Team Member Archive - GreenCollar

Mark Adams

GreenCollar — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:18:21 +0000

Mark is an experienced environmental practitioner with in depth experience in leading environmental agencies and consultancies and has successfully delivered landscape scale projects for diverse clients and stakeholders. Mark has worked across the mining, energy, infrastructure, government, and conservation sectors as an ecologist and project manager. His expertise includes land management planning, biodiversity assessment, offsetting, environmental law and policy, ecological research, and impact assessment. Passionate about empowering landowners and professionals to achieve conservation outcomes and advancing their skills and confidence to achieve lasting results.

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Juanita Hamparsum

Glen Mcallister — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:32:21 +0000

Juanita is an experienced non-executive director in the agribusiness, biotech and natural resource and sustainability sectors. Juanita has an extensive background in finance and accounting working with Ernst & Young in Sydney and Goldman Sachs in London. Juanita’s previous roles include the deputy Chair of the National Landcare Advisory Committee, Chair of the Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee and deputy chair of the Namoi Catchment Management Authority. Juanita has strong commercial experience as a business owner and operator of a large primary production farm in northern NSW where she has implemented natural biodiversity projects, energy use efficiency schemes and regenerative agricultural practices enhancing soil biodiversity and sustainable land management practices. Juanita serves on the board as a non-executive director and chair of the Risk and Audit Committee’s of GreenCollar, MH Premium Farms, End Food Waste Australia, Namoi Cotton Limited and Cotton Seed Distributors. Juanita has a Bachelor of Business, is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the AICD and Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust.

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Louise Nott

GreenCollar — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:57:03 +0000

Louise is a Head of Portfolio within GreenCollar’s Operational Division and has 10+ years’ experience in delivering environmental markets projects. Completing a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours she strongly values the importance of scientific rigour when implementing projects and has an interest in ensuring the success, integrity and robustness of GreenCollar’s projects. She has previously lead GreenCollar’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification program and is committed to ensuring that projects deliver genuine, measurable and positive outcomes. When not at work, Louise is an avid underwater photographer who aims to showcase the diverse marine ecosystems that surround Australia’s coastlines. She hopes that her images inspire people to both jump into the ocean, and to take steps to protect it.

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Sebastien Blavier

GreenCollar — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:54:46 +0000

Seb is General Manager – Operations at GreenCollar. His focus is on building and leading the teams focused on delivering successful project outcomes for the Domestic Carbon program. He also leads one of GreenCollar’s project portfolios.

Seb brings a passion for impact combined with 15+ years of experience as a climate-tech entrepreneur and program leader. Prior to joining GreenCollar, Seb was the Co-founder and Managing Director of OpenSC, a Boston Consulting Group and WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) backed tech venture with a mission to incentivise low-carbon and sustainable food production at source.
Seb’s track record combines complex operations scaling, global team leadership, commercialisation, digital product development and implementation.
Seb holds an MSc in Management and Business Strategy from KEDGE Business School.

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Bjorn Everts

GreenCollar — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:31:33 +0000

Bjorn is the Head of Nature Finance at GreenCollar. He is deeply passionate about unlocking long-term private sector finance for nature. His role focuses on developing and scaling a suite of innovative environmental market solutions — including NaturePlus®, a rigorous and science-based biodiversity credit scheme, as well as emerging markets for water quality, plastic reduction, and areas of overlap with carbon. Prior to his role at GreenCollar, he was the Head of Carbon Solutions at Tasman Environmental Markets, which services clients such as Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Lend Lease, and Rio Tinto. He has also served as the Manager of Stakeholder Relations for the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation, a $2 billion fund set up to assist Indigenous people with the acquisition and management of land for economic, environmental, and cultural impact. Before that, Bjorn spent five years as the CEO of the Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, a multi-award-winning not-for-profit supporting Indigenous-led conservation and carbon abatement across northern Australia. He is committed to accelerating the transition to a decarbonised economy and a more environmentally and socially just society.

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Cathy Waters

GreenCollar — Mon, 06 May 2024 03:18:47 +0000

As Head of Science, Cathy Waters is responsible for developing new research areas to grow business opportunities and support ongoing confidence in environmental and socio-economic outcomes from project activities. Cathy has a long history of working in Australian rangelands as a field-based ecologist primarily with NSW Department of Primary Industries but also undertaking international collaborative research in the United States and South Africa.
In her most recent role at NSW DPI she led the Climate Research program which has led to a deep appreciation of the science-policy interface and the opportunities for land managers participating in environmental markets. Cathy also brings experience from ecological applications in forestry and more broadly agricultural systems to the GreenCollar team working across plant and livestock genetics, restoration ecology, soil carbon and grazing management. She is passionate about the benefits from sustainable land management and the new opportunities that are emerging for environmental stewardship to be valued.

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Brendan Foran

GreenCollar — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:52:40 +0000

Brendan Foran is an experienced Director and Executive known for his pioneering leadership in the natural resource and environment sector.

Brendan was the CEO of Greening Australia for 11 years where he led an organisation-wide governance and strategy reform program that enabled greater levels of impact, efficiency and resilience.

He was also the inaugural Chair of the Australian Land Conversation Alliance (ALCA), the peak national body representing organisations that work to conserve, manage and restore nature on privately managed land.

Brendan’s other executive and director roles include Corporate Affairs Manager Eastern States for Alcoa of Australia, Founding Chair of SeedX and Canopy- Nature Based Solutions, Founding Director of NatureCo, and Non- executive Director of North-East Water and the Gordon Institute of TAFE.

Brendan currently sits on the Boards of Green Collar, Australia’s largest environmental markets investor and project developer, AustraHort, a major Australian seed supplier where he also serves as Chair, and the North East Catchment Management Authority. He also provides strategic advice and coaching to Boards and Executives working in and across the environment sector.

Brendan holds an MBA and an Advanced Diploma in Business Management, was a 2011 Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange participant in Iceland and a 2016 Harvard Club of Australia non-profit fellow.

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Hudson Hood Withey

GreenCollar — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:52:01 +0000

Hudson is a Project Partnerships Specialist located in our Sydney office, where he works across GreenCollar’s carbon portfolio. Originally from Queensland, growing up he split his time between Toowoomba and the family farm in the state’s Traprock region. When he wasn’t helping his dad muster goats and repair fencelines Hudson spent his school holidays and weekends wandering along creekbeds and climbing rocky outcrops with his siblings, through this exploration of the land he developed a deep appreciation for Australian landscapes and habitats. Hudson studied a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) at QUT, which coupled with his firsthand understanding of the challenges Australian pastoralists face on a daily basis makes him uniquely qualified to work directly with GreenCollar’s landholders to develop projects. Hudson is motivated to apply his knowledge and experience toward delivering projects that provide beneficial outcomes for both the environment and the businesses of our landholders. In his spare time, Hudson enjoys playing tennis socially, cycling (usually to and from the beach), and watching any and all sport.

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Ellen Cox

GreenCollar — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:36:19 +0000

Ellen is a Project Partnerships Manager based in the Cairns office, and is the main point of contact for landholders running Reef and Carbon projects throughout North Queensland.

Having grown up in Mackay helping on her family’s small beef cattle property, Ellen has a real world understanding of life on the farm and in a small business. Her diverse professional skillset means she can communicate some of the more complex systems and processes to landholders in real world terms, and work with farmers looking to diversify and prosper with innovative, tangible new ways to value the environment through improved land management in North Queensland.

She is passionate about helping to shape vibrant, healthy and equitable regional communities, in balance with the natural environment.

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Kate Byrne

GreenCollar — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:26:59 +0000

kate.byrne@greencollar.com.au

As a member of the Business Development team, Kate works closely with pastoralists and land managers to identify carbon project opportunities. She believes that environmental markets can achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for land managers, the environment and local communities and sees regenerative agriculture as a way to protect resources and secure our food future.

Kate has a strong commercial background. She holds a Masters of Business Management and this, together with a longstanding personal passion for the Australian environment and food production systems, enables her to bring an enthusiastic and pragmatic approach to facilitating projects. Her thirst for knowledge and a desire to truly understand what is important for each unique carbon project stakeholder drives Kate to build strong working relationships and deliver quality outcomes.

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