Meet the Enviroo team

Ahmed Detta

Chief Executive Officer

About Ahmed

Ahmed’s mission is to make plastics recycling habitual in our everyday behaviour and instil the belief that profiteering from this process is good for all involved. This key, yet disruptive belief, was the driving force behind Ahmed setting up Enviroo – creating a visionary recycling business which is both a force for good and profitable. Ahmed spearheaded the business model from concept to full equity investment funding for a facility in Abu Dhabi and will be replicating this model across the UK market.

Julie Green

Non-Executive Chairwoman

About Julie

Julie is a corporate finance Executive Director within Ernst and Young (EY) Transaction Advisory Services in London, specialising in providing advice to real estate companies, financiers and investors as well as corporate users of real estate. Julie has substantial experience in public markets M&A including advising on public to private transactions and IPO’s. Prior to joining, Julie was a founding partner at Lowndes Partners LLP, a real estate focused corporate finance boutique and before that an European Director at JLL and a Director at Lazard.

Beth Green

Programme Director

About Beth

Beth brings project management and service delivery expertise to the Enviroo team. Having deployed several technology led infrastructure projects she will programme manage all aspects of the pre-construction success and on-going service delivery once the plant is commissioned.

Robert Keen

Finance Director FCCA

About Robert

Rob qualified with Leigh Saxton Green in 2003 and was made a partner in 2008. Rob’s has over 25 years of experience in practice and his portfolio of clients contains a variety of sectors including start-up’s, FCA regulated clients and manufacturers

As Enviroo’s Finance Director, Rob is responsible for strategic planning, tax planning, corporate finance, as well as audit and tax compliance issues.

Liam Barbary

Procurement Director

About Liam

Liam Barbary BA(hons) FIMMM- Over 18 years in the flexible packaging industry. Having worked for Amcor Flexibles managing the UK dairy and meat market and subsequently Suedpack as their Global Key Account Director, Liam has a vast experience in packaging sales to key accounts. As a co-founder of Benchmark Consulting Global Ltd, Liam now leads the operational management of the business, driving commercial excellence best practice and estimating via their uniquely designed cloud-based software.

Special Advisory Team

Belinda Scott

Non-Executive Director

About Belinda

Having worked in the Corporate Social Responsibility sector for 16 years, Belinda currently leads the corporate sustainability team at First Abu Dhabi Bank. Belinda has responsibility for developing and implementing the Bank’s corporate sustainability strategy, reporting on progress, and acting as the sustainability adviser to group businesses on sustainability risks and opportunities.

One of her key strengths is in supporting the development of impactful partnerships and alliances by bringing people and cross-sector organisations together to explore and identify opportunities to bring about change.

Becca Smith

PR Consultant

About Becca

PR consultant and Founder of SisterSmith PR, Rebecca studied journalism at Cardiff University and joined the BBC as a broadcast journalist, working across TV and Radio. Rebecca worked primarily across Radio 4 News programmes as a producer and output editor on Today, World at One, PM and The World Tonight. During her time at the BBC she was chosen as one of The Radio Academy’s ‘30 under30’. Sustainability and climate change became important news stories over her time at the corporation with Rebecca regularly working across sustainable news stories including covering climate change deals and the problems of single use plastic.

Ilkka Kokka

Technical Consultant

About Ilkka

Ilkka is one of the few industry experts who were involved in the founding of our current plastics recycling industry. Ilkka’s background in energy technology saw him building recycling plants across Europe with a focus on PET recycling. Being a first mover several years ago, Ilkka has witnessed first hand the teething problems the industry has faced and how it has evolved to its current position today. llka is backed by a technical team that has significant technical and implementation knowledge to ensure our facilities are the most efficient in the industry.

Suzi Smith

Marketing Consultant

About Suzi

Suzi began her career in Public Relations over 12 years ago after attending King’s College London and gaining a degree in English Language and Communication. Heading up the PR for a number of high profile national retailers led Suzi into diversifying into Corporate Social Responsibility, working closely with the CSR team at B&Q and Kingfisher to help deliver and communicate their sustainability programmes. She has also worked with HRH The Prince Of Wales’ sustainability charity, START and with Dame Ellen MacArthur on her foundation.

Andy Green

Creative Director

About Andy

Creative Director & founder of Spaceman Creative Studio, Andy has worked in Sales and Marketing for over 15 years across a wide range of sectors. Since launching Spaceman in 2017 he has specialised in branding, creative marketing, web design and photography, skills which have been implemented within Enviroo and will continue to do so throughout our list of current and future projects.