CPD Electrical


Darren Willis - CPD Operations Director
Darren Wallis
Operations Director

David Brown - CPD Chairman
David Brown
Chairman



Meet the Team

The CPD Team
The CPD Directors from left to right:
David Brown, Darren Wallis, Chris Cloete & Phil Sanders

The CDP team of directors are made up of four dedicated people committed to delivering excellent service combining their individual specialist areas into a coehesive team strategy.

Chris Cloete - Managing Director

Chris Cloete has been working in the telecoms industry since 1999. After completing a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, Chris undertook various courses in Business Management and Business Development and completed design and build courses for Infrastructured Cabling Solutions with all three UK market leaders – Brand-Rex, ADC Krone and Systimax.

Chris has worked on major national and international roll-out projects, taking responsibility for the project management and project delivery of infrastructured services, including:

Colt Telecom:
3000 buildings in London, Birmingham and Manchester

Royal Bank of Scotland:
RBS call centres, banking branches and business centres

Barclay’s Bank:
call centres, banking branches and business centres

Aggreko:
international project upgrading infrastructured and wireless services within existing offices worldwide.

Contact chris@cpdtes.com for any infrastructure requirements or enquiries.


Darren Wallis - Contracts Director

Working in the infrastructure industry since 1991, Darren Wallis has managed individual large-scale projects for companies including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, City Group, City Bank, Lloyds TSB and Merrill Lynch.

Following his years of experience, in-depth training and skills, Darren specialises in complex infrastructure installations and IT commissions platforms. Furthermore, he has been responsible for the installation and commissioning of Telco Cabling, Coaxial Cabling, Voice Multipair Cabling, Cat 5e and Cat 6 Installations.

Darren has successfully completed installation courses in: Systimax, Krone, Ritt, Panduit, Brand-Rex, Fiber splicing City and Guilds.

Contact darren@cpdtes.com for any infrastructure requirements or enquiries.


Phil Sanders - Contracts Director

Phil attended St Ignatius College Enfield and from there went onto Middlesex Polytechnic (in Electronics) Amongst other things he is a keen amateur radio enthusiast (g6rff).

As a teenager worked in armature radio and electronic shops
He worked mainly in the motor industry on the electrical and Electronics side, getting involved in the electrical side of Telecoms in 1996(Structortone).

Moved to telecoms in1998 and got nvolved in the Enron headquarters installation in 1999 (pinnacle). He was also involved in the Global switch build in Amsterdam 2000 (unidata).

Phil has also worked at most of the major investment banks in London and Europe including: Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan , Chase Manhattan, HSBC, Barclays, He was Project manager for Lloyds TSB in structured cabling upgrades 2003-2004 type 1 to cat 6(synstare).

CNCC 2004
Qualifications
City and Guilds Electronics
City and Guilds Fibre Optics
KRONE
PANDUIT
ITT

Contact phil@cpdtes.com for any infrastructure requirements or enquiries.


David Brown - Chairman

A highly experienced Chartered Accountant, David Brown qualified in 1964, when he was appointed Chief Accountant, then Financial Director, of Biggs Wall & Co Civil Engineers, employing some 700 people, and became Chief Executive of their modernisation subsidiary company.

David then worked as Chief Accountant for Ashby & Horner, the oldest building company in London, working alongside the Financial Director of Bovis. He was then appointed Financial Director of IFR, one of the most profitable companies of the Thomson Group, providing weekly banking information worldwide.

In 1989 David became a Partner in an accountancy practice and founded his own practice in 1996. He was appointed Chairman of a Christian Conference Centre and also a company selling right-to-buy mortgages and recently became a Financial Director of a development company. In addition, he is a Trustee of several charitable companies.

David is married to Joyce, has two children and four grandchildren. He is a school governor, lay preacher and sings with a choir in the Albert Hall.




Chris Cloete - CPD Managing Director
Chris Cloete
Managing Director

Phil Sanders - CPD Contracts Director
Phil Sanders

Contracts Director