Zero-to-landfill

What We Do

  • In recent years, we have seen an enormous increase in demand for battery metals - rare-earth metals which, ultimately, are scarce. Establishing a stable supply through the recycling and repurposing of battery metals is therefore critical if the industry is to meet user demand.
  • Target: to increase recycling lead-acid volume from 16,000 to 80,000 t/year
  • Zero gas emissions to atmosphere, zero particulate emissions to atmosphere.

Senior Management of Halo

Robin Brundle

Director

A visionary and successful senior executive with a proven track record of maximising business opportunities, be they business growth, turnaround, exit strategy, or culture change, thus offering a compelling proposition.

A significant number of successful business turnarounds - including national and international brands - covering automotive, aerospace, defence, motorsport, property development and NHS. Well-connected with a broad range of high net-worth clients, governments, and senior directorships.

Alexander Stanbury

Director

Corporate finance specialist with extensive contacts in the City of London financial community. Founder of HASS Advisors Limited in 2011 – advising clients on growth strategies, project finance, and capital raisings. Experience in origination and syndication of both private and public placements for companies within the natural resource sector for the boutique merchant bank, Prosdocimi Limited.

He founded Century Cobalt Corp and has over 15 years’ experience in the natural resource sector. Ex-Associate Director of London-based investment bank, Dawnay-Day Corporate Finance Limited. Experience in hedge fund management through his time at Lindemann Capital Partners LLP in New York (USA).

Jo Dennis

Group Managing Director
Jo is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur and engineer, with over 20 years’ experience working across the industrial sector in manufacturing, engineering, distribution, logistics material handling and waste management. He is passionate and experienced in developing start-ups and early-stage businesses, through the stages of innovation, scale-up, growth and continuous improvement.  
He was formally Managing Director at a UK-based energy-from-waste and recycling business, and his diverse career has covered leadership roles, operations, sales, project management, and engineering, working with many organisations, from SMEs to global manufacturing corporations across the UK and the EMEA region.
Jo holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Reading, and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Paul Adams

Financial Controller

Paul has over 30 years’ experience working in senior management roles across a number of manufacturing businesses in the UK & Europe.

He was formally Finance & HR Director for an Oil & Gas sector company, Financial Controller for 2 Stanley Black and Decker businesses and

Financial Controller at 2 different sites in the Doncasters group.

Paul is a big 4 trained Chartered Accountant and Russell Group University graduate.

Steve Andrew

Chief technology officer

Steve has over 35 years’ experience of process engineering and senior management, mainly in the mining and recycling sectors.

Steve has a wealth of knowledge with regards to mining and recycling techniques, and has used that knowledge to create new process routes for lightweight refractories, kaolin processing, wood recycling, aluminium recycling, and now recycling of lead and lithium batteries.

Recently, the majority of Steve’s time has been spent on developing novel recycling techniques for various battery types, and upscaling the pilot plants developed during that time into full-scale industrial processes.

Spencer Lowe

OPERATIONS manager

Spencer has nearly 30 years’ experience in the engineering sector, specialising in thermal engineering and the battery recycling industry.

Military trained, with experience in senior management, project management, installations, and commissioning of plants across the world.

Since 2017, Spencer has worked in the lead-acid battery recycling industry, designing, building, and commissioning the UK’s first independent, fully-automatic battery system. He has also been involved in the commercialisation and subsequent scale-up of a revolutionary patented battery recycling technology with the University of Cambridge.

Johdie Harris

operations manager

Johdie is a self-starter and forward-thinking entrepreneur in every sense of the word, with a variety of successful business turnarounds in the fabrication/welding, leisure and retail sectors. Well-known in the battery sector, and revered by many of his peers, Johdie was a founding member of Aurelius Environmental Ltd in 2015 - a company whose turnover quickly rose to £6m.

Since 2017, Johdie has worked in the lead-acid battery recycling industry, designing, building, and commissioning the UK's first independent, fully-automatic battery system. He has also been involved in the commercialisation and subsequent scale-up of a revolutionary patented battery recycling technology with the University of Cambridge.