Meet the Team

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  Martin Cobbald

  Director

  Martin has been pest controlling since he was 16 years old. He started in the fumigation crew at Dealey Fumigation and went on to be managing director of the company nine years later. He took on the Managing Director role at Step Pest Control in 2016 which has since been amalgamated into Dealey.

  Brief Description

  Irritatingly positive and unthinkably hairy.

  Special Powers

  Insects are his main passion, be they pests or not, he is a good contact if you have something scary and bug-shaped and you’re not sure what to do...

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  Kevin Markham

  Technical Manager

  Kevin has spent 16 years as a pest controller on some of the most prestigious sites in the UK. His enormous knowledge of all aspects of pest control service led him to the natural role of Technical Manager.

  Brief Description

  Has an extraordinary eye for attention to detail and a serious aptitude for learning.

  Special Powers

  Knows the food manufacturing world through and through, a tenacious creature when it comes to pre-audit checks.

   

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  David Burgess

  Fumigation Manager

  David has been working in the fumigation industry for 26 years beginning his career at Igrox as Operations Manager. He progressed to head up the operations team and oversaw the transition of Igrox’s business during their merger with Connaught Plc.

  Later in his career, he ran fumigation operations for Rentokil as Fumigation Manager for the UK. He now has his dream job as Fumigation Manager for Dealey Fumigation covering the whole of the UK.

  Brief description

  David is the most technically qualified fumigation professional in the UK. Enough said.

  Special powers

  When he gets that far-away look in his eye, he’s probably already worked out your insect problems and started thinking about bicycles.

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  Mark White

  Head of Falconry and Bird Control

  Mark has been at Dealey since 2010. He joined us after a long lay-off with a broken spine. He started as he went on- at a million miles per hour- you would have never known that two years previously, he wasn't able to walk.

  Brief Description

  If you get Mark talking about bird control, you'd better be sitting comfortably. It's an in-depth topic, and Mark epitomises the Dealey philosophy; If you want to be an expert- get geeky!

  Special Powers

  Used to be a stunt man for the flicks- so he can do falconry from horseback, naturally.

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  Angela Chettle-Sloan

  Area Manager - Midlands

  Ange is an exceptionally friendly soul with a passion for wildlife. Has impeccable agricultural roots having cut her teeth in the world of pig husbandry. You need that affinity to be able to manage animals of all sizes.

  Brief Description

  Humility and honesty sum up Ange. She will tell you straight, be warned!

  Special Powers

  Has impenetrable banter armour. We have been searching for chinks, none found

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  Keith Patterson

  Fumigation Technician

  We genuinely don’t know when Keith began his career as a fumigator. All we know is it was with Igrox, and it was a veeeerrryyy long time ago. A fumigation lifer, he has worked with methyl bromide, sulfuryl fluoride, chloropicrin, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, cyanide, phosphine and probably much more.

  Brief description

  Has seen it all. Every time we think we’ve come up with something new, Keith has already done or tried something similar!

  Special powers

  Knows every bird in the UK by name. Frank, Emily, Sandra, all of them.

   

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  Daniel Knight

  Container Fumigator

  Dan joined us from Frontier Agriculture, where he was their fumigator at large. Additional to his skills in applying gas, he also is qualified in phytosanitary protocols, barley and wheat identification and counterbalance driving.

  We don't know how we did without him.

  Brief Description

  Slow and steady wins the prize. Dan wins prizes. He also manages to see jobs through to the finish every time without fail. What a lad.

  Special Powers

  Utterly, utterly, unflappable

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  Maria Buxton

  Fumigation Trainee

  Joined us from the fire service which brings all the transferrable skills of someone already well used to dealing with toxic gasses.

  Brief Description

  The ultimate team player, Maria is the first person to search out if you are having a bad morning.

  Special Powers

  Knows more about Star Wars than any other living human being, including George Lucas.

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  Kevin Mawby

  Service Technician

  Kevin has been controlling pests for nineteen years. Fifteen of them with us. He understands the full range of customer requirements from farming, to factories, to science faculties, there is not much Kevin hasn’t seen.

  Brief Description

  Rides bikes and shoots guns. Just like Mad Max. Or The Terminator. Or Steve McQueen. Only better.

  Special Powers

  Extraordinary fabricating skills when it comes to proofing. Pure precision when it comes to servicing. It is also a well-known fact that Kevin talks more about pests than any other human being alive today.

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  Gary Parrett

  Service Technician

  "You've got a bloody good technician there." Was the repeated phrase I heard when Gary first started working for us. Gary is liked by his customers and frankly, adored by his teammates. And I know he will get embarrassed when he reads this, which is adorable.

  Brief description

  Gary has instant authority in any room. Not only does he speak sense, but he also has a voice that sounds like it has come from the front line of a long and arduous war.

  Special powers

  Humble and wise, he is like the Dungeon Master from Dungeons and Dragons. Only without the riddles; like it or not, he talks straight.

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  Lee Hodgson

  Service Technician

  Lee is from pest control stock. His father was a pest controller before him. He joins us from the mean streets of London where he was exposed to the densest population of pests in these sceptered isles

  Brief Description

  Speaks funny, but we don't mind. Has a genuine wide eyed interest in all things pesty. Unbelievably friendly, which might have something to do with seeing the pests of London every day and making it out alive.

  Special Powers

  He is a regular Dr Doolittle and can speak to parrots. Both the parrots and the language used can be quite blue...

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  Al Goggins

  Service Technician

  Silent Assassin Al Goggins is an introspective type who is exceptionally results focussed. He gets an heroic amount of work done within the same daylight hours available to us mortals.

  Brief Description

  Has fully dedicated himself to pest management and has his own team of ferrets and dogs for rodent control.

  Special Powers

  The graft on this man! He is the grafter’s grafter.

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  Roxanne Britnell

  Falconer

  Roxanne has falconry in her soul. She has her team of five pest control birds including a peregrine, gyr saker and harris hawk. She treats them better than royalty, and they respond to her every beck and call to relive sites of infesting pest birds.

  Brief Description

  She has a degree in animal management but has stooped to our level because... who wouldn't want to be a falconer?!

  Special Powers

  Doesn't have to put on the red light, unless it's for an incubator. Yes, she raises these birds from harmless egg to scary adult.

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  Martin Roberts

  Falconer

  Martin joined us from US military bases where he was in charge of preventing bird strikes. He brings that extra level of urgency to bird control that can only be formed with billions of dollars of government tech on the line.

  Brief Description

  Is nicer to his birds than he is to people, which is quite an achievement because he is possibly the nicest man in the world.

  Special Powers

  Very strong beard game.