Solon Brown
About
Solon Brown is from Australia. Solon is currently Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), located in Sydney, NSW. In Solon's previous role as a Managing Director, Investments & Corporate Development at Vulpes Investment Management, Solon worked in Singapore until Dec 2023. Prior to joining Vulpes Investment Management, Solon was a Head of Investments & Operations, Stronghold Capital (Vulpes PERE platform) at Vulpes Investment Management and held the position of Head of Investments & Operations, Stronghold Capital (Vulpes PERE platform) at Singapore. Prior to that, Solon was a Vice President at Vulpes Investment Management, based in Singapore from Sep 2013 to Jul 2015. Solon started working as National Manager, Group Business Development & Capital Transactions at Stockland in Sydney, NSW in Mar 2012. From May 2010 to Mar 2012, Solon was Investment Banking (Analyst to Associate) at RBS, based in Sydney, NSW. Prior to that, Solon was a Group Strategy & Corporate Development (Analyst to Senior Analyst) at Stockland, based in Sydney, NSW from Jan 2007 to May 2010. Solon started working as Assistant Analyst, Equities Research at Morningstar in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Aug 2004.
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Solon Brown's current jobs
Strategy consulting in the ANZ office, based out of Sydney, working across sectors on operating model, revenue, cost and growth problems for blue chip APAC clients. Casework to date has focused on operational excellence, digital transformations, and growth strategies across healthcare, transportation, and consumer retail industries.
Solon Brown's past jobs
Vulpes is a family office backed global opportunistic investment manager and successor to Artradis, formerly one of Asia's largest hedge funds. • Private investment and new-venture mandate for the family office, with a sustainability and resilience lens, reporting directly to the principal. • Co-founded Green Hedgehog Solutions, a project finance business for energy-efficiency upgrades in Southeast Asia.
Operating lead (formal title: Chief Investment Officer) at a real estate fund manager backed by Vulpes, investing in residential living sector assets in Germany. Built alongside its founders from USD 12m initial sponsor equity to USD 300m+ AUM across two Luxembourg-regulated funds. • Owned the operating P&L of two regulated funds: rent growth, vacancies, capex, property-management contract economics, working capital and dividend policy. • Operationally responsible for a 3-5 person Asset Management team in Germany, plus oversight of a 20-25 person Property Management JV. • Executed 25 transactions for combined value over USD 300m; flagship fund delivered 15% IRR against a 12% target ex performance fees (based on independent valuations). • Served on the Boards of the GP and all underlying holding entities, overseeing Lux regulatory compliance and governance.
Portfolio Manager for Vulpes’ global real assets, including agriculture and real estate. • Led commercial due diligence for the acquisition of New Zealand's largest commercial avocado growing operation at the time; including working with the independent valuer for a week in NZ to agree a ~5x increase in the valuation, which unlocked debt finance to secure the deal. • Helped design, market and launch Stronghold Capital, which I then joined from inception.
One of three National Manager seats, responsible for running the team's largest and most complex transactions, while the other two focused on specific asset sub-sector deal flow. • Closed the divestment of a legally complex $144m industrial asset (tripartite arrangement) • Led substantive work on an $800m industrial portfolio carve-out (trade-sale and IPO alternatives), a ~$1bn retail portfolio JV programme with sovereign wealth fund counterparties, and the modelling of a listed-competitor acquisition involving complex capital restructuring - each progressing to documentation but not completing due to market conditions. • At 28, I was one of the youngest National Managers in the company.
APAC Real Estate sector coverage across M&A, ECM, DCM, and strategic advisory. • Led financial modelling and pitchbook development for cross-border transactions, including a consortium takeover in the Netherlands (EV ~€2bn), a secondary HK listing for an A-REIT alongside a JV with a Chinese SOE (~$2bn), and the securitisation of a NSW State Government property portfolio (~$1bn) • Promoted from Analyst to Associate within seven months; approved for promotion to Vice President only 12 months thereafter, before the IB division was sold to CIMB in early 2012
In-house strategy and corporate development function supporting Board and Executive decision-making across major M&A, capital allocation policy, and competitor strategy. • Contributed analysis to the purchase of $650m in strategic equity stakes, a $1.9bn equity raising, and a $400m ASX-listed takeover, and commercial due diligence that supported the disciplined rejection of multiple large corporate acquisitions at the peak of the pre-GFC market • Led corporate finance analysis and supported ExCo/Board submissions across M&A triage, capital allocation policies, market entry studies, competitor benchmarking, and business unit strategy deep-dives • Designed proprietary methods for valuing retirement-village portfolios using actuarial and Monte Carlo techniques
Provided analytical support and market research for equity analysts covering ASX-listed companies (part-time)
Taught English to tertiary students in a remote part of Baoding, Hebei, China