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The leader in premium quality, environmentally friendly soil care for large scale commercial use.
Donald Green
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Audit Committee Member
Mr. Green is currently Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Greenfleet Ltd., a private investment management company and Chairman and a director of AudienceView Software Corp. Mr. Green also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors and a director of the Intellectual Property Board of McMaster University. He obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ryerson University and business degrees from the University of Western Ontario and McMaster University. He has served as a director of various companies, including Union Gas Co. of Canada, Heroux-Devtek Corp., BMG Canada Ltd., Thomson Gordon Ltd., North Sails Fogh Ltd., Thermadyne Welding Products of Canada Ltd., Hamilton Trust & Savings Corp, Devtek Corporation Inc., and DXStorm.com Inc. In addition to these directorships, Mr. Green has held the following executive positions: Chairman & CEO, Tridon Ltd.; Director and Chairman of the Credit Committee, National Bank of Canada; Deputy-Chairman, Aviva Canada Inc.; Director & Chairman-Audit Committee, Laidlaw Inc.; Co-Chair, Ontario Training & Adjustment Board; and Chairman, Innovation Ontario Corporation.
Rick Denyes
President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Denyes has spent his career in the waste management and recycling industry.
He joins Forterra from GSI Environment Inc., where he was Vice-President,
Ontario and Western Canada responsible for overseeing the management of organic
waste contracts and other operations for those regions. GSI, a unit of EnGlobe
Corp., has specialized for more than 20 years in research, development, and
implementation of organic waste management programs. Mr. Denyes began his
career with Laidlaw Waste Systems, where he held several sales positions.
Subsequently, prior to joining GSI in 2007, he held management positions with a
number of organizations, including Halton Recycling Ltd., City Compactor Inc.,
Wasteco in Toronto and Guelph, Ontario, and Capital Environmental Resource Inc.
Stanley Sajnovic
Plant Manager
With more than 20 years of agricultural management experience, Mr. Sajnovic previously was the Vice-President of Operations at Stanrika Farms, where during a more than
20-year career at the company, he initiated the process that made Stanrika
Farms the only large-scale commercial producer of all natural turkeys in North
America. Mr. Sajnovic also served as Production Manager for Stanrika Farms. He
is a graduate of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program at the University
of Guelph.
David Woolford
Director, Governance Committee Member and Compensation Committee Member
Mr. Woolford is a partner of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, a Toronto-based law firm, in its business law group since June 2003. He practices in the corporate, commercial and technology areas with special emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. Mr. Woolford is also an active angel investor and serves or has served on various public and private company boards and advisory boards, including York Capital Corp. (now Silverbirch Inc. (TSXV:SVB)), Lancaster Sierra Capital Corporation (now EFT Canada Inc. (TSXV:EFT)), IBO, Virox Technologies Inc. and Destiny Solutions Inc. He was previously a partner with the law firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP from July 2000 to May 2003 and before that a partner with the law firm of McMillan Binch LLP from 1988. He attended the University of Waterloo and earned his law degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Rod Malcolm
Director, Compensation Committee Chair and Governance Committee Chair
Mr. Malcolm has been a partner with Malcolm, Preston & Huggins Search Partners, an executive search firm, since 2003. Prior to joining his current firm, he held successive partnership positions in two leading executive search firms, Korn/Ferry International and The Enns Partners Ltd. and before that he worked for Scott’s Food Services, Inc., as president of the KFC Division of that company. Mr. Malcolm has also held positions with First City Trust, Pepsi-Cola International and Procter & Gamble Company of Canada. He serves or has served on the boards of directors of KFC National Purchasing Co-Operative, Canadian KFC Franchise Association, the Sports Celebrity Festival and the Association of Canadian Advertisers. Mr. Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University.
Bruce Bent
Director and Cheif Financial Officer
Mr. Bent is currently Vice President of Finance at Mathews SouthWest, a full-service development company, where he oversees all legal, accounting, operational and structural issues. Mathews SouthWest currently controls in excess of $90 million of real estate, has joint venture interest in an additional $40 million of real estate, and is responsible for in excess of $1 billion of construction. Mr. Bent is a Chartered Accountant and a director of Nordex Explosives Ltd./Les Explosives Nordex Ltee.
John Gamble
Director and Audit Committee Chair
Mr Gamble has been a consultant in various industries over the last 25 years, Currently he is President of York Simcoe Investments Inc., an investment & consulting company, President of Elgan Investments Inc., and President and CEO of Elgan Systems Inc.