Doug Aberle is the Managing Director of Western Power, a business of more than 2,200 core staff and over 1000 contractors in over 29 sites. It is responsible for the distribution and transmission network which delivers power in the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).  The business, which has an asset value of over $3 billion, provides access to the two competitive ends of the electricity industry, generation and retail, in a regulated environment that ensures quality of service and access to the network is fair and equitable.

Doug is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a Chartered Professional Engineer.  Doug is also a clinical member of the Australian Association of Relationship Councillors, is a College Member of Gestalt Australia and New Zealand and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Graeme Alford has nearly 30 years experience in local government, engineering activities and more specifically, for the past eight years, in the waste management industry.

His qualifications include a Bachelor in Engineering (Civil) and a Master of Business Administration (Technology Management).

Graeme was a salaried member of three local governments for seventeen years including eight years as the Shire/City Engineer at two of these local governments in Victoria.  He then ran a successful engineering consultancy business operating in the local government/waste arena for eleven years in Perth, Western Australia (WA).  One of his major consultancy assignments in the later years was as the Project Manager for Mindarie Regional Council (MRC) for a period of nearly three years, overseeing the ongoing development of the Tamala Park landfill, the largest in WA, and the planning for the proposed Resource Recovery Facility at Neerabup.

Prior to joining Landfill Gas and Power (LGP) in July 2006, he worked for the consulting engineering group, Cardno BSD, based in Perth for twelve months on the proposed MRC Resource Recovery Facility tender process.

He is the Chief Executive Officer of Landfill Gas and Power, a waste to energy Company specialising in renewable electricity from landfill methane.  The company is based in Perth, WA.  He is passionate about actively pursuing the development of the business as LGP has developed a technology and expertise to help others destroy the methane from their landfills and at the same time create renewable energy to assist in the mitigation of climate change.

He is married to Lynn and has a blended family of five adult children who have all left the home to pursue their own lives.

John Boshier is the Executive Director of the National Generators Forum, the industry body which represents the 21 principal electricity generators in the national market. The NGF was incorporated in February 2005, and is playing an increasing role as the market becomes more integrated with a single pricing and dispatch system and one regulator.

John is qualified in engineering and business, and was previously Chief Executive of Engineers Australia, the second largest professional association in Australia.

He has been General Manager of both a retail electricity distribution company and the major generator in New Zealand, and has held senior executive positions in government departments.

John has published papers in energy policy, and is on several not-for-profit boards.

Roman Domanski has been Executive Director of the Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA), a national non-profit association representing the interests of electricity and gas users, since 1996.  He played a major role in founding the organisation and has been involved in a range of issues involving national and state energy market reform and regulation.  He has also promoted a greater role for demand management and commercial energy efficiency, as well as increasing the EUAA’s membership and profile.

He is a member of the Victorian Essential Services Commission’s Customer Consultative Committee, the NSW Minister for Energy’s Energy Saving Fund Advisory Committee, the ACCC’s Infrastructure Consultative Council,  IPART’s Energy Industry Consultation Group, CSIRO’s Energy Sector Strategic Advisory Council and the Energy Intensive Industries Consultation Group amongst others.
 
Roman was previously a senior executive in the Business Council of Australia, where he worked on a range of issues including National Competition Policy, energy reform, telecommunications reform and transport policy.  He has also held senior executive positions in the Trade Practices Commission (now the ACCC) and was a senior policy adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Roman has a B. Ec (Hons) from La Trobe University and a Master of Management Economics from the University of NSW.