Speakers

Ross Bartley
BIR - Bureau of International Recycling
Brussels, Belgium


 
Having joined the BIR, the World Federation of the material recovery and recycling industries, in 1996, Ross has been responsible for monitoring all legislation on trade issues and environmental matters which could or do impact on the recycling industry sector. Ross' specialist role in BIR is the representation of the recycling sector's interests to the UN-EP Basel Convention, and as Chair of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee, BIAC Waste Group, representing the Groups interests to the OECD’s Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste. Ross also holds the position of Environmental & Technical Officer for the European Ferrous Recovery and Recycling Federation (EFR), and for the European Metal Trade and Recycling Federation (EUROMETREC), and the European Recovered Paper Association (ERPA). These appointments necessitate maintaining close contact with the European Institutions: The Commission, the Parliament and the Council. Prior to joining BIR, Ross was the Technical Executive for the UK Aluminium Federation and the Technical Officer for the Organisation of European Aluminium Smelters. His industrial experience as a graduate metallurgist has ranged across secondary copper refining, primary aluminium smelting, and steel production in the UK, Norway and South Africa respectively. Ross resides in Belgium.

Teresa Presas
CEPI
Brussels, Belgium

 
Teresa Presas was born in Portugal in 1952 and has worked in the paper industry since 1982 when she joined Tetra Pak Portugal as Director of Communication and Marketing Services. She later went on to become Director of Communication and Environment for Tetra Pak Europe, Middle East and Africa and then, Vice President of European Affairs for Tetra Pak Europe and Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs for Tetra Pak International. She has been the Director General of CEPI since September 2003. Teresa has a degree in psychology from the Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon and in 2008 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Helsinki University of Technology.

Merja Helander
L&T - Lassila & Tikanoja
Helsinki, Finland


Merja Helander, was educated in Finland and after commercial studies received Executive MBA at Helsinki School of Economics and Business administration in 2000. She worked in the Finnish paper industries’ two associations, Finnpap and Converta in 1972-1987 and in Paperinkeräys Oy as director in charge of recovered paper procurement, sales, logistics and international trade in 1987-2010. She was appointed as Director, Fibre Recycling Business of L&T – Lassila-Tikanoja as of 15 February 2011 and  President and CEO of SKT – Suomen Keräystuote, a subsidiary of L&T as of 1 April 2011. She is President of ERPA (European Recovered Paper Association) and Vice President of Paper Division of BIR – Bureau of International Recycling.

David Barrio
ASPAPEL
Madrid, Spain


 
David Barrio, the Recycling Director of the Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers (ASPAPEL) will speak on issues surrounding waste and paper recycling in a discussion titled, From Waste to Paper for Recycling: Criteria and Legislation. Barrio began his professional career in the hospital supplies field, working for different laboratories in their commercial activities. In 1997 he joined the recovered paper company CARPA (Cartón y Papel Reciclado) as the operations manager, gaining experience in the recovered paper supply and trade. In 2001, he left CHEP (Equipment Pooling Systems) and joined ASPAPEL as the Recycling Directo. He is also the General Secretary of RECIPAP, the paper and board packaging representation at the Spanish green dot packaging scheme.

David Powlson
Pöyry Management Consulting Ltd
London, UK

 
David is a Principal at Pöyry Management Consulting in London where he is responsible for the consulting work to the pulp and paper sector in North West Europe, and manages the team delivering this. He also has specific background in recovered paper, and a focus on this area. David has undertaken numerous assignments throughout Europe and across the industry – paper companies; suppliers; end-users; chemical companies; recycling businesses; and also for the financial sector. Typical assignments include due diligence; identifying new business offerings; strategy developments and innovations; business analysis and benchmarking; amongst others. David has been at Pöyry for five years, prior to that he spent three years working for the UK Government (Wrap). At the time the government was investing substantial money in the recycling sector and needed paper industry expertise to manage the paper recycling aspects of this. Before this David was at BPB’s Purfleet Mill (near London), which made gypsum liner and testliner, latterly as Production manager. Prior to that he was involved in numerous mill developments - to the machine, fibre plant and effluent plant. David academic background is a degree in Paper Science with Management at Manchester University and he also spent a year working for the Technical University of Dresden in Germany in paper research.

Graham Moore
Pira International
Surrey, United Kingdom

Graham Moore has over twenty years experience of the paper industry, encompassing process and product knowledge, wet end chemistry, recycling, de-inking, product performance and strategic futures related research.

William P. Moore
Moore & Associates
Atlanta, GA USA



 
Mr. Moore is president of Moore & Associates, an international consulting firm engaged in providing a range of market research and strategic services to the global paper recycling industry. Prior to his many years as a consultant, he held a series of positions in the solid waste, paper and recycling industries.  These included founder and vice president of Paper Recycling International (a joint venture of Stone Container) and the first director of recycling for Waste Management, Inc. At Moore & Associates he has served over 250 clients on more than 450 projects. Mr. Moore’s knowledge base includes all aspects of the worldwide supply and demand of recovered paper.

Guillermo Vallés Albar
Saica Paper
Zaragoza, Spain



 
Guillermo Vallés Albar joined Saica Paper in 1998. He has been in his current position with the company, materials director, since 2007. Valles Albar also is the president of two organizations, the Recycling Committee of ASPAPEL (Spanish Paper and Pulp Producers Association), and RECIPAP, the paper and board packaging representation at the Spanish green dot packaging scheme. He has served as president of both since June 2010. Valles Albar also is a member of the Recycling Committee of CEPI (Confederation of the European Paper Industry) and REVIPAP (French Association of Paper Recyclers). He holds a master’s in business administration from ESADE, in Barcelona, Spain, and a bachelors’ degree from Zaragoza University.

Marc Forman
GP Harmon Recycling LLC
Jericho, New York, USA

Marc Forman began his career with Harmon Associates, now GP Harmon Recycling LLC, in 1991 as manager of finance. At that time, Harmon Associates was a division of Fort Howard Corp. In 1997, Forman was promoted to director of operations, the position he served in until 2000, when Harmon was acquired by Georgia Pacific Corp. Harmon served as director of strategic and financial planning for the company before taking the position of vice president and chief operations officer in 2003. Beginning in 2008, Forman was named president of the GP Harmon Recycling and remains in that post currently. Earlier in his career, Forman served as controller and director of operations for Letraset USA and as vice president and CFO of Graphnet Inc. He also held various accounting positions with Graphic Scanning Corp. Forman is on the board of directors for Rebuilding Together Long Island. He holds an M.B.A. in controllership from St. John's University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany. 

Niels van Binsbergen
America Chung Nam BV (ACN Europe)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands




Niels enjoyed an international upbringing on 3 different continents, leading to an interest for global business. After a Business Studies education at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and a wine study in Bordeaux (France), Niels worked for 7 years as a wine buyer and in parallel trading. Since 2002 Niels has been in the Recovered Paper industry for America Chung Nam BV. He joined as Marketing Representative into an organisation of only 3 people. Since joining ACN (Europe), Niels became the Managing Director, responsible for the European offices of Rotterdam and Manchester. Within that same period ACN became a much larger organisation, with activities in every major European country and is the largest exporter of Recovered Paper to China.

Henri Vermuelen
Smurfit Kappa
Eindhoven, The Netherlands




Henri Vermeulen was born in 1965 and is by profession a lawyer.  He has been in the recovered paper business since 1992 and is now Vice President of recovered paper at Smurfit Kappa.  He is in charge of buying 100.000 tons weekly and his own recovered paper facilities.  Henri is also active in a wide range of functions in recovered paper organizations and producer responsibility schemes throughout Europe.

Sofia Boente
ASPAPEL
Madrid, Spain


Sofía Boente’s is a project manager for the Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers (ASPAPEL). Boente has been with ASPAPEL since 2005 and during that time, she has provided technical advice and monitoring geared towards improving municipal paper and board collection systems. Before accepting her current position, Boente served as the local sustainability technician of the Corporación Voz de Galicia from 2003 to 2005. Her work included the implementation of Local 21 Agenda, throughout 15 municipalities. Boente earned a degree in marine sciences, with a specialty in environment and pollution at the University  of Vigo (Spain), after which she continued on to receive a master’s in engineering and environmental management by EOI Spain‘s School of Industrial Organisation. She will draw on her experiences in the environmental sector to speak about high quality collection systems: the Spanish case. In her speech, she will discuss how the municipal collection volumes have doubled while quality standards have remained consistent. She will also address how to combine blue bin and complementary collections, and how costs, quality and volume contribute to collection issues. 

Andrea Orallo
ASPAPEL
Madrid, Spain


 
Andrea Orallo has been a project manager for the Spanish Association of Pulp and Paper Manufacturers (ASPAPEL) since 2006. During that time, she has worked to improve municipal paper and board collection systems through technical advice and monitoring. Orallo earned a degree in environmental sciences at the University of Alcalá (Madrid). She also successfully completed her master’s work in environmental engineering and management by EOI Spain‘s School of Industrial Organisation. Orallo will share her insights on how to combine blue bin and complementary collections. She will also speak about how quality costs and collection volumes contribute to separate collection, during the high quality collection systems: the Spanish case presentation.

Francisco J. Donoso
Reciclajes Dolaf
 


Francisco J. Donoso’s contributions to the recycling industry span almost 20 years. Since 1992, he has served as the managing director of Reciclajes Dolaf. Donoso also devotes his time to four organizations in the industry. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Madrid Recycling Paper Federation (AREMA) since 1999, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Spanish Recycling Paper Federation (REPACAR) since 2005. Donoso became the executive adviser of Union of Recovering Companies (UdER) in 2007. The Paper division of Bureau of International Recycling named him vice president in 2008. Donoso has a background in biology and business administration, with a bachelor of biological science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and masters in business administration by Know How Business College. 

Clive Suckling
PwC
London, England


Clive Suckling is a graduate of Oxford University and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Clive has nearly 30 years experience in advising international companies on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, capital markets transactions, cross-border investment and corporate reporting.
Through his earlier responsibility for developing PwC’s business in Scandinavia, Clive has worked with many of the world’s leading pulp and paper companies based in that region over the past 25 years. He has also acted for a number of other European and non-European forest products companies on cross-border investment strategies. Since July 2008, he has been Leader of PwC’s Global Forest, Paper & Packaging practice, with responsibility for developing the firms’ thinking and services towards that sector on a global basis. He is also a member of PwC’s Global Industrial Products leadership team. He is a regular speaker on forest, paper and packaging industry issues and trends at events across the world and has authored many published articles on industry developments.  He is based in London.

Bernard Arrateig
UPM
Helsinki, Finland


Bernard Arrateig, the current vice president of RCP sourcing for UPM, has been with the company since 2001. He joined UPM as the sourcing director of direct materials, before transitioning to his role as vice president of RCP in 2010. Arrateig has a dynamic background that includes a master’s in biology and an MBA in purchasing. Bernard has worked for UPM since 2001, when he joined the company as the Sourcing Director of direct materials and in 2010 became Vice President of RCP sourcing.  Bernard has a  masters degree in Biology, and an MBA in Purchasing.

Harm Douwe Hitzert
Reukema Paper Group
Harderwijk, The Netherlands



Ing. H.D. Hitzert, was first introduced into the paper recycling industry in 1992. After a career as commercial manager in a semi-governmental company, managing the paper recycling loop for dutch councils, he joined the Reukema Recycling Group in 2004 as managing director within the Reukema Paper Group. This is an international paper recycling and trading company of recyclable fiber as raw materials for the paper industry. The Reukema Paper Group is part of the The Reukema Recycling Group, a worldwide operating recycling and trading company in ferrous, non-ferrous scrap metal, plastic and paper products.

Steve Miller
Bulk Handling Systems
Eugene, Oregon, USA




Steve Miller, CEO of Bulk Handling Systems, has more than 25 years of experience in management of recycling and manufacturing facilities including a 20-year career as Vice President, Region Manager for an international paper manufacturing and recycling company.  In this capacity, Miller was responsible for both the operations of numerous recycling processing facilities and the fiber supply to several paper mills utilizing recovered materials.  Since 2005, global growth at BHS has been significant with the commissioning of the most efficient and cost effective recycling systems in the industry today. As a consequence of his long career as a processor and buyer of recovered fiber, Miller has a unique perspective as a recycling system provider with a strong focus on product quality.  His diverse industry experience fuels the vision for innovative system designs to meet BHS customer’s operational and product quality goals. 

Manuela Suttnig
Redwave
Gleisdorf, Austria





Manuela Suttnig joined the REDWAVE team in 2010 as North West European Sales Manager. Within this role she has specialised in optical sorting technologies for the Paper Industry. Manuela has a technical back ground and gathered over 7 years of experience in the biomass energy business as project manager, export manager and managing director of an Irish national distribution company. Previously she has been earning her degree as graduated engineer in energy and environmental  technologies at University of Applied Science FH Joanneum, Austria. She is now located in Austria.

Philippe Chantrain
Cellmark Recycling
Gothenburg, Sweden


 

Philippe is 41 years old and has over 17 years experience in international recovered paper trading. He is employed by Cellmark Recycling for the  last 4 years. He used to work for major paper and board producers, and for a large Scandinavian trading company in the past.

Philippe is married, lives in Belgium and is a keen skier.

Peter Phippen
BBC Magazines
London, England, United Kingdom

 

 

Peter S. Phippen is Managing Director of BBC Magazines. He is also Director of BBC Worldwide, one of the UK’s fastest growing commercial media companies. He is responsible for all BBC Worldwide’s magazine titles, a number of market leading web sites and for the global expansion of the business. He is a Director of FIPP (the International Magazine Association). Previously, Peter was a Chairman of the PPA, President and Chief Executive Officer of BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. (BBCWWA), where he was responsible for expanding the company’s range of products in the U.S., including TV sales and a number of TV channels. Peter started his career in magazines, with IPC.