Meet our senior leadership team.
Adam Kaye
Founding Partner & Managing Director
Adam founded IDA in 2010 with the ambition to work on a more closely aligned basis with development and investment clients.
Adam’s proven track record and extensive relationships across domestic real estate and capital markets has helped IDA become an established and trusted source of real-estate backed investment opportunities for sophisticated investors as well as a reliable source of intelligent and accretive capital solutions for middle-market developers.
In addition to Adam’s day-to-day role and responsibilities with IDA, he also maintains active involvement across a range of extracurricular social, philanthropic and commercial initiatives.
Adam is Chairman of technology incubator Papercloud Ventures and director of edutech start-up Vivi International Ltd. Adam is also a member of the King David School Council and Finance & Risk Sub-Committee and chairs KDS’ Property & Building Sub- Committee.
Robbie Fallon
Partner & Chief Investment Officer
Robbie joined IDA as a partner in 2011 and leads IDA’s real estate credit and high yield investment teams.
With over 25 years of cross-border experience in Australia, Singapore and India, Robbie has a diverse background in real estate capital markets, development and land economics. Robbie’s broad capital markets and investment management skills have been applied across residential broad-acre and built form, office, industrial, retirement and tourism sectors.
Outside of his professional commitments, Robbie actively contributes to the growth of grassroots AFLW as the Director of Girls Football at his local junior club.
Jeremy Urbach
Partner & Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy joined IDA as CFO in 2020, bringing extensive experience in fund and asset management, capital raising, and transaction structuring. His career began at Macquarie Group’s real estate structured finance division, later moving to their real estate and infrastructure funds management arm. Prior to joining IDA, Jeremy founded Jameson Capital, a boutique real estate investment manager.
Jeremy currently serves on the State Council and as Treasurer for MND Victoria, the peak body for motor neuron disease support and has recently been appointed as a director of MND Australia. He is a Fellow of the Tax Institute reflecting his professional standing in finance and taxation.
Chris Dunwill
Chief Operating Officer
Chris is responsible for overseeing organisational systems and process. Chris joined IDA in 2023 with a background in financial and operating strategy, private wealth investment and organisational design. His prior roles have seen him lead teams in the comprehensive design, review and delivery of commercial and organisational strategies involving some of Australia’s largest transformations and improvement initiatives achieving rapid transformation, outperformance and growth.
Chris is a Chartered Accountant, certified financial modeler, practising risk manager, and trained change manager.
Olivia Sturgess
Head of Legal
Olivia is responsible for the structuring and execution of IDA’s portfolio of real estate debt and equity investments and also oversees the risk, legal and compliance divisions.
Prior to joining IDA, Olivia worked for industry peers where she was the Director of Structuring and Execution (Investment) and, prior to that, General Counsel. Her other experience includes working as a solicitor for one of Australia’s top-tier law firms, Minter Ellison. Olivia holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce.
Brodie Ross
Director - IDA Land Partners
Brodie is responsible for one of our principal capital allocations and core investment strategies, IDA Land Partners (ILP).
An experienced development professional with over 18 years experience in acquisitions, property development, investment analysis, project delivery, and capital transaction management, Brodie’s expertise spans various asset classes, including residential, land lease communities, commercial, retail, and industrial properties.
He has proven track record in acquiring individual sites, income-producing assets, and development businesses across Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia and holds tertiary qualifications in Property Economics and Business Management.
Jonathan Santi
Director - Investment
Jonathan leads front end investment assessment, due diligence, execution and reporting for IDA’s investment portfolio.
Prior to joining IDA, Jonathan worked with national ASX-listed property developers where he delivered and led a broad range of developments including land subdivision, residential and commercial projects. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Property and Construction and a Bachelor of Planning and Design.
Cheerag Sirsalewala
Director - Investment
Cheerag is responsible for the origination and structuring of IDA’s investment opportunities and also manages transactions and developer relationships.
Cheerag has more than a decade of capital markets experience across the real estate and infrastructure sectors in Australia and India. Cheerag is a CPA and holds a Masters in Commerce.
Gwen Leong
Director - Investment Operations
Gwen is responsible for the operation and administration of IDA’s portfolio of debt and equity investments along with investor relations.
Gwen comes from an internal audit background of 10 years in the banking and finance sector in Malaysia and more than 10 years’ experience managing operations (middle and back-office processes) in the Australian property finance and investment management industry.
She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge from her previous roles in managing investment and lending operations for MaxCap, Qualitas and Arch Finance.
Matt Afflitto
Investor Relations Manager
In Matt’s role as Investor Relations Manager he is responsible for developing, nurturing and maintaining client relationships, ensuring the highest level of communication and service is provided.
Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in real estate and investment, but most importantly of all, Matt exemplifies the character, qualities and values we aspire to as a client-first business.
Matt is a qualified accountant and Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA), is RG146 accredited and holds a Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy) with Distinction.
Outside of his professional commitments, Matt leverages his finance and accounting skills as Treasurer of the local soccer club where his two boys play.
