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WA SEA Staff Chief Executive Officer - Prof Ray Wills Accounts Officer - Agnes Karundeng Administration Officer - Catie Murray Advisory Services Manager - Neil Prentice Business Manager - Michael Woodhams Membership and Events Manager - Lisa Murray Webmaster - Jodi Mansell-Fletcher
Chief Executive: Prof Ray Wills  Prof Ray Wills has had a wide-ranging career at different times as researcher, planner, adviser, manager and academic. Ray has substantial expertise in ecology, sustainability, climate change science and the effects of expected future climates on Australia, and is recognised by business, government and community leaders in WA as an authoritative commentator on policy and functional responses to mitigate and adapt to global warming. As well as his role as Chief Executive, Ray is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia, and contributing to the academic program and lecturing on the science, economics and politics of environmental change. Ray also is Principal of the consultancy Future Smart Strategies - a WA SEA member business! Ray is a member of a number of senior policy groups including the Federal Government's Department of Resources, Energy & Tourism Energy Efficiency Skills Committee, the Board of the Stirling Alliance, a Board Member of Earth Science Western Australia.. Further, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy and member of the WA Branch Committee. Previously he has had roles including Deputy Chair of the WA Land Information System's (WALIS) Advisory Committee, and a member of the WA Government's High Level Stakeholder Group on Greenhouse. Prof Wills also made substantial contributions to the work of the Ecological Society of Australia (ESA), a professional, member based peak body for Australian ecologists where he was a member of the ESA Council for 13 years, including a considerable period as a senior member of the ESA Executive with his final role as Vice President of the ESA for four years, retiring from this position and from council at the end of 2003 - he remains a member of the Society. In 2000, he was elected to a lead role in the International Society for the Study of Mediterranean Ecosystems (ISOMED) as a Board Member, a post held until June 2004. Accounts Officer: Agnes Karundeng  Agnes is helping WA SEA manage our finances, ensuring the accuracy of our records focusing on accounts receivable (data entry and using MYOB), customer queries, end of month statements, company credit card reconciliation, bank reconciliations Agnes has a Master of Commerce, Macquarie University, (2000)
a Grad. Dip. in Accounting from Monash University, (1997)and a Bachelor of Business, Trisakti University (Jakarta) (1995)  Administration Officer: Cate Murray Cate Murray joins WA SEA on a three month appointment as Administration Officer with WA SEA. Cate has a background in hospitality and tourism and has worked in diverse workplace and office environments providing professional administrative support to businesses including to Directors and senior staff, undertaking bookkeeping, records management, and ensuring the smooth operation of the offices she has worked in. Cate will work to support the operations of the WA SEA office, improve contact with members, maintaining membership records and assisting with networking events, seminars, industry workshops and other activities for members. Over the past five years Cate has been office manager, for two years with Surfing Western Australia Inc., then for the last three years with architectural firm Planning Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd. Cate's earlier positions included work as Receptionist and Accounts for Ford and Doonan Air Conditioning, and earlier as an Administration Assistant with Monitored Alarms. Advisory Services Manager: Neil Prentice  Neil has broad experience in commercial environments in research, production, consulting, sales and marketing in operational business environments. Work has included management and negotiation of commercial deals involving Intellectual Property and technology transfer, delivering client work to all sizes of organisations, from start-up to established multi-national organisations. Neil's most recent previous role was as Project Manager Commercialisation with The University of Western Australia. Previous work has included senior roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. Neil's career started as Group Chemist for Klen International Pty Ltd. Neil's primary role with WA SEA is to meet WA SEA's contractual relationships with the national Enterprise Connect Clean Energy Innovation Centre (CEIC), delivering advisory services to deliver hands-on assistance to small and medium enterprises operating in the clean energy sector. Business Manager: Michael Woodhams  Michael holds a Bachelor of Business in Tourism Management from Edith Cowan University that includes strategic marketing, management, professional communication and minor units in French. He began his career in the tourism industry before moving into commercial media and then politics.
Michael has worked for Premier Colin Barnett for several years, first as Executive Officer when Mr Barnett was Leader of the Opposition and then as Research Officer in the Member's electorate office. His responsibilities over this time involved office and website management, staffing, special research projects, preparing newsletters and meeting with constituents.
Prior to this, Michael was a staffer to former Court Government Minister, Hon Kevin Prince with responsibility for media and constituent issues in the Minister's electorate.
Michael's role at WA SEA is to manage the operational functions of the association and provide support to the CEO. Membership & Events Manager: Lisa Murray  Lisa has a BA Commerce in Marketing Management and Industrial Relations, and a background of working for different not-for-profit bodies in the hospitality industry with over nine years experience in both membership and events. Lisa is helping WA SEA grow membership and is developing services to increase value to existing members, Lisa is also be running the usual array of WA SEA events as well as bringing on new events of various scales. Lisa is Managing WA SEA's Energising WA conference - Western Australia's premier conference on sustainable energy, and a range of events promoting sustainable energy in business.
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