Board of Directors

Peter Ernest Hatfull (Managing Director & Company Secretary)

Peter has over 30 years experience in a range of senior executive positions with Australian and International companies. He has an extensive skill-set in the areas of business optimisation, capital raising and company restructuring.

He was recently Managing Director of a leading integrated metal recycling and contracting company, CMA Corporation Ltd, based in Sydney, where he manageda period of dramatic growth and increased profitability. Prior to this appointment, he held senior financial and Board positions in Australia, Africa and the UK. He has particular experience in revitalising business plans, attracting investor funding, and implementing profitable strategies. Peter is currently a director of TecoPty Ltd, Kresta Holdings Ltd, Barminco Pty Ltd and is based in Perth, WA.

Peter graduated as a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom, where he worked for Coopers and Lybrand ( now PriceWaterhouseCoopers ), and subsequently moved to Africa, where he spent 8 years in Malawi, where he was CFO of the Malawi operation of international trading group, Guthrie Limited. Peter moved to Perth in 1988.

Garnet Earl McConchie (Executive Director)

Earlhas over 35 years experience over a broad field of chemistry and associated technologies, including global markets, bulk chemicals and plastics, differentiated commodities andintermediates,specialty chemicals, polymers and interaction with environmental sectors.

Earl’s field experience includes international business management, plant operations, and project engineering in the US, Europe (especially Germany, Holland, Switzerland, UK and CIS), Latin America (Brasil, Argentina and Mexico) and Asia (Korea, China and Australia). Earl was employed with Dow Chemical Company for 25 years. He served as Global Director for chemicals and plastics in the latter part of his employment.

Subsequently Earl was employed with Lockwood Greene and Foster Wheeler Corporation.

Earl has over 10 years of specific technical and business experience in the biodiesel and glycerine industry sectors. He is a founding director and controlling shareholder of Teco.Bio LLC, and is based in Atlanta, Georgia where he has co-ordinated the microalgae development.

Earl has received a BSc (Chem Eng) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and a ME Chemical Engineering from Texas A & M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Society of Plastic Engineers.

Roger Sydney Stroud (Executive Chairman)

Roger Stroud

Roger has over 35 years experience in a variety of industries. He spent over 10 years in finance in a number of areas including credit, money market and investment banking for CitiNational (Citibank/National Mutual) merchant bank, predominantly in Sydney.

Following the above, he floated a mining company, with a head office based in Sydney, and undertook the role of managing Director for 8 years. After floating a manufacturing company, and overseeing the building of a modern brickworks in Perth, Roger provided advisory services to mining and manufacturing businesses for a number of years. In the late 1990s, Roger began the process of building businesses in the renewable fuel sector, primarily biodiesel. This included floating two separate biodiesel companies,. Roger is a founding director and controlling shareholder of Teco.Bio LLC, and is based in Perth, WA.

Roger has received a BSc from Sydney University, majoring in Chemistry and Geology, and a BA (Economics) from Macquarie University. He is currently chairman of the “Centre for Research into Energy for Sustainable Transport”, a collaborative of Curtin and Murdoch Universities, based on Murdoch Campus.

Timothy Morrison (Non executive Director)

Tim is the current Director of Research and Development at Murdoch University. He has responsibility for the provision of high level support to the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) in the management of research and the commercialisation of the University’s Intellectual Property. His primary responsibility in this position is to extend existing research relationships, and to develop new links with business and industry. His role is the key driver and catalyst for the University’s continuing development of global research and training, as well as its application to economic and national benefit.

Tim represents the University on the Boards of a number of companies engaged in the commercialisation of University IP.

Prior to his current position, he was General Manager of MurdochLink Pty Ltd, the commercial arm of Murdoch University, which is the dedicated provider of quality research consultancy services to the professions, industry and government.

Tim has a BA (1st Hon) from Murdoch University, a Post Grad Diploma (Social Research Methods) from Murdoch, and an MBA (Financial Management) from the University of Western Australia.

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