Our Team

Jo

Jo was an experienced primary school teacher in the UK in her previous life, specialising in primary science and outdoor education and rose to the heady heights of Deputy Head before stopping full time teaching after the birth of her second child.  She holds a BSc (Hons) degree from Imperial (Wye College) in Environmental Science as well as a PGCE from Christchurch, Canterbury. 

These days she works as an environmental scientist at a successful environmental consultancy in the UK which she helped set up with her husband, Mark, 20 years ago and helps run another company, QUBE,  which designs and manufactures very small scale anaerobic digesters for treatment of waste and energy generation in the UK and abroad, including for disaster relief.   

Away from work Jo has three children and a menagerie of animals at home.  She is passionate about giving people the education and opportunities they need to become self-sustainable, and believes that simple, direct action can make life changing differences.  

After a recent trip with the whole family volunteering on an educational and environmental project in Cambodia, teaching STEM subjects to both pupils and teachers, Jo has decided to set up Pangolin to target areas specific to her and her husband’s expertise, with the aim of bringing resources and support directly to people to educate and promote innovation, to help them help themselves in the longer term.

Mark

Mark has a huge amount of practical experience in all things environmental having set up and run his successful environmental consultancy in the UK 20 years ago.    Specialising in energy, waste and water, with his team Mark has successfully assisted clients in delivering over 680MW of renewable development and is involved with processing and recovering over 450,000 tonnes of waste per year. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, a Chartered Environmentalist and a Member of the Royal Institution. 

But really Mark is a frustrated inventor with a huge enthusiasm for innovation, especially simple practical manufacturing and inventive design for solving practical problems.  When at home, he is often to be found in his workshop on their small farm or getting smelly in a digester.  He is the brains behind the QUBE digester design and several other successful and commercial innovative environmental inventions. 

Mark has an infectious enthusiasm and believes that most problems are practically solvable at a local level with a bit of thinking and engineering.

Mark has travelled extensively both through work and for adventure, and is convinced that with support, innovative and talented people can be given the opportunity to solve their own local environmental issues.  

Mark and Jo were part of two such projects in the months they recently spent in Cambodia and the ongoing benefits of both are already tangible. 

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