Jason Malloy
Group Financial Director
A qualified Chartered Accountant, Jason joined James Heal in April 2015 as Finance Director. Prior to joining James Heal, Jason has worked in a number of senior roles and across a number of ownership structures.
His experience has always been in manufacturing predominantly in metals as Divisional Financial Controller at Firth Rixson (PE), Group Finance Director at ABS Industrial Resources (Private) and most recently worked in the glass container industry as Finance Director at Stoelze Flaconnage (Private).
Continuous improvement and eliminating waste are his guiding principles.
In his time at James Heal, Jason has updated the ERP system to create a fully integrated system, improving reporting and analysis, and deliver a faster turnaround of monthly accounts to both internal and external stakeholders. This has included transforming Finance and IT functions to forward-looking service centres, and working with the senior team to align the financial KPIs and keeping a tight control of fixed costs.
Neil Pryke
Group Managing Director
Neil joined the Company in 1997, and has been a company director since 2007, involved in many aspects of running the business.
He started out as a Senior Mechanical Designer, and designed the original Titan tensile tester. Following that he became Production Manager and was responsible for the regeneration of the production environment, using LEAN manufacturing methods and the very latest software and computer controlled machinery.
Neil subsequently took on the role of Innovation Director, managing our Design and Technical teams, where he focused on designing products that meet our customers’ needs, solve their challenges and add value to their business, to give our brand and products a competitive edge.
In 2011, Neil played a lead role in spear-heading a number of projects, including a strategic rebrand to strengthen our position in the market, a new product design signature and new product packaging. The result was the creation of a unique and strong brand, with a clear market proposition and positioning in the market. Post re-brand, James Heal went from £7.5million turnover in 2010 to £14.1million in 2017.
Neil works cross-functionally to ensure that customer needs drive our product development process and that ‘design thinking’ is tightly woven into our company culture.
In 2022 Neil became the Managing Director for PPT Group UK, taking responsibility for both James Heal and sister brand Mecmesin.
A fourth brand Lansmont, the world's largest provider of state-of-the-art shock and vibration measurement and testing technology, joined the group during 2022. Neil's role has since been widened further to bring a global perspective to our operations, as Group Operations Director in addition to his UK Managing Director role. The group now having manufacturing in all global regions, Neil's experience will bring synergies across our operations allowing each to share best practice and maximise the opportunities this brings.
Subsequently in January 2024, Neil was promoted to Group Managing Director with responsibility across all four PPT Group brands.
Neil Pryke, Group Managing DirectorI believe that good product design should make life easier, improve efficiency, give people more control and make them feel emotionally attached. We put the user at the centre of our design, making products easy to use.