The team

Dr Kevin Moriarty

BSc (Hons), Ph.D., MAusIMM
Executive Chairman

Kevin has over 40 years of mining and oil exploration and development experience and over 30 years of corporate experience in roles including Chairman and Managing Director of listed companies. He founded and led several companies to develop mines in Australia and Africa. He has served as director and chairman of a number of ASX listed companies.

Under his leadership 1414 Degrees has built several prototype devices utilising high temperature silicon energy storage to produce combined heat and power, two charged from electricity and one by burning biogas. The results of these prototype devices and complementary research and development led to the new SiBox technology aimed at producing clean, high temperature heat. SiBox has attracted major support from Woodside Energy Technologies and the Australian Government.

Graham J. Dooley

Graham is an accomplished Non-Executive Director, Managing Director and Chairman with extensive infrastructure and investment experience. As well as serving as a Director of the businesses below, Graham is also a Senior Advisor to Igneo Infrastructure Partners, one of the top 10 infrastructure investors world-wide; and a Senior Advisor to a Local Government Council in South Australia.

Graham established and was the managing director of United Utilities Australia (now Trility) from 1991-2007. Following this, he founded and held an Executive Chairman role with the Water Utilities Australia Group of companies and its sister company that invested in agricultural water entitlements. He is a past National President of the Australian Water Association, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.

Other current directorships: Water Authority of Fiji, IWS Group of Companies, South Australian Hydrogen Hubs Inc. (Chairman), Gladstone Goondiwindi Railway Pty Ltd

Former directorships (last 3 years): Water Utilities Australia Group of Companies, until Dec 2021.

Randolph Bowen

Randolph is Director and Proprietor of Seppeltsfield Wines and holds directorships with Balthazar Barossa Pty Ltd, Bunyip Water, Duxton Vineyards and Pure Wine Distributors. Previously he was Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain with the Fosters Group.

Randolph is a strategic management executive with many years experience. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, Winemaking and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Katelyn Adams

Katelyn has more than 15 years’ accounting and company secretarial experience, servicing mainly ASX listed companies.

She provides knowledge and experience of ASX Listing Rule requirements, IPO and capital raising processes and has strong technical accounting and corporate governance knowledge.

John O’Donnell

John is a seasoned executive with over 35 years’ leadership experience spanning the energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, and defence sectors. He has served on influential boards and held director-level roles in global organisations specialising in sustainable green energy systems, engineering design and asset integrity solutions. 

Throughout his career, John has proven his ability to lead, integrate, and grow revenue while ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, efficiency, and compliance in highly regulated environments.  

These strengths are underpinned by academic credentials in construction law (LLM), business (MBA) and electrical engineering (MSc, B.Eng (Hons)). 

Dr Mahesh Venkataraman

Mahesh has more than 10 years’ experience in cutting-edge technological research in high temperature materials, thermal storage, solar thermochemistry and renewable energy integration.  

At 1414 Degrees, he leads our key mission to prove the SiBox™ technology for commercial use and develop the next generation of efficient silicon energy storage. He leads our engineering and R&D teams and has worked at world-renowned academic institutions including the Australian National University, University of Connecticut and Monash University, and has active collaborations with several universities and national labs in Australia and overseas. 

Mahesh has a strong interest and track record in developing a wide array of renewable energy technologies including thermal energy storage, supercritical water gasification, solid-oxide fuel cells, green steel and renewable hydrogen production.  

Jason Chaffey

Jason has been appointed to lead the commercial scaling of our technology, bringing more than 25 years of experience taking technology from the lab to the world.

He brings a track record of commercialising pre-revenue tech start-ups, positioning companies as global front-runners with market-leading product offerings quickly and efficiently. Over the past 10 years, Jason has brought three world-first technologies to market across the agriculture, aviation, and MedTech sectors. His extensive experience in commercialising technologies means he is well-positioned to lead this work, supported by 1414 Degrees’ skilled analytical and engineering staff.

Dr Farzad Poursadegh

Farzad is a Chartered Mechanical and Energy Systems Engineer, who brings over a decade of experience in the energy sector. As 1414 Degrees’ Hydrogen Development Manager, he is driving development of the SiPHyR™ technology, which integrates our silicon-based thermal energy storage technology with a state-of-the-art high-pressure pyrolysis reactor to enable continuous hydrogen production from low-cost renewable electricity.

With a strong track record, Farzad has managed, and delivered several multi-million-dollar Research, Development and Demonstration programs, involving feasibility studies and front-end engineering design to Engineering Procurement and Construction of projects in the context of various energy sectors from transport to gas infrastructure and mining. His career has focused on advancing sustainability through the development of innovative ultra-low and zero emissions technologies for heat, power and propulsion.

Josh Zowtyj

Josh is a qualified mechanical engineer who has worked on a wide range of projects across industries including cement, food processing, mining and energy. He has a deep understanding of our technology and is focused on the commissioning of our SiBox™ Demonstration Module.

His experience includes technical design and modelling, performance modelling, economic assessments, feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement and business development.