With more than 25 years of experience in developing effective public-private partnerships, Jay Illingworth’s background crosses a wide range of technology-based initiatives for both government and industry.
He played a key role in developing the federal government’s e- business strategy, including an assignment as the secretariat team leader at Industry Canada for the Canadian E-Business Opportunities Roundtable. Through an Interchange Canada program, he also served as government programs manager for IBM Canada in Ottawa.
Jay served as Vice President of Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (EPSC) where he worked closely with Canada’s leading manufacturers of information technology and consumer electronics on a variety of environmental issues. In 2009 Jay was named the Director of Harmonization for Canada’s industry-led environmental stewardship programs for electronics. In that role he led the development of the industry’s performance measurement framework, and revitalized their work on setting and tracking environmental handling fees.
Since January of 2012 Jay has continued this harmonization work with the Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA), including industry outreach and coordination for a wide range of newly regulated devices, liaison with EPR programs in the US and Europe, and is a member of the R2 Technical Advisory Committee.
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