our team
Get to know the team making this possible.
Meet the team of passionate board members and volunteers who are making this dream a reality.
Village Energy is currently driven by a small group of volunteers who are passionate about renewable energy, acting on climate change and striving to create a new model for energy sharing. All local to Alphington, Fairfield and Ivanhoe, we come from a wide diversity of backgrounds but all share a commitment to community and a carbon neutral world.
In the near future, we will be reaching out to get more people involved in the planning, lobbying, promoting and doing what ever is required to make our collective dream real.
Our Directors
Graeme Martin
Founder and President
Graeme is passionate about making a positive difference to his community especially through environmental awareness and actions. He has also closely followed changes in renewable technologies for many years. Graeme initiated Village Power as an initiative to combine these passions.
Graeme has over 20 years leadership experience in professional and community roles; his professional experience includes managing commercial operations for Spatial Vision, a private commercial Geospatial IT company of 40 people with clients including utilities, local governments and emergency services. He has also demonstrated community leadership through various roles: Convener of a coalition of community groups that over 12 years successfully lobbied for construction of a linking cycling path. Project director for the publication and launch of a book DAREBIN PARKLANDS Escaping the Claws of the Machine. History of Darebin Parklands. President of Darebin Parklands Association and Vice-President of the Darebin Creek Management Committee.
Dr Judith Landsberg
Vice President, NBI Project Lead
Judith is a sustainability professional with more than 25 years’ experience in sustainability, energy systems, and education.
She has had a diverse career, including working as a management consultant, a high school teacher and running a sustainability non-profit in Bermuda with a focus on education and energy advocacy. She was Team Leader for the Low Carbon Future Team at the City of Melbourne, which included managing the final stages of the Melbourne Renewable Energy Programwhich established a new wind farm in Victoria. She was also part of a consortium which developed an alternative energy model for Bermuda resulting in a switch in strategy from fossil fuel to wind power.
Judith is passionate about sustainability. She lives in Darebin but strolls, bikes or runs over the creek to Alphington regularly. She enjoys challenging the way things are done and is excited to change the electricity system to reduce carbon emissions.
Antony Perri
Treasurer, Technical Lead
Antony Perri has been an active member of the Alphington community since 1992, was President of the Darebin Parklands Association and a member of the Darebin Parklands Committee of Management, and has been President of the Thornbury High School Council.
Antony is an engineer with over 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry in Australia and internationally and is a strong supporter of renewable energy. He has been frustrated by the lack of coherent energy policy of successive Australian governments, which has limited growth in renewables and resulted in high prices and reliability concerns. He is excited about developing a model microgrid in Alphington that will enable more renewables, is scalable and will have a significant impact on the energy sector in Australia.
David Craven
Secretary, Communications and Engagement Lead
David is a registered architect who has contributed to the green building and sustainable development movements for over two decades. He has held leadership positions in the private, public, not-for-profit and tertiary sectors, including roles with the Climate Council, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, the Green Building Councils of Australia and New Zealand, Sustainability Victoria, and the Center for Design at RMIT.
