Clearview National December 2016 - Issue 181 | Page 92

MOVERS&SHAKERS NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED »»THE GUILD OF ARCHITECTURAL Ironmongers (GAI) has appointed Neil Fisher as its new Director. Neil’s career has over 20 years of senior management experience in education, training and membership organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and internationally. He has extensive higher education experience having managed MSC, PhD programmes, professional short courses and apprenticeships. Maria Powell, president of the GAI, said: “Neil’s expertise will be really good for the Guild in our bid to expand our education reach and our portfolio of education products. With a strong track record of leading membership organisations too, we believe Neil will help drive our business plan forward, as well as creating enhanced value for GAI members. Neil Fisher said: “The respect and prestige that the GAI has created so far with its education programme is exceptional, and provides a strong base upon which we can build even greater value for members and increased impact across the globe. I am really looking forward to meeting the members and to achieving even greater recognition for the high levels of professionalism and expertise within this industry.” Neil Fisher GAI Director. and Maria Powell GAI President BACK IN STYLE »»YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD MAN tied down! Mark Richmond is back in action as Sales Director at specialist sash window fabricator Victorian Sliders. Mark is a very well-known figure in the UK fenestration industry and his irrepressible character and dynamic approach is already making a big impact with customers at Victorian Sliders, Europe’s largest specialist manufacturers of PVCu vertical sliding sash windows. “I visited their headquarters in South Wales and was totally blown away by the operational investments and forward-looking vision at Victorian Sliders”, says Mark. “I wanted to be part of this exciting success story, so after discussions I agreed to join the company as a member of the senior management team, in charge of sales.” Victorian Sliders fabricate made to measure ECOSlide PVCu sash windows in a purposebuilt 100,000 square foot production facility in Capel Hendre, Carmarthenshire. Every aspect of product manufacturing is carried out in-house, including engineering and design of window profiles, specialist profile bending, woodgrain foil or colour spray surface finishing of the window frame components, toughened sealed double glass unit making and final assembly of complete CE Marked sash windows ready for despatch. Expanding the team »»THERE’S MORE GOOD news from Business Micros as the industry’s leading software provider has expanded its programming and installations teams yet again. Toby Hodgkinson has joined as a Senior Developer, Adam Wade is a Field Programmer and the newest recruit is Elliot Chadwick who is now an Installations and Support Engineer. All three are experienced graduates with varied backgrounds in IT and software development and all three are based at Business Micros’ Newton le Willows installations office. Toby and Adam are largely behind the scenes creating bespoke software for customers who are using existing 92 » DEC 2016 » CL EARVI E W- UK . C O M applications including EvoNet, while Elliot is very much customer facing both on the phone answering queries and visiting customers for machinery installs and to set up CNC links. Managing Director Graeme Bailey is delighted with how the business is growing. He says: “We’ve broken all of our sales records this year with lots of record months helping us to hit our highest ever turnover. Our strategy is always to reinvest though and with Toby, Adam and Elliot we’ve got three highly motivated young graduates whose skills will really make a difference to customers.” Further details at www.businessmicros.co.uk