Experience Counts
The founders of Redwood Refrigeration have over 30 years
experience in the refrigeration industry, spanning design,
service and installations in both industrial and commercial
settings. We specialize in winery refrigeration and cooling
services, process cooling and cold storage applications.
We provide consulting engineering and installation service,
but will focus mainly on service, troubleshooting, emphasize
preventative and predictive maintenance, and ensuring
reliability by providing factory and in-house trained
staff with fully equipped service vehicles to meet your
needs.
About Dan Kelly
Dan was born and raised in San Francisco and attended college
in Maryland where he earned a BS in Marine Engineering.
He started his refrigeration career at the age of 13
in a family operated business. He had his first service
truck at 16 and, after graduating college, sailed as
an Engineering Officer in the United States Merchant
Marine about half the year, and returned to the family
refrigeration business the other half. After leaving
his maritime career and the family business closing,
he worked for about 5 years in industrial refrigeration
contracting in the North Bay area and, ultimately, landed
in the mechanical design and contracting division of
a Fortune 500 company as Chief Engineer and ultimately
as Director of Plant Operations/Design and Construction
responsible for up to 200 staff and budgets in the 10’s
of millions of dollars. After some 17 years in the corporate "hot
seat", Dan decided to take advantage of an early
retirement offer and return to the North Bay and re-connect
with the industrial refrigeration industry where he started.