

Decades of Experience
Depth of Expertise
Inspirational Vision
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Each member of our team, from the executive leadership to the Board, have over 30 years of experience in the sector. They span investment and operations, from start-up to mature, utility scale businesses in management, governance, technical roles and government advisory as well as training, education and research.
SENIOR LEADERSHIP

Jordan Green AM
Chair
Jordan is an experienced leader of innovative and high growth organisations with 40+ years of experience serving as a director, executive, entrepreneur, engineer, venture capitalist and Angel investor growing and advising technology-oriented companies and start-ups in Australia, USA, Asia and Europe.

Matthew Williams
Managing Director (Co-Founder)
Matt has 35 years of global experience in Private Equity, Infrastructure Funds Management and Corporate and Investment banking. He specialises in infrastructure and private equity funds management, project finance, M&A, and debt and equity capital markets. He has also been a director of major listed and unlisted companies in the Infrastructure, Natural Resource and Financial Services sectors.
Eugene Kopp
Chief Investment Officer (Co-Founder)
With over 30 years of experience, Eugene has held senior executive and board roles across Australia, Europe and USA in venture capital, private equity and sustainable energy. Eugene worked in senior positions in the London and Moscow offices of global leaders in project finance, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. In 1998 he returned to Australia to lead the project finance advisory team at ANZ Investment Bank. He has extensive experience in the project finance of capital-intensive industries and in the project management of large multi-disciplinary teams for the delivery of complex projects.
Kate Gaffney
Director Partnerships, Engagement and Research (Co-Founder)
Kate enjoyed a 20+ year career as a university academic in the humanities with a rich career across The University of Melbourne, Monash University and Federation University (Australia’s largest regional University) before pivoting to an investment banking and advisory role in 2022.
Throughout 2024 Kate worked with global energy generators across brown coal, onshore and offshore wind, and solar to support the workforce transition in the Latrobe Valley (Vic) as Manager, Renewable Energy Transition at Federation University. In that role she was also national chair of the Clean Energy Council's University and Industry working group.
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Dr Martin Hoogland
Chief Technology Officer
Martin is a highly experienced chemical process engineer specialising in water and wastewater treatment, initially in membrane technology and subsequently across all conventional technologies. He has many years of design-build and consulting experience in all phases of project delivery, from feasibility and concept design through detail design to on-site project engineering, commissioning, process proving and troubleshooting.
NEW INDUSTRIES FUND
INDEPENDENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Jordan Green AM
IAC Chairman

Dr Nick Birrell
IAC Member

Glenda McLoughlin
IAC Member

Linda Romanovska
IAC Member

Drew Williams
IAC Member