You are cordially invited by The Victorian Vernier Society for Lunch on Thursday the 14th of August @1:00 for 1:30pm at The Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Rd, Kooyong.
The meeting will close around 3:30pm.
Please remember to bring cash to our lunch for paying the almoners for indiscretions for which you may be responsible.
For Friends of Vernier (who are financial) and general admission guests, please book using Humantix: events.humanitix.com/vernier-on-august-14-2025/tickets
Our program will include:
Pieter Bruinstroop, Executive Director, Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
Pieter Bruinstroop is an Executive Director of Hydrogenus Energy, the CFO and Company Secretary and was part of the founding of the company in 2019. Pieter is now the largest shareholder of Hydrogenus Energy and also its largest creditor.
Pieter has a pass degree in economics, an honors degree in commerce, has been a CPAand a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and is currently a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Pieter has worked in Resources and Energy since 1984, starting in the Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Programme of the Australian Government as an economic analyst, publishing reviews on Photovoltaics and wind energy. The major conclusion for both was the need for efficient and effective storage, though that was not the message received by academics and inventors.
He has been a fund manager for 11 years in 3 different companies, adding significant value in each, and a research analyst in 3 broking firms, before co-founding Beer & Co, a boutique Corporate Advisory firm in 2013, from where he was introduced to Marcus Clayton which led to the founding of, of Pieter’s initial funding of, Hydrogenus Energy.
Nina Hooper, Director of Business Development, Interlune Corporation
Nina has over a decade of experience in the space industry, with a long-standing focus on commercial space. Her interest began with a senior thesis on space resources at Harvard, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics, followed by a master’s in aerospace engineering from Stanford.
She is currently Director of Business Development at Interlune, where she leads strategy and partnerships for the company’s work on lunar helium-3 harvesting. Previously, she was the first business development hire at Swarm Technologies (acquired by SpaceX) and has supported several venture-backed startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Muon Space and Beyond the Dome. Nina also contributes to early-stage hard tech investing through her work with Tin Alley Ventures and Salus Ventures.
