A leader in the offset industry, Alan has been the Managing Director of earthtrade since its inception in 2007. Alan supports clients with a strategic approach to biodiversity offsets, aligning future growth projects and corporate strategy with a solution enabling projects to proceed with regulatory and budgetary certainty.Over the last decade, Alan has secured the two (2) largest Koala Offsets in South East Queensland, as part of the overall seventy-three (73) biodiversity offset projects secured by earthtrade. Alan has supported a plethora of community infrastructure projects in South East Queensland, the Australian Coal Industry & associated infrastructure developments in Central Queensland, mineral development projects in North Queensland, as well as residential & commercial developments in various locations across Australia.Alan has had extensive experience assisting clients with the policy, legal, financial and operational aspects of over seventy-three (73) biodiversity offset projects (equating to over AUD$75M in value) to the corporate, government and rural sectors. He also has strong links with landholders in the agricultural, resources, and development sectors, and Indigenous landowners.Alan is an active member of a number of industry groups and regularly speaks at conferences and events held by industry associations, law firms and academia both in Australia and internationally. Alan is an active Advisor for the Business & Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP) Advisory Group, a member of Queensland Environmental Law Association, The Environmental Institute of Australia & New Zealand, and has been an executive member of a regional landcare group, a not for profit association, for the last fifteen (15) years.