A Mint team to
depend on

Our dynamic, deeply capable and experienced team has a proven track record in the delivery of renewable energy projects. The team has experience in the large-scale renewable industry since its inception in Australia, collectively having worked in key roles on a significant proportion of the projects ever built in Australia.

As leaders in their respective fields, our people bring extensive experience, sector intelligence and a problem solving mindset to all phases of development, technology, finance, delivery and operations.

We may be a small team but we pack a punch - taking a fresh approach to complex challenges. We aim to work smarter and faster, focussing on effective decision making, execution of quality projects and developing strong relationships with our partners and stakeholders to maximise the success of our projects, business and shareholder value.

Meet the Manage-Mint Team

  • Kim van Hattum

    INTERIM HEAD OF AUSTRALIA

    Kim has more than 20 years experience in the Australian renewable energy industry. Her focus has been on leading large-scale wind, solar and green hydrogen projects from identification and development to construction and commissioning through her various roles at Pacific Hydro and Fortescue Future Industries. Kim was a foundation member of the electricity start up, Tango Energy and has experience in developing and leading a range of business functions including engineering, sustainability, strategy, planning, land, risk, environmental compliance, community and communications. Kim is a current recipient of the Clean Energy Council Chloe Munro Scholarship for Transformational Leadership.

  • Sherrin Yeo

    HEAD OF ENGINEERING & MARKETS

    Sherrin has worked in a variety of market and technical roles in the Australasian renewable energy industry for over 20 years. She has experience working for businesses in a range of areas including consulting, equipment supply, market forecasting, system planning, and project development, delivery and operations.

    Sherrin is passionate about working in the rapidly evolving renewables industry and leading teams to deliver the high quality and time critical projects required to enable Australia’s transition to clean energy.

    In addition to her role at Mint Renewables Sherrin is a director of Hepburn Energy, Australia’s first community-owned wind farm.

  • Christian Peake

    HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES

    Christian has spent over 20 years working with renewables, mainly conducting analysis of utility scale wind and solar assets, in both the development and operational phases. Much of Christian’s time has been spent in consulting, with various leadership roles at DNV, aimed at providing analysis and due diligence to support equity and finance.

    Christian has worked across the full lifecycle of renewable projects, from the early stages of site identification through to construction and into operation, assessing a large proportion of the assets that have been constructed in Australia.

  • Cameron Frost

    HEAD OF FINANCE

    Cameron has over 10 years experience working in the Australian renewable energy industry in a variety of commercial roles.

    He has a background in corporate finance and economics, and specialises in the structuring, evaluation and funding of large-scale wind and solar projects.

    Cameron works closely with all members of the Mint team to ensure that commercially viable projects are developed.

  • Cara Layton

    HEAD OF PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT & STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS

    Cara has more than 18 years’ experience in planning and environmental approvals and stakeholder relations, for major infrastructure projects. Of that, almost 10 years has been dedicated within the renewable energy sector across development, delivery and operations. Cara brings passion and experience in working to achieve the best possible environmental, social and economic outcomes for all stakeholders (internal and external), as well as the broader industry. This experience includes more than 5 years leading the growth and development of the environment and stakeholder function for Tilt Renewables.

  • Matthew Glass

    SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

    With more than a decade in transmission and wind farm construction, Matt brings a pragmatic approach to developing renewable energy projects. Matts engineering background, coupled with his project management experience as a contractor and owner’s representative, helps ensure our developments are realistic and constructible.

    His approach and experience makes him a critical part of the Mint development process and the perfect lead in the construction process.

  • Hieu Nguyen

    HEAD OF GRID & POWER SYSTEMS

    Hieu has over 15 years’ experience working in the electrical power system industry, specialising in power system planning, operation, and modelling, both in Australia and globally. Of that, more than 10 years has been dedicated to the Australian renewable energy sector in various roles with the strong focus on grid connection and system planning for renewable energy projects. In that time, Hieu has been involved in some of the most challenging projects in the NEM and led teams of power system engineers to solve complex grid connection problems.

    Hieu has a deep understanding of the full process to connect a renewable energy project to the grid, from pre-feasibility assessment to commissioning. His expertise and experience makes him a critical part of Mint’s development and operational processes.

Our Board

  • Clayton Delmarter

    Clayton is the Chief Executive of Manawa Energy Limited. He has over 20 years’ experience in the renewable energy industry in New Zealand, Australia and North America. Clayton started with the Manawa Energy (then Trustpower) Generation team in 2002. He was instrumental in the development and execution of the company’s renewable energy and irrigation projects until the demerger of Tilt Renewables in 2016. He was Executive General Manager - Renewable Development at Tilt, a role he held from inception of the business in 2016 until late 2021 following the successful sale of the company. He then joined Morrison in early in 2022. Clayton holds a Bachelor of Science (Technology) from the University of Waikato, a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Finance) from Massey University and is a graduate of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School Advanced Management & Leadership programme.

  • Will McIndoe

    Will is a Director of Energy Markets, who joined Morrison in 2015 from Lumo Energy where he held executive roles across wholesale trading, generation and strategy. He has experience across the energy, financial and agricultural sectors through various roles in Australia, the UK and the US. He worked in the US with renewables developer Longroad Energy through its establishment phase and continues to work closely across Morrison’s other managed renewables platforms covering North America, Europe and Asia.

  • Priya Grewal

    Priya is an Investment Manager in Morrison’s Wellington office. She specialises in transaction structuring, negotiation and documentation of private market investments on behalf of Morrison managed clients. She has led the legal work streams on several major Australian & New Zealand infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining Morrison in 2014, Priya worked for six years in the in-house legal team at Partners Group in London, Singapore and Guernsey.

Mint Renewables acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.