Meet the team

Jane Morgan

Finance Manager

Year joined: 2016

Jane previously worked with builders’ merchants and IT specialists. She first dealt with our marketing team whilst working for one of our suppliers before later coming onboard at Sapphire. As our finance manager, she oversees the applications and invoices of our project works to our customers.

Jason Richards

Year joined:

Jason joined Sapphire in 2022. Jason graduated from Staffordshire University and initially worked on fabrication in New Zealand, then starting a career in structural and automotive architecture, previously in aerospace. Jason works as a Supplier Quality Engineer.

Jocelyn Lindsell

Contracts Manager Assistant

Year joined: 2021

Jocelyn joined the Sapphire team in 2021 as Contracts Manager Assistant which involves freeing up the Contract Managers to help them deliver their projects on programme, with correct information and quality product outcome, within budget.

Konrad Kaminski

Supply Chain Manager

Year joined: 2012

After joining us as a fabricator in the Reading factory, Konrad progressed into running the production schedule at the Winchester balcony factory. He then returned to Reading and took over the supply chain management team, sourcing and coordinating the supply of products to ensure production is kept on track, whilst keeping within budget and to the expected quality standards.

Laura Gillmore

Executive Assistant

Year joined: 2007

Laura joined our team as soon as an office had been established in Reading at the end of 2006, with a background of working at a builders’ merchant. She worked with our team during the balustrade days until leaving our team in 2013. Laura worked for a workwear and safety equipment provider and a flooring contractor until re-joining us again in 2017 as a sales assistant and a facilitator for management meetings and goal tracking.

Leonie Van Heerden

Buyer

Year joined: 2023

Lloyd Parsons

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 1998

Lloyd Parsons originally joined Sapphire in 1998 at our London location in Barnet. He started as a fabricator and installer, giving him a sound grounding in the way balustrades were made. He became a competent contract manager in the Barnet office and relocated with Sapphire Eastern in 2007 to the Hertfordshire office where he was a key cog in the management of that branch and factory. Lloyd now works as a contract manager based remotely from Norfolk and has run some of the largest balcony schemes we have delivered. All testament to his technical ability and capability of hitting Sapphire’s stringent  budgets, program and client satisfaciton requirements.

Luke Haughton

Joint Managing Director

Year joined: 2006

Luke originally joined Sapphire with an accounts-based background and has led our sales team, initially for Barnet, then our Reading branch through our balustrade days.  Luke has a wealth of experience in building strong and lasting relationships with all positions through most of the UK’s top housebuilders and developers.

Marius Ursuta

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 2021