Meet the team

Glen Pritchard

Preconstruction Manager

Year joined: 2019

Glen Joined our team in 2019 from one of the smaller balcony and steelwork manufacturers, also having worked previously for a specialist balustrade supplier to the retail sector. Glen joined our team and realised the benefits of Glide-On balconies rather than traditional bolt-on. Glen manages projects similar to his previous experience, making sure that he understands what project requirements are and delivers the personal service and the quality standards Sapphire reputation has grown on.

Glen Smith

Strategic Procurement Officer

Year joined: 2020

Glenn Watson

Supplier Quality Engineer

Year joined: 2017

Glenn joined our Quality and ESH team in 2017 as a quality engineer. Glenn’s career has been mainly focused around quality and has included working in sheet metal fabrication companies supplying the aerospace industry. Glenn spends much of his time auditing the quality of products and finished balconies at the 3PL storage locations and our three balcony production facilities, ensuring balconies are Rigid.Ready.Right.

Graham Maydell

Logistics Assistant

Year joined: 2017

Graham joined the Sapphire team in 2017 and currently works within as a Logistics Assistant. He also monitors and tracks those orders from their inception right through to their delivery and completion, ensuring that we deliver what is needed on time and of the right quality.

Grant Oliver

Estimator

Year joined: 2017

Grant moved his career to Sapphire, joining us from the packaging industry. Grant started working in telemarketing where he followed up the early stage schemes and coordinated early stage design meetings. Grant is now a project lead working within the sales team where he meets with customers to understand their needs, solve their challenges and build lasting relationships.

Greg Bodman

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 2017

Greg is responsible for the design and project management of balcony projects we win in the UK and Globally. He works to understand project requirements and design balconies to suit customer needs and manages the manufacture and installation deadlines.

Howard Cooper

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 2021

Howard comes from a background of balustrading and balconies having worked for Delta Balustrades for over 24 years. He joined Sapphire in 2021 as a contracts manager. He is responsible for the design and project management of our balcony projects. It is also his responsibility to ensure the balcony design meets the needs of the client

Indu Nair

Finance Assistant

Year joined: 2021

Indu joined Sapphire in 2021 after starting her career in Mumbai. Her career in balconies began when she started as a finance assistant for us, working in the Finance Team to this day.

James Starkey

Contract Manager

Year joined: 2014

James first started working with our team at the Winchester balcony production facilities, where he was predominantly involved with the logistic movements of balconies to storage and loading them onto lorries for dispatch to site. He has more recently joined our team at our Reading head office, where he first worked on logistics movements from balcony production facilities to third party storage locations. He now is a contract manager.