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 too much like hard work!When did you set up current company: I bought JDUK (LTD) in 2013, which supplies Alutech sectional garage doors and 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...
Martin Thurley, Group Managing Director, Liniar
First Job: I started as a temp on a 3-month contract in the late 1980s in the Goods-In department of a local joinery company – main duties were making tea, sweeping the warehouse and standing in the cold More...
Elton Boocock, Managing Director of Business Pilot
First Job: I left school at 16 to join the Army Junior Leader Regiment of the Royal Corp of Transport. After the Army, I ended up working for a property maintenance company, fitting windows, then eventually More...
Daniel Baker, Managing Director at Origin
First Job: My first job was in mechanical engineering, working for my father at his firm, Jones Baker. I was there for four years and learned so many of the fundamentals that I still rely on today.Date of joining More...
Darren Woodcock, Deceuninck Operations Director
First job? Aged 17, I joined Hepworth Plc as an Injection Moulding Technician. The factory was in the centre of Wolverhampton (now a retail park) with over 1,000 workers. It was an apprenticeship for life and More...
Justin Harris, Managing Director of Winkhaus UK
First Job: As a 17 year old I was at Barclays Bank in South Wales where I gained some great experience over 6 years in regard to understanding economics, colleagues, customers and management styles, which varied More...
Sam Nuckey, Managing Director, Window Ware
First job: I left school after A-levels and joined a management training scheme and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant. There were 20 of us on this three-year training scheme. It was a great development More...
Aidan Harte, Managing Director, Freefoam Building Products
First job? My uncle owned a butcher shop in Cork,and I worked there during the summer holiday when I was 14 years old. It was a great experience and gave me my first taste of business.When did you join your More...