Pete Halsall is the Managing Director of BioRegional Quintain Ltd. He combines vision, passion, commitment and determination to realise world class projects, to facilitate sustainable, 'One Planet' living, and to crystallise and drive forward the next generation of regeneration projects. He is a co-founder of BioRegional Quintain Ltd and has led the business in its formulation, strategy and development programme. He leads BQL's flagship development at Middlehaven, which is one of the UK's most significant regeneration projects and the largest zero carbon project in the country, and an exemplar in combining design excellence, community and sustainability with economic dynamism. He is also a founding member and currently vice chairman of the Good Homes Alliance, which is a community interest company set up as a multi-disciplinary trade and industry body to advance sustainability in the residential/ new homes market. Pete trained as a building environmental engineer, and progressed from engineering consultancy to construction and development where he is able to apply a first principles based approach to sustainability and energy efficiency. He has completed projects across a range of sectors including residential, commercial, industrial, retail and institutional mainly in Southern England. He has worked in the UK, Spain and the USA - in the latter working with public agencies to advance sustainable development. He is a graduate of Bath University and the Cranfield School of Management Business Growth Programme.

Nick Shattock is Deputy Chief Executive of Quintain Estates & Development PLC. Historically he has lead the Special Projects division which managed the Company’s larger assets, releasing value through planning, development or lease restructuring. Its current regeneration programme comprises one of the largest plc portfolios in the UK. Projects include the major regeneration opportunities on the Greenwich Peninsula and at Wembley. At Greenwich Peninsula planning permission was granted for a £5 billion, 20 year regeneration scheme comprising 14 million sq ft, including 10,000 new homes and creating in the region of 24,000 new jobs for the regional economy. At Wembley, Quintain owns or controls 70 acres of land surrounding the new National Stadium. Outline planning consents to deliver a 6.2 million sq ft mixed use scheme on the first phase of regeneration covering 55 acres with further phases within the UDP for up to 2 2.2 million sq ft. Over the last few years Quintain has developed over 3 million sq ft in all the sectors across the UK. Nick is the Chairman of Wembley (London) Ltd which operates Wembley Arena and the conference and exhibition businesses, and a Director at BioRegional Quintain.

POORAN DESAI Pooran is a founding director of BioRegional Quintain Ltd. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In 1994, he co-founded the environmental organization BioRegional Development Group. He has worked on projects in sustainable farming, forestry, recycling & eco-housing. Work on local woodland management led Pooran to establishing the BioRegional Charcoal Company, which supplies national retailers such as B&Q with local charcoal and firewood. The company has won a number of awards including a Securicor Small Business Award, Lord Mayor of London’s Dragon Award and a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food award for Science into Practice. In 1998, he drew together the partnership to construct Beddington Zero (fossil) Energy Development (BedZED), the UK’s largest eco-village development. The project was developed by housing association The Peabody Trust in partnership with BioRegional Development Group. BedZED won the 2002 International Energy Globe Award, 2003 Evening Standard Lifestyles Award and was shortlisted for the 2003 Stirling Prize. Pooran chaired the Homes and Environment group of ACCPE (the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment), has sat on the steering group of Buildings Research Establishment’s EcoHomes group and WWF’s One Million Sustainable Homes taskforce. He has been a consultant to central government, local authorities and developers, including a 6,000 home zero carbon development in Portugal and concepts for a 2000 home zero carbon and zero waste community for the Thames Gateway. He is a director of the BioRegional and WWF joint “One Planet Living®” initiative. In 2002 he was commissioned with Sue Riddlestone to write “BioRegional Solutions for Living on One Planet”, a briefing for the Schumacher Society. The book uses examples of BioRegional projects to show the scope for local economic development to deliver environmental benefits. In 2007, with Paul King Campaigns Director for WWF, Pooran authored “One Planet Living® – A guide to enjoying life on our one planet”. In 2004, Pooran was awarded an OBE for services to sustainable development and in 2007 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Nick James is Sustainability Projects Manager for BioRegional Quintain. Nick trained as an architect and completed both Undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Bath. He gained several years experience working in architectural and masterplanning practices in London and the South of England before joining BioRegional Development Group in 2002. At BioRegional, Nick led in the delivery of numerous sustainability projects including disseminating the lessons learnt from BedZED and other international sustainable community projects to the planning, development and construction sectors to support the delivery of infrastructure, communities and services which enable sustainable lifestyle choices. In support of this work, Nick was a founding director of BioRegional Consulting Ltd. Nick joined BioRegional Quintain in 2005 and works specifically on integrating sustainability into development projects. His role includes defining and expressing development vision, setting sustainability targets, identifying the delivery mechanisms, drilling into the detail, and ensuring implementation. Nick is a registered assessor for BRE EcoHomes and the Code for Sustainable Homes. His experience combines more than five years of work within the masterplanning and developing industries, with five years working at the leading edge of sustainability innovation and implementation.

Daniel Viliesid grew up in Mexico and completed a BSc in Industrial and Systems Engineering at ITESM in 2001. He then gained several years experience in the construction and environmental services industry before moving to the UK in 2005, where he completed an MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at University College London. Upon graduation from his first degree, Daniel worked in various property development projects, focusing primarily on infrastructure and services. He played an important role in the overall sustainability strategy for the projects and in the expansion strategy for the business. Daniel joined BioRegional Quintain in October 2006 as Sustainability Integrator. His role is to support BQL’s Sustainability Team Leader, Sustainability Project Managers, and construction partners; ensuring implementation of all sustainability measures, construction and non-construction related, to enable future residents to make sustainable lifestyle choices. Daniel is a registered BRE EcoHomes assessor.

Jean-François Farge is BioRegional Quintain's web designer. He came from south west of France to work in London in May 2007. Jean-Francois completed a Bachelors Degree in Communications at the University of Poitiers, and has gained a range of experiences as a result of internships in France and USA. He first became interested in the world of sustainability whilst working for an engineering company specializing in renewable energy in Toulouse (Southern France). Jean-François works primarily on the design and maintenance of the web solutions for both BioRegional Quintain and Quintain Estates and Development. He created the BioRegional Quintain website in 2007 and has been working on it's ongoing evolution whilst also producing artwork and design materials for various publications, events and presentations.

David Francis started life an environmental health officer working in South London. After working in all the public health disciplines he applied to VSO and was lucky enough to be sent to an island in the West Indies where he was responsible for the a wide range of innovative community services. He returned to work in East London, playing a part in the assessment of planning issues and controls associated with London City Airport and attending Brunel University to gain an MSc in Environmental Pollution Science. He then moved to the north east where he became the director of a local authority department dealing with environmental issues including industrial pollution, waste disposal and recycling and studied to obtain an MBA from Teesside University. On leaving the public sector he became a consultant for a short while working for a range of clients including the government, health authorities and local authorities before becoming director of an environmental charity and then moving on to work for a registered social landlord in a regeneration role. When not at work he is a keen rower, a rowing coach and enjoys playing the piano very badly.