Meet the team

Name: Yvonne Coonan

Role: Sales & Management

Expertise: Yvonne has over 18 years experience working in the environmental research and monitoring sector. During this time she has become an expert in sampling & research equipment. She regularly demonstrates window sampling sets, drilling rigs and augers and can often be found in her overalls and wellies, knee deep in mud. Yvonne is a busy working mum and spends her free time looking after her daughter, Amanda and socialising with friends.

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Name: Ikky Izagaren

Role: Sales & Customer Relations

Expertise: Ikky is usually the first person you reach when you call Van Walt. She has spent the last four years developing her equipment knowledge and getting to know you – our customers - better. Celebrated in the office for remembering everyone and everything she is the font of all knowledge when it comes to finding the right equipment and if she can't help - she knows 'a person who can'.

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Name: Tom Stone

Role: Rental Manager

Expertise: Tom is Van Walt's rental equipment guru and knows all there is to know about pumps, water quality meters and remediation equipment! He divides his time between servicing and maintaining our rental products so when they reach you they are in 'out-of-the-box' condition for immediate use; helping our customers find the right equipment for their needs or out on-site, troubleshooting and product training. As well as being an enthusiastic regular at his local and a keen sports fan, Tom is worryingly obsessed with finding the ‘ultimate pump’ and often dreams about inventing a pump that will purge deeper, for longer and in the most hostile of conditions or, alternatively, scoring a century for England at Lords!

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Name: Jonathan Hawkins

Role: Rental Sales & Technical Support

Expertise: With almost two years under his belt Jonathan has taken up the role of technical support for our rental operation. Jonathan spends most of his time helping our customers, demonstrating our equipment and ensuring nothing leaves the building unless it has been thoroughly checked and tested. A keen sportsman (golf, cricket, snow boarding) and musician, Jonathan likes to keep himself fit so is prepared for any and every eventuality - because you never know where you might have to go to next, when a customer calls and asks for help.

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Name: Laura Thorne

Role: Sales Support & Administration

Expertise: New to the Van Walt team, Laura is responsible for managing our couriers, sales ledger administration and all sales documentation. She keeps a watchful eye on your order, ensuring it is packed and delivered as and when it has been promised to you. Working to tight deadlines, Laura prides herself on completing all the paperwork before she leaves each day. Living locally, Laura has a busy and varied social life – enjoying meeting up with her friends and catching up on all the latest film releases. This is her first main step on the career ladder and she is keen to develop her skills, experience and knowledge of everything ‘environmental’ - so you’ll hear much more from her in the future.

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Name: Lewis Irvine

Role: Equipment Technician

Expertise: Lewis joins us with a background in engineering, hydraulics and mechanics. Based in our warehouse and rental equipment room Lewis is responsible for supporting the rental team by ensuring all equipment is cleaned, checked and logged on return from site, then re-calibrated and tested before dispatch to our customers. He likes nothing better than dismantling, removing, measuring, examining, assembling and replacing components in equipment, engines and machines. In his free time Lewis can be found with his head in his motorbike engine or motocross enduro racing – life has got a lot faster here at Van Walt!

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Name: Vincent van Walt

Role: Managing Director, Technical & Field Sales

Expertise: Vincent has many years experience in the environmental field – more than he is prepared to admit to! More than 25 years ago he and Kaja, his wife, established Van Walt to fill a gap in the market for equipment that provides consistent, accurate results - equipment that sets the standard for soil and groundwater monitoring and research. Today he remains equally as committed and still spends the majority of his time sharing his expertise on groundwater field techniques, percussion drilling, soil moisture measurement and mineral exploration with customers at home and abroad. As an enthusiastic sailor he has learnt to appreciate the combination of quality and craftsmanship to create something that is both functional and beautiful.

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Name: Tracey Daley

Role: Marketing

Expertise: Tracey provides marketing input to help establish customer needs, improve customer communications, increase our web presence and develop the Van Walt brand so more businesses know about us, our equipment, the training we offer and our depth of expertise. With a constantly improving product range and growing list of new, innovative products there is a consistent requirement to ‘spread the word’ and to keep customers - loyal, prospects and yet-to-commit - up-to-date with all things Van Walt. And, like the rest of the team, Tracey is always very keen to receive your feedback and suggestions regarding anything you would like to receive or see from us.

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