Fred R. Buenrostro Jr. has been the CalPERS Chief Executive Officer since December 2002, administering the nation's largest public pension fund. CalPERS provides retirement and health benefits to more than 1.4 million current and retired California public employees and their families.

As the System's seventh CEO, Mr. Buenrostro oversees CalPERS employees, budget, and operations, spanning investments, health, and retirement benefits administration, actuarial and employer services, and other supplemental programs.

Mr. Buenrostro came to CalPERS with more than 25 years experience in public service, including more than 15 years on the CalPERS Board and 11 years on the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) Board. He served as the representative to the CalPERS and CalSTRS Boards for two State Controllers, three State Treasurers, and the Director of the Department of Personnel Administration.

Prior to becoming CalPERS CEO, he was the Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Personnel Administration, where he was responsible for the overall administration of the Department. He also served as the Director's top advisor on a wide range of policies and programs affecting State employees.

In addition, Mr. Buenrostro serves as the First Vice President of the California Association of Public Retirement Systems (CALAPRS), an organization of more than three dozen California public pension systems. He also serves as a Board Member of the United Way California Capital Region.

Mr. Buenrostro has a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Pepperdine University and a law degree from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.

David Fann, President & Chief Executive Officer, oversees the strategy and day-to-day business of PCG Asset Management, LLC and is a member of the PCG AM Investment Committee and Management Committee. Mr. Fann has over 20 years of experience in the private equity industry. He has invested in over 25 leveraged buyout, private equity, and venture capital investments as a lead investor or co-investor. In addition, Mr. Fann has invested in over 20 buyout, private equity and venture funds. Prior to joining PCG, Mr. Fann was founder and general partner of Inflection Equity Partners, a technology buyout firm focused on "small cap" technology companies. He was a Managing Director at the United States Trust Company/U.S. Trust of New York and founder and co-head of their Private Equity Division as well as President/Co-CEO of three affiliated business development companies.

Mr. Fann served on U.S. Trust's Strategy Review, and Portfolio Policy Committees, which directed firm-wide investment strategy, policy and asset allocation for its clients accounts. Prior, Mr. Fann was a Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd., (and a Vice President of various affiliated entitles including Citibank, Citicorp NA, Court Square Capital Ltd., and Citicorp Investments Inc.). Mr. Fann served on the board of directors of eleven companies and served as a board observer in seven. He served as Chairman of Pilot Software (sold to SAP) and Chairman of Cydelity/Datanautics (sold to Digital Envoy). His other private equity and venture capital investments that had initial public offerings included Emcore Corporation, Corsair Communications, Rental Services Corporation, Adeza Biomedical, Genoptix Medical Laboratory, Curon Medical and Senomyx Inc. He has a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (dual degree) in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Stanford University.

Mr. Wunderlich is currently serving as Executive Vice President of Investment Banking and plays a vital role with building upon an already impressive firm record. Mr. Wunderlich’s role includes, but not limited to due diligence, fund marketing, merger & acquisition, valuation, business development, restructuring and advisory. Furthermore, Mr. Wunderlich participates in the global strategic planning for the firm which includes building and maintaining relationships on both the public and private sector. Mr. Wunderlich is also responsible for managing all employees and sub-agents in the investment banking division.

Prior to joining ARVCO Capital, Mr. Wunderlich had an extensive career serving many different roles in the food & beverage, hotel, hospitality, and the gaming industries. In 2006, Mr. Wunderlich joined the finance world with ARVCO Capital Research and has quickly established himself in the areas of alternative and renewable energy and corporate finance. Mr. Wunderlich received his Bachelors of Science in finance and MBA from Missouri State University. During his time at Missouri State he contributed to the golf team and was recognized as a scholar athlete.

Mr. Nydam has over ten years of experience in private equity. Prior to joining PCG Asset Management, Mr. Nydam was a principal of Booz Allen Hamilton where he directed clean and new energy technology related to private equity engagements in the Middle East and led Booz Allen’s highly successful re-entry into the Kuwait market after a five year absence.

Before that, Mr. Nydam founded Signal Hill Advisors, an advisory firm providing venture capital firms and their portfolio companies with investment identification, investment due diligence, business strategy, market assessment, product pricing and financial strategy advisory services. Prior to founding Signal Hill, he was a principal at L.E.K. Consulting and was responsible for providing top-tier venture capital firms, private equity firms, and corporate investors with investment strategy, investment identification and investment due diligence advisory services.

Previously in his career, Mr. Nydam spent three years working as a Foreign Affairs Officer for the U.S. Department of State where he developed and managed a multi-million-dollar development assistance program that helped Middle Eastern and Asian governments attract western private investment into their oil and gas sectors. He also spent five years managing a natural resources investment advisory firm. Mr. Nydam has a BS and MS in Geology and Geophysics both from Yale University. He also holds an MA in International Relations and an MBA with honors from University of Chicago.

John Brumby was appointed Premier of Victoria on 30 July 2007.

Prior to that, he was the senior economic Minister in the Bracks Government holding the offices of Treasurer, Minister for Regional and Rural Development and Minister for Innovation.

As Treasurer, he was responsible for the financial management of Victoria’s $34 billion Budget sector, which represents over 13% of the State economy. A leader in economic and regulation reform in the Bracks Government, he has worked hard to ensure Victoria is the leading State to live, work and invest.

As Minister for Regional and Rural Development, John had overseen the establishment of Regional Development Victoria to promote and drive economic growth and prosperity in provincial Victoria. He had also established Australia’s first Regional Infrastructure Development Fund, which has led to almost a billion dollars of new capital investment across the State and helped revitalise regional Victoria, which has seen over 125,000 new jobs created since 1999.

In February 2002, John was appointed as Victoria’s first Minister for Innovation. John actively promotes innovative, creative and knowledge-intensive industries such as biotechnology, environmental technologies and advanced manufacturing. A key part of this exciting vision is the development of the $207 million Australian Synchrotron at Monash University’s Clayton campus, which is set to revolutionise scientific R&D in Australia. More recently, John has actively lobbied for a National Innovation Agenda – a coordinated national approach to boosting Australia's innovation system, productivity and economic growth prospects.

John was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1993. He was Leader of the Opposition for almost six years, overseeing the rebuilding of the ALP and the development of new policies to revive and reinvigorate country Victoria. Between 1983 and 1990 he was the Federal Member for Bendigo during the Hawke Government and served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Employment, Education and Training.

John completed a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University in 1974 and a Diploma of Education from SCV Rusden in 1975.

John was the recipient of a Centenary Medal in 2003. He was a recipient of the National Leadership Award for Tourism and Infrastructure Contribution in 2005 and the Research Australia Leadership and Innovation Award in 2006.

John is married to Rosemary McKenzie and together they have three children – Georgia, Elizabeth and Nicholas.

Chris Greenwood is Director of Research at New Energy Finance (NEF), the leading provider of information and financial research to investors in clean energy. He joined the company in 2005.

NEF’s global team tracks and analyses global investment activity in all of the clean energy sectors, and provides information and other services to investors in clean energy, low carbon technologies and carbon markets. NEF’s Service Sectors include wind, solar, biofuels, biomass, China, venture capital/private equity, public markets, and carbon markets. During 2007, approximately $150 billion of clean energy investment activity was tracked and analysed by NEF.

Chris’s responsibilities include managing NEF’s research and analysis activities. This involves understanding the value chains of each clean energy sector, mapping organisations and investors, and analysing investment activity. Chris ensures that clients’ needs are met through NEF’s publications and analysis services.

Chris has 15 years of analysis, consulting and management experience from a number of roles within European energy companies, consultancy and IT services organisations. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London.

ECG works closely with limited partner trustees and executives, fund managers and general partner groups to provide environmental due diligence, performance monitoring, and reporting services that account for the real environmental impacts created by investments in clean energy and technology.

Bryan is also the Special Advisor to Pacific Corporate Group and the CalPERS Clean Energy and Technology Fund. In this role he is involved in the selection process and monitoring of environmental performance of these private equity investments.

He was the Founder and CEO of Mobius Technologies, a material science/clean-technology company. At Mobius, Bryan lead the development and commercialization of a world scale recycling process with operations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prior to Mobius, Bryan worked at The Dow Chemical Company and Bechtel. He received engineering degrees from Berkeley and is a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the State of California.

Bryan lives with his wife and two children in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, and enjoys skiing with them throughout the winter at Squaw Valley where he also teaches as a Ski Instructor.

Mr. Rice is co-founder and a Managing Partner of Angeleno Group. Prior to the formation of Angeleno Group in 2000, Mr. Rice managed venture investing for News Ltd, a division of News Corp. At News Corp., Mr. Rice originated transactions and deployed and/or managed News Corp.'s technology investments at a Board or General Manager level. His portfolio included seed or expansion stage investments in high growth technology companies. Mr. Rice has held various positions managing software development projects and marketing budgets for technology companies. In addition to his venture background, Mr. Rice is the third generation of his family to be involved in investing in the energy sector. Mr. Rice received a B.S. Magna Cum Laude in Government and Economics from Bowdoin College.

Deputy Lord Mayor, Gary Singer was elected to Melbourne City Council in November 2004.

The city’s first popularly elected gay Deputy Lord Mayor, Gary is committed to ensuring active participation of the city’s diverse community and cultural groups in city life.

Gary’s depth of experience in Melbourne’s vibrant arts sector underpins the council’s strong focus on the arts. Coupled with his artistic sensibilities, his business and legal background sees him represent the full spectrum of city stakeholders.

Gary holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law degree. He is a consultant, lawyer and manager of Simon Parsons & Co Lawyers. He is also a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Gary’s special interest areas include property development, real estate law, arts law, hospitality and restaurant law and civil liberties.

His memberships include the Law Institute of Victoria, the Art Foundation National Gallery of Victoria, and the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art Foundation. He is Vice-president of Mitchell House Inc. Hostel for the Aged.

Brian Price is the Founding Director of Financial & Energy Exchange Ltd and is actively involved in the development of the business and the driving of the forward vision. Brian holds a Master of Commerce (Tax and Finance) UNSW, and has over 22 years of experience in complex derivative transactions, option market making, highly specialised tactical portfolio overlay construction through use of synthetic and derivative products.

He has traded over 5 million futures and options contracts as principal and millions more for clients in derivative markets and has had extensive experience in many of the larger global derivative and equity exchanges.

Rachel O'Neill was instrumental in establishing this new group which will focus on the evolving carbon finance market, seeking opportunities to build new capabilities and deliver client solutions. The CSG will work closely with other areas of nabCapital and the greater NAB Group by acting as a centre of excellence for all matters relating to carbon financing, including renewable energy, alternative energy efficiency, and other clean technologies.

Rachel has over 14 years of banking experience , the latter six years in Institutional Banking specialising in the energy and utilities sector in credit risk management and client relationship management roles. She holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Queensland.

nabCapital, a division of National Australia Bank provides risk management, funding and investment solutions to clients across NAB Group and manages the relationships of selected corporates on a global basis.

nabCapital has recently formed a Carbon Solutions Group ("CSG") to act as a centre of excellence for matters relating to carbon financing. The CSG will provide clients (from small, medium enterprises through to large corporates) with the best financial tools to manage their businesses in a carbon constrained economy.

Angus is responsible for AMP Capital’s Sustainable and Responsible Investment product line in the Asia Pacific. He is actively involved in the planning and capability management of AMP Capital’s Sustainable Alpha and the Responsible Investment Leaders (RIL) ranges. Angus is also a member of key operational committees which oversee the investment of the RIL Range, and chairs the RIL Ethics Committee.

He brings over 13 years of experience in the Australian funds management industry and 7 years experience in sustainable & responsible Investment funds to this role. Prior to his current position, Angus was head of Product Development with AMP Capital, and he has developed all of AMP Capital’s Sustainable and Responsible Funds.

Angus also initiated and led the Australian industry taskforce force on the development of the Responsible Investment Symbol – designed to enhance retail recognition of this investment sector.
As part of his role, Angus also contributes to the planning and capability management of AMP Capital’s broader equity styles.

Kristian Fok is the Deputy Managing Director, a Senior Consultant and Actuary at Frontier. Kristian joined Industry Fund Services in January 1999 and transferred to Frontier at its inception in July 2000. Kristian is a qualified actuary who is responsible for providing a range of investment advice to Frontier’s clients including asset/liability modelling, reviewing asset allocation strategies, investment manager reviews and investment manager performance reporting. Kristian advises a number of funds with closed defined benefit plans.

Kristian was previously employed with Buck Consultants where he was responsible for providing investment research and consulting. In addition, Kristian provided general actuarial consulting advice to Buck’s corporate clients. This advice included defined benefit valuations, option pricing, employee benefits advice and the valuation of Long Service Leave liabilities under AAS 1028.

Kristian qualified as an actuary with the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 1994 and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Melbourne with majors in Economics, Econometrics and Actuarial Studies. He has also completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and is a Fellow of Finsia.

ACSI was established in March of 2001 to carry out independent research into all areas of Corporate Governance on behalf of its member superannuation funds. ACSI provides a proxy voting advisory and engagement service to its members, as well as advocacy for higher governance standards, participation in the public policy debate and co-operation with international governance organisations.

ACSI has 41 member funds who represent more than five million beneficiaries and more than AUD$250 billion in funds under management.

Michael is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network, based in London.

Michael is also the Chairman of CARE Superannuation Fund. CARE Super is an Industry pension Fund for private sector clerical, professional and managerial employees and a public offer fund. He has been a Trustee Director since 1996. He is a member representative nominated by the Australian Services Union, of which he was National Executive President.

He has served the Fund as a member of its Administrative, Investment and Risk Management Audit & Compliance Committees, and has served as Board Chairman and Deputy Chairman.

Jeffrey is the co-founder of Clean Technology Australasia Pty Ltd and Cleantech Forum Pty Ltd. These companies are building the AustralAsian Cleantech network including leading the development of Cleantech as a new 21st century industry and asset class in Australia and Asia.

Jeff holds a number of senior Cleantech industry positions in Australia. He is the Chairman of the AustralAsian Cleantech Forum Advisory Panel of ten investment experts that assess and select promising Cleantech companies raising capital and seeking business partnerships. He is a member of the SIM Classification Panel of the Financial and Energy Exchange and a member of the Management Committee of the Australia India Business Council.

Jeff lived for over a decade in North America where he developed a global Cleantech network. He was a successful entrepreneur, leading the growth and exit of Cleantech companies such as Carnamah and 4D Models Technology. He was a co-founder and Director of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors (Australia) and he negotiated the recent acquisition. In addition, he has led strategic consulting assignments for the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate and is currently undertaking a economic study to accelerate growth of the “Victorian Cleantech Sector”.

Jeff graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Environmental Assessment and Land Use Policy from Deakin University, Melbourne and holds a Masters Degree in Sustainability Performance Measurement from Royal Roads University, Canada.

Ms Helga Birgden of Mercer Investment Consulting leads the Responsible Investment (RI) business unit across the Asia-Pacific.

Ms Birgden has more than 10 years experience in working with pension funds and other asset managers on voting, corporate engagement and regulatory reform in key markets nationally and globally. Prior to joining Mercer she managed Governance and Sustainable Investment at UniSuper, one of Australia's largest superannuation funds, where she developed and managed the fund's investment governance policies and sustainable investment program.

At Mercer, Helga provides Asia-Pacific investors with advice on formulating RI policies and integrating them into their investment programs. She undertakes research into regional RI specific investment management products, and assess the extent to which mainstream Asia-Pacific based fund managers' vote, engage and assess environmental, social and corporate governance issues. She also contributes to and leads global RI projects.

Julian is currently Chairman of AVCAL (Australian Venture Capital Association) and a founding Partner of Ironbridge. Prior to his position with Ironbridge, Julian was the Managing Director of Gresham Private Equity Limited “GPEL”. Julian was instrumental in building the GPEL investment team and establishing the Bridgepoint relationship. During this time Julian led the GPEL involvement in the A$500 million “public to private” of Norcros (a diversified international building products group) and was heavily involved in the expansion capital investment in EBS/Cashcard (Australia’s largest independent ATM deployer) and the A$125 million secondary MBO of Eurogestion (pest control and hygiene services group, which owns Flick and Ladysan in Australia).

Within the Ironbridge portfolio, Julian is currently a Director of insurance underwriting agency Stardex Insurance Group and Chairman of fresh prepared salads group Mrs Crocket’s Kitchen.

Previously Julian was an investment banker with Hill Samuel and J.O. Hambro Magan. After completing BComm and LLB degrees in South Africa, Julian began his investment banking career in 1980 with Hill Samuel. Julian moved to London in 1985 to become a director of Hill Samuel Group. In 1989 he joined leading UK investment banking boutique J.O. Hambro Magan and was appointed Managing Director in 1994. Julian’s extensive international experience involved major cross-border acquisitions and investments.

Justin has over twleve years experience in the provision of climate change related services both with PwC and as an independent practioner. Justin has consulted on climate change and carbon management strategy to some of the worlds largest and most successful organisations. Justins primary focus has been carbon intensive industry including energy, resources and utilities, however, his experience has spanned most industries and a wide variety services.

In the period between 2003 and 2006, Justin worked in a climate change consulting and carbon trading organisation, Carbon Management Group, where he was responsible for the development and delivery of assignments including feasibility analysis for carbon abatement projects under recognised protocols, monetisation of Kyoto compliant and non-compliant carbon products, delivery of cost of abatement analysis for a multitude of industry sectors including aluminium, iron and steel, cement, refineries, pulp and paper, power generation and coal mining.

In this period Justin also worked in the CSIRO Corporate Commercialisation Group where he was responsible for the identification and commercialisation of CSIRO Intellectual Property through equity transactions and IP licensing including all aspects of corporate transactions from identification, deal origination, detailed market analysis and deal work up and transaction negotiation.

Brendan Bateman is a recognised expert in environmental, planning and public law. He is listed as an internationally recognised leading environmental lawyer in Who's Who Legal 2007 - 2008 based on peer nomination.

Brendan is the co-leader of the National Clayton Utz Climate Change group. Brendan provides advice to government and corporate clients on the business risks of climate change, and the implications of emerging government policy and legislation for a carbon constrained economy. In particular, he has advised clients on voluntary greenhouse gas abatement schemes, trading in “green” rights and most recently, reporting obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

He has advised numerous government authorities and departments, as well as private sector clients on environmental and planning law issues, including the application of State and Commonwealth laws to major infrastructure projects. In particular, he has advised clients on the assessment of climate change impacts caused by or which may affect particular projects as part of the relevant environmental assessment process.

Brendan has advised numerous clients on environmental and planning issues associated with contaminated land and the redevelopment of brown field sites, and has acted in some of the largest redevelopments of former industrial sites in New South Wales. He also advises on environmental management systems and audits of those systems.

Brendan's clients include Alcoa Australia, Origin Energy, EnergyAustralia, the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, RailCorp, Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation, TransGrid, Integral Energy, Sydney Water Corporation, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Donaldson Coal, Toyota Motor Corporation and BP Australia.

Phil Connor is a scientist and engineer based in Sydney, Australia who conducts innovative research and development in a variety of fields including solar energy. He obtained his engineering degree at Sydney University in 1973 and his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales in1982.

Phil spent seven years at Macquarie University conducting research into speech and music using Fourier analysis and development of a fast digital signal processor and for the past eighteen years has been with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) developing electro-optical instruments for the remote sensing and classification of minerals for the mining industry using spectroscopy. In the background Phil has worked on a variety of Solar thermal and Photovoltaic projects. In the 1990's he developed a Rankine cycle thermal water pump with no moving parts that is powered from a solar trough collector.

In 2001 Phil devised the water-based solar PV concentrator and in 2002 built the first fully immersed solar concentrator. The LSA.

The LSA is a simple revolutionary solar technology that has the potential to produce electricity at costs comparable to fossil fuel generators.

The LSA system is based on floating solar collectors made mostly of plastic. Each has a very small area of silicon photovoltaic cells at the water surface with a large, thin plastic focussing lens rotating slowly above to track the sun. The water cools the silicon cells and in bad weather the lens is protected by rotating it fully under the water to avoid damage in high winds.

Sunengy Pty Ltd was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialise the LSA during which time the Patent granted on the system.

Sean Wiles is an Investment Manager with CVC Sustainable Investments Limited (CVCSI). CVCSI is an unlisted equity fund that commenced operations in 2002 and is at the forefront of environmentally sustainable investment in Australia. CVCSI's objective is to create a diversified investment portfolio that generates exceptional returns to investors while delivering meaningful and measurable environmental benefits. CVCSI targets Australian listed and unlisted companies involved with addressing environmental problems or that are developing or utilising clean technologies across a diverse range of sectors.

CVCSI is part of the CVC Group of investment companies and shares an investment manager with CVC Limited, the best performing private equity fund on the ASX over 5 years. With over twenty years experience in the managed funds industry, the CVC Group has shared its maturity and strength with over seventy companies, establishing an investment philosophy that has yielded a proven reputation for partnering businesses with solid growth potential. CVC has significant experience and skill in investment selection, management and exit.

Sean commenced his career as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, working primarily within its restructuring and insolvency division, both in Australia and the UK. Sean’s core experience has been in leading independent business, diagnostic and cash management reviews, operational and financial restructuring, turnaround planning and transactions due diligence for both Private and Public Sector participants. Since joining CVC last year, Sean has worked closely with a number of CVCSI's investee companies to develop and implement relevant and sustainable growth strategies. These strategies have included assisting the various management teams with sourcing and undertaking vendor due diligence on potential acquisition targets, capital and debt raising and implementing cost monitoring and operational restructuring measures. Sean has had considerable recent exposure to businesses operating within the renewable energy, agribusiness, biofuels and water services industries.

Along with environmental investing, Sean also has significant industry sector experience in government and health advisory, manufacturing, construction and pharmaceuticals. Sean has a bachelor degree in Commerce (Accounting and Finance) and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia. He also holds board positions with CVCSI investee companies.

Michael O’Sullivan has been involved in project finance and infrastructure investment for over ten years and in 2003 was instrumental in establishing the environmental infrastructure investment portfolio for JF Infrastructure Pty Limited (formerly James Fielding Infrastructure). Since then, Michael’s focus has been on managing and growing this area of JF Infrastructure’s business.

Prior to joining JF Infrastructure, Michael was deeply involved in the private sector and government sides of the more traditional economic and social infrastructure financing transactions across the power, transportation, water and forestry sectors, with Lend Lease Corporation and then PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Michael currently sits on the AustralAsian Cleantech Advisory Board and the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia Energy and Sustainability Taskforce, is a member of the Environment Business Australia National Council and has represented the Mirvac Group in the Australian Business and Climate Group’s report “Stepping Up: Accelerating the Deployment of Low Emission Technology in Australia” which was released in August 2007. Michael is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Prior to moving into a career in finance, Michael completed his MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School in the United States following a career of more than ten years as a consulting engineer throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to joining WilsonHTM Jamie had a 15 year career with Merrill Lynch including 10 years running their Australian institutional sales business in London. He returned to Australia in 2001 to run Corporate Broking and later was appointed Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets. He subsequently worked for Patersons Securities as a Director in Corporate Finance and then joined WilsonHTM in April 2007. Current responsibilities include execution of all capital markets transactions and origination of transactions with a focus on the clean technology sector. Jamie is a member of the AustralAsian Cleantech Advisory Panel and holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.

Peter is the joint founder and Managing Director of Cleantech AustralAsia, a business established to accelerate the investment in and deployment of clean technologies in the Asia Pacific region. Throughout Peter's 20-year entrepreneurial career, he has worked at the leading edge of the sustainable development agenda and has advised leading corporations, governments and financial institutions. He has designed and run successful Cleantech Finance & Investment Initiatives throughout Asia and has recently completed a major international project for the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate to develop a Strategic Action plan to increase the investment in and deployment of renewable energy in India.

Peter is also the Fund Advisor of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund where he has pioneered a number of innovative financing models and turnkey solutions for the upgrade and retrofit of commercial buildings. Peter and has held roles including the Sustainability Advisor for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Head of International Business for Melbourne University Private, and National Environmental and Engineering Manager for Dunhill Management Services. Peter is a National Councillor for Environment Business Australia. He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Education in Environmental Studies.

Glenn provides specialized advisory services for those investors seeking entry into the Cleantech and Sustainable Responsible Investment (SRI) field. His 9 years of experience in the financial services and advisory industry supports his dedicated and passionate approach to identifying early stage companies on the verge of commercialization as well as more mature companies with established SRI principles of business.

Investing in Cleantech companies are a chance for the investment community to drive the development of society towards one which balances the competing principles of profitability and sustainability. Its easy to get excited about investing in a company that has the potential to ensure water security or eliminate greenhouse gases. But its not so easy to ensure that it can be done in an efficient and cost effective fashion, with a credible roadmap to commercialization and a management skill-set to execute the plan successfully. We aim to connect the two.

The principals of SRI do not just provide for an investment filter guided by ethics but also serves as a criteria for identifying outperforming companies on the share market. Those companies which rate highly for environment, society and corporate governance are less prone to the risk of financial and public relations shocks. Shocks which can decimate a brand or destroy a business model.

Glenn is a member of the Ethical Investment Association and Rotary and offers all investors in SRI and Cleantech companies a 5%-10% rebate of brokerage costs to charity. Rotary members also have the option of allocating this rebate to their home club.

Gitesh is an Australian citizen, who has an MBA in International Business from UWS, Sydney (1996), and additional qualifications in Sales & Marketing and Visual Design. Gitesh has over 11 years of experience across industries ranging from Teaching; Events; Industrial B2B marketing; Hospitality and now Austrade. Gitesh has been with Austrade for 5 years working as a Business Development manager, in the office of South India.

Gitesh has worked across multiple sectors In India, ranging from Food & Beverages / Agribusiness, Environment; Automotive; Media/Arts/ Culture; Consumer & Retail; Sports & Recreation. I am a member of the F&B team and the Emerging Sectors team which has Environment as a core focus.

Stephen Manallack is the Founder of the India Australia Financial Forum and Secretary of the Australia India Business Council (Vic). He is an award winning public relations consultant, professional speaker and author. In 1980 he founded Manallack Public Relations, now a boutique consultancy for financial, professional services and an Indian Business Advisory firm
Stephen specialises in corporate and communication strategy, building a communicating culture, creative communication and developing business relationships in India.

He is a former CEO of the Australia India Business Council and a columnist for India’s largest business website, www.domain-b.com In early 2007 he led one of Australia’s largest business missions to India with the Australian Trade Minister. The first India Australia Financial Forum was held in Mumbai and Delhi in November 2007 and is planned as a yearly event.

Stephen’s career began as a journalist with the West Australian newspaper before moving to international affairs and industrial relations. He has also lectured in Public Relations at RMIT University and ‘crisis communication’ at the National Management Education Centre. In recent years he has provided cross cultural training for corporations that build business or outsource to India.

Stephen’s book, You Can Communicate, was published by Pearson Education in 2002. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including The Age and the British Medical Journal.

Amanda has spent significant time working to inspire, educate and empower young Australians to take action on climate change, in their own lives, schools and communities. This has included: establishing ASCENT, the Australian Climate Change Education Network in 2006, an independent non-profit organisation aiming to bring accurate information about climate change to the average person and playing a key role in the development of the international youth climate movement, in particular helping organise the International Youth Climate Conference which brought together 200 youth delegates from across the world. Amanda is currently the National Coordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, the peak youth body on climate change which represents youth organisations across Australia. The AYCC both coordinates its member groups activities as well as developing collaborative national projects and campaigns to build a generation wide movement to ensure adequate action is taken to avert the climate crisis. Amanda attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali as a member of the Australian Government's delegation as an official advisor and youth representative. She represented Australian youth in discussions with Federal Ministers, State Government representatives, Professor Ross Garnaut and business and industry representatives from across the world.

Amanda has recently completed a Law degree with honours at Monash Univeristy after completing a Arts degree from Melbourne University in 2004. Her 15,000 word honours thesis, for which she acheived a High Distinction considering: 'Designing a Emissions Trading Scheme that is Compatible with the Global Carbon Market'.

Dominique La Fontaine is the CEO of the newly formed Clean Energy Council, following the
amalgamation of the Australian Wind Energy Association (Auswind) and the Business Council for
Sustainable Energy (BCSE). The Clean Energy Council represents the clean energy sector and 25%
of Australia's electricity production. Prior to the merger, Dominique was the Auswind CEO.

She has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Assessment and Land Use Policy).
Dominique is one of Australia’s leading advocates for the clean energy industry. She has provided
policy advice to Governments and agencies, along with policy forums and the private sector in
energy demand and supply, energy management, greenhouse and renewable energy policy and
markets. Dominique is a member of the Queensland Premier’s Council on Climate Change.

She has contributed substantially to industry, local government and community groups in positions
such as Victorian Coordinator Timber Communities Australia (formerly Forest Protection Society),
Executive Officer of Timber Towns Victoria and Rural Senior Policy Advisor with the Municipal
Association of Victoria.

Dominique is a Board member of the Global Wind Energy Council and participates in the Australian
Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (APP) – Renewable Energy and Distributed
Generation Taskforce.

Vivek Mehra is the Country Head – Corporate Finance Private Equity and Sustainable Investment Bank at YES BANK. Vivek is spearheading two newly formed business units within YES BANK. In his Private Equity role he is responsible for setting up a Private Equity business for YES BANK by raising niche funds in Infrastructure, Special Situations, Real Estate, and Sustainable Investment area(s), with a geographic focus on India.

He is also responsible for establishing the Sustainable Investment Banking practice, which includes Advisory and Arranger work in Clean Energy, Environment and Social sector. In addition he is responsible for Carbon Trading & Financing initiatives within the Sustainable Investment Bank.

Vivek brings with him over 15 years of experience in investment banking, corporate banking & corporate treasury.

Prior to joining YES BANK, he was the founder Managing Director at VA TECH Finance (India) Pvt. Limited, a boutique Investment Bank, focused on Europe, CIS, India & Africa. Prior to holding this position, he was the Regional Treasurer of VA TECH Group for South Asia/ South East Asia.

Prior to this, Vivek was a part of the Corporate Banking Group at Standard Chartered Bank with a focus on relationship management. He has also worked with J.M. Financial Services Ltd.

Surinder Kumar is a Mechanical cum Industrial Engineer with M. Phil in Sociology. He has earned over 35 years of experience working in the corporate world and got exposed to sectors like manufacturing, consultancy, services and infrastructure. He has worked with government and private sectors at various positions. His area of expertise revolves around Human Resources, Total Quality Management and Sustainability Management. While working with Xerox he designed and developed world class Management Review and Reward & Recognition Processes. He is on the steering committee of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) and is a visiting faculty to various business schools within India and outside for teaching Strategic Management & Ethics. He has facilitated the process of integrating Sustainability as a subject and concept with various Management Schools and into the corporate world. In his present capacity as Chief Sustainability Officer, he has established Emaar MGF Sustainability Excellence Centre for operationlizing Sustainability in sectors like Hospitality, Real Estate, Special Economic Zone, Health & Education Services and Shopping Malls. Surinder is known for his skills to operationalize abstract and philosophy, integrate the same into Management Models for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of a business entity.

Surinder is married and half of his family lives in Melbourne. He is also a staunch Buddhism practioner and has been a seed speaker at various UN round table conferences on ‘Mission Spirituality’.

Louise was appointed Executive Director of RIAA in 2002. She has worked in senior management roles in the not for profit sector in Australia, the United States and Britain including General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, and General Manager of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. She has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a BA in journalism from Charles Sturt University. Louise is a Governor of WWF and in November 2006 she was chosen to be trained by Al Gore to deliver his slide show on climate change.

Fiona Wain has been the CEO of Environment Business Australia (EBA) for six years. She has successfully built the association into a powerful industry development body, 'think tank', and advocacy organisation. Representing the proactive voice of industry on sustainability, environment industry competitiveness in international markets, and business development issues, she is a national and international spokesperson for the sector, has authored many articles, and is a frequent conference speaker.

Fiona is a member of various advisories on trade, sustainability, climate change, eco-labelling, environment and energy. At the World Summit for Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002) Fiona chaired the sustainable production and consumption working group for the umbrella organisation Business Action for Sustainable Development. In Australia she convenes and chairs the Business and Sustainability Summit, an annual high-level meeting on sustainability for business leaders.

Jason specialises in the structuring, establishment, promotion (including cross-border) and ongoing operation of regulated and unregulated, retail and wholesale fund products and services. He has extensive experience in funds covering all asset types, including securities, direct real property, infrastructure, structured products and alternative asset classes (including those involving the generation and trading of environmental credits). Jason's impressive list of clients includes the Future Fund Board of Guardians, Macquarie, Deutsche, Mirvac, AMP Capital and Schroders.

Jason lectures on Funds Management and Superannuation in the University of New South Wales Master of Laws course. This is the first specialist combined funds management and superannuation law course in Australia and has been developed in conjunction with the Clayton Utz Financial Services team. Jason is a regular speaker at industry forums including financial institutions and regularly authors articles relevant to the financial services industry. He has recently been presenting at industry forums on the incorporation of environmental, social and governance issues into investment decision making and the implications of climate change for the financial services industry.

Ivor Frischknecht joined Starfish Ventures in 2005 after 15 years of hands-on management and investing experience. His focus is on cleantech investment companies that develop energy, water and environmental technologies. He also contributes considerable operational management depth in software and internet to the team.

Prior to joining Starfish, Ivor was a Director of the New Ventures Group at Idealab, a California-based firm that incubates and invests in early stage technology companies. Preceding Idealab, Ivor was a senior operating executive, including CEO, of several Silicon Valley startups in the energy technology, enterprise software and the Internet sectors. He was CEO of H2onsite, a hydrogen generation technology company, and COO of DMFCC, a micro fuel cell company. He co-founded a software company, Angara Database Systems, built it from zero to sixty employees over five years, raised US$40MM of top-tier venture capital and debt, and eventually merged it with a public company. Ivor has a strong international network of sources of capital, having secured lead investments from several top tier venture capital investors. He has helped companies grow as an independent investor, consultant and advisor, from incorporation through several rounds of financing.

Prior to becoming a technology entrepreneur and investor, Ivor worked as a strategic management consultant with Bain & Company and with the law firm Minter Ellison. Ivor holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelors of Economics (Hons) and Law from the University of Sydney .

Colin has many years of experience in bioenergy and development and commercialisation of new energy technologies. Colin holds bachelors and masters degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Melbourne and has more than twenty-five years of experience with Australian and international consulting and construction companies. Prior to starting ROC he founded and managed Enecon Pty Ltd, an Australian company that has won multiple awards for its innovative bioenergy technology and project development.

Colin is a member of the management committee for Bioenergy Australia, the peak national body for bioenergy research, development and implementation in Australia. He is a member of the Bioenergy, Bioproducts and Energy R&D Advisory Committee for the federal government’s Rural Industries R&D Corporation. He is a specialist member of the Co-operative Research Centre for Future Farm Industries.

Colin presents regularly at national bioenergy conferences and at specialist industry workshops around Australia. Colin is experienced in feasibility studies, management of multidiscipline projects, business development and team building. He has led the development of ROC’s pyrolysis business to date, including the selection of technologies and projects, commercial negotiations and team development. He will continue with this overall involvement as CEO of ROC.

Dr. Finnigan founded BioPower Systems in 2006, following years of experience working in the marine engineering and ocean energy industries.

Tim completed a PhD in Environmental Engineering in 1999 from the University of Western Australia in Perth, after previously earning his BASc in Engineering Physics and MASc in Civil Engineering in 1991 and 1994, respectively, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

His early career included engineering roles with Triton Consultants and UMA Engineering in Canada. Within these firms he was involving in water resource management and coastal projects, where his responsibilities included field work, computational modelling of estuaries, harbours, coastal regions and rivers, plans for dredging and erosion, contract negotiation, proposals, reporting and client management. In 1992, while working at PAPRICAN in Vancouver, Tim invented a novel flow device, which was patented and developed into a product (Optest-FQA) that has been successfully commercialised and sold worldwide for the past 12 years. He later worked as a research associate with the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii, where he developed innovative techniques for evaluating the dissipation of tidal energy in the ocean.

In 2000, Tim provided expert consulting services to Blue Energy Ltd, a tidal energy technology company based in Canada. Towards the end of 2000, Tim joined the Sydney-based wave energy technology start-up, Energetech Australia (now called Oceanlinx), as Head of R&D. There he was responsible for the company’s research and development program, including technical development of a 500 kW demonstration unit for full scale ocean trials. Tim assumed the role of Technical Director for Energetech in 2003 and held the responsibility for all technical development within the company. During his tenure there, he secured a $1.25M R&D Start grant from AusIndustry and subsequently administered and managed compliance for the grant. With BioPower Systems, Tim has pioneered a new conceptual philosophy that overcomes technical barriers that many ocean energy developers are experiencing. Using biomimicry, he developed concepts that diverge conceptually from traditional marine engineering structures that are designed to stand firm and react against the forces of the ocean. The new concepts involve devices that are lightweight, pliable, and tend to move and respond with the forces of the ocean. In doing so, these devices are the first to avoid destructive ocean forces allowing, them to be constructed to far lower force tolerances which translates directly to lower capital costs. Tim invented the technologies that have emerged as the company’s core products; bioWAVE, bioSTREAM, bioBASE, and O-DRIVE.

As CEO of BioPower Systems, Tim developed the company’s branding, including company designs, graphics, and descriptions, and he developed the company business and financial plans based on his vision of the future for commercial ocean power systems. His forward thinking has facilitated early phase R&D and patent protection of the company’s technology, helped build the executive team, and established strategic partnerships critical to the company’s success.

John has had extensive experience in business at both senior management and Director level. He was General Manager of the Rural Division of a large pastoral house (Farmers Grazcos Ltd) up until beginning his own business in 1983. Over his career, he has been directly involved in-

• introduction of Objective Measurement into the Australian Wool Industry. This included rewriting the Classing Code of Practise, plus introduced major changes in rehandling, storage and shipping. This included automated jumbo baling presses, mechanised blending and objective matching of wool categories.
• Established a wool manufacturing plant (wool scouring and top making) in Goulburn NSW. This included finding the JV partner, financing, budgeting, and managing the building process, machinery selection ordering and installation.
• Advisory Board Member of the Australian Wool Corporation Distribution Committee as well as Objective Measurement Committee
• Established a Pastoral Finance company for a group of independent Stock & Station Agents
• Project Manager for an AusAid project training Chinese wool textile scientists in Australia whilst upgrading wool textile laboratories in Beijing and Shanghai.
• Project Manager for an AusAid project namely outdoor education operation for PNG students studying in Australian schools under the aid program.
• As Managing Director of Edex Pty Ltd he accepted an award as NSW Exporter of the Year and Australian Finalist for his efforts in successfully establishing the first offshore Australian school beginning in 1992 namely the Australian International School in Singapore. Established two other international schools, one in Kuala Lumpur (2000), the other in Sydney (2001) being the only private educational licence “for profit” primary and secondary school in NSW.
• Since 2002, John has been active in water-harvesting projects that ultimately lead to becoming involved in thermoelectrics and the technology of heat exchangers. In 2005, he formed Hydrokinetics to commercialise the core technology of Hydrocool Pty Ltd. This involved a complete revision of the work to date, separating issues with regard to what was commercial and what was not and, developing the Company, including raising capital, developing Business Plans and becoming actively engaged in the engineering and applications for thermoelectrics and the patented heat exchangers.
• Currently developing niche markets in refrigeration using TEC’s such as Point of Sale Refrigerators, vaccine refrigerators, electronic coolers and the like.

He combines demonstrable management and marketing skills with a proven track record of working with research and development groups to introduce new ideas and new ventures into diverse industries. John has the following academic record: Bachelor of Business (B.Bus) and a Masters of Commerce (M.Comm)

William Stevens was a Partner at accounting firm KPMG for over 20 years and worked primarily with large public companies, including BHP Billiton, Santos and Pacific Dunlop. He left the accounting profession in 2005-2006, and in addition to a number of Directorships has been leading LaTrobe Lignite and the Pacific Edge Group in its project of seeking to commercialise its patented technology.

Kim Campbell is the Managing Director of Fodder King Ltd. An unlisted public company with over 1,300 shareholders . The company is an innovator and pioneer in the Australian fodder industry, specialising in the large scale production of lucerne. As MD Kim is responsible for corporate functions including intellectual property registration, administration, fund raising, and business development.

Kim holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Queensland University, a Masters Degree in Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales and a Masters Degree in Business Administration, AGSM from the University of New South Wales

Bob was born and educated in Brisbane and following graduation from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Engineering travelled to United Kingdom to take up a training position with Vickers Armstrong Engineers. Focused on manufacturing, he moved to Canada and held a number of management roles in production with Corning Glass before joining Canadian Pacific Corporation in the Road Transport Division as an Industrial Engineer and Project Manager. Returning to Brisbane, Bob held senior management roles in a number of manufacturing organisations and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce Degree before establishing the management consulting company Gibson Associates (now Gibsons JBC Pty Ltd) in 1974. Gibsons grew to be one of the leading management consultant organisations in Queensland with technology start-up ventures as one of the Company’s specialities.

Bob’s association with The TVS Partnership and more recently the Indigo Company began as a management consultant in strategic development. This together with his roles as an executive and director of a number of successful technology ventures led to his directorship and chairman role with the Indigo Technologies group of companies and appointment as Chief Executive Officer. Bob relinquished his role as Chairman in August 2006 pending the listing of the company.

Ronald Kukler is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Green Diesel Corp Ltd. He is a Certified Mechanical Engineer and a SAE (USA) member. Ron has tertiary and research disciplines (Melbourne University) in a wide range of engineering and marketing applications. He has 30 years extensive experience in a range of combustion fields with international companies such as ICIANZ (Oracle) and Shell Company Australia, Gas and Fuel Corporation, Boral (Norman J Hurll) Gilbarco, John Thompson Combustion Engineering, Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd, Bernard Smith Ltd and Malcolm Moore Ltd.

Alan Jones, Radio Presenter 2UE Sydney, interviewed Ron Kukler during the International Inventors Exhibition in Geneva Switzerland and described him as
‘Winning the equivalent of Olympic Gold’ for his contribution to Clean Air Technology in the global reduction of pollution.

Ronald is the recipient of the following International and National Awards:

Gold Medal Class A Geneva Switzerland, Triton Foundation Inventor of the Year 2003, Weekly Times Australian Machine of the Year 2004/2006, Max Wurker Australian Design Award, Gordon Institute Outstanding Alumni Award, SAE Automotive Engineering Award, Machine of the Year Award – Henty, The Hamilton Dual Award for Environment and Sustainability, Sensis Award, ATS Award (Australian Government)

Ronald is also a Board Member of the James Harrison Museum Trust

Dr Michael Ottaviano is Managing Director of Carnegie Corporation. He is primarily responsible for commercialisation of Carnegie’s clean technology portfolio, including the CETO technology, and oversees all of the commercial and technical aspects including operations, engineering and design, intellectual property, people management and financial administration.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Michael was a Senior Manager specialising in Technology and Innovation consulting at a global accounting and advisory firm. He has advised companies on new product development, intellectual property, innovation portfolio management and technology commercialisation across various industries, ranging from start-ups to ASX-listed companies with market capitalisations in excess of $1billion.

Michael previously worked in research and development and was a divisional manager for a private Australian engineering company.

He completed his Master’s of Science in Germany and his Doctorate in Business Administration in Melbourne in the field of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Huw Jones joined Aeris Environmental Ltd as CEO (previously named Aeris Technologies Ltd) in 2004 and has developed the company into an emerging international environmental technologies and services company.

Prior to joining Aeris Environmental, Huw was Managing Director of Datex-Ohmeda, Australasia (now GE Healthcare) a subsidiary of a $1bn global, high-technology equipment manufacturer operating in the healthcare sector.

Aeris Environmental (formerly Aeris Technologies Ltd) is an integrated environmental technology and services company focusing on the international energy efficiency, food safety and water treatment markets.

Huw holds a first Class Degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the London Business School and is a non-executive director of Nascor Pty Ltd, a specialty medical equipment company.

Mr. Barend van den Hoek is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Biograde Limited.

He has significant experience gained from working in senior executive positions in sales, purchasing, and strategic business management both in Australia and in the Asian region.

His business background includes Automotive Components, Plastics, Industrial Textiles, Self Adhesives Materials (Labels), Secure Printing (Credit Cards).

Barend worked for Ford Motor Company as a buyer of plastic materials and components for 11 years before joining a leading Australian Plastic Raw material manufacturer and distributor (Marplex Australia) in sales and product management positions.

Barend subsequently joined Melba Industries to develop their Automotive Textiles business in Australia and successfully developed an export market for Australian made automotive fabrics to India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Japan.

In 1996 Barend joined JAC Australia (manufacturers of self adhesive materials for the labels and packaging industry) as Director Asian and Industrial Business with responsibilities for the Australian sales and marketing team and subsidiary businesses in Malaysia and Thailand.

Barend has worked in Taiwan and Shanghai with Leigh Mardon Group as General Manager Asia (Credit Cards Manufacturer and Secure Printing) and Charles Parsons & Co Shanghai (Textiles) as General Manager.

Barend holds an MBA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Marketing from Swinburne University.

David Hind is a foundation investor in and a member of the advisory board of Barefoot Power.

David is President of The Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) and has been a member/director since 1998. BHERT has a membership base of the Vice Chancellors of Australia’s universities and the CEOs of many of Australia’s top companies. David is Chair of Skills Tasmania, a statutory authority with responsibility for planning and implementing of skills development in Tasmania. He is a member of the Manufacturing Industry Reference Group of the Institute for Trade Skills Excellence (ITSE). Following a long association, in 2005 David joined the board of Redkite, an organisation which provides practical support to the families of children undergoing treatment for cancer.

David was the final chair of the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA), having been a Board member since 2002. In 2005 he retired as Managing Director Process Gas Solutions, South Pacific for BOC Limited having held senior positions with the BOC Group in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Japan, and Australia. David was a member of the Business Council of Australia (BCA) from 1998 to 2005 and was vice chair of the BCA’s environmental task group.
David has an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). A father and grandfather, David and wife Jo share a range of social and political interests and a passion for Himalayan trekking.

Mr Ayal Marek is the director of Sustainability Ventures (SV), an Australian Cleantech company specializing in the research, development and commercialization of water technologies in three sectors: Industrial, Municipal, Agricultural. SV was established to provide solutions to the Australian challenges of efficient water use and re-use that climate change has precipitated. The scarcity of water and its impact on rural communities, business and urban environments has lead SV to draw on examples of the opportunities and experiences available from other, similar areas around the world, such as Israel, who despite similar challenges have achieved remarkable success through innovation in water use efficiency.

Ayal was financial and administration imanager in Amiad (Plastro) Australia, a Water Technology Company providing products to the Australian industrial, urban and farming community. Ayal also worked as sustainability consultant to Alinta, ANZ Bank, Monash university and the Victorian government. Most recently he managed an investment fund in the Victorian Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. Ayal is graduate of law (Haifa university Israel) and post graduate in International Development and Enviromental Analysis (Monash University Australia).

John Grimes BA, MA (ANU), Australian Service Medal, (Chairman): A successful serial business builder and entrepreneur, he has led the company through its rapid growth from concept to leadership in its field.

John previously co-founded Argus Solutions Ltd, a company specialising in iris recognition biometric technology. Argus has been one of the most successful biometric specific companies in the world, and is even today known as a product innovator.

John has extensive training and communication experience. Most recently he has established himself as a media spokesman for the grey water industry – and regularly appears in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In addition, he has worked with Sky News, USA Today, CNN International and others on the topic of grey water purification.