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In line with the Combined Code on Corporate Governance, the running of the Board and the executive responsibility for the operation of the Company's business is separated, with James Newman acting as Chairman of the Board and Jonathan Straight acting as Chief Executive.
The Company has appointed Colin Glass and James Newman as non-executive Directors. The non-executive Directors bring independent views to bear at Board proceedings, are independent of management and have no relationships interfering with their independent judgement.
The Board has established audit and remuneration committees which include all of the non-executive Directors, both with formally delegated duties and responsibilities.
Board of Directors Left to right: James Mellor, Colin Glass, Jonathan Straight, James Newman, Mark HalfordJames is Chairman of two public companies and a non-executive director of a further three, including Dignity plc and Scott Wilson Group plc. He is also Chairman of Finance Yorkshire, the regional venture capital fund supporting SME's in the region as well as being Deputy Chairman of the Governors of Sheffield Hallam University.
He was formerly Deputy Chief Executive and Group Finance Director of Kelda Group plc and a number of other public companies. He has also been Chairman of Waste Recycling Group plc and a non-executive director of other public companies over the last eight years.
James is a Chartered Accountant, Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and is currently 385th Master
Cutler of the Cutlers Company in Hallamshire, which represents industry in the South Yorkshire region.
Jonathan has been involved in the recycling container industry in the UK since the late 1980s. Since then he has
pioneered the promotion of container systems for source separated waste, initially as a consultant to CG Paxton
Limited, then part of the McKechnie Group plc.
In 1993, he formed Straight Recycling Systems which rapidly grew to be the UK's leading supplier of kerbside
recycling boxes. From a one man operation, the Company now employs more than 50 people.
Jonathan was awarded the prestigious national title of Quoted Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 by Ernst & Young.
He is responsible for the strategic direction of the Company and retains a close involvement with its day-to-day sales
and marketing activity. In addition, he is also involved with the development of new products and market
opportunities.
James joined the business in October 2003, shortly before its flotation on AIM and was appointed to the Board in
April 2004.
After qualifying as a chartered accountant with KPMG in Birmingham in 1995, he joined the McKechnie Group plc
and worked as Financial Controller at CG Paxton Limited, a major supplier to Straight Recycling Systems. He left
Paxton to join the newly formed Straight plc after the sale of Paxton to the LINPAC Group.
James gained a BSc with Honours in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1991.
Mark has held a variety of senior management positions in the industrial plastics sector since 1990. He was General
Manager and Sales and Marketing Director at T&D Plastech, where he developed the Cloudburst garden products
business which was purchased by Straight in January 2006.
Prior to joining the Group, Mark was General Manager of Promens hf at Deeside, a major supplier to the Group. Mark joined the Group in July 2006 and was appointed to the Board in January 2007.
Mark was awarded a BA with Honours in German and English at the University of Liverpool in 1987 and completed
an MBA at the Open University Business School in 2001.
Colin is a senior partner in Winburn Glass Norfolk, the accountancy practice which he founded with two colleagues in 1974. He is a founder shareholder and non-executive director of GETECH Group plc, Surgical Innovations Group plc and a number of other companies. He assisted these companies, and Straight, to achieve a listing on AIM. He has also been involved in the launch of several technology start-up companies and in many cases he has been appointed as a director to the companies which he assists.
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