We’ve been shaking things up a bit here at Murphy & Son; expanding our warehouse, investing in new production equipment and ensuring our entire site is food grade standard. It’s a time of continuous progression, as our old strapline goes ‘advancing through technical expertise’ and as our new strapline denotes, it’s all about ‘Quality, Consistency & Support’.
As part of this, changes are also afoot in our technical team, so we thought we should update you all and introduce our latest recruits! The team are all available via techsupport@murphyandson.co.uk
Iain Kenny started with us last June 2017, and dived head first into his new role providing technical support for those of you based in the Midlands and much of Wales (anywhere between the M4 and M62, give or take). He is now manning the helm as our Head of Technical and streamlining our services to get your results to you in record time. Iain comes to Murphys with a BSc Hons in Brewing and Distilling gained at Heriot-Watt University, including a placement at Tennants. Between then and now, Iain was Head Brewer for Kelham Island and owned and managed his own brewing and consultancy business, working with numerous breweries across South Yorkshire and the Midlands. With experience pretty much tailored for the role, it’s no wonder Iain’s fitted into work at Murphys so well!
Working alongside Iain is Nick Brading, who’s been an integral member of the Murphys team for many years now. You may well know Nick from his work in the export market, although Nick will now be focusing much of his efforts on supporting breweries in the North of England and Scotland and making his international ventures more occasional. In case you didn’t know, Nick is a bit of a genius and speaker extraordinaire, so we’d thoroughly recommend catching him talk should you have the opportunity. Before Murphys, Nick worked for Shipstones, Ruddles and Carlsberg International, oh and he’s a Master Brewer.
Our latest recruit to the technical team is Mat Henney. Mat comes to us with a broad range of experience, gained through his work as Brewer at Randalls Brewery (Guernsey), Second Brewer at Dartmoor Brewery and most recently Head Brewer at New Lion Brewery. Mat will be taking over from Adam Johnson as Technical Sales Rep for the South of England and very South of Wales. He has a BSc Hons & Dipl Brew training from the IBD and is on the cusp of completing the Master Brewer qualification. We’re very pleased to welcome Mat to our team, and have no doubt he’ll be an invaluable addition and instrumental in ensuring we continue to advance with you, the brewers, in mind.
Where’s Adam Johnson off to you say? He’s not leaving us, just moving a little further afield and will be our man on the ground in Europe! Adam will now be based out of Germany, so if you’re based in mainland Europe or Ireland and need technical support, Adam is your man! Adam’s has a BSc Hons & Dipl Brew from Heriot-Watt, and before Murphys worked for Carlsberg-Tetley, Belhaven Brewery and as Technical Brewer at St Austell brewery. Adam will be working closely with our Export Manager, Tom Wiszniewski, another new recruit who joined the company last year from a similar position as part of the medical industry. Tom is now our chief traveller, pursuing leads across the globe and already leading us to success. It also seems pertinent to mention our ventures in the US market as Murphy & Son Inc, which is being led by the brilliant Jamie Carmichael. Jamie is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland where he studied Brewing and Distilling at Heriot Watt and became a Watt Club Medal winner. Since then he’s worked in breweries far and wide, including Von Trapp (Vermont), Heather Ale (Scotland), Little Creatures (Australia) and Green Man (New Zealand), and has now settled in Massachusetts.
From globetrotting to a little closer to home, our onsite team are essential to our technical offering too. Hopefully you all know Frances Maud well, Fran is our Murphy HQ Technical Rep and always at the end of the phone ready to answer your questions (well during the working week that is). We’re also pleased to welcome two new managers to our onsite team. Richard Haywood joined us in July 2017 and is now our Head of Production; we’re already seeing the benefits of his scrupulous and methodical approach! Before Murphys Richard worked for Bass/Molson Coors, starting his career there in the laboratories and then moving onto production management across the brewing process. In 2003 Richard qualified as a Master Brewer and then moved to the maltings plant as Quality Manager. Richard has been joined on the senior management team by our latest recruit, Brandon Critchell, who is our new Head of Sales. Previous to his role at Murphys Brandon was Area Manager for Marstons, so shares in our love of beer. Together with Chris Cleal, Head of Operations, Brandon and Richard will be streamlining our systems and improving customer service here at Murphys, under the leadership of our Managing Director Charles Nicholds.
Phew! Think that just about covers it.
Murphy & Son are proud to be expanding our team so we can better support the beverage industry far and wide.
