Besides serving as CEO of effENERGY, Mr. Davis is also a partner in Rubber Recovery, Inc., a scrap tire recycling company in southern California. Rubber Recovery processes about 3 million discarded tires annually into products for alternative energy and civil engineering applications and raw material feedstock for use in safe-surfacing (playgrounds, athletic fields, horse racing), asphalt, ballistics and molded product markets.
Bob also serves on the board of Waste Connections, Inc., a $1 billion, publicly-held waste services company (collection, transfer, recycling, disposal) headquartered in Folsom, California. As an independent Director, he chairs the Governance/Nominating Committee.
Due to his commitment to the environment, he initiated theĀ Global Waste Research Institute at California Poly-
technic State University (San Luis Obispo), an institute dedicated to researching waste streams for beneficial material/energy re-use on a sustainable basis. He draws from the collaborative expertise in the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, Business and Math/Science.
Prior to his association with effENERGY LLC, Mr. Davis served as the CEO and President of GreenMan Techno-
logies, Inc., Lynnfield, Massachusetts (1997-2006), a publicly-held scrap tire recycling company. During his tenure, GreenMan grew from $2 million in revenue to over $30 million with tire processing facilities in seven states that handled/processed 35 million tires per year and marketed processed materials to civil engineering and alternative energy consumers (cement plants, paper mills, power plants), diverse crumb rubber markets and steel mills. Prior to GreenMan, Bob was Corporate Vice President for Recycling at Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) in Houston, TX, where he initiated the Recycling Division in 1990 and grew the entity from ground-zero to about 150 material recovery facilities in North America and about 50 plants overseas which attained revenues of over $800 million and marketed 5 million tons of recyclable materials annually through efficient use of labor and technical innovations to produce high quality feedstock.
In 1972, Bob was among the first dozen employees of SCS Engineers where he managed all early research on recycling for the U.S.E.P.A. and numerous private clients and he also managed many solid waste collection/
disposal analysis/design projects for large Department of Defense facilities. This job prepared him for senior management positions at both Garden State Paper Company, the world's largest recycled newsprint manu=
facturer and then on to Fibres International, where he was instrumental in growing from $2 million to over
$50 million in revenue in under nine years. Bob holds a B.S. in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and has continued graduate studies at both George Washington University and Stanford University Law School.
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