Sterecycle has built a strong Board and Management team, with expertise in waste management, process engineering, power, finance and high-growth businesses:

Board Non-Executive Directors

Andy Hinton - Chairman
Mr Hinton has been Chairman of the Company since October 2005. He is an experienced water and waste industry executive and entrepreneur. He was formerly CEO and majority shareholder of White Rose Environmental Ltd, the UK’s largest medical waste business. White Rose was a subsidiary of waste and utility business Kelda Plc until December 2000, when Mr Hinton and other members of management purchased the business unit. Management developed and expanded the business of White Rose and ultimately sold it for £36 million in 2004. Prior to White Rose, Mr Hinton was involved in a series of transactions which led to the formation of Yorkshire Environmental, a diversified UK waste group with annual turnover of approximately £200 million before its merger with Waste Recycling Group. Mr Hinton currently manages Ailsa3Ventures, a personal investment vehicle investing in environmental businesses including Credential Environmental, the UK’s largest tyre recycling business, of which Mr. Hinton is Chairman. In 2007, Mr Hinton was appointed as a non-executive director of WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), the UK government's advisory body in the area of recycling and resource recovery. Mr. Hinton holds a BA in Geography/History from Leeds University and an MBA from Bradford University.

Duncan Grierson - Founder
Mr Grierson founded the Company in February 2003 and was its Chief Executive Officer until January 2010, leading the Company’s growth and development from a concept to a commercial-scale operational business, Over this period the Company secured 6 rounds of private finance, raising £34 million, including funds from Goldman Sachs and Fidelity International. Prior to founding Sterecycle, Mr Grierson was a private equity investor. From 2001 to 2003, Mr Grierson was a Vice-President at Lake Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm which manages funds of over US$1.3 billion with a buy-and-build strategy and where Mr. Grierson latterly focused on environmental services. Between 1997 and 2001, Mr Grierson was an Investment Director at Thompson Clive Venture Capital in London and Paris, one of Europe’s oldest technology venture capital firms founded in 1977 and which managed funds in excess of £150 million. Mr Grierson invested in and was Non-Executive Director of several technology companies and has helped several technology companies to IPO. Mr Grierson originally qualified as a corporate finance lawyer with Clifford Chance in London and Frankfurt, where he spent 3 years and specialized in private equity. Mr. Grierson has also co-founded a successful landfill business. Mr Grierson has a degree in Law from St. Johns College, Cambridge University, and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Brian Count
Mr Count has over 35 years’ experience in the power sector. Mr Count is the former Chief Executive Officer of Innogy plc, the public company comprising National Power’s UK business which was the largest UK generating company formed on privatisation of the industry with revenues of approximately £4 billion. Mr. Count was integral in transforming the company from a generator to an integrated energy business and the acquisition by RWE of Innogy plc in 2003 for £5billion delivered a substantial return to shareholders. Mr Count joined the Central Electricity Generation Board in 1974 and ultimately became Director of Power Generation and the CEO of National Power. Following the acquisition of National Power, Mr Count became Chief Executive of RWE Trading, based in Essen, Germany where he remained until he retired from RWE in 2005. In this role he grew the European energy trading business to become a commercial hub of the RWE group. Mr Count is currently non-executive Chairman of Ceres Power (a fuel cell technology company quoted on the London Stock Exchange), non-executive Chairman of Progressive Energy (a company that is working with Centrica Plc to develop a clean coal fired power station with Carbon Capture and Storage). Mr Count is also a member of the UK Industrial Development Advisory Board of the Department of Trade and Industry. Mr Count has extensive experience of international energy utilities and has been involved with governments and regulatory matters in both the UK and Europe. He has a degree in mathematics from Kings College, Cambridge University and a PhD in physics from Exeter University.

Ron Kopas
Mr Kopas was the first CFO of Sterecycle from March 2005 when he negotiated to buy part of the business from the founders and became the third Director (summer 2005). With the founders he co-led the business expansion, securing expanded licensing and the first staff recruitments including initiating a series of significant funding rounds until March 2008 when he stepped down as CFO to become a non-Executive Director. From October 2009 Mr Kopas has acted as a consultant to Sterecycle to support on-going financing. The Company has raised a total of £40 million over this period. Before buying an interest in Sterecycle, Mr Kopas had been a co-founding director of corporate finance boutique KC Capital and an investment banker with UBS Warburg in London. Prior to entering corporate finance Mr Kopas was a Manager, Asian Markets for trading firm Ronald A. Chisholm Ltd where he built a $20 million business in China and Taiwan. In 2008, Mr Kopas also co-founded Queensgate Resources, a gold exploration business now listed on the TSX-V (TLR) and has started or run a series of successful businesses over his career. He has BA from Dalhousie University, Canada and MBA from INSEAD, France. Mr Kopas is a Canadian who also holds British citizenship and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Anthony (Tony) Anderson
Mr. Anderson has been a Director of the Company since March 2010. He has over 25 years experience in the power and finance industries and is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Northland Power Income Fund, an independent power producer listed on the TSX. Northland Power Income Fund, has a market capitalization of approximately $1.5 billion and has ownership interests in approximately ten power projects in Canada, the United States and Germany aggregating 870MW which use a variety of technologies, including renewable biomass. Mr. Anderson, who has been Northland Power Income Fund’s CFO since its inception, has played a key role in its development and growth, including its listing on the TSX in 1997. Mr. Anderson has extensive experience structuring and negotiating non recourse project financings and has sourced approximately $3 billion in financing often using innovative structured transactions. Northland Power Income Fund currently receive coverage from eight sell-side analysts, and Mr. Anderson has been instrumental in entering new markets, many of which are in the renewable energy sector. Mr. Anderson is a founding director of the Canadian Association of Income Funds. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction and a Diploma in Management from McGill University.

Executive Officers Who Serve as Board Directors

Tom Shields – Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Shields joined Sterecycle as CEO in January 2010. He was previously Managing Director of KemFine UK Ltd, a specialty chemicals business with £45 million of turnover and 262 staff. Prior to KemFine, Mr. Shields lead the spin off of Avecia’s Fine Chemicals business to join the KemFine Group and had previously been Vice President of the Fine Chemicals business at Avecia, a global company with sales of £442 million backed by private equity funds Investcorp and Cinven. Mr. Shields was Manufacturing Director at Avecia where he was responsible for 12 manufacturing sites in 5 countries. Prior to this Mr Shields was located in Delaware as Head of Zeneca Engineering in the United States. The early part of Mr. Shields’ career included 16 years with ICI, one of the world’s largest chemical businesses, covering roles in engineering design and site management, eventually rising head up an Engineering Technology Group. He was a Trustee Director of Avecia’s Pension Scheme. Public appointments include past Chairman of the Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley Board and he is currently Chair of the Chemical Sciences Scotland Investment group. Mr. Shields graduated from Queens University, Belfast with a BSc in Engineering.

Richard Moulson – Chief Financial Officer
Mr Moulson has 30 years accounting and finance experience and joined Sterecycle in September 2011. He has more than 25 years’ experience working with private and public companies across the technology, energy and life sciences industries.  During this time he has led multiple fund-raisings and finance transactions, taken several companies to market and built a strong network of institutional investors. Most recently, Mr Moulson was Managing Director and CFO of ETV Capital Limited, a UK private-equity backed technology investor, which managed a pan-European portfolio of 70 investments. Prior to this he was CFO and Company Secretary of Intercytex Group plc, a biotech company specialising in cell therapy, where he co-led the IPO process and listed the company in 2006. He has also worked as Group Finance Director at Computeraid Ltd, a private-equity backed IT software & services company; Director at ML Laboratories PLC, a listed healthcare company; and as Senior Assistant Director at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. Mr Moulson qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London. He has a BSc in Zoology from Exeter University.

Executive Officers

Alistair Shotliff – Development Director
Mr Shotliff has over 25 years experience in waste management. He joined Sterecycle in January 2007. Prior to Sterecycle, Mr Shotliff was Projects Director with Waste Recycling Group (one of the UK’s largest waste management companies) where he led its successful bid for the 25 year Central Berkshire £600 million PFI contract which he closed in December 2006. Mr Shotliff was previously Executive Director with Thames Waste Management where lead bids for several major PFI waste contracts including for East London Waste Authority where Thames Waste was the underbidder. During his career Mr Shotliff has secured several major planning permissions for profitable waste facilities including recycling, composting, and landfill projects. Mr Shotliff started his career in waste management as Landfill Acquisition and Estates Manager with Biffa, the UK’s 2nd largest waste management company. He originally trained as an Exploration Geologist with RMC Plc (a ready mixed concrete and quarrying business listed on the London Stock Exchange until acquired by Cemex of Mexico) where he was responsible for the identification and acquisition of aggregate quarries. Mr Shotliff has a BSc in Mining & Geology from Imperial College, London.

James Crankshaw - Director of Engineering
Mr Crankshaw has 18 years engineering and operational experience in chemical manufacturing, metals processing and resource recovery. He joined Sterecycle in May 2008 as Head of Engineering, and in July 2011 became Director of Engineering for Sterecycle, and Site Director at Rotherham. Mr Crankshaw was latterly Operations Manager at Metalysis Limited (a technology driven high value metals processing company) where he managed engineering and operations at both pilot and production scale plants in the UK and Asia. Before Metalysis, Mr Crankshaw was Operations Manager at Contract Chemicals Limited, one of the UK's largest speciality chemicals manufacturer's. He was responsible for operational management of the company's main top tier COMAH facility as well as all engineering projects within the company. This included the design, installation and commissioning of a large scale industrial bromination facility. Mr Crankshaw previously held senior engineering roles at chemical manufacturing companies Croda Chemicals and Rohm and Haas. Mr Crankshaw is a Fellow of the IChemE, a chartered engineer and a chartered scientist.