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.
James White
Group Operations and
Systems Manager
James joined us in 2005 as an apprentice in our Laser department as an operator then moving into estimating and CAD. After completing his HND, he set-up our group ERP system while learning about the manufacturing systems in the bearing business. He is now our 3-D modelling, bearing calculation and business efficiency specialist for the group.
Richard Heeley
Group Manufacturing
and Production Engineer
Richard joined Coleherne in 1998 and has come through the apprenticeship scheme to qualify as a mechanical manufacturing engineer. He develops all our manufacturing methods, production processes and works instructions for both new and refurbished bearings. He uses AutoDesk to do all our 3-D modelling for our technical drawings.
Dave Beckett
Bearings Division
Refurbishment Manager
Dave joined Coleherne in 2008 and has come through the apprenticeship scheme to qualify as a mechanical manufacturing engineer and quality inspector. After retraining in our sales systems, his current role is the Bearing Refurbishment Manager where he is responsible for estimating, quoting and managing refurbished bearing projects through our workshop.
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
Lamination Division
Department Manager
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 to work in our laser division. Brad has been the lead for our Laminations Division on all technical, sales and production matters since 2023.
Louis Ratcliffe
Laser Division
Technical Sales Engineer
Louis joined Coleherne in 2018 after completing his BTEC in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering. He has a broad-based skillset from working in all aspects of the laser production process from laser cutting to inspection, before advancing to the office. Louis has established himself as an essential part of the Laser team where his role includes technical sales, customer relations, purchasing and CAD-CAM work.
Luke Taylor
Bearings Division
Production Engineer
After completing his ‘A’ levels in 2017, Luke joined Coleherne to support our Lasers and Laminations divisions. In 2020, he went to Leeds University to study Business Management and Marketing before taking-up an engineering role in 2023. After a short career break, in 2024 Luke returned to Coleherne’s white metal bearing division where he now supports our workshop manager with production planning.
Elton Nuttall
Bearings Division
Production Engineer
Nick Shore
Group Quality Manager
Matt Wright
Laser Division
Internal Sales
Matt joined us in 2018 and has come through our apprenticeship scheme, spending 3 years on day release doing a BTEC in Mechanical Engineering before completing his NVQ in 2022. Matt has developed into a valued member of the Laser team and his role includes: CAD-CAM modelling & programming, purchasing and assisting with managing production.
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.
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.
