Jeffrey Castellas
CEO, B.A.Sc. M.A., MCIP

Jeff is the CEO of Clean Technology AustralAsia established in 2004 to play a catalytic role in building the Cleantech industry in Australia, to connect investors with cleantech opportunities and to accelerate the investment in and deployment of Clean Technologies in the Asia Pacific. He has advised the Australian governments and the Asia-Pacific Partnership countries (China, India, Korea, Japan, Canada, US and Australia) on investments in Clean Development and Climate projects. Jeff is Chairman of the Australian Cleantech Investment Showcase panel reviewing private and public companies.  Jeff has held senior executive and Board positions of leading companies in Australia and North America.

Peter Castellas
Managing Director

Peter is the joint founder and Managing Director of Cleantech AustralAsia, a business established to accelerate the investment in and deployment of clean technologies in the Asia Pacific region. Throughout Peter's 20-year entrepreneurial career, he has worked at the leading edge of the sustainable development agenda and has advised leading corporations, governments and financial institutions. He has designed and run successful Cleantech Finance & Investment Initiatives throughout Asia and has recently completed a major international project for the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate to develop a Strategic Action plan to increase the investment in and deployment of renewable energy in India.

Peter is also the Fund Advisor of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund where he has pioneered a number of innovative financing models and turnkey solutions for the upgrade and retrofit of commercial buildings. Peter and has held roles including the Sustainability Advisor for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Head of International Business for Melbourne University Private, and National Environmental and Engineering Manager for Dunhill Management Services. Peter is a National Councillor for Environment Business Australia. He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Education in Environmental Studies.

	Michele Hartz-Rosenberg Commercialisation Manger Michele has been the Commercialisation Manager with Cleantech AustralAsia for five years and has been integral to the success and growth of the company.  In addition to a key role in helping to build the Cleantech Forum events into the premier forum on Cleantech in AustralAsia, she was the co-author of the “Victorian Cleantech Industry” report, including Australian Cleantech sector classification. Michele leads market research projects and business planning services for cleantech companies, including SWOT analysis, competitor analysis and risk assessment. Michele is the founder of Eco-efficient Sustainable Strategies and Environmental Advisory services, established for over 6 years and has advised governments and businesses on international best practice and leading environmental management and corporate sustainable business strategies.  She has also worked with Monash University in research and development of sustainable curriculum and climate change initiatives under the Department of Business Law and Taxation. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University, a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Management from Monash University and Associates Degree in Business from Clark College, USA
	Geoff Gedge Since 1994, Geoff has worked extensively within the financial services industry, both as a funds manager for AXA involved with the formation, structuring and distribution of various investment products, and as a corporate trustee, supervising $2.4 billion of retail investors funds, invested across domestic and international equity, fixed interest and property sectors. For five years from 1999, Geoff’s focus was on corporate advisory work for Credit Suisse within the Asia Pacific region. He has spent considerable time working on property, infrastructure, and financial services projects throughout New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and China, undertaking a variety of M&A roles and providing clients with a number of debt and equity solutions for their projects.   Geoff is a Director of Greroc Advisory Partners which is a boutique private advisory firm established in 2006 with a specific focus on investment opportunities that arise from Australia and New Zealand’s vibrant and broad unlisted direct property funds management and associated clean technology sectors. Grenroc is a specialist adviser and manager in unlisted direct property investment funds and associated built environment clean technology. Grenroc advises on mergers, acquisitions, divestments and capital raisings for unique, scalable and competitive growth opportunities including businesses whose products and services have the potential of gaining niche or dominant market share.   Grenroc forms part of a specialist partnership of advisory firms providing coverage throughout the East Coast of Australia, New Zealand and Asia, all of whom work together with the one common interest of achieving success for their client’s projects.   David Hunt David is an experienced CEO for an ASX listed company, non executive Director, and a successful Marketing and Communications Executive. David has held several director positions in early stage companies and managed and implemented successful commercialisation strategies.  David has utilised his expertise and experience to assist companies plan their business to be successful and sustainable. With insight to what it takes to raise capital in difficult times, and across global markets, David advises companies on structure, quality management, and capital requirements for pre IPO readiness, IPO where appropriate and exits. He is a specialist in Change Management; Business Restructuring; Expansion & Growth capital raising.   David is a Partner and Managing Director of SustainAsia (Australia) Pty Ltd which is a joint venture with Sustain Asia (Hong Kong) that provides local expertise and advisory services to investors and companies from the Cleantech and Eco-efficiency sectors, as well as independent assessments of investments and market opportunities. SustainAsia provides professional, realistic and competent management advisers who can assist with broad business solutions for SME’s, owner managed businesses, and corporations involved in the cleantech and sustainable sector. As a joint venture with SustainAsia Hong Kong we have strategic and direct links to significant Asian investors; private equity funds and industry research. Sustain Asia provides companies a means of accelerating their growth in China and South East Asia.     Jeremy Baker   As an experienced Investment Banker, Jeremy has worked for leading global investment firms based in the United States, including AG Edwards and  Fleet Bank Boston / Bank of America.  In these roles Jeremy has worked on economic research, company analysis, investment selection and financial structuring. Jeremy has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative fundamental and technical equity analysis, portfolio management and investment strategy holding licenses and operating on exchanges including the ASX and NYSE. Jeremy brings a blend of knowledge in both international and domestic financial markets and a strong desire to see the continued success of Australasia as a primary location of interest for international investment in the deployment of clean technology and alternative energy.   Jeremy Baker, B.Com, Dip (FP), GradCert BA, A.A.M.S. is Executive Director, Operations for Bakers Investment Group – a financial services company in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors with a special focus on alternate energy and clean technology.  In his role Jeremy looks after the firms operational requirements, including operations for the firms key services comprising: Funds, Indices Research, Trading and Corporate Finance.   Bakers Investment Group is responsible for the management of the ALTEX-Australia and ALTEX-Global family of alternate energy indices, the Climate Impact Indices, and is the manager of the Bakers Alternate Energy Customized Investment Portfolio. Bakers provides selected clients with quality, innovative and affordable financial products and solutions, which best meet their financial requirements, including: Funds management, Indicies, Research, Trading, Corporate Finance and Financial services assist our clients to maximise their goals and objectives through access to debt, equity and hybrid funding, consulting and advisory services, and sustainable and socially responsible business practice.   Paul Bitetto   Paul Bitetto, MEI (Hons), Dipl. Eng (Elec Eng) is Director of Green Venture Capitals. He has an extensive background in business and project management and has spent several years in South East Asia working with a multitude of cultures including clients from Taiwan, Singapore, China, Indonesia and South Korea. With an active interest in entrepreneurship and innovation, Paul worked closely with staff at Indonesia's prominent Institute of Bandung (ITB), School of Business and Management, and was an advisor to the Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CIEL) of ITB.   With studies in electronics engineering, languages, art, drama and business, Paul brings an eclectic and multi-faceted approach to the team at Green Venture Partners. Paul has an honours degree from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and is an avid futurist, actively following the discipline of Strategic Foresight in the context of our business.  Paul is also Managing Director of Smart Capital Funds. Smart Capital Funds was founded in 2008 by Swinburne University AGSE graduate, Paul Bitetto (MEI Hons).  The Smart Capital Group (SCG) was launched as an information portal for our investor networks and companies. The Smart Capital Group help connect entrepreneurs and innovative businesses with investors and capital funds. Our business in essence is making connections through marketing and investor relations. Our team has grown and part of our network now extends across international borders, providing access to investor networks in Europe and the Asia-Pacific.   Tobi Nagy   Tobi Nagy, MEI (Hons), B. Eng (Hons), A.Dip (Man.Eng) is CEO of Green Ventures Partners.  Tobi is strategist, commercialisation consultant and mentor to small and medium enterprises. He has worked to develop and commercialise innovations including strategic development, financial modelling, and finance, grant sourcing and planning with start-up entrepreneurs. Tobi himself has run a number of successful start-up businesses in the area of fashion, food and consulting. His expertise lays in sustainable development, including renewable energy, recycling, and eco-tourism as well as Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), manufacturing and business and health services. Green Venture Partners P/L (GVP) is a new collaboration of two existing operating businesses (Think-Grow-Sustain and Smart Capital Funds), under one umbrella, who are already in the market providing a range of equity and debt solutions for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). GVP has identified a range of capital raising problems, that are difficult and not being addressed correctly by financial markets and institutions.   Adrian Spencer Adrian Spencer established GrantReady™ to bring insight, focus and experience to the grant application process. He has worked in the grant space since 2000 with over 10 years experience as a government grants advisor. Adrian has a science trained background, with the ability to quickly understand, assess, articulate and convey key elements of innovative businesses and their projects. He has worked as a program assessor for government and also provides services to government in the monitoring and development of grant programs. Adrian is passionate about advancing the grants sector and invests considerable time supporting and training organisations, associations, individuals, and government. He writes many publications and also provides specialist support to organisations such as KPMG, NAB, Bendigo Bank, RMIT and others.   Aaron D'Orival Aaron has a background in both financial services and the not-for-profit sector. He has a comprehensive knowledge of funding available to business and community groups, and has hands on experience in a broad range of sectors, including not-for-profits, agriculture, ICT, cleantech and export. Aaron develops strategies for successive grant applications and supports organisations throughout the application process. Aaron’s previous experience varies across many industry sectors and has most recently involved business management for both profit and not-for-profit organisations. Aaron’s specialties include business management, project management, process analysis and optimization, and risk management. GrantReady™ works with hundreds of organisations each year to find and apply for suitable grants, from start-ups to multi-national companies. In the last 12 months alone, GrantReady™ has directly helped access over $20 million in grants and rebates. In the past 7 years, GrantReady™ has assisted organisations to access over $53 million.   Warwick Peel Recognising the dawn of a new market Commencing executive recruitment in 1998, Warwick worked across Australia for a national search firm. He joined MSC/Berkeley Monroe in London in 2000 and recruited in the UK and European financial markets for five years.and having a passion for sustainability and the environment, Warwick is a co-founder of pb Human Capital. He is responsible for sustainability, energy and carbon markets, finance and investment markets, and management consulting placements. Having recently graduated with a Masters of Business majoring in Marketing, Warwick is also an employer branding expert and brings this value-added service to the business. Warwick had an upbringing in marketing & sales within a Wesfarmers subsidiary so he has insight into the corporate arena. With over a decade of conducting search assignments across investment markets, he understands the financial implications directly related to business.   Recruiting across M&A, equity markets and for private equity firms, he has also conducted various executive appointments for the investee portfolio companies and now has an emphasis on the renewable energy & clean technology sectors. With expertise across a number of key sectors, and a particular focus on the sustainability industry and environmental markets, pb Human Capital offers exceptional service and advice when you simply cannot afford to compromise on the quality of your next critical hire.  Core areas of expertise: Sustainability, renewable energy, clean technology and carbon markets with correlation to finance, risk and investments, management consulting, supply chain, defence and engineering & infrastructure.   Brendon Booth   Brendon is an experienced recruiter with extensive experience in the supply chain, defence and management consulting industries. Degree qualified in behavioural science, with a particular focus on organisational psychology and behavioural and cognitive testing, he utilises this knowledge and expertise to inject a more rigorous science into his recruitment approach. A previous owner of a national recruitment firm, he has extensive contacts in his specialist markets. As co-founder of pb Human Capital, he is passionate about a sustainable future and driving recruitment activity in the environmentally critical renewable energy industry. In addition to focusing on carbon, renewable energy and sustainability appointments, Brendon will continue to provide service within his traditional areas of expertise. Brendon has successfully placed executives in ASX-listed entities and the portfolio companies of private equity firms, and with a particular focus on operational, change, post-deal and business improvement-centred positions, is now extending this expertise to Clean Tech and Renewable Energy companies.   Yes Bank Ltd: India   YES BANK, India’s new age private sector Bank, is an outcome of the professional entrepreneurship of its Founder, Rana Kapoor and his highly competent top management team, to establish a high quality, customer centric, service driven, private Indian Bank catering to the “Future Industries of India”. YES BANK is the only Greenfield license awarded by the RBI in the last 14 years, associated with the finest pedigree investors. YES BANK has fructified into a “full service” commercial Bank that has steadily built Corporate and Institutional Banking, Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Business and Transaction Banking, Retail and Wealth Management business lines across the country, and is well equipped to offer a range of products and services to corporate and retail customers. YES BANK is the exclusive India partner to Clean Technology AustralAsia to provide investment banking services to Australian cleantech companies for Indian markets. Cleantech Capital Partners client’s will benefit from accelerating market entry strategies, joint ventures and capital raising in partnership with YES BANK. YES BANK has a vision to champion ‘Responsible Banking’ in India where the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability are embedded in the DNA of the organization and integrated in its Business Focus. YES BANK is committed to adding long term value to society, to differentiate itself in the marketplace based on a strong 'sustainability mandate' and to build in flexibility and openness as part of its core strategy. The Bank has engaged with global thought leadership forums like the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) and the AustralAsian Cleantech Forum. YES BANK has recently become the first Indian Bank to become a signatory with the United Nations Environment Programme (Financial Initiative).

For more information of Cleantech Capital Partners

Michele Hartz-Rozenberg

Commercialisation Manager

Lvl 8, 350 Collins St.

Melbourne Australia 3000

Tel: +61 (0)3 8676 0635

Mobile: +61 (0)4 0985 8116

            Email: michele@cleantechnology.com.au