AD: YOUR MISSING LINK - ADBA

QuEntin MAxWELL-JAckson
Research Associate
CentreForum
Quentin is a research associate at CentreForum, the
liberal think tank. Until 2011 Quentin was a senior
partner at KPMg where he led the Public services Consulting, Central
government Advisory and Consumer and industrial Markets practices.
He has considerable experience of financing major infrastructure projects
including new-build nuclear power.
JAMEs HArt
Farmer
J J Power Ltd
James is an arable, pig and AD farmer from gloucestershire.
Contract Farming 650 Ha with a partner in the AD unit,
who has broilers and cows that contribute to the AD. He commissioned an AD
plant in April 2011 after three years of planning. The plant was self-built using
appropriate outside design and engineering expertise.
JAMEs MiLEs-HoBBs
Director
Rural Development Associates Ltd
James runs his own rural business consultancy and
specialises in renewable energy advice. He is
ex-chairman of the Wiltshire ClA and sits on the sW Regional
Committee, the National Business and Rural Economy Committee, the
National Policy Committee and the National Working Party on Renewable
Energy and Regional Representative to Council. He is a director of
Wadswick Energy and was named Farm Adviser of the year by Farmers
Weekly last year.
JAcQui MAccAig
Director
RUR3 Environmental Ltd
From setting up kerbside recycling schemes, selling
recyclables nationally to procuring food waste into
AD plants Jacqui has dealt with a whole variety of wastes throughout the
years. Now working for her own company, RUR3’s team specializes in
identifying feedstock’s for planned AD plants to the eventual procurement and
management of these feedstock’s to operational sites.
tinA WoLtEr
AD Technology Manager
SITA UK
Tina has a PhD in Chemistry and worked for a
consultancy for renewable energies and as a project
manager for the European Commission before specialising in anaerobic
digestion. in 2008, Tina joined siTA UK, where she is responsible for the
technical development of AD plants.
Speaker Biographies
ricHArD guEtErBock
Director
Clearfleau
Richard gueterbock is a director of Clearfleau, with
responsibility for marketing and business development.
He instigated the company’s focus upon on-site digestion of food processing
residues. Before setting up Clearfleau, Richard worked in the agribusiness,
food and biotech sectors. Richard is a trustee of the Royal Agricultural
society of England (RAsE).
AnDrEW nEEDHAM
Commercial Director
BiogenGreenfinch
Andrew is an established expert on anaerobic digestion
technology and application, and is a graduate of Harper
Adams University College, with an MBA from Nottingham University.
Andrew oversees all the inputs and outputs associated with the plants,
including feedstocks, renewable power sales and bio fertiliser sales.
JuLiA BArrEtt
Consultant
J B Barrett Consulting
Julia is now an independent consultant and interim
manager having spent the last six years as the director of
Environment & Regulation at Cambridgeshire County Council, where she had
responsibility for the authority’s waste, planning and environment services.
Julia established her national profile on local authority waste management
as the Chairman of the Waste Panel of the Association of Directors of
Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport; ADEPT represents local
authority chief officers across the UK.
Dr. HArALD von cAnstEin
Head of Biotechnology
E.ON Bioerdgas
Harald joined E.oN Bioerdgas in 2007 and heads
the biotechnology section where he is responsible for
the further optimisation of biogas plants, the use of novel substrates and
the optimisation of the greenhouse gas balance. He graduated as a
Master of Biology, and earned his PhD in biotechnology with
wastewater-cleansing bacteria.
DAviD MAnsELL
Strategy and Communications
Team Leader
Somerset Waste Partnership
David was project manager for the roll out of somerset’s
award-winning sort it services from 2004, which were the first to add large-scale
separate food waste recycling to kerbside collections, and has provided support in
specifying requirements for somerset’s new AD plant, now under construction.
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