Why I do this work.

I started my energy career by travelling to Vanuatu to install solar power systems in remote communities. That trip taught me something I've carried through everything since: the point of energy is never the energy itself. It's what it makes possible for people.

Over the past two decades, I've worked across almost every part of the energy sector - wind farm development with Garrad Hassan and Acciona, energy policy for the South Australian Government, international clean energy programs across Southeast Asia and the Pacific as Regional Director for REEEP, and most recently, energy storage technology with Enernet Global and EnerVenue in the US. I've done the work at every level, from installing systems in the field to advising governments on policy to representing Australia at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

What I kept seeing, across all of it, was the same gap. Businesses that had made smart individual decisions - good equipment, sound investments - but no one had ever helped them see the whole picture. No staged strategy. No view of where the journey was actually heading.

I started NECTO because I wanted to be that person. Not selling a product. Not tied to a vendor. Just genuinely excited about helping manufacturers figure out what their energy needs are, where they want to go and what strategy it will take to get there.

That's what I get to do now. And I love it.