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a genuine understanding of our operations and can help us scale the business moving forward. We’ ve also had a couple of new board members through this investment; Kiwa’ s CEO for many years, Paul Hesselink, and Jonathan Ford, who brings experience from HomeServe and Centrica, have now joined, bringing more industry expertise to our team and experience in building leading TIC and engineering companies.”
Alongside ambitious growth plans, Ventro is also embracing sustainable practices.“ We’ ve signed up to the Pledge to Net Zero, and as a result we’ re embedding lots of initiatives across the business, including changes like installing solar panels and shifting to electric vehicles,” Harvey explains.“ We’ re also working with a waste partner and so far, we’ ve been able to prevent 96 per cent of our waste from going to landfill, but we’ re constantly working to improve that figure. Another area of focus is on social responsibility, where we’ ve created initiatives aimed at giving back to the communities in which we work. We’ re looking to support some of our long-term social housing clients with planting initiatives or by refurbishing communal spaces like community halls.”
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