technician (CFTe) by the
International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).
Larry is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of
Australasia (FINSIA), holds the Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance
and Investment, lectures and chairs the Task Force for the Fin231
Technical Analysis subject offered by Kaplan Higher Education
(Australia), chaired the Advisory Committee for the E171
Specialised Techniques in Technical Analysis subject and regularly
presents Technical Analysis seminars to members of the financial
services industry in South East Asia.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of IFTA, is the immediate
past Chair of IFTA's Accreditation Committee and Vice-Chair of
IFTA's Education and Body of Knowledge Committees and now Chairs
IFTA's Membersip Committee.
Larry is also the co-author of two books, Charting for
Dummies and FX Trading : An Australian Guide to Trading
Foreign Exchange.
Ken Henderson -
Secretary
Ken Henderson is a foundation member of the Australian Technical Analysts (APTA) Inc and is a past National President of the Australian Technical Analysts Association.
He has a substantial history in the financial services industry, successfuly managing portfolios in the superannuation sector.
Ken specialises in the analysis and trading of resource stocks.
Ken is also a co-author of
the book Charting for Dummies.
