Grow
We help individuals and families work towards their financial potential, with investments chosen on purpose and a structure built to carry them. Growth tends to come from good decisions repeated over time, not from picking the right moment.
Your Trusted Financial Planning Partner
We’re a financial planning practice built on a simple idea: every financial decision influences the next. So we look at all of them together, and we start with you and what matters most.
Welcome To Ryker
Ryker is a national financial planning practice with its head office in Sydney. We’ve been creating financial confidence, success, and protection for Australian families, professionals, and business owners since 2019.
Every client has a different story. Different goals. Different ambitions. That’s why we begin with people, and with understanding what matters most to you.
From there we build a strategy designed around your goals, helping you build, grow and protect your wealth through every stage of life. Because every decision influences the next, we bring every piece of your financial world together into one connected strategy rather than handling them one at a time.
With more than 60 years of combined experience, our team covers wealth creation, superannuation, tax strategy, retirement planning, insurance and SMSFs between them, and that expertise stays with you as your life evolves.
Wealth building is a team sport. We also work alongside other professionals, including your broker, your accountant and your lawyer, so every financial decision supports the same long term goals. Better financial outcomes come from connected thinking.
Our Core Ethos
Protect
We help you protect the income you've worked hard for, using the right structure, sensible tax treatment and cover that's sized to your situation. One difficult year need not undo a good decade.
Trust
We're in this together, and invested in your long-term success. What we do is personal, so we take it personally, and the relationship behind the strategy matters just as much as the strategy.
Meet the team
The People Behind the Strategy
Behind every strategy is a team committed to helping you build, grow and protect your financial future with confidence. Supported by our advice, paraplanning and client service teams, we work together from your first conversation through to ongoing advice.
Director & Executive Financial Adviser
Ray founded Ryker with a clear belief: quality financial advice should be accessible to everyone. With more than 20 years in the financial services industry and an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning, he brings experience, practical thinking and a personal commitment to helping clients move forward.
What drives Ray is seeing the difference advice makes beyond the numbers. Whether someone is building wealth, protecting their family or preparing for retirement, he enjoys helping them understand their options and feel confident about their next step.
Outside Ryker, Ray is all about family, watching his kids play sport and cheering them on as they make the most of life. Seeing them grow, find their feet and do what they love is what it’s all about for him.
Executive Financial Adviser
Dean brings a background spanning more than 15 years in banking, finance and financial advice, supported by a degree in Applied Finance and an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning. He has a knack for making complex financial decisions easier to understand, without making clients feel they should already know the answers.
For Dean, the best part of advice is helping someone move from feeling overwhelmed to having a clear way forward. He takes time to understand how clients think, what matters to them and what they want life to look like, then builds a strategy around that.
Away from the office, Dean enjoys the gym, fishing and finding a great place to eat. Good food and time around the table with family and friends are always high on his agenda.
Executive Financial Adviser
With more than 25 years across financial advice and banking, Jack brings experience and a calm, considered approach to the decisions that shape his clients’ lives. His career includes multiple awards, including a 2016 CEO Award and Financial Adviser of the Year recognition.
Jack enjoys getting to know the person behind the financial position. He understands that money decisions are often personal and emotional, and takes time to listen before helping clients work through their options. For him, rewarding advice is advice that reflects what someone wants from life.
Outside work, Jack’s favourite things are food, family and travel, ideally all together. Exploring somewhere new with his family and finding a great meal along the way is his idea of time well spent.
Executive Financial Adviser
Ricky brings nearly two decades of financial planning experience to his role as Head of Advice at Ryker. A Macquarie University graduate with an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning, he began his career at the Commonwealth Bank and has since helped individuals and families navigate wealth creation, retirement and aged care.
He enjoys helping people make sense of important decisions, particularly when life feels complicated or the next step is unclear. His approach centres on understanding what a better, more secure life means for each client and helping them build towards it.
Beyond financial advice, Ricky has served as an Army Reservist for more than 15 years, including a deployment to the Middle East in 2019. Supporting defence personnel is especially meaningful to him.
A dedicated dad and self-confessed geek at heart, Ricky loves exploring new technology and learning how things work. When he’s not discovering his next tech obsession, you’ll find him out for a run or at the gym.
Malissa VourakisHead of Practice & Growth
Dinesh NathanPartnership Manager
Sierra VallentinePartner Success Manager
Shahzeb SuhailAssociate Adviser
Devi MoopnarHead of Advice Operations
Nadia SamsonHead of Client Services
Nida ShafiAdvice Research Analyst
Samara BistaFinancial Planning Analyst
Kabita ChauhanFinancial Planning Analyst
Siddarth JojiSenior Financial Planning Analyst
Pratik RajbhandariWealth Implementation Analyst
Diwas PariyarWealth Implementation Analyst
Sheela GCAdvice Research Analyst
Ajit KCRisk Implementation Analyst
Abhishek KayasthaWealth Implementation AnalystEvery financial decision impacts the next
Your Financial Life Is Connected
Great advice starts with understanding the bigger picture. Every stage of life presents new opportunities and challenges, from buying property and changing careers to growing your family, planning for retirement and protecting what matters most. At Ryker, we help connect every piece of your financial world into one clear strategy.
Your
Wealth
- Property & Investing
- Career & Income
- Tax Strategy
- Insurance & Protecting Your Family
- Super & SMSF
- Wealth & Investments
- Life Events & Changes
- Business & Wealth
- Legacy & Future Wealth
- Retirement Planning
How it works
Our Process
An Initial Conversation
Tell us what's on your mind, and we'll listen. There's no cost for the initial conversation.
Your Strategy Workshop (Consultation)
We get to know your goals, your income and what matters most to you before we recommend anything.
Your Strategy and Plan
We research your options, set out your plan in writing and walk you through it.
Putting the Plan in Place
Love the plan we've put together? We'll put it in place, working alongside your accountant, broker or solicitor where needed.
We Stay in Your Corner
Ongoing advice is where the real long-term value lies. We review your plan as life changes.
This has really changed our lives
Ray and his team has been incredible, they look after my entire family including my brother in law. Over the years he has helped us with investments, tax and other advice. This has really changed our lives.
Read moreDean Desoukey is changing lives!!
From the very beginning he was warm, patient, incredibly knowledgeable, and genuinely cared about helping us make the right decisions for our future. The positive impact they've had on our family financially and the peace of mind he's given us has been huge.
Read moreI felt heard, understood, and respected
I can't speak highly enough of the service I received from Dean Desoukey. Financial conversations can often feel overwhelming, but he created a space where I felt heard, understood, and respected. He took the time to really listen, explained things clearly, and never rushed me through decisions.
Read moreKnowledgeable, patient and caring
I cannot recommend Ray highly enough. He is an exceptional financial adviser: knowledgeable, patient and caring. From the very beginning, he took the time to truly understand my goals and helped me to create a clear structured financial plan. I never feel rushed or pressured.
Read moreThank you Ray for protecting me and my family
Ray has been my trusted financial adviser for over 12 years. He is highly knowledgeable and passionate about making sure his customers have the right insurance to secure them and their family. I was recently sick and Ray was there right away when needed most.
Read moreHe went above and beyond
I recently dealt with Ricky Regmi at Ryker Capital, and I couldn't be more satisfied with the service I received. Ricky was incredibly patient and supportive throughout the entire insurance process. He went above and beyond, coordinating with my accountant and doctor to ensure everything was in order.
Read moreIt never feels transactional
We've been working with Jack for the past two years, and it's been an incredibly positive experience. He takes the time to build genuine relationships and really gets to know his clients beyond just the numbers. It never feels transactional; it feels like he truly cares about our wellbeing.
Read moreImmensely professional and diligent
Ray has been immensely professional and diligent in my most recent SMSF restructure and insurance review. He not only tweaked it to make it work more for me and my future goals but recommended future strategies to help build my wealth. Cannot recommend him enough.
Read moreWho we help
Financial Advice So You Can Live Well Now And In The Future
Protect your loved ones and your lifestyle, plan for retirement, and build wealth along the way.
Starting Out
First jobs, first home, first super, HECS debt, budgeting and more.
Growing Families
First home buyers, new parents, school fees, single incomes, young families and more.
Medical & Health
Doctors, dentists, pharmacists, allied health, nurses and more.
Professional Services & Tech
Lawyers, accountants, brokers, engineers, consultants and more.
Trades & Business Owners
Electricians, plumbers, builders, sole traders, franchisees and more.
Corporate & Executive
Executives, senior managers, directors, board members and more.
Public Sector & Defence
Police, firefighters, paramedics, ADF personnel, teachers and more.
Approaching Retirement
Pre-retirees, transition to retirement, Age Pension, aged care, estate planning and more.
Other Stages
Any income, any stage, career changers, separation, second opinions and more.
Book Your Initial Conversation
Whatever’s on your mind, we’re here to help. You’ll speak with an authorised financial adviser who’ll listen first and get to know what matters to you.
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