New director joins BSIF board

Paul has spent over 20 years in the Personal Protective Equipment Industry in a variety of roles from sales and marketing to product management, Quality & Regulatory Affairs. He started his career at Arco East Scotland (Linlithgow) in 1996 and subsequently moved to their head office in Hull, prior to a move into chemical protective clothing manufacturing with Microgard Ltd in 2006. He joined Ansell Ltd in April 2015 following their acquisition of Microgard, having been a member of the Microgard Senior Management Team. Having served in a number of senior leadership roles at Microgard, Paul was appointed Senior Director and Head of R&D, Global Marketing & Product Management for Ansell’s Body Protection business.

In July 2017, Paul was promoted to Vice President & General Manager of Ansell’s Chemical Solutions Strategic Business Unit and subsequently joined their Executive Leadership Team. In this role, he has global responsibility for strategy and the commercial development of a broad range of multi-hazard chemical protection solutions under the AlphaTec® core brand. Paul is located at Ansell’s regional office and R&D Centre in Hull, UK.

BSIF look forward to Paul’s input and specialist skills as the Federation continues our mission to support the membership who help to keep the UK safe and healthy while they are at work.