ART has assembled a highly experienced management team, with extensive executive and operational experience specific to both the process and development of these projects. The management and staff have one of the longest track records in the industry, having expertise going back over 25 years.

Tony Manser – Managing Director

An engineer and a company director for many years, Tony has a distinguished background in waste management and power generation and has sat on UK Government working parties considering waste disposal legislation and practices. He has been designing and building waste processing plants for over 25 years including the Isle of Wight plant and the plant on Slough industrial estate. Tony formed ART in 1991 to provide process design and consultancy services, subsequently expanding into bespoke plant and machinery design. He is co-author of one of the leading texts in the waste field “Practical Handbook of Processing and Recycling Municipal Waste” (CRC Press 1996)

Tom Jarman – Chief Executive

Tom became a Chartered Mechanical Engineer after degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He has a strong leadership record in senior positions in high growth technology and engineering small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Companies he has managed have achieved substantial revenue and profit growth and have delivered significant investor returns through trade sale, IPO and secondary exits. Tom was a Director and Senior Partner at technology Venture Capitalist MTI. He has been a non-executive Director, Chairman and CEO of several high growth private and public engineering businesses.

Mark Christensen – Development Director

Mark Christensen graduated in business management & economics, environmental conservation and chemistry, with a thesis in CSR (Notts & Bath). Then he spent 14 years gaining practical experience in the industry, successfully planning, developing and managing mechanical processing facilities. This experience included operating several waste management facilities at senior level, including Southwood Waste management, Moore's Recycling Ltd, and Averies Group (two sites). He has worked for two German engineering companies specialising in waste processing and has in-depth knowledge of recycling and treatment technologies. He has a unique breadth of experience in regulatory and commercial aspects, as well as success in sourcing sites, obtaining Planning, Permitting and developing projects. He has also led several major Local Authority waste contract tenders involving ART Ltd and progressing leading edge opportunities connecting new Regulatory developments.

Peter Bishton - Cargill's Non-Executive Director

Peter is Corporate Vice President for Cargill Inc. in the Emissions, Power & Gas Division. Cargill are the $116Bn international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Cargill's Global Emissions & European Power/Gas activity was started from scratch in 2001 by Peter and it now has centres in Geneva, London, Amsterdam & Minneapolis. The activity started to focus on Renewables in 2007 under Peter's leadership, inspired by his interest in Biomass for energy which began when he worked in the grain business. He was based in Paris for 10 years before coming to Geneva in 2000. Cargill's ETI (Energy, Transport & Industrial) group of businesses has been on a significant growth path since 2006 and is focused on bringing all of its constituent parts together around a trading, customer & asset backed strategy.

Steve Burnett – Commercial Manager

Steve is a strategic and financial consultant specialising in the waste and energy sectors. He has worked with both public and private sector clients in complex tender negotiations. His early professional career was in corporate planning and financial analysis, including four years with bankers/brokers Kleinwort Benson. He then worked with environmental consultants Aspinwall & Company (now Enviros) where he undertook economic appraisals in environmentally sensitive industries and developed waste strategies for Authorities. From 1995 until May 2000 he was a senior manager at Impax Capital Corporation. Recently, he has been working independently with various developers in these sectors to help finance their ventures and to establish them commercially.

Peter Thomas – Operations Manager

Peter has worked in the waste industry for 20 years, principally at an operational level. He was Managing Director of Bristol’s largest privately owned waste management business until its sale in 2006, being responsible for the operation of a fleet of 80 collection vehicles and a number of waste and recycling facilities covering the wider sub-region from Bristol. As a registered assessor for statutory Certificates of Technical Competence, he now provides advice and mentoring to businesses involved in the waste management process – from waste producers through to waste management companies. He also specialises in Permitting work and general waste contracting business as well as interim management for operational waste facilities.  Peter is a Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

Paul Winter – Project Manager

Paul has over 30 years experience in the construction sector. He has been involved at senior level with one of the worlds largest construction companies in managing major complex projects. These have included airports, power stations, and roads including developing International Management Systems at corporate level. Recent focus has been on Waste to Energy facilities where developing and implementing strategies has resulted in successful completion of some of the UK's largest plants such as Allington EfW £250m, Newhaven EfW £200m, and Riverside EfW £500m. These projects demanded the skill needed to manage communications in environmentally sensitive operations. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Quality professional and carries out training and mentoring in Project Management.

Stephen Ives – Project Manager

Stephen has over 40 years experience in the construction Industry. He is a highly motivated professional senior manager with wide experience in the construction process including planning, project management, and teamwork. His early career spans many years with Marples Ridgway, followed by Area Director at Fairclough Civil Engineering, Director of Higgs Hill Group, and MD of G. Pearce Civil Engineering. Latterly he was M.D. of Hochtief UK for 6 years.

Richard Walliker - Finance Manager

After graduating as a Chartered accountant, training at Touche Ross, Richard has gained successful experience in both large companies (Compass, Granada, RTZ) and smaller ones (Sutcliffe Catering, Tellermate) This experience has been broadly based, including business forecasting, consolidation, reporting, cash/debtor control, developing business plans, share-option schemes, and crisis management. Currently he is Director of 4Cast Solutions Ltd, which provides a shared FD Consultancy service to entrepreneurial businesses.

Ian Paton, Technical Advisor

Ian Paton qualified with an MSc in polymer Technology at Loughborough, and a PhD on organic wastes at Cranfield. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has a COTC certificate to run waste treatment and disposal sites. His career spans a number of roles involving senior management in quality control and product specifications for animal feeds and organic wastes. He developed and directed microbiology research on a 2 tonne aerobic digestion pilot plant as general manager of Lammas Resources Ltd, Corby. He was Government Consultant for "Biotechnology Means Business", a DTI scheme. Since 2000 he has been a Consultant, responsible for a number of design and build composting facilities, windrow and in-vessel systems, and complying with the latest legislations. He was contracted as Policy Advisor to Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP), organising training courses and conducting peer reviews. A member of Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM) he produced and published the book "Biological Techniques in Solid Waste Management and Land Remediation". He has also been senior technical advisor on several major MSW contract tenders, including the fully operational Cambridgeshire PFI using an MBT process.

Lucy Tsourous – Property Advisor

Lucy graduated with a first class honours degree in Land Economy and a Masters in Finance and Land Economy. After leaving Cambridge she worked for Chesterton for nearly four years until 1995 when she joined Charterhouse Bank. This was later acquired by HSBC Investment Bank, which she worked for until 2009. She has specialised in commercial property and deal origination on the venture capital side for around 18 years.

Lincoln Williams - Overseas Development Manager

He has 34 years experience in Energy & Environmental engineering & consultancy, including the steel industry on environmental projects with Halcrow, Honda & Westinghouse and on biomass combustion projects, as well as small scale combined heat and power. He is active in the overseas promotion of the ART process relating to interconnected drivers such as landfill avoidance, coal replacement fuels, carbon trading incentives and materials recovery. His experience in boiler manufacture and operation is particularly relevant to local CHP schemes to improve energy efficiency and provide integrated energy sources where local grid supply problems exist in overseas Countries. He is also responsible for investigating and developing relationships with established and novel thermal process equipment suppliers suitable to utilize ART’s refined fuels.

Matthew Dodson - Strategic Advisor

Matthew Dodson graduated in Economics, Law and Accountancy at University College Cardiff, and qualified as a chartered accountant at Touche Ross in 1976. He entered practice as an accountant specialising in corporarte finance until the late 1990s. From the early 1980s he became progressively involved as backer and consultant to smaller private companies, especially in the environmental and renewable energy field. He was a founder shareholder in Advanced Recycling Technologies Ltd, and continues to take an active interest in providing the company with advice and financial support.

Mike Fairbotham, Company Secretary

Michael, a BSc graduate , qualified as an FCA in 1976 whilst working for KPMG as an Audit Manager. He became Treasurer of Foster Brothers Ltd, and then FD and Co Sec at Forward Group plc. Both of these companies had Stock Market listings. He  then worked in business recovery for 5 years as FD and shareholder. In 2001 he returned to professional practice.