Project Manager Rod Davis has seeded, funded and led the Trybrid project from the outset, and will be leading the team through the design, funding, build, launch and operational stages. Davis is a former world sailor and occasional boat builder, with career in project management and design, in both the built and marine fields, with qualifications ex of the University of NSW’s Faculty of Architecture. Davis is a qualified quantity surveyor and experienced project manager,
having designed managed, and then built projects worth some AUS billion dollars in Australia and Asia.
Cr Davis is the 2004-08 elected local leader of the small, fast ferry community of Port Douglas, on the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef coastline, where many of world’s innovations in fast ferry design have been pioneered, and as part of a community with higher than usual interest in sustainability, this interest has been manifested in the Douglas Shire Council’s stated intent to develop models of sustainability in housing and, as a marine community, in sustainable marine transport.
The town of Port Douglas’s biggest single biggest diesel fuel bill comes from the many ferries running 365 days a year, to the dive locations of the Great Barrier Reef, where regular 80pax ferries are consuming some 20-30 liters per nautical mile, a fuel consumption level that the Trybrid project is set to seriously challenge. The neighboring tropical coastal communities’ ongoing ability to move some 10,000 visiting tourists per day, to and from the Reef, without contributing to its climate changed demise, is one of the main drivers behind the project, and with it, the project managers motive in heading this project.
Having founded, and run radio stations in his home area, and with writing and political contracts, Rod Davis is heading up the media and project spokesmen’s role. 
The career path of Davis was introduced to aid work with the dreadful fallout from Indian Ocean Tsunami, where Rod’s focus was in the restitution of a small coastal community at Talalla Beach in southern Sri Lanka with AFAP and the Talalla Support Group.
