David Appleby
IT Manager
A programmer by trade, David joined Bisley in 2007 after stints in the Finance and Defence sectors. Since 2011 he’s been leading the team responsible for delivering IT services in our factory and throughout our business.
Onhan Baysoy
Regional Sales Manager, Middle East
After studying Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Onhan joined the furniture industry in 2008. He’s worked in many countries, including Singapore, Egypt, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, but he’s been based in Dubai working for Bisley since 2014. He’s responsible for all aspects of our business, sales and project management in particular, in the Middle East.
Verdun Boots
Director of Purchasing
After qualifying with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in Australia Verdun moved to the UK, and Bisley, in 1984. Since 1985 he has managed transport, production control, logistics and now leads our purchasing team which is focused on providing a cost effective, high quality, just in time supply of all key Bisley components.
David Botterill
Financial Controller
Following a degree in Mechanical Engineering David became a qualified accountant with Deloitte. He joined Bisley in 2013 after working in finance in a number of manufacturing businesses. Today he is responsible for all our financial reporting and looking after our finance team in Newport.
Paul Dunne
Managing Director, Ireland
Paul joined Bisley in 2001 and spent a year working in our London showroom before going home to Ireland to introduce Bisley to the country via a wholesaler. In 2005 he began to manage large scale customer projects and installations for Bisley as a consultant before setting up our Ireland office in 2009. Since then his ‘person by person’ approach to business relationships has seen his team double in size and revenue almost quadruple.
Garth Fielding
Managing Director, North America
Garth has been involved in the contract furniture industry since 2001 and successfully leading our team in New York since 2013. Working from Bisley’s offices and showroom in Manhattan’s Flatiron district he continues to expand the Bisley brand across North America, working on projects in cities like New York, Washington DC, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal.
Chris Fowler
Director of Product Development
Chris graduated with a degree in Product Design and joined Bisley as a member of the Design Team back in 1989. He now leads a team of experienced, tech savvy designers and engineers in our Product Development Team, whilst keeping a close eye on all design trends.
Dave Gray
Logistics Manager
David joined Bisley in 1993 progressing from manufacturing to the logistics team in 2005. He studied through the Open University to achieve a diploma in managing change and performance. He’s now the Logistics Manager, heading up our busy logistics team.
Francois-Louis Guelfucci
CEO France/Italy / Directeur Général Bisley France/Italie
After business school in Paris Francois-Louis began his career in Hong Kong working for a French manufacturer of escalators. He then moved to London to join Otis, the world leader in that sector, where he spent nine years in different positions, eventually becoming Regional Sales Director in Toulouse. He joined Bisley as our Managing Director in France in 1999. He’s used his entrepreneurial spirit to ensure that his team are now recognised as essential partners in prestigious office space planning projects throughout France.
Dave Hunt
Quality Manager
David joined Bisley in 1998, 10 years after moving to Cardiff from ‘up North’. Initially leading teams in industrial engineering and production he now owns our quality function and lives by the motto ‘quality in everything we do’ to ensure our products always meet our high standards.
Geoff Lea
Director of Sales
Geoff Lea has a wealth of experience in the storage market and has been responsible for our re-sellers division since August 2014; prior to that he was Director of Trade Sales. In addition to his 10 years with Bisley, he’s worked for competitor Triumph Business Systems. Prior to moving into the furniture market, he held senior sales positions with Sellotape, Helix and Uniball.
Paul Legro
Commercial Manager, Benelux
Paul joined Bisley, and the furniture industry, in 1995 as an Account Manager for the Dutch Market. A sales management role was next before he became Commercial Director in 2012. A believer in developing strong relationships he’s been instrumental in Bisley becoming a leading storage supplier across the Benelux region.
Robert Mayer
Managing Director Bisley GmbH, Germany/Austria
The office furniture industry has been Robert’s profession of choice for over 20 years. Robert held in the industry different leading positions in Sales & Marketing before he joined Bisley. He set up our sales channel in Germany and Austria in 2003 and has been running it as MD very successfully ever since. His team are renowned as one of the most professional in their market.
Helen Owen
Director of Business Development
A multi-skilled senior level marketing and product development professional, Helen joined Bisley in 2015 after 10 years at Herman Miller as Head of Furniture and Healthcare Product Management in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). She’s now guiding our Portfolio Management, Group Marketing and R&D teams and developing strategies to ensure Bisley remains a market leader.
Lee Pearce
Lee has over 30 years experience in the office furniture world. He’s been developing new business through major projects with Bisley since 2004. Lee is also a qualified engineer and project manager with a product development background. He’s now focused on leading one of our sales teams to new sales opportunities, often in new market sectors.
Gary Powell
Director of Technical Services
Gary may be a recent addition to the Bisley family, but he has worked alongside us for many years; from service engineer to after-sales manager to MD of one of our machinery suppliers. Gary joined us in 2014 and is now using this expertise, and his Italian language skills, to ensure we have exactly the equipment and machinery we need in our factory and that everything runs like clockwork.
Jack Redmond
Director of Production
Jack joined Bisley in 1982 as a labourer and steadily moved his way up to foreman, supervisor, production manager and eventually factory manager. When all our manufacturing moved from Bisley in Surrey to Newport in 2012, he followed as Director of Production and leads the team of over 450 people who make and assemble our products.
Glyn Rowles
Health & Safety Manager
Glyn has been working in the office furniture industry since 1987. He joined Bisley in 1991 and has worked in product development, as a production engineer and also as Quality Manager. His vast experience, knowledge and numerous qualifications means we’ve been relying on him to manage and develop our health and safety activities since 2003.
Ricardo Ruiz
Managing Director, Spain
Ricardo joined the office furniture industry in 1989 and shortly afterwards, in 1991, he began his relationship with Bisley when his former company introduced our products to Spain. He joined Bisley as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal in 2010. Ricardo studied economics at UPV (Basque Country University).
Matthew Stanley
International Procurement Manager
An experienced procurement professional with expertise in global sourcing across multiple sectors, Matthew joined Bisley in 2016. He was previously responsible for international sourcing at multi-national manufacturer ABB and holds a Masters Degree in Management. Matthew is focused on enhancing International Procurement across Bisley Group.
Phil Westcott
Group HR Manager
Phil is an experienced HR professional with over 25 years experience under his belt. Before joining Bisley in 2003 he led HR teams at several large manufacturers including Panasonic and LG. He’s responsible for all people-related activities, including training at all our UK sites.
David Williams
Director of Customer Services
David has been ensuring that Bisley provides the best and most consistent experience to our customers, no matter where they are in the world, since 1998. Process design and control, project management, service level agreements and managing productions schedules are all part of a day’s work for him; and this expertise is reflected in his MBA qualification.
