Who's who?

Today, you will find CP anywhere you operate! Wherever you are, whether you maintain a fleet of trucks, manage construction projects or manufacture windmills, your experience using their compressors, tools and equipment is key to our product development and continued success. It is their mission to ensure and increase customers productivity.

Here we talk to Tony O’Donnell (pictured above) - Chicago Pneumatic Tools - Business Line Manager UK & Ireland who explains: -

What Drives Chicago Pneumatic as a brand, not just here in UK but Globally?
 
The most obvious being our Brand promise to our customers “People Passion Performance” & our mission “Easy to Buy” "Easy to Use” “Easy to Deal” Our people & distributor partners are pivotal to our success, the passion & commitment that we demonstrate every day for our customers insuring excellence in performance at each stage of the value chain is our philosophy & who we strive to be, this is core. The way we develop our brand loyalty is through being “Easy to Buy” from, “Easy to use” and of course “Easy to Deal” with. This again is very much at the heart of what we want to achieve sustainably each day.

We are continuing to develop our team to ensure that the latest product offering, and innovations are available to end users. This is via our distributor partners supported by our team who attend (and will continue to attend) in depth product training workshops at our state of the art Technocentre in Nantes- France.

So, let’s meet the team:

Tony O’Donnell
Tony took up the role running the UK & Ireland team in September 2017, having been in the group for 17 years. His experience is in business development of Industrial tool solutions via different marketing channels leading him to successfully set up a regional South East Asia Customer Centre based in Thailand. He has a wealth of experience in distribution business development at national and international level. With his proven skill base, he will develop and drive the UK & Ireland team to continued success.

Simon Barrett- Area Sales Manager – South

Simon began his career studying as an Automotive Engineering Technology /Technician at Brooklands college. He then spent six years as a ‘hands on mechanic’ in the vehicle service Industry before deciding to use his practical experience to assist mechanics with the choice of appropriate tooling as he transferred his skills to become a sales engineer. He has now been with the team for seven years and is also their Workshop Equipment Product Champion. He is an avid football fan and enjoys live music and socialising with friends.

Chris Arrow - Area Sales Manager – Midlands

Chris has an Engineering Apprentice behind him and was a Toolmaker for six years before moving into quality engineering. He spent 7 years as an Improvement Engineer which led him to become a sales engineer. He has been in the tooling industry for eleven years and is the most recent recruit to team joining in February 2018.  He is a keen boxing fan having himself boxed and he likes the fitness and respect this gives youngsters.

Andy Davies -  Area Sales Manager – North

With an HNC /HND in Manufacturing Engineering and a BA from Staffordshire University Andy spent five years in project engineering. This drove him towards sales and he has been a sales engineer and Area Sales Manager since 2007 joining the team in May 2017. He is also the Material Removal Champion. He enjoys football and bike riding in his spare time.

Jason Walsh -  Area Sales Manager Ireland

Jason started selling Chicago Pneumatic tooling in 2003 working for a distributor before joining the team in 2011. He is particularly knowledgeable on assembly and bolting applications and is also the Product Champion for High Load tooling. He lives in the Kilkenny, The home of Hurling. And enjoys playing darts, Astro Football & watching all sports.