Reconomy management team strengthened with appointment of Chief Information Officer

Leading outsourced waste management and recycling services provider, Reconomy, has appointed Jody Fullman as Chief Information Officer in the latest move to strengthen its management team, drive future growth and deliver a great technology enabled customer experience.

Joining Reconomy in January in a newly created role, Jody will assume overall responsibility for the IT strategy of the group as well as overseeing the integration of acquired businesses, such as Valpak, who joined the Reconomy Group in December 2018.

Jody has extensive leadership, strategy and private equity board-level experience having spent the last 18 years in various leadership roles over numerous ownership cycles of an outsourced professional services business. He was instrumental in founding Nair & Co., where he rose to VP of Technology, before becoming CIO at Radius in April 2014 when the group was formed by the merger of Nair & Co with other companies.

At Radius, a company of nearly 1,000 people, Jody led the technology group, including all software engineering and product development, all technology platforms and transformed their cloud-based software platform to be market-leading for its UK and international client base. Jody is Microsoft and Prince Practitioner certified and holds an honours degree in mechanical engineering from Swansea University. He was made a fellow of the British Computer Society in 2012.

Commenting on his appointment, Jody Fullman said: “I’m delighted to be joining Reconomy at such an exciting time. We have a huge opportunity to leverage technology, an area where Reconomy has made significant investment, to deliver great solutions to our customers and supply chain. I’m looking forward to using my experience to help shape and deliver both Reconomy’s technology strategy and growth aspirations into the future.”

Reconomy Chief Executive, Paul Cox, added: “Jody is a technology-focused leader with a proven track record of managing and supporting organic and acquisitional business growth. His experience will be vital to the Reconomy Group as we aim for revenues over £250m by the end of 2019 and beyond. We are delighted to welcome him and further demonstrate our commitment to providing industry leading tech-enabled waste management services.”

Reconomy is the UK’s leading provider of outsourced waste management and recycling services. The company specialises in implementing best practice approaches to waste management, helping its numerous clients to minimise their waste output and increase resource efficiencies.