The Management Team

GreenSafe has a proven management team who has assembled state-of-the-art equipment to handle the demanufacturing and CFC issue, established feedstock commitments from several product streams and cultivated strong local government support.

Peter Swire CMA    E-mail

Peter Swire is a honours graduate of the prestigious School of Business at Queen’s University. He was previously employed in the primary materials manufacturing sector for 17 years, which included the annual construction and oversight of an $ 850 million budget and international trade dispute matters. His corporate finance experience spanned nearly a decade and included the evaluation of private placement and IPO investment opportunities for a         full–service investment dealer.  Peter is an accredited Certified Management Accountant.

Peter has been involved with private equity markets for many years, with much of his work focussing on bringing advanced European technologies to the North American market. He has decades of experience in business development in the areas of metal fabrication, rail and travel, and also owns the patent on an innovative design product for the construction industry.

 

Catherine Ellis, Logistics Manager   E-mail

Cathy Ellis holds accreditation in Ontario Management Development and has over 30 years experience in 3PL Logistics, Inventory Control, Customer Service and Human Resources.

She spent 13 years specializing in Custom Brokerage and Integrated Logistic Services with Livingston International, a leading North American Logistics provider. Cathy then moved to Hamilton Terminals, where her 19 years also included Warehouse Logistics in a 360,000 sq ft facility. She is adept in Accellos, Oracle and SAP systems, and brought her considerable negotiating skills to bear in handling Human Resources, A/R and Customer Service. Her responsibilities were expanded to include oversight and administration of monthly budgets, physical plant maintenance and sales reports.

Cathy's Continuing Education curriculum has included earning credits in Supervision Administration, Leadership, Production, Communications and HR. 

Cathy demonstrates a high degree of professionalism in her ability to focus cross-functionally, working collaboratively with employees, shippers and clients. Her goal is to achieve continuing improvement to service levels and customer satisfaction.

 

Jocelyn Larocque P.Eng.    E-mail

Jocelyn is a professional mechanical engineer registered in New Brunswick and Ontario who has twenty years of experience in engineering and management at various levels.  His diverse experience includes design of plant equipment, supervision, project management, industrial applications development, quality control programs and preventative maintenance. He has acquired a vast experience in many sectors of various industries and followed a continuing education program in both engineering and non-engineering fields. His skills include human resources, management, Health & Safety programs and as Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Saint-Leolin, Jocelyn is involved in professional, regional, municipal and community organizations at various levels.

Jocelyn spent thirteen years with paperboard producers Smurfit-Stone, after which he became a consultant for pressure vessel design, offered R&D services to educational clients as a design engineer, and was involved in all aspects of Atelier PMC, major supplier of custom fabricated metal products to the mining and fishing industries.

 

Clifford Kennedy    E-mail

Clifford has 20 years of experience in a variety of economic development portfolios, including the government of New Brunswick and private sector initiatives.  These experiences varied from tourism development to regional economic development (primarily responsible for the former Regional Economic Development Commissions) to investment attraction (focusing on the North American, Central American and European marketplaces) and finally to sector development with New Brunswick manufacturing companies.  He has also worked for over 10 years in other administrative responsibilities at the municipal and provincial levels.  He is perfectly bilingual (French and English).

Clifford retired from the provincial government in May 2004 and started his own company under the name of Business Development Sales and Marketing Canada Inc.  In addition to providing business development expertise to manufacturing clients, including cluster development under EMC (Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium), Clifford was also a contract supplier as Industrial Commissioner for the Town of Caraquet from July 2004 to December 2007.  His primary duties were focused on investment attraction from the North American, European and Asian marketplaces.  Since January 2008, Clifford is providing consulting advice to the Town of Caraquet on a project by project basis only and also working on other investment projects for other regions of New Brunswick.