Board Directors
TARA PETRI
FINANCE DIRECTOR

Together with David Petri, Tara acquired the business in 2003 and undertakes the role of Finance Director. Tara has accumulated over 20 years’ of accounting experience within the asbestos industry.
Tara has built up an excellent reputation with both clients and colleagues due to her leadership, expertise, and attention to detail.
In addition to having overall control of the Woods finance Tara regularly attends contract review meetings and provides financial advice across all contracts and major projects to ensure that value added initiatives are reviewed and implemented.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development of the financial management strategy and contributes to the development of the organisations strategic goals
- Overall control of the company’s accounting function, financial planning and related ongoing advice for the Senior Leadership Team
- Ensures that the regulatory requirements of all statutory bodies are met regarding all the company’s financial affairs
- Ensures business objectives as well as the values of Woods are put into practice
- Plan, direct and manage the performance of all internal operations, so as to maintain and develop business growth in accordance with the overall strategy
Qualifications & Training
- Chartered Association of Certified Accountants - Fellow
- Association of Accounting Technicians - Fellow
JO SOLEN
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
HOME CARE DIVISION

Jo joined Woods in 2003 as Quality Manager following an extensive career in the implementation of quality systems and procedures within the Private Sector.
Jo was promoted to the role of QHSE Manager in 2009 and Regional Manager in 2014 before becoming Operations Director of the Home Care Division in 2018.
Jo is very experienced at managing frameworks and call off contracts procured through SOR’s for domestic properties on behalf of social housing clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Day to day running of the Home Care Division
- Attending regular planning, programming and operational meetings
- Governance of the company’s TNA programme
- Management of company’s KPI’s
Qualifications & Training
- Licensed Contracts Manager
- CDM 2015
- Risk Assessments
- H&S Management for Senior Managers and Directors Course
- IOSH Working Safely
- Training Needs Analysis
- Dangerous Good by Road (ADR) Awareness Training
- Air Movement Workshop
- ARCA - Workshops for Supervisors on Analyst Work
- SMSTS (CITB)
- Customer Care Training
- Equality & Diversity HR Latest Regulations
- Behavioural Safety Workshop
DAVID PETRI
MANAGING DIRECTOR

David acquired Woods in 2003 and as Managing Director has successfully led the business to become a well-established market leader in asbestos remediation operating nationally from five offices and employing in excess of 130 highly experienced and fully trained site staff.
David’s primary focus is to ensure that the business continues to provide its clients with a consistently high level of service whilst ensuring that the business maintains its excellent standards in Health and Safety.
As an active Managing Director, with more than 30 years experience, David remains involved in numerous contracts, attending meetings as required and sharing his extensive experience and knowledge of the industry to the company’s ever growing diverse range of clients across all market sectors.
Key Responsibilities
- To lead and inspire Health and Safety
- To continue to make the business profitable
- To encourage innovation, challenge existing processes and work with other Directors and Senior Management to maintain a “best in class” approach
Qualifications & Training
- HNC Business and Finance
- HNC Building
- NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
- Licensed Contracts Manager
- CDM2015
- Risk Assessments
- H&S Management for Senior Managers and Directors Course
- Customer Care Training
- Equality & Diversity HR Latest Regulations
- Behavioural Safety Workshop
- Working at Height
- ARCA Risk Assessments and Plans of Work Certificate
DAVE PIENAAR
CONTRACTS DIRECTOR

Dave has been employed by Woods since 1999, has over 28 years of experience within the remediation industry and undertakes the role of Contracts Director.
Dave oversees the larger more complex projects, recent examples being works in live hospitals, hotels, and remediation works on large demolition sites.
In addition Dave is the key contact for some of the larger long-term framework agreements.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing the Contracts Department
- Overseeing day to day running of selected large scale contracts
- Conducting regular safety tours
- Pricing large remediation projects
Qualifications & Training
- Licensed Contracts Manager
- CDM2015
- Risk Assessments
- BOHS P402 - Building Surveys and Bulk Sampling for Asbestos
- H&S Management for Senior Managers and Directors Course
- Customer Care Training
- Equality & Diversity HR Latest Regulations
- Behavioural Safety Workshop
- Working at Height
COLIN LATIMER
REGIONAL DIRECTOR

Colin is a Regional Director based in our North West office.
Colin is highly experienced having been in the remediation business for over 35 years and held the position of Director for Crest Environmental Ltd prior to the company’s acquisition by Woods in June 2018. Colin has worked in various sectors including healthcare, education, retail, listed buildings, housing and contaminated land.
Colin is very experienced at estimating and managing large challenging projects. Colin heads a Management Team with a philosophy of providing only the highest standards of technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Day-to-day running of contracts
- Attending regular planning, programming and operational meetings
- Liaising with multiple contractors and programming of asbestos works to coincide with refurbishment and reinstatement works
- Liaising with HSE and multiple contractors with regards to notifiable asbestos removal works
- Viewing and estimating projects and producing quotations
Qualifications & Training
- Time served qualified engineer
- City & Guilds mechanical and production engineering
- EITB engineering craftsmanship
- Licensed Contracts Manager
- Risk Assessments
- CS02 Confined Spaces for responsible persons
- Working at Height
- Working Safely
Skills and Training
Woods recognises the value and importance of providing opportunities to staff, to develop their job-related knowledge and skills and expects that with development and training individual effectiveness and motivation will increase.
All staff are continuously assessed through audit and competency assessment carried out by our Compliance Team, Managers and Site Supervisors. This information is gathered to enable us to produce a relevant training needs analysis (TNA) programme delivered using our state of the art training facility to ensure that all individuals' needs are met.