Shelagh Kerr, President and CEO, EPSC
Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (EPSC) is a not-for-profit organization and the leading product stewardship voice for information technology and consumer electronics companies.
EPSC’s President, Shelagh Kerr, has extensive experience in association management, government and public affairs and environmental stewardship.
Shelagh has a BSc from the University of Ottawa, her hometown, and has lived and worked across Canada, Europe and Africa. She now resides in Toronto.
She is one of Canada’s pioneers in product stewardship. In the late 1980’s she was instrumental in gaining the packaged goods industry support for Ontario’s Blue Box while working for the Grocery Product Manufacturers of Canada, now called FCPC. Then as Vice President for Coca-Cola in the 1990’s, Ms. Kerr helped create and sat on the Boards of recycling organizations in New Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta. She also sat on the original Board of the federal Environmental Choice Program.
Shelagh’s career took her to Europe in the mid 90’s with Coca-Cola then the Pharmaceutical industry. She returned to Canada in late 2009 and joined EPSC. EPSC is a not-for-profit organization established by Canada’s leading electronics manufacturers. Its mandate is to design, promote and implement a national, sustainable, industry-led solution for the appropriate recovery and recycling of end of life electronics.
Partnering with the Retail Council of Canada, EPSC established Electronics Product Recycling Association (EPRA) a national operations group to recover electronic products, in 2011.