Board of Directors

BOARD
Bernard Muller, aged 42, (Chairman)
Bernard started his own business at 21 years ago, son of an inland barge owner in Holland. After several enterprises ended up partnering in Hofftrans BV in 1997, later merged in Burando Maritime Services. Responsible for assisting with strategy. Established growth plans for ISD which resulted in that company becoming the leading and major maritime service provider in the ARA (Amsterdam, Rotterdam Antwerp) region.

Nigel Sandy, aged 65, MBA, (Deputy chairman)
Nigel Sandy commenced his career in the land aggregates industry as an Accountant and has an MBA from Bath University. Following experience in the UK and Holland with Boskalis Group, he joined Hanson PLC in 1986 and subsequently was appointed Managing Director of the Hanson Group Waste Recycling activities in 1991. These were sold to the Waste Recycling Group PLC, a public group which became a constituent of the FTSE 250 index with Nigel as Chief Executive. In 2003 he led the sale of WRG to Terra Firma, a major private capital group. From 1994 to 1998 Nigel was Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Environmental Services Association, representing the National and EU interests of the UK waste sector.

Charles Fairweather, aged 60, FCA, (Non Executive Director)
Charles Fairweather is a Chartered Accountant with a wide range of commercial and property interests in the UK, Europe and the USA. Following many years as Senior Partner of a London accountancy practice, he has, in recent years, focused on the development of a number of businesses including venture capital involvement in technologies derived from university research. He is a recently retired Chairman of The Royal Albert Hall, and a current Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, among his many interests.

Peter Snell, aged 65, FCA, (Non Executive Director)
Peter Snell is a Chartered Accountant and Venture Capitalist with significant experience in the development of small and medium sized businesses in the manufacturing, contracting and service industries. He is currently a Director of Frontier Travel Ltd, a tour operator, Diagnosys Test Systems Ltd., a manufacturer of equipment for testing and fault finding in electronic circuits for major international companies, West Sussex Partners Ltd, a 'Nameco' at Lloyds and House of Italy Limited, a property company.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Richard Anthony Eldridge, aged 68, B.Sc., FCA, (Company Secretary)
Richard Eldridge is a Chartered Accountant, whose experience has been primarily within the oil and gas industry, having originally qualified as a Mechanical Engineer with Shell. From 1989 to 1996 he was a Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, with executive responsibility for oilfield service projects. In 1997 he negotiated the contract to build state of the art waste treatment facilities for the Port of Gibraltar. These were commissioned in 2001/2. He is also the chairman of Unique Maritime Group FZC, a U.A.E. group with operations in the Middle East, Singapore, South Africa and the USA, which supplies a wide selection of services to the offshore industries. He has previously been a Director of a number of public companies in the oil, gas and oilfield service industries.

EXECUTIVE TEAM
Andreas Drenthen M.Sc., aged 42, (Chief Executive Officer)
Andreas has an economics degree and was raised in a shipping family. He has been a partner and CEO of International Slop Disposal with Portinvest since 2007, and has been able to double revenues and triple profits in these years, through opening new markets. He has a strong financial and commercial background, with considerable experience in previous industrial and technology companies.

Darren Paul Laguea, aged 43, (Managing Director)
Darren Laguea is the CEO of the Group and of Nature Port Reception Facilities. He is also the Senior Executive Director responsible for expansion of the Group's port waste operations internationally. After an initial career in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Fleet involved with ship refueling and transport of oil , he continued his career with major oil companies and holds a masters ticket. For the last 15 years he has been involved with waste oil collection, fuel oil transfer and bunkering, and has been responsible for the considerable growth achieved in the Company's operations in both Gibraltar and SW Europe, including the reception of waste oils from the Canary Islands and latterly the export of recovered oil to Rotterdam.

Kieron Charles Joseph Becerra FCCA, aged 32, (Finance Director)
Kieron, joined Nature Group in 2010 as Finance Director of Nature Port Reception Facilities in Gibraltar. His initial career was as an auditor in London, since then he has gained substantial experience within industry involving international reporting and management.  In September 2008 he joined a leading legal practice in Gibraltar, where he served as a Financial Controller, leading the accounts team and managed all financial aspects of the company.  He is a member of the Gibraltar Society of Accountants.


Responsibilities and Committees:

As a result of the companies growth a Nominations Committee is established to consider the appointment of new directors and changes to the board. B. Muller, C. Fairweather and N. Sandy have been appointed to the Nominations Committee.

The Audit Committee comprises C. Fairweather, B. Muller and P. Snell with the appropriate terms of reference including monitoring the integrity of the financial statements, reviewing internal financial controls, risk management and matters relating to the appointment of the external auditors and recommendations to the AGM.

The Remuneration Committee comprises N. Sandy, C. Fairweather and B. Muller. The terms of reference are focused on ensuring that the levels of remuneration will attract and motivate competent directors to manage the company successfully, that part of their reward may be linked to corporate and personal performance, and incentive schemes and executive share options are appropriate and realistic for the business. The company will ensure that no director may participate in any meeting or discussion relating to their own remuneration.