Tara is the Regional Manager for NQ Biodiversity at NGH Consulting.

Address the forum, Tara will be speaking on how NGH provides support to the renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure sector, as well as companies within region who are amidst a green transition, and how they can support their ESG models.

Nathan Blundell is a globally experienced leader with more than 20 years’ experience in the energy sector, and is featured as our 2024 Green Energy Forum Key-Note Speaker.

As Windlab’s General Manager of Development he oversees $30 billion of projects and a development pipeline of more than 20GW.

Nathan established his career in oil and gas, working across the full resource lifecycle for internationals BP, Shell and PetroChina both in Australia and the United States. His desire to expand his industry experience into renewables saw him complete his Masters in Sustainable Energy at the University of Queensland before joining Windlab in 2021.

Heidi Breen has forged a successful career in energy, across electricity distribution, retail and energy services businesses characterised by leadership roles that challenge conventional thinking.

As a senior leader at Energy Queensland, Heidi worked with leading teams to develop solar behind-the-meter Power Purchase Agreements, microgrids, deploy batteries and hybrid energy systems.

John Cole is the Founder and Chief Executive of Edify Energy, a leading Australian utility scale renewable energy company.  John has spearheaded renewable energy development in Europe, UK and Australia for the last 15 years. 

Prior to establishing Edify in 2015, John was co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of London based Low Carbon. Edify has originated, financed and delivered 1 GW of utility scale solar PV and battery storage projects, with a strong pipeline of projects to follow.

Edify Green Hydrogen (EGH2) is a consented, late stage, investment ready up to 5multi GW green hydrogen production facility to be built out in stages to meet the needs of domestic and export markets, together with a behind-the-meter solar photovoltaic and battery storage facility.

The initial stage is a 17.5 MW facility, in respect of which, the outstanding attributes of the project have been independently verified, Edify has uniquely secured Australian and German government funding:
• $48.2m from the Department of Industry, Science, Environment and Resources, , leading the development of Townsville’s Hydrogen Hub.
• with Siemens Energy under the German-Australian Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Incubator (HyGATE) initiative, $ $20.74m from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and €16.4m from the Projektträger Jülich.

John holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from James Cook University and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Nick is the Founding Director and Director of Renewables for NGH Consulting, a multidisciplinary environmental and planning firm operating across Australia for over 30 years.
With a focus on environmental impact assessment and environmental management for large-scale renewable energy infrastructure, he is recognised for professionalism, integrity, and expertise in the Australian renewable energy sector.

Nick’s experience spans hydroelectricity since 1992, wind farm developments since 2004, solar since 2008, and more recently, hydrogen and battery energy storage systems. He has facilitated practical solutions for a multitude of renewable energy developers in complex scenarios.

Over time, Nick has developed an understanding of and nurtured productive relationships with government regulators and senior leaders in the sector. Longevity, knowledge, and robust relationships have helped secure successful outcomes for over 35 wind and 40 solar farm projects across Australia and helped inform and influence positive change for the sector.

Nita is committed to standing up for the interests of Regional Queenslanders. Throughout her time in the Federal Parliament she has campaigned to bring manufacturing back home to regional Queensland, for more social and affordable housing, for stronger medicare, for cheaper childcare and for a better future for Australians.

Since the Albanese Labor Government won the 2022 election Nita has become the Special Envoy for the Great Barrier Reef. Nita knows just how important an asset the Reef is for regional Queensland, it is not just a beautiful world wonder but it supports 64,000 jobs and brings over $6 billion into the economy. It is worth protecting so that it will be around for generations to come.

Murray Kohn is the Hydrogen Solutions Development Manager for the Sustainable Energy Systems portfolio of Siemens Energy for Asia Pacific Region. Murray's portfolio includes hydrogen electrolysers, power-to-x, solar PV and hybrid energy solutions.

Beginning his career mechanical engineering within industrial manufacturing, Murray joined Siemens in 2007 as a pre-sales application engineer. Subsequent roles in project engineering, project management, sales, marketing and bid management developed his skillset making him an industry leader in deployment of mechanical, electrification, automation and digitization solutions in diverse industries including utilities, resources, infrastructure, transportation and manufacturing.

Murray will be addressing the form with a panel, discussing the Townsville Green H2 production at Lansdown, and the regional collaboration required for success, expanding on perspectives from leading Australian developers and the global technology at our fingertips.

Daniel is currently the Technical Manager at Ark Energy, responsible for the Future Fuels team. He is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master's from QUT, where his research investigated vanadium redox flow batteries. He has industry experience in delivering complex technology projects, from concept through to commissioning.

Currently, he is a member of "ME-093 Hydrogen Australian Standards.” Previously, Daniel sat on the International Hydrogen Safety Scientific Committee and was an advisor to the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre, sitting on the steering committee. Daniel was heavily involved in the first national hydrogen strategy, authoring papers on the impacts of hydrogen in gas transmission pipelines and gas appliances.

Ed is CEO and Founder of Jet Zero Australia, a biofuel energy company established in 2021 with plans progressing to develop Australia’s first LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet Fuel (ATJ) facility, taking surplus ethanol production from agricultural by-products on the east coast of Australia and converting it to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) via a plant to be built in Townsville, Queensland.

He was previously Managing Director at HSBC, Renaissance Capital, Bank of America and Royal Bank of Canada and has a Bachelor of Engineering & Computing (Hons) from Monash University and is a Graduate in Corporate Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Dr Govinda Pandey is the Managing Director of Rockfield and Co-Founder of LiXiA, with an Adjunct Professorship at James Cook University.

As a fellow member of Engineers Australia, he specialises in bridge technology, and structural health monitoring. As a recognised thought leader, Govinda frequently speaks at global workshops and conferences, driving innovation in infrastructure technology. Under his leadership, Rockfield has embraced modern sensor technologies to advance safe and intelligent infrastructure solutions.

Kane Ramsay is the President and Company Founder of Enscope. With over 30 years in the oil and gas industry, Kane possesses industry leading expertise in Capital cost development and commercial evaluation, Project Development and optimization, Project risk assessment, both technical and commercial and Diverse experience in various contracting models to drive project outcomes.

Kane will be addressing the form with a panel, discussing the Townsville Green H2 production at Lansdown, and the regional collaboration required for success, expanding on perspectives from leading Australian developers and the global technology at our fingertips.

In June 2022 Ross was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Iberdrola Australia, having held the position of Managing Director of Iberdrola Australia from November 2016. Prior to that Ross was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Iberdrola Australia from September 2011.

Ross has broad experience in the Australian energy and infrastructure sectors in senior management, government and strategic roles. In August 2008 Ross was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Alinta Energy. Ross completed a capital restructuring of the business and stepped down from the CEO and Managing Director role in April 2011.