Brief News: MITIE Chief Executive awarded a CBE; Brother And Sister Sentenced Over Waste Fire; And More

4 January 2012

MITIE Chief Executive awarded a CBE; Brother And Sister Sentenced Over Waste Fire; Industry Experts Appointed To Grow AEA's Waste & Resource Efficiency Business

MITIE Chief Executive awarded a CBE 　

Ruby McGregor-Smith, chief executive of MITIE Group PLC, was named on the New Year Honours List for 2012 and will be honoured with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to business and diversity in business.

Ruby joined MITIE, the FTSE 250 outsourcing and energy services company, in 2002 and was appointed as CEO in 2007. She is one of a small number of women holding the position of Chief Executive in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 and is the first Asian woman to be appointed in such a role within that group of companies.

Since joining, Ruby has overseen MITIE grow its revenues from £0.5bn to £1.9bn, continuing its 24-year track record of consecutive revenue and earnings growth. She has also embedded into the business her strong belief that responsible business practice should sit at the heart of corporate strategy and is fundamental to business success.

"I am truly honoured and humbled by this award," she commented. "I am passionate about promoting opportunities, entrepreneurialism and diversity in the UK, and delighted to have made a contribution and been recognised with such an honour."

Siblings who ran a waste tyre business that caused a massive fire have been sentenced to nine months immediate custody today at Sheffield Crown Court.

Jane Hopkins, aged 45, formally　of Ewood Drive, Doncaster, now at Bridlington and David Squire, aged 31, formally of Cecil Avenue, Doncaster, now at Bridlington both received the sentence.

Craig Hassall, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, told the court how Tyretrade Ltd had an environmental permit since September 2008, but had never operated within its terms, as there had always been more tyres on their Whitlea Grove site than the permit allowed.

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joins as Technical Director and will support the company's growth in waste related work in Wales as well as its procurement activities and its bespoke training offering to clients around the UK. Brian joins from Hyder Consulting, and he has over 25 years of waste management experience in the public and private sectors delivering a range of services, developing policy as well as delivering communications campaigns.

has been appointed as one of AEA's new Technical Director to support their on-going work for the Environment Agency and WRAP as well leading on their lifecycle modelling and private sector procurement workstreams. He is　a Chartered Waste Manager bringing 13 years of experience in the waste industry in policy, regulation and consultancy to the expanding waste management group at AEA.

joined AEA in January 2012 as a Senior Consultant specialising in econometric modelling, policy impact assessments and cost benefit analysis. She had spent 6 years with Defra as an Assistant Economist and more recently as an Economic Advisor focusing on land use, rural issues and waste management policy. Victoria was a central part of the Defra team providing economic impact assessment and policy impact studies to support Government policy decisions concerning producer responsibility and incentivisation programmes. She completed economic analyses on the impacts of a number of EU Directives on UK business and is an experienced modeller and scenario analyst who has investigated UK waste arisings growth in detail.

Darrel Moore