Safeguarding individuals and property since 1997

About Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges is the Managing Director of Apreco, the market leader in the design, manufacture, and worldwide distribution of Pressure Relief Vents and air pressure stabilisers. Working continuously with key organisations, specifiers and customers, Mike ensures that Apreco products are certified by the experts for a worldwide market.

About Sophie Phipps

Sophie has been leading Apreco’s production for over 7 years.

Building a strong management team to ensure that we provide the very best service, innovative products and excellent quality to our customers.

Building strong relationships domestically and internationally she is an accomplished negotiator and continually works to increase sales margins and productivity.

Attending Trade and Manufacturing Forums Sophie’s thirst for knowledge is never quenched, she is always looking for new ideas to improve everything we do and she never sits still!

About Joe Barton

Joe is our newest team member and brings over 16 years of production management experience with him.

Responsible for ensuring the smooth running of our multi-site manufacturing facilities and ensuring the teams and machines are working in harmony together in order to fulfil the company and customer needs and wants.

Your go-to man that can!

About Ann-Marie Thomas

Ann-Marie, aka “Murry” is always ready for a chat. A savvy organiser and people-person, she looks after the fire sector of the business. When she’s not looking after our customers, she is making new friends at Trade Shows or driving the creativity behind our marketing campaigns. Murry has given 11 years of exceptional service to Apreco, and her energy is as high today as it was on her arrival.

About Elias Simon Jacob

Elias Simon Jacob is our Technical Sales Manager.

With a huge wealth of industry knowledge and experience in the Fire and Healthcare sectors, Elias is always on hand to offer his expertise.

Qualified in Specialised Ventilation in Healthcare Premises and this knowledge is invaluable to our clients/customers and ensures Apreco continues to grow.

Providing support to our Sales team, Elias continuously develops relationships with new and existing customers and can often be seen on-site, performing site surveys and Exhibiting Apreco products at Trade Related shows.

About Matt Johnstone

Officially Matt is our Senior Design Engineer and is responsible for leading program-level designs and prototypes together with fabrications for composite design solutions.

With over 8 years of engineering experience, Matt is a welcome addition to the Apreco Team and is a pivotal member in our growth and development in the coming years.

However, the team’s description of him would be….he wears a very tight blue suit with a red cape, wears X-ray specs, ‘flies’ between departments and calls home Krypton….

About Stuart Fellows

Stu is Apreco’s SolidWorks guru creating the concept drawings and renders for all Apreco products. Working on new product development with the sales team all the way through to the manufacturing process with our workshop team.

Stu provides technical expertise and support to our sales team and customers alike. Ensuring the internal IT needs & wants are met together with delivering all in-house training packages Stu is our all-round ‘go-to’ man.