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NewsPerson Behind the Face - Stephanie Horton
How I got into this industry…I married the wrong man! Both myself and Trevor (CEO) are engineers and he developed a passion for boats, and quickly identified a need for a service like the RAC and AA…then I got roped in and now I live, sleep and breath boats.
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Person Behind the Face - Kiran Haslam
How I got into this industry…A long and winding path. I had established a reputation for re-inventing brands, and back in 2014 the owners of Princess were hoping I could jump aboard and shake things up.
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Person Behind The Face - Steve Hurst
How I got into this industry…A Royal Navy career was thwarted by (bad) eyesight. A seasonal job at Seamark Nunn’s Chandlery in Suffolk developed into a fulltime role. The business grew significantly being early online adopters.
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Person Behind The Face - Karen Underwood
How I got into this industry…I was away on holiday and my mum saved the job pages from the local paper as she had spotted an advert for a production assistant and PA to the managing director at Oyster Yachts. I joined Oyster over 20 years’ ago and I haven’t ...
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Person Behind The Face - Malcolm Stewart
How I got into this industry…First job offer after university was from French insurance company Groupama. That led to a job in broking and then I was given my first best bit of advice which led to commercial marine insurance.
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Person Behind The Face - Graham O'Connor
How I got into this industry…I started in the industry around 15 years ago managing stock for a European rope importer. I had great opportunities to learn a lot about how rope is used in various applications and in different industries. I gained first-hand knowledge about splicing ropes, before being ...
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Person Behind The Face - Marie-Claude Heys
How I got into this industry…at the end of my professional sailing carrier, Paul Heys offered me the ideal job, half office based, half outside looking after the boats. And the rest is history…
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Person Behind The Face - Robert Parton
How I got into this industry…By chance, and out of economic necessity. The canal has always run past what was our dairy farm in Church Minshull, one day back around the early 2000’s a canal engineer working on the canal pointed at the field by the canal and said that ...
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Person Behind the Face - Ben Allen
How I got into this industry… From an early age, boating has been a big part of my life. I qualified as a powerboat instructor and was actively involved in search and rescue becoming a water rescue instructor and, for the last 12 years, water incident manager for DEFRA’s National ...
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Person Behind the Face - Lou Johnson
How I got into this industry…Through a passion for sailing when my father taught me to sail as soon as I could walk. I went to university in Southampton and from there straight into the marine industry, where I have continued my professional development.
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Person Behind the Face - Sir Richard Matthews
How I got into this industry: It all started more or less by accident in an attempt to build a one-off racing yacht tax efficiently. We won races and at the end the season we were approached by potential buyers asking ‘where can I get one of these’ – the ...
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Person Behind The Face - Andrea Frabetti
How I got into this industry…I was always obsessed with boats from a very early age. My passion led me to complete my Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering degree from Università di Genova and I’ve been doing what I love ever since.
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Person Behind The Face - David Johnson
How I got into this industry… Weekends on the family boat on the River Thames in the 1970’s led to boating holidays abroad. With the sea well and truly in my veins, my working life started with four years as an engineer in the Royal Navy. I then moved into ...
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Person Behind the Face - Nick Gill
How I got into this industry…I’m a farmer’s son, but I studied product design and my second job was with Gul, designing wetsuits in Cornwall, where I fell in love with the sea. My tech expertise came from starting a surf forecasting website and the practical side from ten years ...
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Person Behind the Face - Paul Holland
How I got into this industry…I bought a 38m Dutch Barge. Contacts in that community put me onto some Dutch manufacturers of products which led me to giving up a perfectly good job and starting up Energy Solutions.
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Person Behind The Face - Sean Roebuck
How I got into this industry…I’ve been boating for over ten years and while my boat was in the Med I realised that sun and hot decks were an issue. After some investigating I discovered SeaDek but it was only available in the USA. I called them, flew to Florida ...
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Person Behind The Face - Jane Gentry
How I got into this industry…I came into the industry by accident. I was looking for a secretarial job in Woking, where I lived and the RYA had a vacancy jointly with the legal department working for Gordon Fairley and the Seamanship Foundation working for Lt Col Douglas Hurndall. The ...
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Person Behind the Face- Kate O’Sullivan
How I got into this industry…By accident. I loved to write it was mentioned that PR might be a good fit. I researched local PR agencies, found ADPR, wrote to see if there were any vacancies and the rest is history.
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Person Behind the Face - Ray Badminton
How I got into this industry…. Doing my RYA Yachtmaster in 2000 the instructor showed me some marine navigation software written by his brother. Having worked for Microsoft in the past, I saw its potential and started up EVO distribution developing its use on land, air and sea. In 2015 ...
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Person Behind the Face - Christian Brewer
How I got into this industry…I worked in the family fruit farming and wholesale business supplying 100 fruit shops in Kent and working the London produce markets. The industry slumped in the early 90’s so when Dad retired and sold up I needed to rethink my life. I studied the ...
