As a Business Development Manager, Georgia is bright and adventurous, with an outgoing personality. She loves seeing and hearing about incredible fit out schemes in and around London while meeting people and building new relationships.
Before joining Parkeray, Georgia was a sales representative at Kvadrat for five years, an industry-leading textile company (best known for their acoustic panels).
Skiing, cooking, and shopping are her favourite pastimes. Georgia has a passion for fashion whilst keeping sustainability in mind and avoiding fast fashion trends, she builds her wardrobe with charity shop buys and quality pieces. Another of Georgia’s favourite pastimes is her love for cooking. She is often the host for dinner parties for friends and families, whipping up a variety of dishes from all over the world from where her travels have taken her.
Hakuna Matata
Scott joins our Lite team as Project Manager and has always been in and around the industry. His experience hails from a number of other main contractors and his hardworking approach saw him work his way through the ranks, being promoted to site manager at the age of just 22.
Easy going, friendly and cool-headed Scott is a good communicator and thrives on the responsibility of running the project and seeing the reward in the finished job.
Away from work, Scott likes to spend time with friends and family, catching up over a nice meal or a drink or two. He also loves sport especially football.
Fergus joins our sustainability team with a number of years’ experience in delivering results within our industry. In his previous role he was the sole sustainability resource across £300m worth of construction sites in capital. Passionate about his role, he is patient, approachable and believes in doing things the right way.
He firmly believes we can alter the future of our planet, and by working at Parkeray he is in the best position to educate project teams on ways to implement sustainable practices to make a positive change towards a greener future.
Away from work Fergus likes to work out at the gym to keep fit. He is a huge football fan not only watching but also playing a bit himself. Fergus also loves to travel as much as possible in both the UK and abroad.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Quietly confident and polite, Chelsey greets everyone with her natural, warm welcoming smile. As office junior she works closely with our office manager to ensure Parkeray’s day-to-day business operations run as smoothly as possible.
Chelsey’s role also enables her to work alongside all the different departments within the business, getting a taste of how each one works to brings the company together. Dedicated and hard working she likes to be kept busy and believes that if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
Outside of her nine to five, Chelsey likes socialising with friends and going to festivals and concerts. However, her real passion is dance. She is a Championship dancer in Freestyle Disco Dancing, training hard and competing in competitions all over the UK. Chelsey enjoys attending dance festivals where she gets to dance for a whole weekend competing in many different styles.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass but it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Paddy joins Parkeray having spent a number of years in a Health and Safety role. Originally starting out as a fitter’s mate for a mechanical ventilation contactor he worked his way up and acquired a broad understanding of all construction related health & safety issues. Paddy also holds the NEBOSH certification and is a Committee Member of the Essex Branch for IOSH.
Paddy firmly believes that people are the key to everything, even more so when it comes to Health & Safety and he gets great satisfaction out of helping everyone do their job safely. Paddy is very hardworking and approachable so can always be asked for his advice.
Outside of work Paddy is a dedicated family man with two young children and likes nothing more than spending time together on days out with them and his wife. His other love is music and plays the drums, more unusually, the Congas and the Bongos but admits he doesn’t play as much as should these days!
A man is not judged on how many times he falls down, but on how many times he gets back up.
Passionate about her role, Beth is a Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (PIEMA) and a qualified BREEAM Accredited Professional (AP) and Assessor. Beth joins our sustainability team with several years of experience delivering results within the construction industry.
Hardworking and friendly, Beth enjoys working in sustainability and helping projects reduce their environmental impact. She believes that within construction it’s great when a project comes together and all the client’s sustainability aspirations have been met.
Away from work, Beth likes to keep fit by running and is also a keen hockey player, playing for her local team. To relax she enjoys baking, especially cakes and when time permits, she loves travelling and has explored far-off places including Australia and Fiji.
Matt has always been in construction, working his way up through the ranks from carpenter to senior contracts manager and along the way returned to college to gain his BSc (Hons) in Construction. With 25 years of practical experience at the front end of a project, Matt can apply the skills he mastered to his new role as preconstruction manager.
Quiet, positive, and always happy to lend a hand, Matt enjoys delving into all the preconstruction details and programme to assist the team to pull everything together.
Away from the office, Matt’s free time is packed full of hobbies that give him a real adrenaline rush including paragliding, paramotoring, and flying. For slower-paced activities, he enjoys camping, family holidays and loves cooking.
Life is a moving train – you can get on or off at any time – just remember the journey is better with friends.
Dedicated and hardworking Jamie brings positive energy to his role as Business Development Manager. A recommendation led him to pursue a career in the construction industry and now with several years of experience in the position, he is concentrating his knowledge on assisting both our London and Regions teams.
Jamie is easygoing and enjoys the flexibility of his role, getting to meet new people and visiting our exciting projects. A real people person, his friendly personality is ideally suited to put clients and the project team at ease.
Away from work, he loves spending time with his young family, or you’ll find him doing something active either down at the gym or playing football or rugby. He also likes to travel and took time out a few years ago to travel the world.
Hard work pays off
As office manager Monica is the first point of contact, greeting and welcoming our many guests. She brings a wealth of experience and positive energy to our HQ after many years of working as a guest experience manager and team leader.
Calm, proactive, and industrious she ensures the smooth running of the busy front of house whilst keeping a cool head. Monica loves everything about her role, is committed and organised but also likes to have fun along the way.
In her spare time, Monica loves spending time with her daughter, traveling, or settling down with a good book. As a teen, Monica played professional football in her native Romania, passionate about the game she still plays at an amateur level from time to time.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it
Pablo Picasso
As one of our graphic designers, Andrada supports all our teams from preconstruction at HQ to the project teams out on site. She has held various design positions since completing her Master of Architecture degree which taught her to be organised, reliable and hard-working.
Her role allows her to be very creative, stay up to date with all design trends and learn new skills. Andrada thrives in the friendly office setting, is exceptionally helpful, and is a genuine problem solver.
Outside of work Andrada enjoys tennis, swimming, and painting. She also has a passion for anything science and space-related and you will often find her watching videos about NASA missions. She is a bit of a romantic at heart, building a beautiful life with her partner and pet dogs.
Life is what you make of it, and I spend mine laughing!
Laura did various in-house marketing roles before settling down on a career in business development within the construction industry. Her experience hails from other big names in the industry. Laura’s longest tenure was with another fit out contractor where she spent over ten years, joining them as an £8m business and leaving when the turnover was over £150m.
Conscientious with a can-do approach, Laura loves meeting new people and making connections. Her friendly personality puts everyone at ease, and she likes to introduce her contact to each other to enhance their business relationships and watch them develop.
Away from the office, Laura loves camping, festivals, gigs, and going to the theatre. When it comes to keeping fit, she is a keen runner and has recently joined a boxing gym!
Alex joins our lite team with an abundance of construction management experience. He has a proven track record of successful, multi-million-pound projects in London and the surrounding areas, giving him an in-depth knowledge of the fit out and refurbishment sector.
Hardworking, reliable and honest, Alex is a strong team player with the ability to motivate others. A great communicator, Alex enjoys meeting new people and forming relationships with them along the way.
Away from the office, Alex likes to listen to music to relax, catch up with friends and family and when time permits, he enjoys travelling. His other passion is boxing in particular Thai boxing and he is also keen jujitsu practitioner.
Never, never, never give up.
