MEET THE TEAM
Our small team of directors and associates have extensive experience across a range of relevant fields. They are highly skilled, dedicated and hardworking, and above all are passionate about making Pembrokeshire (and Wales) a better place to live and work.
Dilys Burrell – Director
Dilys has been bringing people together to help make good things happen for almost 20 years. Her professional and voluntary experience includes working with small community groups to Welsh Government Ministers. She has developed and managed projects ranging from £2500 to £1million, and always delivers to a high standard, irrespective of budget or client.
Dilys is hard working, honest and thrives on building productive relationships. Dilys lives in Pembroke Dock, has two children, and has been a town council and community volunteer.
Ben Manning – Director
Ben is an experienced professional with a background in the education sector, having worked as a classroom teacher, head of science, deputy head teacher and head of curriculum. He has a proven track record of successful leadership and management; overseeing staff teams that consistently achieved excellent results.
Ben is passionate about the outdoors, loves surfing, sailing, nature and photography and he is currently volunteering with ‘Blue Horizons’ helping people with disabilities to get in the ocean and have a go at surfing.
Louise Rigby Williams – Director
Louise has 15 years professional experience across a range of sectors including onshore and offshore renewable energy development, blue economy, sustainability and education. She brings significant organisational and project management experience to the team having been project manager for Marine Energy Wales as well as managing multiple departments in a local independent secondary school.
Organised, motivated, and capable, Louise is committed to ensuring a just transition to net zero, and feels passionately about the natural world, spending as much time as she possibly can in the ocean. She has also recently spent time away from the desk working as a surf and paddleboard instructor in the great Pembrokeshire outdoors.
Max Burrell – Associate
Max is a Chartered Environmentalist who has worked as an environmental and ecological consultant for almost 20 years, specialising in Environmental Coordination and Environmental Impact Assessment for major infrastructure and development projects.
Max currently works as a freelance consultant trading as ‘Max Burrell Ecology and Environment’ with a particular interest in bats. He is hard working and enjoys collaborating with others to find solutions to complex problems which will benefit and enhance the environment and local communities.
