A global leader in delivering premium stainless steel and nickel components.

An experienced international business leader with over two decades of executive leadership across global manufacturing and industrial sectors. As CEO of Paralloy Group Limited and President of Manoir France SAS, he has led significant business growth, operational transformation, and international expansion across the petrochemical, nuclear, energy, defence, and aerospace industries. 

Recognised for his strategic vision and innovative leadership, he is committed to driving operational excellence, sustainable growth, and long-term value creation across the group.

Michael began his career with Paralloy as a Finance apprentice over 20 years ago. Today, as Group CFO, he brings an exceptionally rare combination of financial expertise and operational insight to the executive leadership team. 

Recognised for his strategic decision-making, Michael has successfully steered the Group through complex industries and volatile macroeconomic landscapes, delivering significant organic and M&A growth.

Throughout his career, he has built cross-functional relationships and a comprehensive knowledge of the business units and industries Paralloy Group serves. This allows him to balance commercial, operational, and financial priorities to drive sustainable, long-term organisational value and performance.

An accomplished international commercial leader with over 30 years of experience driving growth across global industrial markets. Proven expertise in developing strategic customer relationships, leading high-performing sales and marketing teams, and delivering profitable long-term business across sectors including automotive, petrochemical, and industrial engineering. 

A highly respected technical leader within the petrochemical industry with over 35 years of experience, recognised for driving innovation, solving complex customer challenges, and developing unique product solutions for demanding industrial applications.

With extensive technical expertise and deep industry knowledge, she has built a strong reputation for delivering advanced engineering solutions that support customer performance and operational reliability. Known for her intelligence, creativity, and forward-thinking approach, she continues to play a key role in shaping technical innovation across the business and the wider industry.

An experienced and highly respected technical leader with extensive international expertise across metallurgy, quality management, and industrial project delivery. With a diverse background spanning the automotive, energy, aerospace and nuclear sectors. Frederic brings deep technical knowledge and a strong understanding of complex customer and industry requirements. 

Recognised for his leadership, decision-making, and collaborative approach, he has successfully managed international supplier and client projects across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Passionate about knowledge sharing and team development, he is committed to driving technical excellence while fostering strong relationships built on professionalism, empathy, and trust.

An accomplished international business leader specialising in strategy, operational transformation, performance improvement, and innovation. With extensive experience across industrial groups, family businesses, consulting firms, and startups, he has successfully led restructurings, strategic redeployments, and business transformation programmes that delivered long-term growth and operational success. 

Recognised for his ability to lead in complex and demanding environments, he combines strong operational expertise with a collaborative and people-focused leadership style. Passionate about innovation and strategic thinking, he also contributes academically through executive education and actively supports entrepreneurship, social innovation, and sustainable development initiatives internationally.

Les Parker is the Group Director of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Compliance for the Paralloy Group, where he is responsible for overseeing environmental, health and safety legal compliance across all operations. In this role, he leads the strategic alignment and continuous improvement of EHS performance, while ensuring the successful implementation and maintenance of internationally recognised standards, including ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) and 50001 (Energy Management) across a unified global organisation.

Les brings more than 35 years of experience in environmental, health and safety leadership, including three previous Group-level leadership roles, giving him a deep and practical understanding of regulatory compliance, risk management, and organisational culture transformation. His career has been defined by a strong commitment to protecting people, safeguarding the environment, and embedding sustainable, high-performance systems within complex industrial settings.

Since joining Paralloy 7 years ago, Les has played a pivotal role in strengthening the company’s safety culture, driving improvements in behavioural safety, accountability, and operational discipline across the business. His leadership approach focuses on engagement at all levels of the organisation, ensuring that safety and environmental responsibility are fully integrated into everyday operations rather than treated as standalone functions.

Known for his pragmatic approach, depth of expertise, and ability to drive cultural change, Les continues to position EHS and compliance as a core pillar of Paralloy's operational excellence and long-term business success.

A highly accomplished Managing Director of Paralloy Ltd & Firth Vickers UK with extensive experience leading multi‑site manufacturing organisations through strategic transformation, operational optimisation. Experience in Petrochemical, IG, Aerospace and Automotive industries. Carl holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering and Business Management, a BSc (Hons) in Engineering Technology.

Recognised for his strategic, forward‑thinking approach, strong governance capability, and a proven ability to align diverse stakeholders behind clear operational and commercial objectives. 

Kevin is an experienced and highly respected operational and technical leader, with extensive international experience over multi-disciplines within the metals, foundry industry, quality control, and technical support for industrial project delivery. Kevin has a wide-ranging manufacturing background spanning automotive, energy, nuclear, defence, and during the bulk of his career the Petrochemical industry – he has manufactured castings in many ferrous and non-ferrous alloys and has made castings ranging from a few grammes to over 100 tonnes in weight. He has a deep foundry technical knowledge and has a strong understanding of complex manufacturing and industrial needs for the range of clients we supply.

Respected and recognised for his operational leadership, negotiation and decision making he has successfully managed and delivered international projects. Passionate about making a high-quality product at the correct price, whilst ensuring detailed technical requirements, inspections and controls are respected and followed. Kevin is an integral part of the Paralloy Group team.

Trevor Richardson is an experienced and highly respected operational and technical leader, with extensive international experience over multi-disciplines within the foundry industry, quality control, and technical support for project delivery. 

Trevor has a diverse manufacturing background spanning energy, nuclear, defence, transport and during the bulk of his career the Petrochemical industry, building the Paralloy foundry from an empty building to one supporting circa 100 million of sales per year. He has a deep foundry technical knowledge and has a strong understanding of complex manufacturing and industrial needs for the range of clients we supply.

A manager with substantial experience of end-to-end manufacturing operations within the competitive precision engineering sector. Commercially aware with significant customer facing and P&L experience. 
Through a structured career plan, Dave has gained multi-disciplined managerial experience, resulting in the ability to achieve strong business performance through astute leadership. 

With over 30 years of experience in the foundry and manufacturing industry, Mark Walker brings a wealth of technical knowledge and leadership to Firth Vickers Centrispinning. Throughout his career, he has built a reputation for his expertise, commitment to quality and deep understanding of the industry.  

Passionate about developing people, Mark takes great pride in mentoring team members, helping them build their skills and reach their full potential. Highly respected by colleagues and customers alike, his approachable leadership style and extensive industry experience play a key role in driving the continued success of the Firth Vickers brand.