Leadership Team

Mr. Guard, President of JWC, has over two decades of experience in environmental industries, including top leadership posts at Waste Management. He was most recently Senior Vice President of Global Sales for JWC. Prior, the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for ThermoFluids, a private-equity backed oil recycling and environmental services company based in Scottsdale, AZ. Today he heads JWC Environmental teams in the Americas, Asia, and Europe as well as a network of more than 100 distributors and representative firms around the globe. Mr. Guard is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles.

Mr. Queen has 20 years of global manufacturing and supply chain management experience driving profitable growth in both industrial and consumer products. In addition to 12 years of operations management experience at Emerson, prior to joining JWC, Mr. Queen was part of a turnaround management team at a multi-location unit of Masco. Mr. Queen holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Irvine.

Mr. Smith has over 18 years of finance, accounting and auditing experience in a variety of global manufacturing and service industries. His background includes over 10 years in finance leadership roles in manufacturing environments at Bausch & Lomb and JWC Environmental.  After 6 Years serving as JWC’s Corporate Controller, Mr. Smith was promoted in April 2018 to Vice President, Finance.  Mr. Smith holds a Master’s of Accountancy degree from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Finance from Rochester Institute of Technology, and holds the CPA designation from New York state.

Saretta has 20+ years in sales and leadership. As the Vice President of North American Sales for JWC Environmental, she leads all aspects of sales for the municipal and industrial processing divisions. 

Prior to joining JWC, Saretta worked with Dale Carnegie Training leading sales teams, as well as coaching global clients in the areas of leadership, presentations, sales and team engagement.

Saretta has a Masters in Multicultural Education and a Bachelors in Communications.           

Mr. Bates brings more than 20 years of experience leading marketing, product management, operations and engineering teams in a variety of global companies.  His strong background industrial products has been developed in multiple industries including oil and gas, automotive, construction and mining.  Prior to joining JWC, Kevin Bates held leadership positions with MMFX Technologies as V.P. of Sales & Marketing and at Boart Longyear as Director of Engineering and Global Product Manager. Mr. Bates holds a MBA from Pepperdine University as well a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering  from the University of California at Irvine.

Mr. Sabol has been designing waste water equipment for over 24 years, including development of most of the company’s current product offerings.  Mr. Sabol was key in the design of the new generation of Muffin Monster™ and Channel Monster™ series of products, which are the leading two-shafted solids reduction designs in the industry .  He led the JWCE development team in creating the Award Winning Auger Monster™, Screenings Washer Monster™ and Honey Monster™ products.  He is currently named on 8 patents for JWCE, with 5 patents currently in pending.  Previous to the waste water industry, he worked in development for a successful deionized water conditioner manufacturer in the semi-conductor industry.  Mr. Sabol was educated at California State University at Long Beach.

Mr. Pepper has four decades of experience in the wastewater treatment sector, including leading the design of several products still on the market today. His background includes managing engineering projects in the textile, pump manufacture and food industries. In the 1990s Mr. Pepper spent several years in the United States overseeing JWC’s expansion into foreign markets. Then, in 2001 he moved back to the UK to start JWC’s European manufacturing and customer service operations in Congleton. The facility now produces Monster screens and grinders for the European, Euro-Asian and African markets. Mr. Pepper is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (ACIM).

A physics engineer with an MBA, Adriaan has nearly 30 years of international experience in the industrial wastewater treatment industry with a strong interest in process engineering and application driven innovation. His expertise includes conceptual system engineering, international equipment sales, installation, and start-up of process water and wastewater treatment systems for a broad range of industrial applications.