Key People
Jeremy Taylor
Managing
Director
Jeremy has been with the company for 32 years. He is a fully qualified and vastly experienced machine shop engineer and bearing specialist. He started work on the shopfloor as a CNC Machinist, completed a Bachelor in Technology and worked his way up to Managing Director. In 2021 he bought the company outright.
David Morrison ACMA GCMA
Financial
Director
Dave joined Coleherne in 2015 as Financial Controller replacing the previous FD whom retired. In 2017 he was promoted to Financial Director.
After graduating from University with a Finance and Accounting degree, David has experience in various sectors such as IT, Construction and Manufacturing industries and completed his professional qualification with CIMA in 2011.
Stephen Carrington-Ward
Business Development
Manager
Stephen joined Coleherne in 2017 with 25 years of sales expertise. He is an apprentice trained machine tool fitter; he then went into engineering and industrial sales. He spent the 10 years prior to joining Coleherne in the foundry industry. His role is to promote the Coleherne brand globally and support our practical training.
Paul Salloway
Technical Support
Engineer
Paul has over 40 years of experience as a Chartered Engineer in White Metal Bearings. Most of his career was in a foundry engineering environment, quality assurance, CADCAM, IT, training and environmental systems. Since joining Coleherne in 2018, Paul has been working to help develop our online university training programme along with our established training programmes. Paul also supports the internal and external sales teams with his technical insight.
Denise Houghton
Kingsbury
Account Manager
Denise started work for Coleherne in 1982 as a receptionist, moving on to become PA to our MD that included Kingsbury sales support. Since 2001, Denise has run our Kingsbury account and is responsible for quotations, sales orders, customer liaison, frontline customer support and assisting our in-house sales team.
Chris Ramsbottom
Laser Division
Production Manager
Chris started with Coleherne in 2004 as a Laser Operator and Setter, was promoted to Shift Supervisor, moved to the office to oversee programming, purchasing, stock control, batch scheduling and quotations. He became Production Manager in 2017 with responsibilities including managing 15 staff, investment planning, marketing and apprentice training.
Brad Cunningham
Internal Technical
Sales Engineer
Brad joined in 2011 as an apprentice, completing a BTEC Level 3 In Mechanical Engineering. He then left the company in 2016 to pursue his studies further to HNC and HND level, before returning to Coleherne in 2018. Brad now supports the Laser Division in Technical Sales and is a valued member of the Laser and Laminations Team.
Matthew Wright
Laser Division, Internal Sales
Matthew joined in 2018 and has come through the apprenticeship scheme, spending 3 years at college day release doing a BTEC in Mechanical Engineering and now working on completing his NVQ – He will complete his studies in June 2022 and has become a valued member of the Laser team over this period.
Day to Day roles includes; machine programming, 2D CAD-CAM Modelling and pricing of complex Laser Cut Parts.
Kelly Hargreaves
Finance Assistant
Kelly began her employment with Coleherne Limited as Receptionist In 2001 after finishing high school
In 2011 Kelly was promoted to general office administrator assisting the sales, production and accounts departments. Kelly had a key role in helping to implement the ERP system when it was introduced in 2001.
In 2015 Kelly was promoted to accounts assistant working closely with the FD and responsible for the payroll, purchase ledger, sales invoicing and credit control of the company.
