MaxCap Group Appoints New State Director, VIC

MELBOURNE, 3 February 2021 – MaxCap Group, Australasia’s leading manager of commercial real estate (CRE) investment, today announced the appointment of Johnny Woodhouse to the position of State Director – MaxCap Victoria.

Johnny Woodhouse – State Director MaxCap Victoria

Johnny will be based in Melbourne with a focus on relationship management of MaxCap’s existing developer clients and spearheading the future growth of MaxCap’s VIC business. He will be primarily responsible for the origination and execution of structured real estate finance deals and developing relationships with borrowers.

“MaxCap has an exceptional track record, an institutional grade investment platform, and is on a significant growth trajectory. I am delighted to be joining the team,” said Mr Woodhouse.

Johnny has more than 15 years’ industry experience in investment and development finance. He joins MaxCap from National Australia Bank (NAB) where he was an Originations Director in the Bank’s Corporate & Institutional Property team. In that role, Johnny had responsibility for driving NAB’s debt business with family office and fund managers in Victoria. Prior to joining NAB, he held roles within ANZ’s Loan Structuring & Execution team in Melbourne and spent several years as a solicitor in the Mallesons Stephen Jaques Banking and Finance team.

Other recent MaxCap appointments

Johnny will report to Bill McWilliams, who himself has recently been promoted to the position of Chief Investment Officer, MaxCap Australia.

In December 2020, David Oudshoorn joined MaxCap as State Director – NSW to spearhead the future growth of the organisation’s NSW and ACT business. David will also report to Bill McWilliams.

These exciting changes will provide MaxCap Group Co-Founder, Brae Sokolski with greater capacity to drive new business activity across both debt and equity transactions, focus on corporate strategy, and support capital raising activities.

“Our leadership team is expanding with exceptional talent being added. We are delighted to be able to continue to attract high calibre professionals to our team,” said Mr Sokolski.