Bringing experience, integrity and strategic leadership, our board guides the path to a smart energy future.
Don Henry
Board Chair
Bio
Don Henry has worked with businesses, governments, and civil society in Australia and globally on the transition to sustainability and action for low carbon economies. He is Enterprise Professor of Environmentalism at the Melbourne Business School and the University of Melbourne. Don sits on the international board of the Climate Reality Project, chaired by the Hon Al Gore, and the Forum for Corporate Responsibility of BHP.
He has expertise in business strategies for sustainability, climate and biodiversity policy, and international action for sustainability. Don grew up in Brisbane and has worked for World Wildlife Fund in Washington DC and the Australian Conservation Foundation. His services have been recognised by an Order of Australia.
Rosemary Barnes
Board Member
Bio
Rosemary Barnes is an engineer with a PhD on wind turbine blade design and two decades of experience developing clean energy technologies, including 5 years working for a major wind turbine manufacturer in Denmark.
Since returning to Australia, she has founded Pardalote, a consulting service providing advice to clean tech startups, and investors and operators of clean technologies.
She is also the owner of the YouTube channel Engineering with Rosie, through which she educates and excites her audience about renewable energy technologies and how the engineering development process works.
Steve Blume
Board Member
Bio
Steve Blume is one of Australia’s most experienced energy experts and advocates with more than 25 years experience in the energy sector after 25 years in ITC.
Director Australian Smart Energy Council; Director Solar Accreditation Australia; Director Global Solar Council; Director Pacifica Renewable Energy
Training Alliance; Director, Australian Institute of Energy and Director & Secretary-General Asia PV Industry Association.
CEO of NoCarbon Pty Ltd, smart energy consulting, advocacy & advice. Steve is a former political adviser, private & public sector senior executive and change advocate, fighting for zero carbon energy policies and technological solutions to urgently & rapidly reduce emissions causing global heating and climate change.
Andrew Dickson
Board Member
Bio
Andrew Dickson has joined the Smart Energy Council as Senior Advisor – South Australia, deepening the SEC’s commitment to the energy transition in SA. He has also been a Smart Energy Council Board member since February 2022.
Andrew began his renewable energy career in South Australia in 2004, developing the Snowtown Wind Farm north of Adelaide. Since then, he expanded into solar thermal projects in South Australia and Queensland (and was part of the Solar Dawn consortium which was successful in the Commonwealth’s Solar Flagships program), wave energy projects, and export-oriented hydrogen megaprojects in Western Australia. He also helped to implement Australia’s first public community investment scheme into a utility scale renewable energy project, for the Sapphire Wind Farm in NSW.
Andrew spent 3 1/2 years in the South Australian Government working in economic development and investment attraction, and has interacted with governments and potential hydrogen customers in Singapore, Japan, Korea and Germany for the last decade.
Andrew has a particular passion for smart transport, including electric vehicles with bidirectional charging, and has just completed a Churchill Fellowship into maritime decarbonisation using wind assisted ship propulsion technologies, which took him to Singapore, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the Marshall Islands.
He has a Master of Science and Technology Commercialisation degree from the University of Adelaide, and a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UNSW (ADFA College).
Barbara Elliston
Board Member
Bio
Based in New Zealand, Barbara Elliston is a director of Elliston Power Consultants, Unison Networks and Easy Warm. A qualified electrical engineer, Barbara’s background includes corporate governance, strategic development, transmission engineering, product development and start-ups in renewable energy, both solar thermal and solar photovoltaics.
Previous roles in “big-energy” electricity networks include directorships with Genesis Energy and Transpower, and in power management with Comalco NZ. Through these associations, Barbara’s experience over 40 years in the electricity sector encompass generation, transmission and distribution, power purchase, and now solar in homes. The entrepreneur is currently commercialising Hot PV™, a solar hot water product directly using solar PV to heat water, aiding stretched electrical networks and avoiding fuel supply to remote locations.
Barbara is also on the Common Quality Technical Group of the Electricity Authority – looking at changing the common quality requirements under New Zealand’s electricity codes, in order to accommodate IBR (inverter based resources) and remove barriers to their adoption in the NZ electricity system.
Scott Hamilton
Board Member
Bio
Scott Hamilton is an author, researcher and policy advisor. He is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University and is Senior Advisor to the Smart Energy Council, a peak industry body in Australia.
He is an expert in renewable energy, green hydrogen, energy transition, natural resource management and climate change.
His first book, ‘Sold Down The River – How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia’s Water Market’, traverses the energy, waste and water nexus.
His latest book co-authored with John Brumby and Stuart Kells is titled ‘A Better Australia – Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform’. He writes regularly for The Mandarin and other publications.
Taryn Lane
Board Member
Bio
Taryn lives in Central Victoria and is the part-time manager of Australia’s first community-owned cooperative wind farm Hepburn Wind, working there for over a decade. The wind farm has pioneered the community energy movement in Australia and has been recognised with national and global awards for its unique approach. Hepburn Wind delivers a range of partnership programs under the collaborative banner of Hepburn Z-NET with their council and community such as solar and battery bulk buy, energy audits, EV bulk buy, EV charging infrastructure, to reach zero-net emissions by 2030.
In addition, Taryn works for UNSW on an Australian Research Council funded project ‘Just Climate Transitions in Regional Victoria’, which is focused on how social justice frameworks can stimulate community-led climate transitions. Taryn runs her own small consulting practice which undertakes research and advisory engagement work for the renewables sector.
Taryn is a founding director of RE-Alliance, a founding director of the Coalition for Community Energy and a 2017 Winston Churchill Trust Fellow.
Ria O'Hehir
Board Member
Bio
Ria is the CEO of Greenbank Environmental, one of Australia’s largest independent environmental traders. She has played a key role in facilitating the renewable energy transition with extensive leadership experience, helping a range of stakeholders – from wind and solar farms to installers and carbon farmers – bring their environmental units and renewable energy certificates to market.
Ria also works with major energy companies and financial institutions to help them meet their obligations under federal and state environmental schemes, including voluntary procurement requirements.
During Ria’s 17 years dealing with Australian environmental products, she has gained the knowledge and expertise to help clients navigate complex energy markets and carbon schemes. Ria and Greenbank are focused on continuing to use their market-leading knowledge to deliver positive outcomes for local and international clients while supporting the renewable energy transition.
Rod Scott
Board Member
Bio
Rod Scott has served as Selectronic Australia’s CEO since 2016, having previously held the position of Executive Director of Sales and Marketing from 2005. With a strong background in the IT industry, Rod established his career by working with various innovative startups, developing a keen eye for emerging technologies and market opportunities. This experience has proven invaluable as renewable energy increasingly intersects with data analytics, smart systems, and digital communications.
Under Rod’s guidance, Selectronic continues its six-decade family legacy of designing and manufacturing premium battery-based inverters for Australian and global markets. Founded in 1964, the company remains at the forefront of sustainable energy innovation and Rod was instrumental in expanding the company’s market presence both domestically and internationally.
Rod is passionate about positioning Australia as a world leader in renewable energy solutions. He envisions a future where Australian-designed technology plays a pivotal role in the global transition to sustainable power solutions.
Lisa Marsh
Board Member
Bio
Lisa Marsh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of eLumina Global, an Australian clean energy company developing and manufacturing battery-integrated EV charging and energy storage technology.
Since 2023, Lisa has led eLumina’s growth and the deployment of charging infrastructure designed to overcome one of the major barriers to electrification, limited access to grid capacity, particularly across regional and remote Australia.
Under her leadership, eLumina delivered the Great Northern Highway EV charging network in Western Australia, spanning approximately 2,400 kilometres and creating the world’s longest off-grid electric highway. The project has brought fast-charging infrastructure to some of Australia’s most remote communities and demonstrated how battery-integrated charging can enable electrification where traditional grid-connected infrastructure is difficult or uneconomic to deploy.
Lisa brings more than 20 years of commercial experience across finance, funding, leasing, asset management and business development. Prior to eLumina, she held senior leadership roles with ASX-listed Eclipx Group and McMillan Shakespeare and founded the Gerraty White Group.
She is a strong advocate for Australian-made clean energy technology and believes the transition to net zero presents an important opportunity to build Australian manufacturing capability, create skilled jobs and ensure regional and remote communities are included in the energy transition.
Lisa was recognised in The Australian Top 100 Innovators in 2024 and 2025, was a finalist in the 2025 Women Leading Tech Awards and received a Merit Award at the Gold Coast Women in Business Awards Australia. She is also Deputy Chair of Latitude: Directions for Young People.