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About Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges is the owner & 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 Sharon Rooke

Sharon is passionate about the people of Apreco. As well as driving the delivery of our business plan and objectives, Sharon ensures that every member of the team is heard, helping us recognise our goals, assess training needs, and ultimately be the best we can be.

About Nick Loader

A highly motivated and confident Sales Director, Nick has developed key relationships to achieve growth in all markets for Apreco. Equally knowledgeable, Nick is always on hand to deliver technical assistance and guidance to the architects, consultants and contractors we work with. Nick was instrumental in delivering our products ahead of schedule to the NHS Nightingale, working closely with the consultants to design an effective airflow regime to suit the temporary hospital.

About Sophie Fenemore

Sophie’s excellent communication skills ensure our stock control, production planning, manufacturing process and logistics department run smoothly and efficiently.

Building strong relationships with suppliers & investigating new supply chains allows Sophie to negotiate cost, lead times & quality in turn increasing sales margins and delivering the very best product to our customers.

Sophie is always looking for new ideas to improve everything we do – she never sits still!

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 most recent addition to the Sales Team. Elias brings with him a wealth of industry knowledge and experience that will allow Apreco to continue its exciting growth plans over the coming years.

An asset to our team, Elias provides support to the Sales Director for both Healthcare & Fire sectors and is always looking to develop new relationships, new business and new learning – we cannot wait to see all that he will accomplish.

About Emily Palmer

Emily is our Hatch & Despatch expert!

With her infectious positivity Em’ assists our Production Director liaising with suppliers and internal departments, keeping us all on time and informed.

She is our logistics Queen and she oversees and organises all of our domestic and international shipments.

If you have a project that needs completing… find Em’ and it will be done!

About Ashton Cornish

Numbers are Ashton’s favourite thing!

AAT Qualified and with over 8 years’ experience Ashton keeps all of our numbers in & out on track with meticulous attention to detail.

Ashton ensures we are all trained for Health & Safety & Fire Procedures and maintains our ISO records, if you need it measured, checked, trained and invoiced then Ashton is your go-to get-it-done kinda gal!

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.