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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Managing Director operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a Managing Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Mark Cooper
Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific of CCL Industries
Mark Cooper is a Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific at CCL Industries.
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About Avery, CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
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Jamie Robinson
Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe of CCL Industries
Jamie Robinson is a Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe at CCL Industries.
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About CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Galahad Clark
Founder & Managing Director of Vivobarefoot
Galahad Clark is the Founder and Managing Director of Vivobarefoot.
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About Terra Plana, Vivobarefoot: UK-based shoe brand and Crowdcube alum
Ian Mellor
Managing Director of Metalysis
Ian joined Metalysis in September 2004. Prior to this Ian was a Project Manager at Morgan Fuel Cell, a subsidiary of the Morgan Crucible Company plc Ian has a background in physical chemistry, he has over ten years industrial experience leading teams, developing new products and commercialising technologies, primarily in the alternative energy and metals industries. Since joining Metalysis, Ian has developed and led the Technology team to improve the chemistry and morphology of the products, primarily for tantalum and titanium. He has also provided support to the Engineering team for the scale-up of the process. Ian was awarded a PhD in Heterogeneous Catalysis from the Nottingham Trent University.
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About Metalysis: Metalysis, a manufacturer of metals and alloys, offers both economic and environmental benefits over traditional metal production methods.
Andrew Shepherd
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Omega Diagnostics
Andrew Shepherd is the Founder and Managing Director of Omega Diagnostics Limited. He is responsible for corporate strategy, general management, sales and marketing and technical direction. He has been involved in the medical diagnostics industry for the last 35 years. He started his career in 1974 by holding technical positions at G.D. Searle Limited and then attended university, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He then moved into a sales and marketing position at Cambridge Life Sciences plc in 1981, before establishing his first diagnostics company, Cambridge Biomedical Limited in 1982. In 1986 he moved to Scotland to join Bioscot Limited and shortly afterwards, established Omega. Shepherd used his technical experience and knowledge of exporting to oversee the growth of the export of Omega products to exceed £2 million per annum. Omega now exports to over 100 countries around the world, and he travels regularly to many of the countries in which Omega customers are based. Shepherd is an active member of a number of relevant trade associations and was a member of the Scottish Exports Forum, a body which reported to the Scottish Parliament to oversee and guide the export activity of Scottish Development International. Mr Shepherd was also a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s (BMGF) Global Health Diagnostics Forum, which provides direct guidance to BMGF in advising on future investments in worldwide diagnostics programmes for developing countries.
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About Global DX Ltd, Omega Diagnostics: Omega Diagnostics provides IVD products for use in hospitals, blood banks, clinics, and laboratories.
Gareth Maker
Co-Founder & Managing Director of M Squared Lasers
Gareth Maker attained a first class honours degree in Physics from Southampton University in 1986. The laser research group at Southampton is one of the largest and most prestigious in the UK, and as part of this group Gareth completed PhD research into laser development in 1989, producing many firsts in the field of diode-pumped solid-state lasers. He then spent a year working on laser research within the new Optical Research Centre (ORC), also based in Southampton. This was part of a government initiative to create centres of excellence for research within UK universities, and as such the ORC represented a £10M investment by the UK government. In 1991 he co-founded Microlase Optical Systems Ltd. Gareth then took the company from a startup to one having a turnover of around £3M and a worldwide reputation for excellence. The technical and financial success of this business eventually led to a trade sale to Coherent Inc (one of the world’s largest laser companies and NASDAQ listed) in 2000. Gareth continued as joint Managing Director until 2002, at which point the business had grown to 50 employees, had achieved a turnover of £7M, and occupied purpose-built prestigious premises within Glasgow, Scotland. He then acted as a technical consultant to several photonics companies, helping them to remain forward looking both in their R&D activities and in key areas of product design and manufacturing.
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About M Squared Lasers: M Squared Lasers develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments.
Paul Holt
Managing Director of Photocentric
Paul Holt did a degree in Mathematics at Bristol University and then spent his early working life as a Eurobond dealer in the City before ending up in chemical manufacture. He started Photocentric in a small room with the idea of packaging photopolymer. Paul’s interest has always been in developing ideas to innovate with photopolymer. He manages the strategic technical development of Photocentric.
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About Photocentric: Photocentric is a manufacturer & innovator in photopolymer.
Pierre-Edouard Harant
Managing Director of RPD International
Pierre-Edouard Harant as the Managing Director for RPD International.
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About RPD International: RPD designs and manufactures products, experiences, processes.
Abder Guezour
Managing Director of Greycon
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About Greycon: Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling, forecasting & manufacturing execution systems.
Darryl Mattocks
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Enistic
Darryl Mattocks is Co-Founder & Managing Director at Enistic.
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About Enistic: Enistic designs and manufactures its own range of smart-meters, software and end-to-end aM&T solutions.
Robert Perin
Managing Director of Protak Scientific
Prior to his current role as CEO & partner at Protak Scientific in the biotechnology industry the last 5 years, Robert Perin worked at Blackberry as Senior Commercial Director, Europe for just under a decade.
After his time in telecommunications, he worked as an investor and advisor for several start-ups including launching Oscobo, Becovi Media and CST Automotive amongst others. Since becoming CEO and partner in one of the most exciting and ground changing Biotech companies to date, Robert has been instrumental in bringing major pharma companies onboard such as Pfizer, Bayer, Novo Nordisk, and AstraZeneca.
Protak Scientific provides rapid validation solutions to large isolator manufacturers, global pharmaceutical companies, and scientific universities with established and recognised ground-breaking technology that assists pharmaceutical companies to validate their decontamination in aseptic production.
He has been key to both setting the corporate strategy and gaining international recognition and acceptance, as the innovative way of approaching validation, with the regulators and international scientific community.
He has also been a key part in the expansion of the company globally into countries such as the US, India, and China, trebling revenue in recent years. Although relatively new to the pharmaceutical industry, his belief in the technology, passion for the industry, and commercial acumen have enabled Protack Scientific to become a growing UK success story within the international pharmaceutical industry.
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About Protak Scientific: PS is a biotechnology firm that manufacturers enzyme indicators.
Andrew Gossage
Managing Director of Ultimate Products
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About Ultimate Products: Ultimate Products is a brand and product development house in the UK that specializes in house-ware and electrical goods.
Rupert Ralston
Managing Director of Pure Biofuel
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About IT Ventures, Pure Biofuel: Pure Biofuel operated UK company specialising in the wholesale and distribution of Premium Wood Pellets.
Tony O’Brien
Managing Director of Dynniq
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About Dynniq: Dynniq is a technical service provider specialized in the design, manufacturing, installation and maintenance of electronic systems.
Gopal Das
Managing Director/co-founder of Karnataka Hybrid Micro Devices Limited (KHMDL)
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About Das & Co., Karnataka Hybrid Micro Devices Limited (KHMDL): KHMDL is a diversified electronics company specializing in design, development and manufacture of custom-built hybrid micro circuits
Zac Gazit
Founder, CEO & Managing Director of ALVATECH
Zac Gazit is the founder, CEO & Managing Director of ALVATECH & he attended The College of Management Academic Studies in 1997.
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About ALVATECH: ALVATECH develops water treatment solutions and technology for effective farming productivity.
Daniel Walton
Managing Director of OLPRO
Daniel founded OLPRO in 2011 wanting to create a Stand Out camping brand for people who love the great outdoors but wanted something different, both technically and in terms of appearance. OLPRO create tents, camper van awnings, melamine, windbreaks and more – all designed by Daniel and the team to be different to drab off the shelf imports. Daniel has been the Director of 4 other businesses before setting up OLPRO and is renounded in online sales having worked for some of the largest outdoor camping brands before going it alone. Creating a strong sustainable brand is key to standing apart from bigger companies and ensuring that OLPRO has grown every year. It is is now finding space amongst larger companies in the UK and abroad whislt still serving a niche in the market.
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About OLPRO: OLPRO makes high quality camping equipment, awnings, tents, windbreaks, beach huts, melamine, and more.
Dave Froker
Managing Director of Focusrite
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About Focusrite: Focusrite is a global music and audio products group supplying hardware and software products used by professional and amateur musicians.
Mark Lait
Vice-president & Managing Director of Water-Jel Technologies
Mark joined the company in 1992 as the WaterJel distributor for the UK and Ireland; his geographic responsibility increased in 2003 to all international business. Prior to 1992, Mark was a director of a number of medium-sized medical companies with manufacturing bases in UK, U.S. and Australia. With a background in medical engineering, HND MEng, he has been responsible for the design and development of unique technologies used in pediatric / neonatal care and the treatment of thermal injuries. Based at WaterJel’s UK office, Mark is multilingual and has lived and worked in several countries, contributing to his extensive international business experience.
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About Water-Jel Technologies: Water-Jel is a manufacturer of branded and private label specialty medical products.
James Batchelor
Managing Director, Automotive Division of Intelligent Energy
James Batchelor was appointed Managing Director, Automotive Division in October 2011. James brings a wealth of experience, including engineering leadership, business development, sales, technology licensing and partnership-forming responsibilities with large OEMs and their tier-one suppliers. James joins from Torotrak plc, a clean-technology development and IP licensing business, where he was responsible for the commercialisation of its innovative transmission systems across a number of global markets and applications. He has previously held senior engineering, commercial and business development positions at Land Rover, BMW AG and Trafficmaster plc, where he was responsible for its European subsidiary. As Managing Director, Automotive Division at Intelligent Energy James is responsible for expanding the company’s automotive business globally, building upon successful relationships such as its ongoing partnership with the Suzuki Motor Corporation.
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About Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
Peter Brown
Managing Director, Distributed Power & Generation Division of Intelligent Energy
Peter joined from Turbo Power System where he was Chief Executive. Turbo Power System manufactures high performance electric motors and generators, drives and power electronics. Prior to that, Peter’s experience spanned a number of roles in Customer Sales and Finance in Rolls-Royce’s Energy business, Vickers Specialist Engines and Vickers Defence Systems, culminating in the position of Executive Vice President for Customer Business for Rolls-Royce Energy.
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About Avnera, Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
Albert Nicholl
Managing Director of Freedom One Life
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About Freedom One Life: Redefining mobility
Brian Miller
Managing Director & Co-Founder of uFraction8
Dr Brian Miller is one of the original inventors of uFraction8’s technology. Following the successful PhD where the technology was developed, he undertook a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship to learn the skills required for commercialisation of the technology. Furthermore, he has a background as a professional engineer and was involved in delivering high value projects in gas turbine control systems in industry.
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About uFraction8: uFraction8 develops microfluidics-based filtration systems to help bio-manufacturers to harvest biomass sustainably and more efficiently.
Jon Fielding
Managing Director of Apricorn
Jon is CISSP certified and has been focused on Information Security for the past 18 years, working with a variety of organisations from IBM to security start-ups such as Valicert, Ironkey and Tumbleweed. Jon is now the Managing Director of Apricorn in EMEA and brings extensive experience in evangelising security best practice and is responsible for sales & operations strategy, driving revenue growth and establishing the channel network in the region.
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About Apricorn: Apricorn, Inc. is a leader in the design and manufacture of PC storage products, utilities and accessories.
Richard McBride
Managing Director of Edesix
Richard McBride is Managing Director at Edesix.
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About Edesix: Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
Jasbir Singh
Managing Director of HEL LTD
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About HEL LTD: HEL Ltd is a provider of automated and manual tools to clients in the pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
Michael Frisby
Managing Director of Cobweb Solutions Ltd
Michael Frisby is a managing director at Cobweb and Vuzion.
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About Cobweb Solutions Ltd, Vuzion: Cobweb Solutions Ltd is a technology manufacturer specializing in cloud based services.
Daniel Hurcombe
Managing Director of Penso Consulting
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About Penso Consulting: Penso Consulting is a manufacturing specialist that provides a complete turnkey engineering service to customers across the globe.
Dominic Quennell
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Enertechnos
Enertechnos is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Enertechnos.
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About Enertechnos: Enertechnos develop, patent, and commercialize CTS as a new concept in ultra-low loss cable based on capacitance technology.
Ian Hobson
Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of ChargeBox
Ian has set and delivered the mission and objectives for ChargeBox which has seen the company grow rapidly. Involved since the companies inception, Ian took over control of the company and formulated the change in strategy driven by the smart phone market and Olympics in 2012. Ian is passionate about ChargeBox and passionate about bringing free charging to everyone who needs it everywhere they need it. A graduate of Imperial College, Ian’s career has taken him from Accenture to Hambrecht & Quist and Tibco, all the time delivering rapid growth and businsess development.
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About ChargeBox: ChargeBox They pride Theirselves for providing the easiest to use, most trusted and innovative charging solutions for public spaces.
Ian Foley
Managing Director of Equipmake
Ian Foley is the Managing Director at Equipmake Ltd.
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About Equipmake: Equipmake’s mission is to provide State of the Art control System Solutions for niche and specialist markets.
Gavin Mitchell
Managing Director of Butyl Products Group Ltd.
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About : International supply of fuel & water storage and distribution equipment, Emergency Aid, Camp Infrastructure, WASH & WATSAN products
Peter Ward
Managing Director of Anvil Semiconductors
Peter has had an extensive industrial career in the development and manufacturing of Silicon power and RF devices in both large organisations (STMicroelectronics and Plessey) and start-ups. He has worked in every aspect of the industry from basic technology research, through product development, to managing RF and Power device business units.
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About Anvil Semiconductors: Anvil Semiconductors develops small power converters using innovative silicon carbide power semiconductor switches.
Steve Bennett
Co-Founder and Managing Director of WOOF & BREW Limited
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About WOOF & BREW Limited: WOOF&BREW is a beverage company that produces healthy and herbal doggy teabags.
James Currie
Managing Director of Electrium
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About Electrium: Electrium offers a complete range of Low Voltage installation products from a simple light switch to the main switchgear.
George McNeil
Managing Director for Retail Division of Johnstons of Elgin
George McNeil is the managing director for retail division at Johnstons of Elgin.
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About Johnstons of Elgin: Johnstons of Elgin manufactures cashmere cloth, knitwear, and accessories.
Ken Roulston
Founder & Managing Director of CMI
Ken Roulston has worked in IT for over thirty years and has extensive experience in the IT Services arena. Ken started out as an engineer before realising that the selling of IT services and hardware was what interested him most. He joined the original CMI and through organic and acquisitive growth he was instrumental in the formation of Aurora UniComp, which was subsequently purchased by the Viridian Group and becoming Sx3, now Capita Plc. He then went on to spend time in Telecoms and the Internet industry and his most recent role before CMI was as Country Manager in Ireland for Parity PLC. Ken’s goal is for the CMI team to offer an unrivalled level of customer service. He says he doesn’t have a lot of spare time so what little he does have is taken up with a course at Queens University on Genealogy, walking the dog and cooking.
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About BTA, CMI: CMI is a company offering manufacturer business streamlining and growth services.
Tasleem Tasab
Managing Director of Serene Furnishings
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About Serene Furnishings: Serene Furnishing are manufacturers of high quality furniture in the UK.
John Yates
Managing Director of Helix Technologies
John Yates has worked for over 30 years in the commercial satellite industry. After having completed a BSc(Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Nottingham and a post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration at Manchester Business School, in 1986 he joined Europe’s first commercial satellite operator, the recently incorporated SES Astra, in Luxembourg and has been immersed in the sector ever since. He co-founded Helix Technologies in 2016 with Dr. Oliver Leisten, the investor of the dielectric-loaded antenna, and is keen to work with Tier 1 Systems Integrators to bring this high-performance technology to market.
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About Helix Technologies: Helix Technologies is developing a range of compact, high-performance, dielectric-loaded ceramic antennas.
Nigel Hall
Founder & Managing Director of WHP Engineering
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About WHP Engineering: WHP Engineering is a multi-disciplined, engineering company dedicated to providing both standalone and turnkey solutions.
Darren Likely
Managing Director of Agar Scientific
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About Agar Scientific: Agar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific laboratory equipment, with a focus on electron microscopy consumables.
L Joyce
Managing Director of Agar Scientific
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About Agar Scientific: Agar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific laboratory equipment, with a focus on electron microscopy consumables.
L Joyce
Managing Director of Agar Scientific
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About Agar Scientific: Agar is a leading manufacturer and distributor of scientific laboratory equipment, with a focus on electron microscopy consumables.
Phill Adamson
Managing Director & Co-Founder of Paragon Rapid Technologies Ltd
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About Paragon Rapid Technologies Ltd: A leading product development and production support company, offering prototyping, manufacturing and supply chain management solutions.
David Skinner
Managing Director of Farsound
David Skinner is the managing director at Farsound Aviation.
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About Farsound: Farsound provides consumable component parts for the aerospace engine sector.
Robert Sant
Managing Director of AO Recycling Ltd
Robert Sant has been the Managing Director of AO Recycling since 2017. Prior to this he was and the Managing Director of The Recycling Group Ltd. The Recycling Group Ltd changed was renamed AO Recycling after a merger with AO World PLC. He has been managing companies in the recycling sector since 2002. AO Recycling is one of the largest processors and recyclers of fridges and waste electrical appliances (WEEE) in the UK. AO Recycling’s state of the art Andritz MEWA fridge and WEEE recycling plant is largest and the most advanced in the UK. The plant now processes more than 750,000 fridges per year at its Telford site. In addition to fridges the site processes other waste electrical equipment and is one of the largest reprocesses of white goods packaging in the UK. At the heart of the plant is a bespoke Andritz MEWA shredding machine which can process over 100 fridges an hour. The new cutting edge materials recovery technologies that Robert Sant helped to design and develop at Telford, have delivered a plant which is a jewel in the crown of UK recycling and which boasts industry-leading recovery rates for all of the materials. AO Recycling sell materials from the recycled fridges and LDA’s , including high quality shredded steel, plastics , compressors, motors, Polyurethane (PU) foam, copper and aluminium. The packaging processing system used at Telford was designed to achieve the highest quality separation of packaging. At its Telford facility AO Recycling also operates one of the largest reuse and refurbishment facilities in the UK. At this facility most categories of electrical appliances can be repaired for resale. The recycling plant in Telford is setting new standards in the recycling industry. It has recently also been awarded the highly coveted WEEELABEX standard. This not only proves the plant is world class, but always proves the operation meets the highly stringent requirements of WEEELABEX. Robert Sant is a specialist in all aspects of end-to-end recycling and materials recovery, as well as large scale project management, software development and systems analysis and have been the Managing Director of a recycling company for over sixteen years. Prior to this, and following his graduation from Liverpool University with a degree in mathematics and physics, he worked in IT for several years as a Senior Project Manager. The company specialised in developing and delivering software for large implementations within the areas of logistics, freight forwarding and shipping lines. They developed and implemented software all around the world for large Logistics customers such as TNT, DHL, Wincanton, Tibbet and Britten, Tech companies of the time such as Nokia and Hitachi, and Shipping companies such as Yang Ming . Robert Sant now lives near Chester with his wife Alison and their daughters Maddie, Jessica and Gabriella. When time allows he enjoys skiing, sailing and the outdoors.
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About : AO Recycling part of AO.COM PLC
John Morath
Managing Director of GTK UK
GTK is an ambitious and fast growing privately-owned company that manufactures high quality electronics solutions, including standard and custom cable assemblies, connectors and optoelectronics. We also offer a full manufacturing solutions service, including PCB enclosures, full PCB assembly and packaging options. We have offices in the UK, Germany, Romania & Taiwan and work with manufacturing affiliates in the Far East. Our experience & tenure in the marketplace enables us to source, design and supply components and complete solutions that are manufactured to the highest standards. Headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire, with offices and manufacturing affiliates worldwide, GTK has the infrastructure and resources in place to ensure highly tailored production engineering processes and manufacturing quality control. Each location adds its own value to our customers and greatly enhances our capabilities as a company. At GTK, we strongly believe in the value of high quality. This translates into the quality of our products, the quality of the support and advice we give our customers, and how we take our commitments very seriously. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited, and our UK facility is AS9100C certified and UL approved. As a privately owned business, we also believe in continually investing to improve our capabilities and efficiency. This includes recently doubling our UK manufacturing floor-space and enhancing our engineering team.
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About GTK UK: GTK UK manufactures and sells electronic cable assemblies, connectors and adaptors, and optoelectronics.
James Vicary
Managing Director, Co-Founder of NuNano
James has 14 years of experience in AFM, of which 9 were spent designing and manufacturing unique cantilever sensors for various research projects at the University of Bristol. Seeing his microfabrication endeavours yielding new science led James to found NuNano, in order to bring novel AFM probes to the wider scientific community.
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About NuNano: NuNano is a UK manufacturer of AFM probes and bespoke cantilever sensors.
Rich Walker
Managing Director of Shadow Robot
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About Shadow Robot: Shadow designs and manufactures state-of-the-art anthropomorphic robot hands & related systems.
John Oliver
Managing Director of Kent Periscopes
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About Kent Periscopes: Kent Periscopes Ltd is a UK based specialist supplier of periscopes, vehicle sights and related equipment.
Jane Gardner
Managing Director of EUROPEAN RESILIENT FLOORING MANUFACTURERS’ INSTITUTE
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About EUROPEAN RESILIENT FLOORING MANUFACTURERS’ INSTITUTE: ERFMI offers a wide variety of durable, flexible, and impermeable flooring products made of both synthetic and natural materials.
Robert Pepper
Managing Director of JWC Environmental
Mr. Pepper has four decades of experience in the wastewater treatment sector, including leading the design of several products still on the market today. His background includes managing engineering projects in the textile, pump manufacture and food industries. In the 1990s Mr. Pepper spent several years in the United States overseeing JWC’s expansion into foreign markets. Then, in 2001 he moved back to the UK to start JWC’s European manufacturing and customer service operations in Congleton. The facility now produces Monster screens and grinders for the European, Euro-Asian and African markets. Mr. Pepper is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (ACIM).
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About JWC Environmental: JWC Environmental designs, builds and services the world’s most dependable waste shredders and screening systems.
Robert Pepper
Managing Director of JWC Environmental
Mr. Pepper has four decades of experience in the wastewater treatment sector, including leading the design of several products still on the market today. His background includes managing engineering projects in the textile, pump manufacture and food industries. In the 1990s Mr. Pepper spent several years in the United States overseeing JWC’s expansion into foreign markets. Then, in 2001 he moved back to the UK to start JWC’s European manufacturing and customer service operations in Congleton. The facility now produces Monster screens and grinders for the European, Euro-Asian and African markets. Mr. Pepper is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (ACIM).
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About JWC Environmental: JWC Environmental designs, builds and services the world’s most dependable waste shredders and screening systems.
John Hansen
Managing Director and CEO of ETher NDE
John was Senior Staff Engineer for Eddy Current NDT at GE Inspection Technologies, St Albans, UK (previously Hocking NDT). John is the immediate past Chairman of the BINDT Trade Group as well as being a BINDT Council Member, BINDT UK Engineering Council Representative and ordinary member of various other committee and for ASTM he serves on the Electromagnetic and DICONDE Committees .Johns Eddy Current NDT wealth of knowledge and passion is well regarded in the industry and this teamed with Mike’s overall NDT market expertise has allowed ETher NDE to be built on a very solid foundation. With a combined industry experience of nearly 70 years, Mike and John quickly went to work to build a team based on non-destructive testing knowledge, passion and skill.
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About ETher NDE: ETher is a manufacturer of Eddy Current Testing (ECT) non-destructive testing NDT equipment.
Toby McCartney
Managing Director of MacRebur
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About MacRebur, Toby & Kate McCartney: A UK-based company that uses waste plastics to create stronger, longer lasting roads.
Paul Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Laser Wire Solutions
Paul Taylor is a Founder & Managing Director at Laser Wire Solutions.
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About Laser Wire Solutions: Laser Wire Solutions is the expert manufacturer of Laser Wire Strippers for the removal of insulation from high performance wire and cable.
Ryan Maughan
Managing Director of Avid Technology Group
Ryan founded the AVID Technology Group back in 2004 and has led its growth and development ever since. As well as being an award-winning entrepreneur, he is an Engineer by background with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UMIST and an MSc in Engineering from the University of Durham. Ryan worked in the motor racing industry in his formative years learning about high performance engineering and developing a unique blend of hands on practical skills with high-level engineering expertise. After a few years of working in a high precision machining business, AVID was born with the mission from the outset to develop new technology that will reduce emissions and fuel consumption of vehicles through improved control.
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About Avid Technology Group: AVID is a leader in the design and manufacturing of smart electrified ancillary and advanced thermal management systems.
Justin Pringle
Managing Director of Prototype Projects
Justin manages the commercial, consulting and planning sides of the business, including sales and marketing activities. As well as planning the direction of the business, Justin is responsible for investment in new machinery and technologies to ensure that capacity is always ahead of customer demand.
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About Prototype Projects: Prototype Projects is a specialist prototyping and production parts manufacturer based in Royston.
Michael Brooks
Managing Director of MPower UPS
Michael Brooks is Managing Director of Centiel Ltd which acquired the long-established UPS service provider MPower UPS Ltd in 2017. Michael Brooks founded MPower UPS in 2005 and has been in the industry since 1988, his previous roles include service engineer, service manager, service director, founder and managing director, working with Victron, Liebert, Emerson and Premier CBS.
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About MPower UPS: Sales and Maintenance of UPS power supplies and generators.
Paul Sanders
Managing Director of Caption Data
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About Caption Data: We are creators of the Hygronet, RDL//nano and RDL Web products and suppliers of MSR and other vibration data acquisition and analysis
Adam Murphy
Managing Director of Shnuggle
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About Shnuggle: Shnuggle is an innovative company that designs modern, clever baby products for the mid-high end of the market.
Ashley Morrison
Managing Director & Co Owner of Lockertek
Managing Director and chief tea maker. Literally knows everything about lockers, also thinks he’s a comedian.
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About Lockertek: The UK’s leading independent locker, and locker parts company.
Jason Smith
Managing Director of Bedfont Scientific
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About Bedfont Scientific: Bedfont Scientific specializes in the design and manufacture of exhaled breath and gas monitoring instruments.
Nick Pummell
Managing Director of Low Power Radio Solutions
Nick joined the LPRS team in 2015 following 18 years working within the wireless electronic component, M2M and IoT technologies eco-systems. Nick is a true believer in M2M / IoT, having seen many times the ability of the technologies to provide innovative, profitable and disruptive new business and services.
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About Low Power Radio Solutions: LPRS is a global leader in low power RF solutions for OEMs.
Sunday Ogar
CEO and Managing Director of Ogar Technology
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About Ogar Technology: Ogar Technology is a leading security and solar equipments manufacturer.
john lord
Managing Director of Worldwide Heating Spares Ltd
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About Worldwide Heating Spares Ltd: Worldwide Heating Spares Ltd is a Commercial & Industrial spares supplier for the heating industry
Lee Bowen
Managing Director of United Plastics Group
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About United Plastics Group: United Plastics Group is a manufacturer of precision injection molded plastic and assembled components.
Tim Walker
Managing Director of Shepley Window Systems
Tim Walker is the managing director at Shepley Window Systems.
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About Shepley Window Systems: Shepley Window Systems is a privately held company that designs and manufactures fabricated windows and doors.
Wayne Adams
Managing Director of Extruflex
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About Extruflex: World’s leading producer of extruded sof PVC and flexible vinyl.
John Anderson
Managing Director of Andbarb
John Anderson, MD of Andbarb which supplies innovative fasteners distributed by the Web for 3D Printing in polymer or metal. The product is globally patented and increases productivity, quality, and profit, while combating counterfeiting.
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About Andbarb: Andbarb is an economic solution for securely fastening components together in all manufacturing sectors.
Steve Roberts
Managing Director of Fripp Design and Research
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About Fripp Design and Research: Fripp Design and Research is a product design and research, and business development consultancy.
Miroslav Solanka
Managing Director of 68travel
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About 68travel, Sportmeets: 68travel creates and manufactures wooden maps, scratch maps, and travel accessories, and other travel-related items.
Ben Smart
Managing Director of Whitham Mills Engineering
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About Whitham Mills Engineering: Whitham Mills Engineering designs, manufactures, installs and maintains high-quality waste processing equipment to customers.
Sophie Jewett
Managing Director of York Cocoa House
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About York Cocoa House: York Cocoa House are bringing fine chocolate manufacturing back to York.
Gavin Munro
Managing Director/Co-Founder of Full Grown
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About Full Grown: Full Grown Ltd grows trees into shapes. Initially concentrating on furniture production.
Peter Smith
Managing Director and Founder of British Steel
Peter Smith is a managing director at British Steel company.
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About British Steel: British Steel is a world leader in the production of long steel products with facilities across the UK and France.
Douglas Martin
Managing Director of MiAlgae
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About MiAlgae: MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company .
Alan Beresford
Managing Director of Ecocooling
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About Ecocooling: EcoCooling is the largest manufacturer and distributor of fresh air direct evaporative coolers in the UK.
Alan Beresford
Managing Director of Ecocooling
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About Ecocooling: EcoCooling is the largest manufacturer and distributor of fresh air direct evaporative coolers in the UK.
Patrick Thorpe
Managing Director of Spiro Control
Patrick has a career that spans more than 25 years working in industrial process control. He has specialist knowledge in the application of advanced process control to ethylene production and gas processing. He has also worked in a diverse range of industries including food, mining, energy, chemicals and polymers. Patrick trained as an application engineer with Exxon Chemical before moving to Predictive Control where he was involved in product development and application. Foxboro subsequently acquired Predictive Control’s technology and he led the integration with Foxboro’s distributed control system. He has also worked as an advisor with Aspen Technology. Prior to founding Spiro Control, Patrick co-founded Aptitude, a technology leader in advanced process control. In the role of operations director, he built a team of engineers located in the UK and India, leading the development of a commercial system identification software. Patrick holds a PhD in Chemical Engineer from Loughborough University.
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About Spiro Control: Spiro Control delivers process data analytics and real-time control applications embedded on edge devices that ingest real-time plant data.
Patrick Thorpe
Managing Director of Spiro Control
Patrick has a career that spans more than 25 years working in industrial process control. He has specialist knowledge in the application of advanced process control to ethylene production and gas processing. He has also worked in a diverse range of industries including food, mining, energy, chemicals and polymers. Patrick trained as an application engineer with Exxon Chemical before moving to Predictive Control where he was involved in product development and application. Foxboro subsequently acquired Predictive Control’s technology and he led the integration with Foxboro’s distributed control system. He has also worked as an advisor with Aspen Technology. Prior to founding Spiro Control, Patrick co-founded Aptitude, a technology leader in advanced process control. In the role of operations director, he built a team of engineers located in the UK and India, leading the development of a commercial system identification software. Patrick holds a PhD in Chemical Engineer from Loughborough University.
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About Spiro Control: Spiro Control delivers process data analytics and real-time control applications embedded on edge devices that ingest real-time plant data.
