The Team · Biome Foundation

The Board & Co-Founders

The four who hold the architecture.

Glen Kelly

Chair, Foundation Board

One of Australia's most respected Noongar leaders. Led the Noongar Settlement, Australia's largest native title settlement at A$1.3BN, covering 200,000km² of Southwest WA. Deep networks across WA Government, the resources and agriculture sectors, and First Nations institutions statewide. As Chair, holds primary responsibility for the integrated advisory body and the Foundation's First Nations governance architecture.

Nicole Lockwood

Foundation Board Member

Extensive networks across WA Government, the agricultural sector, the resources industry and the conservation community. Former Chair of Infrastructure WA, the body responsible for coordinating WA's major project pipeline. A trusted convener across public and private sectors, central to the Foundation's regulatory navigation and the philanthropic and government relationships that fund and validate its work.

Oliver Bolton

Co-Founder

Built Earthly into the world's leading nature project assessment platform, with 1,000+ projects screened globally and Keystone 3.0 deployed across six years. Serial entrepreneur with a 20-year track record building purpose-driven ventures; among the first 60 B Corps in the UK. Brings operational leadership, the technical integrity infrastructure that underpins methodology development, and global philanthropy and corporate networks.

Lorenzo Curci

Co-Founder

Institutional finance background from Credit Suisse with deep expertise in derivatives, fixed income and complex financial product structuring. Brings the commercial discipline and structural rigour required for entity registration, donor financial reporting, and the design of regranting and technical assistance frameworks.

Partners

Co-architects of this work.

Partners are not vendors. They are the on-the-ground network and the institutional credibility through which the Foundation operates.

Traditional Owner Groups

Principal partners

Noongar Land Enterprise Group, Yaraguia Enterprises, additional First Nations groups confirmed through stakeholder mapping.

Land access, cultural authority, deep ecological knowledge and long-term stewardship that no commercial operator can replicate. These relationships are the foundation of everything.

NRM and Conservation Bodies

Gondwana Link, South Coast NRM, South West NRM, WABSI, WAMSI.

On-ground networks and field presence across priority landscapes. Scientific credibility and established relationships with landholders, local government and state regulators.

Research and Science Partners

Perth Zoo, WA universities, acoustic monitoring specialists. Professor Nikki Mitchell (UWA) confirmed as Scientific Advisory candidate.

Species recovery expertise, methodology development capability and MRV systems that reduce verification cost while increasing the defensibility of impact claims.

Technical Platform

Earthly (integrity framework via Keystone 3.0), Svanterra (automated MRV).

Global best-practice integrity standards applied as a technical input. The Foundation governs its own decisions independently.

Government and Regulatory

DBCA, DWER, DPIRD, Clean Energy Regulator, Commonwealth (EPBC reform, Nature Repair Market), Carbon Market Institute.

Regulatory pathway navigation. Methodology approval timelines. Alignment with WA Government and Commonwealth Nature Repair Market architecture.

Governance

Built for trust, accountability and long-term integrity.

Independent foundation

Standalone foundation, ring-fenced from any commercial vehicle.
No commingling of capital under any circumstances.
Initial Board: Nicole Lockwood, Glen Kelly, Oliver Bolton.
ACNC registration in process; DGR1 status pursued.

Integrated advisory body

A single integrated body combining scientific expertise and First Nations cultural and ecological authority.
Indigenous ecological knowledge sits as integrated expertise, not as a parallel input to be balanced.
Genuine decision authority within the Foundation.

Standards in practice

Integrated Advisory Body with genuine decision authority.
FPIC consent for all supported projects.
Capital ring-fenced from any commercial vehicle.
Independent annual audit and quarterly reporting.
Annual impact reports, independently verified, publicly published.

Built deliberately for what the Foundation needs to do.