TPI July 2014

n What are the future plans for your company? Do you see a lot of potential for growth in the regions that you deal with? Absolutely. Water is increasingly moving centre stage as, literally across the world, the predicted challenges of urbanisation, leakage and deteriorating infrastructure become realities. Alongside that, we are also actively engaged in moving into complementary and related sectors too. So the future? Growth, including moving from a single hub, based in the UK, to a multi-hub regional structure. n What is the most enjoyable thing about your job/working for the company/working in your current role? There are two things. First, the people. We try to combine providing an exciting and stimulating environment with enjoying the work too (for the people we recruit, the first is a prerequisite to the second). We have a great team at Syrinix and I do really enjoy working with them all. The second aspect is the intellectual challenge. There’s nothing quite like a relatively early stage venture for uncertainty, and the constant need to assess which options to progess, where to go next, which to ignore, I find tremendously enjoyable. n What is the toughest aspect of your job? And what is the most difficult thing about being in a position of responsibility at your company? As CEO you’re the one that has to make the final call. Looking at options is one thing, but there comes a point when you have to make a decision and that often falls to the CEO. It can be lonely on occasion but the upsides more than compensate. n What is the most exciting or challenging project you have worked on during your career so far, and why? Syrinix. The “stretch” never ends. You get over one hurdle and, in reality, that just means you can see the next one more clearly. It is terrifically engaging and, when it comes together, terrifically rewarding too for everyone at Syrinix. n What is the longest you’ve worked without sleep and/or what is the worst crisis you have faced/or your proudest moment? If you start seeing lack of sleep as something to brag about you’re in trouble. I also don’t look at things in terms of crises nor proudest moments. There are, and always be, challenges.

The important thing is to work with your colleagues to overcome them and, before you look up at the next one coming down the line, pause to enjoy the moment and recognise those that have helped overcome the last one. n How do you see the tube and pipe industry (or your specific sector of it) changing over the next five to ten years following the global recession? What do you think the industry can learn for the future from the past few years? Across the world, utilities are facing the challenge of increasing expectations for safe reliable water supplies on the one hand and insufficient financial resource on the other.

Sure the detail will be different from different from region to region, but on the whole the theme still remains.

Syrinix – UK info@syrinix.com www.syrinix.com

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