Shannon O’Rourke is the Chief Executive Officer of Powering Australia, a federally funded industry growth centre that is helping to grow domestic clean-tech manufacturing by connecting business, accelerating commercialisation activity and building workforce capability spanning solar, wind, industrial decarbonisation, carbon, transport and battery sectors.
Shannon is a member of the Advisory Board for the Clean Energy Skills National Centre of Excellence (CESNCE) and a member of the WA State Training Board.
He has previously led the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) for a period of three years overseeing significant growth in government expenditure in the industry and proposed the development of the National Battery Strategy that was recently delivered by the federal government.