Simon began his career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley during the first dotcom wave, then spent more than a decade in precision farm water management. Simon was a driving force behind the country’s first community-owned wind farm, Hepburn Wind, near Daylesford in Central Victoria. He is an energy analyst, clean tech investor, climate philanthropist, director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and writes regularly about the transformation of Australia’s energy sector.
Simon has been outspoken on climate issues and energy transition and was noted saying that his mum and dad had strong work ethics and believed that “if something was wrong you fixed it, and you don’t complain you just make it happen.”
He has taken this to heart in founding Climate 200, a group of more than 7,300 Australians working to help community-backed independent candidates contest the next federal election.
Climate 200 recognises the importance of financial support for communities who want their voice to be raised in parliament by the many independents stepping into this arena for the 2022 Elections.
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