William Billy Blackburn

Mr Blackburn has over 25 years of experience in general management, with a record of driving commercial growth. He has been both an entrepreneur and an executive in organisations. He founded Emes, LLC, a technology-based specialty chemical business. Emes had a business model focused on chemical production paired with recycling in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare markets. Mr. Blackburn sold the business to Nova Molecular and then joined their executive team to lead further commercial growth of the merged organisations. More recently, Mr. Blackburn was the Vice President of Giant Cement Holdings Inc., and executive manager of its subsidiary, Giant Resource Recovery (GRR), where he led a turn-around of the business resulting in 70% EBITDA growth over two-years. He also raised capital for the GRR business to modernise its plants for profitable growth. He is in daily sales management, marketing and in building a robust supply chain to support sales growth. He is Member of Board of Trustees for International Sleep Products Associations (ISPA) since April 2024 and Member, Sustainability Committee of the Mattress Recycling Council.