Ian Walsh
Head Of Environment
Cadbury-Schweppes
Ian joined Cadbury in the summer of 1996 as an ambitious young graduate chemical engineer. Thrust straight into the world of production management he quickly discovered the scale of the Cadbury Bournville operation when for his first appointment he was asked to manage a production line employing over 200 people per shift making and packing easter eggs.
Following a successful spell in manufacturing Ian moved to take up a role in the UK corporate engineering team working across the manufacturing sites on a range of projects including amongst other things energy conservation, production optimisation and commissioning an effluent plant. Ian's next change of role saw him take up position as manager of the research and development facility at Bournville followed by a move into project management where he worked on a number of capital projects.
Having achieved chartered engineer status Ian's last engineering role was as a senior process development engineer exploring alternative technologies for a variety of business processes until in 2002 he moved to become Environment manager for the Cadbury UK & Ireland business. In 2004 Ian was appointed to the position of Environment manager for the Europe Middle East and Africa region responsible for raising levels of Environmental performance and capabilities across the region which kept him busy until November 2007 when he was appointed to his current role as global Head of Environment at Cadbury Schweppes and asked to lead the Purple Goes Green sustainability programme.
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Europe's Only Environmental Design Summit
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