Mr Barry David BRAKEY, aged 65, has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Link since May 2024. He is also a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, the Finance and Investment Committee and the Remuneration Committee of Link.

Mr BRAKEY is a managing partner of CC Real International GmbH (CC Real), a European real estate investment and asset management company. He is the non-executive director of an Australian real estate debt investment manager, Madigan Capital Pty Ltd (a CC Real’s invested company). He is also a non-executive director of Mirvac Funds Management Australia Limited, the trustee of Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund and a member of the Mirvac Group (which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange).

Mr BRAKEY has over 40 years of global experience in the real estate and real estate investment sectors. From 2008 to 2018, he was the inaugural Head of Property for the Future Fund Management Agency, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund. He established and managed the property investment platform and programme for the Future Fund and built a high-quality property portfolio with exposures across the APAC region, the USA and Europe. He was the Founding Principal of Pinnacle Property Group Pty. Ltd. from 1988 to 2008, providing advice and leading real estate programmes for several leading Australian superannuation and investment funds. He began his career as a valuer at Knight Frank.

Between 2015 and 2019, Mr BRAKEY was a director of the Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Limited which owns Melbourne and Launceston Airports.

Mr BRAKEY holds an Associate Diploma of Valuations from RMIT University. He is a Certified Practicing Valuer, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Life Fellow of the Australian Property Institute. He was previously the national president of Australian Property Institute, the chair of the Victorian Board of Advisors of The Property Industry Foundation and a director of its National Board.