Founder and Chief Technology & Product Officer

Andrew is an inventor, systems and industrial designer, with a growing portfolio of patents in power equipment and systems design. With a focus on complex systems, Andrew has spent the last 12 years serving as Chief Technology and Product Officer, CEO and Executive Chairman of advanced engineering firms. Driven to solve the largest constraints facing society, Andrew has pursued invention, innovation and the scaling of technology to address the tension between the economic and environmental welfare of humans. An investor in innovation, Andrew has founded and directed multiple technology start-ups.

Andrew has contributed to the debate around future energy systems in publications including The Times, BBC, and Forbes. He has been a keynote speaker at conferences including Energy Disruptors Unite, guest speaker at Chatham House, and has presented at The University of Oxford.

Andrew has a long history of involvement in public policy, industry and academic research in Australia, Europe, and the United Kingdom. In Australia, Andrew was a former board member of organisations including the Australian Chamber of Commerce (ACCI), Greening Australia, and the Business Finance Taskforce. Andrew was also a member of The Demographic Change Council, and The Business Tax and Regulative Reform Council.

In the UK, he established a successful vocational education and training provider, which developed a robust, distributed tourism and hospitality training platform for corporate clients in the UK and Asia Pacific. Backed by Rothschild’s private capital arm, Andrew led a team to acquire the UK’s second largest hospitality and tourism vocational training provider, HCTC.

As a management consultant, Andrew had clients in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, including from the property and tourism sectors. This included an extended period as owner’s representative for the property development interests of one of the Gulf’s major investors.

Andrew has degrees in both Economics and Design, focused on complex economic and technical systems, platforms, general purpose technologies, microeconomics and the evolution of institutions. This brings a unique and in-depth perspective to the development of ENODA’s technology.