Hamish is an engaging and innovative biochar researcher dedicated to creating viable biochar systems in response to climate change. His goal – to support widescale industry adoption of biochar through system optimisation in agriculture and forestry.

Hamish is on the cusp of finishing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Forest Research. His work involves maintaining and assessing large scale biochar field trials and long-term experimental plots, researching the delivery of phosphorus through biochar amendment in forest establishment and developing life cycle analysis models for woodland creation and nursery tree production. Through collaboration with industry partners, Hamish has created a decision support system to optimise carbon storage potential and calculate the net zero year for woodland creation. Prior to his role at the University of Edinburgh, Hamish worked as a Forest Manager at Savills where he was responsible for managing and implementing publicly funded afforestation projects.

Shefali recently graduated as a design engineer from Imperial College London. She is passionate about using technology and innovation to develop new systems that tackle the climate crisis.  

Her engineering background and understanding of human-centred design enables her to act as a bridge between our farmers, software, and the biochar itself. Understanding the true impacts of biochar is important to her, and she is working closely with our research partners to develop data-driven methods of validating them. She is also a touchpoint for our users and stakeholders, and strives to keep their needs at the core of our product development.

Meg is a conscientious and astute finance professional committed to scaling financial systems for small companies tackling the multifaceted environmental issues of the 21st century.  

After completing her degree in accounting & finance at Leeds University Meg went onto work in a diverse range of sectors such as financial software and estate management. Whilst working for BBB, Meg also works as Head of Finance at the London Beer Factory. She is on the cusp of completing her Chartered Institute of Management Accounting qualification (CIMA) and is helping BBB to integrate traditional financial models with climate finance, carbon accounting and new environmental taxation systems.