OUR TEAM
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/CEO
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.