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Directors

Mr. Robert McKinnon

Independent Non-Executive Chairman (appointed 13 July 2010) 

Robert McKinnon (Bob), aged 60, is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia. Robert has been a Managing Director of Fleetwood Corporation Limited and Austral Limited. He has a career spanning 30 years in senior financial and general management positions.

Other current directorships
Non-Executive Director of Bank of western Australia Limited
Non-Executive Director of Brierty Limited

Former directorships in the last 3 years
Non-Executive Director of Bank of Western Australia limited
Period: May 2009 - current
Non-Executive Director of Brierty Limited
Period: =February 2010 - current

Special responsibilities
Chairman of the Board

Interest in shares and options
Nil

Mr. Douglas Wood

Independent Non-Executive Director (appointed March 2008)

Douglas (Doug) Wood, aged 66, is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Doug has over 40 years' experience in the accounting and taxation profession and has been actively involved in the management of public companies for a number of years, fulfilling the roles of chairperson and managing director.

  • Doug has held director positions in the following public companies during the past 3 years:
  • AFT Corporation Ltd
  • Aqua Carotene Ltd
  • Ellendale Resources NL
  • XState Resources Ltd

Doug was a director and chairperson from July 2010.

Mr. Stephen Gostlow

Managing Director

Stephen (Steve) Gostlow, aged 35, is a qualified Environmental Scientist with a background specifically focusing on waste management, health, safety and environment (HSE) compliance, dangerous goods and hazardous waste handling and treatment.

Steve initially gained waste management experience in the mining sector before joining the State Government Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). He completed 4 years with the EPA in the licensing and waste management divisions gaining valuable experience in regulatory compliance before joining the Group as a Compliance Manager in April 2002. He was appointed North West Regional Manager in December 2002 and State Manager in December 2003.

Steve does not hold, or has held during the past 3 years, any other directorships in other public companies.

Steve has been a director since 2005.

Mr. Michael Humphris, CA

Independent Non-Executive Director

Michael Humphris, aged 60, is a Chartered Accountant (CA) with over 30 years experience in the areas of business advice, corporate recovery and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience in business reconstructions, enhancing value for shareholders, divestments, mergers and acquisitions.

Michael is currently a director of the following public companies:

  • Virax Holdings Ltd
  • Murray Irrigation Ltd

Michael has been a director since 1998 and a member of the Audit Committee.

Mr. Richard Allen

Independent Non-Executive Director

Richard (Dick) Allen, aged 60, is a Civil Engineer who has worked as a design and supervising engineer on road, bridge and structural projects in Australia, the UK and the Middle East before joining Baroid, a Houston, Texas based petroleum service based company in May 1978. With Baroid, Dick filled a variety of technical and management positions culminating in the position of Manager for the Asia/Pacific region with responsibility for operations in 16 countries, a turnover in excess of $80 million and employing more than 250 people.

Since January 1999 Dick has been directly involved in the environmental services industry with specific focus on waste to energy and renewable energy projects and brings these expertise to the Group.

Dick is also a director of Plantation Energy Limited.

Dick has been a director since 2005.

David McArthur

Company Secretary

Mr McArthur is a Chartered Accountant, with 29 years' experience in the accounting profession. Mr McArthur has been actively involved in the financial and corporate management of a number of public listed companies.