Bettina is an experienced registered Architect, with the previous 10 years at Breathe Architects, most recently as Director of Interiors. Her portfolio boasts acclaimed

and award-winning projects spanning diverse sectors across residential, commercial workplace, hospitality and hotels.

Alongside project leadership, Bettina co-leads our Fieldstudies committee, with the goal of continually refining and researching materials and construction techniques that are sustainable and enduring, as well as high quality and aesthetically pleasing.

Bettina is a calm and intentional leader, driven by project excellence and creating meaningful impact through collaboration and the engagement of diverse voices.

Barnaby is a Registered Architect and Associate Director at COX with experience in a range of sectors, including health, education, sports, commercial, residential, hospitality and justice projects for both public and private clients. Barnaby is a storyteller with an abiding passion for designing for people and place.

As an experienced design leader, Barnaby guides projects from concept through to completion. He excels in leading large teams, coordinating projects, and managing stakeholder engagement, always ensuring clear communication and strong client relationships. Known for his articulate, personable approach, Barnaby is an efficient and effective project leader.

Currently, Barnaby is leading the design of the New Shellharbour Hospital in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. Other notable projects he’s been involved in include the Eastern Creek Speedway and the Rydalmere Vertical School Masterplan.

Caroline Pidcock is a leading Australian architect, advocate, and changemaker working at the intersection of design, climate action, and regenerative futures. Founder and Director of PIDCOCK, she brings decades of experience in sustainable and visionary practice. Deeply inspired by the lands, waters and skies she has lived and worked within, Caroline is committed to architecture that restores and regenerates people, place, and planet. She brings her design and systems thinking to the fore in a range of environments to identify patterns, connect the dots and collaboratively develop the potential of the situation.

Kerry is the founder of NorthStar Impact and is responsible for overseeing the portfolio management and research into impact stocks. Kerry has advised or invested in equities since 1992, and his investment experience includes several senior roles. In 1999 he co-founded Perennial Investment Partners, which achieved strong investment performance and reached $20 billion in assets under management within eight years. The equity funds managed by Kerry at Perennial were consistently highly ranked.

He was Head of Asia Pacific Equities at AMP capital where he was responsible for three investment teams that managed approximately $5 billion of assets. Kerry also spent time in Hong Kong where he was an Investment Director for HSBC Asset Management.

Kerry is a major shareholder of Northstar Impact. He has a Bachelor of Science (Economics) from Birkbeck College, University of London; is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA); and holds a UK Securities Industry Diploma. In 2018, he completed the Impact Measurement program at Oxford University.

Jillian is a Partner and Head of Sustainable Investment for Mercer’s Investment Management team in the Pacific. She has more than 25 years’ experience in investment consulting and investment management, more than 20 of those at Mercer, in sustainability focused roles since 2011.

In her consulting time, including four years in London, Jillian advised institutional investors – super funds and endowments – on how to integrate a range of sustainable investment topics, particularly climate change, into investment decisions. She co-authored Mercer’s 2015 Investing in a Time of Climate Change report, ‘The Sequel’ in 2019, and in 2020 contributed to the Analytics for Climate Transition (ACT) tool and net zero target setting advice framework. In 2022, she co-authored the IGCC Regenerate and Restore: A circular economy discussion paper for investors.

In recent years Jillian was primarily supporting Mercer’s Chief Investment Officers in multiple regions, which aided the move into the investment management team. Her focus has also transitioned to systemic connections between climate change, nature and multiple social topics, seeing circular economy approaches as a solution. In 2025 she has co-authored a new report and two practitioner guides for investors and lenders, a partnership between Mercer and Circular Australia.  

Jillian holds a Master of Arts in Development Studies from the University of New South Wales; a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education, both from the University of Newcastle; and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Jonathan is a global citizen, having held senior executive and board roles across Asia and Europe in real estate, venture capital, technology, and infrastructure-related investments.

In 2015, Jonathan jointly founded Taronga Group, a leading technology and innovation investor focused on the Real Asset sector and the wider built environment. His vision is to bridge the gap between real asset institutions and corporates and the emerging technology companies that are now targeting the Real Asset sector. Through Taronga Group, Jonathan’s focus is on real asset technology (RealTech) investments that drive real and measurable impact.

Jonas co-founded Edge Impact in 2008, leading it as CEO until 2024 through growth across Australia, New Zealand, Chile and the US. He’s currently a Steering Committee Member of UNEP’s Life Cycle Initiative, Vice Chair of EPD Australasia, and a past President of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society.

His work sits at the intersection of circular economy, embodied carbon, and product transparency, through technical advisory roles with green building councils, infrastructure bodies, and standards committees across the region. He’s advised on EPD programmes, Circular Economy and LCA methodologies, and low-carbon material specifications, and currently an advisor for Rebuilt, a climate tech company making embodied carbon data more accessible.

Jonas is focused on making circular economy frameworks practical, not performative, ensuring materials decisions are grounded in evidence, and that life cycle thinking drives commercial outcomes.

Jordan is an experienced Interior Designer committed to creating meaningful environments underpinned by unique experiences and excellence in design.

Over the last decade, her portfolio boasts commercial and adaptive reuse workplace projects set across Australia. She is highly skilled in collaborating closely with clients and key stakeholders at each stage of a project and has a demonstrated ability to adapt strategic briefs and guidelines to create design-led, brand defined outcomes for the organizations she works with.

Jordan was the Project Lead for M&C Saatchi’s Sydney workplace design. A project which leans into circular design thinking to transform heritage building stock to meet the requirements of a modern workplace. Her work for M&C Saatchi recently earned global industry recognition when it was named as the winner of the Large Workplace category at World Architecture Festival Interiors in 2023.

Alongside her role as Project Lead, Jordan chairs Wood’s Bagot’s (W-B) Regional Interior Design Leadership Stream and has been actively involved in establishing W-B’s REFLECT Reconciliation Action Plan and Graduate Program.

Dr. Kar Mei Tang is Regional Head, Oceania and Asia (ex-China and Japan) for the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the world’s leading international network of investors supporting responsible investment with over 5,000 signatories managing over US$121tr in assets. She has previously held senior executive roles in public policy in environmental, circular economy and economic portfolios, as well as with the peak body for private equity and venture capital. She currently also sits on various boards and committees with a focus on sustainability, and equity and inclusion.

Katie is the Embodied Carbon Lead at NABERS. Her team developed the embodied carbon rating tool that measures embodied carbon in new buildings and partial rebuilds in Australia. A core aspect of this work is collaborating with people across the building industry, to ensure we have a tool that’s trusted, meaningful, and drives behaviour change to reduce emissions.

Lisa McLean is a circular economy and zero-carbon business transformation leader and Managing Director, CEO of Circular Australia, a national independent NFP leading the transition to a zero-carbon circular economy in Australia.

She has been successfully advising industry and governments in developing new policy frameworks and regulations that bring about market change to enable the circular zero-carbon economy over the past 20 years. This work has covered the supply chains, infrastructure, energy, water, waste and mobility sectors in the UK and Australia.

Philip Graham founded CleanPeak Energy in 2017 with Jon Hare. CleanPeak has raised over $400m and developed around 100MW of Solar, contracted 20 MWh of battery sites and owns 40 MW of thermal plant. CleanPeak has become a licensed retailer and operates Embedded Networks, operating energy infrastructure that serves more than 1,000,000 sqm of commercial buildings – including the Barangaroo, Central Park and Sydney Airport Precincts in NSW and the Tonsley Innovation District in Adelaide.

Prior to CleanPeak, Philip spent more than 20 years as an Investment Banker in Sydney, New York and Asia. In his career as a Banker, he completed over $50billion of financing and M&A transactions and worked with some of the largest companies participating in the Energy, Power, Mining and Infrastructure sectors. Before retiring from Banking, Philip was a member of Citi’s Investment Banking Operating Committee for the Asia Pacific Region.

Philip is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, holds an Economics degree from Sydney University, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Shane Hodgkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Matrak, a construction technology company transforming how materials, suppliers, and contractors collaborate across global supply chains. He and his brother Brett founded Matrak after first-hand frustrations in their family’s façade installation business revealed just how difficult it was to track and coordinate materials across complex projects. What began as a solution to a single industry pain point has grown into a platform that streamlines progress visibility, carbon accountability, and supply chain transparency for builders around the world.

Today, Matrak is used on almost 20% of major projects in both Australia and Hong Kong, having coordinated over $15 billion of building materials to date. Under Shane’s leadership, Matrak has become a critical enabler for timely, cost-effective, and sustainable construction delivery, helping the industry adapt to new challenges and seize the opportunities of digital transformation.

Trained as an Architect and researcher, Stewart is an Environmental Designer at Atelier Ten focused on masterplans and multi-disciplinary projects. He has a varied history across design, construction, and research in the built environment both locally and internationally. His expertise is in ecological urbanism and resilience which combines local aspirations with global responsibility. 

Stewart is a member of the Circular Australia Precincts & Infrastructure Taskforce and the Green Building Council of Australia’s Nature & Biodiversity Expert Reference Panel. He has taught in the Master of Architecture course at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Sydney, and published multiple articles internationally focused on resilience in the Australian context. 

In 2019 he was awarded a Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship from the NSW Architects Registration Board for a research project titled Renaturing for Resilience.