Meet the team

Andrew Parsons

Founder/Technical Consultant

Year joined: 1992

Andrew has been allied to the industry for over 40 years, and following a hands-on grounding in general construction has for the last three decades focused his attention entirely on balustrades and balconies.

His passion for aesthetic, structural and technical detail regarding design has led to many of the innovative and creative solutions which Sapphire now offer the UK and Global market, and his enthusiasm toward continual development is an inspiration to all their employees.

Building on his practical background, he has been instrumental in developing an impressive test facility at Reading to gain a deeper understanding of the range of materials they work with and to provide backup evidence to verify complex structural and thermal calculations.

While continuing to support Sapphire, Andrew now devotes much of his time to charitable work supporting SMEs as a business and technical consultant and trusted advisor, which together with his contribution to the BSI committee for balconies, gives testament to his technical expertise and specialist industry knowledge.

Andrew Sadler

Business Analyst

Year joined: 2022

Angus Robertson

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 2019

Angus became a design manager at our Reading head office in 2019. Before joining he had worked for a safety workwear and equipment supplier, which gave him a background of serving clients including Berkeley Group in the construction industry. Angus now works as a design manager, attending coordination meetings and working with site technical teams to be able to turn their key design intents into practical, safe balconies.

Anita Blackie

Contract Manager Assistant

Year joined: 2020

Anita joined Sapphire in 2020 to support the team with admin related tasks. She mainly works with the design team supporting them in the critical role of supporting with project progress and customer liason.

Anton Bezuidenhout

Year joined: 2006

Anton joined Sapphire in 2006 at our Barnet office in the fabrication department, then relocating to Reading when we moved our head office. He briefly spent a spell with Regal Balustrades when they licensed Sapphire balustrade systems, and now works within the R&D department at both Sapphire’s head office in Reading and at our Winchester production facilities.

Asgar Akbarov

Technical Manager

Year joined: 2020

Bruce Wormald

Finance Director

Year joined: 2023

A Chartered Accountant with 25 years of strategic, commercial and finance leadership, Bruce heads up Sapphire’s Finance division. With extensive M&A experience Bruce also oversees our group acquisition strategy.

Bryn Norman

Product Researcher

Year joined: 2020

Bryn joined in 2020 directly from education, working initially as a product researcher and now working as a test engineer and project manager within our Research & Development department.

Carl Hext

Commercial Manager

Year joined: 2019

Carl started his career as a professional tiler after studying building studies. He initially worked with one of the UK’s upmarket tiling brands before working for a high-end stone and tile brand where he then spent many years. In 2019 Carl joined our commercial team where he works with others to agree terms of our commercial contracts with customers.