Steve Grant is News Editor of the Western Morning News, a position he has held since November 2004. He started his career at the Chard & Ilminster News in Somerset before joining the Evening Herald in Plymouth, where he held various positions including Business Editor and Local Government Correspondent. After a brief stint working on motoring magazines he became Chief Reporter at the Bristol Evening Post until joining the WMN.

Ian Harrison is a chartered surveyor who was formerly the estates manager for Hanson Aggregates Ltd. Ian now runs a concrete products business and also a property consultancy. He is a trustee for the Devon Wildlife Trust.

Mark Hodgson MBA MCMI MIEMA FRGS. Mark is the South West Sustainable Business Manager for Envision SW / Global Action Plan. He oversees a team delivering a wide range of low carbon / environment management services to businesses and public sector organisations. He has a background in blue-chip and SME sustainable business development and business re-engineering, as a senior consultant, project manager and lead ISO auditor. Recently he has been involved in the South West Regional Assembly Climate Change action plan, various Carbon Reduction Strategies and the highly successful Renewable Energy for Devon programme. He trains businesses on a range of subjects from Carbon foot-printing to EMS and lectures at the University of Exeter MBA / MSc courses on Environmental Innovation. Internationally he has been involved in sustainable development projects in Bangladesh, Eastern Europe and Africa.

Rachel works in the Economy team at Devon County Council, she leads on a number of sustainable tourism projects on behalf of Visit Devon including co-ordinating the Green Tourism Business Network, the Sustainable Tourism Action Group, Green Suppliers Directory and a county-wide wildlife appreciation project. Her role involves business support through resource efficiency advice and signposting, green marketing and visitor communication. Support for the food & drink sector also forms a part of Rachel's role, a subject close to her heart as she lives on a mixed farm in rural Mid Devon. Outside of work Rachel is the Press Officer for the Devon Federation of Young Farmers Clubs and sits on the Press and PR Committee for the Mid Devon Show.

Peter Morgan Peter is the Environmental officer for Paignton Zoo. In this role he is responsible for environmental improvements and the running of the environmental management system at Paignton Zoo and the organisations other sites Newquay Zoo and Torquay’s Living Coasts. Originally an electronics engineer Peter decided to change his career path after working on environmental projects in Ghana. On returning he studied Environmental Management at Bristol University and since Peter has been working within the environmental sector involved in urban regeneration and advising the developers of a sustainable town extension in the South West. With an interest in sustainable buildings, renewable energy and reducing the environmental impact of businesses Peter has just completed an MSC in Architecture and energy systems at the Centre for alternative technology and is undertaking training to become a lead auditor.

Steve Morris works as Environment Manager for Alcoa Investment Casting and Forged Products, formerly Howmet Ltd. He joined the company in 1998 as an IT and Business Analyst before making the switch to his present role in 2004. Steve’s previous experience is in a variety of organisations and occupations including manufacturing, banking, auditing, business analysis, and objective 1 & 2 funding.

John has been involved with printing all his adult life. He started in production and then moved to sales and marketing. His current role is as Sales & Marketing Manager for Brightsea Press in Exeter. John has a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Development and Management - Exeter University. His interests lie in people management and leading teams.

David Underwood is the Deputy Director of Technology at the Met Office responsible for delivery of the technological solutions required to meet the needs of all Met Office customers in government and commerce, including MoD, CAA, DEFRA, EA, DFT, HA, DCMS, DoH, Cabinet Office, ODPM, DFID, FCO, Home Office and numerous FTSE 100 companies. Dave previously ran the Met Office Public Sector and Civil Aviation Businesses and up until 1998 worked with CAA and National Air Traffic Services. David was educated in Kelso, Scottish Borders and has a BSc Maths Glasgow in 1984 and MSc Operational Research Strathclyde Business School in 1985.

Andy Vickery is the current Chairman of DEBI joining the board in 2002. Andy works as the Environment Manager for the large Waste Management Company – Devon Waste Management Ltd (DWML). DWML run a large landfill site in North Devon, 4 waste transfer and waste processing/recycling stations for commercial wastes and 23 civic amenity and recycling centres for bulky household waste across Devon.

Andy is responsible for the Environmental Management of theses sites in terms of licence or permit compliance, this includes the environmental monitoring at all of DWML’s facilities, which includes surface and ground waters, together with the monitoring of potentially polluting parameters such as leachate and landfill gas. He is also responsible for the companies Quality Management System, Health and Safety management and Insurance provisions.

Andy has been involved in Waste Management within Devon for the last 30 years, since starting in 1977 with Devon County Council as a “Specialist Waste Disposal Trainee” and has worked in most areas of waste disposal and management gaining a wide range of experience in this important issue that affects all businesses in Devon.