Billy Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award
In honor of Billy Johnson, the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA)’s tireless advocate for the recycled materials industry who spent nearly two decades advancing proactive recycling policy strategies on issues ranging from electronics recycling to trade, this award recognizes an individual whose career-long contributions have meaningfully shaped the electronics recycling, ITAD and reuse sectors. Nominees must be a current ReMA (formerly ISRI) member.
This award will be voted on at the E-Scrap Conference and presented at the Wednesday morning Award & Gong Show.
Meet the Nominees
Craig Boswell
President, HOBI International
Craig Boswell co-founded HOBI International, Inc. in 1992. A leading voice in advancing the ITAD industry and a sought-after speaker and mentor, he helped with the development of the R2 standard, led ReMA’s Electronics Division, chairs RIOS and serves on SERI’s board.
Joe Clayton
VP of Business Development, ARCOA
Joe Clayton is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in electronics reuse and recycling and many more years in commercial and residential recycling. He is VP of Business Development at ARCOA Group in Waukegan, Illinois, where he handles reuse sales and new business development.
Joe was instrumental in bringing the R2 standard to the electronics recycling industry, helped develop the implementation and guidance of both R2 versions (2008 and 2013) and served on the Technical Advisory Consensus Body (TAC CB) for the first two versions. Joe is a founding member and Past Chair of the Electronics Division at ISRI (now ReMA).
Joe is a former chef turned ski bum who became a Policy Analysis and Economics professor prior to finding his true calling in recycling and IT reuse. Joe enjoys fine scotch and small-batch bourbon, cooking, organic gardening and fly fishing, not necessarily in that order.
Jim Levine
SVP, Iron Mountain
Bio coming soon.
