Founder

Over thirty five years experience as a Chemical Engineer, largely in the areas of process engineering design, design management, concept and feasibility studies, process technology development, technology evaluation, process consultancy, project evaluation, major project execution, formation and management of joint ventures, business development and marketing within the resources sector.

Major global engineering contractor experience includes eight years with WorleyParsons and eighteen years with Aker Kvaerner (now Jacobs Engineering). Roles have included responsibility for preparation and presentation of major project tenders, involvement in consortium tenders, commercial and contract negotiations, joint venture management, and trouble-shooting assignments on commercial and customer relationship aspects of projects, working in Australia, China and the UK. Early career experience includes eight years spent with BP Australia in black and brown coal beneficiation research and development in laboratory manager and engineering development management roles, and two years in a slurry pipeline engineering company.

Focus of Current Interests:

Deployment of solar power, electrical energy storage and carbon capture and sequestration solutions for climate change risk management and means for conversion of fossil fuel production and consumption to a near zero carbon emissions activity; enhanced energy source diversity and security; options for clean use of fossil fuels in developing countries and gas in developed countries; contribution to an orderly transition to low carbon intensity energy economies in developed countries over the next 30 years as the costs of renewable energy and emissions treatment continue to fall; adoption of other advanced zero carbon emissions energy technologies as the opportunities for deployment arise.

Timeline

2013-Present Resources & Energy Evolutions (Melbourne)
Founder / Owner
2004-2013 WorleyParsons (Melbourne, Beijing, London)
Director, Process and Technology – Australia; Manager M&M Select Europe – London;
Vice President M&M and FEED – Beijing; Director, Process and Technology – Australia
1987-2004 Aker Kvaerner (Melbourne, Adelaide) – originally Davy McKee Pacific, now Jacobs
Associate Director Technology; Associate Director Chemicals; Manager Development
1984-1987 Slurry Systems (Sydney) Long distance pipeline coal/minerals transportation
1977-1984 BP Australia (Melbourne, Newcastle) Black and brown coal beneficiation R&D