Andrew Neilson

Current

Group General Manager - Commercial at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
Member, Board of Advisors at Climate Alliance Limited

Past

Legal & Commercial Manager, Company Secretary at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
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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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

Group General Manager - Commercial

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited

(Public Company; Renewables & Environment industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is commercialising fuel cell products to deliver clean power to homes, in Europe, Japan and Australia. 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).

Member of the Executive Management Team, responsible for CFCL's commercial, legal, investor & public relations, corporate governance and company secretarial functions.
Member, Board of Advisors

Climate Alliance Limited

(Renewables & Environment industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Climate Alliance 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

(Renewables & Environment industry)

July 2004 — July 2009 (5 years 1 month)
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.