MEET OUR TEAM

Duncan’s career started in a metallurgical background supplying aerospace alloys to the aviation industry. Duncan is the founder member of TSI Turbo Service International, and started the company in 1989. Duncan has overseen the continuous growth of the business since its inception.
Duncan’s assistant – MD –  Sarah Kay

Sarah joined the company in 2002 working in the Sales Department. Throughout the years Sarah has gained experience in all aspects of the commercial, operational, and administrative functions within the group of companies.  Sarah is responsible for the group acquisitions, staff activities, staff guidance, company budgets, company practices, policies, and is the Managing Director for the group of companies.

Chris joined ABB Antwerp in 1989-1999 as Technical Manager. During this time he was promoted to Business Unit Manager responsible for Belgium within the ABB Group. Chris joined TurboNed Netherlands 1999-2012 as Sales Director responsible for sales and building a worldwide sales and service network. Chris joined TSI in 2013 as Global Sales Manager and is head of our internal sales department. Chris manages our team of agents worldwide and is responsible for new contracts and the management of some key accounts.

Paul joined TSI from school in 1992 and is one of the longest time served employees at TSI. Paul started his employment working locally on vessels, and is now responsible for the TSI Group’s workshops and engineering team worldwide.

Ed has over 35 years of experience in the marine industry and is a Member of the Institute of Marine Engineers.   He sailed for 10 years on Container vessels, Tankers and Reefers back in the 80’s. In 1990 he joined Electrocatalytic Ltd (Elcat) as a commissioning engineer installing sea water antifouling systems and Impressed current cathodic protection systems in the Marine, Offshore and Power Industries. In 1995 he took up a sales role with Elcat specifically concentrating on the marine market, eventually becoming Sales Manager for Europe, Middle East and Asia. Ed joined TSI in 2003 as Global Sales Manager and took up the Sales Director’s role in 2008.  Ed has a wealth of experience in the maritime market, and you will see him at regular networking events around the world.  Ed heads up the External sales team at TSI.

Jean Paul Joined ABB in 2004 as a service engineer, A precision engineer by trade, an engineering
graduate with an MBA, he went on to join the technical team supporting the sales function with
technical advisory for turbocharger operations and diesel engines. He continued his studies on
Diesel combustion engines during this role.

In 2008 Jean Paul joined the end user sales team as the head of technical sales where his main role
was to identify and resolve technical issues and ensure correct product selling. During this time his
specialities were fault finding, performance analysis, diagnostics and fuel efficiency.

Jean Paul joined TSI in 2017 and is the Sales Manager for the Mediterranean region.

Samantha started her career in heat exchangers working for Heatec in The Netherlands. She went on to setup CP Heat Exchanger Services in the Rotterdam Harbour supplying ultrasonic heat exchanger cleaning, overhauls and repairs. Samantha joined TurboNed in 2002 and worked in a variety of positions from the sales department to purchasing and was also responsible for the coordination of customs duties.

In 2013 Samantha joined Marine Bearing Solutions as Operations Manager handling all aspects of commercial sales of the NTN-SNR bearings as well as purchasing, logistics and customs duties. In latter years she was responsible for the general running of the company overseeing commercial sales, production of the bearings, puchasing, financial management and leading a small team of employees.
Samantha joined TSI in 2019 as Office Manager for the TSI Netherlands operation.

John’s sea going career has spanned over 27 years of which 10 were as Chief Engineer on Tanker, Dry cargo, container, Ro Ro, Ro Pax Ferries and Cruise Liners vessels. John came ashore in 2001 as Technical Supt with V Ships in Cyprus until 2007 when he moved to Maestro Shipmanagement. In 2009 John moved to Dobson’s Fleet Management as Fleet Manager and then in 2012 returned to V Ships as Fleet Manager. John joins our team as Sales Manager for the Cyprus area.

ABC Marine Ltd have been supplying to the shipping industry for over 30 years.  www.abcmarine.gr

Aimee has worked in the marine industry for over 20 years. Aimee started her marine career in 2000 at P&O Cruises (Now Carnival UK) as a Technical Buyer – working closely with all Engineers / Chief Engineers and Superintendents. Aimee moved to Global Services in 2015 as a Commercial Vendor Analyst and continue to work closely with the Cruise Industry and Engineers.

James has nearly 20 years’ experience of working within the maritime sector, within technical and sales management positions. Having joined Transas (now part of Wartsila Group) in 2001 in the role of Technical Sales Manager for the leisure division of the company, providing technical and sales support to end users and dealers from around the world.

In 2006, James moved over to the commercial arm of Transas Marine in the position of Area Sales Manager working on the supplying of technical bridge navigation packages to ship owners and managers within Europe, before in 2015, changing department and looking at the supply of Vessel Traffic Management Systems to ports and harbours around the UK.

James joined TSI at the end of 2020 in the role of International Sales Executive.

Matt joined our service team in April 2016 as UK/International Service Co-Ordinator and assists the General manager in the day to day engineers planning and organisation. Matt is ex Royal Navy having served 13 years in the forces.

Dawn joined TSI in 2014 and under the management of Sarah co-ordinates all parts orders dispatched within the group.  Dawn is the senior administrator for the group and is responsible for parts invoicing.

Rosie joined TSI in February 2018 working for our Sales Director.  Rosie has had many years of experience working with BAE systems in the commercial department.

Billy joined the TSI service team in June 2019 as a UK/International Service Co-Ordinator. He assists the General Manager in the day to day engineers planning and organisation. He has previously worked in sales

Ellie joined TSI in July 2019 and is working for our Sales Director. She is the sales administrator and works in the UK office. She was also promoted to Marketing Assistant in January 2020.

Dave has 28 years’ experience in Supply Chain mainly from the  Aerospace and Defence Sectors working for Eaton Aerospace and  where Dave was working within various commodities and with companies such as Airbus and Boeing and VT Integrated Services in Portsmouth Dockyard where Dave was involved with the servicing of Royal Navy vessels. Dave has a MCips Level 5 Qualification.

Dave joined TSI in May 2017 and since that time has achieved ISO 9001:2015 and Rina Accreditations for both of the major sites in Southampton and Rotterdam.  Dave is also a Green Belt in Six Sigma. Dave also oversees the Health and Safety requirements for all Site’s ensuring TSI are compliant to the many Acts and Regulations set in the various countries TSI operate.

Ben has been working with the company since 2008 having joined us from school. During the years of working with TSI Ben has gained a vast range of experience working within the engineering division onboard vessels and in the workshop carrying out repairs and part replacement. Over the last few years Ben has been working closely with our suppliers, procurement, stores and stock control in procedural changes and internal system updates to enable our procurement, stock control and management of stock to have improved controls and efficiency.

Ben was promoted to Materials Manager in January 2020.