With a BSc Forestry from ANU, I have 30 years experience in Queensland commercial plantation and native forest management. I joined Verterra (formerly Tree Crop Technologies Pty Ltd) in 2008 as General Manager and bring a substantial body of forestry project management, business planning, policy development, risk management and environment management expertise to the company.Prior to joining Verterra, I was General Manager Hoop Pine with Forestry Plantations Queensland, and a member of the FPQ executive team. This role involved dealing with a plantation estate of 45,000 hectares with a harvest turnover of 450,000m3 per annum.As General Manger Hardwoods for Forestry Plantations Queensland between 1999 and 2005, I implemented the south-east Queensland Hardwood Plantation Program, a 10,000 hectare investment to provide an alternative resource to native forest harvesting. The success of the project was due to the development of innovative dry land plantation silvicultural strategies.Over my career I have developed an extensive knowledge of tropical, subtropical and dryland forest practice undertaking management roles in areas including Wet Tropics, Fraser Island, Central and South-east Queensland. I also have a comprehensive technical knowledge of forest management particularly commercial plantation forestry, forest policy and the legislative platform that affects forest management in Queensland. I have worked with three major Queensland energy producers to evaluate plantation based bio-fuel and carbon store projects.