Melinda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies, majoring in Accounting from Massey University and co-owns a number of businesses in New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Melinda has worked in a number of accounting and consultancy roles, both in the community and corporate sectors. Her expertise in working with small start-ups and building businesses from the ground up is now being applied to bringing renewable energy to the Pacific.

Allen is the former Director of Audit, which is the head of the Cook Islands Audit Office (CIAO) based in Rarotonga and has spent over 20 years with the CIAO and the public service sector. His recent role has been the General Secretary of the Cook Islands Football Association (CIFA). Allen has been instrumental in transforming these organisations from the ground up and is now leading the charge to bringing more affordable and greener energy to the Cook Islands.

Founder of GREENCO (Fiji) Pte Ltd, a family-owned company specializing in turnkey construction of photovoltaic solar plants, packaged desalination plants, containerized Solar coolers, freezers, ice makers and mortuaries on a commercial and large-scale level. A long-time advocate of green energy, Mollie has a background in electrical engineering systems and has hands on experience as an EPC provider for large scale projects in the Pacific.