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Ron Blankenforth – Founder
Ron Blankenforth has several decades experience in a number of businesses which has led him towards the ultimate goal of sustainability, the carbon economy, environmental, and regenerative farming techniques and technologies.
Penny Curnow – Founder/Inventor of Vortex Light Trap
Penny Curnow works closely with individuals, teams, and organisations to develop their NeuroCapability. That is, their ability to understand and use their most important asset – their brain. Neuroscience, Leadership and Psychological safety in the workplace are her passions, where her purpose is to bring positive, lasting change to how you interact with and influence others.
Graeme Little – Chief Legal Officer
Graeme Little Nè Peter POPE is a Health Politics Advocate/Australian Lawyer who has been fighting Big Pharma corruption in Australia since 25 October 2011, in order to create a level playing field for natural health therapies, including their practitioners and patients.
George Passas – Chief Executive Officer
George has a remarkable passion for corporate governance. It infuses his management capabilities in such a way as to organically motivate the organisation whole. What makes George a remarkable CEO is that he understands the core of any successful organisation is its people. With a keen eye on the corporate strategy George intelligently weaves his technical skills with his people skills to drive the organisation forward, achieving excellent outcomes.
Tim Dean – Chief Financial Officer
Tim is a results focused executive with extensive experience in senior finance, business development and general management roles, with a strong academic and professional institution education that includes a Master of Business Administration, and membership of accounting professional institutes including CPA and CIMA, and a member of the Governance Institute of Australia. Tim is passionate about the development of new businesses particularly in International markets and have key strengths in the establishment of new business relationships in target markets, sales and marketing, strategic marketing, project management, product trials and registrations, life cycle management, due diligence projects, mergers and acquisitions and post acquisition integration.
Spiros Voukelatos – Chief Procurement Officer
Spiros is a Strong professional with a Bachelor Degree focused in Engineering (Elec) from Melbourne University, and an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the manufacturing and environmental industries. Skilled in many areas such as Relationship Management, Contract Management, Project Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, International Business - Import and Export, International Business Development, and Business Management.
Paul Bitetto – Chief Security Officer
Paul began his career in electronics engineering but after ten years employed as a process engineer, he gravitated towards international business, investment (private equity, start-ups, entrepreneurial planning and education) and creative pursuits (acting and film). i.e. from “Machines” to “People” and that transformation led Paul to work across many cultures and locations including North America, Europe, and South East Asia across diverse sectors, both at the coal face and in the board rooms. Paul has a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Honours) and he was the first Honours student to graduate from the Australian Graduate School for Entrepreneurship. He went on to participate in the early planning for the Institute of Bandung and the Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership (CIEL) in Bandung, Indonesia and the Sampoerna Business School campus in Jakarta.
Charles Kovess – Chairman
After 20 years of high-level legal practice as a tax-lawyer, in 1993 Charles changed his career to become a professional speaker, facilitator, author and passion provocateur. He has added value to many large and small organisations by acting as a 'laxative' and unblocking constipated minds and human spirits. Charles' vision is to add value to a selection of the world's 200 largest corporations who want sustainable and outstanding business outcomes.
Ben Bickford – Human Resources
Ben thrives on helping his clients realise their vision and unleash their potential to make a bigger impact. For over 30 years, Ben has been applying his own blend of business strategy, digital alchemy and human centred innovation to help organisations simplify complexity, scale exponentially and achieve extraordinary. Since learning to develop software at age 11, Ben has followed his passion to empower people with technology to help solve problems, launching his first consulting business at age 18 and learning from 100’s of successful projects and even more from some failed startups and angel investing along the way too.
John Muir – Advisor and Agronomist
John is experienced as an agricultural advisor and has a passionate commitment to positive agricultural outcomes and the real needs of people on the land. He is particularly knowledgeable about sustainable agriculture and beneficial integration with native plants for water conservation and soil development.