Our management team

Corilla Group was born through a number of mergers with the goal to create a company with unrivalled expertise, service and capability.

This helped us a senior team that includes some of the most experienced and respected industry professionals in the world.

Tom Fleming
Group Chairman

Tom is a qualified chartered accountant, with 14 years experience working in the Corporate Finance Department of Deloitte. During this time he specialised in assisting corporations with design and implementation of profit improvement plans, including a secondment to RBS to work on some of their more difficult cases.

Tom’s work has taken him to USA, Italy and Germany to work on international assignments and he has worked for businesses of all sizes from family run concerns to large PLCs.
Tom presided over the acquisition of a number of rotational moulding businesses to help form Corilla in 2010.
tom.fleming@corillaplastics.co.uk

Dave Jordan
Group Managing Director

An engineer by trade, Dave has operational and management experience across many business sectors. As a consequence he has a diverse range of industry expertise, from off shore, deep mining and high volume domestic items, to first tier automotive products and rotational moulding for blue chip companies.

Dave’s oversees the day to day operations across the whole Group.
dave.jordan@corillaplastics.co.uk

Mark Jenkins
Group Quality & Technical Manager

Mark began his career as a Laboratory Technician, before into project management, new product development and production engineering roles. His main focus throughout many of those positions has been quality control and he played an instrumental part in gaining BS5750, ISO9001, ISO14001 and TS16949 accreditation for some former employers.

Mark has a HNC in Polymer Technology, a Diploma in Industrial Management and a City and Guilds in Quality Assurance.

At Corilla, Mark manages our rigorous quality checks to ensure only the highest standards of materials and manufacturing processes are used.
mark.jenkins@corillaplastics.co.uk

Mike Pinches
Bridgend Production Manager

Mike is a veteran employee at our Bridgend site, with many years service in production. In that time he’s served as a foreman, supervisor, training officer, safety officer, development engineer and production manager. In fact, there’s not much Mike hasn’t done, or doesn’t know!

Mike’s knowledge and experience of evolving manufacturing techniques makes him a highly valued member of the team.
mike.pinches@corillaplastics.co.uk

Les Loosemore
Trade Moulding Business Development Manager

Les began his career in sheet metal fabrication before moving into sales, marketing and management.

His manufacturing experience brings a valuable asset to the sales and management team, giving him a real advantage when it comes to preparing technical solutions that meet customer requirements.

Coupled with a genuine passion for helping, Les regularly goes above and beyond to ensure he finds the best possible result for every customer.
les.loosemore@corillaplastics.co.uk

Mel Saunders
Customer Account Manager

Mel has been looking after the interests of our clients from our Bridgend headquarters for almost twenty years.

When it comes to managing production schedules, quality control and deliveries, Mel is who we turn to. Her organisation and attention to detail is only bettered by the relationships she builds with our customers, being a main point of contact throughout project development.
mel.saunders@corillaplastics.co.uk

Chris Lewis
Supply Chain Manager

Chris is responsible for specifying and buying the raw materials for all production at Corilla Plastics. This requires both an in-depth knowledge of polymers to ensure that waste is minimised and an acute understanding of production processes and strategy.

Deliveries and despatch are all overseen by Chris who ensures materials match purchase orders, meet quality standards and are stored efficiently. Goods despatched are checked to ensure they are packed suitable for transit, and that goods leave the factory on time.
chris.lewis@corillaplastics.co.uk