Collective Capital – a collaborative approach.
Collective Capital is a forward-thinking property investment group that works Australia wide. We take a thorough, detailed and responsible approach to investment and offer a fresh take on traditional investor relationships.
Because no two investors are the same, we spend significant time getting to know our clients and understanding what’s important to them. We’re big believers in the power of face-to-face time.
When it comes to creating solutions for our investors we’re not interested in prescribing a generic response; we’d prefer to get creative, make it personal and build a strategy around each client’s unique investor profile. Taking time to partner with our clients in this way means that we can create a customised approach that is both personalised and relevant, and ensures we tap into the greatest potential for every investment.
We view our investments as a shared collaborative journey, and we stand behind our investment choices. Our co-investment rule ensures that our interests are aligned with our investing partners throughout the entire investment cycle.
We aim to deliver returns for our partners through considered strategic development and execution. We start by developing a specific asset approach for each project then look at all the ways that we can deliver the strategy to achieve the best possible outcomes. We work hard to identify value-add opportunities and we draw on our local industry relationships to maximise investors returns.
Thanks to our years of extensive industry experience, we understand the complexities of a competitive investment market. This expertise means that we’re able to draw on a wealth of insights and established relationships. This highly specialised skill set, combined with our human-centric, collaborative approach, ensures we leverage the most favourable outcomes for our clients.
Nicholas Thompson
Nicholas started his property career in valuations and asset management, quickly learning where a building’s real value is won or lost.
Having co-founded the firm, he now leads investment origination, execution and capital deployment, targeting mispriced or undercapitalised assets where active management can lift returns.
He stays involved from acquisition through to leasing, repositioning and exit, consistently unlocking value beyond initial underwriting.
Outside work, Nicholas is a keen golfer and cyclist, drawn to sports where the scorecard does not lie.
Dale O’Dwyer
Dale became a chartered accountant to understand how money works, before nearly 20 years in property investment taught him that what drives investors is just as important.
As co-founder, Dale architects the financial structures that turn acquisitions into investor outcomes. He manages capital positioning, tax optimisation, lending negotiations and distribution design, translating complex financial engineering into decisions that investors can understand and act on. This rigour has built relationships spanning decades with investors who return because Dale treats their capital as carefully as his own.
Away from the office, Dale’s time goes to his children, and the long view that comes with watching value compound across generations.
Janna Stone
Janna’s instinct for how leasing decisions shape asset performance spans more than a decade in frontline commercial property. Before joining Collective Capital in 2026 she held senior roles at Cushman & Wakefield, working across both leasing and asset management.
She leads leasing strategy and tenant relationships across the portfolio, working from the conviction that tenant stability is what protects investor outcomes over time, and that today’s occupiers judge space differently from how they once did.
At weekends she can be found clocking up kilometres on long-distance runs, a discipline that rewards consistency over the quick win.
Paul Myers
With more than two decades structuring deals as a principal and raising the capital behind them, Paul has a sharp read on what makes an opportunity genuinely compelling.
He founded and led a Melbourne property investment and development group for 11 years, originating and structuring residential, commercial and mixed-use projects with private investors, family offices and institutional partners. Before that, he spent nearly a decade managing property and investment at Dunkeld Pastoral Co.
As Head of Capital, he draws on that principal-side experience to grow Collective Capital’s investor base and deepen its capital platform.
Outside of work, he stays active through cycling and rowing, and values time with family and friends.
Chris McNamara
With more than two decades navigating property investment and business strategy across Asia-Pacific, including board roles at ASX-listed firms, Chris brings a practical understanding of how deals succeed and fail across cycles and capital structures.
A chartered accountant who began his career at EY, Chris applies a disciplined, risk-aware lens to Collective Capital, pressing every opportunity on what must go right, what could go wrong, and whether the potential reward justifies the risk.
Beyond the boardroom, the same instinct shows in the garden, where he takes a patient view of timing and detail and waits to see what the seasons return.
Wayne Crawley
With over 50 years of experience across institutional-grade commercial real estate, Wayne brings extensive expertise in facilities management, operational performance and complex asset optimisation. He has overseen a broad range of commercial assets, with a strong focus on operational efficiency, tenant experience and protecting long-term asset value.
Throughout his career, he has delivered major building upgrade and sustainability initiatives, working closely with asset management teams to enhance building performance, improve environmental credentials and maintain institutional-grade property standards across commercial portfolios.
