UK Members 
Management:
Ron Gonen
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Ron is the Co-Founder and CEO of RecycleBank. During his tenure as CEO, RecycleBank has grown from an idea to a company that today is rewarding people for their positive green actions across North America and the UK. RecycleBank has been recognized with a number of business and environmental recognitions including being recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and being designated as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Program.
Prior to RecycleBank, Ron was at Deloitte Consulting where he developed CRM and strategic account management programs for clients such as Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Bank One, GE, and DIRECTV. It was during this time that Ron gained the technical and software expertise that enabled him to design EcoStrong, the proprietary software that RecycleBank runs on. Ron was a co-recipient of Deloitte Consulting’s National Impact Award for helping to develop a consulting unit that provides pro bono consulting services to non-profit and charitable organizations.
Ron is also a part owner of Linhardt Design Studio (www.linhardtdesign.com), a jewelry company that designs and manufactures fine jewelry made from recycled metals and sustainable materials.
Ron received a BA in History from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where graduated with Departmental Honors and was a Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School where he was a Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship award winner.
Ron enjoys trying to play the guitar, playing basketball, the beach and reading.
Matt Tucker
President
Matthew Tucker is the President of RecycleBank and responsible for municipal and hauler sales and marketing, government affairs, operations and customer care, international development, legal and human resources.
Matt was most recently President of ISC Software, a workforce management company. He was also the head of business development for Smart Systems Technologies, a provider of RFID and loyalty solutions to the retail industry. Prior to Smart Systems, he was CEO of Rely Software, named by Upside magazine as one of the top 100 private companies in the world. Tucker successfully grew the company and sold it to Odyssey Logistics, a spin-off of Dow Chemical. Tucker was a member of the founding management team at LendingTree, and served as the company’s first head of sales and marketing. He earned his MBA from Georgetown University and holds a BA from the University of Michigan.
John Bax
Chief Financial Officer
John is the Chief Financial Officer of RecycleBank, where he is responsible for all finance and accounting functions of the company, ranging from items like capital markets and treasury to budgeting and forecasting.
Prior to RecycleBank, John served as the CFO of Sentient, where he saw the company through to record growth and profitability. Prior to Sentient, John was Vice President of Planning and Analysis for Wal-Mart Stores, where he was responsible for financial and strategic planning and analysis for the world's largest company. Before working with Wal-Mart Stores, John was the CFO of Walmart.com, where he led all finance functions as well as merchandise planning, legal and real estate. John first joined Walmart.com as Controller at its start-up and built the financial team that supported the site's phenomenal growth. John also spent eight years at Ernst & Young in both the Audit and Center for Strategic Transactions practices. He received his B.S. in Accounting and an MBA from Oklahoma State University, and was a Silver Medal winner on the Certified Public Accountant exam. John is married to the former supermodel, Camille, and they have three very well adjusted children – Evan, Teagan and Braunsen.
Scott Lamb
Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer, Scott is responsible for all field operations. This includes supporting the deployment and maintenance of the RFID and scale technologies to ensure accurate and reliable tracking of recycling performance. His team of Project Managers coordinates all aspects of deployment of the RecycleBank program and his General Management Team provides ongoing client management services post-deployment. He is also responsible for the data administration team ensuring all recycling activity translate into points and the call center operations to answer any questions customers may have.
Prior to RecycleBank, Scott worked for TOMRA of North America for 15 years, helping build their business unit in New England, Michigan and California. As the General Manager for TOMRA Michigan, he built the organization from the ground up and established a 95% market share. As President of TOMRA Pacific he lead all sales, marketing and operations in the California marketing area, and was instrumental in enacting new legislation that increased recycling rates in the state. Scott holds a BS from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Scott has spoken as a panelist at The Wharton School Net Impact Conference on the topic of Green Cities: Partnerships, Engagement and Business Rationale.
Frank Yang
Chief Technology Officer
In his role, Frank is responsible for overseeing the technology and systems that enable new ways to reward people for their socially responsible behavior. This involves maintaining the existing systems supporting RecycleBank’s business and implementing new strategic technologies.
Frank has over 20 years of experience implementing large, complex IT solutions and building IT organizations. Prior to joining RecycleBank, he was a Director at Deloitte Consulting where he was a leader in their Enterprise Applications - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Service Line practice. In addition, Frank worked at Andersen Consulting in a variety of engagements in the financial services, manufacturing, and communications industries, designing and implementing systems in various technical and functional environments. Frank holds a BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he graduated cum laude.
Frank recently hit middle age and faced his mortality as most others in his situation do ... he got a strategically placed tattoo and started riding a totally gnarly motorcycle. Otherwise, he is a well adjusted human being with a wife (Marie), two kids (Jillian and James) and two dogs (Obi and Monkey) trying to contribute in a positive fashion to society.
Morley Ivers
Chief Rewards Officer
Morley leads the Rewards Team and is responsible for The RecycleBank Rewards Program globally. The Rewards Team is responsible for the core rewards program; establishing key national, regional and local reward partnerships in all territories; development of Gconomy™ and related partnerships and ensuring that RecycleBank members have access to redemption options that motivate engagement.
Morley is an experienced entrepreneur and loyalty program marketplace expert. Previously, Ivers acted in the capacity of GM for Air Incentives – a loyalty incentive program fuelled by frequent flyer miles; and as Vice President of Business Strategy for Points International – a publicly traded corporation that develops proprietary solutions to the loyalty industry and operates Points.com, the world's leading reward-program management portal.
Morley was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and relocated his family to New York so that he could apply his passion for loyalty and reward programs, at RecycleBank, to better the world for his son, Hudson. Morley is a Dean’s Honor List graduate of The Richard Ivey School of Business.
Bill Wolfram
Senior Vice President, Municipal and Hauler Accounts
Bill Wolfram is responsible for sales to municipal and hauler accounts for the RecycleBank curbside program. He also leads a team of regional managers that work with government and hauler partners across the country to bring the RecycleBank program to their constituents.
Prior to RecycleBank, Bill was most recently President of WEW Environmental working with clients such as the New York City Department of Sanitation, the Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Allied Waste Industries, Inc. and Duke Energy. Previously, he served as Regional Vice President of Business Development for Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. working in various regions throughout North America, Asia and Australia.
Sue Igoe
Vice President Marketing
Sue’s creative and marketing genius gets the RecycleBank message out to our households, our partners and the world. She and her team manage the consumer and corporate websites, brand development, municipal and hauler marketing and sales support, corporate social responsibility, consumer marketing and communications.
Prior to RecycleBank, Sue helped start a successful online men’s lifestyle magazine in San Francisco that was purchased by Playboy Enterprises where she became the Director of Marketing and Events. Over the course of her career, Igoe has helped launch, Agora Partnerships, a micro-venture capital fund that invests in emerging market entrepreneurs based in Nicaragua, and an online division of an international business-to-business publisher.
Sue is also an experienced world traveler who has lived, worked and played in over 35 countries and who now lives in New York City with her husband, Seth and son, Silas. Sue graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Boston College and was on the Dean’s List at Columbia Business School where she earned her MBA.
Preston Read
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
As SVP Government Affairs, Preston manages RecycleBank’s relationships with State environmental agencies, helps the sales team with large municipal accounts, and is the point person for the US Conference of Mayors, the International City Management Association, and national environmental NGO’s.
Prior to joining RecycleBank, Preston was the Vice President of Environmental Affairs for the American Beverage Association, where he worked closely with many of our current partners. Before his decade with the ABA, Preston was the first Recycling Program Manager for Arlington County, VA and has also spent time as a Solid Waste management consultant.
David Wigder
Vice President, Business Development
As Vice President, Business Development, David is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities and strategic partnerships for the company.
Prior to RecycleBank, David was Senior Vice President at Digitas, a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe, where he developed marketing strategies for Fortune 100 clients including American Express, Time Warner and Pfizer. During his tenure at Digitas, he also headed the global Strategy and Analysis team for Digitas Health.
David started his career as an environmental engineer, working to remediate hazardous waste sites on several military bases.
David holds a BA from Northwestern University, an MSE in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He lives with his wife and three children in New York City.
General Managers:
Fred Hannon
Vice President and General Manager, Southeast Region
Fred is responsible for leading the RecycleBank development in the Southeast and showing the economic and ecological benefits of the curbisde program.
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Before joining RecycleBank, Fred has worked for a number of firms including U.S.News & World Report, Bank of America and LendingTree. Additionally, prior to joining RecycleBank, he owned and operated his own business.
Bob Milligan
Vice President and General Manager, Mid-Atlantic Region
As the VP / GM of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Bob is responsible for the hauler and municipality relationship of that region and creating sales solutions for existing and potential clients.
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Bob started his first waste company in 1970, growing it into the largest single subscription hauler in Eastern Pennsylvania until — after 14 years of successfully growing his company — Bob merged his Company with BFI. At BFI, Bob held a number of management roles including District Manager and Manager of first Medical Waste Division. In 1994, Bob developed and operated an 11-acre yard waste-composting site in Central Bucks County, diverting 17,000 tons of yard waste from the landfills per year. In 1996, Bob took on the additional responsibility for BFI of Asst. Eastern Penna.Divisional V.P.
In 1989, when Governor Casey signed the Recycling Act 101 into law, Bob became responsible for educating, converting and servicing tens of thousands of residential and commercial customers to "Recycling."
Atul Nanda
President, Canadian Division; Vice President and General Manager, Midwest Region
Atul’s responsibilities include both developing our municipal and hauler business in the Midwestern US and Canada, and also establishing and leading our RecycleBank division north of the border in Canada.
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Atul has worked in both the public and private sectors in the past eighteen years – including management positions within the City of Toronto and several large national solid waste and recycling companies. Atul has been involved in municipal and federal waste management and recycling policy making as well as marketing materials from curbside programs including paper, plastics, metal and glass. He has served on many advisory committees associated with the recycling and environmental industry including the Canadian National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy.
Atul has an undergraduate degree Environment and Resource Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Masters degree from York University.
Axel Newe
Vice President of Operations; Vice President and General Manager, California
Axel is responsible for the development of the curbside program in California as well as contributing his expertise to operations helping RecycleBank operate smoothly and with the best service possible.
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Prior to joining RecycleBank, Axel worked as a management consultant, focusing extensively on marketing, sales, service, and support. His primary focus has been the implementation of large enterprise solutions, managing and implementing all levels of the process and software development lifecycle to include analysis and design, development, testing, roll-out, and post-roll-out support.
Axel also previously served in the Navy, and held leadership roles in engineering, operations, and navigation on a several ships.
Government & Hauler Sales:
Michael D'Angelo
Regional Manager, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast
Mike is responsible for municipal and hauler business development and sales in both the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
States covered include DE, MD, S. NJ, PA, VA, AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC
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Mike joined RecycleBank from Microsoft working in Pennsylvania State and Local Government. Previously, Mike held sales positions in Information Technology from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations like Novell, TrendMicro and Microsoft.
John Getzloff
Regional Manager, Midwest
John is responsible for municipal and hauler business development and sales in the Midwest region.
States covered include IA, IL, IN, MN, NE, SD, WI, KY, MI, OH, TN, ND
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Prior to joining RecycleBank, John was with eCredit.com, and has worked the Midwest territory for 15 years based in Chicago. John started his career with Dun & Bradstreet where he held various sales, and sales management positions.
Kim Jordan
Regional Manager, West
Kim is a Regional Manager, responsible for municipal and hauler business development in the West.
States covered include CA, CO, NM, UT, WY, ID, MT, NV, WY
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With over 20 years in solution selling and business development, Kim’s experience is rich in the rewards industry where she worked with top-level executives at Fortune 500 Companies developing incentive programs for consumers, employees and the sales channel. Kim also has 10 years’ experience in the hospitality business — meetings and events management as well as incentive travel.
Additionally, Kim is an outdoor enthusiast who possesses a deep passion for environmental issues, sustainable initiatives and is dedicated to driving green behavior and recycling.
Judy Kenney
Regional Manager, Southwest
Judy is the South Central Government Sales Manager and work with municipalities and haulers in the south and southwest to implement RecycleBank programs.
States covered include AZ, AR, KS, LA, MO, OK, TX
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Prior to RecycleBank, Judy was the Cofounder and VP of Sales at Fusion Learning Systems, a Systems integrator focused on the educational space. Before to founding Fusion Learning Systems, Kenney spent 10 years in the advertising industry working for the Austin Chronicle and New Times, now Village Voice media, at alternative weeklies in Houston and Los Angeles. She received her BA In English with a history minor from the University of Tennessee.
Mike Mazzaroni
Regional Manager, Northeast
Mike is responsible for building long term relationships with partners and municipal clients from Trenton to Toronto to help them implement incentive based programs to increase recycling, reduce waste and reward their households, communities and local businesses.
States covered include N. NJ, NY, CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME
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Mike has worked for a number of industry leading technology companies. Most recently, Mike was responsible for leading one of Sun Microsystems’ largest global account teams. Previous to Sun, Mike has worked at Teradata, USWeb, AT&T, Bell Labs and MCI in a variety of sales, sales leadership and engineering positions. He’s most experienced at leading sales teams in developing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with their clients.
Andy Korman
Director, Account Management
Andy manages strategic partnerships with National Solid Waste Companies, including Republic Services and Waste Connections. In his role since 2008, Andy works with haulers to develop growth strategies which create significant economic and environmental value. As a member of the RecycleBank Sales Team, Andy works closely with Regional Managers and reports to Bill Wolfram.
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Prior to joining RecycleBank, Andy was a Senior Manager at ServiceSource, where he developed and delivered account retention and growth strategies for leading technology clients such as Quantum, Agilent Technologies, and Blue Coat Systems. During his tenure with ServiceSource, Andrew spent two years in Ireland and England where he founded and built the European business to include eight clients and 105 employees. Andrew received his BA from the University of Southern California.
Partnership Relations:
Bridget Croke
Director, Partnership Development, Midwest and New England
Bridget is responsible for building partnerships and sponsorships with national companies based in New England and the Midwest that reward RecycleBank members for recycling and other green actions.
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Prior to RecycleBank, Bridget was Co-Director of the White Dog Café Foundation and the landmark Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign. Previously, she worked with the Center for a New American Dream in Washington DC promoting sustainable consumption and also with Growing Power in Milwaukee, WI on VermiComposting. Bridget earned a BS from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a focus on Sustainable Development and Agriculture.
Azim Esmail
Director, Rewards Development
Azim is responsible for partnership development and strategy for RecycleBank’s Rewards program.
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Before RecycleBank, Azim worked for Points International Ltd, a leading provider of proprietary solutions to the loyalty industry and operator of the world's leading reward-program management portal, Points.com. As Manager of Business Development, his key responsibilities included partnership development, account management, and strategic direction for a new technology platform. In a prior role, he was an Associate at The Gordon Mowatt Group (GMG), a boutique business development and marketing consulting firm. Azim graduated with honors from the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.
Aron Levinson
Director, Partnership Development, Western Region
Aron manages Western region sponsorship sales at RecycleBank where he builds long term business relationships with partners.
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Aron was previously the Advertising Sales Director at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where he managed the Southwest advertising sales team. His clients included: Toyota, Starbucks, Hyundai, Kia, Nordstrom, Nissan, Wal-mart, Chili’s, Sony Pictures, JC Penney, MGM/Mirage and Universal Pictures. Prior to IAC/InterActive Corp, Aron was a Multi-Media Automotive Account Executive at Tribune/Los Angeles Times and has two previous dot-com start-ups under his belt from Wirebreak.com and Excite@Home. He earned his BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
When Aron is finished creating value for his clients and RecycleBank, Aron is at Hermosa Beach with his wife and young children picking up trash and educating them on the importance of recycling. Born and raised in Southern California, living a green lifestyle is a part of his DNA. He is also a devoted Los Angeles Dodgers fan and plays catcher for a baseball team in the MSBL called Dodgertown West.
Bob Staub
Director, Partnership Development, Eastern
Bob is responsible for Eastern region sponsorship sales building long term business relationships with sponsorship and reward program partners.
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Prior to joining RecycleBank, Bob worked for MyPoints.com, a leading provider of Internet direct marketing and one of largest online shopping rewards and loyalty programs. As Director of National Sales, Bob worked closely with companies implementing interactive marketing campaigns. In a prior role, he was the Senior Strategist providing strategic direct marketing advice both internally as well as to MyPoints’ clients including Office Depot, Wal-Mart, FTD, and ServiceMaster. Before MyPoints, Bob was a Senior Marketing Manager with the Institute for International Research.
Bob graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY with a BA in Government and Economics. He also holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management, where he graduated with honors.
