Sean De Vries is the R2 Director with Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), the nonprofit organization that administers the Sustainable Electronics Reuse & Recycling (R2) Standard. De Vries manages the development and implementation of the R2 Standard and works closely with the multi-stakeholder R2 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on updates to the standard. Before joining SERI, he was Director of the Recycler Qualification Office (RQO), an organization established to audit and approve reuse and recycling organizations under the industry-led end-of-life electronics recycling programs across Canada.