Management & Staff

Mr Martin Wilkes
General Manager

Martin has over 20 years experience in Exploration and Production in Europe, Africa and Australia; covering on and offshore, oil and gas developments and operations and more recently LNG developments. His strengths lie in strategic thinking, development planning and project initiation, feasibility and development.

Martin previously worked for Shell International Exploration and Production for 14 years in roles as diverse as Process and Development Engineering, Internal Audit and heading the Group Process Engineering Global Training program. More recently Martin worked for Woodside Energy Ltd where he led a development team looking at the further expansion of the LNG facilities of the North West Shelf Venture, and prior to joining Cool Energy was heavily involved with the business strategy supporting the Pluto LNG Development.

Martin holds a Master of Engineering degree in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Mr Simon Elliott
Operations Manager

Simon has 20 years experience as a Process Engineer and has previously worked in Australia and internationally for companies including Woodside Energy Limited, ARC Energy (Perth Basin), Apache Energy Limited, BHP Petroleum Pty Ltd and BP Oil Refinery.

Simon's skills encompass project feasibility, trials, plant commissioning and ongoing engineering support and maintenance. Between May 2003 and September 2005, Simon directly supported ARC Energy to transform its Perth Basin operations from temporary to permanent facilities.

He is now responsible for management of Cool Energy's technology demonstration in the Perth Basin and will manage commercial projects in the future.

Dr Nimalan Gnanendran PhD
Lead Process Engineer

Nimalan has extensive research experience in hydrocarbon phase behaviour and hydrocarbon processing. This includes experimental and mathematical modelling studies related to gas hydrates formation and cryogenic CO₂ separation as part of his PhD completed in 2004. His experience also includes process development studies for gas treatment and LNG processes.

Nimalan has lectured on chemical engineering and hydrocarbon fluid properties and phase behaviour at the postgraduate level at Curtin University of Technology. Since February 2001, he has worked closely with CryoCell^®'s inventor Professor Robert Amin from Curtin University of Technology, co-publishing several pieces of research work on natural gas processing.

Nimalan is responsible for the planning and execution of research and development initiatives to improve and commercialise Cool Energy's unique cryogenic gas conditioning technology, CryoCell^®.

Mrs Diane Scott
Office Manager & Marketing

Diane has over 20 years experience in office administration and 10 years in office management. She has worked at various companies such as AMP Limited, Lend Lease Corporation, MLC Life Ltd and the DORIC Group. In 2001, Diane was a finalist in the Australian Institute of Office Professionals Award. She worked in the International Media Centre at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and has extensive experience managing major corporate events, conferences, seminars and charity events. Diane is a member of the Australian Institute of Office Professionals.

Mr Doug Spinley
Accountant

Doug joined Cool Energy in January 2005. He has over 30 years experience as a chartered accountant, holding positions as company secretary, financial controller, consultant and engineering accountant. Doug has worked for several companies in the energy, resources and agricultural industries, in New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Fiji and Australia. In addition to his role at Cool Energy, Doug is currently an independent contractor to Nuenco Ltd and Chrome Corporation Ltd.

Doug graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1972, with a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting). He was registered as a Chartered Accountant in 1973. In 1993, Doug become a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.

Mr Andrew Chapman
Company Secretary

Mr Chapman is a chartered accountant with over 16 years experience with publicly listed companies where he has held positions as Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer and has experience in the areas of corporate acquisitions, divestments and capital raisings. He has worked for a number of public companies in the mineral resources, oil and gas and technology sectors.

Mr Chapman is also company secretary for two other publicly listed companies. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).