Appointments round-up

WRAP Board recruits new members

Alan Knight has nearly 20 years’ experience of working with global and national organisations, advising them at board level on global sustainable development issues which affect business, society and individuals. Alison Austin has 18 years environment and sustainability experience with Sainsburys as well as providing independent sustainability consultancy to major FTSE 100 companies. They will both attend their first Board meeting in September and will be formally appointed at WRAPs AGM in November.

Talking about the new appointments, Peter Stone, chairman, said: WRAP has ambitious plans. Alan and Alisons unrivalled experience will help these plans evolve and provide insight, challenge and support to our work. They will have direct input into increasing resource efficiency in the UK to deliver economic and environmental benefits.

Biffa strengthens municipal management team

The senior management team of Biffas municipal division has been expanded in a bid to help create strong customer relationships.

Dave Kenney, formerly the regional manager responsible for eight of Biffas municipal contracts, has been promoted to the new post of regional director south. Meanwhile, the post of regional director north has gone to Simon Crook, who has been the general manager overseeing Biffas multi-million pound PFI contracts with Leicester city council and the Isle of Wight. In their respective roles, they will be responsible for the delivery of agreed contracts and related service standards, as well as the commercial expansion of municipal contracts in their regions.

In a further management change, Ross Hickey has joined the division as finance director. The Australian was formerly finance director of Morrison Facilities Management, a position he had held for six years. He replaces Chris Peal who is leaving Biffa to pursue other interests. Chris had been finance director with independent municipal contractor Verdant since 2001, taking on a similar role when Verdant was acquired by Greenstar UK in 2007, and then when Greenstar was bought by Biffa last year.

Commenting on the appointments, Biffa Municipal director Roger Edwards said: With several new contract wins under our belt this year and a healthy new business pipeline, I want to be sure that we have the right knowledge and expertise in the right places. We may have a business servicing contracts worth well over 100 million, but never forget that our most immediate customers are the millions of householders that we service every week.

SITA appoints head of customer insight to board

SITA UK has strengthened its management team through the appointment of a new head of customer Insight.

Owen Maybank, 35, joins the SITA UK management board and will be responsible for providing strategic direction to the companys market intelligence gathering and development of services based on customer needs. Mr Maybank joins SITA UK from parcel delivery service TNT Express and he has also previously worked for Barclays and Veolia. Louise Earnshaw, 39, has also been appointed as customer insight manager. She has been with SITA UK for eight years, where she was previously business intelligence manager. Before joining SITA UK, she worked for business research and market analysis specialists, Frost and Sullivan.

Commenting on the creation of the new team, David Palmer-Jones, SITA UK chief executive, said: Our priority is to offer what customers want. I am delighted to have Owen join our management team and believe his extensive experience will assist in the coordination of the development of a series of new purpose built offers for our customers.

Enpure appoints director of waste and energy

Environmental engineering company Enpure has appointed Ian Miller as project delivery director of its waste and energy division.

Ian joined Enpures predecessor Purac in 1997, then, after a period away, re-joined the company in 2005, initially taking on the position of commercial manager rising latterly to deputy director. He has been extensively involved in the negotiation of many of the Companys contracts and subcontracts and has been responsible for the project valuation function. Earlier this year following the creation of two distinct divisions in Enpure, water and waste/energy, Ian was responsible for running the project development department for the water division.

The appointment reflects Enpures commitment to winning and successfully delivering projects in the vibrant market of municipal and C&I waste treatment and waste to energy plants.

Five newrecruits forCasepak

Recycling company Casepak has appointed five new members of staff as part of its expansion plans.

Casepaks 21 million Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), due to open in the autumn, will create 50 jobs initially with a prospect of a further 50 as the amount of recyclable material handled increases. The first of these positions to be filled includes the appointment of Greg Paradowski as MRF production manager, Chris Leach as commercial manager, Natalie Gillett as office supervisor, Laura Johnson as commercial administrator, and Alex Girvan as finance administrator. These recent appointments are just the first to be made as the MRF approaches operation. Initially Greg Paradowski, Casepaks new MRF production manager, will be responsible for taking care of MRF operations, managing on-site contractors and liaising with the health and safety manager to create safe working procedures and risk assessments. As the MRF comes on line this autumn, Greg will then take the lead in ensuring that the MRFs quality and production targets are met.

Casepaks joint managing director, Mark Smith, said: Each of these appointments marks the start of a very important chapter in the expansion of Casepak. With our MRF due to come on stream this autumn, it is important we have the right people in our team to maintain our trademark standard of excellence. Im very pleased Greg, Chris, Natalie, Laura and Alex have decided to join the Casepak team, their appointments will be instrumental to the companys onward success.