Meet The People

Senior Management Team 

These six individuals are at the forefront of driving the business towards its vision of becoming the industry’s no.1 global supply partner for the provision of temperature controlled packaging solutions.

Stuart Coomber Geraint Thomas Chris Eyles Mike Hickey Pete Barrow Milan Kozel
Stuart Coomber
Managing Director
Geraint Thomas
Technical Director
Chris Eyles
Finance Director
Mike Hickey
Sales & Marketing Manager
Pete Barrow
Operations Manager
Milan Kozel
General Manager
of LM (CE) s.r.o

Production Team 

This department works behind the scenes at Laminar. Many have worked with us for a number of years including Ann Beasley, our Medicool Team Leader and Colin Slade, our Cut Shop Team Leader who have been with the company since it started.

The team has been expanded recently and new recruits include Paul Johnson who takes charge of our Purchasing and Edward Fletcher-Wells who coordinates deliveries to customers.

Photograph shows left to right; back row: Mark Church, Edward Fletcher-Wells, Andy Gold, Colin Slade, Paul Johnson.

Front row: Mick Dobson and Geoff Rutter (seated), Anne Beasley, Dave Yorston, Peter Barrow

Accounts Department 

The department is led by Chris Eyles and deals with all our money matters, ranging from purchase ledger and credit control to personnel and wages.

Please feel free to call them at any time. They are always available to deal with any account queries.

From left to right: Julie Underwood, Lynne Cashen, Chris Eyles and Claire Saunders.

Technical Services Team 

The team is pictured in our Test and Validation Laboratory which is now the largest of its kind in Europe and services customers all over the world. Geraint Thomas is our Technical Director and Jonathan Yap heads the department and works closely with Philip Knight on our active R&D programme. The packaging development team is responsible for discussing customer briefs with the Sales Team and approving the information for development. The team designs and validates temperature controlled packaging for customers' specific requirements.

Photograph shows left to right; back row: Michael Houlding, James Vann and Jonathan Yap.

Front row: Geraint Thomas, Chloe Brown, Philip Knight and Ross Knight.

Sales & Marketing Department 

Our Sales Team is made up of French, German, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and of course, English speakers.

They are always on hand to visit customers and advise on solutions for temperature controlled or dangerous goods packaging.

Photograph shows left to right; back row: Mike Hickey, Stewart Morland, Jiri Klang, Andrew Herd, Jiri Vohnicky

Front row, left to right: Bénédicte Bordas, Hannah Freeman, Carina Tillo, Vikki Frampton, Julie Reeve

Quality and Health and Safety Team 

Alan White is our Quality Manager and heads up the department.

Roland Bray is our Systems Controller and David Harford is our Senior Quality Engineer.

The Team is responsible for maintaining our Health and Safety and ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Management Systems.

Photograph shows left to right: Alan White, Roland Bray and David Harford.

Customer Services Department 

Cherry Gentry is team leader of the Customer Services team and manages the smooth running of the department. They deal with all customer orders and are on hand to help with any queries you may have.

Back row from left: Cherri Gentry, Maxine Bailey

Front row: Nicole Brown

Czech Sales Team 

Laminar Medica (CE) s. r. o. has been led by Milan Kozel as the General Manager since April 2006. Recent months has seen the team at Laminar Medica (CE) grow significantly with two new salespeople, Jiri Vohnicky and Jiri Klang, covering CEE and the Germanic Market. The Customer services team welcomed Jana Pirasova and Jana Kreuzova and Robert Zeman joined as Quality Systems Coordinator.

The production team at Laminar Medica (CE),has also been growing and there are currently 23 permanent and 5 temporary employees. This department is led by Operations Manager Václav Kropík with Milan Hulmak as Facilities Manager.

Back row from left: Jana Kreuzová, Radka Sochorová, Jirí Klang, Jirí Vohnický, Robert Zeman

Front row from left: Jana Pirasová, Katerina Machová, Milan Hulmak, Václav Kropík

In the middle: Milan Kozel