Forbes profile:
Sure sounds like a man that wants to throw his great reputation away for a scam.
Mr. Nielson is the founding CEO of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, E-Waste Systems (UK) Ltd., from its inception in January 2011. He has extensive experience in operations and mergers and acquisitions, in senior executive and advisory positions for over 30 years with companies such as The Gap, Businessland, and Corporate Express, helping to build the latter two by acquiring and integrating more than 100 companies throughout the United States and Europe. He was most recently CEO of Global Electronics Recovery and GEARRS in the e-waste/reverse logistics industry, from November 2006 until the December 2010. Prior to that, from February 2004 through June 2006, he was the founding CEO of Encompass Group Affiliates during which time he negotiated the acquisition of more than $100 million worth of businesses in the electronics reverse logistics industry. He was founder and chairman of AltosBancorp, an advisory company specializing in mergers and acquisitions and is a shareholder in Altos-Blumberg Partners, LLC, a strategic consulting firm in the electronics industry, both of which are inactive. He also currently serves as a non-executive director of Coroware, a small US public company in the software industry, and previously acted as their CEO prior to a restructuring and a refocusing of the company. Mr. Nielson received a BS in Management, with minors in engineering and mathematics, from San Jose State University and subsequently studied Operations Research at San Francisco State University's Graduate School of Business. He served in the United States Marine Corps' PLC program while in college. He also presently serves on the Executive Board of the Transatlantic Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which serves expatriate youth across Europe, the Middle East and Africa from its base in Italy, and is the owner of Hilltop Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. At a board meeting held on June 7, 2013, our CEO and director, Mr. Martin Nielson agreed to step into the vacant position of Chief Financial Officer.
