Michael Maggio

About Michael Maggio

Michael Maggio is the president at iWrc (Inclusive Waste Recycling Consortium), a digitally enabled collaborative platform that builds a self-sustaining circular ecosystem between consumers, waste pickers, recycling cooperatives and brand partners. iWrc currently works with waste pickers in Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam and India to help them achieve a global social accountability certification whilst providing reverse logistics and helping their brand partners meet their commitments to the National Solid Waste Policy.Michael is the founder and driving force behind this initiative and has helped transform the supply chains impact in emerging markets through a unique sustainability effort that encourages economic supply and demand, recycling and self-sufficient, responsible growth. He has also written extensively on a concept called Positive Potential™, a strategy to balance waste generation against measurable positive sustainability initiatives.His corporate journey was predominantly based in the fast moving consumer goods industry, serving most recently as the Vice President of Global Engineering and Packaging at Johnson & Johnson. Prior to that, he served in senior leadership roles within the engineering organizations at The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc, Avon Products, Inc, and L’Oréal Paris. He received his Bachelor of Science, Packaging from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science, Environmental Science and Chemistry from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration from the Cornell University S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Experience

1. President

   Iwrc

   Jan 2020 — Present · US

   iWrc is an ecosystem of teamwork, relationships and cooperative stakeholders catalyzing economic, social and environmental opportunity in emerging markets. iWrc promotes a full chain of custody and transparency and is building a scalable model for inclusive waste recovery and global change from the ground up. Our Partners capitalize on each member’s strengths and resources, promote full accountability and further support the advancement of social inclusion, environmental improvement and business growth. The interdependent relationships built within our ecosystem help build cohesion, enabling achievement of mutual goals and objectives. From individuals who collect and sort recyclables to global corporations, each participant is a critical stakeholder to the outcome of the whole.The iWrc vision is to create an environment where people, community and business benefit from reducing and transforming waste into valuable resources. We do this by eliminating individual risk factors, for those who recycle in the emerging markets and live on or below the poverty line – risk factors such as child labor, forced labor, unsafe and inhumane working conditions, which enhance waste pickers health and well being while integrating the material they collect into the value chains of our public/private corporate partners. To succeed, iWrc focuses on people first, ensuring that our management system approach and priority outcomes include waste pickers’ improved health, safety and financial wellbeing. Our process is based on the principles of incrementally improving conditions to achieve a targeted level of socially inclusive performance. Specifically, our goal is to touch at least 1 million cooperative members globally, 95% of whom are women, who recycle more than MT of materials annually.

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Packaging

  1991 — 1995

• Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

  Masters, Business Administration

  2010 — 2012

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Masters of Science, Environmental Science and Chemistry

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• Six Sigma
• Manufacturing
• Product Innovation
• Consumer Products
• Supply Chain
• Leadership
• Customer Insight
• Management
• Medical Devices
• Product Development
• Personal Care
• Marketing
• Solidworks
• Project Management
• Engineering
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• R&D
• Budgets
• Supply Chain Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Packaging
• Marketing Strategy
• Strategy
• Injection Molding