Our Leadership Team

Ken Blakers (Chairman)

Gavin Bramley (Financial Director)

Leon Johnson (Managing Director)

Ken Blakers grew up in Manjimup, Western Australia and throughout his professional life has applied his energies and accumulation of knowledge towards making a difference in agriculture.

In the seventies Ken pioneered the production of vegetables in the South-West for export of fresh food and processing markets and with his cousins expan

Ken Blakers grew up in Manjimup, Western Australia and throughout his professional life has applied his energies and accumulation of knowledge towards making a difference in agriculture.

In the seventies Ken pioneered the production of vegetables in the South-West for export of fresh food and processing markets and with his cousins expanded the business to include seed breeding and marketing, highly mechanized vegetable production, viticulture and agricultural consulting. In 1983 the business was consolidated into Regal Grange https://www.regalgrange.com/ which today is focused globally on the ownership, investment and development of innovative companies, primarily in the agricultural sector. The Group specializes in the provision of vegetable seed, seed applied technologies, water solutions and the exploitation of unique intellectual property.

Ken is the Executive Chairman of Regal Grange and a Director of several group companies. He is a partner and director of Blakers Thompson a startup disinfection company and past State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (WA) with a vision to see Christian opinion count in the way that our society is governed, does business and conducts itself.

He has consulted to businesses, banks and government and awarded for his contribution to the Water and Rivers Warren Advisory Committee and State Water Reform Council.

Ken has three grown up children.

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Leon Johnson (Managing Director)

Gavin Bramley (Financial Director)

Leon Johnson (Managing Director)

Leon Johnson studied Industrial Psychology and Law at the University of South Africa, but decided on a career in business. He completed a M.B.A in 1999. In 2005 he completed a Diploma in Real Estate and Business Management in Western Australia.

Leon has extensive experience in the development of Real Estate as well as larger projects

Leon has extensive experience in the development of Real Estate as well as larger projects on National and International scale, including the planning and upgrading of infrastructure, such as roads, harbors, airports and electrical infrastructures.

Leon got involved with the HTGR and its applications in the 90's, and has pursued the implimentation of this technology to the benefit of mankind ever since.

Other fields of experience:

· Aviation Production and Maintenance

· Alluvial Gem Mining

· Line Manufacture Management

With WesFort, he believes in creating an industry on strong ethical and Christian principals, and that it will benefit every person and/or business entity that associates with it.

Leon has 3 grown children, and 2 grandchildren, loves the arts and music, and a is great aviation enthusiast.

Our future depends on the decisions we made yesterday.

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Gavin Bramley (Financial Director)

Gavin Bramley migrated to Australia from South Africa with his family in 2007.

Gavin has been involved in Finance since 1983. He currently also holds the position of CEO of UNIQUE WEALTH (Pty) Ltd.

In business, Gavin has a particular interest in Ethical Investing and Clean Energy. As a perpetual student, Gavin is continually adding qualif

Gavin Bramley migrated to Australia from South Africa with his family in 2007.

Gavin has been involved in Finance since 1983. He currently also holds the position of CEO of UNIQUE WEALTH (Pty) Ltd.

In business, Gavin has a particular interest in Ethical Investing and Clean Energy. As a perpetual student, Gavin is continually adding qualifications to his portfolio, that he believes will be beneficial to himself and his clients.

He obtained his BCom in 1987 from the University of Natal, whom he also represented nationally in football. He furthermore holds designations in Financial Planning, Certified Financial Planning, Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner and SMSF Specialist Adviser ™.

Gavin has previously held numerous roles having been both a director and Chairperson of a General Insurance Companies, Financial Director of a Financial services company as well as Financial Director of a Real Estate Franchisor. This makes him competent over a large component and variation of financial applications. Gavin also served on a number of community-based committees, where he remains passionate about mentoring, developing, coaching and skills transfer on a personal level.

Gavin is a published author and a keen musician, and his particular interests, are to improve financial literacy, retaining the art of guitar building and assisting mental mindfulness through community cycling groups.

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Professional Associates

Dr. David Ruzic

David Neil Ruzic is the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and is in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he joined the faculty in 1984 after receiving his PhD in Physics from Princeton University and post-doctoral work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. His research centers on the interaction of plasmas with materials. Applications include magnetic fusion energy as well as microelectronic processing. Professor Ruzic has a passion for teaching, particularly about energy sources where he gets to blow something up in almost every class. That course is now available as a completely free MOOC (massively open on-line course) called “Energy Environment and Everyday Life” and he is on YouTube (Illinois Energy Prof) where his videos have been seen over 3.4 million times. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of SPIE, and has served at Illinois as an Assistant Dean and as an Associate Vice President. He received the international “Gaede-Langmuir Award” from the AVS as well as the Fusion Technology Award from IEEE in 2020. He has published over 220 referred journal papers, 2 books, and 6 book chapters and has been awarded 10 patents. He has produced 35 PhD students and 59 thesis MS students who are now working in industry, national laboratories or academia. His current group consists of 1 Research Scientist, 1 Post-Doc, 11 graduate students and 25 undergraduate research assistants supported by over $1.5m of external research funding.

Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger is author of the best-selling new book, Apocalypse Never (Harper Collins June 30, 2020), which has received strong praise from scientists and scholars including Harvard’s Steven Pinker, MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel, and the former CEO and Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy. “This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,” writes leading climate scientist Tom Wigley."Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” says historian Richard Rhodes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “Within its lively pages, Michael Shellenberger rescues with science and lived experience a subject drowning in misunderstanding and partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for the planet’s future, take heart.” The book is being translated into over 10 languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Czech, Slovak, and Polish. Michael has been called a “environmental guru,” “climate guru,” “North America’s leading public intellectual on clean energy,”and “high priest” of the environmental humanist movement for his writings and TED talks, which have been viewed over five million times. Shellenberger advises policymakers around the world including in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In January, 2020, Shellenberger testified before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change invited Michael in 2019 to serve as an independent Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report.Shellenberger has been a climate and environmental activist for over 30 years. He has helped save nuclear reactors around the world, from Illinois and New York to South Korea and Taiwan, thereby preventing an increase in air pollution equivalent to adding over 24 million cars to the road.Michael is a leading environmental journalist who has broken major stories on Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; and climate change and California’s fires.He writes on housing and homelessness, and has called for California to declare a state of emergency with regards to its addiction, mental health, and housing crises. He has authored widely-read articles and reports on the topic including “Why California Keeps Making Homelessness Worse,” “California in Danger.” His articles for Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and his TED talks ("How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment," "Why I Changed My Mind About Nuclear Power" and “Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet”) have been viewed over five million times.Michael was featured in "Pandora's Promise," an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear, and appeared on "The Colbert Report." He debated Ralph Nader on CNN’s "Crossfire" and Stanford University’s Mark Jacobsen at UCLA . He is co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, where he was president from 2003 - 2015, and served as an advisor to MIT's "Future of Nuclear Energy" task force.Michael advocated for a “new Apollo project” in clean energy, which resulted in a $150 billion public investment in clean tech between 2009 and 2015.