Who we are

Nick Carter has 25 years of engineering and energy systems experience in Australia, Asia and North America. This includes roles such as: Senior Vice President at Macquarie Capital in the Energy Technology and Solutions team within the Green Investment Group; Business Development and Sales Engineering at Tesla Energy for large front of the meter, commercial and industrial stationary storage and Virtual Power Plants (APAC); Head of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Project Development at AGL Energy; and technical engineering roles at General Motors and Toyota for advanced powertrain control systems.

Nick was motivated to start Akaysha Energy after not only seeing gaps in the market for a fully integrated development business focused primarily on battery storage, but also seeing the opportunity created by the rapid renewable energy transition in Australia, across Asia and globally.

As CEO of Akaysha Nick leads a group of multi-domain experts and senior leaders across the 5 key pillars. In terms of the battery storage project development life cycle Nick is involved on a day-to-day basis across development, techno-economic optimisation, engineering, investment, project finance, asset management and energy trading.

Andrew Wegman brings experience from an investment banking, principal investing and engineering background. Having advised on over $25bn of announced M&A transactions while in Macquarie Capital’s advisory business, Andrew then moved into the Energy Technology & Solutions team focusing on principal investments in renewables and energy storage projects, such as the Hazelwood BESS, and other technologies such as hybrid renewables and storage, fleet electrification and EV charging infrastructure.

Andrew leads the finance & investments pillar at Akaysha focusing on business case development and optimisation, and capital solutions for the business and its projects.

Tony Fullelove has almost twenty-five years' experience in the energy industry, leading large scale and distributed renewable projects and delivering major transformational programs across the energy sector.

Tony leads the Development and Delivery team, a talented and multi-discipline group of engineers, land developers, community and environmental experts and construction managers that develop and deliver industry leading BESS and renewable energy projects both in Australia and across Asia. Tony has extensive experience doing the same for large corporates in Australia, such as AGL and Monash University (Net Zero Initiative) and across Asia with Macquarie Capital’s renewable development vehicle, Blueleaf Energy.

Paul leads our cross-business strategy for revenue contracting and entry into new energy markets and products. Prior to joining Akaysha, Paul held leadership positions in private legal practice with law firms Ashurst (as Global Head of Energy) and Baker McKenzie (as Head of Renewable Energy APAC), building on a successful 25 year legal career focused on clean energy and climate change. During this time, Paul was recognised as one of Australia's leading renewable energy lawyers and globally as a long-standing market leader in climate change and carbon markets. During his two decades in private practice, Paul has been a driving force behind giga-watts of market-first greenfield renewable energy and M&A transactions across solar, wind, pumped hydro, energy from waste, and battery storage at both the utility scale and distributed generation. In addition, Paul has been – and continues to be - a long-standing policy voice for the clean energy sector as the energy transition accelerates toward net zero.

Feri Hamori brings over 20 years of experience in Engineering, Energy Systems, Asset Management and business Operations having worked at General Motors, Caterpillar, and Australian Remanufacturing. Throughout his career, Feri has lead both small and larger teams and businesses to successfully meet performance objectives by creating and optimising processes and policies with a relentless focus on daily business and administrative operations.

Feri is leading the General Operations, Technical Market Operations and Asset Management pillar at Akaysha and is ultimately responsible for Operations and BESS assets as well as reporting and contracting (including O&M and trading).

Pan has over sixteen years of experience as a consultant and a project manager and has a broad practical and academic experience. This experience spans electricity, gas and energy markets, project management, project development and civil engineering construction.

Pan has conducted multiple modelling, statistical and qualitative studies of electricity markets in Australia and internationally for the exploration of market design changes, the evaluation of proposed reforms and the impact of different policies, the reliability of power systems, the forecast of large and small-scale renewable generation and storage systems, the cost-benefit analysis of regulated transmission assets, the projection of future energy prices, the forecasting of power generation and revenue for market due diligence projects and the assessment of PPA offers.

Nick Finch has almost ten years’ engineering experience in the power generation and energy industry. Working in Development, Construction, Asset Management and Operations & Maintenance across a broad range of generation technologies, Nick brings a uniquely comprehensive electrical skillset to the Akaysha team.

Prior to joining Akaysha, Nick led ENGIE Australia’s NEM Grid Connections and Electrical Asset Development, including the Hazelwood BESS project. Now as Akaysha’s Head of Grid Connections and Electrical Engineering, Nick applies his practical Asset Management background and deep understanding of traditional synchronous power station operation into the modern era of inverter based renewables and BESS development.