Mr Ivan Voropaev is the founder, shareholder and managing director of WPE. He invented the Wave Mill technology. He has a degree in electrical engineering, computer science and maritime engineering.

Mr Ivan Voropaev was graduated from the School of Instrumentation and from the Naval Academy of Radio-Electronics (St. Petersburg, Russia). He also got diploma in finance and banking.

Mr. Voropaev previously worked for the largest Australian power distributors and power generators; and as the chief research officer for the Russian Military Space program. He has 25 year experience of project development and commercialisation.