Experience

Hobbs Valve Ltd

• Owner

  • Oct 2005 - Present

  Alun is a professionally qualified Mechanical Technician with over 20 years of successful leadership of providing technically superior and intrinsically safe valve products and solutions to industries most demanding processes and environments. He has gained extensive experience in all aspects of the Design, Innovation, Manufacturing, Quality, Process control and supply chain management having held down senior industry positions within Sales and Marketing, Design and Development and aftermarket service and customer care. As Chairman of HVL, Alun is responsible for the technical development of HVL products, complimentary value chains, and development of HVL’s operational excellence model. He is an inspirational leader who recognises successful business is based motivating and engaging employees at all levels of the organisation to add value to customer products and service. Alun has both a “Strategic and hands on" leadership style who engages employees to work in continue pursuit of improvement and excellence. Alun is a principled centre leader who gains respect and loyalty by giving employees respect and loyalty. As a true innovator and entrepreneur Alun is both competent and confident in his abilities having a pipeline of new products, processes and innovations which he enthusiastically cares about. Alun passionately believes that the development of patented products and processes creates a sustainable competitive advantage, making the world a safer place. The current product portfolio is targeted at worldwide markets for both new and existing projects where safety, reliability and maintainability are both order qualifiers and winning criterion. The sales cycle is very technically orientated where customer’s behaviours are dominated by technology, certification and compliance; Alun excels in these areas of sales support giving confidence to customers and will remain at the heart of the technical sales cycle. Show less



Tomoe Tritec Ltd

• Overlooked Engineer

  • Nov 1998 - Sep 2005

  Technical, Quality, and Sales roles. Technical, Quality, and Sales roles.



Thermocouple Instruments

• Biotechnology Research

• Technician

  • Nov 1988 - Nov 1998

  Various roles through the manufacturing process of temperature sensing equipment. Various roles through the manufacturing process of temperature sensing equipment.