Ben is a chemical engineer with 12 years of experience in the oil and gas, minerals processing, power generation and renewable energy industries.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and Maths & Computer Science from University of Adelaide in 2006, and has been working at an Adelaide consultancy, in a Process Engineer role. Ben has been involved in the engineering design and commissioning for gas compression facilities, gas pipelines and metering facilities, oil and gas well connections and fuel tanker loading / unloading facilities. He has also had experience as Commissioning Engineer, Project Coordination and Execution through a range of projects during his career.