Meet The UK Team

Southern Technical Sales

Name: Tom Marshallsay

Drink of choice: Coffee, White and 2

Hometown: Portsmouth, Hampshire

Marital Status: Married with 2 Beautiful Daughters

Hobbies: Football, Music and being a Dad

Favourite film: Goodfellas

Industry Experience: 15+ years

First Job in Engineering: CNC Programmer and Operator

Later Careers:

7 years as a 5 Axis Programmer/Operator for a prestigious F1 component and precise manufacturing sub-contractor.

Area Sales Manager for one of the largest Machine Tool Companies in the UK, helping customers investigate new technology to increase output and revenue.

Why I'd like to work with you?

Similar to my colleagues, I'm not scared of any challenge in Engineering. I've cut my teeth on some of the hardest projects around, during the F1 season where fast leadtimes and perfection are the order of the day. Add this experience to an unwavering sense to achieve and I think we can do great things.

Midlands Technical Sales

Name: Lee Wilkinson

Drink of choice: Extra strong tea, splash of milk

Hometown: Luton, Hertfordshire

Marital Status: Engaged with a Son and a Daughter

Hobbies: Travelling, Guitars

Favourite film: Pulp Fiction

Industry Experience: 15+ years.

First Job in Engineering: Apprentice Toolmaker

Later Careers:

Full time Toolmaker and Machinist working in sub-contracting.

Technical Sales Engineer for a Swiss Tooling company, dealing in micro-machining and hard milling applications. Responsible for UK.

Area Sales Manager for one of the largest Machine Tool Companies in the UK, helping customers investigate new technology to increase output and revenue.

Why I'd like to work with you?

Having a varied background of both machines and technical tooling/applications allows me to offer solid advice for you to grow in business.

Northern Technical Sales

Name: Patrick O'Connor

Drink of choice: Coffee white and 1

Hometown: Rotherham, South Yorkshire

Marital Status: Married to a good 'un with 2 crazy but equally beautiful Daughters

Hobbies: Anything with pistons (in particular Motorbikes), Golf and seeing the Sun shining...

Favourite film: Django Unchained & Gladiator. Impossible to pick one!

Industry Experience: 15+ years

First Job in Engineering: Apprentice Production Engineer producing Precision Medical Implants and Devices using MasterCAM.

Later Careers:

• CNC Programmer & Trainer for a large Oil & Gas sub-contract company. Using MasterCAM/Delcam.
• Advanced Manufacturing Engineer for a large OEM, using Openmind HyperMILL. 3 axis through to 5 axis on a plethora of controls and machines.
• Area Sales Manager for a large Machine Tool Company in the UK, dealing with turnkey projects for large blue-chips, through to standard sales with small/medium businesses.

Why I'd like to work with you?

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, who really likes to do a 'proper job' on any project. I love the feeling of success whether personal or for my customers. I'd like to think I'm a good listener and I know what really matters in industry as I've worked at both the machine level and sales level covering the UK.

Most importantly, I can do the above whilst being able to have a good laugh and I'm not afraid of getting the hands dirty!