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Arnold Baker
Chief Economist
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
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Kim Wood
Managing Director
Stanwell Corporation
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Mark Kelleher
Managing Director
Roaring 40s
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Barbara McKee
Director Office of Coal & Power Import & Export
US Department of Energy
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Gerry Grove-White
Chief Executive Officer
Geodynamics
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conference details
Conference:
Day 1
17th June 8:30am - 5:30pm
Day 2
18th June 8:30am - 5:30pm
 
Post Conference Masterclass
 19th June 8:30am - 4:30pm
 
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Meet our speakers...
Arnold Baker
Chief Economist
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Arnold B. Baker is the Chief Economist of Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He is a Deputy to the Senior Vice President and Deputy Laboratories Director for Integrated Technologies and Systems, and serves as principle political economic advisor.  He is a Past President (2005) of the International Association for Energy Economics and former President of the United States Association (2002).  He holds a BA in History and MA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Prior to joining SNL in 1996 he served for 17 years at Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), holding a number of challenging positions including Director of Political Economic Analysis, Director of Public Issues, Director of Energy Market Analysis, and Manager of Strategic Planning (ARCO Oil and Gas Company).  His assignments included market analysis and scenario based planning, as well as chairing internal planning studies on the future of the oil, natural gas, coal and electricity industries.  Prior to joining ARCO he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs, and as a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.  He has written book chapters and articles on energy, economic policy and global change.

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Georgine Duncan
Beyond Energy Project Manager
Origin Energy

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Andrew Durran 
Executive Director 
Epuron Australia

Andrew Durran is the Executive Director at EPURON P/L. Prior to joining the EPURON
team in 2005, Mr. Durran had 14 years experience in the energy industry with a special
concentration on renewable energy and sustainable solutions.
Mr. Durran has a Master of Business Administration from APESMA/ La Trobe University
in Melbourne. Mr. Durran gained valuable management experience as a Director at
Hampton Wind Park Company P/L and as an Associate Director of Business Development at Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA).
Mr. Durran has been active in supporting Industry Development Initiatives,
and was an active member of the Federal Mandatory Renewable Energy Target
Working Group, National Green Power Accreditation Steering Group, and the NSW
Sustainable Energy Research and Advisory Council (SERDAC).

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Aaron Fyke
Investment Director
Starfish Ventures 

Aaron Fyke has dedicated his career to the success of clean technology companies, and joined Starfish in January 2007 to focus on cleantech investments.

With both engineering and management expertise he has led a number of key initiatives relating to new product development, manufacturing, and commercialization in the energy, automotive, and aerospace industries. Prior to joining Starfish, Aaron led the redesign for manufacturability of a solar concentrator for an early stage start-up, Practical Instruments. Previous to that, he managed the start-up of a new factory, led the formation and growth of a logistics, training, and customer support division, and developed the business plan to develop and commercialize a new ocean power technology for AeroVironment, a leading clean technology and aerospace company. Aaron provided consulting services to Visteon, a large automotive supplier, to respond to new business conditions, and was a key engineer in the development of direct methanol fuel cell technology for Ballard Power Systems.

Aaron earned his MBA from the Leaders for Manufacturing program at the MIT Sloan School of Management, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT School of Engineering, and his BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria, as the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Gold Medal recipient for graduating first in his class. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering both in California and British Columbia.

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Gerry Grove-White
Chief Executive Officer 
Geodynamics Ltd

Mr Gerry Grove-White was appointed as the Company's new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer and commenced on 27th August 2007.
Gerry was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Tata Power, the largest private power company in India. Gerry brings extensive domain knowledge and expertise to this role, as well as an effective combination of management and leadership competencies, and a strong track record as a power industry Chief Executive Officer. He has also been the Managing Director of Eraring Energy, the NSW Government owned power generation company. Prior to this, he was a successful power station project developer with PowerGen in the UK and internationally.

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Clarence Hardy
Chair 
Hardy Pacific Nuclear Council

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Bernie Hayes
Country Sales Director
Alstom

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Steve Hollis 
Chief Executive officer 
Llyod Energy

Mr Hollis has been the managing director of LES since November 2001.  He is a civil engineer with 40 years experience in managing engineering projects.

In 1988 he was appointed Managing Director of the Scott & Furphy Group of companies and in 1991 took the company into a merger with Crooks Michell Peacock and Stewart to form CMPS&F Pty Ltd, at that time Australia’s largest engineering consulting group with a staff of 1,200.

Following the acquisition of CMPS&F by the French Egis Group in 1997 he became Chief Operating Officer (Deputy Managing Director) of CMPS&F.

In 1998 Steve joined SMEC Pty Ltd becoming Executive Director, Development until his appointment as managing director of LES.

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Terry Jones 
CenDEP Director, Low Emission Distribution Energy
CSIRO

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Mark Kelleher
Managing Director
Roaring 40s

Mark is the inaugural Managing Director of Roaring 40s, a joint venture company between Hydro Tasmania and CLP Asia.  He is responsible for overseeing the development of new business opportunities for Roaring 40s nationally and internationally, and growing Roaring 40s to become the leading renewable energy business in Asia and Oceania.  Previously, he was General Manager, Renewables Development for Hydro Tasmania. Mark was with Hydro Tasmania for 12 years and held a number of positions in the financial and strategic areas of the business.  During his time with Hydro Tasmania, Mark was responsible for a number of major projects including the 600MW undersea electricity inter-connector - Basslink, conversion of the Bell Bay Power Station to gas, and establishing Hydro Tasmania’s new, Roaring 40s wind generation business, including the development of national and international wind projects.  Mark has also worked for Telstra, where he held a number of key financial and strategy positions, and was the Tasmanian Financial Controller at the time of leaving to join Hydro Tasmania.

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Ariel Liebman 
Research Fellow 
ARC Centre for Complex Systems

Ariel Liebman is now a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Complex System, hosted within the School of IT and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland. With 15 years of experience in both Commercial and Academic Environments, Dr. Ariel Liebman possesses an in-depth understanding of energy issues, and modelling techniques for energy markets. He has developed market risk management strategies and managed the rapid implementation of complex models for commercial use in essential services industries. Dr. Liebman has consulted to Goldman-Sachs, Duke Energy International and others. Dr. Liebman has a keen interest greenhouse credit markets and renewable energy.

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Craig Lovelady 
Managing Director 
BioWorks Australia

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Hon Ian McDonald   
Minister for Energy 
NSW Government

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Barbara McKee 
Director Office of Coal & Power Import & Export
US Department of Energy 
Chairman Working Party on Fossil Fuel
International Energy Agency

Barbara Nance McKee is the Director, Office of Coal & Power Import & Export, Office of Coal and Power Systems, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Coal and Power Systems is responsible for strategic direction of research development and demonstration product lines related to coal and power systems technologies. The Office of Coal & Power Import & Export mission is to promote U.S. goods and services in the international market place, regulate transborder electric power generation, and provide electric power regulatory assistance and serves as Secretariat to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum.
Ms. McKee began her government service with the Atomic Energy Commission and continued with the Energy Research and Development Administration. Within the Department of Energy, she has served on the personal staff of the Secretary of Energy after having served on the personal staff of the Under Secretary of Energy where she was responsible for strategic planning and the development of program and project management systems. Ms. McKee has received numerous Special Achievement Awards for her work within the Department of Energy.
From 1994 to 1998, Ms. McKee served as the Chairman of the International Energy Agency Clean Coal Center which is located in London and is an organization of more than 15 nations; she currently serves as its Vice Chairman. She is Chairman of the International Energy Agency's Working Party on Fossil Fuels which functions in Paris and has 21 member nations. She also is Chairman of the World Energy Council's Committee on Cleaner Fossil Fuels Systems.
Ms. McKee is an alumnus of Tuskegee University and Harvard University. She is a native of South Carolina.

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Euan Morton  
Principal
Synergies Economic Consulting

Euan Morton is a Principal at Synergies Economic Consulting. He advises extensively in the energy and water industry on costing, pricing, planning, contractual, economic impact and policy issues. Euan has recently been appointed to an Expert Panel by the Ministerial Council on Energy to review regulatory arrangements associated with the ongoing reforms to energy markets.

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Michael Ottavianna
CEO
Carnegie Corporation

Michael is Managing Director of Carnegie Corporation and SeaPower Pacific.  He is primarily responsible for commercialization of the CETO technology and oversees the all of the commercial and technical aspects including operations, engineering and design, intellectual property and finance administration. 

Prior to joining Carnegie, he was a Senior Manager specializing 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 commercialization across various industries and ranging from start-ups to ASX-listed companies with market capitalizations 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.

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Mr David Pryke 
Executive General Manager - Power Generation
Siemens Limited
 

David Pryke is the Executive General Manager for Siemens Power Generation in Australia and New Zealand. He is responsible for a business encompassing products, solutions and services for fossil power generation, renewable energy and oil and gas. 

Since joining Siemens in 1999, he has been instrumental in developing the business to market leading positions in both the provision of new plant and after market service. He has completed a Masters of Project Management degree at the University of Technology, Sydney. David has worked in the power industry for approximately 25 years.

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Simon Schwarz
Capital Markets 
Investec Bank

Ariel Liebman is now a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Complex System, hosted within the School of IT and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland. With 15 years of experience in both Commercial and Academic Environments, Dr. Ariel Liebman possesses an in-depth understanding of energy issues, and modelling techniques for energy markets. He has developed market risk management strategies

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Michael Vawser  
Managing Director, Asia Pacific  
Wind Prospect Group

Ariel Liebman is now a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Complex System, hosted within the School of IT and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland. With 15 years of experience in both Commercial and Academic Environments, Dr. Ariel Liebman possesses an in-depth understanding of energy issues, and modelling techniques for energy markets. He has developed market risk management strategies

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Kim Wood  
Chief Executive Officer 
Stanwell Corporation

DipEng, BEng, MBA, FIEAust, CPEng
Chief Executive Officer (February 2007 to current)

Kim commenced as Chief Executive Officer at Stanwell in February 2007. Prior to this, he spent four and a half years as Managing Director of the Northern Territory utility Power & Water Corporation. His previous roles include Managing Director of Datafast Telecommunications, Chief Executive Officer of Victorian electricity transmission business GPU PowerNet, Managing Director of City West Water and, prior to that, the Sydney-based Managing Director of GEC Plessey Telecommunications. Kim has more than 20 years of management experience through career roles, including General Manager at Bell South, Regional Manager, Hewlett Packard, and Engineering Officer with the State Electricity Commission. He has also been a Director of the Indigenous Housing Authority of the Northern Territory, as well as chairing the two gas subsidiaries of Power & Water Corporation.

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Lisa Wade
Executive Director
arkx carbon fund

Lisa Wade completed Bachelor of Business majoring in Accounting and finance in 1992.  and has 13 years trading experience at various broking firms. Until 2003 Lisa  was a Director at Citigroup London and Australia  before moving to run money for a private family in Melbourne where she was responsible for portfolio management and Derivatives strategies for the fund. During her employment the fund consistently outperformed the market and she was a contributor to this outperformance. Lisa’s Derivatives trading experience is extensive and she is a specialist Arbitrage Trader. Lisa has traded both in Australia and in London. Lisa has over the years attained the following industry qualifications: SFE Registered Rep, US Series 7, Registered SEATS operator, Registered ASX options market maker, London International Market Maker, UK FSA Registration.

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Doug True
Global Business Manager - Energy and Sustainability 
SKF Reliability Systems

Ariel Liebman is now a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Complex System, hosted within the School of IT and Electrical Engineering of the University of Queensland. With 15 years of experience in both Commercial and Academic Environments, Dr. Ariel Liebman possesses an in-depth understanding of energy issues, and modelling techniques for energy markets. He has developed market risk management strategies

 

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