About Us

Silvio Salom

Silvio was appointed to Director at Close the Loop in December 2007. Silvio sits on numerous boards and advisor groups in various positions. He holds a bachelor from Monash University, a master of engineering science from Melbourne University, and a master of fine arts from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

Silvio is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Chris Trafford

Chris is an experienced company director, having had roles on numerous boards in the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors. He has held public company directorships. He was previously the chairman of Close the Loop Limited from 2003 until 2010. Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne, has been a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Psychologist. In addition, he has had extensive involvement in the establishment and management of a number of businesses in corporate and allied health, environmental services and consulting sectors.

Greg Toll

Greg was appointed director at Close the Loop in November 2017. He holds a bachelor of science (Veterinary) Degree with First Class Honours from Sydney University and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Before joining Close the Loop, Greg was the CEO and Executive Chairman of Clean TeQ Holdings Limited, where he was appointed as CEO in 2007 then to the Chairman’s role, which he held until November 2013. In addition, Greg had senior executive positions in R&D, sales, and marketing with Uncle Ben’s, Masterfoods, Nestle and Lion Nathan.

Steve Morriss

Steve has been a pioneer of sustainability and the circular economy for over 30 years, during which time he has won numerous awards and made many friends. His values and deep interest in sustainability and novel business models led to him conceiving and starting Close the Loop in 2000. Steve’s passion for innovation led to the invention and patenting of numerous products and processes which have allowed Close the Loop to become the global leading circular economy company that it is today. Above all, Steve values contributing to the global transition to a circular economy, creating meaningful jobs and supporting others to thrive in a fair and just society.

Marc Lichtenstein

Marc joined Close the Loop in May 2017 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of the Group and reports to the Board and is now Joint Chief Executive Officer. For over 25 years Marc has emerged as highly skilled Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Company Secretary providing various services to a range of listed public and large private Companies across a wide range of industries. He 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. He is qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Secretary, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Tom Ogonek

Tom joined Close the Loop in 2011 and oversees all aspects of global operations. He has more than 20 years of valuable operations experience and environmental industry perspective and 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, His 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 is currently an adjunct professor at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in the Center for Innovative Technology and serves on the Industry Alumni and Student Advisory Board at Northern Kentucky University’s Engineering Technology Program.

Kesh Nair

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.

David Hitzler

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.

Peter Tamblyn

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

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

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.

Megan Elfers

Megan leads the global marketing efforts for Close the Loop where she helps to increase awareness and secure the company’s global reputation. She joined CtL in 2010 as part of the sales team, where she worked closely with many of our most important customers creating programs designed to meet their sustainability and brand stewardship goals. Her experience on the front lines of the sales force gives her invaluable insight to conceive powerful and strategic marketing strategies that globally promote Close the Loop’s capabilities.

Megan completed a bachelor’s degree in communications at Thomas More College in Kentucky and earned an MBA with a marketing focus from Northern Kentucky University