About Us

Investments For A Better World!

Hardenbrook invests in companies that make a positive impact on improving health and wellbeing at scale.

We are active managers of our portfolio companies - guiding their funding, commercial activities, M&A and/or public listing in North America.

Investor Presentation here.

Meet the Team

  • Justin Hanka (Co-Founder & CEO)

    Justin is an experienced investment banking professional with expertise in local and cross border mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. With over 25 years helping early stage disruptive companies grow and achieve their exit objectives, Justin was previously CEO and senior executive of a number of high growth early stage companies that have achieved exits for founders and investors such as iSelect.com.au (ASX: ISU) which debuted on the ASX with a $480 million market cap, and Helpmechoose sold to Mortgage Choice, now (ASX: REA).

    Justin has industry expertise in the health and pharmaceutical sector and working with fintechs, insurance and ecommerce companies. Justin Co-founded MindBio Therapeutics Corp (CSE:MBIO) and serves as a Director and its Chief Executive Officer, is currently Non-Executive Chairman at Blackhawk Growth Corp (CSE: BLR), Non-Executive Director of EonX (CSE: EONX), Non-Executive Director of EYEfi (CSE:EGTI), and previously was non-executive Director of Goldcar, a Europcar company.

    Justin has also been a director of a number of health and pharmaceutical ventures including a probiotics manufacturer, Fitness Australia, Fitness Victoria, the Private Health Insurance Intermediaries Association and a board advisor to Australian government funded health commercialization initiatives.

  • Anoosh Manzoori (Co-Founder & Chairman)

    Anoosh has extensive investment banking experience across many verticals. His transactional experience includes equity capital markets, M&A, and private placements. With over 25 years of transactional experience, he has advised many cross border transactions between Australia and Canada and USA. He has completed several private placements for many public companies, completed private to public M&A between Australia and Canada and the United States, and has also taken several companies public in North America. Anoosh also has extensive public company and board experience and serves as a director of four public companies.

    Prior to starting his investment banking career he was awarded the ’Entrepreneurial Scholarship’ sponsored by Ernst & Young, The American Chamber of Commerce and Playford Capital before founding one of Australia’s largest cloud hosting companies reaching over 75,000 customers before selling the company to MYOB Limited in 2008. Anoosh holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Postgraduate Degree of Business Enterprise and is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

  • John Dinan (CFO)

    Mr Dinan has held positions as CFO and Company Secretary of listed and unlisted Financial services entities as well as Infrastructure investment groups. He has also been the chair of Australia’s largest superannuation trustee company and also been the Chief risk officer of a major listed trustee company. In this capacity, he ran the Risk and compliance committees and implemented the frameworks that ensured compliance with the many ASIC and APRA Licenses.

    Mr Dinan has also been a member of a number of consortiums that have bided for public offered infrastructure assets, typically heading up the finance and tax streams of the consortiums.

    A Fellow of the Australian CPAs, Mr Dinan resides in Melbourne and is currently the CFO of a private family office as well as the company secretary of a number of entities listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange.