Hugh Mapplebeck.

Hugh Mapplebeck is Company Secretary of Catoxy Energy Ltd and a company director, responsible for the governance and administrative duties of the business.

Career

A chartered accountant who qualified with Price Waterhouse, Hugh brings more than 35 years of experience across leadership roles in the finance departments of international banks in London — including BNP Paribas, ABN AMRO and HSBC — and, more recently, support services for energy companies with Oryx Global Advisors.

On moving to Sydney in 2007 he joined Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS, which became Lloyds Bank International) in the Investment Management team, responsible for the equity asset management of the bank’s property joint ventures. As a board director he managed ten property joint-venture entities through the financial crisis, developing strategies to carry commercial and development property businesses through the downturn. At its peak the portfolio held over AU$1 billion in property assets.

As equity asset management became a non-core business after the crisis, the focus moved to managing the portfolio down. Hugh managed the exit process across fifteen equity connections and helped negotiate the divestment of over AU$250 million of assets.

In 2015 he was co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of a private-equity property start-up, raising over AU$10 million in debt and equity to develop and manage lifestyle resorts for the over-50s. He was solely responsible for financial leadership and stakeholder management across two property trust funds and five development and operating companies, and prepared the due-diligence and sales documentation for the sale of the project site mid-development.

Since returning to the UK in late 2020 he has worked as a fractional Chief Financial Officer with start-ups in marketing technology and property technology, before joining Oryx Global Advisors FZ-LLC in 2025 as co-founder and Chief Financial Officer, providing advisory services on capital for energy and mining projects.

Education

A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2014), his experience across multiple company boards underpins his responsibility for Catoxy’s corporate governance and company secretarial duties.