Mike was attracted to the industry over 40 years ago from his work experience placement where he spent two weeks at a then well know freight forwarder called Mercury Airfreight.
After leaving school, he joined a small wholesaler called Cargosave on an apprenticeship scheme. This leads him on to spending 35+ Years at Kuehne + Nagel in various positions, the last being Vice President for Western Europe for their Aerospace team.
Mike then went on to be the Managing Director of TALA (The Aerospace Logistics Alliance), after almost two years there he decided to take up the position of Group Head of Sales for the dedicated aerospace logistics company B&H Worldwide.
After spending 40 years in the industry in various roles at different companies Mike believes that things can be done differently so much so that he came up with our motto “we go above and beyond”
Phil joined the industry at 16 working for a small family business specialising in the shipping of construction equipment & garments to the African nations.
After several appointments working with companies such as Uniserve, Hankyu, Bollore (then JE Bernards), he found himself working for Benair (now GAC Worldwide) in London Heathrow.
The company was at the time part of the DART group which included Channel Express (now Jet2.com) At this appointment Phil was tasked with creating an aerospace desk to complement sales of spares for Channel Express by offering a 24/7 service to handle AOG (aircraft on ground) shipments.
During his tenure, he eventually became the Aerospace Manager and built a strong team where he remained for 16 years serving many of the aerospace industries’ big names such as Lufthansa Technik, and Jet2.com.