Roy Wakeman OBE has been appointed new Chairman of the Confederation of Timber Industries (CTI). He succeeds Peter Hindle MBE, who stepped down last autumn.
Mr Wakeman will coordinate the new CTI strategy encouraging best practise and boosting a wide collaboration among the leading trade organisations and companies across the Supply Chain.
Mr Wakeman is a leading figure and driving force in the timber and joinery Industry.
He has led the Industry as President of the BWF (British Woodworking Federation) three times in his career, 1987, 2001 and 2013. He was Chairman of the Construction Confederation in 2001 and has previously chaired the Networking Forum for the CPA (Construction Products Association) for 11 years.
Mr Wakeman has grown a number of well-known brands and businesses in the joinery manufacturing arena including Sarek Joinery with sales of £30m in 1984-90; The LS Group of Performance Doorsets including the brands of Leaderflush, Shapland and Petter and Longden Doors with sales of £40m 1995-2005.
In 2006 he led a Management buyout of Mumford and Wood, the UK’s leading manufacturer of high quality bespoke Timber windows and Doors which at the time had sales revenues of £6m. Since then Mr Wakeman and his team have built a Group of Timber Fenestration brands, under the Group umbrella of PTPG, with sales currently over £20m pa. The brands include Mumford and Wood, Timber Windows.com and Dale windows and Doors.
In 2012, Mr Wakeman was awarded an OBE in Queen’s Honours List for services to the joinery manufacturing industry and, one year later, he was appointed non-Executive Chairman of European Doorsets, a leading supplier of Performance Doorsets for the Construction Industry.
Commenting on his appointment as new CTI Chairman, Roy Wakeman said: “I am delighted to accept both the role and challenge of the Chairman of the CTI, and very much look forward to helping everyone involved in this great industry to consolidate and improve the leading position that Timber holds as a modern material of choice.
Having spent my whole life in the distribution, manufacture and marketing of timber and its end products, I will use all my experience to make sure that we continue to lead, innovate and increase our reputation.”
