Meet OUR TEAM

Chairman

John Fletcher

On his appointment as Chairman of Green Distillation Technologies John found an experienced and entrepreneurial executive team in place, most of whom had been at the company since March 2009.

John has a distinguished business career. During his eight years from 1993 to 2001 as CEO of Brambles industries, an international business-to-business industrial services company with over 40,000 employees operating in more than 30 countries worldwide. He led a team that achieved a 41% average annual growth in total shareholder returns. (TSR)

In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Coles Myer, when it was Australia’s largest private employer with 165,000 people. Over a six year period the business delivered an average annual growth in TSR of 31%. In 2007 the Coles Group was acquired by Wesfarmers for $20 billion.

In 2008 John Fletcher co-invested with Lazards in purchasing the national car care chain MIDAS Australia, which was sold to Metcash in June 2014. He was also a non-executive director of Telstra for six years from 2000 to 2006.

John is a Fellow of CPA Australia.

Chief Operating Officer

Trevor Bayley

Trevor holds a Commercial Pilots Licence, but says he only flies for fun and when he has time flies himself the three and a half hours from Melbourne to Warren to ‘keep his hours up.”

Trevor worked in the aviation industry in the UK and Australia from 1968 to 1984 on the air freight side with such airlines as Air France, TAA, UTA and Cathay where he was assistant airport manager and cargo sales manager.

A passion for cricket took him to Japan in the 1990s where he published a bi-lingual cricket magazine (Japanese/English), was the founder and executive of the Japan Cricket Association, a promoter of cricket competitions in Japan and managed the Japanese National Team on 3 International tours.

Trevor established Japsco Japan in 1992 to develop and support commercial relationships, projects and alliances between Japanese entities in China, Thailand and Korea. He generated sales between Japanese engineering companies and Western customers, principally in the automotive Industry. Trevor was the Project Manager on two major General Motors projects which generated sales of A$240 million.

He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Leicester (UK).

Chief Financial Officer

Howard Abbey

Howard began his career as an engineer, having graduated from the University of London with a Masters degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. His early career was with the BOC Group in the UK where he focused on lean manufacturing and business transformation projects. This led to an interest in the financial processes of the business and he undertook further education to become qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

While with BOC, Howard successfully completed business improvement projects in South Korea, the Czech Republic, the USA and the Netherlands as well as the UK. He later joined the privately owned ECCO Shoes company based in China and successfully led the startup and growth of a manufacturing plant and global shared services centre.

Howard moved to Australia in 2012 and has led both privately owned and ASX listed businesses in the role of CFO, including the successful turnaround of Funtastic Limited and its transition into Toys “R” Us.

Since moving to Australia, Howard has become a member of CPA Australia and has graduated with the Australian Institute of Company Directors.