Martin Dibben - Managing Director

The blind trade is in Martin's blood - he first started work at Tidmarsh & Sons in the school holidays, working his way through to be joint managing director but leaving to found SHY UK in 1997. He is proud to have built a business with a reputation for meeting customer needs - reliably.

Martin Dibben

Alan McGarry - Operations Manager

Alan has been with SHY since we started and has been involved in the making of virtually every blind we have ever produced, so there is not much about our products that Alan doesn't know. Alan's role is looking after the day to day running of the business.

Operations Manager

James Cookland - Production Manager

James has worked both on the shop floor and sales. Now our production manager, we still draw on his expertise to assist our sales team.

Sales

John Hammick - Technical Sales and Support

John has also been with SHY since we started 1998, and has worked through all departments on the shop floor, but spending most time with cloth production. John has a gift with computers, design and most matters technical, so some years ago he moved onto technical and sales support, and is also on our design team and trained on CAD.

Technical support

Chris Mayes - Senior Factory Supervisor

Chris has worked in all departments on the shop floor. He is a gifted artist and photographer in his spare time and the competent, gentle, but unyielding strength that keeps the factory running at top efficiency.

Supervision

Janet Dibben - Company Secretary

Janet joined the company in its first growth phase - from being secretary to the Master at one of the London Universities - and before that secretary to the company secretary of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Now, Janet is the force of efficient energy that keeps us all organised.

Company secretary