People

Sam Estall

Content Marketing Executive

Year Joined: 2022

After qualifying in Film Production, Sam joined our marketing team, having worked in previous roles producing content for the NHS and Legal industries. Sam is the editor of our quarterly Insight Magazine along with facilitating our customer service marketing activities including our social media platforms, collating our Rigid.Ready.Right. statistics, NPS scores and arranging post project meetings.

Selwyn Lindsell

Contracts Manager

Year Joined: 2018

Selwyn is a Contracts Manager and joined the Sapphire team in September 2018. His responsibility is the design and project management of balcony projects. This involves the design of each balcony type for his projects and the management of the manufacture, storage, and installation of balconies. This includes close coordination with site teams along with our Supply Chain and Install teams to ensure the balcony manufacture is on track.

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.

Tanya Brass

Event Marketing Executive

Year Joined: 2022

Tanya joined the Sapphire team in 2022. She spent many years working in the central business district of London for corporate multinationals. At Sapphire Tanya is responsible for managing and coordinating Sapphire’s marketing events and CPDs and works with the marketing team to ensure all of our events meet the team campaign objectives whilst being aligned with the business’s strategies.

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.