Roger has served as Chief Executive of Computer Power, a major Australian IT services company, where he grew shareholder value from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 at his retirement. Roger co-foundered Allen & Buckeridge, a major Australian venture capital fund management company (with around A$280m of assets under management). He has also served on two advisory councils to the Australian Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneurship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship.
John Wylie is CEO of Lazard Australia. He assumed this role upon the acquisition by Lazard in 2007 of Carnegie, Wylie & Company (CWC), an independent corporate advisory and private equity firm he co-founded in 2000. John has advised companies and Governments for 25 years in Australia, the USA and the UK. Prior to founding CWC, he was Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Australia. In community activities, John is Chairman of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust and chaired the MCG Redevelopment Committee for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He chairs the Victorian Olympic Council’s Finance Committee, is a Board member of the University of Queensland Endowment Fund and a member of the Business Advisory Council of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He is a Trustee of the Global Rhodes Trust and a Member of the Order of Australia.
Acorn Capital Partners is the largest specialist microcap fund manager in Australia and, in 2010, became Climate Bridge’s first institutional shareholder. The firm is an investment manager that places institutional investors’ capital into listed and unlisted investments in the microcap sector. It was established in 1998 and currently has approximately $1 billion in funds under management.
Jeremy is Global Director of the Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice at McKinsey & Company. Jeremy oversees climate change related work with McKinsey’s clients globally, and has helped shape direction on the issue for many of the world’s biggest companies. In the public sphere, he is a thought leader for governments and multi-lateral institutions around the world, advising on global climate policy at the highest level.
Ian served as Executive Chairman of Applied International Pty Ltd from 1980 – 2010, a private investment group located in Melbourne. Ian is currently the Chairman of Deutscher and Hackett, a fine art auction house, and a Director of the National Gallery of Victoria Foundation. He has worked for a number of charities and art related organisations. He was the Director and subsequently the President of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Victoria from 1993 – 2000 and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia from 1994 – 2002. Ian was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2002.
Mr Peter Young, AM:
Peter is a Director of Fairfax Media Ltd, RBS Morgan and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. He is also Chairman of Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) Private Capital Pty Ltd, QIC Retail Pty Ltd and NSW Cultural Management Ltd. Peter has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, holding senior roles with major financial institutions (such as Citibank, National Australia Bank, AC Goode) in the Australian equity and debt markets. Peter is also an avid supporter of the arts, as a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Director of the Sydney Theatre Company and Director of the Federal Government’s Australian Business Arts Foundation. Peter was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008 for his services to business and cultural and environmental organisations.
