Oliver Clements
Future Designs
Tony Hanley
FirePro UK
Warren Wright
Trail Group
Neil Galloway
Strong Shield Fire Doors Ltd
Rob is a founding Director of Lighting Controls Ltd, based in Farnham Surrey. The company specialises in supplying lighting control systems into commercial offices, schools, hotels, hospitals etc.
Rob has been involved the lighting control industry since 1990.
He moved from the north to the south of England in 1998 to set up the lighting control division for a large international lighting company before founding Lighting Controls in 2004.
Lighting Controls is proud to be a UK manufacturer.
Rob Walker
Lighting Controls
lightingcontrols.ltd.uk
Neil Galloway is the Director and Co-Owner of Sentinel Fire Doors. Sentinels head office is located in Swanley and the factory is in Colchester meaning they can easily supply doorsets throughout the London and the rest of the UK. Sentinel Fire Doors specialise in timber fire rated doorsets and screens and this is certified under the BlueSky certification schemes; Fire Door Manufacturer and UKCA Exterior Fire Door Manufacturer.
Neil started his career in 2004 with ‘The Real Door Company’ where we learnt the foundations behind fire door manufacturing. These skills were enhanced at ‘Enfield Doors’ before he took over the reigns at On-Wood Products managing a team of 40 people. Having hit the ceiling at his last company, Neil joined forces with Warren Wright to start Sentinel Fire Doors. Sentinel Fire Doors gained full certification for internal and external fire door manufacture in their first year and since then they have gone from strength to strength. They are constantly looking to add more products to their scope of certification to enable them to service more of the market.
Neil specialises in fire door manufacture and compliance as well as key management systems such as ISO9001.
Neil Galloway
Sentinel Fire Doors
sentinelfiredoors.co.uk
Warren Wright is CEO of Trail Group. Since he established the business in 2004, it has grown to offer a range of building and fire safety services to clients in both the public and private sectors.
Central to the company’s ethos is supporting customers’ evolving needs by maintaining and improving property portfolios and built assets for organisations such as housing associations, local authorities, NHS trusts and emergency services through to national private landlords, hotels, schools, colleges and museums.
The Group’s services have expanded over the last two decades and now include construction and refurbishment, passive and active fire protection, electrical testing and installations, and minor works – from bathroom upgrades and damp remediation to pest control.
In addition to his leadership role at Trail Group, Warren holds a number of other positions. In 2018 he was appointed as a Director of Levelup Property Management which provides property services to landlords, leaseholders and property owners across the UK.
He became a Founding Director of Vacant Event Hire in 2019 – the sanitation hire and waste management specialists, and a Director of Sentinel Fire Doors in 2024.
Warren is also a passionate supporter and ambassador for a number of charities including World Child Cancer which raises awareness and funds for children with cancer developing countries.
Warren Wright
Trail Group
trailgroup.co.uk
David Clements is chairman of Future Designs. He founded the business in 1991 and has overseen the organic growth to become one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of office lighting in the U.K. During the crash of the world banking system in 2008 he explored international routes to market and subsequently opened the Future Designs office in Dubai which has grown exponentially and now covers the UAE and KSA. The business has a large bespoke lighting division which notably designed developed and manufactured some of the most challenging special luminaires for the Elizabeth Line underground railway which recently won the 2024 Sterling Prize.
David recently took the role of chairman as part of the planned succession route moving aside for his son Oliver the current managing director to oversee the next phase of growth in this solid business. David will concentrate on growing the carbon careful™ initiative which reuses end of life lighting fixtures and adapts these into new technology LED luminaires. Future Designs is the UK’s largest re manufacturer in this sector.
David Clements
Future Designs
dclements@futuredesigns.co.uk
futuredesigns.co.uk
Chris started his electrical engineering career working in power stations with gas and steam turbines, control and telemetry and medium voltage distribution systems.
AVK was established in 1989 providing critical power solutions for the commercial and financial sectors which included static, rotary, diesel rotary UPS systems and large scale diesel standby systems.
The company has grown significantly over recent years which positions AVK as Europe’s leader in large scale diesel and gas, powered solutions for data centres.
Chris has taken up the role of founder-chairman to the group with the day-to-day running under CEO Ben Pritchard and the senior leadership team.
Chris Pritchard
AVK
Chris.Pritchard@avk-seg.com
avk-seg.com
Tony began his career’on the tools’ as a field service & commissioning fire systems engineer, and is now the MD of FirePro UK Ltd, the appointed exclusive Master Distributor for FirePro. FirePro is and extremely effective and market disruptive fire suppression technology that delivers innovation, sustainable, environmental and cost benefit by suppressing fires without water or pressurised gas.Tony is the longest serving volunteer board member at the Fire Industry Association started in 2006 and in 2023 awarded the FIA’s lifetime achievement award for exceptional services to the UK fire industry.
Tony Hanley
FirePro UK
tony.hanley@fireprouk.com
fireprouk.com
Anna is CEO and Founder of INFORMARE. specialising in the built environment. Headquartered in London, Informare manages global clients with partners in UK, Europe, North America, the GCC region, and Australia. The workspace sector is an important part of the Informare business and its potential to impact businesses, economies, the environment and societies.
Anna began her career in-house at WPP, and grew Informare from a few freelancers to its current size with a robust team of experts across the sector. The company represents developers and occupiers, through to manufacturers and everything in between, working with the best-in-class in every segment.
Anna is regular contributor in the trade press, and can be found speaking at trade shows such as Workspace Design Show, Surface Design Show and Top Drawer, she is a member of the Design Guild Mark committee , IWFM Risings and an active supporter and ambassador for a number of charities including Helen Bamber Foundation, 65 Degrees North, Freddie Farmer Foundation, and Furnishing Futures.
Anna King
Informare
anna@informare.co.uk
informare.co.uk
