About Us:

What's behind Camel Valley Projects Ltd; why was the company formed and what sort of skills and local experience are behind the services that we offer.

Having graduated from Sussex University with a joint Honours degree in Computer Science and Artificial intelligence - [Joe Herzberg] spent the following 15+ years working in the City of London. At first this was for companies such as Credit Suisse and JP Morgan as an IT contractor. 

 This soon developed into Account and Project management at HSBC and then into a career at Bloomberg (the largest Financial institution in the world) managing projects for multiple major clients such as Deutsche Bank, personally. After several years I moved to work for one of my clients - GFI Group - (a major US Interdealer Brokerage) my career continued through further project management and then into international sales (of risk management & trading software) at the highest level.

During the later years in London, Jen and I had our first child - to keep a long story short; we decided to sell up, move to Cornwall and live a different and altogether better life with our kids. We have strong & immediate family ties in Cornwall dating back to the 1700's right through to the present day. 

Once in Cornwall, settled in our home in Wadebridge (2010), not wanting to sacrifice time with my family travelling to an 'office job', a great interest in the field & some previous experience - lead me into working in construction. Over the first 5 years in Kernow - I worked my way up from a labourer to skilled labourer, builder/tradesman, to running and developing the decorating for a firm, creating their website and processes too, I also worked with a successful developer. I then became the Contracts Manager for a medium sized local firm of building contractors and essentially ran their business for them. In that time I tripled their turnover from around £1million to over £3.5million. I developed the company and generated business, processes, jobs, and essentially looked after all aspects of all the projects. I ran the projects both for the Building contractor(s) but also for the clients, being the 1 go-to person throughout the process from concept to completion, managing up to 30 projects of varying sizes and around the same number of sub-contractors.

I decided to go it alone in 2016, I worked for some interesting developers & private customers on some great projects. When I went solo -  I set up a gardening company at the same time  & mowed lawns myself for a daily salary in the early days & between contracts & slowly picked up customers & business by referrals from 1 garden & 1 operative to over 75 gardens now & growing fast - x6 full time staff & other subcontractors (including a team who helps me manage the beach toilets for the community after the council shut them).

I have successfully transferred my skills and experiance to the fields of both (Construction & Gardening) and learnt the new skills and techniques required (not least the detail of the design and build process & all the facets of garden management & maintenance) both on the job & with skilled colleagues, including making all the necessary contacts in the area to realise my potential over time. I love what I do - Camel Valley Projects Ltd (CVP Gardening) is the vehicle (my own company) which now allows me personally to work direct for various clients. Having been established independently now as a limited company since 2016 - we are working on some very interesting projects and making a name for ourselves, producing a first class end product, whilst growing the company carefully at the same time. We have a large group of wonderful properties & happy customers! Please pick up the phone and speak to me, let's meet - I'm sure if you need any help throughout any or all of the process from weekly maintenance to an idea or a plan to final completion/hand over of your dream project; Camel Valley Projects Ltd is the company to make sure it happens - on time, on budget and to your ultimate satisfaction. 

Joe Herzberg - Director - Camel Valley Projects.