Managing Director (Europe) - Chris Harding

As MD for Europe Chris has overall responsibility for product development and new range timelines, co-ordinating the efforts of the specialist designers in the team and he's responsible for all European sales

chris.harding@equipuk.com

The Design Team

Helen Roberts
With several years outdoor retail experience before switching to a career in design Helen has worked on all the Equip brands specialising on the new Rab women's wear range. She's a keen climber and surfer though freely admits she's not good at either!

helen.roberts@equipuk.com

Ben Manwaring
Ben comes from a product design background, with his interests being climbing, scrambling, hillwalking and mountain biking he'd wanted to get into the outdoor industry for a while - he's managed it as he's now our equipment designer.

ben.manwaring@
equipuk.com

Mat Nalder 
Mat joins us from New Zealand and he brings with him a wealth of design experience across Rucksacks, Sleeping Bags and Down products.

mat.nalder@equipuk.com

Heather Knott
Heather is a keen road cyclist, who last year rode & completed the Etape du Tour - including climbing the iconic Mont Ventoux . She recently moved back to be close to The Peak District and wonders why she ever went away!
She is often to be found cycling up the hills in the peaks or on the 40km route home from Equip, daylight & snow permitting!

heather.knott@equipuk.com

Rab Carrington
As a guru of technical clothing and sleeping bag design, original founder of the RAB brand and respected climber for 30 years Rab remains an occasional consultant on our range development and detail.  Rab is still climbing, harder than ever, and is also a vice president of the British Mountaineering Council.

Pete O'Donovan
Pete is a lifelong climber, product designer and original founder of the Podsacs brand.  Pete is now a consultant and advisor to us on Podsacs design and splits his time between the climbing areas of the Peak District and Northern Spain.  He is also an accomplished climbing photographer, look out for his photos in UK and European climbing magazines.

Garment Technology

Hayley Allsebrook
Hayley is our garment technologist and came to Equip after several years in the field of garment technology, Hayley is a valuable part of the Equip design team.

hayley.allsebrook@
equipuk.com

Jane Grimshaw
Jane joins us from Leeds University where she has already gained a BA (Hons) in Textile Design, an MSc (Merit)  in Advanced Clothing & Performance Textiles and  is currently completing her PhD into Garment Performance

jane.grimshaw@equipuk.com

The Sales Team

Trade sales are serviced by a combination of Area Sales Managers on the road supported by our internal sales office.  Our Tech Rep provides specialist staff training throughout the UK.

Neil is responsible for UK and Eire sales across all brands at Equip, working with a team of 4 sales reps and 4 sales office administrators, mixing time in the office with visits to key accounts throughout the territory.  Neil has worked in the outdoor industry since 1990 and also has a strong climbing and mountaineering background in the UK, Europe, the Americas and Himalaya.

neil.mcadie@equipuk.com

Matt has worked in the Outdoor Industry since leaving university. He now bridges the gap between Neil the Sales manager and the sales office team. He enjoyed a few years of competitive cycling before settling nicely into middle age! He's now happy to spend his free time cycling around the Peak District on road and off but he'll take part in any other outdoor pursuits that present themselves!

matt.clarke@equipuk.com

Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager

Sales Office Contact

Ian Cowie - Area Manager Scotland and the Lakes.
Ian tours the Highlands talking about outdoor kit - some people would pay to do that yet we pay him! Easy life! With wide ranging industry experience and a strong ski background Ian works across all of our brands.

ian.cowie@equipuk.com

Paul Innes
Paul is our sales agent for both Eire and Northern Ireland across all of the Equip brands.  Paul has a strong background in technical equipment sales at both retail and supply level and brings great experience to our team.  Paul remains a committed rock climber, dodging the rain in Ireland!

paul.innes@equipuk.com

Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson works in our sales office looking after all of Ian’s accounts (Scotland, Lakes, NE) and Paul’s area (Northern Ireland and Eire).  Dan joins us from a background in the sharp end of retail and could lay claim to be the fittest member of our team with a 100km round trip cycle across the Peak District to work each day.  Seen here competing in this years Fred Whitton race in the Lake District.

dan.thompson@equipuk.com

Area Sales Manager

Sales Office Contact

Chris Vanderhoven - Area Manager for the North of England, North Wales and the Midlands, Chris is an all round outdoors guy, he climbs, mountain bikes and snowboards and apparently loves llamas!

chris.vanderhoven@
equipuk.com

Declan McGing
Dec looks after Chris' accounts. In his spare time he admits to being quite lazy, watching films and reading books but after getting a mountain bike last year he's trying to change this.

declan.mcging@equipuk.com

Area Sales Manager

Sales Office Contact

Matt Bengey
After learning his craft in specialist outdoor retail Matt is now our Area Manager in the South of England and South Wales.  Matt loves to drive and talk about gear, an ideal combination!  As a keen climber he can often be found on the great trad routes in the Bristol and SW area with trips to Yosemite and Europe when possible.

matt.bengey@equipuk.com

Dan Winter
Another recruit from a specialist outdoor retail background Dan provides the sales office support for Matt’s area accounts, and also administers all the export sales for EU countries.  When not at work Dan can be found mountain biking in our local Peak District or falling off a Gritstone crag!

dan.winter@equipuk.com

Tech Rep /
Retail Staff Trainer

Stu Hitcham
Stu has been interested in outdoor pursuits since the age of 11 and achieved all levels of the Duke of Edinburgh award, even having the award presented by the Duke and Alan Hinkes! He's been an outdoor instructor and worked in outdoor retail at management level. Stu will train specialist outdoor stores throughout the UK across all Equip brands.

stuart.hitcham@equipuk.com

Export Sales Representative

Sales Agent Norway

Sales Agent Norway

Jonathan Morgan
Jon is responsible for developing sales in Europe. He has a wealth of experience after working in the outdoor retail trade and working as a climbing/skiing/hiking guide for the world Scout centre in Switzerland. He is an all round climber, Mountain marathon competitor and skier. He looks after all of our export customers.

jonathan.morgan@
equipuk.com

Bjørn Kruse
Giant Norwegian ski-god and sales agent for RAB, outdoordesigns and Handy Heros in Norway. Bjørn loves steep couloirs, outdoordesigns gloves and beautiful women, but not necessarily in that order!

info@topptur.com

Christian Evensen
Christian is a skier, climber, hunter and just enjoys life to the full.

info@topptur.com

Sales Agent Switzerland

Sales Agent Switzerland

Sales Agent Benelux

Milos Fryta
Sales Agent in Switzerland
for the Rab brand

freetimex@bluewin.ch

Hermann Blaser
Sales Agent in Switzerland
for the outdoordesigns and Handy Heros brands

hermann.blaser@
sherpaoutdoor.ch

Rob Fröberg
Rob is our sales agent for RAB, outdoordesigns and Handy Heros in Benelux. Originally with a strong climbing background Rob now sticks to hiking, mountain biking, skiing and speedskating.

info@outware.nl

Sales Agent France

Sales Agent Italy

Sales Agent Germany

Jonathan Caffyn
Jonathan is our contact for all French sales.

info@toprock.fr

Pierluigi Marengon
Pierluigi is our contact for all Italian sales.

pierluigi@vikingnordpool.com

Dirk Reinholz
The German agent for Equip, like many in the outdoor trade, Dirk went from hobby to profession. In the little bits of spare time he can find he likes running, hiking, biking and skiing but also loves a good match of tennis or beach volleyball.

info@cleanwood.eu

Sales Agent Germany

Tim Bucksteeg
German agent for Rab.

tim.bucksteeg@t-online.de

Marketing

Nikki Skinner
Marketing Manager Nikki has worked in the outdoor industry for a while and is a self confessed gear freak! She is happiest outdoors whether cycling, running, climbing, mountaineering or having a coffee and reading the papers.

nikki.skinner@equipuk.com

Georgina Reed
George is our graphic designer, working on packaging, web sites and catalogues, between trips putting our walking products to good use on the local hills of the Peak District.

georgina.reed@equipuk.com

Finance

Rose Moore
Rose has overall responsibility for daily monitoring of our financial systems. When not at work Rose is our top golfer and often found out on the fairway...or bunker! As she pays all of our wages she's a really, really top woman!

rose.moore@equipuk.com

Beth Edwards
Beth runs our sales ledger function in the UK. When
she's not on the 'phone encouraging our customers
to settle their accounts she
can be found developing her position as our number one party animal.

beth.edwards@equipuk.com

Hallam Catton
Hallam continues the tradition of being a party animal and a member of the accounts department. Finding a picture of him without a beer in hand was quite an achievement!

hallam.catton@equipuk.com

James Philpot
James the techie, mends the computers when they go wrong! He is responsible for maintaining the computer network and telephone system.

james.philpot@equipuk.com

Steve Bridges
Steve is the company buyer, he's responsible for ...buying! He can often be found climbing the walls!

steve.bridges@
equipuk.com

Jonathan (LJ)Powell
Buying aministrator LJ is an experienced climber, mountain biker and kayaker, oh and you don't want to upset him...he's a black belt first dan in Karate!!

jonathan.powell@
equipuk.com

Lee Bridges
Operations Manager Lee has full responsibility for the warehouse and factory. He cruelly extracts every last gram of effort out of our experienced staff members ensuring consistently high quality.

lee.bridges@equipuk.com

Mark Wilson
Customer services manager Mark tackles any returns across all of the equip brands. After many years working on the RAB fabric cutting tables and using the gear for biking and running events Mark is well qualified to answer your questions across the whole RAB range.

Dave Cunningham

Lester Allcock

The lads are our experienced down fillers ensuring consistent and controlled filling of all down sleeping bags at our factory in Derbyshire.

David Naylor
David is a valuable member
of the warehouse team, even
if he does support Notts County!

Neil Sims
Neil is yet another football fan, as a supporter of Derby County it's as though each member of the warehouse has to support a different team!