Your Team
Get to know your team.

John
Practice Principal and Senior Financial Adviser
BComm, DipFP, CFP® – JP

Tracey
Senior Financial Adviser
BComm, BAppFin, DipFP, CFP®

Darren
Financial Adviser
Grad DipFP

Paul
Financial Adviser

Steven
Client Services Manager
We pride ourselves on our wealth of knowledge and expert advice, prioritising your financial future above all else.



John
John is a Certified Financial Planner and the founder of Abacus Wealth Solutions. With two decades of experience as a Financial Planner, Johns enjoys providing quality and understandable advice to his clients to secure their financial future. He feels an enormous sense of achievement when observing his clients enjoying the benefits earnt from his long term advice.
During his career John has received multiple acknowledgments from industry and feels his greatest achievement is being elected the National Chairman of the CFP Adviser Forum from 2017 to 2019 which was instrumental in assisting all participants in establishing successful financial planning partnerships nationally.
In his spare time, John loves travelling, enjoying adventures with his three active sons on their family’s cattle farm, and spending quality time with his wife.
Tracey
Tracey has been a financial adviser since 2003, previously managing a successful boutique financial planning business. Tracey has close relationships with all of her clients, ranging from young adults accumulating wealth to clients planning for, and in, retirement.
She enjoys providing tailored financial strategies for her clients by carefully understanding their needs. Tracey’s focus is on making a positive difference, helping her clients to not only make progress, but to find confidence in their financial affairs.
Away from the office, Tracey’s most important role is being a mother. Tracey enjoys reading, watching foreign movies and spending time with family and friends.
Darren
Darren takes a holistic approach when providing financial advice to his clients and is a firm believer that through detailed planning and regular reviews, financial advice will serve to alleviate financial pressure in times of need. Darren provides personalised financial advice, working closely with clients to establish financial pathways to meet their short and long-term financial objectives, he also holds a passion for creating retirement strategies for his clients to help them achieve their financial freedom and financial goals in retirement. His areas of expertise include financial planning, personal insurance, superannuation, retirement planning and income streams and wealth creation.
When not at work, Darren enjoys spending time with family and catching up with friends. Other interests include exercising, travelling with his wife.
Paul
Paul oversees and supports the client experience for the Financial Planners as well as provides administrative support in all areas of the Financial Advice process. Before joining Abacus in February 2022, Paul worked as a Financial Planner for 23+ years in one of Australia’s largest financial institutions.
During his spare time, Paul enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, gardening and travelling.
Steven
Steve oversees the management of Abacus’s administration team, and coordinates our client focused approach to communication. Before joining Abacus in 2014, Steve worked in the Banking & Finance industry for 20+ years in a variety of roles including Business Banking, Corporate Banking and Private Banking. In his spare time, Steve spends his time travelling with his wife and two children.