Primary Job Title Founder & Managing Director Primary Organization 
Geopower Energy
Location Perth, Western Australia, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
Ben has diverse financial and business development experience in Australia and overseas with a focus on energy, mining and the aluminum industry.
Ben’s expertise extends to corporate strategy and implementation; business development; project management and implementation; corporate finance including M&A, IPOs, private equity, venture
capital, structured and project financing; and all other matters associated with public and private company administration.
Ben is the founder and managing director of Geopower Energy, a global renewable energy developer with offices in Australia and the United States.
Geopower focuses on developing, owning and operating a diversified portfolio of low-risk renewable energy projects with an emphasis on fully-commercialised technologies.
Project development is driven by investment criteria and project returns rather than specific technologies or ideology.
Ben is also the principal of Mead Consulting, a company that assists public and private Australian companies seeking capital to grow their businesses or seeking business development opportunities, with a particular focus on the United States.
Through this role at Mead Consulting, Ben introduced and facilitated the acquisition of the Victoria Mine by Aus-American.
Prior to this, Ben was a founding director of ASX-listed MHM Metals Limited (ASX:MHM) and played central role in taking MHM from a green fields mineral exploration company into a multinational with operations in the aluminum industry.
Prior to his retirement from this role in 2012, Mr Mead served as executive director to MHM Metals Limited and as president of MHM Metals Corporation, its US subsidiary.
Ben resides in Utah, USA and serves as Executive Director for Aus-American.
