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Chris Stevens

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At a glance

Full Name
Chris Stevens
Title
Former Chief Financial Officer (now retired)
Firm
Rest (Retail Employees Superannuation Trust) — former; most recently GM Finance & Tax at Grow Inc / Grow Super
Firm Type
Australian industry superannuation fund (Rest) — *not* an angel-investment firm
Sector Focus
Superannuation / financial services (as a finance executive, not as an investor)
Geographic Focus
Australia
Location
Sydney, Australia

Background

Chris Stevens is an Australian financial-services executive who spent the bulk of his career in superannuation and custody banking in Sydney. Before joining Rest, he spent roughly 14 years at JPMorgan, working in the custody division and finishing that chapter leading a project to implement a new reporting system for the firm.

He served as Chief Financial Officer of Rest (Retail Employees Superannuation Trust) — one of Australia's largest industry super funds, established in 1988 — for more than a decade, from around 2008. His CFO role was made redundant in late 2018 as part of an executive restructure that followed the May 2018 appointment of Vicki Doyle as chief executive.

After leaving Rest, Stevens consulted for several organisations, including a customer-remediation project with Colonial First State (CFS) and a custodial review for Funds SA. He was then hired by Grow Super (Grow Inc), a superannuation administration and technology provider, as GM of Finance and Tax. He publicly noted his last day at Grow Inc in 2025, and his LinkedIn now lists his status as retired.

Investment Thesis & Focus

  • No stated investment thesis exists. Chris Stevens is not documented anywhere as an angel investor, and no personal investments, funds, or cheque sizes could be found.
  • His professional expertise is in corporate finance, tax, custody operations, financial reporting, and remediation within the superannuation and asset-servicing sectors — the "capital allocation" in his career has been institutional/operational, not venture.
  • If any investment activity exists, it would be as an individual acting privately; nothing is on the public record to quote or verify.

Notable Investments

  • None found. No portfolio companies, deals, rounds, or outcomes attributable to Chris Stevens as an investor could be verified. (His connection to a funded startup, Grow Inc, is as a finance *employee*, not an investor.)

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