Dr Sachin Saigal, Managing Director, Avocet Hardware Group
Facts and Figures: First Job: Resident doctor Most useful/favourite gadget: My phone, although it can also be my worst enemy! Favourite Website: Financial Times Favourite restaurant: Opheem Birmingham, amazing Indian food! Business person you admire: I get inspired by many people in business, for example Jeff Bezos, Warren More...
Steve Winslet, Managing Director of Victorian Sliders
Facts and Figures: First job: I started as Pioneer Concrete’s youngest trainee Plant Manager in London. Following several promotions, I was appointed to manage the Byfleet Plant, one of their biggest sites More...
Rhonda Ridge, Managing Director of Ab Initio Systems
Facts and Figures: First Job: Joined NatWest Bank straight from school. When did you set up current company: 1995 Most useful gadget: I couldn’t live without an iPhone Most useful websites: More...
Steve Cross, Director of Mercury Glazing Supplies
Facts and Figures: First job: Trainee Builders Merchant. When did you join or set up current company: We set up Mercury in 2002 – this year is our 20th anniversary! Most useful/favourite gadget: It More...
Phil Parry, Business Development Director of Epwin Window Systems
Facts and Figures: First job: Design Draughtsman for DC Norris & Co. designing industrial food processing equipment. When did you join current company: September 2020. Most useful/favourite gadget: My More...
Guy Hubble, Joint Managing Director at RegaLead
Facts and Figures: First job: My first job was as a Management Trainee at Slumberland Group, the bed and furniture manufacturers, where I gained experience in production management, quality systems and product More...
Robert Thiroff Managing Director at Profine UK
Facts and Figures: First Job: Apprentice carpenter at R Durtnell & Sons, the oldest building company in the world! When did you join or set up current company: I joined profine UK in April, 2008. Most More...
Steve Hudson Managing Director at Alutech Systems
Facts and Figures First Job: I started out as a trainee scaffolder, then I got the chance to go to college to learn all the practical aspects of civil engineering, which was more my thing. Scaffolding was More...
Gary Morton, Managing Director of Central Window Systems
First Job: Thermoseal Services – Service Engineer. I’d gone grape-picking in France to‘find myself’, then came back and found myself unemployed. I saw the job in the local paper.When did you set up More...
Austin McGillian, Chairman, New World Developments, owner of Apeer Doors and Lumi Windows
First job: Delivering newspapers. That was the only job I have had outside of the family, and I kept that paper round until I was 15. After leaving college at 18 I joined the family business, which was a petrol More...