Brett Ross is the CEO of RiverRidge Holdings and a director of Full Circle Generation Limited. Originally from Zimbabwe, Brett was a graduate from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He began his career at Coopers and Lybrand in Harare, before joining the Crest Breeders International Group in 1994. Brett developed the company’s grain and feedstock procurement division while representing the company as a founding member of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Commodity Exchange. Brett exited his shareholding in Crest Breeders International shortly after it was listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange via Farmers Co-Op Limited in 2000. In 2003, Brett and his family relocated to Ireland where Brett joined the London based derivatives trading company, CTC Traders Limited. He spent a number of years trading short term interest rate futures before acquiring Coleraine Skip Hire and Recycling Limited (later to be renamed RiverRidge Holdings Limited) in 2011 where he assumed the role of CEO. Since the acquisition, Brett has grown the company substantially as well as driven the £107m project to build Northern Ireland’s first large scale waste to energy facility. Brett is married to Marie-Louise and has 3 children.
