Meet the Team

SIG Design & Technology is a growing company with an expert team whose job it is to meet and look after enquirers and customers across the UK and providing plenty of expert roofing advice. Here we introduce you to some of them.

Specification Team

The team are always out and about meeting architects, specifiers and main contractors, so we thought we’d introduce them to you. Please feel free to connect with them on Linkedin in get in touch via the contact methods on our interactive map here. Click on the map to identify which specification manager covers your area and get in touch with them direct via Linkedin, telephone or email.

 

Cameron Macandrew, Specification Manager Scotland and North of England

Cameron looks after our clients in the whole of Scotland and in Northumberland, Cleveland, Tyne and Wear, Cumbria and Durham.

Cameron was involved in the Re-roofing a building when in use: Vue Cinema Doncaster.

Connect with Cameron on Linkedin here.

 

Rob Edwards, Specification Manager North of England and North Wales

Rob looks after our specifier and contractor clients in Yorkshire, Humberside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, plus Anglesey, Clwyd and Gwynedd.

 

Hitesh Pattni, Specification Manager West Midlands

Hitesh is out on the road across the West Midlands.  He also visits clients in Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Hitesh also delivered at the RCI Show 2016 our RIBA certified CPD seminar ‘A Structured Approach to Roof Specification and Design’.

 

Andy Bright, Specification Manager South East of England and East London

Andy covers the Eastern and Southeastern parts of London plus East Sussex and East Surrey, and all of Kent.

Andy contributed to our blog post about re-roofing in action – Replacing a Supermaket Flat Roof in 3 minutes.

 

Christa Coe, Specification Manager South of England and South West London

Christa visits our clients across the Southwest of London plus West Surrey and West Sussex, Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire.  She also visits clients in the Channel Islands.

Christa was involved in the Guildford Crematorium project where the copper roof was replaced with a PIB membrane coloured with real flakes of copper.

Connect with Christa on Linkedin here.

 

James Cox, Specification Manager East of England and North West London

James covers the Northwest of London plus Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.

Connect with James on Linkedin here.

Ian Hayward, Specification Manager South Wales and South West of England

Ian is out on the road across the Welsh Border counties, Gloucestershire, Pembrokeshire, Glamorgan, Carmarthanshire, Brecon and South Wales.  He also covers the South West of England down into Bristol, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

Connect with Ian on Linkedin here.

 

Ian Dryden, National Specification Manager – Bituminous Membranes

Ian is responsible for delivering our SIGnature Torch-on system across the UK.

Connect with Ian on Linkedin here.

 

 

Steve Scottorn, Business Development Manager

Steve is Business Development Manager, responsible for working alongside our supply chain partners helping them get the best value roof packages based on robust specification installed by our network of highly motivated and skilled installation partners – DATAC. He has recently been writing on our blog about recent changes in performance standards for rain noise on schools projects.

Connect with Steve on Linkedin here.

 

Zinc and Copper

We have a dedicated Hard Metals Microsite you should visit with details of all the products, manufacture and installation.

Simon Walker, Category Manager Zinc and Copper

Category Manager Simon Walker contributes to our blog posts about zinc, copper and stainless steel roofing and cladding including this one about Zinc shingles on a unique cliff house in Salobrena. He also put together our CPD ‘Specifying Hard Metals: Choosing the Right Product for the Project’.  As the popularity for hard metal products grows, this CPD equips the specifier with better knowledge of hard metal roofing and cladding systems.
Connect with Simon on Linkedin here.

 

Paul Cousins, Business Development Manager – West

Paul supports our specification managers on Zinc and Copper projects, and you may also meet him if your project involves hard metals.

Paul was involved in the project at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey. Click here to see a time lapse video showing the replacement of the tiled roof with a zinc standing seam metal roof.

Connect with Paul on Linkedin here.

 

Tony Oakes, Business Development Manager – East

Tony has recently joined the growing Zinc & Copper team and he supports our specification managers on Zinc and Copper projects.

 

Management Team

Mike Crook, Trading Director

Mike has P&L responsibility at SIG Design & Technology and his role is to grow the business for all stakeholders – suppliers, investors, employees and customers.

Connect with Mike on Linkedin here.

 

Ross Finnie, Sales Director

Ross leads the sales team.  You will also have seen him writing on our blog and he also put together our CPD Seminar ‘A Structured Approach to Roof Specification and Design’. As flat roofing options become more complex, the CPD addresses how to achieve the right balance of performance, aesthetics and cost for each project.

Connect with Ross on Linkedin here.

 

Dave Schofield, D&T Operations Director

Dave’s new role as D&T Operations Director will see him overseeing all commercial operations in the company including order capture for all categories. He will be working more closely with hauliers, but continue his good relationship with the branches to ensure as Design and Technology grows further we maintain our excellent relationship for customer service.

Connect with Dave on Linkedin here.

 

Steve Cleminson, Technical Manager

Our in-house technical team continues to expand. The team is headed up by Technical Manager Steve Cleminson, whom you may have seen in our instructional videos.

Steve also knows all about our DATAC approved roofing contractor scheme.

Connect with Steve on Linkedin here.

 

Roofing Academy

Sara Bexley, Roofing Academy Manager

Sara heads up the newly expanded Roofing Academy, which not only trains our DATAC approved roofing contractors but also runs the DATAC scheme and provides a range of other training and Bid Support functions. You can find out more about the Roofing Academy and what it does here.

Connect with Sara on Linkedin here.

Get in touch

Our managers are active on Linkedin, and the team are also on Twitter at @SIGDesignTech. Feel free to get in touch with us when you are in need of specialist roofing advice. You can also follow our Linkedin Company Page.

Not sure who covers your area? Download our interactive guide, which includes a map of each manager’s area of operation, email addresses, telephone numbers and links to their Linkedin profiles.

Photography by Claudia Gannon