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Dr Mark Everard, UWE Bristol
Dr Mark Everard has been a champion of sustainable development since the 1980s, active in a range of fields including aquatic ecosystems, natural resource management in the developing world, as well as working with a range of businesses. Mark has worked with the PVC sector since 1999, then as Director of Science with the NGO The Natural Step, developing the ‘five sustainability challenges’ that have since been embodied in revised form as the five key challenges of the VinylPlus voluntary commitment. Mark continues to work with the PVC sector and other businesses and policy areas, as well as serving in academia as an Associate Professor, to promote practical progress with society’s greatest sustainability challenges.
Daniel Martinz, Inovyn
Mr. Daniel Ortiz Martinz has extensive experience in the development of products in Specialty Vinyl markets, both on European and global levels. He’s an international speaker, author of several articles in polymer-specialized journals and holder of three patents.
Daniel graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 1998 and joined Solvay Indupa in 1999. For ten years he was involved with customer technical services in South America in different PVC markets, especially compounds, sheets and paste PVC.
In 2009 Daniel was transferred to SolVin in Brussels as a Technical Marketing & Development specialist for Paste PVC. In 2015 he joined INOVYN as Head of Technical Marketing & Development for the Specialty Vinyls Business. He’s been ever since responsible for the innovation strategy and its implementation at INOVYN.
Daniel holds both Belgian and Brazilian citizenships, speaks four languages, has a Master Degree in Marketing (2004) and a Master Science Degree in Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (2009).
Simon Scholes, Veka Recycling
Simon joined VEKA Recycling in 2007 and has been a member of the UK board since 2016. The company is part of the VEKA Recycling Group which is Europe's largest recycler of PVC windows. Simon has been instrumental in growing the company over the past 11 years which is now the largest British recycler of PVC windows. He is also overseeing VEKAs' investment of over £8m into a brand new PVC window recycling plant in Northamptonshire. Simon is also chair of the BPF Rigid Plastic Recycling Working Group.
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