Our Team and Partners
1. Management

Luke McDonald
Over the last 20 years, Luke has established himself as a leading energy and resources professional having established a number of energy and mining related companies; including Virentia. At REP, Luke established one of Australia’s leading renewable energy development companies, with a pipeline of over 10GW across wind, solar, battery and pumped hydro. Luke’s focus is on the whole life-cycle of major projects; from inception to development, construction, operations and ultimately decommissioning.
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Sebastian Burgman
Sebastian is a Corporate Development professional with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in preparing for, structuring and executing corporate transactions across professional services, infrastructure, energy and resource industries.

James Doyle
James is a project development professional with nearly 20 years of experience spanning consulting, development, and delivery of major projects across multiple sectors and geographies. He combines a civil engineering background with deep commercial and project finance expertise to drive exceptional outcomes. Most recently, he has focused on originating, acquiring, and developing major projects in the renewable energy, power transmission, and linear infrastructure sectors, including complex PPP and project-financed opportunities.
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BMD
BMD is a national group of companies engaged in engineering design, construction and land development for clients and partners in the urban development, transport infrastructure and resources and energy sectors.
At BMD, we see our strengths in the quality of our people and our genuine relationships with clients, partners and communities. We see our success linked to our ability to deliver certainty through consistent performance. We see our future shaped by all that has made us successful in the past.

Johnson Winter & Slattery
Johnson Winter & Slattery is engaged by major businesses, investment funds and government agencies as legal counsel on important transactions and disputes throughout Australia and surrounding regions.
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Professor Robin Batterham
Professor Batterham AO FRENG FAA FTSE is a chemical engineer and mining engineer specialising in mineral processing, waste remediation and sustainable mining practices. Professor Batterham is the Kernot Professor of Engineering at Melbourne University and formerly the Chief Scientist of Australia, President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and Group Chief Scientist for Rio Tinto.
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Neil Evans
Neil has over 40 years’ experience in the delivery of large infrastructure projects from up front inception, design, construction and due diligence for potential acquisitions. Neil has sat on numerous Project Boards and Leadership Teams and fulfilled the role of Project Director for major projects around Australia.
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