Andrew Neilson

Current

Member, Advisory Board at Carbon Action Group Limited
Legal & Commercial Manager, Company Secretary at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited

Past

Board member, Secretary at Sustainable Living Foundation
Legal Counsel / Commercial Manager at Computer Sciences Corporation
Lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron

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Education

Australian Institute of Company Directors
University of Melbourne

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Connections

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Industry

Renewables & Environment

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Andrew Neilson’s Summary

Experienced commercial & legal executive, passionate about cleantech.

Andrew Neilson’s Specialties:

Cleantech commercialisation, strategy, IP commercialisation, general corporate management. Fundraising, capital markets, Investor & Public Relations, corporate governance, company secretarial.

Andrew Neilson’s Experience

Member, Advisory Board

Carbon Action Group Limited

(Renewables & Environment industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Carbon Action Group Limited is a not for profit, membership based company that helps the leaders of Australian businesses respond positively to climate change.
Legal & Commercial Manager, Company Secretary

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CFU; Renewables & Environment industry)

July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is commercialising fuel cell products to deliver clean power to homes. CFCL is developing micro combined heat and power units with leading energy companies and appliance manufacturers in Europe and Japan. In July 2004 CFCL listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. In 2006 CFCL raised A$90M and listed on the London AIM market (code CFU).

Legal and Commercial Manager, Investor and Public Relations, Company Secretary, member of the Executive Management Team. Responsible for CFCL's legal, commercial, investor relations, corporate governance and company secretarial functions.
Board member, Secretary

Sustainable Living Foundation

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Legal Counsel / Commercial Manager

Computer Sciences Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1998 — July 2004 (5 years 11 months)

Asia Pacific Legal Counsel for Policy Management Systems Corp, a US Financial Services software business, from 1998 to 2001. IP / IT contracting plus general corporate counsel. Similar role after CSC bought PMSC, before moving into a commercial management role on the global IT outsourcing account for BHP-Billiton.
Lawyer

Blake Dawson Waldron

(Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

March 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 7 months)

Commercial litigation, general corporate law.