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Speakers 
 Mr Peter Anderton,
CEO,
Australian Ethanol Limited
Peter is the company’s Chairman and CEO. Peter has over 30 years experience in engineering, construction and project development principally associated with the mining and industrial sectors.
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 Mr Allan Asher,
CEO,
Energy Watch
Allan joined energywatch from the Consumers' Association where he was Director of Campaigns and Communications. Prior to his move to the UK, Allan was deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
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Mr Graeme Bethune,
Principal,
APAC Biofuels
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Mr Mark Bytheway,
CEO,
Sustainable Investment Research Institute
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Mr Ian Campbell,
Minister for the Environment and Heritage,
Australian Federal Government
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Mr Richard Clarke,
Vice President,
NSW Farmers Federation
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 Mr Mike Cochran,
Principal,
APAC Biofuels
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 Michael Coleman,
Managing Director,
Aisling Analytics
Mr Coleman contributes over two decades of expertise in trading commodities, specifically natural rubber and petroleum. His 19-year career with the commodities giant Cargill spanned London, Singapore and San Francisco, culminating in top position as inter alia managing director of Cargill's Asia Pacific Energy Division and Head of Cargill's Global Natural Rubber trading business. He left Cargill in 2001 to form U Derivatives, a proprietary trader of natural rubber, in conjunction with Marubeni of Japan. He established Aisling Analytics in May 2004. He is also director of several hedge funds managed by Sisu Capital and of the Merchant Commodity Fund, managed by Aisling Analytics.
A graduate of Exeter College Oxford, Mike has lived in Singapore since 1984. He is former director of the Singapore Commodity Exchange, and is a former chairman of The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association.
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Philip Eustace,
Managing Director,
Hyundai NZ
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 Mr Andy Fisher,
Managing Director,
Australian Farmers Fuel (SAFF)
Having spent over 20 years in the oil industry in various roles, Andy Fischer has the ability and expertise to instigate and manage the future growth of SAFF. Andy is noted for his innovative ideas within the industry.
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 Mr Danny Goldman,
Managing Director,
Axiom Energy
Danny Goldman has been with Axiom since May 2005. Danny is an experienced corporate executive with extensive operational and finance experience. Previously Danny has held senior management roles with Myer Stores and Country Road Limited.
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Michelle Graham,
Strategy & Reseach,
Australian Ethanol Limited
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Mr Jack Haley,
Vehicle Policy Specialist,
NRMA
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Mr Garry Jones,
Fleet Manager,
Hyundai Motor Company
Garry has been in motor industry since 1974 started when Nissans were called Datsun's at Capitol Motors. Worked for Ford, and Toyota in Fleet, Retail, Service roles. Extensive knowledge of Fleet Management with over 16 years with Custom Fleet in various positions. Involved in motor sport, was runner up in the 1984 Australian Formula Ford series. 1988 represented Australia in Formula Ford World Cup at Brands Hatch and beat a then 19 year old Michael Schumacher. Now manages a young up and coming Porcshe GT3 driver NSW 19 year old, Ian Dyk.
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Mr Konrad Knerr,
Company Secretary,
CAER
Konrad is Company Secretary of the Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER). He previously worked for the ASX listed funds manager, Australian Ethical Investment Limited, before helping to establish the not-for-profit Centre for Australian Ethical Research Pty Ltd in 2002. He is a member of the Australian Ethical sustainability committee and a finance committee member of a local community association.
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Mr Werner Koerbitz,
CEO,
Austrian Biodiesel Institute
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Mr Adrian Lake,
Manager,
Biodiesel Association of Australia
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Mr Guy Lane,
General Manager Marketing,
ReeFuel
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 Mr Ian Luff,
Managing Director,
Ian Luff Motivation Australia
Highly acclaimed motoring expert, race driver, journalist, TV commentator, and professional public speaker, Ian Luff links the similarities of smart driving and smart business practices which is the key to winning and steering your level of performance to greater success. Motor racing is Ian Luff’s passion and his need for speed has enabled him to race successfully here in Australian and internationally. His boundless energy, experience and enthusiasm, make Luff an achiever, a motivator, a highly successful businessman and a person who can hold an audience captivated by his powerful delivery on winning the hardest race of all - living life to the max, and loving it!
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Nathan Mahalingham,
Managing Director,
Mission Biofuels
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Chris Mapstone,
Marketing Manager,
Gardner Smith Pty Limited
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Mr Paul Martin,
MD,
Grown Fuel
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 Ms Amanda McCluskey,
Manager Sustainability,
Portfolio Partners
Amanda joined Portfolio Partners in 2006 as Manager of Sustainability and product
champion for the new Portfolio Partners Long/Short Sustainability Trust.
In this role, Amanda researches how listed companies manage sustainability and
governance risks and the potential impact on share price performance. This
information is then used to construct the fund.
Amanda represents Portfolio Partners as Deputy Chair on the Australia and New
Zealand Investors Group on Climate Change.
Prior to joining Portfolio Partners Amanda was with BT Financial Group in their
Governance Advisory Service. The Governance Advisory Service acts on behalf of
major superannuation funds and researches social, environmental and corporate
governance risks across the S&P/ASX200 index.
Amanda also acted as secretariat for the development of the Australian Federal
Government report on Sustainability from an Investors Perspective: The Mays
Report and has since provided input to national and international initiatives on
sustainability in the finance sector including the United Nations Finance Initiative
report, Who Cares Wins.
Prior to BT, Amanda was a Business Manager with FuturePlus (the financial
planning business of the Local Government & Public Authorities Superannuation
Scheme).
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Economics with honours in International Relations and
is has undertaken post-graduate studies in Finance Markets and Investment.
Amanda is a keen cyclist, and has competed at the National level representing NSW
and the University of Sydney in the Australian road titles and the University Games.
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Mr Charles McElhone,
Policy Manager - Economics,
National Farmers' Federation
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Mr Simeon Michaels,
Vice President,
Ethical Investment Association
Simeon works broadly in the field of sustainability and corporate environmental responsibility, with specific expertise in the capitalisation and commercialisation of eco-technologies. Simeon was a co-Founder and co-Director of the Australian Biodiesel Consultancy, now listed as the Australian Biodiesel Group (ABJ), one of Australia's largest biodiesel producers. Prior to that, Simeon co-founded and co-managed Resnik Communications, a conference company specialising in presenting thought leadership to superannuation funds and financial advisers. Simeon was a member of the United Nations Environment Programme's SRI advisory board in Australia, has a degree in Arts and Law from the University of NSW and has completed a Vincent Fairfax Fellowship.
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Sydney Mills,
Senior Consultant,
Manildra Group
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Mr Matthew Morland,
Managing Director,
Freedom Fuels
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Leah Murphy,
Biofuels Expert,
New Zealand Ministry of Transport
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Mr Stephen Payne,
General Manager Minerals and Fuels Branch,
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
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 Mr Lyndon Pfeffer,
Grains President,
Agforce
Lyndon is a third generation farmer in the Pampas district near Millmerran, Queensland, Australia. He has been farming for 35 years. Together with his wife Lyndelle, they have two properties with a total of 680 hectares. Crops grown include sorghum, cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and chick peas.
Lyndon has been involved in the grains industry at various levels for 25 years, including what was previously the Queensland Grain Growers Association and now AgForce Grains. He has been an AgForce Grains Director from the Central Downs Region for 4 years and now Grains president for just over one year.
He believes that the technological advancements in farming systems and new markets will hold the grains industry in good stead. Renewable fuels and in particular ethanol from grain is a key part of new markets for grain producers. Lyndon sees this as a critical part of promoting farmers as having a true green, sustainable and environmental image by being able to grow and produce renewable fuel for everyone’s benefit. His passion is to have a grains industry that will continue to add value to Australia’s economy.
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Mr Trent Potter,
President,
The Canola Association of Australia
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Mr Clement Potter,
Trading Manager,
Masefield (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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 Mr Simon Ramsay,
President,
Victorian Farmers Federation
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 Mr Bill Reichert,
MD,
Garage Technology Ventures, USA
Bill Reichert is a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. Garage makes focused investments in promising early-stage technology companies and works intensively with them to help them grow and succeed. Bill currently sits on the Board of Directors of CaseStack, WhiteHat Security, ClearFuels, and Cfares. Garage’s earlier investments include Tripwire, Claria (formerly Gator), Digital Fountain, iNest (acquired by LendingTree), Digital Envoy, BusinessLayers (acquired by Netegrity), Innovative Robotic Solutions, Psionic (acquired by Cisco), uNav Microelectronics, LeftHand Networks, Answer.com (NSDQ: ANSW), Hoku Scientific (NSDQ: HOKU) and Nanotechnologies Inc., among others.
Bill brings his extensive experience as a serial entrepreneur to his work with Garage’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining Garage in early 1998, Bill was co-founder of Academic Systems, a software company funded by Kleiner Perkins, Accel Partners and Microsoft. Academic Systems became the leading developer of network-based multimedia instructional materials for colleges and universities. In 1998, it merged with Lightspan, subsequently went public, and was then acquired by Plato Learning. Prior to Academic Systems, Bill was a senior executive at several early stage, venture-backed technology companies, including The Learning Company, which was the leading developer of educational software in the United States before its acquisition in 1994, and Infa Technologies, a pen-based computer company that developed many of the concepts underlying the Newton and Palm devices. Bill also co-founded Trademark Software, which was subsequently acquired by Dow Jones, while in graduate school at Stanford.
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 Mr Frank Russell,
Biofuels Project director,
BP Australia
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 Dr Stephen Schuck,
Manager,
Bioenergy Australia
Stephen Schuck has been the Bioenergy Australia Manager since mid 1997. Steve's background has been mainly in the electricity supply industry with experience in the construction industry and in consulting.He commenced his career at ESKOM in South Africa before taking up employment with Pacific Power in 1980, where he worked in a variety of engineering and management positions until taking up a senior management post in private industry in 1996. In 1997 he started his own consultancy, Stephen Schuck and Associates, in which he specialises in sustainable energy sources. He spends most of his time managing the Bioenergy Australia.
Steve's interests are in all forms of new and alternative energy sources, with his current assignment as Bioenergy Australia Manager providing the opportunity for gaining expertise in biomass and biomass energy. Other areas of expertise lie in strategic and business planning, project development and technology assessment.
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Sen. Rachel Seiwert,
Chairperson,
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee
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David Shelton,
Manager, Acquisitions,
New Forests
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 Mr Greg Smith,
Executive Director,
Global Commodities Ltd
Greg has over 26 years' experience in the commodity industry that began in London in 1980 at the International Commodities Clearing House. He returned to Australia in 1984 to study systematic investment techniques and option strategies. In 1999, Greg co-established a commodity funds management company that utilised systematic risk management strategies within a commodity index framework. December 2004 he moved on to establish his own commodity management company, Global Commodities Limited. As managing director, he continues to research and improve the index enhancement methodology utilising futures and option strategies. Global Commodities Limited manages an innovative product offering for Non-US investors, “The Enhanced Commodity Index Fund” (ECI).
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 Mr Selwyn Snell,
CEO,
Single Vision
Mr. Selwyn Snell was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Single Vision Grains Australia in October 2005. Mr. Snell comes with 35 years of experience in agribusiness, together with extensive experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries. He has held several senior management positions both internationally and domestically which includes roles as former MD of BioProspect Ltd, MD of IAMA Ltd, President of Zeneca KK Japan and General Manager of Crop Care Australasia Pty Ltd.
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Mr Roger Straud,
Director,
Nat-ural Fuel
Mr Stroud holds Bachelor of Science degree from Sydney University and Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Macquarie University. He is a founding director of Natural Fuel. He has spent the last six years working in the biodiesel industry in Australia, Europe and the United States. He is the conceptual developer, founding and substantial shareholder of a significant European biodiesel business that listed on the Alternative Investment Market in London in June 2004. He brings a strong technical and commercial background, together with experience in the biodiesel industry.
Mr Stroud also has extensive commercial and financial experience, having worked for over 10 years with an international merchant bank in Sydney. In the subsequent 10 years Mr Stroud held a number of directorships on various boards, including publicly listed mining and manufacturing companies.
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Mr Garth Symington,
General Manager,
Australian petroleum Agents and Distribution Association
Garth is the General Manager of the Australian Petroleum Agents and Distributors Association, (APADA) and has held this position for the past 7 years. APADA is the industry organisation representing petroleum distributors, and is registered under the Workplace Relations Act, with its primary role being that of promoting and protecting the interests of its members in their relationships with oil companies, governments, unions, consumers and the media. This role also entails representing the membership on the numerous federal and state committees and inquiries that seem to `plague` the industry.
Prior to that time, he had spent some 30 years in the oil industry, with Mobil Oil Australia Ltd, many of which were in senior management roles throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific region. He has been involved in the distributor, retail and aviation business at all levels during that period, and has represented the industry on many occasions on both industry and government enquiries and reviews.
He is originally from South Australia, now lives in Melbourne, and is married with 3 grown up sons, and enjoys, golf, swimming, in fact all sports, and is a member of the North Balwyn Rotary Club.
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Mr Gregg Taylor,
Senior Analyst,
Bridges Financial Services
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Mr Theo Van Doore,
Director Sales and Marketing,
Hyundai Motor Company
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 Ms Fiona Wain,
CEO,
Environment Business Australia
Fiona Wain has been the CEO of Environment Business Australia (EBA) for seven years. She has successfully built the association into a powerful industry development body, 'think tank', and advocacy organisation.
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Dr William Wells,
Chief Technology Officer,
Global Ethanol Holdings
Bill Wells has been appointed Chief Technical Officer of leading ethanol producer Global Ethanol.
Dr Wells’ involvement in alternative fuels has spanned many disciplines. Dr Wells has been a general manager of a cooperative-owned ethanol plant and was vice-president at two leading ethanol contractors, Delta-T and Fagen.
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Elizabeth Yeaman,
Biofuels Expert,
Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (ECCA)
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