Management
MQA is managed by a team of executives employed by the Macquarie Group. The MQA management team includes senior executives from the former Macquarie Infrastructure Group and therefore provides continuity of management, knowledge and experience.
The key executives of MQA are:
Peter Trent
Chief Executive Officer
Peter is currently an Executive Director with Macquarie, having held senior advisory and fund management roles for Macquarie in both Europe and in Australia over the past 12 years.
Peter has over 25 years’ of infrastructure and capital markets experience covering a broad range of major investment transactions, principally within the transportation sectors. He has been actively involved in the development, management, operationand financing of toll roads in Australia, Europe and North America over the past 18 years and was previously head of European toll roads advisory within the Macquarie Group in London U.K., where he was actively involved in the bidding and development of toll roads across Europe on behalf of European concessionaires.
Prior to joining Macquarie, Peter was an Executive Vice President with Bankers Trust Australia.
Mary Nicholson
Chief Financial Officer
Mary is currently a Division Director with Macquarie and was formerly the Chief Financial Officer of MIG.
Mary joined Macquarie in 2002 as MIG’s finance manager and was an integral member of the MIG management team until its restructure into Intoll and MQA in February 2010. She was responsible for all aspects of MIG’s financial management, including the settlement of major transactions such as the IPO of Cintra and acquisition of APRR, arrangement and execution of MIG’s $1.5bn buyback program (a first for a listed trust in Australia), and the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards.
Prior to joining Macquarie, Mary worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ financial services audit practices in London and Sydney. Mary holds an FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, an MA from Cambridge University and a Master of Finance from INSEAD.