Meet our leadership team

Michael Churchill
About Michael

Michael is a founding member of Peloton Corporate and is a specialist in accounting, valuation and corporate advisory. Prior to establishing his own valuation consulting business in 2004, Michael was a partner in the PwC Valuation group in Brisbane and Melbourne. Michael coauthored  "Business Valuations Digest" and has authored numerous published articles relating to  valuations, expert reports, public sector commercialisation and value management.

Philip Bayley
About Phil

Phil is a commercial, economic and policy adviser. His consulting work includes corporate finance and transactions, commercial and strategy advice, feasibility and cost-benefit studies, and economic and market analysis. Until early 2025, Phil was also an investment adviser to a renewables developer and investment manager. Previously, Phil worked in Tasmanian Treasury’s commercial team in a role that involved overseeing major businesses and transactions in energy, water, financial services and debt capital markets, as well as portfolio-wide responsibilities. In the economics field, Phil has worked in Australian Treasury and was Chief Economist at the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Dominic Churchill
About Dominic

Dominic is a corporate finance and investment banking professional with over 10 years’ experience focused on valuations and corporate finance in public and private markets.

Prior to joining Peloton, Dominic was Associate Director – Head of Infrastructure at Chapman Capital Partners where he oversaw the firm’s capital markets and advisory services to infrastructure clients.

From 2015 to 2019, Dominic was the Managing Director of Climate Capital, a renewable energy developer and investor focusing on projects which serviced ASX-listed, Government and large corporate clients.

In an advisory capacity, Dominic has been involved in a range of complex valuation engagements for compliance and decision-making purposes for institutional, corporate and ASX-listed clients.

Oliver Ciancio
About Oliver

Oliver has 15 years’ professional experience, comprising five years as an engineer in the resources sector and ten years in corporate advisory spanning M&A and capital raising.​

Since then he has led mandates for privately owned businesses across Australia as Managing Director of boutique advisory firm Innotech Advisory and co-founder of AFSL-licensed equity crowdfunding platform Swarmer. His engineering background gives him a practical understanding of the operational, technical and asset-intensive businesses he advises.​

Patrick Arnfield
About Patrick

Patrick has 15 years’ experience in corporate advisory with Deloitte and boutique advisory firms in Sydney, London and Adelaide, specialising in valuation, performance improvement, transaction support and CFO advisory services for corporate, small cap ASX and private equity owned portfolio clients.

He is intimately familiar with the valuation requirements of succession, equity raising, financial and tax compliance and litigation. Patrick holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Adelaide, is a Chartered Accountant and the holder of a Graduate Diploma in Finance from Kaplan.

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