Industry Advisory Committee

Jens Jakobsson

Jens Jakobsson

Copenhagen, Denmark

Energy Infrastructure and Offshore Wind

Extensive experience in Energy infrastructure; Offshore wind farms, power distribution, power transmission, gas distribution and oil & gas process facilities.

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Neill Bell

Neill Bell

SA, Australia

Onshore and Offshore Wind

Recently arrived in Australia, Neill is a High Voltage Engineer with a 30 year career in the UK and European Energy Sector. With assignments across Construction, Commissioning, Operations & Management of High Voltage (HV) & Low Voltage (LV) electricity networks, his most recent focus has been offshore wind projects.

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Dr Robin Podmore

Dr Robin Podmore

Seattle, USA

CEO IncSys PowerGrid Simulation

Robin is the CEO of Incremental Systems Corporation (IncSys), the North American partner to Thomson Bridge specialising in cloud based simulation software for power grid training and analysis.

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Terry Foxcroft

Terry Foxcroft

NSW, Australia

Power Systems Protection Engineer

Terry consults to the power industry specialising in protection systems. A centre piece of his career is 31 years at Snowy Hydro, with his final role being responsible for all control, protection, excitation and governor systems across diesel, gas, hydro, transmission and distribution assets. 

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Ken Wyper

Ken Wyper

NSW, Australia

Substations and Transmission

Ken spent four decades with the transmission network, TransGrid NSW, as Senior Asset Monitoring Engineer, Substation Systems Support Engineer and Technical Training Manager.

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Roger Yelland

Roger Yelland

VIC, Australia

LLB, B.Juris

Roger provides legal and strategic advice to Thomson Bridge. His legal practice specialises in the provision of legal and strategic advice to small and medium sized enterprises in respect to expansion and divestment initiatives.

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Jason-Sullivan

Jason Sullivan

QLD, Australia

Electrical Transmission Training, Assessment and Audit (Live Line)

Jason has 37 years in the electrical transmission and distribution powerline industry including both construction and maintenance. His roles have been mainly as a Team Leader and Supervisor coordinating Live Line work teams, equipment and major plant for major construction and maintenance projects.

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