Personnel notes

Rumpke names regional vice president

The waste management and recycling firm Rumpke Waste & Recycling, headquartered in Cincinnati, has named Greg Beamer to the post of regional vice president for the company’s southern market. Beamer will oversee the company’s daily operations for waste, recycling and portable restroom services in more than 30 counties throughout Kentucky and Indiana.

“Whenever possible, we prefer to promote leaders from within the company,” says Bill Rumpke Jr., Rumpke Waste & Recycling president and CEO. “Greg is experienced, hard-working and an excellent communicator. His commitment to safety, compliance and customer service will be a great asset as he leads our team in the southern market.”

Rumpke employs 120 people in the Louisville, Kentucky, area, where it owns a recycling plant and transfer station. The company also operates facilities in Carrollton and Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and in Medora and Columbus, Indiana.

Rumpke provides service to parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia.

NRC announces results of board elections

The National Recycling Coalition (NRC), Washington, has announced the results of its 2014 board of directors election, which was held at the 2014 Resource Recycling Conference.

The 10 individuals elected to the group’s board for three-year terms running from 2014 to 2017 are:

• Gary Bilbro, president, NewGreen Consulting LLC;
• Jack DeBell, development director, University of Colorado Recycling;
• John Frederick, executive director, Intermunicipal Relations Committee;
• David Juri Freeman, recycling program manager, city and county of Denver;
• Marjorie Griek, executive director, Colorado Association for Recycling;
• Doug Hill, president, EcoVision Environmental;
• Gary Liss, zero-waste consultant, Gary Liss & Associates;
• Antonio Rios, president, Puerto Rico Recycling Coalition;
• Will Sagar, executive director, Southeast Recycling Development Center; and
• Michael Van Brunt, director of sustainability, Covanta.

Sims names new CFO

Galdino Claro, CEO of Sims Metal Management, headquartered in New York City and in Sydney, has announced the appointment of Fred Knechtel as group chief financial officer (CFO), beginning in November 2014, prior to Sim’s annual group meeting. Prior to Knechtel joining Sims, Amit Patel, the company’s chief accounting officer, also served as interim group CFO.

“Fred is a well-rounded financial executive with broad experience across a number of industries. His proven leadership ability, coupled with his strong strategic and analytical skills, will greatly assist Sims Metal Management as it executes its recently announced five-year strategic plan,” Claro says.

Knechtel brings more than 30 years of business management experience, including numerous senior-level roles in international public companies in the manufacturing, industrial products and chemicals industries. Most recently Knechtel was CFO of Remy International, a global auto parts manufacturing company.

“I am delighted to be joining Galdino’s management team, and I look forward to helping Sims Metal Management recapture its leading position in the metals recycling industry,” Knechtel says.

Waste Management’s recycling chief departs

Waste Management Inc. (WM), Houston, has announced that Bill Caesar, the president of its recycling division, has left the company following an organizational realignment.

A statement from WM reads in part, “As part of our broader effort to align our corporate functions with the strategic priorities of the company and to better support the needs of the business, we’re doing a bit of restructuring of the teams that support the recycling business, a business that continues to be a very important part of our overall portfolio. Given this, Bill Caesar has decided to leave the company mid-September. As leader of both the company’s recycling business and its portfolio of investments in new technology and services businesses, Bill’s disciplined and focused leadership has paid tremendous dividends and we wish him much success as he moves on to new opportunities.”

Sources indicate that WM is attempting to cut its staff level by as much as 10 percent through the realignment.