People

Steve Leeves

Quality Coordinator

Year Joined: 2020

Steve joined our QESH team in 2020 as a Quality Coordinator. His responsibilities include working with the contracts managers to ensure we meet our Rigid.Ready.Right. brand promise. He has worked in quality for 13 years. Industries he has worked in include precision cold drawn copy alloy and aluminium tubing within the maritime and naval industry; Rubber and Plastic moulding.

He has previously done voluntary youth work for 10 years at various churches including Wycliffe Baptist church in Reading.

Stuart Parsons

Market Researcher

Year Joined:

Stuart’s career at Sapphire has been considerable from his initial role in the management of Sapphire Midlands as the company grew. He is now responsible for the assessment of project enquries, as his vast experience enables him to quickly assess projects which are of interest to our company. He also completes an important role of market research which involves reviewing thousands of planning applications and project data each year to add projects suited to our Glide-On balconies to our telemarketing pipelines from sources such as Barbour ABI.

Teresa Sunderland

Credit Control

Year Joined: 2020

Teresa’s job role at Sapphire is Project FinanceAssistant. She works with the finance team to ensure accurate applications and invoices are made to customers and oversees the credit control process.

Tim Haughton

Vesting Coordinator

Year Joined: 2006

Tim Haughton is responsible for the vesting process at Sapphire Balconies. He joined the team in 2006.

Tim Ward

Director of Client Relations

Year Joined: 2009

Tim joined our team at Sapphire Eastern (our Hertfordshire branch) in 2009, during our balustrade days, having had experience with powder coating along with a variety of other industries. Since our shift in business model to balconies, Tim has worked closely with our clients meeting directors and key contacts at the UK high-rise residential developers. Tim meets with key personnel to understand what is important to them and build strong company-to-company relations.

Warren Davis

Site Coordinator

Year Joined: 2021

Warren joined Sapphire in 2021 as site coordinator. He is a qualified AP and Crane Supervisor and has worked for himself and has also spanned different sectors from the national Grid Construction to TV and film.

Warren Parsons

Preconstruction Director

Year Joined: 2004

Warren joined Sapphire as a fabricator of balustrades in our Barnet factory. Warren relocated to our Reading offices when it was established in 2006 where he became a design manager. Warren now runs our preconstruction team which includes R&D and our estimating team.

Zdravka Petrova

Marketing Campaign Manager

Year Joined: 2021

Zdravka joined us in 2021 to run our marketing campaigns in the UK and in our global territories (at that stage NZ, USA, Canada, Holland, Ireland). She joined having perviously worked in the hospitality sector and at Airbus. She quickly became the manager of the customer communication part of our marketing team where she oversees the success of our events, marketing communications plan and customer campaigns.