10 QUESTIONS
10 QUESTIONS WITH… Q1
What was your first job? Chef – I started to earn a bit of money through
university and didn’t stop after I graduated.
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How did you get into the industry? Through asking a friend if their company had any
jobs going.
What has been your proudest moment? Setting up a charity supporting people suffering with
cancer and doing two World Records to raise money for it.
If you could hire anyone to be part of your team, who would it be and why?
Pep Guardiola. Lots of his skills are transferable and tick the boxes of what you would want in a team member: creativity, vision, hard work, and a team-first ethos.
What’s the best advice you could give to someone new coming into the industry?
Keep trying to learn. I’ve been in the industry for 17 years now and still learn new things all the time.
What’s the first thing you’d buy if you won the lottery?
Champagne. Closely followed by a holiday home somewhere tropical.
If you could have a dinner party with any three people, dead or alive, who would
you choose and why? Robin Williams, Shane Warne, David Beckham – some sporting greats that I could bend the ear of but also some
unbelievable stories that could be shared, plenty of humour and maybe a beer or two. What’s not to like?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Pathologist or a footballer. I can’t really remember why I wanted to be a pathologist but I’m still hoping for the call regarding being a footballer.
What do you think the future holds for flooring?
Fire performance is rightly at the forefront of everyone’s mind and will only continue to be critical with the design of all types of construction, flooring will be no exemption. Alongside this sustainability and compatibility with underfloor heating systems, which will continue to grow.
Q10
Christoph Wellekötter, head of product management at Parador GmbH asks:
“Which flooring category is the future?” Gypsum – we have seen a huge growth in this sector as an alternative to wet screeds, the ability for gypsum to have the benefits of screed such as fire performance, acceptance of all floor finishes and the longevity that it offers means more and more specifiers are using it for their acoustic or underfloor heating substrates.
www.cellecta.co.uk
Check out next month’s issue to see what Ben asked our next industry professional.
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Each issue, we ask a flooring industry professional 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Ben Banks, technical director at Cellecta.
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