About Us: Management
Gerry McGowan
Managing Director
Mr McGowan is a former executive of TNT and Mayne Nickless. He formed Impulse Transport Group in 1982 having won a contract with John Fairfax to distribute their products around Australia. Gerry acquired Travcour, a specialised travel industry courier in 1985, which he subsequently sold to Mayne Nickless in 1988. In 1992, he formed Impulse Airlines having bought a failed regional carrier from its administrators. Impulse grew to become the largest privately owned regional carrier in Australia. In 2000 Impulse became Australia’s third airline when it launched jet services between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Impulse employed approximately 1500 staff.
Qantas purchased Impulse in 2001 and subsequently relaunched the airline as Jetstar. Currently Gerry is Managing Director of CBD Energy. He has been involved in the company for four and a half years, initially as a Non-Executive Chairman. He became an executive in 2006 and led a restructure and turn around of the Group. He is also Executive Chairman of TRW Holdings Pty Limited, an investment company with exposure to the energy, primary production and aviation industries.
John Giannasca
Chief Engineer
John is an Electrical Engineer with over 30 years experience in the design and implementation of large scale control systems for power utilities and process plants. A former President of the Institute of Instrumentation and Control and a Fellow of the Institute of Energy, John is heavily involved in developing diesel reduction strategies in his role as General Manager of Remote Area Power Systems.
Mark Fogarty
General Manager
CBD Wind
Prior to 2000 Mark was National Director of Environment and Energy at the Australian Industry Group. More recently Mark was CEO of the NSW Sustainable Energy Authority (SEDA). SEDA on behalf of the NSW Government invested over $180m in nine years of operation in sustainable energy programs and renewable energy projects. In terms of Funds Management SEDA invested from its Sustainable Energy Fund over $54m in renewable energy projects.
In addition Mark sits on/as;
• The Advisory Board of RE-EX Asia Capital a funding facilitator for renewable energy projects in Asia .RE-EX Asia Capital is based in Singapore.
• Chairman -The Asia Pacific Steering Committee for REEEP Partnership.
• The International REEEP Governing Board as the representative of the Australian Government and it’s Pacific Partners.
• The Advisory Board of University of Sydney Law School - Australian Centre for Environmental Law.
Mark is a practicing lawyer with Masters Degrees in business studies and environmental law.
Allan McClaren
General Manager
Parmac
Allan as CEO of Parmac is responsible for leading one of the foremost mechanical services companies in Victoria. He has extensive experience in managing large scale mechanical services projects to successful completion. Allan has also been responsible for a project management team that has completed some of the more significant projects in the HVAC industry. Since Allan was appointed General Manager in 2006, Parmac has achieved significant profit growth from a loss in 2005 to a $1.2M profit in 2008.
Yuri Brodsky
General Manager
Capacitor Technology
An electrical engineer with over 30 years experience in the power and power quality aspects of high, medium and low voltage systems. As General Manager of Capacitor Technology, Yuri leads an experienced team of electrical engineers responsible for the design, manufacture and implementation of power projects including Power Factor Correction, Power Quality Systems and Electrical Control Systems for power utilities and process industries. Since the restructure and refocusing of CapTech in 2006, their results have improved from a loss in 2005 to a profit of $1.4M in 2008.
Thomas Hellmich
Business Development Manager
CBD Solar
Thomas joined CBD in 2009. He has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney and studied Business Administration at the University of Potsdam in Germany. Through his previous employment as Business Development Manager Australia at SOLON SE, Thomas gained detailed experience in the solar industry. Prior to this position he also worked for Siemens AG, IKEA and Shipley Australia.
