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Gina Bates
Bisley
Commercial Interiors
Left school at 16 to join the police in Birmingham.
Moved to London in 1986 and have spent the past 36 years selling carpets and carpet tiles into commercial offices and hotels.
Head of A&D for Milliken for 10years.
I had my own company Fine Pitch for 14 years and have now left floorcovering to work in storage solutions.
My late husband was an associate at Gensler and so I know lots of the old school industry faces but it's never too late to learn new tricks and meet more people.
Terry Chapman
PDSI Group
Construction
The PDSI Group, established in 2006, is an independent privately owned Construction and Infrastructure Consultancy specialising in programme and project management, PMO management, project controls, cost planning and cost management, forensic planning, project turnaround and management of the systems engineering lifecycle. The quality of service that we provide, and our successful delivery of outcomes is underpinned by our market leading director led assignments. We achieve this through a collaboration focussed on stand-alone client facing assignments. Our drive to establish long lasting improvements and success in fast changing and uncertain environments, is embedded in our DNA. This is reflected in our behaviours and unrivalled commitment to continually enhance outcomes for our clients and all those we work with.
The Group, all trading for over 25 years, consists of:
Queensborough Project Managers (PM)
Initiate Consulting (Infrastructure PM/QS)
Profile Construction Consultants (Planners)
JS Projects (QS)
Our experience of different projects have demonstrated an ability to successfully transfer our skills into new sectors for the benefit of our clients. We do however, recognise the need to understand our clients’ business. We employ people with sector specific experience and always carry out extensive research into our prospective client’s business. We specifically target sectors and clients where we know our offerings can help support our clients’ objectives.
We will deliver projects of any scope and any size using an incredibly proficient agile and people-centric service, boasting significant multi sector experience within the public and private sectors, including: development of 15 health care facilities for Cygnet Health Care, delivery of new hospitals and amenities, multiple Hotels and listed building refurbishments, major urban regeneration hub at Birmingham and HS2 and many retail roll-outs including telecoms giant Etisalat in UAE. We have also been involved with many high profile projects such as; Heathrow Terminal 2, Cross Rail, HS1, Transport for London Overground & Underground Projects, Thameslink, Network Rail frameworks, Department for Transport STAR frameworks providing governance and specialist oversight services across Rail sector, redevelopment of London St. Pancras Station, Osprey EVR motor vehicle charging roll-out, Data Centres UK and EU and more.
We are proud of our collaborative working arrangements with leading names such as Mace, Atkins, Currie & Brown, G&T, Arcadis, GHD and others. We believe that post pandemic, close client collaboration became more prevalent, and we remain committed to this.
Adrian Powell
Active Workplace Solutions
Workplace and Facilities Management
Adrian, who has been a Director and Co-Owner of Active since joining in 2007, is a professional Office Relocation Consultant. He has extensive experience of managing large, complex office relocations for established multinationals and UK companies, providing consultancy advice about Relocation Management. Adrian is also highly knowledgeable across the whole commercial property and building services landscape and maintains a real hands on, owner managed approach to running the business and manages a world class team that delivers amazing customer service.
Adrian has built enviable relationships with many clients who continue to rely on Adrian and Active to deliver major workplace change projects. Clients include: Compass Group, Department of Education, Britvic, Virgin Media O2, Mercedes Benz, Havas Media, CBRE, Toyota, Channel 4 and Porsche.
Adrian was the winner of the IOD Director of the Year Awards for businesses up to £10m turnover (London & South East) in 2017.
Keith Glennister
Sarah McKee-Harris
Kingswood Group
HR & Recruitment
Founder and Managing Director of Kingswood Group which focuses on delivering high quality, bespoke and honest HR & Recruitment Solutions to organisations across London, Essex and the UK.
We have teams specialising in Recruitment, HR Outsourcing and HR Consultancy to support organisations whatever their size, industry, location and stage of their life-cycle.
For a discreet conversation about your Career move, Hiring needs or HR Support requirements, feel free to get in touch and we can arrange a time to speak and meet.
James Maguire
Crannull - Lead Generation
Construction Marketing
By connecting you to potential clients, Crannull can help transform and expand your business, through increasing awareness of your product or service, or simply obtaining more customers.
Our approach is to generate construction sales leads by contacting your potential clients using the telephone for what is was invented for, speaking to people. We can generate appointments for you to meet with potential clients, assist with getting onto preferred supplier lists, obtain tender/pricing opportunities and setting up CPD’s.
If you would like more customers in the construction industry, then contact our team. Put simply, we can generate construction sales leads for your company with no fixed term contracts or long term
Tony Pincham
Images for Industry Ltd
Photography & 3D Scanning
John Hynes
Autumnal Services Limited
Working at Height
Adam Davis
Palmers Solicitors
Legal
Richard Denham-reid
Fitzpro AV
AV Video Conferencing and Data consultancy and integration
Company Role Rich is the Managing Director of Fitzpro AV Ltd, responsible for the performance of the company and overall delivery of our clients’ strategic vision. Experienced in all aspects of AV from design through to project completion, he understands the importance of creativity in design, talking with conviction and thinking on your feet. He is excited and driven by the challenge of delivering new projects, but likes to get involved in the whole process with the ultimate goal of ensuring our clients’ expectations are not only met, but exceeded.
Experience Rich began as an apprentice TV engineer in a family run business which gave a firm grounding in customer service. He has worked for several national companies as a TV, Video and then AV engineer, before spending several very interesting years traveling the UK and world as a sound engineer for a professional band. He formed an AV installation company working nationally for 10 years which eventually became Fitzpro in 2012.
Key Skills and Abilities
• Project Management
• Audio Video Installation
• Data cabling Installation
• Video Conferencing
• Systems Commissioning
• Trouble Shooting
Contact Fitzpro AV Ltd
14 Lowman Units
Tiverton Way
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 6SR
T: 01884 218562
E: rich@fitzproltd.com
Stephen Lynch
Cleanology
Cleaning and Soft FM
Commercial Cleaning Company
WE ENHANCE YOUR WORKPLACE WELLBEING, LEAVING YOUR PEOPLE WITH A CLEAN, HEALTHY AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TO THRIVE.
Established 22 years with family values
Multi-award-winning business
Team of 1,200 from 34 countries
Top 40 UK facilities company with £17m turnover
Environmentally responsible
Ethical employers supporting the Real Living Wage
People first - training, development, progression
Innovative and technology-driven
Totally quality and service-focused business
Gerald Peoples
TickAudit Limited
Construction & Engineering
TickAudit ensures the quality and compliance carried out on site.
Typically, we work with companies who –
• Worry about staff completing critical safety checks before starting work,
• Find the process of manual report writing, so that jobs can be invoiced, a real burden,
• Get stressed pulling together all of the paperwork and evidence for the external auditos,
• Find it challenging to manage complex jobs, in remote, and sometimes dangerous locations,
• Puzzle to make sense of issues reported via different tools used by different staff members,
• Have a real headache tracking the compliance of the equipment they have,
• Wish they were taking the family out on Friday evening instead of doing the paperwork.
Using TickAudit, our clients get -
• A real-time view of all work being carried out,
• Reports and certificates are generated automatically,
• Peace of mind knowing all documentation is available at the click of a button.
Tim Medlycott
Mx2 Interiors Ltd
Fit Out
For many years I have worked in the commercial Interiors industry providing furniture, space utilisation and interior and work-style solutions to major corporates and SMEs across the UK and Europe, and latterly owning Mx2 Interiors creating not only inspirational interiors, but offering services to do all those bits and pieces work many leave off their to do lists.
Mx2 Interiors provides services relating to both commercial and domestic interiors, from planning all the way through to design, construction, procurement and consultancy. Our list of services is available as a whole or in part, you decide how we can help you best achieve your aims and desires and relieve that knot of anxiety many often suffer when thinking about interior works.
Bob Tiley
Mortgage Maze
Finance
I have been an independent adviser for 23 years arranging finance for all types of property purchase and development. With access to the whole marketplace a lender can usually be found to finance my clients needs. Based in Bristol we have clients across the UK that we work with.
Kingsley Hughes
Designscape Consultancy Limited
Architect
Architect and head of Designscape Consultancy Architects. Based in Maidstone and serving clients throughout London and the Home Counties as well as further afield in the New Forest, Exeter, West Midlands and East Anglia. Predominantly private sector residential work on medium-sized projects comprising apartments blocks and clustered housing developments, namely typically one unit up to 25 to 30 units and one project of 85 units. Also provide commercial and care home work. Studied at Nottingham University, and has worked overseas including one year in Sydney and ten years in Hong Kong. Also worked part-time at Greenwich Council Planning Department as their design advisor being a part-time position for ten years. Also a university lecturer for seven years, being a part-time position teaching in the Planning Department.
Andre La Frenais
Alf Office Solutions Limited
Information Technology
We are an bespoke London based multi function device company offering nationwide service and support for all your IT enquires. We guarantee a 3 hour breakdown response in London and only use genuine parts and toners.
Every office scans, every office prints. When your multi functional device fails your office grinds to a halt
Help is on hand, just one phone call away
Fast response times, first time fix rate at 97%
We are trained on Canon, Konica Minolta, Toshiba, Ricoh & Xerox colour solutions
Philip Lewis
Philip Lewis
Legal
I work mainly as an introducer on the professional services sector. My main current focus is in the legal sector linked to recruitment and mergers/acquisitions and some bespoke recruitment. I would love to meet more solicitors as I can often help them. One of my other hats is working with an invoice financing broker, which can be appropriate for construction finance needs. . If you know of any business who would like to talk about this type of finance or re-visit their existing agreement, I would welcome introductions please. Tel. 07775 540242 Email: philip.lewis33@gmail.com
Peter Webster
Thea Limited
Legal
I am a specialist construction solicitor who qualified in 1999 at Penningtons and then worked for Masons (now Pinsent Masons), Fenwick Elliott and Capsticks before setting up Thea Limited in 2007.
Our construction clients are mainly subcontractors and small developers. We help negotiate contracts and deal with payment and other disputes. We have a barrister on our staff and are thus well equipped for adversarial work.
Our property practice focuses mainly on commercial landlord and tenant work. Again, we can help negotiate leases, and deal with disputes under them.
Our family work is mainly child contact arrangements, although we can deal with obtaining decrees or divorce and financial proceedings.
I am a qualified commercial and family mediator.
Darren Rogers
Future Group
Construction
A Business Development Manager, who enjoys building relationships and sharing knowledge about the Block property sector. I have worked with Future Group for the past 5 years and been in the client relations business for the past 30 years.
Future Group partners with property managers to deliver high quality, energy efficient and fully compliant solutions. Our five divisions specialise in block lighting, fire and life safety, security, regeneration and electric vehicle charging, providing a full turnkey service to the residential block sector.
Ruth Duncan
Maxwell Davies Limited
Insolvency
With more than 30 years’ experience working with businesses and individuals in financial difficulty, Ruth understands the stresses and strains of dealing with debts, how to overcome them, and how to make a fresh start.
A recent President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (insolvency practitioner regulator), Ruth is one of the UK’s leading female insolvency practitioners. Her drive and passion for ensuring that insolvency practitioners maintain the highest standards when working with businesses and individuals in financial difficulty sits at the heart of Ruth’s ethos, empathetic and holistic approach to businesses and individuals in debt.
When describing Ruth’s approach to businesses and individuals in financial difficulty, one accountant said:
“The most important thing about Ruth’s approach is she is professional, not pompous. She is sympathetic to clients who have problems, listening and finding solutions.”
Ruth entered the profession in the mid-1980s at the London office of Levy Gree (now Vantis) after a period working for the government’s Insolvency Service. After working with several firms (including Baker Tilly and Atherton Bailey), Ruth set up Maxwell Davies in 2003.
John Mckeown
Accelerate Funding Ltd
Property Finance
Jessica Scott
LM-cleaning
Cleaning
Eco friendly/ zero waste cleaning business that will reduce your over all carbon foot print on any construction site.
Family run business that make your cleaning needs our personal business.
Jamie Read
Industrial Pipefreezing Services
John Rayner
Peridot Consulting International LLP
Infastructure
Emilie Martin
Document Logistix Ltd
Software- Records Management and Workflow- Automated Business Processes
I have been working for Document Logistix for over ten years and I help my existing and new customers to ensure they store and access their business, staff and customers information in the most secure way. We provide solutions for the Construction, Housing and Property sectors for secure records management, following data protection rules and retention policies.