Meanwhile on the other side of the world - Australia - Biographies

Greg Allen - Chief Operating Officer, Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd

Greg has over fifteen years of experience across a range of technology and engineering related industries. He has held senior management and executive responsibility for operational, business development and administrative functions at sizable private, and publicly listed companies. Prior to joining Carnegie, Greg was a Senior Manager for Wesfarmers’ remote power generation business specialising in remote unattended power system ownership, operation and maintenance for regional towns and resource operations. Additionally, Greg was previously Chief Operating Officer of an ASX-listed company involved in the commercialisation of renewable energy based water pumping and reverse osmosis technologies and was Operations Manager of a heat transfer equipment engineering and service company.

Boyd Dale - Regional Director, All-Energy Australia

Starting his career after graduating with Honours from Dundee University some 25 years ago, Boyd is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer by profession and director of the All-Energy Australia Exhibition & Conference. Working in the delivery of heavy industrial engineering projects, Boyd sees the opportunities that exist for the deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency in exposed industries as a key opportunity both in implementation of clean energy technology as well as a fiscal responsibility of public organisations.

Spending the last 14 years in Australia, working as project manager and sustainability champion within the resource industry, Boyd seeks to identify the opportunity to embed clean energy and energy efficiency into an industry sector significantly exposed to the potential consequences of a carbon limited economic environment.

Identifying the need for international communication between clean energy communities as a way to encourage the embedment of clean energy as “business-as-usual”, Boyd joined the All-Energy team in 2008, successfully launching the All-Energy Australia exhibition and conference in 2009.

Nathan Faulks - Business Development Director, Oceanlinx (UK) Ltd

Nathan Faulks has degree in Commerce from Wollongong University and is a qualified accountant with CPA Australia.

Nathan commenced his career in the BHP graduate programme and worked in BHP’s Steel, Logistics and Mining operations in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Since moving to the UK he has worked within the Credit Suisse group in the City of London and as CFO and later Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for The Regard Partnership a rapidly growing private equity backed specialist healthcare company with operations throughout England and Wales.

In 2007 Nathan joined Oceanlinx in its London office and heads up the company’s Business Development activities in Europe.

Mathew Herring - National Leader of Renewables, KPMG Australia

As the leader of KPMG Adelaide’s R&D Incentives practice since August 2002 and KPMG’s National Grants Practice since 2007, Mathew has extensive experience working with a broad range of clients in a diverse range of industries, in particular in renewables and cleantech. In 2009 Mathew was appointed as KPMG’s National Leader of Renewables - a group comprising professionals and subject matter experts from a variety of KPMG’s service lines who are focused on delivering a range of innovative advisory services to industry participants, business enterprises and investors who are aiming to exploit the potential of renewable energy.

In this role, Mathew is responsible for overseeing KPMG's integrated market approach, drawing on skills from across all services lines, including planning and strategy, procurement and financing, monitoring and performance improvement, refinancing and restructuring, R&D and grants, accounting and tax, and government policy. Mathew has successfully assisted many of his clients to access grant funding, including over $140m in the renewable energy sector over the past 12 months. Mathew has also been instrumental in providing strategic advice to many companies in their endeavours to procure grants funds and other financial support. Mathew holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a PhD.

Stuart Russell - Senior Trade and Investment Manager, Government of Western Australia - European Office

Stuart Russell is just an ordinary public servant who has been serving the Western Australian government for some time. Some of his formative years were spent in Australia and having returned to the UK he has continued to serve the Western Australian Government. It’s been an enjoyable experience.

Stuart works on trade development and investment attraction, particularly in resources, commodities, oil and gas and now renewables and clean technologies. The Aberdeen oil and gas environment is very familiar to him and he notes that the oil and gas fabrication companies are well geared up to transit to the new technologies.