Meet the team
Our people make the difference, and together form the team who make Canford. Together we strive to design, develop and manufacture distinctive products, deliver great customer service, create industry leading technical publications and provide customers with unrivalled support. Right now, we are a team of over 130, and collectively possess 1996 years of experience, all gained here at Canford. We are Canford, and we're pleased to meet you!
- Directors ↓
- UK Sales ↓
- International Sales ↓
- Shipping ↓
- Canford France ↓
- Technical Support ↓
- Product Managers ↓
- Manufacturing ↓
- Fibre Termination ↓
- Purchasing ↓
- Marketing ↓
- Finance
Directors
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Alan Wilson
CEO
Start date: 03 December 2012
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Mark Brindley
Operations Director
Start date: 02 June 1987
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Graeme Byers
Finance Director
Start date: 04 September 1995
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Gavin Drake
Sales Director
Start date: 09 November 1999
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UK Sales
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Erika Dobie
UK Business Development Manager
Start date: 08 July 2002
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Ian Sadler
UK Business Development Manager
Start date: 14 June 2021
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Julie Carney
UK Sales Manager
Start date: 18 December 1995
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Ashleigh Bell
Key Accounts Manager
Start date: 20 November 2006
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Lauren Wylie
Key Accounts Manager
Start date: 12 September 2016
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Clare McBeth
Key Accounts Manager
Start date: 16 March 2022
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Margaret Johnson
Sales Associate
Start date: 12 November 2007
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Chris Hackers
Sales Associate
Start date: 08 March 2010
Connect with Chris
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Katie Battista
Sales Associate Apprentice
Start date: 17 December 2021
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Anna Turnbull
Sales Associate Apprentice
Start date: 21 September 2022
International Sales
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Debbie Carlisle
International Sales Manager
Start date: 02 October 2003
Languages - English, German and French
(Spanish and Italian, written only)
Connect with Debbie
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Danny Zacharia
Sales Manager (Middle East)
Start date: 09 March 2015
Languages - English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil (Arabic and French, written only)
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Vita Gorkina
International Business Development Manager
Start date: 08 April 2013
Languages - Russian, Latvian and English
Connect with Vita
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Julia Malahovszki
Key Accounts Manager
(Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa)
Start date: 08 August 2016
Languages - Hungarian, Russian and English (Italian, written only)
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Sarah Webster
Key Accounts Manager
(German and Italian speaking EU Countries, Greece and Turkey)
Start date: 20 September 2004
Languages - English and German (Dutch, Italian and Spanish, written only)
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Emma Curtis
Key Accounts Manager
(Nordics, Benelux, Ireland, France, Spanish speaking EU countries and Americas)
Start date: 12 March 2001
Languages - English
Connect with Emma
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Anna Roxburgh
Internal Sales Apprentice (GCC)
(GCC and Middle East)
Start date: 02 October 2023
Languages - English
Shipping
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Ian Farina
Shipping Manager
Start date: 18 December 1996
Connect with Ian
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Peter Herkes
Shipping Coordinator
Start date: 14 January 1991
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James Akerman
Shipping Supervisor
Start date: 05 December 2012
Canford France (Strasbourg Office)
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Thomas Nicolle
Directeur Général
Start date: 16 August 2012
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Agnès Bergé
Service Ventes
Start date: 01 January 1990
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Anna Y. Gallego
Marketing Manager, French Website and Product Database Admin
Start date: 21 October 2007
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France Abadie
Service Ventes
Start date: 05 January 2009
Technical Support
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Heather Charlton
Engineering Support Administrator
Start date: 28 February 2000
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Paul Power
Technical Support Engineer
Start date: 03 October 2016
Connect with Paul
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Charles Phelps
Audio & Video Engineer
Start date: 04 September 2017
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Product Managers
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Graeme Lyon
Product Manager
Start date: 02 January 1986
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Aidan Hennis
Product Manager
Start date: 01 April 2012
Connect with Aidan
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Ian Winter
Product Manager
Start date: 19 September 2016
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Mark Anderson
Product Database Manager
Start date: 11 August 1997
Manufacturing
Fibre Termination
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John Driver
Head of Design and Fibre Technology
Start date: 05 January 1984
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Steve Gibson
Fibre Operator
Start date: 28 March 1995
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Caroline Coupland
Fibre Termination Service Team Leader
Start date: 28 February 2005
Purchasing
Marketing
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Adam Ironside
Marketing Manager
Start date: 18 July 2022
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Jennifer Cassidy
Creative Designer
Start date: 23 July 2012
Finance