Symphony appoints non-executive director

Symphony Environmental Technologies has named Shaun Robinson, managing director of Somerston Group, as a new non-executive director of the company.

Symphony appoints non-executive director

Robinson has joined the Symphony Environmental Technologies board after his company made an investment in the plastic technology specialist through an equity investment program.

Robinson has nearly 20 years of corporate finance, restructuring and active asset-management experience, including more than a decade with Somerston Group.

Somerston Group was founded in 1854 as a shipping business which commissioned, financed, operated and managed a fleet of merchant vessels in its own right, and in partnership with co-investors. In the 1960s, the company began to diversify its interests and, by 1975, the last of the shipping interests had been sold and property investment, land development and resources had become the principal focus. Its activities gradually expanded and the group is now engaged in a variety of asset backed investment and development ventures in Europe and North America.