Sam O'Connor

Sam has 12 years of private equity experience. Before co-founding Fortitude, Sam spent five years as an Investment Manager in Blue Sky's Growth Capital division, with earlier corporate finance and transaction advisory experience at PwC across mid- and large-cap buy and sell-side deals and IPOs, focused on energy, resources and consumer services.

He manages current Fortitude investee companies Aged Care Decisions, Aura Medical Group, Northpharm, Richard Jay Group and Shorthand. Sam was previously a director of exited Fortitude investments Better Medical, Digital Lifecycle Group, Foundation Early Learning, GM Hotels, Hospital Pharmacy Services, Machines4U and Shopper.

Sam is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters of Applied Finance (Dean's List) and a Bachelor of Business from QUT, and has completed Harvard Business School's Private Equity and Venture Capital executive program.