Envirogen Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Dr David Hamill (Chairman)
Bob Lette
Neville Sneddon
Jonathan Van Rooyen
Peter Siapikoudis

Hon Dr David Hamill (Independent Chairman)
David is the former Treasurer of Queensland. His other Directorships include Deputy Chairman of Family Care Medical Services Ltd and the Board of the Queensland Museum, Australian Red Cross Blood Service (Chairman), Australian Red Cross Society, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Limited, Ensham Workers Entitlement Fund Pty Ltd (Chairman), Family Care Friendly Society, Family Care Medical Services Limited (Deputy Chairman), Queensland Museum (Deputy Chairman).

Neville Sneddon
Neville is a qualified mining engineer with over 35 years experience in the mining industry. His various roles included a career with Coal & Allied in the Hunter Valley where he managed all facets of the development and operation of both open-cut and underground mines. Subsequently, he held a senior management role at the mines inspectorate in New South Wales. Following this role Neville was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Shell Coal (in Queensland), later the Australian coal arm of Anglo American (recently retiring from the position of acting Chief Executive Officer). Neville is also a former Director and Chairman of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Limited, a former Director of the New South Wales, Queensland and National mining councils, a former Director of independent coal producer QCMM. He is also a Foundation Member of the tripartite Queensland Mine Safety and Health Committee and a member of the Federal/State committee formed to design uniform national mine safety legislation. Neville is currently a Non-Executive Director of Centennial Coal Mining Company Limited.

Bob Lette
Bob is a partner at the law firm of Mullins Lawyers. Bob is Chairman of The Private Capital Fund (the unit holder representative Board of The Infrastructure Fund), Chairman of BUSS (Q), the Superannuation Fund for the Queensland Building & Construction Industry), a Director of Trinity Consolidated Group Limited and Trinity Funds Management Ltd, Watpac Limited and Viking Industries Limited, Queensland Airports Limited, and Director on various other private companies as well as a member on various committees. Bob has been practising law since 1966.

Peter Siapikoudis
Peter is the Chief Operating Officer of The Infrastructure Fund and is an Investment Director at Hastings Funds Management. He is currently a director on the Boards of Hancock Victorian Plantations Pty Limited, Grand Ridge Plantations Pty Ltd and Tiaki Plantations Company (NZ). Peter was previously Manager, Infrastructure Investment within UniSuper’s specialised internal investment department, responsible for the management of the fund’s $1.2 billion infrastructure investment portfolio and $400 million timberland investment portfolio including asset management and direct involvement in unlisted transactions. Prior to joining UniSuper in 2000, Peter’s professional experience included six years as an analyst at William M. Mercer in both the Actuarial and Asset Consulting practice groups, and most recently as an investment consultant.

Jonathan van Rooyen
Jonathan is an Investment Director at Hastings Funds Management and is responsible for the identification and assessment of investment opportunities. Jonathan is also a Director of the Interlink Roads Pty Limited (M5 Toll Road – Sydney), Statewide Roads Limited (M4 Toll Road - Sydney). Jonathan was previously a Partner at KPMG Corporate Finance specialising in infrastructure investment valuations. Jonathan led the Hastings team on the Envirogen acquisition.  

Ron Roduner
Ron is a qualified civil engineer with over 30 years experience in electricity industry mainly in the generation sector. He has a Masters of Business Administration and is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has previously held executive general manger positions for CS Energy being responsible for electricity trading, power station operations, technical services, gas and coal supply and general procurement. He was responsible for the investments in Queensland Gas and Arrow Energy which changed them from exploration companies to production companies. He is a former director of both Mica Creek and Callide C power stations.