Vernier on August 14, 2025

Dear Members and Friends,

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.

Bookings for Vernier Members will, as always, be by response to this email.  Please do it now!

For Friends of Vernier and general admission guests, please book using Humantix :

Please advise immediately but certainly before 3:00pm on Friday August 8 if you plan to attend and the names of guests you plan to invite.

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.

Warmest Regards,

Peter

Peter Murie
Secretary & Past President
The Victorian Vernier Society
The Society for People with a Passion for Manufacturing
www.vernier.org.au
03 9589 4135 and 0419 106 765