2016 UKLA Annual Dinner SPONSORS:


This year’s UKLA Annual Dinner attracted over three hundred of the leading dignitaries from the lubricants sector at the Carlton Jumeriah hotel in London. Honoured guests included newly-elected UEIL President Valentina Serra-Holm, ILMA President Beth Ann Jones and ELGI President Terry Dicken who joined a host of industry leaders for the annual gathering of the sector.


The evening began with the customary champagne reception where colleagues renewed existing acquaintances, forged new relationships and made new contacts from companies across the sector and organisations across the globe. The evening’s informal proceedings began with a trio of entertainers; a pickpocket, a magician and a mind reader to entertain the guests before dinner.


UKLA President Steve Mayo began formal proceedings by presenting the UKLA Young Employee of the Year Award to this year’s winner Gautier Perrin of Total UK Limited. The Young Employee award recognises the next generation of industry leaders and this year was no exception.


Gautier joined Total in February 2015 after studying chemistry at university for 5 years and completing a Masters degree. After finishing Total’s TAFS (Technical Advisor Field Support) course, Gautier became a Field Engineer. Since this time he revolutionised Total’s internal training methods, worked with other colleagues to develop a new ‘thermal Imaging’ offer and worked on the company’s ‘Continuous Improvement’ programme achieving ‘Green Belt’ ‘Lean 6 Sigma’ status. With his colleague Sandra Silva, Gautier has also developed and


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LUBE MAGAZINE NO.136 DECEMBER 2016


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