Board

Graham Kelly
Chairman

A.J. (Tony) Battle
Non-executive Director

Anthony (Tony) Battle has held various senior management positions in the finance industry for over 30 years, and at various stages has been involved in the evaluation and funding of major structured and corporate financings across a number of industry sectors.  During his career, Tony has been a member of the boards of directors, executive management committees and credit committees. 

Tony’s most recent role was in a senior position in the Corporate & Institutional division with Calyon Australia (following the merging of the international business operations of Credit Agricole Indosuez and Credit Lyonnais) and prior to that with Credit Lyonnais, Commonwealth Bank and Partnership Pacific.

Tony holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree.  Tony is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Associate of Chartered Secretaries Australia.  Tony is based in Melbourne.

Douglas Clemson
Non-executive Director

Doug Clemson is the former Finance Director of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) where, from 1988 until his retirement in 1999, he was responsible for the corporate and project finance needs of the ABB group in Australia and New Zealand.  He was instrumental in the establishment of the activities of ABB Financial Services and its participation in the co-development, construction and funding of a number of important power generation, transportation and infrastructure projects in this region.

Prior to joining ABB, Doug held senior line management and finance executive positions with manufacturing groups, ACI and Smiths Industries.  He is the recent chairman of Redbank Power and his previous directorships include General and Cologne Reinsurance, Electric Power Transmission Group, ABB Australia, ABB New Zealand, and Smiths Industries. 

Doug is a qualified accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Doug is based in Sydney.

Mike Hutchinson
Non-executive Director

Mike is a qualified civil engineer, educated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, and Harvard Business School. He was formerly an international transport engineering consultant with experience in the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific.

From 1980 to 1999 he was a senior official with the Australian Government, mainly working in the transport and communications sectors. He worked closely on reform of the Australian Government's state-owned enterprise sector from 1987 to 1996 and was acting Managing Director of the former OTC Ltd in 1989. He led the government's major privatisation program over the period 1996 to 1999, including Telstra, ANL Ltd, Australian National and most of Australia's airports, and he worked closely on the regulation of privatised infrastructure.

Since 2000 he has practised as a private consultant and company director. He has been a trustee of the Australian Government's superannuation schemes and a consultant to a global investment bank. Previous Directorships include Pacific Hydro Ltd, OTC Ltd, the Australian Postal Corporation and the Australian Graduate School of Management Ltd. He was also Chairman of the HiTech Group Australia Ltd.

Mike is currently an independent non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Hastings Funds Management Ltd, and an independent non-executive director of Westpac Funds Management Ltd, The Australian Infrastructure Fund Ltd and EPIC Energy Holdings Ltd.

Miles George
Managing Director

Miles is the Managing Director of Infigen Energy, having previously been the Chief Executive Officer and then Managing Director of Babcock & Brown Wind Partners (BBW). He joined the Infrastructure and Project Finance Group of Babcock & Brown in 1997 and since then has concentrated on principal investments in the infrastructure and energy sectors, and in particular renewable energy investments.

Since 2000 Miles has been involved in the development and financing of wind energy projects in Australia - including a key role in the development of the Lake Bonney 1 and 2 wind farm projects in South Australia.

Miles was a member of the team that initially established Global Wind Partners in 2003 as a single asset private equity investment vehicle - the predecessor to BBW and Infigen Energy.

In 2005 Miles jointly led the advisory team which structured and implemented the Initial Public Offer and listing of BBW on the ASX, and following listing he advised BBW on a number of wind farm acquisitions in Australia and overseas. 

Prior to joining Babcock & Brown in 1997, Miles was a Director of the Project Finance division of AIDC Limited. Miles holds degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Business Administration (Distinction) from the University of Melbourne.