About Us
Brampton Agriculture is part of the Wattlestone group, a privately owned investment company for the Northcott family.
Brampton was founded in 2014 with the purchase of a single agricultural asset in the Western Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The team developed this property through redesigned water and fencing infrastructure and the development of an award winning Wagyu herd which facilitated the regenerative land and management practices. Wattlestone divested this asset with the dream of leveraging this successful case study, farming and development methodologies and strategies at scale.
The Wattlestone team have been involved in the Agriculture supply chain and pastoral sectors since 2001. These extensive and long term relationships and experience allows Brampton to be well positioned to provide long term enduring success. Andrew Northcott the founder of Brampton Agriculture has had multiple successful businesses over a 20 year career working with various segments of the agriculture supply chain.
Our People
Andrew Northcott
BAppSc
Andrew Northcott commenced his career as a 17 year old working on a cattle station 1,700 km north east of Brisbane near Julia Creek in the gulf of Queensland.
Since these humble beginnings, Andrew has established multiple successful businesses across a range of sectors with a focus on servicing or directly involved in the Agriculture sector. These ventures have delivered exceptional investor returns over a 20 year period. Outside of these operating businesses, Andrew established Austpec Pastoral in 2014 which operated 3,000 head of premium Wagyu cattle across 21,000 acres in the western Darling Downs region of Queensland.
Andrew holds a bachelor of Property Economics from Queensland University of Technology, past alumni of the year award recipient and is a Harvard Business School graduate.
Lachlan Dunsdon
GAICD
MAF/BBus
Lachlan Dunsdon is a proven and professional agribusiness executive with over 17 years’ experience in senior management, business development, corporate governance, strategic planning, due diligence, transactions, financial analysis & agribusiness.
Lachlan is currently the National Director of Rural & Agribusiness with leading independent ASX listed valuation and advisory firm Acumentis (ASX.ACU).
His specialisations include rural property valuation, rural land and irrigation development, strategic agribusiness advisory and development, and natural capital (carbon/biodiversity) projects. Lachlan has provided strategic advice in relation to rural property and agribusiness to Landholders, State and Commonwealth Governments, Investment Funds, Institutions, Corporate Agribusiness, Carbon Market Institute (CMI), Australian Property Institute (API).
Lachlan grew up in Western Queensland and has a long involvement in the livestock, irrigated and dryland farming and horticultural sectors. Lachlan remains integral to the Dunsdon Family agribusiness who are highly regarded regenerative land stewards and agri-entrepreneurs.
Alex Dignam
Bcom (Hons) / LLB
Alex is a corporate finance and capital markets executive with 17 years experience gained through various roles at Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank in Sydney. His most recent role was as Managing Director, Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets at UBS for Australia and New Zealand.
Throughout his investment banking career, Alex worked on over 130 transactions, advising small, mid-cap and large companies in relation to acquisitions, divestments, capital structure changes, equity and debt raisings as well as equity derivatives. This included advising ASX listed agriculture companies RuralCo and Rural Funds Management on a range of transactions across rural supplies, water entitlements and infrastructure, livestock and cropping