Promotions To The Board Of Directors

Chris Jones and Macarena Machado have joined the board of Caerphilly-based Smoke Control Services as the company goes through a period of continued growth.

An unstoppable demand for high-rise apartment blocks in city and town centre developments all over Britain has created opportunities for the company and its simple, straightforward approach to the smoke control systems they need.

Chris Jones runs the Smoke Control Services Project Division, with over £2million worth of national contracts completed last year, and joins the Board as Projects Director.

He began his career after completing an apprenticeship with a large mechanical and electrical contractor at the age of 17, and joined Smoke Control Services as a Project Engineer in 2000. He was made Senior Project Engineer two years ago, and has a particular role to build relationships with strategic customers, mainly in the housebuilding industry.

The company has a focused training and development programme for its key staff, and Chris has completed a strategic leadership development programme, Sustaining Profitable Growth, run by Telos Partners in association with Cardiff University.

Macarena Machado has been promoted to Operations Director after five years managing the service department and developing a new e-commerce venture for the company’s best-selling Easivent range of products.

Mac joined the company in 2001 as Marketing Executive with a degree in Business Administration and an MA in Marketing from the University of the West of England, and has also been attending the Sustaining Profitable Growth course.

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