Profile - Phil Smith

Profile

30 year old Phil from Redditch is Technical Director at Converging Solutions Ltd. On graduating from university with a degree in Business Studies ten years ago, he managed to secure a job as an engineering apprentice at Converging Solutions. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, progressing into senior management. An excellent communicator, he manages the design, engineering and service teams at the company.
Recommendation

Dave Smith, MD of Converging Solutions, says: “Phil’s success at the company is not through family connections but as a reward for the development of a number of our key products.

"Phil has a very simple philosophy that if the simplest line operator does not know how to work our equipment then it will not be suitable for a production line. This has been a great philosophy.”
Achievements

• Quick progression at Converging Solutions, despite no previous Engineering experience

• Taking two of Converging Solutions’ core products and making them more user-friendly to turn the company into the UK's largest supplier of converging and pack collation equipment
Quote from Nominee

Phil says: “What makes me different to the other candidates for the Ones to Watch is my approach to machinery design. I can translate a simple idea from machine operators to designers and engineers to create a user-friendly product that results in a huge increase in sales across the business.”

Testimonials

“This is the third time for us at the PPMA Show. We keep coming back to the show because of its high quality of customers. We’ve made a few deals already which is promising, but exhibiting at a trade show is all about the long term investment; we may not hear from some of these customers for several months or even years, but they do come back.”

Henk vd Ven, Marketing Manager, Lantech
"We’ve exhibited at various exhibitions but I knew that if we improved our stand, we could do very well at the PPMA Show this year. On the first day alone we generated over 100 good leads. This is the best exhibition so far that we’ve experienced as a company and we’ve already booked our stand for next year!”

Colin Griffiths, Chairman, Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists
"We had an extremely successful three days at the PPMA Show this year. The visitors were of a high quality and spot on in terms of target for us - plus there was a constant stream of them to our stand which is always encouraging. Importantly for us, there was a lot of interest in our new Omega multi-head weigher so we will be busy following-up all the leads that we secured over the next few weeks. All in all, an impressive show."

Neil Fowell, Managing Director, Yamato Scale Dataweigh
“The show not only enables us to maintain our presence in the industry, but it also helps us to generate new leads and business.”

Greg Austin, International Business Manager, Endoline