Sam Paradice is a co-founder and Truebell Financial Group’s Chief Investment Officer. He began working in the finance industry as a corporate credit analyst for the Banque Nationale de Paris (now BNP Paribas) in Sydney and Brisbane over 15 years ago. Subsequent to this, Sam worked as a private client adviser for Macquarie Bank and Merrill Lynch. In 2003, Sam returned home to Scone to co-found Parawarn Pty Ltd which owns the Morgans Scone office, of which he is the co-branch manager, and a major shareholder.
Sam specialises in investing in long-term, high-quality, well-managed industrial companies. He has traveled extensively in the USA interviewing and studying high quality management teams and business models particularly businesses within the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. These include Nebraska Furniture Mart, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, ACME Brick, Business Wire, Sees Candy and Scott Fetzer.
Sam has a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in French and economics and a post graduate diploma in business studies from the University of New England. He also has a Masters of Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia.