Centennial Secures Key Senior Appointment with Industrial and Logistics Finance Professional Matt Knox as Chief Financial Officer

• Matt Knox joins Centennial as CFO and Executive Committee member
• Knox moves to Centennial after 17-year career at Frasers Property, including 10 years as CFO
• He most recently spent five years as CFO of Frasers Property Industrial, fiscally guiding the company into a $15B industrial powerhouse across Europe, UK and APAC

Centennial has brought Matt Knox onboard as Chief Financial Officer, following a 17-year career at Frasers Property, where he most recently headed its financial operations as CFO of the Singapore-based group’s $15B industrial and logistics platform throughout Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific. 

Knox, who also joins Centennial’s Executive Committee, is broadly considered to be one of the property industry’s sharpest financial strategists and most recently, was tasked with overseeing all financial and risk related matters at Frasers including the merger of its Australian and European industrial and logistics businesses.

Experienced across a broad spectrum of property asset classes, Knox joined Australand in 2007, which became part of Frasers Property in 2014 after the then Top 100 ASX-listed company was acquired by Frasers.

“Matt’s multi-layered experience in large-scale asset management, development and investment, and particularly in industrial and logistics will be a tremendous asset to Centennial, and we are delighted to welcome him onboard,” said Centennial Joint Managing Director, Adrian Taylor.

“Having held several senior executive positions over an impressive thirty-year career, Matt’s solid understanding of corporate governance and risk management developed at senior levels at publicly-listed companies, will be an asset to our dynamic team of professionals.”

Joint Managing Director Paul Ford added: “Centennial is a growing and agile national property fund manager and Matt shares that enthusiasm … I am confident he will play a pivotal role in helping to grow, diversify capital sources and generally strengthen our position both domestically and globally.”

A familiar face to many within property and financial circles, Knox joins Centennial at a time when the company is experiencing significant growth and milestones, with assets now under management valued in excess of $2.5bn plus a further $520+ million in the development pipeline creating a circa $3bn platform.