Meet our team
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Alan Pashut
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BA LLB, DFP
FinancialAdviceOnline, the online division of MASU is the brainchild of Alan Pashut. He heads up and manages the business operations of the Division and is the Chief Compliance Officer of MASU.
Alan is a lawyer by profession and holds Bachelor degrees in Arts and Law. His entire professional career has been spent advising on legal, financial, commercial and taxation matters, initially working for a large commercial law firm and thereafter forming his own legal practice.
Alan moved into financial planning when he joined MASU in 1996. Alan is involved in all aspects of the planning and structuring of the financial affairs of high net worth and high-income individuals.
Alan is a Member of the Financial Planning Association.
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Suren Pather
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BEc (Hons) LLB (Syd) CFP Dip FP AMIAA LREA
Suren heads up the Marketing Division of FinancialAdviceOnline. His role mainly involves presenting seminars on financial planning matters for Financial Advice Online.
Suren’s experience in financial planning has led to an invitation to become the Chairman of the CFP (4) task force on revising the education standards for investment planning for new practitioners. Suren is also an accredited oral examiner for CFP’s, as selected by the Financial Planning Association of Australia.
Suren is regularly invited to appear on the television program “Your Money, Your Call” on the Sky Business Channel and to take part in panel discussions.
Suren also presents widely to medical audiences around the country on financial planning topics.
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Martin Speiser
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B.Com (NSW) CA CFP Dip. Mortgage Lending
Martin is a Certified Financial Planner and is one of the founding Directors of MASU. As an Authorised Representative of MASU, Martin attends to the financial planning needs of his niche client base, mainly middle and upper Corporate Management clients.
Martin’s career began as an audit and tax consultant with Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants.
He holds a Diploma of Financial Planning and the Diploma of Business (Real Estate) with the Real Estate Institute of NSW.
He is also a Chartered Accountant and accredited with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia as a specialist financial planner.
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Peter Tsiglopoulos
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BBus (Acc) CPA FPS
Peter is the Melbourne representative for FinancialAdviceOnline and services the clients who are based in Victoria and South Australia.
Peter is a qualified CPA accountant with 16 years experience in accounting, tax consulting, business consulting and financial planning.
Prior to joining MASU, Peter worked for Corporate Financial Management for four years as a financial planner and senior tax accountant. Prior to this he oversaw the South Australian operations of a franchising specialist firm.
Peter has received accreditation from CPA Australia as a Financial Planning Specialist (FPS) and is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
Peter heads up the MASU Melbourne office and focuses on business development, structures and strategies for servicing clients, administration systems and sourcing investment opportunities.
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Richard Van Akerlaken
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Dip FSI (FP)
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Richard is the Queensland representative for FinancialAdviceOnline.
Richard started giving financial advice in 1982, specifically advising on insurance matters as a risk specialist in the Newcastle area.
In 2000 he established the Dome Financial Group which became a leading financial services practice in Newcastle until it was sold in August 2007 at which time Richard joined MASU.
Richard has completed intensive insurance courses with the Lifewriters Association as well as the Agency Management Course. He holds the Diploma of Financial Services.
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Daniel Lee
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B Bus (IB), Dip. FP (FP)
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Daniel's speciality is in providing Financial Planning Advice in the areas of pre and post retirement planning, salary packaging, investments, superannuation, personal insurance, and tax effective gearing strategies.
Daniel's extensive experience comes from his time spent as a Financial Planner employed by the Wright, Patton, Shakespeare Financial Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Stirling Financial Solutions.
He is our most tech savvy member of the team and is often the first contact point for Financial Advice Online clients.
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