Wayne Rogers - Chairman
Wayne is an experienced financial and General Manger with wide-ranging experience of operations in Europe, Australia and Asia, particularly in the renewable energy and manufacturing fields. He held several senior financial positions with IBM in the UK and its European headquarters in Paris before participating in a successful management buyout to form the now NASDQ-listed Xyratex – a $500m computer storage and services company, in which he served initially as Treasurer and later as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region, based in Kuala Lumpur.

He was the founder of Horizon Technologies Pty. Ltd., an Australian based business focused on transforming solar and other forms of renewable energy into electricity for grid and off-grid applications. He was also Chief Financial Officer of Novera Energy Limited now listed on the AIM index in the UK, and has recently concluded a role as the Managing Director of a highly successful turn-around of a Malaysian based electronics manufacturing concern.

Bevan Dooley - Managing Director and CEO
Bevan is a mechanical engineer with over ten years of process engineering experience in the fats and oils business. Formerly with Cargill, the world's largest commodities trader and processor of oilseeds, Bevan has experienced a wide spectrum of the oil processing industry. He has been responsible for the planning, design and construction of many major projects including solvent extraction facilities, oilseed refineries, loading/unloading facilities, bulk oil export terminals and shipping pipelines.

• develops and delivers competition and other compliance programs for use in Australia, Europe and New Zealand;
• sits on the boards of companies (listed and unlisted) involved in the technology (medical and power generation) development and technology and resource exploration.

Professor Thomas Maschmeyer - Non Executive Director
Thomas is currently Federation Fellow and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, received his B.Sc.(Hons I) and PhD from there in 1991 and 1995 respectively. In 1994 he moved to work with Prof. Sir John M. Thomas at the Royal Institution of Great Britain as Australian Bicentennial Fellow. In 1997 he became the Assistant Director of the Davy Faraday Laboratories there and held an Affiliate Lecturer’s position at The University of Cambridge and was Fellow at Peterhouse. Two years later he moved to be Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Organic and Catalytic Chemistry at the Delft Institute of Chemical Technology and became Vice-Chairman of that Institute in 2000. He had a leading role in spinning-out a combinatorial catalysis company, Avantium, which has around 90+ employees and a capitalisation of A$110M. He is/has been consultant for many companies, including Shell, Borax, DSM, Avantium, Australian Biodiesel Group Limited and Ignite Energy, was a Scientific Advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Guest-Editor of Topics in Catalysis, and is on the editorial boards of four journals as well as being/having been on boards of many journals, societies, companies, government organisations and international conferences