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Greg Thorpe
Executive Director
Greg has 40 years experience in the electricity sector and also in gas. Greg assists businesses and market authorities operating under a range of different industry structures and market designs used in Australia and internationally. He sits on panels available to hear disputes under electricity and gas rules in Australia and Singapore, NBN wholesale disputes and provides expert witness statements in other jurisdictions.
Lance Hoch
Executive Director and Chairman
Lance has over 35 years of experience in policy, regulation and business strategy as it applies to electricity and gas distribution and retail businesses. Prior to founding Oakley Greenwood with his fellow directors, he served as Vice President with CRA International.
Jim Snow
Executive Director
Jim spent 12 years in the Natural Gas Industry (AGL) holding several senior executive positions involved with the technical end use of energy, regulations and tariffs, contract pricing, analysis of energy projects investment, strategy, mergers and acquisitions and the promotion and marketing of energy.
Rohan Harris
Executive Director
Rohan Harris is an economist who has worked in the energy, water and consulting industries for more than 20 years. Rohan has significant experience in the areas of: tariff design; regulatory strategy and analysis; cost benefit analysis; energy and water policy; and electricity, gas and water demand forecasting.
Angus Rich
Executive Director
Angus offers a wealth of technical expertise balanced with commercial experience drawing on 25 years focusing on the gas and power sectors in the resources and energy industry.
Alex Cruickshank
Principal Consultant
Alex is a very experienced public policy and regulatory executive with broad experience in energy markets, having worked in both public and private sectors. Alex has deep experience in market design and rules development. He was involved in the initial design of the National Electricity Market; examining capacity markets versus energy only markets, network development approaches and access rules. He continued in the developmental role with the rules body (the National Electricity Code Administrator) as Principal Consultant Code Development and oversaw all rules change applications and changes.
Cau Thai
Principal Consultant
Cau is a senior leader and energy market expert with more than 20 years working in the energy/utilities industry and with solid interdisciplinary expertise in energy market, power system engineering, optimisation, economics, business management and applied finance. He has extensive experience in providing advice on strategic directions, trading and investment opportunities in response to changing market structures, trends and energy policy (renewable energy, carbon emission).
Bill Williams
Principal Consultant
Bill is an experienced Commercial/BD executive who has worked across the energy sector including oil & gas, gas infrastructure, electricity infrastructure and energy trading. Core strengths include asset commercialisation strategies, deal optimisation and structuring, negotiation and contract documentation, financial analysis and study management.
Gerard Flack
Principal Consultant
New to Oakley Greenwood in 2021 after 34 years’ experience in renewable energy generation and commercial risk management at Hydro Tasmania. Heavily involved in Tasmania’s National Electricity Market (NEM) entry and establishment of Hydro Tasmania’s renewable energy portfolio as a mature participant in the NEM. Gerard’s executive roles have spanned renewable energy generation, wholesale trading and strategic risk management with extensive experience in all aspects of NEM dispatch, and wholesale and retail (C&I) energy markets (electricity, gas, environmental certificates and ancillary services). Read more here.
Francis Chin
Principal Consultant
Francis has more than 25 years of energy and carbon management consulting expertise including 13 years in Australia and 12 years in the Asian and South East Asian region based in Bangkok.
Don Anderson
Senior Consultant
Don Anderson has worked in the Australian Retail Energy Industry for over 18 years. During this time, he has held senior executive level positions in Sales, Marketing and Customer Operations with AGL, EnergyAustralia and TRUenergy.
John Wallace
Senior Consultant
John Wallace has had more than 40 years of experience in the design, construction, operation, maintenance and executive management of electricity networks.

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