Our Team

Nick is an energy infrastructure operator with two decades across commercial, governmental, and international roles in the Australian and global energy markets.

As Executive Director, Growth and Low Carbon for the South Australian Government, responsible for capturing the economic opportunities around the low emissions energy and mineral sectors. He delivered the 276MW emergency generator program in under six months — believed to be an Australian record — funded the Hornsdale BESS expansion (the world's first synthetic inertia from a grid-scale battery), and led the development of South Australia's Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Act 2023.  Prior to this, he led the South Australian and Northern Territory business of Elgas Ltd, the Australian subsidiary of the Linde Group and the country's largest LPG marketer.

Nick is President of the International Association for Hydrogen Safety (HySafe, Belgium) and works with standards and advisory bodies in China, Japan and the United States. His commentary on energy transition capital flows has been published in the Financial Times and Reuters.

Nick is concurrently Managing Director of Global Decarbonisation Advisory, which provides advisory services to GDI on an arm's-length basis. He holds an MBA, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Fellow of the AIE.

Reza has over 30 years’ experience in the Australian energy sector, commencing in the mid 1990’s with the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA).

Since that time Reza has worked across both public and private enterprises at senior management levels and spent time Chairing the Generators Forum of Australia’s  Working Group and Greenhouse Working Group. Reza has sat on several industry Panels and consulted to energy regulatory bodies such as AEMO and the AER and government departments. Reza was the Founder and Managing Partner of CQ Energy, which was purchased by Energy One in 2022. CQ Energy prior to its acquisition built an independent electricity and gas trading business that had a trading book of around $2.5billion per annum. Reza brings key trading experience, commercial knowledge and industry connections. Reza continues to operate across the sector in his current role as Principal of Azer Energy Advisory, which specialises in energy sector consulting, including energy and trading strategy, mergers and acquisition due diligence, and advisory across electricity, renewable, gas, and carbon markets.

Rob has over 30 years of senior leadership experience in the infrastructure sector, having held Director, Chief Executive and other senior management positions in electricity, water, gas, and transport in Australia and overseas.

Rob is the former CEO of SA Power Networks, Spark Infrastructure (ASX:SKI), and TransAdelaide. Currently, Rob is a non-executive director of Ausnet (owned by Brookfield Asset Management) and Principal, EERST Consulting. 

Rob has held numerous Board roles in public, private and regulated businesses and charities, including Directorships on major representative organisations including Energy Networks Australia and BusinessSA.

Duncan is an experienced and highly ranked lawyer admitted to the bar in both Australia and England. He was the former Chair of Baker McKenzies' Australian offices and was the lead Partner Banking and Finance. 

His career has spanned 25+ years in legal practice working across a wide range of clients, including financial services, corporate and government clients both in Australia and offshore. 

Duncans expertise covers  general corporate finance, real estate finance, domestic and international debt capital markets, green and sustainable finance, renewables finance, securitisation, structured finance, derivatives as well as leveraged finance.