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Energy policy is being developed continuously in response to major technological disruption, competition management and various policy pressures such as supply and demand, and prices. Policy at all levels of Government needs to be responsive, equitable, effective and efficient and OGW can assist with these matters.

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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.
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.

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