|
Mike Boswell, Plastribution
Mike is FIMMM, a Graduate & Post Graduate Polymer Technologist who has previously studied at Burton Technical College and the Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering at Loughborough University. His early career included experience in extrusion, thermoforming, and injection moulding with both in-house and trade moulders supplying various sectors including automotive and packaging.
In 1988 he joined Plastribution as a Trainee Technical Sales Executive and gained valuable experience in the sale of both commodity and engineering thermoplastics to a wide range of UK processors. He then moved into product management and in 1998 was appointed Business Development Director.
In 2000 he was promoted to the position of Managing Director, and since this time the business has enjoyed considerable success and Plastribution became the UK’s largest distributor in 2009.
Richard Collin, BSI
Richard Collin has been BSI’s Head of European and National Policy since 2016. He leads BSI’s standards work on trade and regulatory policy, which covers the role of standards supporting UK regulations, standards issues following the UK’s exit from the EU such as CEN and CENELEC membership, the role of international standards in UK trade policy and links between European standards and regulations. He also manages consumer policy, including BSI’s Consumer and Public Interest Network, which enables the representation of consumers in BSI’s standards committees.
Richard has over 30 years’ experience in quality infrastructure. After qualifying as a Trading Standards Officer, he worked for UK local authorities for 9 years in the fields of market surveillance, consumer protection and legal metrology. He was then resident advisor to the Hungarian government on behalf of the UK Department of Trade and Industry (now Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) for two twinning projects on market surveillance from 2000 to 2003.
Richard subsequently spent 6 years working in the European Commission, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry (now DG GROW), standardization unit, developing standards policy and facilitating all Commission standardization requests (‘mandates’) to the European Standards Organizations.
He has been working in BSI Since 2010. Initially he was Principal International Development Manager in BSI’s International Projects Department. Here he acquired and managed a wide range of projects on quality infrastructure around the world, including in Ukraine, the ASEAN region, Barbados, Sierra Leone and Croatia.
In February 2012, he moved to BSI’s Standards Policy team as National and European Policy Manager. In this role, Richard worked on UK government relations and was responsible for BSI’s standards policy in relation to the EU, including the creation of CEN and CENELEC Guide 30, European Guide on Standards and Regulation.
Chris Howick, Inovyn
Dr Chris Howick is the product regulation manager for INOVYN Chlorvinyls. He is a graduate of the City University, London, where he earned a BSc degree in Chemistry and also a graduate of Nottingham University, England, where he obtained a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry. Chris’ prior experience includes 5 years and work at European Vinyls Corporation (EVC)
He has had various roles in technical service, technical marketing and regulatory affairs which he continued when EVC became INEOS Vinyls.
Chris became the Product Stewardship Manager for INEOS Chlorvinyls in December 2006 and had responsibility for the group’s REACH activities and regulatory position of its PVC resins. He became chair of the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers REACH committee in 2007. In 2008 he was also elected chair of the British Plastics Federation Product Safety Committee. With the formation OF INOVYN Chris was recently appointed as Product Regulation Manager.
Sean McMahon, BEIS
An economist by training, Sean McMahon currently works for the Business Readiness and Intelligence Directorate at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has previously worked in both the public and private sectors in a range of roles spanning business intelligence, programme management and software development.
Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey
Simon Usherwood is Professor of Politics at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on EU-UK relations and Brexit, with recent projects examining the negotiations on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU. He has been closely involved in the “UK in a Changing Europe” initiative, of which he was Deputy Director 2017-9, and regularly provides briefings to politicians, civil servants and businesses, both in the UK and beyond.
Alun Williams, Defra
Alun Williams is the lead for External Stakeholder Engagement within the Chemicals, Pesticides and Hazardous Waste (CPHW) team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Alun’s role has primarily concentrated on ensuring UK businesses are aware of their obligations under UK REACH. Alun has also worked on sector readiness and contingency planning within the CPHW team.
|
|
