Presidential Team

Derek Greedy - President  

Presidential Address - Derek has worked in both the public and private sectors of the waste and resources management industry for well over 35 years.

He joined Cambridgeshire CC in 1975 as a regulator being responsible for the regulation of hazardous waste movements and site licensing. He also benefited from working within a small waste management group which gave him the opportunity to be involved with the day to day operational activities.

This together with his water industry background gave him the experience necessary to become landfill and technical manager for two of the UK's largest waste management companies. In that role he had operational responsibilities for a number of large co-disposal landfills as well as providing technical input to applications for planning permission and permits for replacement sites.

Derek then worked for 3 years in consultancy before joining Warwickshire CC as Principal Waste Management Advisor in 2005.

Derek was elected to the Institution as a Corporate member in 1987, being a Fellow of the Institution since 1999 and a Chartered Chemist. He has chaired both the Midlands Centre Council and the Institution's Scientific and Technical Committee. He is currently the Chair of ISWA’s Landfill Working Group. He has represented the Institution and the waste and resources management industry on a number of working groups in organisations such as Defra, BSI, DCLG and Regional Technical Advisory Bodies.

John Skidmore - Senior Vice President

John has been actively involved in the waste industry for over 30 years.

He joined the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council in 1980 as a Technical Officer and was rapidly promoted, becoming Cleansing Services Manager in 1991. John held numerous positions at Wakefield before moving to East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 2007 as Head of Streetscene Services.

John is responsible for:

• Environmental Services - waste services, recycling, grounds maintenance, parks and open spaces, street cleansing and allied services.
• Highway Maintenance Services - highway operations, Area Engineers, highway safety inspections, surface dressing, environmental enforcement and village task force service.
• Highway Technical Services - street lighting, traffic lights, lighting, traffic and parking, winter services, highway management of the network and allied services.

John was elected to the Institution as a corporate member in 1985, joined the North East Centre Council 15 years ago, has held the position of Honorary Centre Secretary for 13 years, is a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee and has been actively involved in the Institution's work, both internally and externally with other waste industry partners.

In his spare time, John is a keen golfer, family man and is involved with charity work.

David Beadle - Junior Vice President

David has worked in the waste management industry for thirty-two years, a Member of the Institution since 1990, Chairman of the East Anglian Centre 1995/97, a member of the General Council 1996/2010 and continues as Director of IWMBS.

He has worked in senior positions of responsibility since 1990, first as Norfolk County Council's Waste Disposal Officer then as MD of Norfolk Environmental Waste Services Ltd (NEWS), 1993/2009 and now as MD of the North London Waste Authority.

David was a Director of the Environmental Services Association for nine years until 2009 and a Director of Energy & Utility Skills, the Sector Skills Council of the Electricity, Gas, Water & Waste sectors, from its formation until 2009; he remains a member of the Waste Industry Skills Initiative.

David's achievements include: the setting up of NEWS in 2003, the introduction of green-waste composting in Norfolk in 1995, the development of one of the first high-throughput Materials Recycling Facilities in the UK in 2004 and the Company's leading role in converting Norfolk to a 'twin-bin' system from 2004 with the associated improvement in recycling.

Key matters for David in the future are: timely investment in appropriate facilities, maintaining good competition and advancing skills & education.

Barry Dennis - Immediate Past President

Barry joined the Institution in the early seventies and has worked in the Waste Management Industry since 1964.

He joined the Deards group of companies when he left school and progressed to the main board and was responsible for the subsidiary involved in waste management. He has been involved in all aspects of the industry from operating landfills and incinerators to a large vehicle fleet involved in waste collection for both the public and private sectors.

He is a director and trustee of Wamitab and is also its treasurer. He also holds other directorships of companies involved in the waste and recycling sector.

In his spare time he played senior amateur soccer and represented the FA English Schools, he is a keen golfer and a playing member of the MCC. He is married to Jan and they have 2 sons. Barry also has 3 daughters and four grandchildren.

Barry is the Director General of the Environmental Services Association (ESA), which is the trade body that represents the waste management, recycling and secondary resources industry here in the UK.

He has been a General councillor for CIWM for many years and is the Chairman of the Finance committee. He has been Chairman of the London and Southern Counties centre and is also a director of IWM Business Services.

He worked very closely with Government in the late 1960s helping write legislation controlling the skip hire industry. This now appears in the Highways Act.