Rob-Murray Leach, Energy Efficiency Council

Rob Murray-Leach is the CEO of the Energy Efficiency Council. Rob was formerly a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency and part of Australia's independent Climate Change Review (the Garnaut Review). He has a background in behaviour and sustainability from the Universities of Oxford and Adelaide and has contributed to several award-winning books on these topics. In 2011 he received the EcoGen Young Clean Energy Industry Leader award.

Mark Waring, Mirus Consulting Services

For more than 30 years Mark has worked as a mechanical engineer in design and construction air conditioning companies in Sydney (Siganto & Stacey Australia and Optimus). From the late 1990s he was engineering manager at Optimus, becoming a partner in the business before it was sold to the Hastie group in 2002. His breadth of experience includes large projects across retail, commercial, health and education, as well as data centres. Mark now works for his own consulting business, Mirus Consulting Services, providing innovative air conditioning solutions for projects.

Damien Spillane, M.AIRAH, Digital Realty

Damien is a senior data centre professional with specific skills in leading demanding projects and teams, dealing with uncertainty, change, risk and programme within complex data centre projects. Damien is an accomplished mechanical engineer with history of delivering large blue-chip data centre projects as a design consultant, main contractor and client-side representative. As a strong advocate for engineering quality management, Damien is intent on ensuring the engineering solutions at all stages in a project are of the highest quality. 

Richard Keech, Solem Consulting

Richard Keech is an experienced Engineer (MEng, RMIT 1988) who, over two decades, has worked in the military and in commercial IT. Richard recently returned to university and gained a Masters of Environment (Energy Efficiency) from Melbourne University. He now works as an energy efficiency consultant for Solem Consulting, and as a researcher in low-emissions buildings technology for environmental NGO 'Beyond Zero Emissions'. Richard is from Melbourne, where he lives with his wife and children in their zero-carbon home.  

Robert Saidman, ARUP

Robert is a Senior Associate in the Arup Building Services Engineering team. He has had experience in the design, construction and management of a variety of projects including residential apartments, mixed use developments, hospitals, education facilities, museum collection facilities, offices and retail developments. Robert is passionate about integrating services into the building form and has a strong understanding of multidisciplinary solutions in engineering design. This understanding is exemplified by Roberts’ track record of holistic design and his focus on effective communication of concepts and ideas to clients.

 Allan Aaron, Simons Green Energy

 Allan is Director of Corporate Development at Simons Green Energy.  Allan is also a founder and partner at Technology Venture Partners, a technology-focussed venture capital investment company.  He has been involved in high-growth businesses for the past 15 years, three of which were spent in Silicon Valley in the USA. Previously, he spent eight years in Management Consulting after an early career in professional and systems engineering roles. Allan holds an Honours degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. He is completing a post graduate research degree in Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 

David Jarratt, WSP Built Ecology 

David is a Director and Australasian Brand Leader for WSP Built Ecology, a specialist service of WSP Group and a practice that has been dedicated to devising high performance design strategies for over 15 years. David actively leads teams to develop and implement design strategies for projects. He actively pursues the delivery of world leading solutions to ensure the full benefit of high performance design is realised by all project stakeholders, including owners, building users and facilities managers.

Wasim Saman, F.AIRAH, University of South Australia 

Professor Saman is professor of sustainable energy engineering at the Barbara Hardy Institute/ University of South Australia. He has published over 180 technical articles and supervised 26 post graduate research candidates. In 1997 Professor Saman founded, and became Director of the Sustainable Energy Centre. He is currently leading projects focussing on solar thermal electricity generation and storage. He is also Research Leader in the CRC for Low Carbon Living focussing on integrated building systems with the aim of leading the transition to zero energy buildings through design and system integration.