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Panelists

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  Ray Molony Head of content for Build Back Better Award
  

  Ray Molony

  Head of content for Build Back Better Award

  An award-winning technical journalist and a highly experienced event organiser, chairperson, webinar host and public speaker.

  Ray Molony is the editor of the Circular Lighting Report, a Recolight initiative to inform the market of developments in sustainability in the industry. He’s also head of content at the Build Back Better Awards, an initiative to celebrate and reward environmental leadership, innovation, creativity and social purpose in the built environment, and the editor of Designing Lighting Global, a magazine for designers. He was co-founder of Lux magazine and the LuxLive exhibition. He’s also the award-winning author of the acclaimed book, Light: Re-Interpreting Architecture (Rotovision, 2014) which was translated into many languages. He studied engineering at Dublin City University.

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  Nigel Harvey Chief Executive at Recolight
  

  Nigel Harvey

  Chief Executive at Recolight

  Nigel has worked in the Product Compliance Industry since 1990 in a variety of senior management roles covering marketing, business development, and operational management. Nigel joined Recolight as Chief Executive and Company Secretary in 2009. He is very active in both the lighting and WEEE sectors:
  • Chair of the UK’s WEEE compliance scheme trade association, the WEEE Scheme Forum (WSF) since 2011, and a director of WSF Ltd since 2013.
  • Nominated as a PCS guest to attend meetings of the Joint Trade Association (JTA) which works with producer trade associations including the LIA, to obtain a fair UK WEEE system. Has supported the JTA in the preparation of the proposals to operate the WEEE compliance fee which have been chosen by Defra in 7 of the last 8 years.
  • Elected as a Director of EucoLight, the European trade association for lighting WEEE compliance schemes in 2015. Elected Vice President of EucoLight in 2017.
  • Member of two BSI committees that include the review of WEEE treatment standards, and the development of a code of practice for the remanufacture of lighting equipment.
  Nigel has published over 40 articles on WEEE and lighting over the last four years. He was named the first ever Lux Magazine Person of the year in 2012 and has been listed as one the UK’s 100 most influential people in the waste/resources industry for several years. He is also a climate activist.

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  Jamie Norris Green Founder, LumiAdd
  

  Jamie Norris Green

  Founder, LumiAdd

  Jamie Norris Green is an award winning designer with 15 years experience in the lighting industry. He’s been working with 3D printers for the past 10 years, designing and developing his own range of decorative luminaires whilst also working as a lighting design consultant on global projects with some of the worlds most famous architects.

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  Mark Shortland Managing Director, Shoplight
  

  Mark Shortland

  Managing Director, Shoplight

  Mark has been in the retail lighting sector for more than 20 years in a sales management role and, in 2014, co-founded a retail lighting business, Shoplight.

  Shoplight are showing true-innovation, using 3D printing and bioplastics to create products that are extremely sustainable when compared to traditionally manufactured aluminium products. They are a Certified B Corporation, working hard to do no harm while being a successful, profitable business.

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  Julien Vassieries CEO And Founder, Batch.Works
  

  Julien Vassieries

  CEO And Founder, Batch.Works

  I have been passionate about how to produce things differently. How additive manufacturing can bring production back to where the demand is. Making circular economy a reality using the latest advanced technology to achieve it. I have founded Batch.Works to tackle this mission, leading the way for sustainable, localised and circular additive manufacturing. We are currently based in London UK and have a production site in Amsterdam.