Extended Producer Responsibility Management

Lisa is globally known for engaging CEOs and senior teams to drive game-changing sustainability performance that delivers brand equity, operational efficiency, and stakeholder value. Lisa has over 30 years’ experience pioneering leading edge solutions that combine both sustainability and business value for global corporations. Her work in Circular Economy, nominated for a 2017 Responsible Business Innovation award, includes developing a pioneering strategy for Merck KGaA’s Life Sciences business to credibly and cost-effectively position for entry into the multi-billion dollar green chemicals market.

A pioneer in climate change mitigation and resilience, she paved the way for hundreds of global companies to inform USEPA’s greenhouse gas strategy and reduce energy costs pursuing GHG reduction goals as a part of the ground-breaking Climate Leaders Program, which she created with the USEPA. A visionary expert, Lisa was chosen to author the chapter on Sustainability in the London Stock Exchange book on Corporate Governance.

On work for National Geographic: “Lisa brought together a group of stakeholders with strong and sometimes contentious positions, and was able to use her excellent facilitation skills and technical expertise to help all the stakeholders feel confident and stay engaged.” Darby Hoover, Natural Resources Defense Council.

Debbie leads the Anthesis UK Circular Economy Team. She has a strong track record in project management, business development and consultancy and is recognised for her ability to build and manage multi-stakeholder teams and her capability to deliver complex, collaborative and sensitive projects. She has an extensive understanding of the drivers and challenges of sustainable materials management having worked in a local authority, at a leading producer responsibility compliance organisation and over 15 years in consultancy.

Debbie has managed projects in manufacturing, retail, waste management and the public sector, delivering waste prevention activities, increasing reuse, improving waste collections and operations, driving behavior change and initiating product stewardship (ERP+) programs. She has delivered projects which focus on specific materials, such as food, packaging, textiles and WEEE; as well as projects which have a communications-based or behavior change methodology.

Since 2017 Debbie has been supporting businesses, NGOs and policy makers to address the single use plastic agenda for sustainability. She has overseen baseline development, benchmarking and goal setting exercises, strategy and action plan creation and materials substitution options assessments and R&D projects in the packaging and materials supply chains as well as specific support to the waste and reprocessing sectors to support circular economy.

Debbie is a qualified facilitator and is well known for her stakeholder engagement and consensus building capabilities.

Helen is a Technical Director within Anthesis, leading on Sustainable Chemistry within Europe. Her team supports clients in chemical compliance, strategy development and improving ways to manage chemicals of concern in products, processes, supply chains and data valuation.

Helen manages REACH consortia providing regulatory and technical guidance and supports individual clients in meeting their REACH obligations either directly or through the company’s provision as an Only Representative. Increasingly, this work is engaging with the Downstream User community, leading to Helen’s involvement in a number of projects which feature supply-chain dynamics at their core.

She joined Anthesis after 16 years with a multinational mining company initially working in research and development before moving into Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs. Her deep understanding of both the business needs and regulatory environment enables her to play a pivotal role in developing and implementing clients’ strategic plans.

Claudia is a highly experienced waste professional who leads on waste infrastructure for our resource sustainability team, covering a range of international waste recycling and recovery, secondary material and renewable energy projects.

Claudia has over twenty years’ experience across the waste hierarchy, particularly around material sorting and separation, biological (anaerobic digestion, composting, thermophilic digestion) and thermal waste treatment (combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, cryogenics) concepts.

Claudia delivers in-depth knowledge for route-to-market evaluations, waste flow transparency assessments, resource management options, technology selection, feasibility studies and business plan development support. She also provides investor-ready business case presentations and commercial due diligence services for new projects, re-financing opportunities and business acquisitions.

Berta Mota is the Head of Circular Economy at Anthesis Lavola, leading projects on Life Cycle Assessment and sustainability metrics to evaluate the impact of products, processes and services, and the development of circularity and ecodesign strategies for a wide range of industries, such as packaging, construction and textile.

She has a consolidated experience in the field of construction materials, particularly in the cement industry, and applied knowledge on the use of chemical additives, the incorporation of cement by-products and 3D printing, amongst others.

Berta is an effective communicator across different audiences. She has a strong international background after working in Switzerland and Germany in multi-disciplinary environments. She has a PhD in Material Sciences and Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Jason brings over 17 years of experience to Anthesis in information technology, product environmental and sustainability consulting. He has advised and worked with sector leaders including several Fortune 500 companies, helping them develop and implement their information management strategies, product sustainability programs, business intelligence platforms, bespoke solution projects and long term business process outsourcing solutions.

Jason manages the Anthesis’s Americas and Asia based Technology Services operations. He has a lengthy history of environmental plus IT focus, holding positions including lead software developer, software development manager, systems architect, and vice president of Digital North America operations.