Roger Stroud spent over 10 years in finance in a number of areas including credit, money market and investment banking for CitiNational (Citibank/National Mutual) merchant bank, predominantly in Sydney. He then floated a mining company, with a head office based in Sydney, and undertook the role of managing director for 8 years. After floating a manufacturing company and overseeing the building of a modern brickworks in Perth, Mr Stroud provided advisory services to mining and manufacturing businesses. In the late 1990s, he began the process of building businesses in the renewable fuel sector, primarily biodiesel. This included floating two separate biodiesel companies. Mr Stroud is a founding director and controlling shareholder of Teco.Bio LLC, and is based in Perth.