Our Team
Jason Gallagher is Operations Manager and looks after customer service and existing contracts. He also deals with suppliers, supply contracts and feedstock purchasing.
Dave Sefton is the yard foreman, operating the chipper and ensuring that the wood fuel is produced to the required specification. Dave is based at the Barnsley Ringstone Farm depot
Peter Solly is Managing Director of Silvapower Ltd and Forest Fuels Ltd. A Chartered Forester with wide experience of countryside and business management, his previous roles include 10 years at SW-based environmental contracting firm Silvanus Services Ltd, latterly as an owner/Director.
Peter is in South Yorkshire regularly.
Sam Whatmore is the founder of Forest Fuels and now a Director of both Silvapower and Forest Fuels. With over eleven years’ experience in wood fuel and a further 20 years’ managing woodlands, he heads up our consultancy and advisory service.
Sam is recognised as one of the leaders of wood fuel in the UK, was named Sustainable Energy Champion of the Year 2011, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts for his contribution to wood fuel. He is currently Vice Chair of the UK Wood Fuel Suppliers group.
Simon Roberts leads the team of delivery drivers based at Ringstone Farm in Barnsley.