THE TURBO SERVICE INTERNATIONAL TEAM

Parts: Sales@tsi.eu.com Service: Service@tsi.eu.com
24/7 telephone number: +44 (0)2380 861000 

The Team

GROUP DIRECTORS

Duncan McCulloch

Group Chairman

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 Kay

Group Managing Director

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 Aerts

Commercial Director

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 Phillips

Service Director

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 McNally

Sales Director

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 Azzopardi

Technical Director

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.

Rebecca Inge

Group Finance Director

GROUP SALES DEPARTMENT

Rob Chesters

Group Sales Manager

Rob has over 25 years’ experience within the International Maritime services sector having started his career in 1995 with Unitor ships service which later became Wilhelmsen Ships service. During his 18 years with the company, he held various commercial positions from Sales manager to Global Business manager. In 2013 he joined Nance International as Regional Director for their European operation and most recently was working as Managing Director for Oceanic technical solutions where his focus was on providing ship owners and ship managers with technical refrigeration & HVAC solutions.

Samantha Gonzalez

Commercial Manager

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 Mealing

Sale Manager Cyprus

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.

Craig Desty

Commercial Assistant

Bio coming soon…

Suzanne Allan

Commercial Sales Administrator

Bio coming soon…

S.S.R.S Ltd
representing TSI Hellas

Established in 1976 as an agency company for shipyards, engine spare repairs and equipment manufacturers. S.S.R.S. Ltd has expanded its business into commercial representations and with its growing international connections now undertakes project promotions in both the shipping and manufacturing spheres

SERVICE AND SALES ADMIN

Matt Crouch

Service Co-Ordinator Worldwide

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

Dawn Burton

Senior Administrator – UK

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.

Billy House

Group Service Co-ordinator

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

Tasha Julian

Sales Co-Ordinator – UK

Bio coming soon…

Rico Antonelli

Service Co-ordinator Malta

Bio coming soon…

Margo Rietveld

Office Administrator Rotterdam

Bio coming soon…

Amey Evans

Sales Order Supervisor

10 years’ experience in customer service, moved into a technical workshop role dealing with parts for Omega watches in 2016 then joined TSI 4 months ago as sales order processor / customs admin.

Vickie Skinner

PA to MD  (Sarah Kay)

Vickie joined TSI in September 2022 as PA to the MD of TSI, Sarah Kay.  Vickie has been a PA for most of her career, working at such organisations as Carnival UK, Southampton City Council and Aviva Healthcare.

Anna Kubisiak

Sales Order Processor

Bio coming soon…

Georgina Mistry

Sales Order Processor

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PROCUREMENT, QUALITY CONTROL AND HEALTH AND SAFETY

Marni Wigstead

Quality Manager

Marni has experience in implementing, controlling, and auditing management systems in line with –

-ISO 9001 (Quality)

-ISO  45001 (Health and Safety)

-ISO 14001 (Environmental)

She has worked in different sectors, from facilities management, construction, manufacturing, and the marine industry.

Marni joined TSI in 2022 to manage Quality and health and Safety.

Ben Spafford

Group Materials Manager

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.

Aimee Stewart

Procurement Specialist

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.

OUR ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT

Pia Stookerdevelde

Accounts Assistant – Rotterdam

Tanya Hunt

Data Inputter / Credit Controller

Kelly Preston

Management Accountant

Kelly joined TSI in April 2022, she works closely alongside Rebecca and provides support to all members of the finance team. She started her career as an Accounts Apprentice and has worked her way through her Professional Accounting Qualifications. Kelly is in the final stages of gaining her Chartership which is an excellent achievement not only for herself but for TSI and our continual support. 

Liz Deacon

Accounts Administrator

Our Engineering Team

TSI’s experienced team of engineers are based in our facilities worldwide

Alexander Belder

Manager of Rotterdam Facility

Bio coming soon…

Christophe Van Leemput

Workshop Manager Netherlands

Bio coming soon…

Sean Goring

Workshop Manager

Bio coming soon…

Grant Baker

Group Stores Manager

Grant left school and worked in the construction industry for 1 year, he joined TSI in 2001 as a trainee engineer and spent 10 years as a field service engineer, he then moved over to our store’s department, Grant is our group store’s manager overseeing picking/packing goods, in/out and stock management.

Bonno Neeleman

Stores Rotterdam

Bio coming soon…

marine turbocharger

Our Engineers

Worldwide

We have a large team of experienced field service engineers that are responsible for the service of turbochargers worldwide