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Graham was born, raised and educated in Hong Kong, Asia. He won a scholarship to study at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1988. He followed this up with an MBA at Cardiff Business School in 1994, specializing in strategic management, Japanese Management Practices and Logistics.

He has spent his career in industry within the engineering, steel manufacturing and recycling sectors, performing roles including procurement, sales, operations, logistics, business and strategic development at senior levels.

In his previous role as CEO Europe and Sims Recycling Solutions Global Graham led a business portfolio of metals, electronics recycling and mass market ICT asset management services employing 4000 staff globally. He was responsible for the direction of the Sims Metal Management £650m revenue metals recycling business in Europe, employing 800 staff across 52 operational facilities.

Since 2002 he grew Sims Recycling Solutions’ £670m revenue waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling business from concept to the world’s largest electronics recycling company employing over 3,000 people across the Americas, Europe, Australasia, Asia and Africa.

Jon has a track record in building, growing & developing successful technology asset recovery businesses in the UK and Europe. Jon has been a trusted advisor in both the public & private sectors for over 18 years. His career started in procurement working for Nat West & Smiths Industries then joining the technology lifecycle market during the early nineties. Jon was instrumental in the market’s movement from a broking/trading to a managed service business model.

Jon was one of the founders of Technical Asset Management Ltd, helping to grow the business from 1994 until selling his interest in 1998. During the late nineties, Jon was involved with the business development of the government sponsored Remploy e-cycle project taking it from feasibility to success within three years.

He founded LifeCycle Services (LCS) in 2002 developing it in to a market leading service specialist by 2008. In March 2008, Jon sold LCS to Sims Group integrating it successfully with the asset retirement division of MIREC & RecommIT to form Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS). Jon was instrumental in the introduction of new services and technologies making SLS another growth success doubling profitability in less than three years. In 2012 Jon took over full P&L responsibility for SLS business across Europe integrating Technorecycle Gmbh, Device BV & ErgoTrade GmbH.

Jon has been an active campaigner for awareness of residual data security advising BBC (Breakfast and News), Channel 4 & ITV as well as The Guardian, FT, The Times and various industry publications. He is infamous for advising the team who found Paul McCartney’s bank records, missile launch codes and other valuable secrets on discarded storage devices & mobile phones.

Andrew is a results driven, self-motivated and resourceful executive director with a proven ability to develop and strengthen management teams in order to maximise company profitability and efficiency. Experienced leading and growing all sectors of a business either through delivering innovative new solutions to challenges or through acquisition. Possessing excellent communication skills and able to establish sustainable and profitable relationships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders across the globe. Andrew built a new business division with two other colleagues which resulted in a turnover of over billion dollar revenue.

Andrew was responsible for managing the businesses at 24 sites in India, South Africa, Dubai, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and UK and delivered a 27% return on capital investment.

In 2004 Andrew was responsible for starting up a new recycling business, of waste electronics and IT asset management divisions prior to the WEEE directive, In 2008 acquired and completed due-diligence on three new businesses which resulted in new operational sites in Liverpool, Salisbury, Wetherby and Ashford. And delivered a 30% return on capital investment.

Between 1996 and 2004 Andrew was employed by Nippon Electric Glass where he was responsible for managing over 300 employees in a 24/7 productive environment.
Andrew has Skills and Expertise in Recycling, Account management, New Business Development, Waste Management, Operations Management, Logistics, Sales Management, Contract Negotiation, Business Strategy and Managing People.