New Sales and Marketing Director at Uponor

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Mar 1, 2007

Iain Knowles has been appointed Uponor Infrastructure's sales and marketing director.

Iain Knowles has been appointed Uponor Infrastructure's sales and marketing director, following the retirement in December of George Lees.

Iain has been with Uponor for five years, joining as regional sales manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and progressing to national sales manager a couple of years ago.

His career began at the age of 17 as an apprentice craftsman with Scottish Gas (later British Gas Scotland), where he worked his way up the organisation in an engineering function, later specialising in gas distribution engineering systems.

After various roles, including a spell at BG Engineering HQ in Marble Arch, London on a four-year secondment, Iain moved back to Scotland and joined GMI (Gas Measurement Instruments) of Renfrew near Glasgow, where he worked for five years as gas industry manager before joining Uponor.

Originally from the Edinburgh area, Iain is married to Gillian and cites his many hobbies as walking, skiing, fly fishing, cycling and squash.

His current ambition is to climb Everest (well, get to the base camp bit anyway).