| Bob Linley MIoD |
| Chairman |
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Those of you who remember the old web site will no doubt have noticed how kindly the years have treated our Chairman (Honest Bob to his family and employees); the thicker, darker hair, the tanned skin. Bob has asked us to point out that this is a side effect of the exposure to EMC that he has had from his generating sets over the years. Yep. |
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| [bob.linley@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Keith Marshall B.Sc (Hon's), C.Phys, M.Inst.P, MIDGTE, MIoD |
| Managing Director |
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Depending on the time of the Rugby season Keith can often be found in several different places, some times all at the same time! He claims that the walking stick is purely due to injury and that there is no truth in any allegations that it is because he harks back to the days of Dickens when proper man management techniques could be used. Keith is the nerd of the Company and is a Council member of the Association of Manufacturers of Power Systems, the UK's trade body for Generating Set Manufacturers. He is also the Chairman of the Technical Committee of AMPS |
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| [keith.marshall@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Vicky Law B.Eng (Hon's), MIET |
| Projects Director |
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You can take the woman out of Rochdale but you can't take the Rochdale out of the woman. And if you try she may do you a serious injury. More black and white than a chess board, Vicky leads our Project Team, with a never ending fund of practical, down to earth, knowledge and advice including "you can't plough a field by throwing soil over your head" and "as much use as a pigeon with lead boots". |
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| [vicky.law@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Tracy Bothamley |
| PA to the Directors |
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It's like the plot of a Alasdair MacLean novel. People believe that they are dealing with the people in charge when they meet the Director's but little do they know... |
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| [tracy.bothamley@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Paul Fitzgerald |
| Production Manager |
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Paul, or as he is know for short - Fitz of the 9 Toes, Lord of the Factory, is our Production Manager. Fitz, despite his young years, is an old school engineer but with a modern spin: He knows that hitting a piece of machinery with a big stick may well be the answer, as long as you wrap the big stick in velvet so that it doesn't mark the special paint finish and you have an adequate Risk Assessment to cover the activity. |
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| [paul.fitzgerald@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| John Senior |
| Financial Controller |
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John is WARDPOWER's Financial Controller. As the man in charge of the cheque book he lives in a special office where his chair can accommodate the lips of the many suppliers attached to his bottom at any time. |
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| [john.senior@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Glenn Gardner |
| Project Manager |
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Glenn specialises in Project Management for Telecoms and Contracting clients including Vodafone and NG Bailey. A useful man to know if you need your 1937 generating set repaired, legend has it that Glenn has a part from every set he has ever built hidden somewhere in his desk (or brief case, or garage at home...) For those client's that we appear to have some of the key parts for (like the engine) we can only apologise.
We would like to point out that there is no truth in the rumour that Glenn is Top Gear's "The Stig" in his spare time. |
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| [glenn.gardner@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Jenni Houghton |
| Project Manager |
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We don't go looking for women Project Managers honestly, but Jenni is the first (alphabetically!) of our trio of women PM's. Call them the Sugarbabes at your own risk, but it must be something about northern women who can iron, carry a baby on one hip and birth a cow with the spare hand that means that make the very, very best of multi-taskers! Oh and just so you're warned, Jenni many years ago was the bar maid at the pub next to the Sheffield United ground. There is NOTHING that you can say to her that she has not heard but PLENTY that she could say to you that you'd regret! |
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| [jenni.houghton@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Diane Livesey B.Eng(Hon's), C.Eng., MIET |
| Project Manager |
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Prof Livesey (just too many letters isn't there) is one of our Project Managers specialising in LVAC schemes. She has come to us with a huge background in electrical componentry, type testing and certification - a PROPER boffin! Starting many years ago on the tools, Diane has progressed through a degree into design and sitting on several BS committees. |
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| [diane.livesey@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Karen Raffell |
| Project Manager |
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Karen looks after our Contracting customers (NG Bailey, Amec, that kind of company). She's well experienced for it with a background in flood lighting and switchgear. For some reason she doesn't seem to think that a generating set in the basement of a multi-storey car park is as glamorous as organising the lights at the world tiddly winks championships in Helsinki. She'll learn. Oh, and she's from Liverpool. Sorry. |
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| [karen.raffell@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| David Steele |
| Project Engineer |
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In the beginning there was a Service Engineer. And lo, they gave him a multi-meter, primary injection equipment and more training than a belly dancer trying to enter a convent! And was born DAVID, PROJECT ENGINEER! If he hasn't commissioned it, it can not be commissioned! |
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| [david.steele@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Angela Bowsley |
| Service Co-ordinator/Projects Assistant |
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Ange is our Service Co-ordinator and also the chief "Fixer" for all things Project. Whether it be a parcel delivery at 3am in the Orkneys or a service for an off-shore generator in 30m waves, she is not phased. This sense of inner calm comes from knowing that she committed legalised ABH at the weekend with a hockey stick. We understand that the camera shyness may well be due to a particularly vicious game at the weekend. |
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| [angela.bowsley@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Mo Bashagha |
| Graduate Design Engineer |
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Mo until recently played Cornerback for the local University American Football Team. This tells us several things about Mo but first and foremost: He likes lycra and running around head butting people. Clearly we are now siphoning off his brain cells whilst we can before the brain trauma sets in or he is abducted by Gok Wan. |
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| [mo.bashagha@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Trevor Savage |
| Chief Engineer |
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Trevor has been involved with Wardpower Generating Sets for 40 years. Somedays it seems longer than that for all of us. He is currently the subject of a 15 month study by a famous UK university who believe that he has found a way to break the space/time continuum in his home. They are trying to work out why the internal dimensions of his house have shrunk when the external dimensions are the same. They need to ask his wife and the B&Q decorating department about this. |
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| [trevor.savage@wardpower.co.uk] |
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| Bonnie Law |
| Factory Dog |
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We at Wardpower take Health & Safety for our employees very seriously. One of our many ways of doing this is by employing our Factory Dog to guilt them out of at least half of their lunch every day (we're only thinking of their cholesterol levels). |
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| [bonnie.dog@wardpower.co.uk] |
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