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Our Key People

A team of Proven entrepreneurs.

Darren Nelson

  • Proven innovator and entrepreneur
  • Started Carnell in 1992 – grew to £50 million business 2020
  • 20+ years delivering solutions to National Highways
 (Highways Agency and Highways England)
  • Introduced numerous innovative engineering solutions
 (StoneMaster, SlopeMaster, SmartScan)
  • Multi award winning safety solutions such as SafetyCam 
(Helping to save road workers lives, and avoid near miss incidents)
  • Sold Carnell in 2020

Steven Birch

  • Proven entrepreneur and successful business leader
  • Chartered Accountant and proven Financial Director
  • Grew SME to a £20m quarry and land operator

Areas of expertise and Sector specialty:

  • Waste to energy
  • Mineral extraction
  • Land regeneration
  • Property development

Chris Hurley

  • Chartered Accountant
  • Private Equity investor with Murray Johnstone and LDC
    Board member of ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty
  • Founding Director of Deal Span (Bridging Private Equity & Management)

Areas of expertise and Sector specialty

  • MBO’s (Instrumental in more than £3.2 billion worth investments)
  • Management
  • Entrepreneurship