Dorjee Sun is CEO of Carbon Conservation and is passionate about forests, community development, conservation and climate change. He started Carbon Conservation to finance the preservation of tropical rainforests and provide carbon credit revenues to local communities via Avoided Deforestation.

Dorjee was the founder of a recruitment software company with offices in Melbourne and London (exited 2003), and an award winning education company which mentored over 25,000 students through Sydney and Melbourne offices in 2004 (later acquired by an ASX listed company). His interest in animation and webTV led to the founding of the creative agency Joosed, producing HoneyRoasted TV, the first Asian-Australian TV series and over 50 TV commercials for global clients.

With an interest in viral marketing and social media software, Dorjee started VirtualVillager.com, a software company building virtual villages for business and government. The company's projects include AsiaGroove.com, the world's first asian youth pop-culture collaborative community (with webTV and a peer production platform) and MyAutosalon.com focusing on youth car culture.

Graduating from the University Of New South Wales (UNSW) with degrees in Law and Commerce and a Diploma in Asian Studies, Dorjee studied at Peking University in China on a 2 year scholarship. He has served as a University of Melbourne Asialink Asia Australia Leader , Youth Chair of the Ethnic Communities Council at both national and state levels, University Law Society President and as a menber of the Education Technology Advisory Board.

He has spoken at the Future Summit, AsiaConnect, The World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and participated at the Australian Davos Leadership retreat and other think-tanks.

Dr John Saunders FTSE, B.Sc.(Hons) Sussex, Ph.D. UNSW is based in Sydney as director of The Carbon Pool Pty Ltd and Chairman of The Linden Group Pty Ltd.

In both Australia and Asia, Linden participates in the origination of investment and in the structuring and development of new industry projects and infrastructure in property and utilities, environment and technology, energy and resources. It has structured a number of major projects in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

He is Chairman of Yilgarn Infrastructure Limited, Mosaic Sourcing Pty Ltd and the Sydney Film School Pty Ltd. He was, in 1994-1995, Chairman of an Asian Infrastructure Task Force for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Dr Saunders was the Chief Executive of the Office of Economic Development for the New South Wales Government until 1994. From 1990 to 1994, he was Coordinator General for the Government and responsible for a number of senior inter-governmental infrastructure-related committees, negotiating investment, environmental and planning approvals for major projects. During this time, he sourced US$7 billion in project and infrastructure investments in R&D infrastructure, IT and telecommunications, resource processing and private infrastructure financing.

Dr Saunders was in 1987-1989, the Deputy Managing Director of the Australian Trade Commission, responsible for internal audit and a number of key organisational and administrative functions in an organisation operating 66 international offices in 51 countries and providing market intelligence and project consultancy support to Australian clients and foreign investors.

He has wide experience in the private and public sectors covering high level corporate advice and strategic planning, new business development and project structuring, and international negotiations in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Until September 1987, he lead John Saunders & Associates, working with a number of large energy and resource clients, including:

* The Government of Western Australia as Chairman of the Energy Policy and Planning Work Party.
* Special Advisor to the Commissioner of the State Energy (Electricity and Gas) Commission, and on the Joint Committee for North-West Shelf Gas Utilisation.
* From 1980 to 1982, as a Senior Consultant of the major Australian management consultancy W.D. Scott & Company, he developed the new Resources and Energy Planning Studies Group leading multi-disciplinary teams of economic, marketing, engineering and technology-based professionals on assignments for corporate and public sector clients.

Dr Saunders is a Chevalier of the l'Ordre National du Merite, France, and an Australian Centenary Medallist. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors and the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Council of Macquarie University.

Phil Scanlan's career spans business, public management, public policy, education, community service and non-government organisation (NGO) entrepreneurship.

Phil is an accomplished company director, corporate adviser and Chief Executive. He has been a public company director since 1984, and held senior and chief executive positions for over 20 years until January 200 – including Managing Director of Coca Cola Amatil's worldwide beverages operations, CEO of Hallmark Asia Pacific, and Managing Director and CEO of Bonlac Foods. His leadership of corporate enterprises has been consistently characterised by strategic insight, focus on operational excellence, value creation for stakeholders, strong people skills and team leadership, and sound succession planning.

He is a National Governor of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce, a former Member of the Business Council of Australia, Chairman of the Melbourne Chapter of the Trans-Tasman Business Circle , and Member-at-Large for the Howard Florey Institute.

Mr Scanlan has served as Chairman of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital , Chairman of Central Sydney Area Health Service, Chairman of Victoria's Sustainable Energy Authority (Energy Efficiency Victoria), and is founder of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He studied Economics at Sydney University , History at Oxford , and Public Administration at Harvard's JFK School of Government.

John O Niles was the Science and Technical Advisor for The Coalition for Rainforest Nations from 2006 to 2007, advising 15 countries on the scientific and technical aspects of international policy negotiations of the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and The Kyoto Protocol. He developed new research and authored papers on avoided deforestation and assisted with strategic planning and legal and policy analysis.

He was Project Manager of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (Washington) from 2003 to 2006, where he supervised a global partnership of corporations, non-governmental groups and research institutions. He led the writing, peer-review, testing and promotion of social and environmental standards for the carbon market. These standards are now central to the massive growth in voluntary carbon credits and are used by forestry projects totalling US $100 million. John directed a $200,000 annual budget for research, policy, partnerships and stakeholder engagement and initiated political efforts in Europe to open carbon markets to forestry credits.

As the Staff Scientist for The Centre for Conservation Biology (California ) from 1997 to 2003, John advised numerous governments on climate change policy and science. He was a reviewer of The Intergovernmental Panel's Special Report on Forests and Climate Change, and has co-edited a textbook on climate change policy. He has conducted research on the ecological patterns of bats and butterflies in Nevada , California and Mexico .

From 1993 to 1997, John provided leadership as the Pandrillus (Nigeria) Manager, coordinating all aspects of a multinational staff caring for endangered African primates and their habitat in Nigeria and Cameroon .

John is a recognised expert in forest carbon, with a focus on policy and science. His advice and consultation is sought by countries and banks looking to the future of the developing carbon market.

Derek Trau is VP of Business Development for Carbon Conservation and is passionate about climate change and carbon finance market mechanisms. He has joined Carbon Conservation to help scale the company looking after business development initiatives with the goal of preserving more tropical rainforests and provide carbon credit revenues to local communities via Avoided Deforestation.

Derek has graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with Honours. He has created successful start-ups and has also spent some time in management consulting where he consulted government organisations and private enterprises on various management issues. Derek has then spent his career on developing companies in emerging markets such as the Telecoms boom, Internet era, and now the Green Economy.

He has held various positions in international organisations such as iTouch, Hutchison Telecoms, marchFIRST and Catcha.com. Most recently he has been instrumental in growing iTouch’s Australian operations to over $40 million placing iTouch as one of the leading players in the competitive mobile value added services sector. During that period, iTouch PLC was sold to Italian listed group Buongiorno for over 141 million euro.