Andrew Rocks is the Managing Director of Announcer and its Founder. It was Andrew’s vision to establish a One-Stop-Shop for financial services in 1996, which has evolved into one of Australia’s largest independently owned firm. 

Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics, Diploma of Financial Services, and was awarded a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation in 2001 (one of the youngest in Australia)...

Adam Gale is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Announcer Group of Companies and Permanent Board Member. Adam joined Announcer in 2006 and rapidly climbed the ranks to become the General Manager of the Group. 

Adam has extensive experience in the financial services business, being the Compliance Manager within the AFSL and a Licensed Adviser. Adam is a permanent member of the Investment Management Committee...

Ray Albrighton is currently the Head of Announcer Financial Planning and is now responsible for 11 advisers, more than 2000 individual clients and $500m assets under management. 

Ray’s financial services career commenced in 2000, and as one of the foundation employees of the Announcer Group, Ray initially began his advising role by managing over 150 of his own clients...

Phil is a Senior Advisor with the Announcer Group and specializes in providing strategic advice to his wealth accumulation clients. 

Tony has been working in the financial services industry for over 10 years. Tony provides an broad range of strategic financial planning advice ranging from the establishment of self management super funds, cash management, risk management and debt restructuring.

He specialises in variety of strategies and tailors the advice to the clients to their personal wealth and superannuation needs...

Anthony is a senior adviser with the Announcer Group with 10 years experience in financial services. Anthony has 5 years experience in investment markets through various roles with Perpetual, Royal Bank of Canada and Insight investments (UK)...

Michael began his career in 2000 with a cadetship at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he spent two years preparing tax advice and strategy to corporate businesses Australia wide. He then decided to join the financial services industry with ING Australia where as relationship manager was working with their QLD adviser network manage their clients funds under management...

Kane’s primary role is to provide complete strategic financial advice to a portfolio of clients tailored to their individual needs and goals. He has a passion for helping his clients realise their goals. His focus encompasses complete personal finance and includes a detailed understanding of the relationship between cash flow management and budgeting, superannuation, insurance and investment portfolios to capitalize on a client's wealth generation and personal protection..

Joseph Gittany began working in financial services industry in 2005, his background is in construction and property development. Joseph has extensive experience in working together with financial planners in setting and researching tax effective strategies while understanding all key financial products available...

Simon has over 20 years working with small to medium enterprises rising to the level of financial controller of an organisation turning over $100 million.   He has also had a stint of 18 months in Asia as group financial controller.

He is now departing his knowledge to the growing small business clients of Announcer. Simon has helped small business from start up through the growth of the business to the eventual sale of the business...

Terry Oates is the Head of Announcer Law, and the senior lawyer in the group. Terry has over 40 years experience as a practicing lawyer, and lecturer at TAFE affiliated with  Wollongong University  and joined Announcer in 2008...

Chris joined the Announcer Group in January 2010 following an extensive 15 year career in Personal and Corporate banking. Chris’ recent Relationship Manager roles include 5 years within Commonwealth Banks Premium Banking and Corporate Banking Divisions and St George Bank’s Corporate Banking specialising in lending to businesses for property, and professional services acquisitions...

Domenic started at the Announcer Group in 2008 and has since moved through our company structure and worked first hand on the many facets of the finance industry. In his current role, Domenic focuses on providing property advice for individuals and self managed super funds...

Jenny commenced at Announcer Group in 2010 and formed part of the Lending division whereby providing consultation to new and existing clients. Jenny specialises in providing advice and recommendation in residential mortgages, refinances, variations,  debt consolidation and restructuring of debt. Jenny completed her Bachelor of Economics degree at the University of Sydney and is currently completing Certificate IV in Financial Services and MFAA/AML...

Con has been employed in the Announcer Tax team for 3 years after completing his Advanced Diploma in Accounting in 2007 while working in a customer service role for 6 years. By working closely with senior tax accountants in the preparation of individual and company tax returns, Con has been completing his degree in Business and Commerce majoring in Accounting at UWS...

Amy joined Announcer Tax in April 2009 and has extensive experiences in personal tax services. Previously, Amy worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in a tax role providing taxation services to high net wealth individuals. Amy has a Bachelor degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Sydney and is currently completing the chartered accountants program...

Priscilla has been a part of Announcer Tax team since 2008. Along with the team, she is responsible in completing the tax returns for a number of clients. She is eager to help the clients by bridging the communications between the clients and the Australian Taxation Office...

Monika Smith has been with Announcer since 2006. Extending on her studies completed in the Czech Republic, Monika has completed her Diploma of Financial Planning (Kaplan) and is currently doing her Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning...

Annelise completed qualifications in the creative realms of Industrial & Graphic Design, initiating her career with companies such as Uniden and Sunbeam marketing and designing appliances.  Realising her strengths lay in Studio Management and Project Management, Annelise enjoyed the next 10 years working with Design Studios & Agencies.  Managing and co-ordinating clients product launches, advertising, branding and packaging requirements...

Vlad has over 12 years of experience in development, implementation and evaluation of online marketing communications, strategies and plans. Originally starting out as website designer/developer, over the years he has extended his expertise to the field of rich media and online advertising.

Vlad has been with Announcer since the beginning and he is responsible for the online branding, social media, email marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).

Lia started at Announcer Group in 2008. Prior to joining the Announcer, Lia worked in the legal industry for 5 years. She has transposed her skills in office management and accounting to our team. Currently studying a Diploma of Financial Planning through Kaplan, Lia aims to further assist the advisors in overseeing the administration of over 2000 superannuation funds...

Ruth has been working at Announcer since 2009. In her role Ruth assists with helping the Advisers, administration, reception duties. Ruth completed her Certificate 3 in Childcare and worked in the industry for 4 years as well as doing Announcer crèche before moving into the office.