Who we are.
We integrate society's needs with the natural environment for the benefit of both.
Verterra is Australia's first full service Ecological Engineering company.
With integrated capabilities in research, consulting and operational management, we specialise in vegetation, land and water management for delivery of environmental services and production of bio-renewables from managed and natural vegetation.
We service a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, mining, energy, power, water resources, forestry, agriculture and natural and renewable resources.
Our unique activity across the value chain, from applied science to on-ground operations, gives us the capacity to bring a holistic, integrated, nature-based solutions approach to service delivery.
Why Verterra?
We believe our future lies in a balance between minimising waste and efficient, innovative utilisation of our resources to develop enduring solutions that turn today’s risk into tomorrow’s value.
To achieve this, we combine leading-edge science with practical management experience and rational economics to develop tailored solutions to environmental, resource and industrial problems.
We seek to identify solutions that address the underlying attributes of complex environmental problems based on sound science underpinned by practical experience.
Our solutions take a triple bottom line approach, aiming to deliver:
Environmental benefits,
Positive community outcomes,
Sound financial returns.
Verterra’s novel approach to maximising the benefits of environmental services from vegetation-land-water systems has delivered significant value to our clients across applications ranging from beneficial use of coal seam gas and mine water, production of biofuel feedstocks, renewable timber resources and perennial fodder crops, integrated grazing productivity-biodiversity-carbon bio-sequestration, mine site and degraded land rehabilitation to native habitat regeneration.
Our Vision, Mission and Values
Vision
To be the leader in Ecological Engineering solutions that address the grand challenge of working out how people and nature can beneficially coexist on planet Earth.
Mission
To engineer nature-based solutions, turning environmental risk into economic and social value.
Values
Our Values infuse our culture and are tightly linked to our outcomes-focussed sustainable competitive advantage. We live by the values of Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Timeliness and Innovation.
Our values form the image we project to our clients, influence the behaviours of our team members and create the perception of us and our services. In short, our values are the features of the product we sell to our clients.
Our Board.
We established a Board structure early in our development, demonstrating our adherence to the principles of sound corporate governance.
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Marjon is a circular economy and business strategy specialist with over 25 years of experience in international business, finance, and consulting. Marjon was born and raised in the Netherlands and studied Economics at Maastricht University before joining Rabobank International in 1996. During a thirteen-year international career with Rabobank in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London, she held a series of commercial and strategic Director level roles to drive the bank's business operations in core and emerging products, markets, and geographies.
Following her banking career, Marjon moved into consulting, focusing on leadership coaching, and project and change management in the UK and the Netherlands. After moving to Brisbane, Australia, in 2017, Marjon specialized in circular economy advisory and currently supports organizations and governments in their transition from a linear to a circular business model, creating economic, social, and environmental benefits.
In June 2021, Marjon was appointed as Honorary Consul for Queensland for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In this role, she actively supports the continued relationship between Queensland and the Netherlands with a specific focus on collaboration on circular economy transition efforts and fostering trade and investment ties. She currently serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of MiCare and Verterra. Marjon holds a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Maastricht and has a Diploma in Company Direction from the UK Institute of Directors and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Glenn combines detailed technical knowledge with operational management expertise and commercial experience. His early career was in tropical forest inventory and management before undertaking doctoral studies in molecular genetics and tree breeding. Glenn undertook postdoctoral research in the US on plant genetics. He returned to Australia as the Technical Manager of a private forestry biotechnology company where he was responsible for several large commercial forest biotechnology research projects.
Glenn established Verterra (formerly Tree Crop Technologies Pty Ltd.) in 1999 before establishing Saltgrow Pty Ltd in partnership with Yates Ltd to continue development and commercialization of clonal eucalypt hybrids bred for salt and drought tolerance. Glenn’s work on Saltgrow hybrids was nominated as a finalist for the inaugural Institution of Engineers Australia National Salinity Prize in 2002, and was runner up in the 2004 Australian Museum Eureka Science Prize for Industry.
Glenn has international experience working in the United States, New Zealand, Brazil, England, Spain, Portugal, Columbia, Malaysia, and China. He has served on the Plant Breeders Rights Ministerial Advisory Committee and currently holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor within the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture at the University of Southern Queensland.
Glenn holds a BSc with Honours in Forestry, a BSc in Biochemistry from the Australian National University, a PhD in molecular and quantitative genetics of forest trees from the University of Queensland and an MBA from Queensland University of Technology.
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Susan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemistry, a Graduate Diploma of Education specialising in mathematics, a Certificate in Governance and Risk Management, and has completed a course in Quality Management Systems and Internal Audit. She has managed Verterra’s finances since its inception in 1999.
Susan taught secondary school mathematics in Bundaberg and Brisbane and spent a year as Head of Mathematics at St Joseph’s Catholic College, Tenaru in the Solomon Islands. Susan worked as an analytical chemist in toxicology and food commodities from 1991 to 1994 before heading a soil science laboratory at North Carolina State University in the United States.
More recently, Susan has been involved in operating the family farm, managing cattle breeding, pasture management, weed and erosion control.
Susan’s background in analytical chemistry and soil science, combined with her skills in mathematics and finance management, and her practical experience in farming provide a unique understanding of the technical and financial dimensions of the business.
