About Mackwell

René joined the Mackwell team in January 2015. Responsible for the Middle East region for the first 18 months with Mackwell, René led the region to significant growth over this period. Having been in the lighting industry since 2008 René has a wealth of knowledge especially around lighting controls and emergency lighting. Initially from an engineering background, Rene’s first roles was around software engineering and project commissioning before he moved into product management and sales management. René has worked for major global lighting brands in different areas around the world including Austria, Switzerland, Dubai and the UK.

Nick joined Mackwell in 1991, having previously worked within the Electrical Wholsale sector. His initial years were spent developing the UK business, moving to Export Sales Manager in 1998 to set up and develop the companies international business. He was appointed as Sales Director of Mackwell in 2004 and in December 2011 he became the owner and Managing Director of Mackwell.  

Neal joined Mackwell in April 2015 as IT Manager and was central in the transition to Mackwell’s new ERP system. He quickly took responsibility for Inventory and in Aug 2017 became Supply Chain Manager working closely with the previous Operations Director, Neil Eardley. He has as mathematics background and during 20 years working in Manufacturing SMEs in the midlands he’s used a data driven approach to the challenges within Operations.

Richard joined Mackwell in 2001 and is responsible for our technical and systems development division. Richard is an expert in DALI and lighting control systems and represents Mackwell on many industry technical working groups.