Mr Pennefather is the founder of CoGen ORC Power and has been developing the business model and researching the technology for 2 years. He is an engineer by training and for the past 2 years he has been the principal consultant at leading Perth engineering consultancy, Titan Consultants.

Prior to joining Titan Consultants, Mr Pennefather has been involved in several start up businesses and served on the boards of ASX listed companies.

He was a co-founder of Request Broadband with Ross Smith and together they introduced DSL broadband into Australia.