Team
About RecycleMatch
RecycleMatch has a vision for the future of zero waste. A future where it’s not just about achieving zero landfill, but about ensuring the best and highest use for all materials your organization generates. Our original hypothesis was that an online marketplace was the way to improve transparency about the real market values for materials. The online marketplace did a couple of things really well: it helped companies make 10-20% more for their commodity materials through competitive transactions, and it accelerated the pace for discovering new solutions for materials that were destined for the landfill. But, we learned that the largest companies -- the ones with the largest volumes of consistent, high-quality materials -- were not likely to use the marketplace without additional features. So, in fall of 2011 we announced our enterprise software as a service platform. With this platform, large organizations have all of the tools they need, and all of the control they want to optimize the value of their materials across their organization. This enterprise platform is a great fit for manufacturers of all kinds, as well as companies that aggregate recyclables and waste materials for their next life.
RecycleMatch is based in Houston, Texas. RecycleMatch was honored to be named Entrepreneur Magazine’s Most Brilliant Ideas, as well as to be selected by Capital Factory accelerator program in Austin and the PopTech Fellows Program in Camden, Maine.
Team
Brooke Farrell, CEO and Founder
Brooke Farrell, Founder and CEO of RecycleMatch, has over a decade of experience in the waste and recycling industry, highlighted by eight years of providing strategic and marketing consulting services to Waste Management, Inc. Brooke’s experience building web-based solutions in this industry includes overseeing the development of dumpster.com and ThinkGreen.com, which won a Mashable Award for Best Environmental Website 2008. Brooke’s career includes twenty years of experience in marketing strategy, sales and advertising on behalf of major corporations like Shell Oil, Exxon, Goodyear and Coca-Cola. Brooke has a BS in Economics and Government from the University of Texas. Brooke tweets from conferences and on environmental issues
@brookebf.
Chad Farrell, COO and Founder
Chad knows how to make things work. Chad has twenty years of experience in operations, technology and management of growth companies including successful B2B internet marketplaces, AssetNation (Acquired by Spire Capital) where he was SVP Strategy & Operations, and Network International (Acquired by Liquidity Services – NASDAQ: LQDT) where he was COO. Prior to that, Chad implemented and configured SAP Enterprise Software systems for Fortune 100 Companies for the Management Consulting Group at Ernst & Young LLP. From his early career days on offshore drilling rigs at Cameron International, to his position on the City of West University Recycling and Solid Waste Board, Chad knows how to roll up his sleeves. Chad has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Texas. Chad likes to tweet about entrepreneurship and 80’s flash backs
@cfar.
David Penick, Vice President of Development
David is responsible for the overall engineering direction and execution at RecycleMatch. He has 20+ years of experience building and developing market-leading enterprise software solutions from companies such as Oracle, Sun, Waveset (Acquired by Sun), and Tivoli (Acquired by IBM). Before joining RecycleMatch, he was the Director of Software Development at Oracle and Sun where he built and ran a team of 60 engineers. He has built business products for security, reporting, data warehousing, and decision support systems. David has a BS in Computer Science, Cum Laude from Rice University. David likes to run, bike, and compete in IronMan triathlons. You can follow David on Twitter at
@dpenick
Advisors
Andrew Winston
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works - and what doesn't - when companies go green. Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and CNBC. Andrew is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA. Andrew also sits on the Sustainability Advisory Board of Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
John Price
John Price's career spans three decades of high tech startups. John continues to drive growth through his vision and leadership in all aspects of internet and enterprise business. After a stint as an AI researcher at Shell, John jumped into building high tech startups and never looked back. John is the CEO of Vast.com. Prior to Vast, John served as vice president of marketing and business development at Between Markets, which was sold to Inovis. Before BetweenMarkets, John spent 11 years as vice president of marketing and business development at enterprise software company Trilogy, Inc, where he was critical to the company’s growth from $0 to $250 million in revenue. Previously, John was a director of technical marketing at Neuron Data and an AI associate at Shell Oil. John is also a board member of Sparefoot.com. John holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Rony Kahan
Rony Kahan is the CTO and co-founder of Indeed.com which he started in 2004 and has grown it into the leading global search engine for jobs with over 25 million monthly unique visitors. Prior to Indeed, Rony co-founded jobsinthemoney.com, the leading job site for financial professionals in 1998 and sold it to Financial News in 2003. Rony's background includes technology consulting at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and fast moving consumer goods product marketing experience. He holds and MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Economics from Texas A&M.
