The Board of Directors of BacTech Environmental Corporation announced the appointment of the Timothy (Tim) Lewin as Chairman of the Board. He replaces outgoing Chairman John Gingerich who submitted his resignation to focus on personal business interests. Mr. Lewin is a former Commodities Trader from London, England with more than thirty five years of industry and management experience. Tim's trading knowledge began on the floor of the Commodity Exchanges in London before broadening over time to encompass most physical commodities, including gold and LMEtraded metals. In 1992 his proprietary company was one of the first to be engaged by the UK Government and sent to the postSoviet Union to lend support on commodity trading to the "economy in transition". In the past Tim served on the Bank of England market monitoring committee and has been a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments since its creation in the late 1980s. Mr. Lewin was elected to the Board of BacTech Environmental on July 3, 2014 as a representative of Option 3, a London, England based investment group. Option 3 remains the large single shareholder of BacTech at this time. Recently, Mr. Lewin purchased a 482,000 share equity stake in BacTech.