Robert Houghton is president and founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Redemtech, the world's largest provider of corporate computer recycling and reuse services.

Robert Houghton is president and founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Redemtech, the world's largest provider of corporate computer recycling and reuse services. He is an expert on sustainable computing and off-network security best practices, including issues of e-waste management, computer reuse, secure reverse locations and verified data destruction.

Bob is a strong proponent of the business value of responsible recycling and effective reuse, having overseen the development of sustainable computing programs for approximately 100 of the top 1,000 companies in the world.

Under Houghton's leadership, Redemtech has grown into the largest provider of corporate computer recycling and reuse services in the world by adhering to a strict zero-landfill, zero-export recycling, zero-incineration, zero-prison labor policy that exceeds EPA regulations, and by introducing new ways for large organizations to achieve greater reuse of technology systems. Redemtech is a pioneer in the emerging field of Technology Change Management, which automates asset recovery, reuse, refurbishment, remarketing, recycling and data destruction. The company also is a charter signatory of the Basel Action Network (BAN) Electronics Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship.