Peter Michell is a director of Michell Wool and was its managing director for the decade following 2004. He is a board member of Mutual Trust.
In 2004, Mr Michell and his brother consolidated shareholding in their 140-year-old family agribusiness from 40 shareholders to 2. He then oversaw the re-engineering and growth of the business; a greenfield wool textile investment in China; R&D and incubation of a number of startups within the wool group; and purchased, developed and then sold two wool textile processing business in Malaysia (500fte).
Mr Michell's 30 years in the wool, wool textile and leather industry has seen him responsible for commodity trading, global B2B industrial sales and marketing, production management, trade finance, water and waste water management.