Frank Favretto is a former Chartered Accountant with 35 years of experience in investment banking, 7 years of which were with Bankers Trust Australia as a Director and an Executive Vice President.
His primary duties included Managing Director of BT Equities, its ASX Member Representative, and a member of BT’s Equity Underwriting Committee.
Frank founded, developed, funded, and took to IPO a number of start-up companies including eBet Limited, which was acquired by Tabcorp in 2016 for $128 million.
He was a Founder and Director of the water exchange www.h2ox.com, an initiative of Water For Rivers Ltd, a company owned by the Commonwealth, NSW, and Vic Governments. In 2020, he negotiated a merger with www.cblmarkets.com that delivered H2OX investors a profit of many multiples of their investment cost.
Frank is also a Founder and Director of Flinders Peak Water Pty Ltd, a company that is working on establishing large scale recycled water irrigation projects in Werribee Vic. and the Barossa Valley in S.A.
He is currently a Market Maker on CBL Markets Carbon Exchange; has a close relationship with CBL Markets; and has a deep knowledge of the carbon markets and its participants.
Simon Claringbold
CEO
Simon has over two decades of global leadership experience in business and technology, with a proven track record in driving growth, scaling ventures, and delivering strategic transformations. He successfully led and advised blue-chip organizations, start-ups, and corporate ventures across Asia Pacific, Europe, and beyond. His expertise spans go-to-market strategy, SaaS, capital raising, corporate governance, and high-growth technology ventures.
Simon has held senior leadership roles, overseeing business operations, and has driven exponential growth in emerging and established market with industry-leading global corporations at Schneider Electric, Microsoft, Avaya, Convergys Corporation, and eLoyalty, among others. In addition to corporate leadership, Simon has been actively involved in a number of start-ups like NaviX Solutions Pte Ltd (by Schneider Electric), Reewire Holdings Pte Ltd, Lifesize Communications & MultiArray Pty Ltd.
Simon has also worked with high impact partners MACH49 (A venture-building and investing firm), SE Ventures (SEV) (a $1.1 billion venture capital fund), and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), playing a key role in fostering innovation, scaling ventures, and securing strategic investments.
Simon Fjell, the project initiator, has a long history with carbon credit development and has led teams that have done successful Project Design Documents.
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He has over ten years experience working in the Philippines and has identified the on-ground stove distribution partners. He has also developed the interest of potential carbon credit purchasers. In Australia he has over ten year in carbon having previously developed the Carbon Roadmap for Indigenous People in Cape York and a Carbon Strategy report for Graincorp.
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Simon hosts two LinkedIn groups for carbon development professionals. He has been engaged by international consultancies such as McKinsey’s for carbon advice .
Simon Fjell
Founder/COO
Simon is the project initiator, successfully initiated a large Improved Cook Stove project in Nigeria that is listed with the Gold Standard Carbon Registry.
Current cook stove distribution is 20% over projected targets.
One recent large-scale distribution enabled over 1,500 previously surveyed households to pick up their stoves in one day. The truck load of 1,500 stoves did not meet the 2,000 households who turned up. Surveying of the added households took place and follow-up delivery took place to the community to fill this increased demand.
Simon and the Agasco team did the Project Design Document (PDD) for the Nigerian cook stove project. He has directed the Philippine PDD which has been submitted to VERRA.
He has over ten years experience working in the Philippines and has identified the on-ground stove distribution partners. He has also developed the interest of potential carbon credit purchasers. In Australia he has over ten year in carbon having previously developed the Carbon Roadmap for Indigenous People in Cape York and a Carbon Strategy report for Graincorp.
Simon hosts two LinkedIn groups for carbon development professionals. He has been engaged by international consultancies such as McKinsey’s for carbon advice.
Frank Favretto is a former Chartered Accountant with 35 years of experience in investment banking, 7 years of which were with Bankers Trust Australia as a Director and an Executive Vice President.
His primary duties included Managing Director of BT Equities, its ASX Member Representative, and a member of BT’s Equity Underwriting Committee.
Frank founded, developed, funded, and took to IPO a number of start-up companies including eBet Limited, which was acquired by Tabcorp in 2016 for $128 million.
He was a Founder and Director of the water exchange www.h2ox.com, an initiative of Water For Rivers Ltd, a company owned by the Commonwealth, NSW, and Vic Governments. In 2020, he negotiated a merger with www.cblmarkets.com that delivered H2OX investors a profit of many multiples of their investment cost.
Frank is also a Founder and Director of Flinders Peak Water Pty Ltd, a company that is working on establishing large scale recycled water irrigation projects in Werribee Vic. and the Barossa Valley in S.A.
He is currently a Market Maker on CBL Markets Carbon Exchange; has a close relationship with CBL Markets; and has a deep knowledge of the carbon markets and its participants.
Frank Favretto
Co-Founder/ Chairman
Frank has 35 years of experience in investment banking, 7 years of which were with Bankers Trust Australia as a Director and an Executive Vice President.
Frank’s primary duties included Managing Director of BT Equities, its ASX Member Representative, and a member of BT’s Equity Underwriting Committee. More recently Frank was:
•A Founder and Director of the water exchange www.h2ox.com an initiative of Water For Rivers Ltd, a company owned by the Commonwealth, NSW, and Vic Governments. In 2020, H2OX was acquired by its technology partner www.cblmarkets.com delivering investors a profit of many times their investment cost.
•A Founder and Director of www.flinderspeak.com that is developing large scale recycled water irrigation projects in Werribee Vic. and the Barossa Valley in S.A.
•A Founder and director of www.gipenergy.com that is commercializing a unique green H2 energy storage design and business model with Capex vastly cheaper per MWh than Li Batteries, and delivers long duration storage efficiencies of which Batteries incapable.
•A Market Maker on CBL Markets Carbon Exchange; has a close relationship with CBL Markets; and has a deep knowledge of the carbon markets and its participants.
Simon Fjell, the project initiator, has a long history with carbon credit development and has led teams that have done successful Project Design Documents.
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He has over ten years experience working in the Philippines and has identified the on-ground stove distribution partners. He has also developed the interest of potential carbon credit purchasers. In Australia he has over ten year in carbon having previously developed the Carbon Roadmap for Indigenous People in Cape York and a Carbon Strategy report for Graincorp.
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Simon hosts two LinkedIn groups for carbon development professionals. He has been engaged by international consultancies such as McKinsey’s for carbon advice .
Chief Financial Officer
Brett is a Director and CFO of Green Island Power as well as of the Philippines Carbon Credits Company OMEEco. Mr. Daley is also a Principal of large-scale recycled water irrigated horticulture developer Flinders Peak Water
Brett is a finance executive with decades of CFO experience, including 20 years of senior positions with Packer organizations, rising to the position of CFO of Australia’s Nine Television Network. During his time with the Publishing and Broadcasting Group he was instrumental in securing key corporate initiatives, including leading Commercial Due Diligence on the acquisitions of Foxtel and Crown Casino.
In addition, he led several capital raising initiatives, such as a $660m structured finance transition with Bankers Trust
Brett was also a co-founder and Director (along with Mr. Favretto) of online water bourse H2OX Exchange Limited which in 2020 merged successfully with Xpansiv Group, the world’s leading energy markets transition provider.