Waste to Power Australia
About Us
About Us
Executive Management
Executive Management
The Waste to Power Australia executive team has vast experience across emerging technologies, global implementation, infrastructure projects, and environmental solutions.
Kenoll Wilson
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Kenoll studied Electronic Engineering via a BSc scholarship sponsored by Texas Instruments at Bedford College (Bedford). Subsequently, he studied Business Administration and Management at Abingdon College (Oxford) on a Royal Airforce sponsored Scholarship. He obtained a Graduate Certificate in British Social and Economic History from the University of Oxford, and a Graduate Diploma in Universal Law, Natural Science & Philosophy from the University of Science and Philosophy (Waynesboro Virginia).
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Kenoll brings over 30 years of management experience at the senior executive level, obtained via companies such as Texas Instruments, Control Data Corp, Wang Computers, Hewlett-Packard, and Orange Business Corp. He went on to invest and develop ventures in a private capacity in telecommunications, technology, agriculture, mining, and energy resources. His experience includes the software development and deployment of the world’s first global mobile satellite phone network ICO-NET, and the acquisition & re-launching of the DAMA-Net Satellite from Telstra as ‘Sky Messenger’ to provide voice and data services across the Indian & Pacific Ocean regions which included a US$20M joint venture with China’s Ministry of Information Industries. Kenoll also initiated and entered into a 49-51 joint-venture with CEPREI via a development and co-operation agreement for the development of an online import and export product authentication network that contributed to the ascension of China entering into the World Trade Organisation.
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He has served on various private, public, and Government Boards, and provides economic development advice to selected Commonwealth Governments through his involvement and association with domestic and international organisations including the World Bank-MIGA, Commonwealth Business Forum, Australian African Business Council (co-founder), and the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, among others.
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Since its founding in 2010, Kenoll has been the CEO of SGE, and originally developed the strategy to enter into the waste to energy sector in 2016. As the CEO of the WTPSA project, he is responsible for all aspects of strategy, direction, and forming partnerships to bring the project to successful completion
Dr Cameron Ritchie
Chief Technology Officer
Cameron has a Bachelor of Science with a Major in Chemistry and a Master of Science in Chemistry and Computation from the University of Melbourne. He completed a joint PhD in Chemistry and Materials Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and CSIRO in partnership with Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, and INM Saarbrücken (part of the Leibniz Association) specialising in renewable and decarbonisation technologies.
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Concurrent to his studies for 8 years with the family business, as part of a small team he designed, developed, and implemented an end-to-end Market Neutral Portfolio Management and Trading Platform for fund managers in Australia, Hong Kong, and the USA, and co-developed a patented instantaneous graphing & data analysis software acquired by Google. For 2 years, Cameron was an R&D Laboratory Manager and OHS&E officer in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and was involved in projects with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group, Reserve bank of Australia, and CSIRO among others, before transitioning to working on solar panel & flow battery technologies as CTO of two start-ups for a further 3 years to take benchtop research to commercial readiness index 2-3.
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Since 2021, Cameron has been the CTO of SGE and the WTPSA project. He researched appropriate decarbonisation pathways for the waste to energy industry and identified, technically evaluated, and analysed the integration potential of the current Geomimetic Carbon Technology, introducing the environmental and financial benefits to the project. In his role, Cameron liaises with the technology suppliers’ engineers, the team at GHD responsible for acquiring approvals, IWS & Adbri for technical assessment of offtakes, and the various levels of Government.
Francis Cox
Chief Corporate Advisor (Legal)
Francis has a Bachelor of Science from St. Lawrence University and a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University School of Law, going on to become a member of the California Bar Association (currently inactive) and member of the United States District Court for the 9th Circuit. He also has an Executive Development Diploma from the Institute of Corporate Managers and Administrators, and NSW Practice of Law Qualifications from the College of Law (Sydney). Francis is also a Fellow Member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a former member of the Law Society of New South Wales.
With over 30 years of professional experience as a Lawyer and Compliance manager, Francis has a demonstrated ability to provide corporate and departmental management leadership, ensure accurate and timely legal advice, and review and implement policies, procedures and standards. He has worked for the Sydney Future Exchange, ASX, ING Australia, and QBE Insurance Group, among others, and has been a lecturer at the Securities Institute of Australia (FINSIA) and University of Technology (Sydney) in Corporations Law and Futures Markets & Trading. He was also the Chairman of the board of a Queensland-based superannuation fund manager (MAP) with a particular focus on the management of medical personnel funds, and chairman of the compliance committee for OneVue.
Since 2017, Francis has been the Chief Corporate Advisor (Legal) for SGE and the WTPSA project. He regularly negotiates with external and internal stakeholders by clearly articulating legal and compliance issues and their consequences, provides legal advice to the development management team, and drafts agreements based on negotiated terms.
Dr Cleveland M. Jones
Board Member /
Chief Corporate Advisor (Waste)
Researcher at the National Institute of Oil and Gas (CNPq/Brazil). He has extensive experience with innovative technologies for the petroleum industry, alternative energies, and environmental applications.
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He directed projects and companies involved with sanitation, solid and liquid waste bioremediation and biological products.
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Dr. Jones coordinated the environmental, social and closure project for the largest metropolitan landfill in Brazil (Gramacho - 9,000 tons/day), and still works with urban solid waste initiatives in Brazil.