Dario Amara is an engineer with extensive business experience gained over 29 years in the Australian and international markets and across the resources and infrastructure sectors.

Prior to co-founding Emerson Stewart in 2005 and for over 16 years, he occupied senior executive roles with major construction and engineering groups. Dario successfully led GRD Minproc as managing director/chief executive and John Holland Asia as chief executive officer. Dario has a record of achievement in establishing, growing and rejuvenating businesses and strategic leadership.

He is currently a non-executive director of Austal and non-executive chairman of Mission New Energy (both ASX listed) and a board member of the Perth International Arts Festival.

Dario has also served as chairman of the West Australian Opera Company and the Art
Gallery of Western Australia.

Datuk Zain has over 25 years experience in Shell Malaysia. From 1986 to 1988, he was seconded to Shell International, United Kingdom and worked as Marketing Consultant in Shell UK aand Shell Caribbean. Upon his return to Malaysia, he was made Marketing Director of Shell Malaysia. He subsequently served on the board of Directors of Shell Group Malaysia as Executive Director, with responsibility over a total of 18 group subsidiaries involved in both the upstream and downstream petrochemical business.

Datuk Zain is currently chairman of the Malaysian Australia Business Council and serves as a director of Airod Sdn Bhd , NADI Bhd, Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd, Faber Group Bhd, PJ Bumi Bhd and as chairman of Confoil (Malaysia) Bhd, a Malaysian - Australian joint venture company in Malaysia.

Mr Mahalingam has over 25 years of management experience in banking and finance, heavy industries and infrastructure development. He has successfully implemented numerous start-up manufacturing operations in Malaysia during his tenure of service with a large Malaysian conglomerate. Between 1995 and 2000, he served as project director in the Westport Group, developers of one of Malaysia's largest privatised port and transhipment facility.

Nathan is currently a resident of Malaysia and has gained extensive project advisory, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions experience while running his own boutique corporate advisory practice between 2000 and 2004.

Mr Burnett, a Chartered Accountant, has had an impressive career as a Finance Professional in several large corporations.

He first started work as a CA trainee and Audit manager in 1989 after completing a Bachelor of Commerce-Accounting degree at the University of Natal in South Africa. In mid 1996, Mr Burnett joined Umgeni Water, a large corporatized water utility in South Africa, as its Financial Accountant. He was promoted to the position of Financial Controller in mid 1999. He left Umgeni in 2004 to migrate to Western Australia with his family.

Prior to joining the Company Mr Burnett was Manager: Corporate Accounting & Tax with Western Power where he had 27 direct and indirect reports. Prior to this Guy worked as Acting Financial Accountant for Water Corporation on a one year contract and served as a Manager with KPMG for 15 months where he played a key role in assisting KPMG’s clients in rolling out their IFRS accounting implementations.

Tan Sri Anwar made history in April 2005 when he became the first naval chief in the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) to ascend to its highest military office – the Chief of Defence Force, commanding a strength of nearly 100,000. With nearly 40 years of military experience with the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) and MAF, he has acquired a massive portfolio of achievements.

His outstanding performance extends to the academic arena as well inclusive of stints at the Naval Staff College (Rhode Island, USA), Navigation and Direction Course and Principal Warfare Officers’ Course (HMS DRYAD, United Kingdom). He also holds a Master of Science in Engineering Business Management from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Tan Sri Anwar has received numerous commendations, awards and accolades in recognition of his talents, and was bestowed the Panglima Mangku Negara (PMN), which carries the title of “Tan Sri”, by His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong (the King of Malaysia). He has also received distinguished medals from foreign governments such as the Ordre National De La Legion D’Honneur from France and the Command of the Legion of Merit from the US.

Amongst the varied positions he holds in the corporate sector, Tan Sri Anwar is also a Corporate Advisor to Sime Darby Bhd, the largest plantation company in the world. He also chairs the board of the Armed Forces Fund Board (LTAT), a multi billion dollar fund with investments in banking, plantations, petrol retail and hotels.

Mr Bhatnagar first joined the company as Chairman of our Indian subsidiary, Mission Biofuels India Pvt Ltd in June 2008. Mr. Bhatnagar is currently the chairman of the Government of India owned television and radio broadcaster, Prasar Bharti (likened to the BBC of India).

Prior to this, he was the Secretary of the National Advisory Council, a body tasked with the implementation of the National Common Minimum Program and to provide inputs in the formation of policy and support to the government in its legislative business.

During his long tenure with the government since 1966, Mr Bhatnagar has served as head or in senior positions in various ministries, amongst others the Ministries of Rural Development, Energy, Irrigation and Personnel. He also served as Minister (Economics) in the Indian High Commission in UK.