Our Board

Cameron O’Reilly, Board Chair

Cameron is an energy and public policy expert with over 20 years’ experience in Australia’s energy markets. He was until recently an Associate Director at Marsden Jacob Associates, where he led the 2023 Electricity Supply and Reliability Check Up for the NSW Government. In the period 2018 to 2020 he was a senior energy official in the NSW Department of Planning Industry & Environment, the period in which the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap was legislated.

Cameron previously served on the boards of Aurora Energy and Mojo Power and the Advisory Board of Infradebt Pty Ltd. From 2006 to 2015 he was the Chief Executive of the Energy Retailers Association of Australia. A Fulbright Scholar and qualified company director, he currently serves on the Board of Relationships Australia NSW.

David Borger

David is the Executive Director of Business Western Sydney and a former NSW Minister for Housing, Roads and Western Sydney, as well as Assistant Minister for Transport and Roads. He has extensive experience across both the public and private sectors, with a strong track record in infrastructure delivery and policy development. He also offers deep expertise in governance developed through his service on a wide range of boards and advisory committees.

David currently serves as a Director of Think Planners, Independent Chair of the Liverpool Innovation Precinct, Non-Executive Director of the NRMA, Advisory Board Member for the Sydney Olympic Park Authority and President of the Board of Trustees at the Powerhouse.

Helen Conway

Helen is a lawyer and business leader with over 30 years’ experience spanning legal practice, as both a law firm partner and an in-house counsel, and executive and board roles across the corporate, public and not-for-profit sectors. She has worked in several industries including financial services, energy, education and social services.

Known for her deep commitment to equity, fairness and community service, Helen has held leadership positions such as Judicial Head of NSW’s Equal Opportunity Tribunal and the Director of the Federal Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

She is currently the Chair of KU Children’s Services, Australian Business Volunteers, Mary’s House Services and Chief Executive Women and a Non-executive Director of Youth Off The Streets.

Michael Cummings

Michael is a seasoned infrastructure executive with more than 34 years of international experience spanning strategic leadership, operations, investment, and governance. He has held senior executive roles in publicly listed and private companies across the energy, healthcare, and transport sectors. Most recently, Michael served as Co-Head of Infrastructure at Dexus and previously worked at AMP Capital, Brookfield, Vector (NZ) and British Gas. He is currently an Independent Specialist Advisor to NSW TCorp, and a Director of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders.

His past directorships include Endeavour Energy, Powerco (NZ), Melbourne Airport, Opal Aged Care, WA Gas Networks, Natural Gas Pipeline Limited (US). He has also chaired a range of companies, including Evergen, TasGas Networks, Cross Sound Cable (US) and IEG (UK).

Michael is a Fellow Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand.

Sharon Eacott

Sharon has over 25 years of experience as a commercial lawyer, executive and independent consultant in the energy and infrastructure sectors across Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. She has held senior roles in both the public and private sectors and brings a strong legal background, having served as a partner at a leading international commercial law firm and as General Counsel at Alinta Energy. Sharon offers significant capability in governance, probity & risk management, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, project finance and construction. Most recently, she was General Manager of Governance & Risk at AEMO Services and played a key role in the establishment of the NSW Government Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap and the Commonwealth Government Capacity Investment Scheme.

She is currently a non-executive director at Coeliac Australia. Her past board roles include Australian Data Risk Management, the Centre for Legal Innovation and the College of Law Western Australia.

Katerina Kimmorley

Katerina is the Head of Commercial & Investments at Boundless Earth and a Commissioner on the NSW Net Zero Commission. She is a recognised leader in renewable energy finance and commercial strategy, with deep expertise in accelerating investment into emerging clean technologies and infrastructure. Her career spans roles at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, QIC Global Infrastructure, and as co-founder of the social enterprise Pollinate Energy.

Katerina has been named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, the London School of Economics Entrepreneur of the Year, and a recipient of the Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize.

Daniel Papps

Daniel is an expert in employment and industrial relations law, workplace health and safety, and corporate governance. Daniel has engaged in employment negotiations in the energy sector with Ausgrid, Transgrid, Essential Energy and Endeavour Energy, and regularly appears before state and federal industrial tribunals on workplace matters.

He serves as the primary legal adviser at the United Services Union, supporting a membership of more than 30,000. He is currently a Trustee Director of Legal Super.