Management Team
Cogent Energy's management team possesses many years of related business and industry experience.
Blair Healy
W. Blair Healy is the founder and Managing Director of Cogent Energy. He has a solid background in establishing and managing successful enterprise technology companies.
Blair has been the CEO and MD of various private and public enterprise technology and solution companies including Nortel Networks Korea, Kusp Limited and Innovonics Limited.
Blair is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and has an honours degree in Electrical Engineering from University of NSW.
Tom Marren
Tom Marren is Managing Director and owner of Marren Engineering and CES Ireland. He has considerable experience in building cogeneration and HVAC engineering, installation and business management.
Tom is a consultant to Cogent Energy and visitor to Australia during major cogeneration site surveys and installations.
He has a degree in Building Services Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from University College Dublin.
Bill Hopper
Bill Hopper is Cogent Energy's Technology Director and the former Technology Director of Innovonics Limited.
He possesses over 25 years experience in the development of leading edge data acquisition and recording systems, including the remote control and monitoring systems similar those used by Cogent Energy.
Bill has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Melbourne University.
Nalin Wickramasinghe
Nalin Wickramasinghe is Cogent's GM for NSW. He has over 15 years experience in sales & marketing within the energy industry. Nalin spent 9 years in energy retailing having joined Energy Australia as a senior sales executive at the commencement of contestability. Most recently he was Major Customer Sales Manager at Integral Energy. Prior to that he was with BOC Gases in a range sales and marketing roles. Nalin started his career as a process metallurgist working for Fletcher Steel (NZ) and BHP Steel. He has a Bachelor of Metallurgy from the University of Wollongong and a MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.