A member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers private client services team, Adrian has over 13 years experience in advising and assisting companies throughout their growth cycles from early stage to “mid-cap” and exit stage. Adrian has experience in accounting, assurance and taxation services but specialise in assisting organisations in the process of capital raisings, strategy development, business acquisitions and divestments. These advisory services include mentoring businesses, providing insight on strategic considerations, performance of financial due diligence analysis and assistance, financial modelling, process management and overall transaction support.

Adrian brings valuable experience, knowledge and an understanding of the complex management issues companies face at varying time points in their growth. Adrian has extensive experience in new technology, information, communication, health, professional services and property sectors, as well as a depth of expertise in strategy and planning, project management, and commercial due diligence for new technology companies.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is committed to supporting fast growth companies, and the firm has a global program in place to support Companies with Extraordinary Potential (CWEP).

PricewaterhouseCoopers have an experienced team with a passion and focus on working with businesses with high growth potential and ambitious goals. The team provide companies with a key focal point through which all of their needs can be anticipated and satisfied as they move through the growth phases. The CWEP team includes specialists in accounting, audit, tax, legal and strategic advice, working together to offer comprehensive solutions in areas as broad as IP, grant applications and tax structuring for acquisitions or IPOs to name a few. This is supported by the firm’s industry expertise and external commercial network which is invaluable for identifying potential opportunities to support growth.

Prior to joining WilsonHTM Jamie had a 15 year career with Merrill Lynch including 10 years running their Australian institutional sales business in London. He returned to Australia in 2001 to run Corporate Broking and later was appointed Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets. He subsequently worked for Patersons Securities as a Director in Corporate Finance and then joined WilsonHTM in April 2007. Current responsibilities include execution of all capital markets transactions and origination of transactions with a focus on the clean technology sector. Jamie is a member of the AustralAsian Cleantech Advisory Panel and holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.

Glenn provides specialized advisory services for those investors seeking entry into the Cleantech and Sustainable Responsible Investment (SRI) field. His 9 years of experience in the financial services and advisory industry supports his dedicated and passionate approach to identifying early stage companies on the verge of commercialization as well as more mature companies with established SRI principles of business.

Investing in Cleantech companies are a chance for the investment community to drive the development of society towards one which balances the competing principles of profitability and sustainability. Its easy to get excited about investing in a company that has the potential to ensure water security or eliminate greenhouse gases. But its not so easy to ensure that it can be done in an efficient and cost effective fashion, with a credible roadmap to commercialization and a management skill-set to execute the plan successfully. We aim to connect the two.

The principals of SRI do not just provide for an investment filter guided by ethics but also serves as a criteria for identifying outperforming companies on the share market. Those companies which rate highly for environment, society and corporate governance are less prone to the risk of financial and public relations shocks. Shocks which can decimate a brand or destroy a business model.

Glenn is a member of the Ethical Investment Association and Rotary and offers all investors in SRI and Cleantech companies a 5%-10% rebate of brokerage costs to charity. Rotary members also have the option of allocating this rebate to their home club.

Ivor Frischknecht joined Starfish Ventures in 2005 after 15 years of hands-on management and investing experience. His focus is on cleantech investment companies that develop energy, water and environmental technologies. He also contributes considerable operational management depth in software and internet to the team.

Prior to joining Starfish, Ivor was a Director of the New Ventures Group at Idealab, a California-based firm that incubates and invests in early stage technology companies. Preceding Idealab, Ivor was a senior operating executive, including CEO, of several Silicon Valley startups in the energy technology, enterprise software and the Internet sectors. He was CEO of H2onsite, a hydrogen generation technology company, and COO of DMFCC, a micro fuel cell company. He co-founded a software company, Angara Database Systems, built it from zero to sixty employees over five years, raised US$40MM of top-tier venture capital and debt, and eventually merged it with a public company. Ivor has a strong international network of sources of capital, having secured lead investments from several top tier venture capital investors. He has helped companies grow as an independent investor, consultant and advisor, from incorporation through several rounds of financing.

Prior to becoming a technology entrepreneur and investor, Ivor worked as a strategic management consultant with Bain & Company and with the law firm Minter Ellison. Ivor holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelors of Economics (Hons) and Law from the University of Sydney .