Matrix makes new exec appointments
Utility infrastructure specialist, Matrix Group has appointed three new Directors to its Executive Team, all of whom are its own, homegrown talent.
Chris Hollis-Thompson has been appointed to the newly-created role of Group Technical Director; James Smith has been appointed as Managing Director of Matrix Networks, the Group’s multi-utility infrastructure design and installation business; and Simon Spencer is the Group’s new SHEQ Director.
The appointments and creation of the new Technical Director role are a reflection the phenomenal growth the Group has experienced over the past 30 months. This follows external investment in February 2020, alongside a continued desire to strengthen the Organisation’s position in the market.
Hollis-Thompson, Smith and Spencer are all long-serving employees of Matrix Group. Most notably James Smith started with the Business more than a decade ago as a Cable Jointer operating on site installations. Now as Managing Director, he’s working with the knowledge of what’s being asked of the Group’s 100-strong employee base and is keen on ensuring every individual has an active role to play in the future growth of the Company.
Smith’s fellow new Exec colleagues have also honed their leadership skills through the Business. Simon Spencer was promoted from his previous role as Operations Manager and Chris Hollis-Thompson made the natural progression to his Directorship, from Head of Design.
Commenting on the new appointment, Matrix Group CEO Rob Sparkes, said: “I started in the Company as a Cable Jointer, working alongside James and through wanting to ‘do better’, I worked my way up to where I am now. This is what Matrix is about. We nurture talent, we encourage individual career progression and I’m immensely proud to see these three colleagues now sitting alongside me as leaders of our Business.
“We work in a fiercely competitive industry but it’s one which is growing and with ample opportunity for true leaders to stand out from the crowd. That’s how we’ve worked since we were founded and with new personnel on our Exec Team, I’m very much looking forward to our future.”
As a utility infrastructure specialist there are three active businesses operating under Matrix Group – Matrix Networks, a multi-utility infrastructure specialist serving industrial and commercial clients; UK Power Distribution, an independent distribution network operator (IDNO); and Matrix Water, a new appointment and variation (NAV) provider, supplying potable and waste-water services for new build residential developments.
