Exploring our passion
for carbon neutral farming
Fairman Knight and Sons is a UK based Sustainable Farming business
committed to Carbon Neutral / Carbon Negative farming.
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Julian Knight
Cofounder, Chief Executive Officer
Julian is a former RAF Pilot, after the RAF he has spent over 30 years of his career in Finance, notably as a Global Head at the world's largest Hedge Fund group, Man Group PLC and Societe Generale and Standard Chartered Bank. Whilst at Man Group he ran Global Cool, a campaign to solve global warming. He worked with the UK Government and traded some of the world's first Gold Standard Carbon Credits.
He is currently Co-Founder and Principal of a US based Commodity Trading Adviser Brutus Trading LLC and Co-Founder of Fairman Knight and Sons.
William Fairman
Cofounder, Chief Farming Officer
William is a leading independent UK based Broiler Farmer. He has over 35 years experience as a Farm Manager and Regional Farm Business Manager. William has worked for some of the largest UK Broiler Farm companies, namely PD Hook and Moy Park Ltd. He is a member of the elite Ross 420 club for EPEF. EPEF is an equation used to measure the technical performance of a broiler flock and takes into consideration the feed conversion ratio (FCR), live-ability (life expectancy), live weight and slaughter age of the bird.