Matthew Hardman

Matthew Hardman is a Sydney-based quantitative researcher and data scientist, trained as a mathematician (PhD, University of Sydney) and a 1984 Australian International Mathematical Olympiad representative. He spent 2002-2006 as a Senior Quantitative Analyst in Portfolio Management at St George Bank building market, credit and operational risk models and regulatory/economic capital (Basel II), then led research at Rismark International (2007-2014) building property price indices, valuation and risk models, and has since consulted on property data and valuation analytics. He is Head of Research & Data at Brickfloor, an Australian property funds-management and technology business.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Matthew Hardman (LinkedIn matthew-hardman-508208a2, Greater Sydney; PhD Mathematics, University of Sydney; IMO 1984 for Australia) held 'Senior Quantitative Analyst' in Portfolio Management at St George Bank from 2002-12 to 2006-10, building market/credit/operational risk models, economic and regulatory capital and Basel II model construction. St George Bank is an Australian retail/commercial bank (stgeorge.com.au); a quantitative analyst in its portfolio-management risk function is a quantitative-finance role, so the identity and the role both check out.Dec 2002
• Career timeline (index/LinkedIn-derived, not independently confirmed): Associate Lecturer, University of Sydney; Lecturer, UTS 1998-2002; Senior Quantitative Analyst, St George Bank 2002-2006; Head of Research, Rismark International 2007-2014; Technical Consultant, RP Data 2014; since 2015 Technical & Research Consultant (various clients) and Senior Research Analyst (Consulting), Insight Data Solutions; Head of Research & Data, Brickfloor (2026-). Dates from a profile index and not yet each independently confirmed against a primary source.2026
• Sole quant-finance role in the timeline is St George Bank (2002-2006); the later roles at Rismark, RP Data, IDS and Brickfloor are property-data, valuation and funds-management analytics, not a trading/market-making/hedge-fund desk.2026
• Identified in the press as 'Rismark International property analyst' and 'Dr Hardman' (Brisbane Times, 2008), which independently corroborates the Rismark role and the PhD title outside the LinkedIn index.Oct 11, 2008
• Listed as 'Dr. Matthew Hardman - Director Analytics' on the Insight Data Solutions (IDS) About page, confirming a real analytics role at a property-data/valuation firm rather than a finance employer.2019
• Education: PhD in Mathematics from the University of Sydney (1990-1997) and BSc in Mathematics & Chemistry from the University of Sydney (1986-1989), after Knox Grammar School (1980-1985).1997
• Represented Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1984, listed among the education entries on his own profile.1984
• Aggregator/index sources (moredults/moresults.org IMO pages) do not list a Matthew Hardman for 1984, and the official IMO-index pages fetched here were JS/login-gated; the IMO 1984 Australia participation rests on his own LinkedIn education entry ('International Maths Olympiad, 1984'), which is self-reported, not independently confirmed.1984
• Index-only lead (taiga-444964563) listed his St George Bank role as 2002-12 to 2006-10; LinkedIn's own work history shows '2002-2006', so the month-level dates are index-only and not primary-source confirmed.2002