Big brand experience bolsters DriveTech's management team

6 January 2009

Award-winning Berkshire-based driver education specialist DriveTech is gearing up for continued growth with the appointment of Roger Reynolds to the position of Operations Director.

Before joining DriveTech, Roger held a variety of senior positions in the mobile telecommunications industry where customer service, innovation and rapid response to market demand are prerequisites. During spells with Cellnet, Orange, T-Mobile, Marconi Wireless and Ericsson, Roger acquired huge experience in both creating and developing various business units through the application of detailed operational planning.

“We are very pleased to welcome someone with such a wide variety of business experience” says Chris Howell, DriveTech’s chairman. “Because of its diversification, product effectiveness and customer retention, DriveTech is growing rapidly year on year. Roger will be instrumental in ensuring we have a cohesive approach to meeting the operational demands of the existing six DriveTech brands and those that are to follow.”

Roger, who lives in Princes Risborough, has an MBA from University of Surrey and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Further information about DriveTech’s wide-ranging work in driver education please refer to www.drivetech.co.uk

For further information, members of the media should contact
Steve Johnson on direct line +44 (0)1344 467896, mobile +44 (0)7894 621134 or on steve.johnson@drivetech.co.uk

Editor's Notes

DriveTech (UK) plc is one of the UK’s leading providers of road risk management, driver assessment and education. We work with organisations whose employees ‘drive for work’ (FleetSafe) and with members of the public, who are offered education as an alternative to prosecution by the police (DriverAware), as well as a totally fresh approach to learning to drive (Advantage).

DriveTech’s vision is ‘working together to eliminate road death and serious injuries’ by providing the most effective and innovative solutions, using education and technology, to minimise risk for all road users.

DriveTech has won the Institute of Transport Management’s ‘Fleet Award for Driver Training’ in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 and the ‘European Driver Safety Specialist’ award in 2005. In September 2007, it was named the ITM’s ‘UK Driver Training Solutions Specialist’ and in 2008 DriveTech was voted ‘Best Driver Training Company’ in the Green Fleet Awards.

DriveTech is a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, the Association of Car Fleet Operators, the Association of National Driver Improvement Scheme Providers, the DfT’s ‘Driving For Better Business’ campaign and is accredited by both the Driving Standards Agency and City & Guilds.