Marc Lichtenstein – Joint Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

Marc joined Close the Loop in May 2017 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of the Group and reports to the Board. In November Marc became Joint Chief Executive Officer. Over the past 25 years Marc has become a highly experienced Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary providing various services to a range of listed public and large private Companies across a wide range of industries. Marc has extensive experience in leading businesses through significant periods of change, particularly in the areas of business transformation and performance improvement including IPOs, significant capital raises, exponential periods of growth and major acquisitions. Marc is qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Secretary and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Tom Ogonek – Joint Chief Executive Officer

Tom joined Close the Loop in 2011, bringing more than 20 years of valuable operations experience and environmental industry perspective to the leadership team. In his role, Tom oversees all aspects of global operations. Tom is responsible for driving continuous improvement of operating efficiencies and facility management in all global operating centers, meeting financial growth goals, and growing the business through relationships with new and existing clients. With a background in chemistry and manufacturing, Tom’s insight and experience are valuable to the company’s vision to further diversify the business.

Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology from Northern Kentucky University. He currently works as an adjunct professor at Cincinnati State in the Center for Innovative Technology and serves on the Industry Alumni and Student Advisory Board at Northern Kentucky University’s Engineering Technology Program.

Malcolm Davidson - Chief Engineering Officer (CEngO)

Since joining in the company in 2011, Malcolm has been leading Close the Loop’s Project Engineering, Equipment Sourcing and Installation strategies as well as Technical Assessments of current and future operations. His background is a balanced combination of leadership roles and valuable industry experience including more than 30 years experience in agriculture, manufacturing and sourcing in Australia, Africa, USA and Asia. Malcom also brings leadership experience in operational, technical and CEO roles where he specialised in company turn-arounds, restructuring, productivity improvements and general management.

Malcom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics (Hons) and an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.

Kesh Nair – Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Kesh joined Close the Loop in 2008. Kesh provides leadership for the strategic development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology across all of Close the Loop’s global operations sites.

Since joining the company, Kesh successfully expanded and enhanced the company’s IT infrastructure to optimize Close the Loop’s premier sustainability solutions. He also helped architect the company’s resource recovery initiatives in the Business Intelligence space, creating unforeseen added value for customers.

Previously Kesh ran the IT systems for the Education Department at La Trobe University, directing the management of information systems, applications development, computer operations and technical support. Kesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Business Systems.

Megan Elfers – Director of Marketing

Megan leads the global marketing efforts for Close the Loop, helping increase awareness and secure the global reputation of the company. She joined Close the Loop in 2010 as part of the sales team, where she spent years working closely with some of the company’s biggest customers, helping create programs to meet their sustainability and brand stewardship goals. Her experience on the front lines of the sales force gives her invaluable insight for creating powerful and strategic marketing strategies to globally promote Close the Loop’s capabilities.

Megan earned an MBA degree with a focus marketing from Northern Kentucky University. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Communications at Thomas More College in Kentucky.

David Hitzler – Technical Manager

David joined Close the Loop in September 2014, bringing 23 years experience as an industrial chemist with extensive product development, formulating and raw material knowledge. In his role at Close the Loop, he applies his expertise as a material and process scientist to help customers uncover new value within product design, development and commercialisation decisions. Leading the technical aspects of the innovation team, David is responsible for research and development in creating valuable products from waste materials – in essence developing novel re-use applications for materials recovered from the cartridge recycling process, particularly recovered waste toner and other plastics.

David’s broad knowledge of process design and machinery, covering materials handling, mixing and size reduction technology help shape Close the Loop services and inform decisions for future offerings. David earned a Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry from RMIT University.

Nerida Mortlock – General Manager Asia Pacific

Nerida joined Close the Loop in 2008 in the role of Management Accountant. Her astute grasp of CtL’s financial and operational aspects saw her progress to Financial Controller and then to Group CFO managing all of the financial aspects of Close the Loop’s global operations.
With the expansion of Close the Loop’s business Nerida was appointed to the role of General Manager of the Asia Pacific business in October 2015, taking advantage of her 15 years’ experience in manufacturing, finance, HR and business processes.

In the role of General Manager, Nerida retains responsibility for the strategy, profitability, and all operational aspects of the Asia Pacific business with input into the global operations.

Peter Tamblyn – Sales & Marketing Manager Asia Pacific

Peter joined Close the Loop in May 2014 with more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. He brings a broad experience in senior sales leadership roles from working with Ricoh, Lexmark and Computershare. He was instrumental in the development of intellectual property in managed print services for Lexmark, and broadened his experience with electronic document management solutions with Computershare, including SaaS, Enterprise Content Management and business process outsourcing and automation.

Peter was educated at The Australian National University in Canberra and the Marketing Association of Australia & New Zealand. Peter is responsible for the sales and marketing strategy for Close the Loop in the Asia Pacific region and brings a strong track record of sales leadership, sales strategy, and building high performance teams.

Richard Bushnell – Facilities Manager

Richard joined Close the Loop in 2011 following a long and successful career in the automotive and machine manufacturing sectors where he spent 30 years developing skills managing Quality, Environment and Safety systems. Richard has a strong background in the implementation and maintenance of business systems and brings highly developed skills in manufacturing and process improvement.

Close the Loop has benefited greatly from Richard’s capabilities, in particular he has been instrumental in the increase in process separation resulting in higher output revenues, and maintaining and growing the company’s quality, environmental and safety certifications.

Sri Jayasundera – Finance Manager Asia Pacific

Sri joined Close The Loop in November 2016 taking on the finance manager role for the company. She is an accomplished finance professional, skilled in achieving operational efficiency, business process improvements, financial modelling and forecasting. She comes with more than 20 years of experience in senior finance roles which includes manufacturing, logistics, heavy vehicle parts, farming, IT and distribution industries in Australia, Middle East, Europe and South East Asia.

She graduated from Sri Lanka Technical College and currently holds fellow membership from CIMA (UK), member of CPA (Australia) and Member of CGMA (USA). She has the responsibility of consolidation of group financials and managing Australian financial functions as well as the financials for CtL’s EU operations based in Belgium.