Oliver Yates
Chair Valent Energy
Oliver is the Chair of Valent Energy and Head of Gaw Capital Australia.
He was the inaugural Chief Executive of Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corp. Under his leadership, the CEFC was established in 2012 with A$10billion of commitments to work with businesses, institutional investors and entrepreneurs to accelerate Australia’s investment into clean energy sector.
He also held leadership positions at Macquarie as an Executive Director where he worked for 23 years including, Country Head for the U.S, and co-head of both Macquarie Capital Private Placements and Macquarie Capital Financial Products.