An accomplished executive with extensive experience in property development structuring, strategic financial planning, and commercial negotiation, Sean Unwin is the managing director of FWTI in Sydney, Australia. He leverages more than two decades of experience in operations and financial management to provide CFO advisory services, with an emphasis on capital sourcing and mergers & acquisitions. More recently he spent time in the UAE assessing capital funding sources for the property development industry in Australia. Moreover, Sean Unwin aims to establish an offshore fund in the Abu Dhabi Global Market Special Economic Zone for equity and debt funding.
Previously, Sean Unwin served as the CFO and later CEO at the RK Group in Sydney, where he worked with investors in Australia and the UAE to identify investment opportunities, oversaw business expansion initiatives globally, and led efforts to expand the firm's market share in the property development, financial services, and regulated funds management sectors.
Moreover, he served as the managing director at LDM Global, during which time he oversaw all finance and operations functions and represented the firm in providing eDiscovery services to both the Legal and Insolvency Sectors for major markets in the US and the UK.
In addition, Sean Unwin was the chief financial officer at Geocon. During his tenure with the vertically integrated property development and hotel management group, he raised more than $1 billion in capital via tiered, staged, and crossed debt structures and saved $5 million in interest on one particular transaction through negotiating with financiers over debt funding. A chartered accountant, he began his career as a senior auditor at Deloitte .