ABOUT
Clean Global Energy Board
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Ms Alison Coutts.
Ms Coutts has more than 30 years' experience in international engineering project management, strategy consulting and executive search. Her most recent experience has been in financial services, focusing on providing corporate finance and strategic advisory services to young, high growth companies. Ms Coutts is currently a non-executive director of DataDot Technology Ltd (ASX: DDT) and Chairs CSIRO's Health Sector Advisory Council.
Upon completing her engineering degree (the first female graduate of Melbourne University in Chemical Engineering), Ms Coutts worked in London as a graduate trainee with Bechtel Corporation in the design of petrochemical plants, which were based in the Middle East and the North Sea. She subsequently became a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Department of Chemistry, Barbados. Ms Coutts returned to Bechtel to work in the corporate head office in San Francisco, USA before working as a contracts engineer on site in Taranaki, New Zealand, as part of the Bechtel team building the world's first commercial natural gas to gasoline plant. During her years with Bechtel Corporation Ms Coutts gained experience in designing and managing the construction of large multinational oil and gas projects.
Upon her return to Australia, Ms Coutts worked as a project engineer with a private firm designing, building and delivering complex processing plants to central Australia under extremely tight time frames and difficult budgetary constraints. She then completed her MBA at Melbourne Business School with distinction and won the Business Policy prize. She subsequently worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Melbourne where she undertook assignments in strategy formulation, organisational restructuring and corporate training for a number of large Australasian corporations. After her time at BCG, Ms Coutts worked in Executive Search for Egon Zehnder International and was responsible for placing a number of executives across a range of functions and industries.
In 2001 she completed a degree in biotechnology at Melbourne University and was subsequently headhunted to Sydney to lead a stock broking firm's efforts to enter that field. A year later she co-founded a boutique financial advisory firm, eG capital, which quickly became established as a leader in providing corporate advisory, capital raising and stock broking services in the Australian Life Sciences sector. Over its seven years in operation, eG Capital raised in excess of $500 million for the sector through IPOs and secondary raisings. During this time Ms Coutts gained a great understanding of the special difficulties, not just financial, that beset many small companies and some of the remedies that can be applied. She brings this hands-on experience to Clean Global Energy.
Interim Board Chairman, Mr Domenic Martino.
Mr Martino brings considerable corporate knowledge and leadership, as well as strategic opportunities to the company. Mr Martino was CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Australia from 2001 to 2003. During that time he was also a member of the Global Executive Committee of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. As well as being made a Partner, he held various management roles within this company and its predecessor firms, providing financial advice and risk management, including mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings, extending back to 1981. He is currently Chair of Australasian Resources Ltd, developing a billion tonne iron ore resource in the Pilbara, and a Director of Clive Palmer's upcoming Hong Kong listed resource company, Resourcehouse Ltd. Mr Martino has recently been appointed to the boards of Cokal Limited, focussed on building a global coking coal business, and Pan Asia Corporation Ltd, developing thermal coal projects in Indonesia. Mr Martino's academic qualifications and professional affiliations include a Bachelor of Business, Curtin University, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Non-Executive Board Director, Mr Brett Mitchell.
Mr Mitchell has worked for both private and publicly listed entities for the past 19 years as a corporate finance executive. Mr Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia and has worked specifically in the financial markets and resources sectors. Mr Mitchell is currently a Director of Transerv Energy Ltd, Wildhorse Energy Ltd, Kilgore Oil and Gas Ltd and Quest Petroleum NL and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (ACID).
Clean Global Energy Board
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Ms Alison Coutts.
Ms Coutts has more than 30 years' experience in international engineering project management, strategy consulting and executive search. Her most recent experience has been in financial services, focusing on providing corporate finance and strategic advisory services to young, high growth companies. Ms Coutts is currently a non-executive director of DataDot Technology Ltd (ASX: DDT) and Chairs CSIRO's Health Sector Advisory Council.
Upon completing her engineering degree (the first female graduate of Melbourne University in Chemical Engineering), Ms Coutts worked in London as a graduate trainee with Bechtel Corporation in the design of petrochemical plants, which were based in the Middle East and the North Sea. She subsequently became a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Department of Chemistry, Barbados. Ms Coutts returned to Bechtel to work in the corporate head office in San Francisco, USA before working as a contracts engineer on site in Taranaki, New Zealand, as part of the Bechtel team building the world's first commercial natural gas to gasoline plant. During her years with Bechtel Corporation Ms Coutts gained experience in designing and managing the construction of large multinational oil and gas projects.
Upon her return to Australia, Ms Coutts worked as a project engineer with a private firm designing, building and delivering complex processing plants to central Australia under extremely tight time frames and difficult budgetary constraints. She then completed her MBA at Melbourne Business School with distinction and won the Business Policy prize. She subsequently worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Melbourne where she undertook assignments in strategy formulation, organisational restructuring and corporate training for a number of large Australasian corporations. After her time at BCG, Ms Coutts worked in Executive Search for Egon Zehnder International and was responsible for placing a number of executives across a range of functions and industries.
In 2001 she completed a degree in biotechnology at Melbourne University and was subsequently headhunted to Sydney to lead a stock broking firm's efforts to enter that field. A year later she co-founded a boutique financial advisory firm, eG capital, which quickly became established as a leader in providing corporate advisory, capital raising and stock broking services in the Australian Life Sciences sector. Over its seven years in operation, eG Capital raised in excess of $500 million for the sector through IPOs and secondary raisings. During this time Ms Coutts gained a great understanding of the special difficulties, not just financial, that beset many small companies and some of the remedies that can be applied. She brings this hands-on experience to Clean Global Energy.
Interim Board Chairman, Mr Domenic Martino.
Mr Martino brings considerable corporate knowledge and leadership, as well as strategic opportunities to the company. Mr Martino was CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Australia from 2001 to 2003. During that time he was also a member of the Global Executive Committee of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. As well as being made a Partner, he held various management roles within this company and its predecessor firms, providing financial advice and risk management, including mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings, extending back to 1981. He is currently Chair of Australasian Resources Ltd, developing a billion tonne iron ore resource in the Pilbara, and a Director of Clive Palmer's upcoming Hong Kong listed resource company, Resourcehouse Ltd. Mr Martino has recently been appointed to the boards of Cokal Limited, focussed on building a global coking coal business, and Pan Asia Corporation Ltd, developing thermal coal projects in Indonesia. Mr Martino's academic qualifications and professional affiliations include a Bachelor of Business, Curtin University, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Non-Executive Board Director, Mr Brett Mitchell.
Mr Mitchell has worked for both private and publicly listed entities for the past 19 years as a corporate finance executive. Mr Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia and has worked specifically in the financial markets and resources sectors. Mr Mitchell is currently a Director of Transerv Energy Ltd, Wildhorse Energy Ltd, Kilgore Oil and Gas Ltd and Quest Petroleum NL and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (ACID).