Cath Thrupp

CEO, Carbon Planet 
National President, Stormwater Australia

Cath Thrupp is CEO of CarbonPlanet, a Brisbane-based company creating a new Metaverse and Blockchain platform to connect investors to their on-ground catchment and sustainability projects. She is an aquatic ecologist and catchment manager, who has over twenty years of experience delivering major water and natural resource projects within the private, public & non-profit sectors. Cath also undertakes water advisory work, with a focus on water innovation, strategy and digital water solutions.

Having grown up on a farm on the Balonne River floodplain in western Queensland, Cath has a lifelong interest in rivers and a deep understanding of how floods, droughts and water security can impact landholders and local communities. Since then, Cath’s career has spanned from managing environmental aspects of dam operations in central Queensland to wetland and fish monitoring in the northern Murray-Darling Basin and Coopers Creek, to environmental flow monitoring in north and central Queensland, through to urban water planning and policy in Brisbane. Most recently, Cath’s focus has been on leveraging the latest technology to create new business models that can scale catchment and coastal restoration projects.

In her spare time, Cath is also a Director of Our New Leaders, an advisory company specialising in online mentoring and training for mid-career professionals who want to upskill for the future. Cath is a big picture thinker and a ‘people’ person, who deeply cares about supporting our catchments, community & industry to prepare for the future.