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Director of the Year - up to £4.99m turnover (two winners)


Marios Poumpouris – managing director – Chiller Box, Tottenham


Chiller Box was launched in 2004 by Poumpouris and his business partner from a spare bedroom at his home. The company designs, supplies and installs commercial kitchens for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, hotels and schools across the UK, supplying catering equipment and refrigeration, as well as air conditioning systems. Eight years on, it employs a team of eight with ancillary services such as marketing and IT support sub- contracted out.


Sonja Wood – director – Ecosan Services, Ashford, Kent (pictured on facing page)


Director of the Year - £25m-£99.99m turnover


Chris Bartlett – managing director – GCS Recruitment Specialists, Reading


GCS Recruitment is a specialist recruitment consultancy representing permanent and contract staff, covering the technology, digital media, engineering, financial, accountancy and sales sectors.


Director of the Year - over £100m turnover (two winners)


John Beament – group managing director – Longcross Construction, Ashtead, Surrey


Longcross operates as a main contractor in the construction sector, specialising in design and build projects across a number of sectors, including commercial, education, health, leisure, public sector and retail.


Chris Bartlett (right) receives his award from John Minards of PwC


Young Director of the Year


Marios Poumpouris (right) receives his award from John Minards of PwC


Director of the Year - £5m-£24.99m turnover


Tim Phillips – director – Moorhouse Consulting, Holborn, London


Management consultants Moorhouse work with FTSE 500 companies and government organisations looking to transform their operations across a number of areas, including delivering cost transformation, optimising new product development, delivering value from ICT consolidation and improving project and programme delivery. Tim Phillips has been with the company for six and a half years.


Boris Wolstenholme – chief executive officer – A J Walter Aviation, Horsham, West Sussex


A J Walter Aviation is a specialist in the supply, exchange, repair and lease of spare parts for aircraft. Its award-winning 24/7 AOG critical response service guarantees delivery from a significant inventory of Airbus and Boeing spare parts valued in excess of $425 million. As well as its UK base, it operates out of Dubai, Singapore and Miami, with a total of 310 employees.


Wolstenholme joined the company’s logistics centre 16 years ago as a graduate trainee. Having worked his way up through the operations, sales and commercial departments, he took on the role of commercial director for three years before he was voted by the board to become CEO in October 2009 since when he has overseen dynamic company growth of over 60%.


John Beament (right) receives his award from John Minards of PwC


Alastair Storey – chief executive – WSH, Reading


WSH owns some of the UK’s most successful catering and hospitality brands – BaxterStorey, benugo, Holroyd Howe, Caterlink and Portico. BaxterStorey, the largest company in the WSH stable, serves lunch to nearly a million of the UK’s workforce every day across business and industry with clients including IPC Media, Barclays and Goldman Sachs. All produce is sourced close to the client’s site and prepared fresh on site by BaxterStorey’s team of talented chefs.


Alastair Storey (right) who could not attend the awards ceremony, receives his award from Rodger Broad, director of the IoD South


Details: www.iod.com/south


Tim Phillips (right) receives his award from John Minards of PwC


Boris Wolstenholme (right) receives his award from Jason Choy, chairman of the Central Branch of the IoD


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – MAY 2012


www.businessmag.co.uk


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