Sims board member steps up to chairperson’s role

Australia-based metals and electronics recycling company Sims Ltd. has announced the retirement of board Chair and Independent Director Geoff Brunsdon.

Philip Bainbridge, who joined the Sims board in 2022, has been appointed as the new chair, effective March 25.

Brunsdon announced his impending retirement at the company’s 2023 Annual General Meeting last November. At that same meeting, it also was disclosed Bainbridge would be appointed as the new board chair to replace Brunsdon effective concurrently on the same date.

“The Sims board of directors extends its heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Brunsdon for his dedicated service and warmly welcomes Mr. Bainbridge to his new role,” the company says in a late-March announcement.

Bainbridge, a former energy industry executive, now leads the board of a company with recycling operations with a considerable presence in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Founded in Australia in 1917, Sims Ltd. and its business units Sims Metal, Sims Lifecycle Services and Sims Resource Renewal now employ more than 4,000 people, and the company operates from more than 280 facilities in 14 countries.