Graham Orchard - Stage Technician
Graham Orchard is a Sound Engineer at the Sage in Gateshead. He has spent three years in the army, where he picked up a lot of skills and confidence, but after that he had a major rethink about his career...
Pedro Inchenko - Managing Director
Pedro is dyslexic but this wasn't recognised when he was at school so he found school quite frustrating. He has worked his way up through the industry to become joint owner of the Sejour hairdressing...
Claire Berretti - Salon Manager
Claire left school at 15 to follow her dream of becoming a dancer. After a hip injury when she was 22 she was forced to re-think her career and went on to study for an HNC in Business Admin. She enjoys...
Nemesia Willis - Learning and Development Officer
Nemesia loves her job as Learning and Devevlopment Manager with Chaucer Insurance. "I think what I enjoy most about my job is the people and the satisfaction of helping them". When she was younger she...
Debbie Forryan - Assistant Human Resources Manager
Debbie describes her current HR role as: "it happened a little bit by accident". She has always enjoyed working with people and describes an earlier redundancy as giving her the spur to change direction...
Perry Willis - Head of IT
Perry Willis is Head of Business Systems and IT at Colliers International (formerly Colliers CRE). He didn't set out on a career in IT. He was working in a bank and got headhunted by a software house....
Sue Evans - Management Information Manager
Sue works as a Mangement Information Manager for Chaucer Insurance and has worked in the insurance industry all her life. She describes being made redundant from her first job as being "as if somebody'd...
Mark Wilkinson - Architectural Technologist
Mark Wilkinson is an Architectural Technologist and Design Director for Colliers International (formerly Colliers CRE). "When I was younger I wanted to be a sort of professional sportsmen but by good...
Jamie Kerr - Head Bar Tender
Jamie Kerr is Head Bartender at Dakota, "in the space of two years I've worked my way from ground level to the head bartender". He says "there's opportunities to climb the ladder left, right and centre...
Ian Sime - General Manager
Ian is General Manager of the Leeds Grand Theatre but started out working in a bank in Edinburgh. Music was always a passion and he used to work part-time as a DJ after he had finished work. "One of the...
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