Our People

The Honourable Bob Carr Non Executive Chairman

Bob Carr retired as Premier of New South Wales in 2005 as the States longest continuously-serving Premier. Elected as State Member for Maroubra in 1983, he served as Leader of the Opposition from 1988 until his election as Premier in March 1995.

During these 10 years the State Government set records for spending on infrastructure, became the first government in the States history to retire debt, achieved the nations best school literacy levels, and achieved landmark tort law reforms.

As Premier, Bob Carr introduced the worlds first carbon trading scheme and curbed the clearing of native vegetation as anti-greenhouse measures. Today he chairs the Advisory Council of the Climate Institute. He was a member of the International Task Force on Climate Change convened by Tony Blair.

Mr. Vincent CornesGeneral Manager

Vincent has 10 years experience in greenhouse and energy management across a broad range of sectors including carbon trading, project development, corporate greenhouse strategy and policy. Prior to his appointment to Envex, Vincent held the position of Carbon Trading Manager at Origin Energy. In this role Vincent was responsible for managing one of Australias largest and most diverse carbon and renewable energy portfolios. Vincent and his team played a major role in developing innovative business solutions to meet the climate change challenge. Vincent has an honours degree in Environmental Engineering, a Diploma of Financial Services and is accredited by the Australian Financial Markets Association.

Mr. Blair PritchardNon Executive Director

Blair Prichard is a Division Director within Macquarie Global Investments.

Dr. Karel NollesNon Executive Director

Karel Nolles is an Associate Director in the Global Climate Change Investment team at Macquarie Capital since mid 2007.

He has worked as a consultant, academic and small businessman in the areas of sustainability investing, energy and environmental markets since 1993.

Before joining Macquarie, Karel was a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at UNSW, was one of the founding academics of the UNSW Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets (CEEM), and was later the Director of the SIRCA Experimental Economics laboratory. His academic research interests focus on the application of experimental economics to questions regarding markets for renewable energy and greenhouse emissions markets.

From 2000 to 2005 Karel was the Manager, Environmental Markets for the Australian Financial Markets Association.

Mr. Brian PriceNon Executive Director

Brian Price is the CEO and Founding Director of Financial & Energy Exchange Ltd and is actively involved in the strategy and business development of the business. Brian holds a Master of Commerce (Tax and Finance) UNSW, and has over 23 years of experience in the global financial markets including construction and execution of complex derivative transactions, option market making, construction of specialized tactical portfolio overlay strategies and the practical use of synthetic and derivative financial products.

Brian has an exceptional depth of knowledge of the global exchange space and has a broad range of relationships within the futures and options industries.

Mr. Dimitri BurshteinNon Executive Director

Dimitri Burshtein is the head of Corporate and Business Development for the Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX) and a non executive director of Envex, FEX's environmental product development joint venture with Macquarie Capital Group and Climate Exchange plc.

In his role at FEX, Dimitri is responsible for the identification and planning for new products and markets.

Dimitri has over 10 years of exchange experience including at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) working in the areas of investor relations, corporate strategy, business development and finance. Prior to ASX. Dimitri was a Principal Financial Analyst at the NSW Treasury and a Payments Consultant at the National Australia Bank.

Dimitri’s education qualifications include a Bachelor of Economics, a Master of Commerce and a Master of Business Administration. Dimitri is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr. Matthew WhittellNon Executive Director

Matthew joined Climate Exchange plc as Chief Financial Officer in November 2006 after 18 years' investment banking experience. He joined Schroders in 1986, where he specialised in corporate finance transactions in equity capital markets. In 2000, following the acquisition of Schroders by Citigroup, he moved to Singapore as the Director responsible for equity capital markets in India and South East Asia.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 2005 to study for an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College, London gaining a distinction and winning the law prize prior to joining Climate Exchange. He also holds an MA in Physics from Oxford University (1986) and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance.