Our Team

Introduction to the Premier Partners Finance Team

Premier Partners Finance Pty Ltd

Alan Whitehead, Executive Director

Alan Whitehead has had an extensive international corporate banking career and has held several senior executive management positions in United Kingdom, Southern Africa, North America and Australia.

Alan's diverse background allows him to assess finance proposals in an all-embracing manner. In particular, he is able to highlight strengths and mitigate weaknesses and thereby present loan proposals in the most rational and persuasive ways. Alan is a strong advocate of Premier's unique tendering process and the effective way in which it presents loan proposals to its panel of lenders. We believe this practice is best able to manage the expectations of our clients, ensure their requirements are clearly specified, and result in the best offers from the lenders.

His long term involvement in the corporate and business lending sector has embedded in him a thorough understanding of lending principles, and his relationships with key executives of major lenders allows him the opportunity to workshop loan proposals to obtain the best structural outcomes.

Alan is able to use his knowledge and understanding of credit practices and institutional views to negotiate the most favourable outcome for borrowers and, in most circumstances, eliminate conditions that the majority of commercial brokers today would not have the influence, industry respect or know-how to accomplish.

Peter Choice, Executive Director

Peter Choice hails from the country region of northern New South Wales. His formative years were spent on his grandparents' sheep and cattle property. His love for the rural lifestyle has seen him in recent years establish his own cattle breeding operation in the Southern Highlands.

Peter commenced his banking career with The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited which today is known as National Australia Bank. After a number of years, he assumed senior banking roles including being a key member of the Managing Director's staff.

In the 1980s, Peter moved to the Australian subsidiary of First National Bank of Chicago where he dealt with the local operations of major multinational companies. He later took up a senior role with the Canadian merchant bank, CIBC Australia Limited. As Executive Director and National Head of Corporate Lending, he had collective responsibility for the overall performance and profitability of the group in Australia and New Zealand.

As well as holding executive and general management positions with major Australian and International banks, Peter has undertaken consultative roles for the NSW government on banking and finance matters.