Biographies

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Simon Drury - Business Partnerships Director

As Business Partnerships Director, Simon Drury is responsible for engaging, mentoring and supporting large businesses. Simon is committed to showing businesses that the environmental consideration makes good business sense.

An ecologist, Simon has extensive experience of resource efficiency and climate change, environmental management systems, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.

In a career of purely environmental roles spanning over 20 years, Simon has worked for Center Parcs - where as UK Environmental Manager he was responsible for all aspects of the four UK village's Environmental, Energy, sustainability and CSR strategies, including the company's ISO14001 certification -, the National Trust, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology.

Involved in a wide range of environmental bodies, Simon sits on the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, is a Member of the Regional Energy Strategy Group and his regional CBI Environmental Committee, and is Founding Chair of the EMRA Sustainable Development Roundtable.

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Adrian Cole - Operations Director

Adrian Cole has responsibility for the delivery of Envirowise services that help industry and commerce become more resource efficient and make environmental improvements. He has developed many of the sector approaches adopted by the programme and liaises with other delivery bodies to ensure that business users can benefit from the full range of support available to them.

Adrian qualified as a research physicist working on energy technologies. He managed the UK's early work on solar energy-based renewable energy systems before moving into environmental technologies. He has a good appreciation of how business can adopt new approaches to improve their systems and operations.

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Robbie Weir - Programme Manager, Scotland

Robbie Weir was appointed as Envirowise Scotland's Programme Manager in April 2008, having previously worked as the programme's Operations Manager. After studying Environmental Biology at Paisley University he trained at Sandhurst and was commissioned as an officer in the British Army in 1992. During his military career he worked in construction, logistics, communications, IT and training, including extensive service on operations in the Former Yugoslavia.

After completing an MSc at Cranfield University in 2001, he specialised in managing business change programmes within the Ministry of Defence. In 2007 Robbie left the Army and joined AEA to pursue his civilian career.

Robbie is a member of the Association for Project Management (APM) and serves on its committee in Scotland. In his spare time he manages conservation projects for the National Trust for Scotland.

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Ed Gmitrowicz - Programme Manager, Wales

Ed Gmitrowicz is responsible for the agreement and delivery of the Envirowise programme in Wales. Ed's previous experience includes working in environmental and sustainable energy consultancy, as well as in the privately-owned waste management sector. Ed was a director of Future Energy Solutions, the sustainable energy business of AEA Technology, with successive responsibility for the international and UK divisions. In this role Ed travelled extensively overseas, primarily in Asia, and worked on a number of projects sponsored by the international funding agencies.

Ed has managed the solid waste management divisions within consultancy companies, again managing and directing projects in the UK and overseas. He was also a director of a specialised organic waste management company, with responsibilities covering the legislative drivers, regulatory approval and technical development of waste processing systems.

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