The Company
Company Culture
Jaltek are committed to providing equal opportunities through all areas of our business and pride ourselves in our employees being as diverse as the products we help to create.
We actively encourage and drive the development of our employees and when it comes to our people, we stand apart from our competitors by not recruiting solely on the basis of an individual’s intellect, capability and experience. Key attributes also include passion for the role, commitment to moving in the same direction as the business and a willingness to put their head above the parapet for the good of the business.
One machine can do the work of Fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of One extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Meet some of the Team
Pravin Sood
Chairman
Pravin Sood
Chairman
As Chairman of the Jaltek Group, Pravin has been responsible for the vision & strategy of the Group since 1998, including recruitment of his leadership teams & seeking new, innovative investment opportunities.
His background in senior management positions within Technology companies in the past 35 years has included roles in multi-national satcoms, network & mobile companies.
Anmol Sood
Board Director
Anmol Sood
Board Director
As Board Director of Jaltek, Anmol has been pivotal in establishing Jaltek’s business strategies within the military, aerospace, medical and logistics sectors. He has also been integral in defining the company’s strategy for International expansion via owned subsidiaries or distribution channels.
A BSC economics graduate of University College London, Anmol gained his ACA qualification whilst with a leading city accountancy firm and has considerable corporate finance experience gained within a number of banking institutions.
Steve Pittom
Managing Director
Steve Pittom
Managing Director
Steve has been with Jaltek since 1998, employed as an account manager. He was instrumental in building the company’s customer base and was quickly promoted to Sales Director in 2001. His drive and enthusiasm for the business grew year on year utilising his sales experience he played a major role in growing the business. A promotion to General Manager came about in 2008 which found Steve heading up the integration of people and processes following three successful acquisitions. With continued growth within the organisation Steve reached the heady heights of MD for Jaltek Systems Ltd and Jaltek Design Services Ltd.
Simon Wallington
Chief Financial Officer
Simon Wallington
Chief Financial Officer
Simon joined Jaltek in early 2023 and brings with him significant experience and knowledge of both finance and manufacturing. His expertise includes a broad range of Leadership, Business and Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Turnaround and Scale-up, Budgetary Control and building high performing teams to deliver results.
Simon has previously held positions at Matrix Polymers and Revolve Group, as part of the leadership teams, where he helped deliver record production and sales volumes, and record profits.
Chris Day
Technical Director
Chris Day
Technical Director
Chris has worked as a Technical Director for over 30 years.
He started his career in 1984 in PCB Design at Acron Video, following the completion of an Electronic Engineering apprenticeship with Acron. In 1987 he moved on to start his own PCB Design Bureau; Abra Cad. Chris ran Abra Cad for 18 years, designing PCB’s, working with clients, suppliers and trade organisations and furthering his technical knowledge. He ensured he remained at the fore of his field whilst leading his design team.
Abra Cad was sold to Jaltek in 2005 when Chris took up his current role which he has been in since.
Stephen Blythe
Business Manager
Stephen Blythe
Business Manager
Stephen joined the team at Jaltek as Business Manager in 2016. His depth of industry experience enables him to fully support our existing and new customers.
Stephen brings more than 25 years of electronics manufacturing experience to Jaltek. He started his career in Production Management before moving into various Operations, Commercial and Customer facing roles with a number of UK and European Contract Electronics Manufacturers. Working with customers in a range of industries including Security, ANPR, Audio, Photonics and ATEX products across EMEA and North America.
Claire Mackay
Business Development Manager
Claire Mackay
Business Development Manager
Claire Mackay, who joined Jaltek in 2019, has a wealth of industry experience and knowledge to support Jaltek’s existing and new customers.
Claire has over 30 year’s experience in the Electronics Industry, working with a number of UK based Contract Electronics Manufacturers, with her most recent position supporting a Global Top 10 EMS, generating new business for the UK, U.S. and Asian facilities.
She started her career as a keen apprentice, straight from college, working her way up via various positions in operations and quality before finally finding that she was naturally attributed to customer support. She has worked with significant high reliability customers in the Semiconductor, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Industrial, Laser & Optics Sectors.
As Jaltek’s Customer base continues to grow, Claire’s appointment enables Jaltek to continue to expand whilst ensuring that our existing and prospective customers are always at the centre of everything that we do.
Jack Groom
Business Development Manager
Jack Groom
Business Development Manager
Jack joined the Jaltek team as a Business Development Manager in 2022. Starting his career in Electronics as a Key Account Manager in Electronic Distribution he has enjoyed progressing in to Business Development.
His role focuses on bringing new customers and technologies into the business. He brings with him a wealth of experience having worked with a diverse customer base in both electronic manufacturing and distribution. Jack has supported a number of established and start-up companies, successfully bringing their products through development, NPI and into production.
Jack works alongside Stephen Blythe, Chris Day and Claire Mackay, ensuring our customers remain at the centre of everything that we do as Jaltek continues to grow.
Thomas Aird
Commercial Manager
Thomas Aird
Commercial Manager
Thomas first joined Jaltek in 2011 as Strategic Buyer. He has since been promoted a number of times and is now Jaltek's Commercial Manager, overseeing all of the companies Commercial, Purchasing and Front End Engineering activities.
After a year as Strategic Buyer Thomas was promoted to Strategic Account Manager in 2012, a role focusing on Mil/Aero and High Reliability customers. In 2014 he was promoted to Business Unit Manager, initially still focusing on Mil/Aero and High Reliability accounts before also taking a lead with Commercial customers. He has been in his current role since April 2016.
Prior to joining Jaltek, Thomas worked in the Utilities industry establishing and developing accounts, primarily within the electricity sector.
With extensive experience in Account Management, Thomas is responsible for developing relationships with our new and existing customers and suppliers as well as the implementation of strategic development plans and measures for continuous improvement, success and growth.
David Riches
Business Unit Manager
David Riches
Business Unit Manager
David joined Jaltek in 2012 as a Senior Buyer before moving into the sales team as Senior Account Manager in 2014. David was promoted to his current role of Business Unit Manager in 2015.
Prior to Jaltek, David worked primarily within the Aerospace & Defence sector for a technology provider of RF/microwave, microelectronics and security technologies for critical and high-reliability applications.
David is responsible for developing relationships with our existing customers and the implementation of strategic development plans and measures for continuous improvement, success and growth of his Business Unit.
Maria Turvey
Production Manager
Maria Turvey
Production Manager
Maria first joined Jaltek in 2001. She now heads up all post SMT Operations; overseeing all soldering, test processes and in-process inspection as well as conformal coating. Maria is also a fully certified IPC Trainer (IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, IPC 7711/7721 and J-STD-001ES) and leads Jaltek’s IPC training team.
With 25 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry, and with 20 of these at Jaltek, she is ideally placed to understand the requirements of Jaltek’s customers and how to ensure that these requirements are met to the highest standard in a busy contract electronics manufacturing environment.
Daniel Christie-Kelly
NPI and Business Integration Manager
Daniel Christie-Kelly
NPI and Business Integration Manager
Daniel first joined Jaltek in 2013 as a Buyer/Expeditor becoming an Account Manager in 2015. In 2022, Daniel was promoted to managing Jaltek’s New Business & Prototyping Unit.
As Jaltek continues to grow, Daniel and his team oversee the integration and development of new customers, in addition to the managing of several high complexity prototyping projects, pushing the development of future technologies across various industries.
Daniel works closely alongside the Business Development team and enjoys a multi-functional role in supporting the implementation and strategic development of Jaltek’s new customers, as well as supporting ongoing manufacturing projects with the Commercial and Production teams.
Join our team
We are always interested in hearing from new graduates, specifically with degrees in any of the following areas:
- Engineering (Hardware, Firmware & Software)
- Science
- Sales
- Marketing
- Finance
