[ { "role": "General Manager Transformation", "company": "Santos", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Adelaide, South Australia", "startYear": "2022", "startMonth": "11", "currentRole": false, "description": "In her role as General Manager for Transformation at Santos (ASX50), Reneke was responsible for leading a transformation agenda aimed at optimising financial performance to support Santos’ decarbonisation objectives. By managing diverse teams, she drove large-scale initiatives to improve cost efficiencies and operational outcomes. Reneke proactively sought out partnerships with entrepreneurs, tech start-ups, and external innovators to introduce new technologies aimed at solving complex industry challenges. She co-designed a new way of managing entrepreneurial problem solving for Santos long-term. " }, { "role": "General manager South Australia", "company": "Beach Energy", "endYear": "2022", "endMonth": "11", "location": "Adelaide, South Australia", "startYear": "2021", "startMonth": "4", "currentRole": false, "description": "In this pivotal role, Reneke was accountable for managing the largest production assets for Beach Energy (ASX200) in South Australia. She was entrusted with full Profit & Loss (P&L) responsibility (budget >100mln). Reneke empowered and led her team through a visionary, agile exercise to co-create and define a future operating model that added substantial value, resilience and life to the asset, utilising new ways of working, digital improvements and rationalisation of infrastructure. She also improved the JV relationships for a large non-operated asset, at a time of tensions in the JV. " }, { "role": "Chief Risk & Development Officer", "company": "WestSide Corporation", "endYear": "2021", "endMonth": "3", "location": "Brisbane, Queensland", "startYear": "2018", "startMonth": "8", "currentRole": false, "description": "Reneke held a dual leadership role, overseeing both strategic risk management and development planning for WestSide Corporation’s diverse assets. Her portfolio included strategic relationships, planning, HSER and approvals. In a growing company, this meant starting or maturing culture, systems and processes for planning, development, risk and relationships. Her tenure was marked by her ability to align risk and opportunity management with development goals, ensuring operational resilience and sustainable growth." }, { "role": "Development Manager", "company": "Origin Energy ", "endYear": "2018", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "Brisbane, Queensland", "startYear": "2016", "startMonth": "10", "currentRole": false, "description": "Reneke was entrusted with leading the development of one of Australia’s largest Coal Seam Gas (CSG) developments. Accountable for high-impact early project phases while driving financial, technical, and environmental success, and a large multi-disciplinary team. Highlights included solving the Condamine river seeps, introducing Agile into Origin, and starting digital initiatives in subsurface specialist areas. " }, { "role": "Asset Development Team Leader & Senior Reservoir Engineer", "company": "Origin New Zealand", "endYear": "2016", "endMonth": "12", "location": "New Plymouth, New Zealand", "startYear": "2010", "startMonth": "4", "currentRole": false, "description": "Reneke was responsible for driving development projects, production optimisation, and ensuring the integrity of wells across the company's portfolio, as well as playing a key role in external relationship management. Highlights included increased production through a portfolio of opportunities, subsurface lead for NZ's first gas storage facility, an award for strategic business planning implementation, and divestment projects." }, { "role": "Consultant ", "company": "Renergy", "endYear": "2010", "endMonth": "4", "location": "New Plymouth, New Zealand", "startYear": "2008", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "Reneke founded and operated her own consultancy, providing reservoir engineering services to various clients." }, { "role": "Senior Reservoir Engineer & Commercial Planner", "company": "Shell International and various Shell affiliated companies", "endYear": "2008", "endMonth": "3", "location": "Aberdeen (Scotland), New Plymouth (New Zealand)", "startYear": "1997", "startMonth": "5", "currentRole": false, "description": "Reneke gained extensive experience in the resource industry with Shell, working on onshore and offshore drilling rigs and production facilities as well as office based specialist teams. " }, { "role": "Board experience", "company": "Various", "endYear": "", "endMonth": "", "location": "Various", "startYear": "", "startMonth": "", "currentRole": false, "description": "•\tNational Council for Women (SA) – Treasurer, Executive Council Member (2023 – Present) Moving to digital Xero platform and building a strategic plan for long term budgeting)\n•\tSouth Australia Chamber of Mines and Energy (SACOME) – Council Member (2021 – 2022) Kicked off strategic planning cycle with strategic risk and opportunity identification\n•\tBrisbane Montessori School – Board Member (2018 – 2020) Significant leadership, structure and culture overhaul\n•\tSPE Educational Trust – Trustee (2011 – 2016) Manage funds, select and support students for overseas education options not offered in New Zealand\n•\tFounder and board member of Taranaki Gifted Education trust and school (2013-2016) Organising families for peer support, then starting a one-day school from scratch\n•\tNew Plymouth Montessori Association – President of the Board (2009-2013)\n" } ]