David Griffin has been active in developing utility-scale solar and wind farms in Australia since 2000 and South Africa since 2010, through his own development companies and during his time as General Manager Development at Infigen Energy. Projects include the 64MW Warwick Solar Farm (QLD), 30MW Corowa Solar Farm (NSW), 89.1MW Alinta Wind Farm (WA), 80MW Nojoli Wind Farm (South Africa) and the 96MW Jasper Solar Farm (South Africa). Of the projects David has developed to date 1GW has been commissioned, and approximately 2GW are in the advanced stage of development or under construction.

Mac Thompson is an experienced technology business founder and CEO. He founded and built DigiGuard, an Australian and New Zealand wide IT business continuity firm, headquartered in Melbourne, and sold it to Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM).

He then founded, built and sold CloudRecover, Australia’s largest enterprise private cloud storage and online backup business, to J2Global (NASDAQ:JCOM).

After starting her career in taxation and business services with KPMG, Kristen moved into
specialist tax advice then financial and management accounting for tech start-ups. She has
held the position of Financial Controller within the building and construction industry, and
provided business advisory and taxation services to clients in the building, recycling,
manufacturing, hospitality and racing industries. Her varied career has provided Kristen
with a depth of experience in a broad range of consulting and finance functions including
project and management reporting, financial accounting, taxation, business development
and restructuring.

Elaine holds a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Professional Accounting and Finance from the University of Sydney. She is a member of the International Business Honor Society Beta Gamma Sigma. Prior to joining Sun Cable, she worked at ESR Australia and Crowe. Elaine assists the team in performing and optimising Finance functions.

Kate is a final year student studying a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) at the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining Sun Cable, she worked at KPMG and Suncorp. She assists the team in maintaining and optimising Finance functions.

Radnya specialises in the application of power electronics to power systems, high voltage engineering, network protection and control; and management of knowledge workers and innovation. She brings the expertise in the area of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology to the Sun Cable team. She has gained this expertise through working in operational and strategic roles on over fifteen multi-million dollar HVDC projects worldwide and on one core VSC development and industrialisation programme at the GE HVDC Centre of Excellence in Stafford, over 17 years (2001-2018).
At present, Radnya also leads an entrepreneurial team at EPECentre (University of Canterbury, New
Zealand) delivering research pertinent to the electricity sector, renewable generation, power system analysis (integration and interaction), sensing, instrumentation, control, condition monitoring and clean technologies (electrification). She possesses a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Government College of Engineering Pune, India; a PhD in Engineering from University of West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom (UK); and an MBA from Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK.

Saijie has gained significant experience of submarine cable installation projects for both interconnectors and offshore wind farm developments (array & export cables), particularly from the perspective as a Consultant, later as an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) Contractor, and finally as a Wind Farm Developer. He has been involved from the feasibility, front end engineering design (FEED), tender, detailed design and execution phases of the projects. He has participated in these projects as technical engineer, consultant, technical lead, project manager to department managerial level, fulfilling multiple roles at the same time on many occasions.

With a MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, a MSc in Offshore & Ocean Technology, Saijie has a keen interest in meeting the challenges facing the industry. Saijie is also a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Davood Dehestani is the Solar and Storage Manager of Sun Cable and is responsible for the technical direction of storage, power conversion and transmission system. Before joining Sun Cable, Davood was the technical lead of solar and storage with Schneider Electric and was responsible for leading the technical aspects of the company's large-scale solar projects. This includes solar farm turnkey solutions, grid connections and studies. He delivered total turnkey solution of 650MW solar power plant through five main solar farms across Australia. Prior to joining Schneider Electric, Davood was Senior battery and storage engineer with Ecoult and East Penn battery manufacturer and was responsible for delivery of the turnkey solution in battery storage innovation projects across the world with focus on the American market.

Luke Marshall studied renewable energy and software engineering; he is currently a PhD Candidate at UNSW in renewable energy economics. His research focus has been on electricity market design, competition and high-penetration renewable integration. Early in his career, Luke co-founded Sunapse, which produced solar thermal modelling and optimisation tools. Luke was subsequently a project manager at 5B Australia, working on DC-side optimisation. Luke has also worked as a research and development engineer at Identitii, building blockchain-based smart contracts, compliance-related machine learning systems and energy trading tools. Luke is the co-founder of Oxamii, a smart energy retail and renewable integration company. At Sun Cable, Luke is a research and development engineer, with a focus on solar farm design, manufacturing and economic optimisation.

Dr. Quy Dang is a Principal Engineer, graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His research was focused on the optimal control algorithm of the wind energy systems. After completing his studies, Quy Dang has had extensive working experience through world renown MNC(s) including Vestas Technology R&D, GE Renewable Energy (Australia) where he has participated in the grid modelling & connection process of dozens of wind farms all over the world. He also was principal and owner engineer of a solar farm in Queensland, Australia. His skill set includes: product development and innovation, control algorithm & firmware, modelling of power systems, grid connection of renewable sources and balance of plant.
Dr. Quy Dang is now in charge of the entire process of power system modelling for all Sun Cable's solar farm and battery projects. His role is not limited to scoping out feasibility solutions from technology review of OEMs to project delivery, grid modelling & connection, and project management.

Cole Johnson is currently studying a double degree in Engineering (Honours) and Science at the ANU in Canberra. Majoring in Renewable Energy Systems and Physics, minoring in mathematics.
At Sun Cable he works closely with the electrical engineering group on research and development projects, providing research and modeling insights to help with decision making.

Finnian Murphy studied renewable energy engineering at UNSW, which involved an honors thesis modelling revenue sufficiency and capacity remuneration for high-penetration renewables. Graduating in 2018, he began working for the Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community of Australia as a project officer on its new project, the Business Renewables Centre Australia. During this time, he produced corporate renewable power purchase agreement analysis, led the Centre's membership growth, helped deliver finance proposals to governments and delivered procurement training to electricity users investigating PPAs. Finnian is a photovoltaics engineer at Sun Cable, but currently focuses on relationship management and supply chain liaison.

Alwyn Ramshaw is a Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineer, graduating from UNSW in 2018.
Before joining Sun Cable, Alwyn worked at Global Sustainable Energy Solutions where he was involved in consulting and training projects across Australia, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
At Sun Cable, Alwyn is focused on solar farm design, component selection and relationship management.

Andrew has been a Photon Conversion Specialist for over 16 years. During his career, he has developed a renewable energy strategy for the Northern Territory, explored geothermal power, founded tech companies in the renewable energy sector and picked up qualifications to aid him along his journey.

Joe has over 8 years of experience in research and industry applying mathematical optimisation to real world problems. He has strong experience in building optimisation and decision support tools from the ground up,with a focus on abstraction to allow broad application and continued relevance of such tools.

He has previously worked in the Operations Research Team at CSIRO Data61 and is a current PhD candidate at Monash University working on novel modelling and optimisation techniques for personnel scheduling problems. He has previously completed studies in mathematics and operations research at University of Queensland.

Lachlan joined Sun Cable in early 2020 as a software engineer specialising in developing robust and easy-to-use solutions for gathering, securely storing and visualising large amounts of analytical data involving the Singapore electricity market. His responsibilities include developing and maintaining a system which is able to regularly and automatically pull the latest data from various sources, collate them in a secure area and display them in a format that is both simple to understand and provides valuable insight at a glance while also facilitating the ability to drill down into the data for deeper analysis. Prior to Sun Cable, he was a freelance software engineer contractor and had worked for many different clients on a variety of projects including website redesigns, image manipulation and storage and improving speed and efficiency scores of websites.

Dr Jakub Tomczyk has more than 10 years of experience in mathematical modeling and optimisation of industrial problems. Prior to joining Sun Cable he has run a company allowing industrial organisations to embed mathematical modelling into their operational infrastructure, covering such diverse topics as forecasting crime occurrences, plane tracking using Doppler effect, fog detection using images and medical research. Jakub has delivered a range of projects to date and his vast experience showcases how subject matter experts, mathematics and computer science can be brought together to successfully solve real-world industrial problems.

Jakub holds a PhD in Financial Mathematics from the University of Sydney, Australia and two MSc degrees in Financial Mathematics and Mathematics for Industry and Commerce from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. His strong relationship with academia allows him to tap into the current research and offer a strategic and holistic view of innovation ecosystem factors.

Fraser is the founder and CEO of AlphaBeta Singapore, an economic strategy firm, and was the inaugural President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in ASEAN (“AustCham ASEAN). Fraser is a Rhodes Scholar, with a PhD in Economics from Oxford University and has previously worked for McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group.

Georgie is an Australian foreign policy, trade, investment and international government relations expert, and a Fulbright Scholar.

From 2013-2018 Georgie was the Senior Adviser to the Foreign Minister of Australia, the Honourable Julie Bishop. Georgie was also the Foreign Minister’s Principal United States adviser handling all policy issues where there was an intersection between Australian and US interests with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Georgie was the Director of Global Public Policy at Atlassian and is a Member of the Board of Advice for the University of Sydney Business School.

Rufus has a Bachelor of Commerce and Science from Sydney University with majors in Economics, Finance, Chemistry and Environmental studies.
Rufus undertakes the in-depth analytical work involved in understanding the energy markets in Australia and abroad.

Dom is completing a PhB on scholarship at ANU, where his research focuses on the geopolitics of Asia. Alongside his studies, Dom has worked in parliament, in government, and at a think tank. At Sun Cable, Dom provides advice and analysis on the many policy-related aspects of the project.

Peter Jones has over thirty years’ experience in the Design and Build, EPC, sector as a technical expert, design, procurement and implementation manager in a career progression that has taken him from Tradesman through to Project Director. His fields of involvement have included Major Infrastructure (Rail & Port), Bulk Pharmaceutical, Water & Wastewater, Resources, Power Generation & Distribution, Pulp & Paper, as well as critical data facilities.

His technical experience is based in EPC engineering with particular skills in Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Project controls, Estimating & Cost Control and management of multi-disciplinary project teams related to process design, layouts, SMP & E&I design, equipment selection and procurement, tender documentation and execution readiness.

Obie Vetter is a Civil Environmental engineer, graduating from UNSW. Since then, he has tackled small and large project management roles at projects such as WestConnex Stage 2, Sydney Metro LineWide, Appin Colliery and many Defence projects. His skillset includes: Civil and environmental engineering design and reporting, scheduling, commercial and project management.

Obie oversees many of the deliverables within Sun Cable’s PMO. This includes project scheduling, cost management, risk and opportunity, and a host of various other activities such as civil engineering, GIS and report writing.

At Sun Cable Paul leads the ADD team and is responsible for visioning the transformation of the project’s concepts into physical infrastructure on the ground, from securing land and sea access, through development and approvals, and onto design, construction and commissioning.

Paul is a remote area specialist having successfully delivered projects across Australia from the Northern Territory to remote Aboriginal communities: to the Pacific including PNG, Tonga, Fiji and Tuvalu; as well as Africa for UN humanitarian operations and war zones in Iraq and Kuwait. Some career highlights include: Chief of Staff to Sir General Peter Cosgrove KC MC, for the reconstruction of FNQ after Cyclone Larry; leading Aboriginal community assistance programs to build infrastructure and deliver training on Palm Island; and leading Queensland Government department’s infrastructure teams to deliver major state-wide infrastructure programs for new ambulance stations, fire stations and schools, and the infrastructure to introduce Prep into primary and transition Year 7 into secondary schools.

Paul is a successful Senior Executive and Civil Engineer, with an honours degree and masters in project management and procurement, and 30 years of experience in the Australian Army, Government and Industry.

Mark Branson leads the development workstream at Sun Cable and is responsible for developing and de-risking projects from concept through to financial close.
Mark has over 15 years experience working upstream in wind, solar, hydropower, transmission and infrastructure projects as developer, advisor and consultant across all states of Australia, Asia Pacific and North America. He has worked with global energy, oil and gas and mining majors to secure land, approvals and social licence in extremely remote settings from the tropics to the Arctic across four continents.
Prior to Sun Cable, Mark managed over 400 MW of wind, solar and battery projects from development to construction, with an additional 400 MW of projects in the development pipeline.
Mark’s work is focused on building a pipeline of projects through prospecting and site selection, concept design, land procurement and native title and approvals. Mark brings a strong knowledge of the renewable energy market, project dynamics and technical risks to the Sun Cable team.
Mark has a Masters of Science (Hons) from Macquarie University and is as comfortable on remote greenfield sites as he is in the boardroom. Mark loves getting out on-country, building partnerships and taking ideas from concept to reality.

Erick is an Indonesian civil engineer bachelor with postgraduate master's degree in corporate finance and management. He has more than 20 years of extensive experiences in Industrial Estate, Oil and Gas Facility, Factory / Plant Building, Warehouse, Infrastructure, Utility, High Building, Hydro Power Plant, Overhead Transmission Line and Submarine Cable Projects, with more than 200 various major projects and 63 PSO and Chemical/Fuel Tank Terminal Maintenance projects.
With the recurring goal of engaging in work on projects that change lives for the better for everyone.
Currently managing the Jakarta Office, handle all Indonesia permits required and support for the engagement of the Indonesian stakeholder or government.

Mike is a logistics and supply chain executive with over 30 years experience leading logistics operations and
delivering end-to-end supply chain solutions to Greenfield Projects and remote logistics operations
throughout Australia and internationally.
Mike is a Chartered Fellow with the Institute of Logistics and Transport, and holds a Master of Commerce in
Logistics Management, and a Master of Professional Accounting. He has an extensive background in
operational, strategic, and commercial management across the supply chain: providing logistics expertise to
major infrastructure, construction, engineering, power development, and renewables projects from project
design, through to construction, and O&M. His specialties are logistics and supply chain strategy, integrated
logistics planning, transport and distribution, inventory, and materials management for engineering and
construction projects.
As the Senior Manager, Logistics and Supply Chain Management for AGL Energy, he was responsible for
supply chain strategy, establishing and managing the logistics, transport, warehousing and inventory
management functions for AGL’s national supply chain network. As the Logistics Solutions and Interface
Manager for Origin Energy’s Australia-Pacific LNG Project, he was responsible for developing and delivering
cost-effective logistics and supply chain solutions for the Project. He has previously served in the Australian
Army, running logistics in a variety of overseas operational areas including Iraq, East Timor and the Solomon
Islands.
At Sun Cable, Mike is leading the logistics planning and delivery for AAPL. Working with the project
component leads to develop the supply chain strategy, he will manage logistics planning and feasibility,
provide logistics input into project requirements, maintenance planning, materials management, logistics
systems and infrastructure, and oversight of all logistics operations.
Mike is passionate about supply chain optimisation, developing innovative logistics solutions to complex
problems, applying technology, and actively promoting safe transport and logistics.

Jett is experienced in leading the sustainable development for major energy projects and operations in the Northern Territory, including 10 years with ConocoPhillips managing their North Australian assets Darwin LNG and Bayu-Undan.

She has expertise in developing strategy for complex global and national corporations, driving strong social and economic benefits for the region.

Her skills include the management of government and public affairs to support project development; including industry participation, policy and regulation, Indigenous engagement, stakeholder relations, communications and community investment.

Jett is a Territorian of 30 years, and holds a Masters of Strategic Communications from the University of Canberra.

Graduating from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Paul has been employed in the spatial industry for over 12 years in both private enterprise and varying levels of government. He has experience and knowledge across many major projects within the environment, mining, and oil & gas sectors. Most notably, he provided Inpex with GIS development and support for over 5 years, working closely with environmental, subsea, and heritage teams. He is responsible for the provision of GIS, mapping and analysis services to the broader Sun Cable team, spatial data creation, data management, spatial analysis, map production and other project outputs.

Ralph Mitchell is studying a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney. Ralph is a Research Analyst currently involved with the development of key project reports.

Joe has an extensive background in environmental and urban planning across the Northern Territory having worked for the NT Government and through managing a private town planning consultancy firm. His expertise includes the provision of specialist planning advice, navigating complex approval pathways for significant projects and co-ordinating key inputs from consultant teams to achieve deliverables.

Joe has experience with government led land release projects subject to Crown lease entitlements and working with both community organisations and private developers. He has also contributed to government policy formulation on development matters and has served as board member of the Urban Development Institute of Australia NT.

Joe's strong communication skills and attention to detail are complimented by his genuine passion for the Territory.