Mentors

Aaron Schimann

Principal, Schimann

Aaron Zadeh

Director of Business Development, Array Technologies Inc.

Ada Yin

Investment Manager, AirTree Ventures

Adam Best

Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Akhil Sharma

Director of Investments, Antler

Alan Brake

Senior Renewable Energy Engineer, CS Energy

Alan Crabbe

Cofounder, Pozible & Birchal

Alec Hussain

Co-founder | Chief Operating & Experience Officer, OUR SNRG

Alex Zinzopoulos

Tax Manager, William Buck

Alex Borovskis

Co-founder, Helixos

Alex Houlston

Director and Co-founder, BOOM!

Alexander Liddington-Cox

Founder, The Media Distillery

Alexandra Clunies-Ross

Portfolio Manager, Artesian

Alistair Wells

Principal, GridGen Consulting

Alistair Smith

Principal and Patent Attorney, Davies Collison Cave

Allina Fawcett

Strategy Manager, TransGrid

Amanda Wise

Service Design and UX Consultant, Wise Experience

Amos Stark

Instructional Designer and Design Thinking Facilitator, Freelancer

Amy Fong

Director - Marketing and Communications, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Andrea Ruhrmann

Senior Counsel, FB Rice

Andreas Enderlin

Managing Partner, Hugo Capital Partners

Andrew Burgess

Co-founder & Sales Director, Solar Juice

Andrew Cohen

National Technical Sales Manager, Gravitas Energy

Andrew Mears

Founder, CEO, Consultant,

Andrew Sellick

Principal Sustainability, QIC

Andrew Garrick

Director/Founder, Production Group

Andrew Lingley

Marketing Manager - GRC/ESG, Ansarada

Andrew Drager

Head of Development, Juwi

Andrew Paver

Technical Director, Smarter Power Solutions

Andrew Ward

Cofounder, Incubator.coop

Andy Hill

Founder, Planet Price

Anna Minns

Co-Founder & CEO, Boomerang Labs

Anna Ozga

Head of Corporate Solutions and Research – APAC, Viridios Capital

Anne Foster

Head of ESG Investment, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

Anne-Beatrice Brechemier

Venture Partner, Various

Anne-Carole Huc

Regulatory Affairs Analyst, Enel Green Power

Anthony Franze

Design Consultant, Fraze Industrial Design

Anthony Coles

CEO, GreenGold Ventures Pte Ltd

Anthony Passe-de Silva

CEO & Founder, One2Solutions Group Pty Ltd

Anthony Owen

Managing Director, Finley Capital Partners

Arvind Bhatnagar

Business Lecturer, LTU

Ashby Field

Business Development, Office of the South Australian Chief Entrepreneur

Assem Ongarbayeva

General Manager, Birdwood Energy

Austin Tan

Senior Strategy Analyst, Intellihub

Barry Lau

Managing Director, Constellation Capital

Ben Waters

Strategy Director / Cofounder, Presync

Ben Pfeil

Start Up Consultant,

Ben Kluwgant

Senior Advisor, Catalyst Solutions

Ben O'Loghlin

Director, Investor, Baronly Holdings

Ben Sawley

Building healthy soil and sequestering carbon, Agrimix Pastures

Ben Lindsay

Investment Manager, Investible

Benjamin Wirtz

Managing Director, Scalable Leaders

Bennett Wong

Director, Designer, Made Together

Bernard Emby

Director,

Bhakti Devi

National President, WICCI, Water Resources Council

Blake Mills

Co-founder / Director, Made Together

Boris Vidulich

Associate Partner | Sustainable Finance and ESG | Financial Services, Ernst & Young

Brad Schultz

Head of Customer Engagement, Buildings Alive

Brenda Lee

Associate Partner, EY

Brendan Giles

Director, Norton Advisory

Brett Elliott

Director, Hiiiya

Brian Keayes

Cofounder, EarthTech Ventures

Brian Campbell

National Business Developing Manager, International Chemicals Engineering

Bruce Ebzery

Mentor, Arc Hardware Incubator

Bryan Rollins

Operator in Residence, Grok Ventures

Buzby Kuramoto

Chief Operating Officer, ENGIE Global Energy Management and Sales

Callum Hickey

National Innovation Manager, Iplex Pipelines

Cam Taylor

Product Lead - Energy Solutions, Momentum Energy

Cameron Briggs

General Manager, Future Energy, Origin Energy

Chad Moulden

Director, Independent Consultant

Charles Rendigs

Director National Board, Fellow, Australian Institute of Energy

Chris Wilkins

CEO, LLEAF

Chris Dunstan

Chief Research Officer, RACE for 2030 CRC

Chris Davey

Founder & Director, Target Light

Chris Wade

Principal, Pivotal Investment

Chris Allin

Chief Commercial Officer and Energy Product Director, Enosi and Acacia

Chris McLean

Regional Director of Operations, JONES DAY

Chris Nheu

UX & Strategic Research, FunPlus

Chris Bean

CEO, Wattwatchers

Chris Davidson

Founder & Partner, Map N Scale

Claire Stewart

Content strategist, Podcast Producer, Self employed

Claire Painter

Head of Business Development, JET Charge

Clare Fisher

Client Director, Pathfinder Consulting Group

Craig Thomler

Co-Founder, SimpleMarketing.AI

Craig Blundell

Consultant, Greville Analytics

Damian Sturzaker

Partner, Marque Lawyers

Damian Edwards

Senior Energy Specialist, CQ Energy

Dan Cass

Energy Policy and Regulatory Lead, Australia Institute

Dan Sturrock

Investment Director, ARENA

Daniel Ronai

Managing Director, Ronai Services

Daniel Green

Manager, Mobilization and Execution, Origin Energy

Daniel Sammut

Founder & Creative Director, For Good Design Lab

Daniel Haberfield

Commercial Sales Manager, Siemens Energy

Danin Kahn

Consultant, GrowthStream

David Snowdon

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David Dennis

Principal, Circular Solutions

David Roche

Research Manager/Program Leader, UTS Institute For Sustainable Futures/RACE for 2030 CRC

David Ellis

Senior Director, 7Hats Solutions

David Pethick

Managing Director, Omnidian Australia Pty Ltd

David Mitchell

Founder, Find My EV

David Valentine

Chief Operating Officer, Altus Renewables Limited

David Sutherland

Managing Director, M&C Saatchi

David Margolius

Head of Products and Systems, Agile Energy

David Ellis

Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons

Dean Rizzetti

Senior Advisor, Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate change

Dean Travers

Non-exec Director, ARENA, ACEN, New Energy Nexus Ventures

Dean Naicker

Transformation & Technology Consultant,

Debra Surman

Corporate Communications Manager, Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association

Deepak Oberoi

Managing Director, Effectus Digital

Dennis Silvers

Managing Director, Prestige Business Consulting Pty Ltd

Dhruv Vishrani

Head of Strategy, Australian Renewable Energy Agency

Diana Bogunovic

Senior Associate | Trade Mark Attorney, FB Rice

Donald McPhail

Vice President of Product; General Manager of Residential Customer Solutions, Uplight

Ed Schmidt

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Greeneon

Eddie Chung

Partner, BDO

Eddy Lee

VP, Engie Factory APAC

Edward Lynch-Bell

Product Development, Evie Networks

Elena Woods

Senior Marketing Communications Manager, Renault Australia

Elizabeth Harrison

Project Engineer, Risk Advisor, Ocean Engineering Consultant, ereharrison consulting & Engineers Supporting Engineers

Elliot Fraval

Building Services Manager, Canberra Health Services

Emily Bjorklund Drake

Senior Consultant, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

Emma Bones

Manager, Special Projects, Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas

Emma Jenkin

Investment Director, Kilara Capital

Emma Schmitt

General Manager, Summit Southern Cross Power

Eva Cheng

Senior Lecturer & Deputy Director, Women in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney

Evelyn Chan

CEO, Smileyscope

Fabian Le Gay Brereton

Co-founder and CEO, Gridcognition

Fabrizia Natola

TBA, TBA

Felicity Stening

CEO, Enova Community Energy

Felipe Hodar

Founder, Balance Energy Group

Francis Vierboom

Co-Founder, Propeller Aero

Fraser Power

Stakeholder and Advocacy Manager, Origin Energy

Gareth Lee

Senior Economist, Shell

Genevieve Simpson

Government Relations Manager, Western Power

Georgie Deetlefs

Business owner/Marketing strategist, MindMoB

Gina Zheng

Commercial Manager, AEMO Services

Glenn Bartlett

Chief Marketing Officer, Amber Electric

Govind Singh

General Manager - Strategy and Growth (Energy), Ampol

Gus Lightowlers

Patent Attorney, MinterEllison

Hafeez Shahiwala

Project finance consultant, Independent Consultant

Haim Ptasznik

Director and Chief Engineer, Veida

Hamish Stewart

Creative Partner, GHO Sydney

Hannah Heath

Principal, Energy Global Co

Harley Weston

Director, Solaire properties

Haydn Fletcher

Country Manager, Canadian Solar

Helena Lo

Global Organisational Change Leader - Strategy & Transformation, GHD

Henry Anning

CEO, ResourceCo

Henry Swisher

Senior Manager - Strategy & Commercial, Baringa Partners

Hudson Worsley

Co-founder & Director, Presync

Ian Waight

Chief Operating Officer, Solar Analytics

Ian Christmas

Engineering Lead, Edify Energy

Ian Buck

Management Consultant, Accenture

Jack Qi

Tax Director, William Buck

Jackson Gerard

New Ventures Management, CleanCo Queensland

Jake Whitehead

CEO, ODIN PASS

Jake Bugden

Director, Gething

James Tilbury

Partner, ERM

James Crowley

, Atomitz & Satgana

James Seymour

CEO, C4NET

James Dan

Senior Associate, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

James Myatt

General Manager Future Energy, Ampol Australia

James Pearce

Director, ENM Solutions

Janet Brunckhorst

Fractional Executive, Self-employed

Jason Risorto

Founder, Managing Partner, Greenfield Ventures

Jason Cooper

Design Director, J&CO Studio

Jason Perkins

CEO, Trac Group Holdings Ltd

Jay Wong

Senior Development Planner, Royal Dutch Shell

Jemma Xu

Co-founder & General Partner, RedBlock Capital

Jen Klingmann

Founder & CEO, HR for Life

Jennifer George

CEO & Founder, Strategic Commercialisation Australia

Jeremy Kwong-Law

CEO & CIO, Grok Ventures

Jess Miller

Collective Impact Consultant, Freelance

Jewel Huang

Research and Development Program Manager, Hazer Group

Jim Hunter

CEO, The Water and Carbon Group Pty Ltd

Jo Hume

General Manager, Fulcrum3D

Joanna Zhou

Corporate Counsel, Origin Energy

Joanna Nelson

General Manager Future Energy, Origin Energy

Joe Springer

Sales Director, Springers Solar

Joe Delaney

Energy Industry Advisor, Salesforce

John Boothroyd

Fractional Head of Product, Cleantech, Proptech and Healthtech

John Wood

Director, NOAB.Ventures

Jon Manning

Founder | Advisor, PricingProphets.com

Jonathan Liang

Commercial Manager, Origin Energy, Origin Zero

Jonathan Englert

Founder, Andiron Group

Joseph Gibney

Assistant Manager - Corporate Finance, BDO

Josh Geelan

Lead Partner - ESG, Sustainability & Impact, KPMG Enterprise, Australia, KPMG Australia

Josh Sucharov

Asset Management, Infrastructure, IFM Investors

Josh Usher

CoLab Director, 11point2

JP Ross

Senior Director, East Bay Community Energy

Julia Callaghan

Director, Preternatural

Julien Muret

AUNZ App Lead for Publishers, Google

Julien Bertoli

Founder, G Transition

Kai Ryan

Managing Director, Live Better Nutrition

Kale Miller

Data scientist, Self-employed

Karolina Biernacka

Business Development Manager, Nation Energie

Kastoori Hingorani

Strategy Consultant, L.E.K. consulting

Kaushik Sridhar

Head of Sustainability, Levande

Kedem Levy

C&I Demand Response Manager, AGL Energy

Keith Sue

Strategy and Commercialisation Lead, Helixos

Kim Lawrence

Managing Director, KML Advisory

Kim Middleton

Partner, Marque Lawyers

Krista Walter

Director - Investor & ESG, Krista Ventures

Kristin Vaughan

Managing Partner, Virescent Ventures

Lachlan Blackhall

Entrepreunerial Fellow and Head, ANU

Lamont Tang

Director of Industry Projects & Entrepreneur-In-Resident, AGSM@UNSW

Laura Eadie

Chief Operating Officer, Western Parkland City Authority

Laura Jones

Senior Analyst, ANU Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program

Lauren Yabsley

CFO, Energy Renaissance

Lauren Smith

Explore Manager, Mott MacDonald

Lee Whitfield

Self Employed, Melbourne Branding Consultant

Leesa Soulodre

General Partner, R3i Ventures

Leigh Kennedy

National Cluster Development Manager, National Energy Resources Australia

Leila Alem

Adj Professor, UTS

Leo Cerda

Product Strategist, More Traction

Leon Fitzpatrick

Principal, Futurethingy

Liz Fletcher

Associate Director, Engevity

Louis Edwards

Head of Renewable Energy Finance, Plenti

Lucinda Hankin

Director of Private Investments, Grok Ventures

Luke Storey

Manager, Forecast Financial Modelling

Lyn Bowring

Executive Director, Solar Victoria

Maaike Doyer

Managing partner, Epic Angels

Mac Irvine

Acting Head of Waste and Bioenergy, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Malcolm Thornton

Advisor,

Manuel Wieser

Head of Energy Division, AnteoTech Ltd.

Marianna O'Gorman

Executive Director, McKell Institute Queensland

Mark Bonnar

Managing Director, Southern Cross Venture Partners

Mark Pickering

Founder, TBD

Mark Harland

Chief Operation Officer, ATOMOS

Mark Wellings

Partner - Tax & Advisory, InCorp Advisory

Mark Lewis

Head of Delivery, Slyp

Mark Levi

Founder, Green Peak Advisory

Mark Higgins

Former COO and Board Member, Strategen

Martin Jenner

,

Mary Stewart

CEO, Energetics

Mary Munroe

Principal, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Matt Bachle

Founder and CEO, Grade

Matt Pellow

Principal, Pellow Energy Insights

Matt Smith

Policy and Strategy, Vector Ltd

Matt Herring

Partner, KPMG

Matt Stubbs

Director, Profergy

Matthew Ford

Principal, Patent Attorney, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Megan Fisher

CEO & Director, EnergyLab

Megan Ward

Head of Origination and Corporate Affairs, Neoen Australia

Mel Rosenthal

Executive Coach, South View Consulting

Mel Rumble

Senior Associate, Little Owl

Melanie Sibraa

Strategy & Innovation Manager, Endeavour Energy

Michael Tuckey

Technical Director, New Forge Engineering

Michael Hunter

Partner, M Capital Partners

Michael Wheatland

Founding Employee, Senior Manager, Calix Limited, RMIT University

Michelle Keam

Sustainability Manager, Australia Post

Mick Liubinskas

Climate Tech Investor, Climate Salad

Mobin Nomvar

Founder and Managing Director, Scimita Ventures

Monica Barbu

Associate Director, AECOM

Monica Richter

Project Director, Business Renewables Centre Australia

Monique Conheady

Chair/NED/Investor/Advisor, Various

Murray Hogarth

Director, Wattwatchers Digital Energy

Nadia Testamanti

Principal Technology Commercialisation, Fortescue

Nathalie Swainston

Director, Nous Group

Nathan Dunlop

Head of Research & Strategy, Tritium

Nathan Steggel

Director, Steggel Energy Services

Nathaniel Diong

CEO, Future Minds Network

Nato Foti

Director, Alchemise.io

Ned Halliday

Senior Development Manager, Octopus Investments

Neil Davidson

Co Founder, AUXILIARY Design School

Neil Salisbury

Managing Director & CEO, Point Advisory & CleanTek Market

Netta Egoz

Senior Associate, Marque Lawyers

Nic Chamberlain

Managing Director, Neoteny Service Design

Nick Albrow

Director, Wilkinson Butler

Nick Chiarelli

CEO & Founder, Ocean Impact Organisation

Nick Lake

Managing Director, Nickel Energy

Nicki Bourlioufas

Director, Spot on Content & PR

Nicole Alley

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Nikki Harkin

Managing Director, ExecCo.Search & Hire.land

Niva Lima

Business Development Manager C&I, Iberdrola Australia

Noel Anthony

Marketing Coordinator, DARCHE

Oliver Ryan

CFO, AgriWebb

Oscar McLennan

Entrepreneur In Residence, CivVic Labs

Pasquale Aliberti

Head of Patents, Morse Macro

Patrick Sieb

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Patrick Vera

New Technology Manager, FRV Services Australia

Patrick Matweew

General Manager ANZP, Enphase Energy

Patrick Mooney

Executive Chair, Impact Tech Ventures

Paul Greenop

Head of Portfolio Management, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Paul Uzureau-Zhu

Director,

Paul Hodgson

Principal Consultant, Paul Hodgson Advisory

Paul Howdle

Commercialisation Strategy, Directional

Pavel Reddy

Director, Global R&D

Penny Wong

Director, Radmis

Peter Hansford

Business Development Manager, Victorian Government

Peter Lightbody

Special Counsel, FCW Lawyers

Peter Darby

Senior Product Design Engineer, Breville Australia

Peter Neal

CEO, Powerpal

Peter Haenke

Investment Manager, Australian Renewable Energy Agency

Peter Ball

Founder, Greater Outcomes

Philip Keogan

Chief Commercial Officer, Wattwatchers

Pippa Smith

CEO/Founder, Social Startup Labs

Priyanka Karunanithi

Investor & Advisor,

Qi Zhang

Principal, Baxter IP

Rahul Kumar

Director, Allied Legal

Ram Natarajan

Operations and Business Development, PLUS ES

Ratri Wakeling

Executive Director, Pollination

Ravi Kumar Mandalika

Business Evangelist, Thought Leader and a Green Ambassador, Mentor & Investor

Rebecca Watts

Founding Principal, Barrenjoey

Reece Proudfoot

Head of Innovation and Impact Investing, WWF Australia

Renate Egan

Professor, UNSW

Ric Brazzale

Director, Green Energy Markets

Richard Foxworthy

Co-Founder, BillHero

Richard Vargas

CEO & Founder, United Solar Energy

Richard Lin

Investor, AirTree Ventures

Richard Johnston

Distributed Generation Advisor, AGL Energy

Richard Case

Managing Director, Artesian

Richard Lovell

Executive Director, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Rimma Mitelman

Head of Asset Management, ESCO Pacific

Robert Ceic

Service Line Leader, GHD

Robert Perrons

Professor, Queensland University of Technology

Robert Montgomery

Senior Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, Microsoft

Rod van Onselen

Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Origin Energy

Roger Swinbourne

Director, Positive Futures Advisory Pty Ltd

Roy Unny

National Executive, RTSA

Ruben Sen

Intelligent Asset Management and Engineering practices, Accenture

Russell Williams

Principal Consultant, Menara Consulting

Ryan McKenzie

Managing Director, Volta Advisory

Ryan Darwin

COO/CFO, AD Design & Consulting

Sam Ringwaldt

CEO, Conry Tech

Sam Mickan

Principal, Davies Collison Cave

Samantha Sharpe

Research Director, University of Technology Sydney

Sandra Gamble

Tribunal Member and Chair, IPART

Sarah Whittington

Consultant, Independent

Sarah FitzGerald

Future Energy Lead, GHD

Scott Davies

Managing Director, Grow Energy

Scott Ison

Group Manager, Origin Energy

Shane PRESTON

Managing Director, Black Wallaby

Simon Spurr

Manager, Infrastructure Capital Group

Simon WILSON

Technical Director, Five Oceans Environmental Services LLC

Simon Fitzgerald

Head of Engineering, Custom Denning

Stefan Dorp

Associate Director - Captial Advisory, Rennie Advisory

Stefan Jarnason

Co-founder, CEO, Solar Analytics

Stephanie Moroz

Innovation Manager, EDL

Steve Bradley

Business Consultant, Self-employed

Steve Blume

President, Smart Energy Council

Steven Hong

Head - Commercial, Tariffs, Revenue Growth, EWEC

Stuart Cook

Partner, TWIYO

Stuart Allinson

Chair, Pontem Solutions

Suchi Szczepanski

Senior Manager, Future Energy Technology, Origin Energy

Sue Barrett

Founder & Managing Director, Barrett Consulting Group

Talbot Matthews

Associate Director, Equis Development

Terry Hilsberg

Venture Partner, Innohub Captial

Terry Woodcroft

Ex-CEO, Aurtra Pty Ltd (acquired Schneider Electric)

Thomas Holdstock

Director, Infinite System Design Pty Ltd

Tim Sadleir

Associate, Electrical & Energy Project Engineer, Stantec

Tim MacTaggart

Chief Deployment Officer, Redflow

Tim Carter

Senior Procurement Manager, RES Australia

Timothy Mansfield

CEO, The Interaction Consortium

Tirthankar Banerjee

Director, Oztron Energy

Toby Roxburgh

Managing Director, Carbon Neutral Delivery Partners

Tom Dawkins

CEO & Founder, StartSomeGood.com

Tom Kline

Investor,

Tommy Pollock

Director, Deloitte Digital

Tony Heynen

Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland

Tony Sinclair

Co-founder, Impactor

Tooraj Arvajeh

CEO / Co-founder, Perl Street

Tracy Cui

Assistant Director of Energy Policy, ACT Government

Tristy Fairfield

Director, Low Carbon Australia

Ulric Ferner

Principal, Right Click Capital

Valentin Muenzel

Co-Founder & Director, Relectrify

Vanessa Burgess

Communications Designer, Inland Rail

Vidit Agarwal

Venture Partner, Ecotone Ventures

Vineet Danwar

Director, Finance & Capital, Transformbiz

Viriya Chittasy

Product Development Manager, Transgrid

Virpi Barrett

Director of Green Energy Commerce, Sunshine Hydro

Ward Duvall

Founder, Self-employed

Warwick Johnston

Managing Director, SunWiz

Wayne McDonald

Manager - Renewables & Energy, Resourceful Recruitment

Will Temple-Smith

General Manager, AusNet Services

William Toe

Senior Commercial Manager, Sydney Water

Wilson Huang

Senior Associate, Agnition Ventures

Xanon Murphy

Head of Production, Diamantina Media Group

Yanir Seroussi

Independent Data & AI Consultant, Yanir Seroussi Consulting

Yannick Zapf

Founder, YZ Consulting

Yash Varma

Executive Director, Umano

Yianni Mentis

Executive Manager Environment and Climate Change, Northern Beaches Council

Yoash Dvir

CEO, Technion Australia

Zarmeen Pavri

Partner & Chief Impact Officer, SDGx

Zoe Whitton

Executive Director, Pollination