Experience
Industry Background and Experience
Greg Gornall has more than 30 years of experience in managing businesses associated with the waste management/environment industry, specialising in the Manufacture, Quality Management, Marketing and Sales of Mobile Garbage bins in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Areas of particular expertise and skill include:
- Taking full CEO responsibility for medium-sized, diverse businesses
- Conceptualisation, business strategy development, and implementation
- Development, implementation and management of corporate governance policies
- Compliance and Certification to AS4123-2024 Mobile Waste and Recycling Containers
- Product stewardship focused on sustainability and the circular economy
- Market positioning, and international market-driven business revenue expansion
- Strong negotiation and communication skills. First class networker
- Refocusing of company ethos to market-driven orientation
- Reviewing and implementing new management systems, including IT, ISO and other
- Consultative, inclusive and conspicuous management style, developing strong employee motivation, loyalty and improved individual, team, and thus organisation/company performance
- Demonstrated capacity to deal and liaise successfully with a broad array of government and semi-government bodies and individuals, as well as private enterprise, from top to bottom
- Defining and successfully implementation of business ‘turn around’ strategies for underperforming divisions/enterprises
- Extensive effective business and financial cost control management
- Proved track record in innovative program design and implementation of new fully integrated waste management systems and techniques to manage and reduce impact of packaging and organics
- Managed implementation of first mobile garbage bin systems, second and third bin systems for source separation of recyclables, packaging and organics
- Procurement and acquisition of various types of waste and related industry equipment
- Extensive waste management business experience in container systems in Australian/NZ and SE Asian markets as well as China
Greg is current Chair of the Australian Standards Committee AS4123-2024/25 Mobile Waste and Recycling Containers and has extensive experience in methods of Conformity, Certification, and Product Manufacturing Quality Plans.
Greg has accompanied both the Prime Minister for Australia and the Minister for Trade as an industry representative on a number of overseas Government Trade Missions
Greg Gornall: LinkedIn
“The achievements of Mr Gornall with respect to the production and the sale of mobile garbage bin systems made SULO the most efficient and one of the largest suppliers in the Asia Pacific Region… read more”.
Hermann Neuhaus
Shareholder
Jurgen Rauen
Chief Executive Officer
SULO Group Germany, 2000
“To further extend the activities of Schaefer Waste Technology, Asia Pacific, we have appointed Mr. Greg Gornall, Managing Director of Schaefer Waste Technology Asia Pacific with immediate effect. We ask all employees of Schaefer to support Mr. Gornall in his work… read more”.
Gerhard Schäfer
Shareholder/Chairman
Fritz Schäfer GMBH
“On his arrival in Australia from the UK in 1980, Greg represented Sulo Germany prior to becoming the Managing Director of the Australian subsidiary in 1983. At that time, there was no market for MGBs and Greg, along with a few others, developed the Australian market successfully lobbying various levels of government and waste contractors. He initiated and carried out extensive trials, to prove the merits of the MGB system and established the first Australian production of MGBs in Australia… read more”
Harry Wilson
President
Waste Contractors & Recyclers Association of NSW, 2019
“The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) is the national peak body for all stakeholders in the waste and resource recovery industry. We have more than 2,000 members across the nation, representing a broad range of business organisations, the three (3) tiers of government, universities, and NGOs… We would appreciate your confirmation of receipt of this letter and would request that ongoing correspondence is directed to Greg Gornall who represented WMRR previously on the Standards Committee… read more”
Gayle Sloan
Chief Executive Officer
Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association Australia (WMRR), 2019
