Meet TTJ

We're more than just advisors; we're your partners in navigating the complexities of financial hardship and business. We invite you to meet our team and discover how we can work together to turn today's challenges into tomorrow's triumphs.

We believe in a collaborative approach, combining our extensive knowledge across various industries to offer strategic, personalised advice that not only addresses today's challenges but also anticipates tomorrow's opportunities.

What We Value

We are your navigation partners.

We are a conduit to taking weight off shoulders and reducing the stress that comes from having to rebuild finances and a future.

Managing Director
Thyge Trafford-Jones

Thyge is a Registered Liquidator, Registered Small Business Restructuring Practitioner and Registered Bankruptcy Trustee.

He is a member of the Australian Reconstruction, Insolvency & Turnaround Association and CPA Australia. He is also a Justice of the Peace.

Thyge uses his life skills and 20 + years of broad experience to develop mutual trust and understanding with people who are facing what is probably the greatest financial difficulty that they will ever experience in their lives.

Our Values

Melissa Daubney

Small Business Restructuring Client Liason

Melissa brings a rare blend of business acumen and compassion to her role at TTJ Advisory.

With a background in sales and marketing, and firsthand experience running her own small business, Melissa is known for going above and beyond to support individuals and small business owners through challenging times, ensuring they feel heard, understood, and in control of the path forward.

When she’s not supporting clients, Melissa is a proud mum of four boys and a master of juggling family life with work. Her secret weapons? Coffee, spreadsheets, and a great sense of humour.

TTJ Senior Team

"I became an Accountant because I understand numbers and business. Then I specialised and became an insolvency practitioner because I understand people."

My job involves an ugly word that doesn't get much air time at dinner parties: BANKRUPTCY.

People in financial difficulty need a route out of their problems and to realise mistakes are human—and being a regulated debtor isn’t a life sentence.

I’m one of around 200 private trustees in Australia who can plan and help implement that route for individuals. It’s a hard ticket to get, for a reason.

We have people’s future prosperity in our hands. I take it very seriously, giving clarity via consistency, clear communication and transparency. Just don’t expect the kid glove treatment. I’m empathetic but not sympathetic. What you’ll get is straight talking, unvarnished truths, hard questions and occasionally the riot act.

Why? Because nobody with insolvency and bankruptcy needs a shonky salesman promising quick fixes to magic away debts and troubles. In the real professional world—my world—it doesn’t work like that.

You’ll get long-term, proven strategies born from working in insolvency for two decades. I’m a conduit to taking weight off shoulders and reducing the stress that comes from having to rebuild finances and a future.

While my financial expertise comes from a history with thousands of clients, the people connection part is thanks to me taking a while to find my thing. In my twenties, I ran pubs, built a business, fixed windows and built a house.

It gives me great satisfaction to use my life skills and broad experience to develop mutual trust and understanding with people in a dark place. Rather than seeing me as the enemy, I’m an agent of positive change.

Staying afloat in deep water by being strategic and responsible is also my passion away from work. I’m a lifelong offshore sailor with 5 Sydney to Hobarts under my belt, a sometime surfer and bike rider who wants to be a kayaker.

And I’m a dad of four who’s good at ironing and giving fatherly advice, mostly that money doesn’t grow on trees and that a failure at whatever you try to achieve is the first attempt in learning.

- Thyge