Managing Director
Mr Rowan has over twenty-six year’s environmental experience initially as a regulatory officer and technical specialist for UK Waste Regulation Authorities but for most of his career, in the private sector as a consultant to many multi-national corporations from all industry sectors. Mr. Rowan heads EAME’s Environmental Service Division where he is the Managing Director and founder of the business, working with a team he started to build 15 years ago and who continue to work together. Steve is based in the UK but works for clients all over the world on a wide variety of projects. He has extensive experience in many environmental disciplines including environmental baseline studies and impact assessments, audits, site characterisation and remediation, industrial permitting, environmental risk assessment, resource efficiency, waste management, environmental monitoring and environmental risk management. He has performed these works at chemical and petrochemical plants, landfill and waste treatment sites, engineering plants, minerals facilities, ferrous and non-ferrous metals plants, electronics facilities and a range of specialist industrial plants. He has been retained as an expert witness in Northern Ireland for the EHS, by private individuals facing regulatory sanctions, by major industrial companies and developers in public meetings and socio-economic debates, written national landfill gas assessment guidance and presented papers on a variety of subjects at national and international conferences. Prior to joining EAME, Mr Rowan was a senior partner in a large, highly respected global environmental and health sciences consultancy.
Education
- 1984 BSc Environmental Science, Sussex University
- 1990 MSc Pollution and Environmental Control, Manchester University, UK
Professional Affiliations & Activities
- Chartered Chemist (Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Manager
Michael Sylvester is a Manager at EAME. He has over 19 years consultancy experience in EHS projects with 2 years industrial experience, in relation to EHS management systems, environmental permit applications, EHS auditing and Phase I and Phase II environmental assessments. Michael previously worked for a global environmental consultancy (13 years) prior to which he was an environmental associate at BAE SYSTEMS, Samlesbury. He has been involved with a wide selection of EHS projects, including a 14 month secondment to a corporate environmental management team of a major UK based power transmission company and acting as an interim EHS audit manager for a global car component manufacturer. He has undertaken project work within the UK (including Northern Ireland), Republic of Ireland, Iraq, USA, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Azerbaijan.
Education
- NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (Level 6) (DipNEBOSH)
- NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (Level 3)
- MSc Environmental and Ecological Science, University of Lancaster
- BSc(Hons) Environmental Science, University of Plymouth
Professional Affiliations & Activities
- Member Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
Accounts Manager
After a career spanning almost 20 years with Her Majesty’s Revenues & Customs (HMRC) Service, Warren has entered private practice as EAME’s Accounts Manager, dealing with all aspects of the businesses financial governance and administration, accounts and reporting obligations and dealing with client and supplier queries relating to invoicing and purchase orders. He is also the founder and treasurer of the children’s charity child lung foundation (www.childlungfoundation.org) which EAME is pleased to support. Please feel free to contact me at: warren.gilbert@eame.co.uk