Expertise across 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.

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SENIOR LEADERSHIP

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Matthew Williams

Managing Director (Co-Founder)

Matt has over 35 years of global experience in Private Equity, Infrastructure Funds Management and Corporate and Investment banking; including Chase Manhattan (now JP Morgan Chase), Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank, and Hastings Funds Management. Matt was the first executive appointed by Hastings Funds Management and ran its flagship fund Utilities Trust Australia from inception and established other investment vehicles including Hastings Hancock International Timberland. He has also been a director of major listed and unlisted companies including; Pacific Hydro (now Pacific Blue), Southern Hydro Partnership, Hancock Victorian Plantations (HVP), Perth International Airport, Sydney Light Rail, AusPower, Epic Energy, and Interlink Roads.

Matt has been an adviser to Australian and international governments including as a director at PWC and also as senior privatisation adviser to the UAE Ministry of Interior.

Recently Matt enjoyed his role as a consultant to Stanford Seed and is currently a mentor under the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute's "Limitless" program designed to support ambitious early career finance professionals developing their leadership skills in sustainable finance.

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.

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.

Kate Gaffney

Director Partnerships, Engagement and Research (Co-Founder)

Kate enjoyed a 20+ year career as a university academic in the humanities researching the breakdown of regulatory structures and resulting legal liabilities in child welfare as part of her rich career across The University of Melbourne, Monash University and Federation University (Australia’s largest regional University). Highlights included teaching in and helping re-design a national award winning pathways program at Monash University, and TAFE/vocational education partnerships. Across 2020-2022 Kate pivoted her career towards investment banking and advisory with a focus on female founders, sustainability, education and (being farm born and bred), agriculture.

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.