Meet Our Team
Adrian Paynter
Adrian manages the tender to order Sales Team from our Northern office, contacting existing and potential customers, both over the phone and in person, to build long lasting business relationships. Adrian also assists on site visits giving advice on the installation of GreenBlue Urban products.
Arran Bowie
Arran joined the team assisting the Product Development Manager to coordinate the build and delivery of special grills, he remains involved in this process but additionally is now in charge of processing all customer soil orders, liaising with the site contacts and coordinating deliveries. He also oversees the health & safety and facilities for our Head Office building, ensuring the team work in a safe and compliant space.
Carol Daly
Carol is the main point of contact for processing orders and managing customer service inquiries in North America. She handles incoming telephone inquiries, and follows up proposals and potential projects to ensure that GreenBlue can meet project requirements and deadlines. Carol also works with the accounting team to provide prompt and accurate reports.
Christopher Gower
Chris has a passion for design, animation and video and this is very much reflected in the material he creates as part of our Marketing team.
Chris’ creations include our technical resources, product data sheets and industry publications including Edition 9 to name but a few. Why not take a further look around our website to see just a small sample of Chris’ amazing work!
Craig Melvin
Craig is responsible for ensuring that the North American office is aware of all relevant projects in our industry, in view of securing an opportunity to provide our world-leading products for long-term urban tree health and sustainable infrastructure. He follows up on projects and proposals in order to serve clients with the best possible support. Craig regularly contacts our customers and potential clients to build profitable relationships regarding ongoing and upcoming projects. He also manages the day-to-day operations of the North American office, including IT.
Dale Bowie
Dale joined GreenBlue Urban in August 2018 with an energy and passion to provide the best possible Customer Service! He is excited about improving urban areas by helping to grow bigger and better trees because of the amazing benefits that they bring.
Dale is building up his knowledge with every enquiry he deals with, allowing him to provide quotations to customers in an accurate and efficient manner.
Daniel Steen
Daniel works with our consulting team to bring our industry-leading systems into use on projects throughout North America.
Dean Bowie
Dean founded GreenBlue Urban Limited as Greenleaf in 1992. He is passionate about urban trees being given the best possible resources and environment in which to thrive and travels the globe propagating his enthusiasm to governments and local authorities.
More recently, Dean has developed his expertise to integrate Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDs) technology with optimum Urban Tree Pit design, championing the movement into storm water management utilising urban trees.
Frank Giesbrecht
Frank is responsible for sourcing and setting up cost effective and stock efficient supply agreements for the North American operation, ensuring the highest level of quality in all our products. He builds strong relationships with our partner suppliers and contract manufacturers. Frank has a keen eye for improving quality and reducing costs in our manufacturing processes.
Howard Gray
Howard is a passionate advocate for urban trees, having planted his first tree nearly 45 years ago. Understanding the many conflicting claims on the space in our towns and cities, he works across the many stakeholders to achieve the best possible chance for every tree to grow to its species potential. Enthusiastically promoting proven green infrastructure planting methodologies, presenting to a wide range of different disciplines in many countries globally, he views himself as an active ambassador for GreenBlue Urban.
Hannah Cook
Hannah holds the position of Marketing Assistant. Having worked in customer service in many differing trades, she thrives talking to customers and building relationships.
Hannah organises CPD’s with industry professionals, manages events across the UK and works with her team on web design, content and social posts on all GreenBlue platforms.
Ian Markey
Ian is our Credit Control Manager and is based down in Sidmouth Devon.
His vital role in the business ensures customers pay on time meaning other customers don’t end up paying more. Ian works very hard to build lasting relationships with customers both existing and new.
James Dalrymple
James has been part of the GreenBlue Urban team since the late 90’s. As a director, he has been involved with the many advances in successful urban tree planting technology. He shares the team’s passion for increasing our downtown tree canopy cover and promotes the effective use of Green Infrastructure within SuDS projects to reduce the volume of surface water entering our sewers. He continues to work on a wide variety of projects both within the UK and overseas to advise on best practice ensuring trees in our city centres reach maturity.
Jake Fisher
Jakes joins us as an internal sales operative – supporting technical sales in identifying projects. His main hobby is sport – both rugby and football. He also supports Liverpool FC and his dream is to watch them play at their home ground Anfield.
Jeremy Bailey
Jeremy carries out continuing education seminars to industry professionals including landscape architects, urban designers and planners, civil engineers, and arborists. He spends most of his time out of the office, whether at client offices providing project support and best practice methodology, delivering presentations at industry conferences, or reviewing job sites and assisting contractors with installation support. Jeremy also lectures at universities across North America on various green infrastructure, sustainable development, and urban forestry topics.
Matthew Werle
Matthew Werle is a consultant at GreenBlue Urban, where his strong background in developing sustainable solutions for green infrastructure is an asset to GreenBlue Urban’s commitment to creating sustainable cities. He is excited to be part of the GreenBlue team and continue building his relationships with landscape architects, civil engineers, urban designers, and contractors to facilitate sustainable green and blue infrastructure in cities across southeastern United States.
Lloyd Mumford
Lloyd manages our Product Development process from idea generation through to testing and delivery to market.
Lloyd has a passion for the new and varied and loves being involved in the development of exciting products and technologies, which is just what we need to fulfil our company vision of being the best tree pit solution provider in the World!
Louise Page
Louise is Green Blue’s Marketing Manager. She is principally responsible for increasing the GBU brand across several personas within the industry. She takes pride in the high-quality products, level of service and technical expertise offered. Above all, that creative innovation is assisting in the planting of long-lasting canopy trees for the benefit of all that live, work and play in the urban environment.
Marcella Polinski
Marcella is an experienced customer service coordinator, having previously worked in a wholesale environment (books/entertainment products).
Her main role within the company is to manage customer enquiries and process orders in a timely and efficient manner. Marcella frequently answers the phone so could be the first person you speak to when calling GreenBlue Urban. She is enjoying working within a new industry and for the challenges her role brings.
Martin Murray
Martin has many years’ experience in transport, manufacturing and distribution. He has worked for some of the largest 3pl providers giving him a solid understanding of the challenges maintaining high expectations.
Martin holds a Transport Managers international CPC as well as IOSH. Martin oversees the operational side of the business ensuring our activities are undertaken in a safe and compliant manner.
Nigel Botterill
Nigel is a Director of GreenBlue Urban North America. He oversees all departments of the North American team from a senior management perspective and is responsible for reviewing staff performance and chairs weekly staff meetings with the NA team.
Paul Bowie
Primarily responsible for managing IT and Telecoms for the company, Paul also carries out site visits for tree planting projects, advising contractors on best practice and methodology for utilising GreenBlue Urban tree planting systems, and documenting the process for Case Study purposes.
Oliver Palmer
Oliver or Olly as he is known is our newest member to the Warehouse team. His main role is to pick and pack customer orders, ensuring quantities are accurate, goods are well packed and that they arrive on time in and are in tip top condition. As the company expands, his help in distributing our products to clients is invaluable.
Romaine Allen
Romaine’s main role within the company is to manage customer inquiries and process orders. She supports both our customers and colleagues alike.
Romaine frequently answers the phone so could be the first person you speak to when calling GreenBlue Urban. Romaine very much enjoys helping look after our customers.
Roy Bowie
Roy gained his product knowledge in the warehouse before moving into the Estimating then on to Sales at GreenBlue Urban.
Roy is now the Managing Director where his main roles are to facilitate the UK, Export and North American teams, enhancing the companies growth, continually challenging the status quo.
Shane Carpani
Shane is responsible for finding unique ways to attract prospects to GreenBlue Urban. He specializes in content strategy in order to make GreenBlue a valuable resource that resonates with landscape architects, urban designers, civil engineers, arborists, and other industry professionals, so that they are naturally attracted to GreenBlue and the solutions we provide. Shane also works with industry associations to provide GreenBlue Urban’s expertise at green infrastructure conferences across North America.
Shane Frost
Having been with the company for over 17 years, Shane is one of the head of department team reporting to the company directors. Shane has a wealth of experience across the business and also in the green infrastructure market and is proud to have been associated closely on many prestigious and renowned projects from a design to delivery capacity.
A number of design and construction schemes have benefited from project and contract management by Shane including the complex Selfridges Duke Street public realm tree planting and grilles in London. Benefitting from long experience in the business Shane enjoys bringing a high level of insight into the key business numbers including strategic pipeline evaluation and trend forecasting.
Shane is a real advocate for integrated systems and insightful reporting to drive optimal customer experience throughout the business.
Tomas Ekroth-Smith
Tom has a wealth of technical expertise in GreenBlue Urban products and solutions. He uses this knowledge to analyse inbound enquiries allowing him to prepare designs and associated quotes, getting them to our clients in a timely and efficient manner.
Zoe Kilbey
Zoe has been a loyal member of the GreenBlue Urban team for twelve years supporting the continued growth of the business. She manages both the company sales and purchase ledgers, along with producing financial management reports.