Kumar Brijwani
Business Head - MENA, Sheela Foam

October 2022 Onwards
Conceptualised and launched company's brand, Sleepwell, in UAE. Registered and setup office in Dubai, enabling company to access several other markets in the Middle East

Business Head - Goa/Kolhapur/Belgaum, Bhavna Traders

2006-2022
The company is a bed and bath specialist and channel partner of Sleepwell mattresses, Trident home textiles, and other brands. Led team for sales and marketing of Sleepwell’s range of institutional products, Superbond’s range of B2B products, and Trident’s hospitality range, across Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka.

Nick Oettinger
CEO, The Furniture Recycling Group

Nick has dedicated over 15 years to revolutionising the recycling and waste management industry.
Since founding TFR Group in 2012, the company has become the industry leader in mattress recycling and rejuvenation, successfully recycling over 3.5 million mattresses with a 100% diversion rate from landfills.

TFR Group works with national bed retailers, local authorities, home delivery companies and waste management sites including John Lewis, Simba, Bensons for Beds, and SUEZ. Each week they recycle 16,000 mattresses and rejuvenate 2,000 comfort night guarantee mattresses.

An authority on the circular economy, Nick asserts that sustainability starts with design. His global influence has led him to speak at events like The Rushlight Show and SHIFT Switzerland. The Global Recycling Foundation has also honoured him as one of the world’s recycling heroes. His expertise spans government sustainability initiatives, waste management, and green tech innovations, making him a key figure in reshaping the way industries view recycling and sustainability.

Before TFR Group, Nick was the Managing Director of a specialist construction company before moving into the waste and recycling industry, where he spent five years as an improvement consultant and nine years in product recycling. Nick now drives TFR Group’s vision, offers strategic advice, provides industry consultancy, and steers TFR Group’s research and development programme to ensure it continues to improve its efficiencies and processes to grow sustainably.

Sundaresan Srinivasan
Secretary, ISPF

Mr. Srinivasan Sundaresan is a Chemical Engineer from BITS PILANI. He has also acquired an MBA from Delhi University. He has gathered over 40 years of experience in Manufacturing and Marketing of Mattresses. He has been a member of Coir Board, Government of India for 10 years. He is presently the Secretary of Indian Sleep Products Federation (ISPF). He has professionally trained more than three thousand five hundred dealers of the Mattress Industry for selling Quality Sleep.

Zoe Flynn née Moorcroft
Group Head of Sales & Marketing, The Furniture Recycling Group

Zoe Flynn is the Group Head of Sales and Marketing at The Furniture Recycling Group (TFR Group), a pioneering leader in mattress recycling and rejuvenation in the UK. Since joining the company in 2019, Zoe has made significant contributions, becoming Group Head of Sales in 2022 before stepping into her current role in 2024. She plays a vital role in driving the company’s growth and sustainability efforts, drawing on her extensive experience from previous roles at SUEZ and Neales Waste Management.

Since its inception in 2012, TFR Group has established itself as the industry leader, successfully recycling over 3.5 million mattresses with a 100% diversion rate from landfills. The company works with national bed retailers, local authorities, home delivery companies, and waste management sites, including key partners like John Lewis, Simba, Bensons for Beds, and SUEZ. Each week, TFR Group recycles 16,000 mattresses and rejuvenates 2,000 comfort night guarantee mattresses, significantly reducing environmental impact.

Zoe is dedicated to advancing the circular economy, consistently exploring innovative strategies to amplify TFR Group's influence. Her exceptional ability to forge robust industry partnerships has been vital in sustaining TFR Group's market leadership. Fuelled by a strong passion for sustainability and the circular economy, Zoe has played a key role in spearheading initiatives that align with the company’s mission to minimize environmental impact.

Tobias Kirchhoff
Founder & CEO, Variowell Development GmbH

Tobias is Founder & CEO of Variowell Development GmbH. Variowell is based in Germany and has offices in the USA and Singapore. Variowell is performing science-based research as well as product development and manufacturing of components for the mattress and furniture industry. Customers are large mattress manufacturers around the world, like Casper Sleep in the US.

Variowell is a regular exhibitor at CES, Las Vegas and long-standing CTA member.

Before founding Variowell, Tobias worked in a family-owned company manufacturing high-class duvets and comforters filled with natural materials like Cashmere or Silk sold globally. This company was successfully exited to investors in 2006.

Before that Tobias studied business administration at the University of Bayreuth in Germany with internships in USA and Canada.

Tobias is member within the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in the working group “standardization of Sleeptech”, co-chairing it with Charlotte Chen from Philips since 2019. Members of this group are sleep scientists from Harvard, Stanford or Charite and experts from companies like Apple or Google.

Tobias received the CTA Technology Leadership Award in September 2022 for his work around Sleeptech.

Furthermore, Tobias is chairing the Sleeptech committee of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), USA. He created the NSF-Sleeptech Award and is member of the jury awarding sleep-focused companies with this prestigious award annually.

Tobias enjoys travelling, is a seasoned Volleyball player and has three children. .

Marco Bottecchia
Global Sales Manager, BORSOI Srl

Marco Bottecchia is the Global Sales Manager at Borsoi and it is responsible for developing the new product division dedicated to the textile product recycling.
With an Engineering degree in Automation and an MBA, Marco has contributed to the growth of the BORSOI company as a global leader in the automatic solution for producing different type of filled home fashion products as pillows, duvets and sofas.
With more than 20 years of experience in automation, Marco is driving the Borsoi development in creating innovative solutions for giving a new life to many different textile products.