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Stuart was named Chairman of the Board in January 2023. He first joined Wilmington Paper – The Program in 1978, six months after the business was founded by his father, Harvey, as a scrap business focusing on industrial packaging plants in the New York metropolitan area.
As the business of buying and selling scrap paper grew, Stuart developed a unique approach to maximizing revenue and efficiency in a converting facility, The Program. The Program has become a customized series of focus points, including a Waste Audit, and the creation of an Action Plan for each folding carton and converting plant, aiming to maximize revenue within the market for all grades of recyclables. While The Program has evolved, the principles Stuart conceived that are vital to the success of implementing The Program have stayed consistent: Management Commitment, Procedures, Marketing, and Controls.
Wilmington Paper first became a national company in 1986, when Stuart landed Federal Paperboard as a client and implemented The Program in the company’s eight folding carton plants. Today the Program is in place in over 300 facilities across North America and Europe.
Under Stuart’s leadership, what is now The WIlmington Group has continued to grow, creating Recycling Management Resources (10 Recycling plants), founding Green Logistics and adding Royal Shredding, as well as operating a successful scrap brokering and trading arm which works in all 48 contiguous states and around the world.
A third generation of Luries are now part of The Wilmington Group as Stuart’s sons, Brett (president), and Joshua (Data Analytics and Information), manage key parts of the business. Stuart and his wife Karen, also have a daughter, Erin, and six grandchildren.
Brett was named President of The Wilmington Group in November 2021. He first joined Wilmington Paper – The Program full time in 2008 after spending his high school and college summers working at the company for his father, Stuart Lurie, and his grandfather, Harvey Lurie.
After joining Wilmington Paper, Brett worked closely with the leadership team to learn all aspects of the business operations. He spent time travelling throughout the country and internationally with Stuart to all Wilmington Paper accounts for several years, learning the business and the industry landscape before shifting into sales in 2011.
Brett has worked to build out new segments of the business that complement the core functions of Wilmington Paper while having a positive impact on the bottom line. He’s used the current network of relationships in the industry to create a trash management and landfill diversion business. He’s also leveraged Wilmington Paper’s experience and standing in the industry to build and develop an export brokerage and trading business.
Brett has been part of the March of Dimes March for Babies Executive Leadership since 2020 and in the last two years, he has raised over $35,000, one of the leading individual fundraisers in NJ.
Brett is a graduate of The Ohio State University. He resides in Florida with his wife, Paula, daughter, Ella, and son, Henry.
Brian Holtz started as the Chief Commercial Officer of The Wilmington Group in June 2024.
Brian is a waste and recycling industry veteran, having held numerous leadership roles during his career. With International Paper for 14 years, he held various management positions, including Business Manager, National Accounts.
Brian earned
a bachelor’s degree in environmental health and a master’s degree in business
administration from Illinois State University.
Christine focuses on all aspects of human resources, including talent acquisition and retention, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and organizational culture initiatives.
She previously served as a Director, Human Resources Business Partner for Covanta, and Director of Human Resources for RiverRoad Waste Solutions, which was rebranded Rubicon Global, during her tenure.
Christine, a graduate of Villanova and Pace University Law School, lives with her husband Bill, and their children, Alex, Liam and Victoria, in New Jersey.
Joshua joined Wilmington Paper – The Program™ full-time in 2014 after first learning the business in high school, and then from 2006-08, where he was immersed in logistics, account management and database/digital management. In 2025, he assumed the role as Director of Special Projects and Support, driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence across multiple projects. As a cross-functional operations leader and project manager, he works closely with all departments to ensure the seamless execution of critical initiatives aligned with the Executive Leadership Team’s strategic goals and objectives.
For four years he was the Head of Data Analytics and Information. He oversaw IT, human resources, community relations, special projects, employee education and communications, and quarterly supplier reporting.
Along with Brett Lurie, Josh leads The Wilmington Group’s fundraising efforts for the March of Dimes’ March for Babies as part of the MOD’s Executive Leadership Committee. The company has raised over $150,000 for March for Babies, one of the leading fundraising companies in the New York Metropolitan area.
Joshua received a Psychology degree from George Washington University and is fluent in American Sign Language. A lifelong fan of music and playing guitar, he has also recently taken those passions to fruition with the launch of independent record label Reasonable Man Records in 2023. Joshua and his wife, Erin, live in Denville, NJ with their four daughters.
David was brought on in 2022 to oversee all operations for The Wilmington Group.
He started his career in the wastepaper and recycling industry in 1989 with Waldorf Paper Corporation, a papermill located in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Over a career spanning thirty-three years of successful plant operations, David has held a variety of leadership positions with Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, Allied Waste Industries, and RockTenn/WestRock, in addition to Waldorf Paper. He has successfully overseen traditional and complex residential single stream plant systems in markets across the United States.
He is a graduate of the University of Missouri – St. Louis, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus in Finance, earning his Master of Business Administration in 2010.
David is based in Duluth, GA, the corporate headquarters of Recycling Management Resources.
Thomas Topp joined the company in September 2022 as the CFO of The Wilmington Group.
Thomas has extensive leadership experience, most recently as the CFO for Georgia-based, global manufacturer PolyVision and Innio Waukesha Engines. He spent 17 years at Heidelberg USA, a sales and service provider of prepress, press, post-press and digital printing equipment and software, as the Senior Vice President/CFO – Americas and the General Manager, Consumables Division, where he identified major business issues and implemented solutions to resolve rapid growth challenges.
Thomas has a Master’s degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Engineering, Business Administration and Finance.
Thomas is based in Duluth, GA, the corporate headquarters of Recycling Management Resources.