OUR TEAM
We are a team of serial entrepreneurs, veteran waste management and technology experts who are passionate about recycling, the circular economy and resource efficiency. We are dedicated to providing innovative, sustainable and profitable technologies for the global waste problem.
ADAM HAŃDEREK
CTO and founder of Handerek Technologies
Management and Administration
Inventor and scientist with more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur in Poland and Germany. Author of numerous patents, patent applications and publications. He received numerous awards for his achievements in the field of recycling technology. In the 1980s, he founded one of the first Ltd. companies in Poland (PPUH Krylateks), where, employing over 100 people…
SUSAN KIM-CHOMICKA
CEO and co-founder of Handerek Technologies
Management and Administration
An entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in various industries, countries and cultures. For 7 years she worked in New York for large financial institutions (including for Aetna Capital Management she was responsible for managing a portfolio of clients in the amount of USD 500 million in pension assets – for such companies as Mitsui, Mitsubishi or Suitomo)…
WOJCIECH DEREJ
Operational management and controller
Management and Administration
He has many years of experience in serving large corporations. He was responsible for the control, optimization and management of processes at SABMiller – Kompania Piwowarska. He was the vice president of the management and finance director of the Kopex Group. He has competences in the field of operational finance, budgeting and reporting. He has accumulated extensive knowledge in the field of ecological innovations in the EU and the circular economy.
AGNIESZKA ŁUSZCZ
Management and Administration
She is responsible for administrative matters, payments, accounting.
Masters degree in polish philology and resocialization.
MACIEJ KOWALCZYK
Specialist in process control and data analysis
Research and Development
For 15 years, he has been active in the waste management and recycling industry in Poland and Germany. He has extensive experience in research and development, TUV and UDT standards, process automation and control, and thermocatalytic depolymerization. He has been cooperating with Adam Hańderek for 12 years, he is the designer of technical and technological assumptions and co-author of the patent application.
JAN KIRAGA
Technological process coordinator, marketing and PR
Research and Development
He gained extensive experience in research and development projects regarding the design and construction of new machines and devices for thermo-catalytic and mechanical recycling of plastic waste. He has been cooperating with Adam Hańderek for 6 years and is a co-creator of the patent application. He also has 10 years of professional experience in the field of marketing and PR.
ARKADIUSZ CHMIELNIK
Specialist in the implementation of production technology
Research and Development
Expert with 10 years of experience in implementing new production technologies and optimization of the production process through design, supervision over assembly and commissioning of technological lines. Depolymerization specialist. For several companies, he carried out projects concerning, among others, pyrolysis of tires or development and processing of plastic waste.
MAREK Gierej
Specialist in design and manufacturing techniques
Research and Development
He is responsible for designing and supervising the implementation of elements and parts of prototypes of equipment and installations, as well as their servicing. Previously, he worked, among others for PGNiG Termika, TRW Automotive, Burnus-Hychem (in Germany), TDM Electronics S.A. and Recycling Technologies Adam Hańderek.
Business Advisor & Investor
CHRISTOPHER KIM
Business advisor
Business Angel, former director and associate general counsel – Head of International Legal Department of Facebook, former associate general legal counsel at Google and at Yahoo