Meet the Proptek team

John Cooley

John Cooley

Managing Director
John graduated in Horticulture at Nottingham University in 1976 and has been involved in plant propagation ever since. He started his own vegetable propagation nursery in 1981 and started to make his own trays in 1986. This led him to setting up...
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Peter Lindley

Peter Lindley

Sales Manager
Peter joined Proptek in 2008 as our sales manager and is responsible for coordinating our sales agents in their locations, and for sales which these agents don't cover. He is based in our UK office, although he spends several months a year in...
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Mike Proffitt

Mike Proffitt

Sales Agent- California
Mike Proffitt is Proptek's representative for the West Coast of America brings 36 years of experience to Proptek. He is always available to discuss how the Proptek products can help the Grower drive down costs.  Whether it be improving the...
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Mike Owens

Sales Agent: Machinery
 Mike has been in machinery in California for most of his working life having been responsible for a very wide range of mechanization / automation projects which has given him a deep working understanding of how to take a process and automate...
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Violeta Ruiz Gonzalez

Violeta Ruiz Gonzalez

Sales Agent- Mexico
Violeta has worked with Proptek since 2007 as our sales agent for Mexico and Latin America. She has a long history in sales in the wine industry and as a travel and tourism agent and also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. She taught...
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Jacqui Ladbrooke

Company Secretary
Jacqui has been with Proptek since 1996. Her position within the company is Operations Manager and Company secretary.
Jo Bearup

Jo Bearup

Office Manager
Jo is responsible for managing our England office and for marketing. Previously Jo worked in conference venues as an events coordinator and in marketing and so has brought a wealth of experience to Proptek. She joined the company in September...
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Elizabeth Neave

Elizabeth Neave

PA to John Cooley
Elizabeth is the newest member of our team. She is John Cooley's PA and helps him with a number of projects including the process of developing new products. Elizabeth came to us with over 10 years of PA experience and prior to this had a...
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