ALTERNATIVE USE GROUP - Key Persons
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- Supply Chain Director / Principal Consultant With Hedley.Cross Consulting / Associate Consultant With Hughenden Consulting
Job Titles:
- Technical Advisor and Proposal Evaluation
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- Company Secretary / Legal
Nick is 58 years old, married with 2 children.
Education:
1960 - 1966 City of London School
1967 - 1971 Emmanuel College, Cambridge (2:1 MA and LLB degrees in law).
Philip Callen, (PC) the General Manager of Alternative Use Group Plc is 64 years of age, has been married for 42 years and has 2 children and 4 grandchildren.
During his career he has had wide experience of business and industry in many fields, including waste collection and disposal.
During the 1990's, having seen at first hand the problems of landfill disposal, and having reflected on the environmental and economic damage caused by traditional methods of waste disposal, he decided to devote himself to discovering an efficient, environmentally friendly and economic solution to the worldwide problems of waste disposal. He realised that the power generation industry was grappling with similar problems of exhausting natural resources, and by the traditional methods of generation contributing to global warming and dimming and the dire environmental consequences of those phenomena.
He, therefore, formed Alternative Use plc to research and develop a system that would be a solution to both problems at the same time. The concept of converting waste to energy by pyrolysis-gasification was not new, but there was no efficient, reliable or economic system. By investigating all available systems, and involving major worldwide manufacturers and suppliers, under PC's guidance Alternative Use plc was able to develop a system that fulfils all the criteria and is approved by the most respected consultants, and to form a consortium of very major companies to manufacture and supply all the necessary components to support its implementation.
PC had for some years been troubled by the plight of underdeveloped countries and the fact that they were unable for lack of resources adequately to address environmental issues. His view has been that it will be by viable economic development, not by grant aid, that real sustainable development and actual poverty reduction will occur. On trips to Africa in connection with the business of Alternative Use plc he observed at first hand that the problem of waste disposal in that continent was growing out of control, with landfill the only solution being offered. He immediately realised that with the desire of such countries to embrace new technology and the lack of vested interests, the introduction of Alternative Use plc's technology could rapidly introduce major benefits economically and environmentally in the waste disposal sector, and at the same time provide electrical power of which there is an almost universal shortage.
The system now being marketed by Alternative Use Group plc has been developed by PC and the team he has created to provide energy from waste systems that can be adapted for use in all parts of the world, and can deal with waste streams of any combustible composition, so that solutions can be provided to clients ranging from small private concerns to local, municipal and even national governments and major multi-national companies.
PC's vision is to see energy from waste accepted as the normal way of solving the joint problems of excess waste and shortage of electrical power, and at the same time to ensure that the technology is as readily available in the third world as in the first so that the benefits of the systems of which he has overseen the development can play a major role in those countries where the need is greatest.
Terry is 60 years old, married with 4 adult children.
Job Titles:
- Joint Director of Generation