The Bright Dimension Approach

Bright Dimension’s approach is simple; assemble the right team of experts as and when needed to address our clients’ challenges. The team comprises of industry experts who have the necessary skill, expertise and experiences to enable our clients to drive their new venture or start-up to success.

Bright Dimension was founded by Oliver Hartley, with over 25 years’ experience, a veteran in the renewable energy industry. This long-time commitment to renewable energy fuels the commitment of Bright Dimension to shape the transition to a clean energy future. The varying teams of experts brought together by Bright Dimension will enable our clients to achieve their goals. The variable teams comprise experts in their fields, who collaboratively work as part of a network dedicated to delivering success for our clients.

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Dr Oliver Hartley leads the Bright Dimension team. Within the field of clean energy, he has worked in research, technology development and commercialisation, merger and acquisitions, business structuring and start-ups for over 25 years.

In 2021, Dr Oliver Hartley successfully sold his company Epho Pty Ltd to Australia’s largest energy retailer AGL. Oliver had founded Epho seven years earlier and the company had become one of the most successful solar companies in Australia, designing, constructing and operating large commercial and industrial solar systems for some of Australia’s biggest clients, like Woolworths, Coles, ALDI, Goodman, Charter Hall, Dexus, Brisbane Airport Corporation, DHL and many more.

Prior to Epho, Oliver had established Q Cells Australia as a leading, premium brand module supplier in Australia within 3 years from inception. In Europe, he was the chairman of VHF Technology in Switzerland, whose technology was successfully developed and sold to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and a board member of a number of thin-film module manufacturers (Solibro, a CIGS thin-film module manufacturer from Sweden, Sunfilm AG a silicon based thin film module manufacturer from Germany and CGS, a crystalline silicon on glass module manufacturer originally from Australia).

As CEO, Oliver successfully managed the transition of Calyxo, a CdTe thin-film module company, from research to full commercialisation and mass manufacturing between 2007 and 2010. As the head of the strategic business development department for Q Cells, Oliver was responsible for M&A deals of up to $2bn in value.

Oliver has a PhD, which he carried out at the Photovoltaic Special Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, as well as an MBA in international management from the University of London. He is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Oliver is the Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee for the School for Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW.

Experts We Work With

  • Tatiana Berseneva

    Tatiana Berseneva is part of a Bright Dimension team of experts when her outstanding experience of business process, digitalisation and lean management is required. Between 2019 and 2021, Tatiana was part of Epho’s executive team in the role of General Manager Lean and Head of Procurement and Logistics, bringing her exceptional organisational and process skills into the solar industry to support Epho‘s growth and evolving needs for structure, process and delivery. With over 13 years of international experience in quality, project & process management in two world’s leading automotive companies, Volkswagen and Daimler; Tatiana has driven multiple complex projects around IT systems, organisational change, quality management, digital transformation, providing highly valuable guidance on lean company development and business model scalability.

    Tatiana holds a dual Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern and University of Saarland (Germany), a Bachelor of Arts in Tourism Management from Harz University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and a Diploma for Linguistic and Intercultural Communication from State University of Ryazan (Russia).

  • Yannick Zapf

    Yannick Zapf from YZ Consulting joins the Bright Dimension team of experts when his technical and business expertise is required. Yannick has spent over a decade in the renewable energy space in Europe, South Africa and Australia. Yannick is a renewable energy all-rounder with a strong background in management and engineering. As Head of C&I solar PV for specialist engineering consultancy Clean Technology Partners, Yannick led a team of engineers and project managers to advance the uptake of solar PV in Australia. Having joined in its early stages, Yannick played a key role in growing the business significantly. Later on, as Head of Sales, Yannick focused on services for large scale solar, wind and storage projects.

    As a technical Project Manager at Germany’s largest wind energy developer & operator WPD, Yannick had previously developed expertise in project development for onshore wind projects.

    Yannick is passionate about making a contribution and is involved in several start-up incubators as a mentor, keeping his finger on the pulse of the renewable energy industry in Australia and internationally.