Bruce Taper

Founder

With over 20 years experience in sustainability and planning, Bruce brings an innovative and unconventional approach to overcoming the challenges of strategic urban design. Former Director of Sustainability and Metropolitan Planning for the NSW Department of Planning, Bruce’s expertise lies in his capacity to utilise emerging technologies to deliver smart, equitable and enabling solutions. Since founding Kinesis in 2007 Bruce has stewarded the delivery of game-changing work for clients, including the groundbreaking PRECINX rating tool for Landcom, and the Decentralised Energy Master Plan for the City of Sydney.

David Holden

Head of Product

With 20+ years experience working across Australian and American cities in both the public and private sectors, David has focused on transforming the way we integrate city planning, development and urban sustainability. David specialises in the analysis of data for planning policy, land use, transport, energy efficiency, renewable energy, water and stormwater to create sustainable urban forms that both mitigate, and are adaptable to, the climate problem. As the resident all round ‘nice-guy’, our clients go out of their way to work on projects with David.

Mark Hibberd

Chief Executive Officer

Mark brings 20 years of software product experience to Kinesis, with a background in software as a service, machine learning & security. Since he joined Kinesis in 2017, Mark has been responsible for driving Kinesis' use of technology and data forward.

His approach to software products is to bring together the best people and domain expertise, with careful selection and application of technology to build products that really work for their users. At Kinesis, this means fostering a team that is able to deliver on products that drive real emissions reductions and improvements for our customers and the cities they operate in.

Samantha Vivian

Head of Success

With a long history in energy analytics, sustainability and customer service, Sam leads our growing Customer Success team, and has supported leading organisations from Stockland to the City of Sydney to achieve their net-zero ambitions.  Sam is focused on ensuring our customers actually achieve their outcomes and decarbonise faster, whether that is through better data, better reporting, more transparent disclosure or net zero pathway development.