adapt . evolve . grow .
Our team work alongside you to navigate through the new opportunities and challenges you encounter, offering guidance and expertise in developing effective strategies for growth. We assist you in managing business risks effectively while you adapt to changes while ensuring you meet your ongoing regulatory compliance requirements. Furthermore, we help you plan for the future, taking into account your long-term goals and ensuring your business remains adaptable and resilient.
With Avanzare as your partner, you can confidently focus on running your business while relying on our trusted advice and valuable insights to drive your success.
our leadership team
We understand the immense value that people and expertise bring to our clients. When clients choose to partner with us, they gain access to a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about advice. Our team possess a wealth of experience and possess a deep understanding of their respective fields.
Our team works together, leveraging their diverse perspectives and collective expertise to deliver comprehensive solutions that address the unique challenges our clients face.
Jaime Johns
Jaime is an experienced professional who has dedicated over two decades to collaborating within financial services.
Throughout her career, Jaime has gained expertise in nearly every aspect of financial advice and distribution. Having led Licensee and Private Wealth businesses through transformative periods, allowing her to leverage a diverse set of skills and experiences across advice, governance, research, portfolio construction, risk management, product development, and distribution.
Her focus is now providing consulting services to advice groups and corporate businesses of many different sizes. She is an experienced responsible manager, serving on advisory boards and as a non-executive director she has developed a reputation for her ability to support businesses to grow, navigate complex challenges and make sound judgments.
Position of Trust
At the heart of Jaime’s beliefs is the understanding that good advice centers on the educational exchange between an adviser and their clients understanding the advice that has been provided. Clients form a relationship of trust when they have understood the advice and value this provides to them. It sets a solid foundation to deliver an exceptional advisory experience long term.
Jaime considers herself fortunate to have commenced her career in a fee-for-service advice practice that was ahead of its time. This early exposure allowed her to understand, from the outset, that advice and the surrounding relationship are far more than the sum of their parts. She respects that exceptional advisers hold a privileged position of trust and often possess a greater understanding of their clients compared to other professionals supporting them. In essence, advisers become the caretakers of their clients' lives.
Solid and lasting relationships
For those who have yet to meet Jaime, what you see is what you get. She is a commercially astute individual with an infectious work ethic, displaying real passion for the advice industry and respect for the companies, teams, and communities she has had the privilege to be part of and contribute to.
Jaime defines success in this industry as being centered around relationships. She leads by example, expecting those she has led or worked alongside to exhibit curiosity, care, and a genuine embodiment of shared values, ensuring that these values are not just words adorning a wall.
As a sought-after thought leader in her field, Jaime frequently speaks at industry conferences and events, sharing her insights and expertise.
Ian MacIver
Ian has been working in Financial Services since 2004. He specialised in retirement planning and providing advice to people high net worth clients. He has worked for well-known companies like KPMG, Macquarie, and UBS, where he focused on regulatory compliance, risk consulting, and business change advice in the wealth management sector.
Since 2012, he has worked in regulatory compliance, risk consulting and business change advice within wealth management for KPMG, Macquarie and UBS and worked on significant financial advice projects for CBA/Colonial, Westpac /BT, NAB/MLC and AMP.
He has extensive experience with due diligence for business acquisitions and mergers providing insights of wealth/financial advice businesses from legal, risk, and revenue perspective.
Ian is also a skilled educator. He has taught all subjects of the Diploma of Financial Planning and has trained large groups of up to 400 people on financial advice projects.
In addition to his work in the private sector, Ian worked as a Senior Analyst at ASIC, specializing in the Financial Advisers division in 2017.
Ian holds degrees in Law from UNSW and Advanced Japanese Studies. He has also earned several financial qualifications, including a Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning, a Masters of Applied Finance and Investment, and is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
