David Darby 
engagement and regulatory affairs
OMV New Zealand

David Darby is OMV NZ’s government and regulatory affairs specialist. He joined OMV in 2023 after eight years at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment where he had held several roles including leading the Commercial Analysis and Investment Team in NZ Petroleum & Minerals and managing the NZ Battery Project. He also spent several years in the Beehive as Private Secretary for Energy.

David is originally a geologist, with a PhD in petroleum geology from the University of Glasgow. He has worked for Maersk Oil, Ikon Science, GNS Science and BG. David is based in Wellington and is originally from the UK.

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Sally Bogle
senior analyst, renewables & power
Rystad Energy

Sally is a Senior Analyst in Rystad Energy’s Analysis team, with a focus on renewables and power in the Asia Pacific region. She has longstanding experience as a researcher and energy journalist specializing in natural gas and LNG, renewables, climate risk disclosure and the energy transition.   

Prior to joining Rystad Energy, Sally worked for a range of organizations including Accenture, IHS, and the International Energy Agency. She has written as a journalist for FT Energy, S&P Global Platts, Petroleum Economist, Guardian Australia, Interfax Global Energy Services, Schwartz Media and others. 

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John Carnegie
chief executive
Energy Resources Aotearoa

John is the Chief Executive of Energy Resources Aotearoa, a role he took up in December 2019. He was previously the Executive Director of the BusinessNZ Energy Council and has nearly three decades experience in public policy and energy markets, specialising in energy, climate change and resource management policy. 

He leads our work on evidence-based policies to make New Zealand a better place, ensuring we have sustainable, affordable and reliable energy. 

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Lisa Stein-Traill
transformation consultant, Master of Technological Futures
Academy Ex

Lisa has 30 years’ experience driving transformative change in a range of contexts including business, banking, not-for-profit, local and regional councils. Lisa has designed and implemented many organisational re-structures, successfully supporting people to work through challenges and toward new opportunities. Her skills in facilitation have been honed through practical experiences, enabling Lisa to guide diverse groups in finding consensus and a way forward.  

With master's degrees in both Advanced Leadership and Business & Technological Futures, Lisa possesses a robust academic foundation, further enriched by hands-on experience, accreditation as a Mediator with Resolution Institute and AMINZ membership.

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Paul Goodeve
chief executive
Clarus

Paul has been Chief Executive for Clarus (formerly Firstgas Group) since 2016.  Paul’s significant experience and expertise in regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution energy infrastructure, strategic planning and tactical delivery has seen him develop and implement Clarus’ strategic business plan and forge ahead with renewable energy projects.

Paul’s personable, honest and relatable approach to people leadership has seen him build effective teams and strong and enduring relationships throughout his career, working across the energy sector.

During his time at Clarus, Paul has been instrumental in the acquisition of Firstlight Network in 2022 and Rockgas and the Ahuroa gas storage facility, both in 2018; obtaining a Baa2 credit rating from Moody’s in June 2020; and completing a NZ$610M United States private placement debt transaction that was 6.5x oversubscribed with US$ tranches priced at the lowest coupon reported for a USPP by a New Zealand issuer and represented the 3rd largest USPP ever for a New Zealand company.

Prior to joining Clarus, Paul spent 12 years in various regulatory, legal, pricing, commercial, business development and operations roles at Powerco.

Paul is a Chartered Accountant, Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and a member of the Institute of Directors. Paul is currently Director of Liquigas, the Gas Industry Company and is a board member on the Ara Ake Board. Paul lives in Taranaki with his family.

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Linda Mulvihill
general manager energy and climate
Fonterra

Linda is the Head of Energy & Climate in Fonterra’s Global Sustainability team.  Linda grew up on a sheep and beef farm in rural New Zealand, which embedded a passion for the land and agriculture. Linda pursues both these passions in her professional and personal life.  

Linda works for Fonterra, NZ’s largest dairy co-operative, where she leads the strategy and program to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions across the manufacturing sites, while also ensuring that the company has an economic and secure supply of energy.  Personally, she has a farm where they are passionate about creating a great product, minimising the environmental impact of beef production, and leaving the land in a better state for future generations to enjoy.

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Henrik Mosser
general manager
OMV New Zealand

Mosser is an industry veteran with nearly 30 years’ experience in the energy sector. He joined OMV in 2014 as asset manager, a position he has held in several different countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to his current role as General Manager, he was VP EDP and before that, he was director of the domestic assets business unit for OMV Petrom in Romania.

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Jesse Corlett
principal consultant
Iron Duke Partners

Jesse is a Principal Consultant with Iron Duke Partners. He has over a decade of experience in policy and government relations spanning energy, infrastructure, climate change, and national security. He previously worked in the public service (MBIE, DPMC, and EECA); executive government (the Office of the Minister of Energy and Resources); and the private sector (Energy Resources Aotearoa). 

Jesse holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Public Management from Victoria University of Wellington.

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Wayne Ellary 
chair and group CEO
ExxonMobil New Zealand

Wayne is Mobil’s Lead Country Chair and has been with the company for over 20 years. He has a Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration and has worked for Mobil in Singapore, Indonesia, Wellington, and Auckland. His experience with the company includes management, sales and operations, marketing, supply chain, pricing, and strategy development roles.

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Rob Buchanan 
chief executive officer
Channel Infrastructure

Rob is Channel Infrastructure’s CEO, he was previously GM Growth & Trading at Manawa Energy, where he had responsibility for the company’s renewables development, energy trading and commercial and industrial sales functions. 

With a passion for helping energy and infrastructure companies create value while navigating challenging strategic issues and changing industry dynamics, Rob is excited about taking forward the company’s plans for growth, which will deliver further value to Channel Infrastructure’s shareholders. 

Prior to Manawa Energy, Rob had an almost 20-year career in investment banking, advising companies in New Zealand, Australia and Europe most recently as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Forsyth Barr in New Zealand. Prior to this Rob worked in the investment banking business of ABN AMRO Bank, working across Australasia and Europe. Rob holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business (with Distinction) from the University of Otago and has completed an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Business. 

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David Hendry 
renewable gas manager
Powerco

David leads Powerco’s work in investigating, enabling, and realising opportunities to incorporate renewable gases into Powerco’s gas distribution network to provide lower emission gas solutions for New Zealand.  

David has a commerce degree and is a chartered accountant with experience in regulation, business development, commercial, and operational roles in both the energy and primary industry sectors.  

He is deeply passionate about renewable energy, and both the challenges and opportunities that decarbonisation presents for New Zealand.  

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Andrew Clennett  
chief executive officer
Hiringa Energy

Andrew is a co-founder and CEO of Hiringa Energy, a company incorporated in 2017 and actively developing green hydrogen infrastructure in New Zealand and Australia.  

Andrew has over 27 years of international experience in the energy sector having held a number of senior management and executive roles in multinational energy companies.  

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Me+6chanical/Electrical Engineering.  

As CEO of Hiringa Energy he has worked to bring the hydrogen opportunity to the forefront in the energy transition in New Zealand and Australia, bridging new energy models with the existing industries and building partnerships across sectors. His passion is to unlock commerciality and accelerate the transition to zero emission energy systems. 

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Angela Parker 
policy director, downstream energy and climate
Energy Resources Aotearoa

Angela has a strong background in public policy. Her most recent role was at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) as Team Leader for Gas and Fuel Markets policy. She has worked across transport, resource management, pricing, and infrastructure in recent years at Ministry of Transport.  

Angela covered labour market and education systems policy with the Treasury and Ministry of Education, and international fisheries in the early 2000s. Angela holds a Masters in New Zealand Literature and a Post-Graduate Diploma in teaching. 

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Stephanie de Groot
partner
MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Stephanie is a specialist environmental lawyer. She provides advice on all aspects of environmental and resource management law to private and public sector clients.  

Stephanie has a wealth of experience advising on a broad range of environmental issues. This includes planning, consenting, and designation issues under the Resource Management Act 1991, sustainability and regulatory compliance issues, the implications of environmental policy developments, and environmental due diligence.  

Stephanie has a strong commercial acumen and regularly undertakes environmental due diligence for large commercial transactions. Her expertise in this area includes advising on Overseas Investment Act implications, contaminated land liability, New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) interests, and drafting environmental warranties and indemnities.  

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Mark Macfarlane 
chief executive
Todd Energy

Mark completed a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) at the University of Melbourne in 1987 and joined ExxonMobil in Victoria. Over the next 10 years Mark held a number of roles in projects, operations, planning and sub-surface in both Australia and Malaysia. 

In 1997, Mark joined Santos and over the next 14 years, he held a range of management and executive roles culminating in becoming the Vice-President of Eastern Australia, before becoming CEO of Gladstone LNG based in Queensland in 2010. 

In 2013, Mark joined Tullow Oil, based in Ghana, as Director, Development and Operations and was subsequently appointed Executive Vice President, Africa, based in London. 

Immediately prior to joining Todd Energy, Mark held of the role of Chief Operating Officer and was responsible for Tullow Oil’s HSE, exploration, operated and non-operated businesses, and commercial activities. 

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Matthew Cowie
partner, climate change and sustainability
EY

Matthew is a Director within the Climate Change and Sustainability Services team in Auckland, New Zealand. The focus of his work at EY is on the energy sector and the threats and opportunities presented by climate change. Prior to joining EY, Matthew has worked for both public and private sector organisations and has managed regional and global teams.  

Matthew has had a particularly strong focus throughout his career on the role of energy and carbon markets. Matthew has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. 

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John Pagani  
sustainability consultant
Pagani Agency

John has been in the energy sector since 2012. He is currently working with Gas Industry Company on the Gas Transition Plan, renewable gases, and strategic engagement. John was previously General Manager Corporate Services at New Zealand Oil & Gas and has worked with boards and management of energy firms and industry associations in New Zealand and Australia.

In his previous career he produced some of New Zealand's most listened to radio news programmes, worked in Wellington and Paris as a communications and sustainability consultant, and served as chief of staff, senior strategist and communications director at parliament. He has degrees in politics from Auckland, law from Victoria, and an executive education qualification from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Alana Lampitt
partner
Chapman Tripp

Alana advises public and commercial clients across electricity generation, utilities, industrial processes, mining, oil and gas and emissions trading sectors.

Alana specialises in resource management and environmental aspects of large-scale energy and infrastructure projects, property development, commercial contracts and due diligence investigations. Her extensive experience assisting clients on environmental and planning liabilities means she is often called upon to act for clients with large international commercial transactions and contracts.

Prior to joining Chapman Tripp, Alana was a Senior Associate in Allen & Overy LLP's Global Environmental and Regulatory Law Group in London, and before that she worked for a specialist environment and resource management practice in New Zealand.

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Jennifer Nolan 
partner
SenateSHJ

Jen has more than 25 years’ experience in communications and corporate affairs, with people leadership and mentoring skills. She has deep credentials in crisis and issues management, drawing on her corporate, public affairs and media background. Jen has held several roles for large government agencies and is a former broadcast journalist and producer. 

Jen was more recently the External Relations Director for Rio Tinto in New Zealand, and since leaving that role worked with the Ministry for the Environment where her stakeholder engagement and consultation advice has been held up as an exemplar by the Climate Change Commission. 

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Craig Barry 
policy director, upstream and climate
Energy Resources Aotearoa

Craig is a chemical engineer with 25 years working in the international upstream oil and gas sector. He was most recently the Principal Production Advisor at New Zealand’s petroleum regulator. He started his career in operations before moving to work with some of the world’s largest engineering houses.

Craig spent 10 years with Woodside Energy, where he worked on corporate strategy and planning, exploration, and LNG projects. His time at Woodside included two years as New Zealand country manager. 

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John Kidd 
director, head of research
Enerlytica

John is the Director of Enerlytica and a former Director of Equity Research at Woodward Partners. John was previously Head of Research - Asia Pacific at Edison Investment Research, and Head of Research at specialist sharebroking and investment banking firm McDouall Stuart.

John has over 15 years of analytical and consulting experience in the energy sector, including four years at Shell's global head office in London where he worked on the development of new E&P, gas and petrochemical business ventures across the Shell Group. John's work has taken him to more than 20 countries. 

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Jonathan Young 
head of industry and government engagement
Ara Ake

Jonathan is Head of Industry and Government Engagement at Ara Ake, New Zealand’s new energy development centre. From 12 years (2008 – 2020) Jonathan served as the Member of Parliament for the New Plymouth electorate. Through his parliamentary role as Energy & Resources spokesperson, he travelled throughout New Zealand gaining a comprehensive awareness of New Zealand’s integrated energy system.

Jonathan also travelled overseas gaining insight into other countries energy systems, giving him a broad understanding of the challenges and responses to the global energy transition.

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Justine Gilliland
independent director; strategy and engagement consultant

Justine is an independent director and strategy consultant, serving on a number of boards across the food and fibre, health, insurance, and R&D/science sectors. She is also currently the Partnerships Director for the BlueFloat Energy and Elemental Group offshore wind partnership, and chairs or is a member of advisory/governance groups for energy sector and food & fibre sector companies.

Justine is the former Chief Executive of regional development agency Venture Taranaki; and previously held a range of senior management roles in the national public service. Justine has law and arts degrees, and resides in Taranaki with her young family.

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Kelvin Wright
chief executive
Te Puna Umanga Venture Taranaki

Kelvin is the Chief Executive of Te Puna Umanga Venture Taranaki. He joined the regional development agency in May 2022 after his role as Deputy Chief Executive at New Plymouth District Council (NPDC). Prior to his role as Deputy Chief Executive, Kelvin was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for NPDC from 2017 to 2020. Before joining local government, Kelvin held roles as the General Manager of Operations for Energyworks Ltd in New Plymouth and the Chief Executive Officer for Allied Industrial Engineering in the Bay of Plenty.

Kelvin is currently on the board of Economic Development New Zealand (EDNZ) as well as Basketball Taranaki. Kelvin grew up in Mosgiel, Dunedin, where his career started as a Mechanical Design Engineer. He then established his own mechanical design consultancy business for New Zealand-wide manufacturers and engineering providers, while gaining his Commercial Pilots License and flying part-time.

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Sheree Long
director, workforce development
Energy Resources Aotearoa

Sheree is Director, workforce development for Energy Resources Aotearoa and leads the workforce programme to attract, promote and develop talent for the New Zealand energy industry.

Sheree has both a private and public sector background, working in labour market, business and human resource strategic management roles. Some of which include Labour Market Manager and Economic and Community Development Manager at the Department of Labour; Business Development Manager at the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce and Human Resource Manager at Rishworth Aviation in Auckland.

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