Peter Turnbull, AM
Non-Executive Chair
Peter Turnbull is an experienced chair and professional non-executive director of publicly listed, unlisted and evolving technology companies. Sector experience spans oil and gas, mining, medical technology commercialisation and industrial manufacturing.
Peter has degrees in law and commerce (University of Melbourne) and over 25 years successful senior executive and corporate legal experience with some of Australia’s largest listed and unlisted public companies including Newcrest Mining, BTR Nylex and Energex.
Peter also has significant corporate regulatory and government policy experience gained through working with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission and the Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission.
In June 2020 Peter was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to business and corporate governance institutes.
Current positions and directorships include:
• Chair, Calix Limited (ASX: CXL)
• Non-Executive Director, Karoon Gas Australia Ltd
• Chair, Auxita Pty Ltd
Jake Ulrich
Non-Executive Director
Since getting his B.S. Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Jake has accumulated 35+ years of engineering experience in the energy industry, working in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Jake was an Executive Director at Centrica Plc where he oversaw upstream, midstream, power generation and trading. His early energy experience included MidCon Corp, an OXY subsidiary, and he was a founding partner of NGCH which later became Dynegy.
He has been on numerous boards, including Sterling Resources as CEO, then Chairman, Mitra and Ophir Energy. He was also a member of the private equity energy team at Och-Ziff.
Jake is Chairman of both Discover Exploration and Xetrov, a waste to energy company.
Jake has been active in the not-for-profit sector working with the International Rescue Committee UK as a Board member and on the Advisory Board of Beanstalk reading support charity.
Bill Lazarus
Managing Director
Bill is one of the founders of the QADO Group and has over 35 years of international business experience in the oil and gas, mining, and power generation industries with diverse capability gained in both hands-on operational and executive management roles.
He has both a breadth and depth of experience in gas and oil field developments from drilling engineering through to production for major corporations including Amoco Canada Petroleum and Santos Limited.
With the latter, he held responsibility for all production operations in Queensland and later the Santos Cooper Basin production assets in South Australia, including both the Moomba and Port Bonython facilities.
In the ASX-listed renewable energy and mine-site power generation company Energy Developments Limited, Bill held executive management roles spanning operations, manufacturing, and international business and project development; and as CEO of the waste to energy subsidiary, and ultimately the COO of the parent company.
He holds a BASc in Geological Engineering from the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Camille Morin
Executive Director, Development
Camille’s experience spans over thirty years and includes leadership across a number of successful investments in the healthcare, resource, and agricultural sectors, while having lived and worked in Australia, Canada and Europe.
During this period, he has built a trusted international network of business, financial and investor partnerships that have supported the commercialisation of several successful companies from start-up through to divesture.
Camille brings his ability to make strong business decisions to both the boardroom and the negotiation table, providing invaluable strategic clarity to ventures he is involved in. His commitment to resolving business issues and creating innovative value-based strategies has shaped the success of these ventures.
Camille was inducted into The Executive Connection Australia as Chair in 2016, an international network of business leaders across 20 countries with over 23,000 members. As Chair he works with CEO’s, mentoring leadership and business growth within enterprises ranging from one million to over one billion in annual turnover.
He is passionate about the value of values, and while some may see values & ethics as constraints in business, Camille regards these as potent tools for identifying the best long-term course of action in addition to a unique pathway to creative ideas and solutions.
