Roger Gower – Independent Director
Roger has wide experience as a company executive, director and Chairman in both public and private companies. He is currently Chairman of PrimePort Timaru Limited and New Zealand Food Innovation Auckland Limited (the Food Bowl). Roger is an independent director of NZX listed Me Today Limited. Roger is the Chief Executive of New Zealand’s Best Food & Beverage Limited, that has developed wellbeing products under the Douglas Nutrition brand. Roger was Chairman at the juice company Charlie’s, which listed in 2005 and prior to that he had a corporate career in logistics and transportation.
Roger has a BCom from the University of Auckland, an MBA from Massey University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge.
Shane Edmond – Independent Director
Shane became a shareholder of WasteCo in December 2020. Shane has had extensive experience in the financial markets having worked in London and New Zealand for over 30 years. Shane is currently an executive director of Forsyth Barr Limited.
He was previously a member of the Financial Market Authority’s Code Committee for Financial Advisers for seven years. Shane has a number of private investments in New Zealand.
James Redmayne
James had 18 years of Cost and Management Accounting experience under his belt before embarking on the WasteCo journey, working in industries as diverse as banking, foreign exchange, broadcasting and pharmaceuticals as well as manufacturing entities involved in carpets, food and engineering.
James loves getting to know the numbers and understanding what can be done operationally and from a process point of view to positively influence results; he understands that people are the most precious resource any company can have and gets a real kick out of helping them understand what influence they have on the numbers from their actions. James, like Carl, is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team for WasteCo.
Working in the waste, sweeping & industrial services arena has given James lots of opportunity to work with some amazing people from a very broad spectrum of the community and industry; an opportunity that has definitely become a passion that revolves around the “family” of WasteCo and the amazing opportunities that he and the team are able to take advantage of to positively influence our community.
James works in the WasteCo business with his wife Sam. They are supported by two astute young men, Mitch who is in year 11 at high school and Haz who is in his first year of university studying engineering.