Our team
People behind the work
Senior practitioners across property solutions, enterprise technology, and ERP — aligned to how Elev8 delivers integrated advisory.
Team · Elev8 Partners
Ivanka Li
Founder & Senior Advisor | Elev8 Partners
Ivanka Li is the founder of Elev8 Partners, a firm built for those who value precision, rigorous logic, and first-hand market authority.
With a professional background in corporate finance and accounting, Ivanka does not operate from a theoretical perspective. Her insights are forged from over a decade of active, front-line involvement in the Australian property and business market—not just as an advisor, but as an investor, business owner, and personal funder of early-stage ventures. This career-long immersion allows Ivanka to serve as the definitive bridge between high-level strategy and real-world execution.
Her work is defined by a commitment to precision. She doesn't just offer property solutions; she builds the structural frameworks that allow investors and business owners to move with certainty.
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Assets
Ivanka's expertise sits at the intersection of property, business structure, and project investment. Unlike traditional real estate advocates, Ivanka's strategies are rooted in deep technical expertise. Holding a Bachelor of Business Management and Finance and a Master of Professional Accounting, she possesses a sophisticated understanding of the fiscal mechanics behind high-value assets and business modelling. This background allows her to dissect balance sheets, tax implications, and ownership structures with the same level of scrutiny as the properties themselves.
She is frequently sought out by clients facing "messy" or complex scenarios—disputes, various stages of ventures, and intricate ownership structures—that require far more than a standard real estate perspective.
Strategic Advisory Scope
- Property Asset Strategy:Portfolio optimization, high-stakes buyer & vendor advocacy, and due diligence that treats property as a financial instrument.
- Business & Venture Support:Facilitating and funding every stage of ventures, identifying business solutions that align with a client's broader asset goals.
- Navigating Complexity: Acting as the lead strategist and coordinator between legal, tax, and finance professionals to ensure that property, business, and project-based decisions remain cohesive across all disciplines.
- Structural Resolution: Helping clients identify and navigate structural or stakeholder roadblocks that prevent assets from reaching their full potential.
Digital Influence & Market Penetration
Ivanka's ability to translate complex data and ideas into actionable insight is demonstrated by her dominant professional media presence. While many spend years building an audience, Ivanka successfully launched and scaled her WeChat channel ("Ivanka澳房护航") to achieve deep market penetration within a couple months. By focusing on high-level property strategy, municipal regulations, and macroeconomic policy, she has built a dedicated following of high-net-worth investors and business leaders who value logic over hype.
Strategic Coordination
Ivanka operates as a central strategist, serving to channel and coordinate high-level expertise. She identifies exactly where specialized input is required and ensures those professional threads—legal, accounting, and finance—are woven into a single, functional, and executable plan.
"I have spent my career in the front lines—investing, building, and navigating the complexities that people only read about in textbooks. My goal is to ensure my clients move with the same level of certainty and structural clarity that I demand for my own investments."
Team · Real estate
Jenny Chen
Senior Advisor, Global Wealth & Asset Strategy
Jenny Chen is a senior real estate professional specialising in investment advisory and international market expansion. She previously held the role of Associate Director at Colliers, along with analyst positions at JLL and Bain & Company, and a consulting role at AMP. She has facilitated over $3 billion in property transactions and built extensive partnerships with more than 1,000 agencies and channel networks across the Asia-Pacific region.
Known for her strong client relationships and strategic execution, Jenny plays a key role in connecting global investors with premium Australian property opportunities. She has also worked in a family office environment, managing a diverse portfolio of commercial real estate assets and playing an instrumental role in the sales, marketing, and operations of large-scale, master-planned premium residential developments.
Team · Property Solutions
Cameron Elliott
Project management & development consulting — residential and commercial property across Victoria and Australia.
Cameron Elliott is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the property industry, specializing in Project Management and Development Consulting. His impressive portfolio includes a diverse range of successful residential and commercial projects, such as a $100m+ affordable housing development in Footscray and multiple high-value childcare centers and apartment complexes. With a background that includes managing a successful inner-city Commercial Real Estate Agency, Cameron is recognized as a trusted advisor within the industry, known for his ability to navigate complex market challenges and drive organizational growth.
Holding a Bachelor of Applied Science in Property Valuation from RMIT and a Victorian Real Estate License, Cameron combines technical expertise with a passion for sustainable practices and emerging construction methodologies. He is a versatile collaborator who prides himself on creative problem-solving and a commitment to delivery.
Outside of his professional life, he enjoys outdoor recreation and spending time with his young family, bringing a well-rounded and grounded perspective to every partnership.
Legal · Altus Lawyers
Brendan Swift
Principal Lawyer & Managing Director, Altus Lawyers | Strategic Legal Partner
Brendan Swift is the Principal Lawyer and Managing Director of Altus Lawyers. With close to 30 years of experience in managing high level legal issues. With deep experience in commercial litigation, and corporate disputes, insolvency and legal strategy, Brendan is engaged by Elev8 Partners when clients require senior legal judgement to navigate complex legal challenges, stakeholder deadlocks, and high-stakes asset defence.
Where Elev8 Partners focuses on the strategic architecture and structuring of an asset, Brendan specializes in the resolution of sensitive and difficult matters when those structures face friction. He provides the critical legal analysis required to defend assets, resolve corporate disagreements, and extract capital from contentious scenarios.
He supports Elev8 Partners clients in areas such as:
- Corporate & Commercial Disputes:Resolving the "messiness of conflict" between corporations, directors, managing directors, and shareholder groups.
- Land & Real Estate Disputes: Navigating complex property litigation, regulatory investigations, and trust law matters.
- Insolvency & Restructuring: Advising creditors, directors, insolvency practitioners, and financial institutions on security enforcement and risk mitigation.
- Regulatory Context & Governance: deep experience in professional standards (including as Chair of the Disciplinary Panels for CPA Australia and acting as independent lawyers for a professional standards scheme) and for directors and individuals the subject of ASIC and ACCC investigations. He provides unmatched insight into regulatory accountability and professional compliance.
Brendan's orientation is highly practical. Drawing on his earlier career as an advisor to state government ministers and a private industry consultant in the motor trade, he possesses an extraordinary ability to dissect complex legal issues and translate them into succinct, transparent advice. He focuses on proportionate risk management and ensures clients understand their exact legal leverage, providing the absolute clarity needed to make objective, well-informed decisions under pressure.
Team · ERP · IT services & infrastructure · AI
Bobby Gaspar
Technology leader with 15+ years across CIO, CTO, and GM of Technology roles — ERP, enterprise IT services, infrastructure, and applied AI — in manufacturing, logistics, FMCG, and insurance.
Bobby structures programmes where systems are the operating backbone: inventory, finance, customer commitments, and regulatory evidence. The same discipline applies to IT service delivery, infrastructure reliability, and how AI augments workflows with clear data, governance, and ownership — not one-off pilots that bypass the ERP and the teams who run the business. His focus is clear scope, honest sequencing, and adoption after go-live, not just launch.
ERP & enterprise delivery
He brings deep ERP implementation expertise on Epicor and NetSuite, with end-to-end deployments spanning supply chain, finance, and operations. Work runs from blueprinting and data readiness through integration design, testing, cutover, hypercare, and the post-go-live period where processes either stick or slide back.
In complex environments he builds alignment across IT, finance, operations, and partners — translating technical trade-offs into business language and tying design choices to P&L outcomes.
IT services, cloud & infrastructure
As Group CIO for six years across a multi-entity portfolio, Bobby led cloud migration, infrastructure, and business process optimisation — balancing uptime, security, and cost while modernising platforms without freezing operations.
That sharpened how he treats technology as a portfolio: what to standardise, integrate, or retire, and how to sequence change so teams are not buried under simultaneous transformations.
AI, architecture & business outcomes
He bridges architecture, AIuse cases, vendor selection, and governance so investment lands in measurable outcomes — not slide decks. Whether the thread is ERP, service management, infrastructure, or intelligent automation, Bobby's orientation is consistent: make technology work for the business, with evidence and adoption that leadership can trust.