Rob Mailler is Principal Consultant at Kinelli, providing engineering and technical advisory services to utility scale solar and storage projects in Australia and overseas. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with 35 years of experience and holds a Master of Applied Finance, and is currently Technical Lead for Tumuruu. Rob pioneered the reverse DC coupled architecture and has spent years designing and operating hybrid colocated generation and storage. He currently has two 400 MW grid forming BESS projects in the approvals process. His work spans plant architecture and design, operational performance and technical due diligence, and he brings substantial corporate governance experience.