Meet the Team

Jerry Robson

Chairman

Robin Davies

Group Managing Director

Ken Mansfield

Finance Director

Bruce Milne

Director: InstaFoam & Fibre

Paul Robson

Director: InstaCoustic

Dave Robson

Director: InstaFibre Consortium

Jerry founded the Insta Group in 1980 and held the positions of Managing Director and Chairman from then until August 2006. At that time he handed the MDship over to Robin Davies, retaining the company Chairmanship.

Guiding Motto	Always treat everybody as you expect to be treated yourself
Favourite out of work pastime	Golf
Favourite Book	Birdsong by Sebastian Foulkes
Favourite Listening	The Entertainer
Favourite Film	Dr No
Favourite Play	Barnham

Robin Davies (Group Managing Director)

Robin is responsible for the strategy and overall operation of the Insta Group and its subsidiaries.

Prior to joining Insta in 2005 he spent 10 years on the main board of Westbury plc where he launched a number of new businesses and re-positioned Westbury as a forward thinking major player in the new build market. His experience also includes senior roles in manufacturing and building materials companies where he has held responsibility for logistics, marketing, information technology and customer service.

He spent a year in Seattle, USA in the late 1990’s sponsored by the Financial Times as a Harkness Fellow at the University of Washington Business School learning how suppliers to companies such as Boeing and Microsoft develop new products, manage innovation and deliver excellent customer service.

Guiding Motto	Our people make the difference
Favourite out of work pastime	Beekeeping
Favourite Listening	Latin Jazz

Ken Mansfield (Finance Director)

Ken’s responsibility is to safeguard the assets of the company.

He ensures that the InstaGroup maintains proper accurate accountancy records and that the appropriate financial controls are in place. He is also responsible for preparing and filing the group’s annual accounts and statutory return.

Ken is also responsible for monitoring the financial well being of the group. To which end he steadfastly sticks to three simple guiding principles. In common with most people in his profession he objects to almost all expenditure, strenuously claims we are neither being paid adequately nor quickly enough and that we are too generous to those we pay.

Usually one on the first in the office and one of the last to leave Ken takes getting a good parking space very seriously.

Guiding Motto	Virtutem Petamus
Favourite out of work pastime	Watching the Instafibre sponsored Sandhurst Saints win a football game
Favourite Listening	Oasis

Bruce Milne (Director - InstaFoam & Fibre)

Bruce first got involved in the Insulation industry back in 1973 while serving his apprenticeship as a plumber, moving on to a small insulation contractor through the 70s until joining the InstaGroup in 1984 as an Installer.

He has carried out a variety of jobs for InstaFoam & Fibre including Technical Manager until 2002 when he then became General Manager and then in 2005 a Director for InstaFoam & Fibre Limited.

Guiding Motto	At 18 I thought I knew everything, now in my 50s I realize how little I actually do know.
Favourite out of work pastime	Bruce loves to travel and says that the older he gets the longer his list of places which he wants to visit gets, he has always been a keen sportsman and since hanging up his football boots in 1996 is now spending what spare time he has with his close family and trying to get his golf handicap down
Favourite Listening	Anything from pop to classical, with the exception of any more than one Jazz number on any occasion

Paul Robson (Director: InstaCoustic)

Paul joined InstaGroup in 2002 as Commercial Manager, InstaCoustic Ltd. He is responsible for the day to day running and strategic direction of the Acoustic insulation and sports flooring business.

After graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London with an honours degree in Environmental Geology, Paul spent some time travelling the world.

Then, eager to make use of his degree, he worked for four years in the off-shore oil industry, based in West Africa. Of his time there, Paul says: "It was a fantastic experience. I learned a great deal about myself and about the world in which we live and work."

Eventually, looking for a more settled lifestyle, Paul returned to the UK to work as an analyst, first in the computer games industry, followed by a spell with the car rental and business travel giants Avis, where he swiftly progressed through the ranks.

Now six years into his Insta career, Paul is a respected member of the team, known for his dedicated and meticulous approach.

Guiding Motto	'If you fail to prepare then prepare to fail'
Favourite out of work pastime	Participating in sports of all types - particularly golf and squash!
Favourite Listening	Van Morrison or ColdPlay
Favourite Books	Virgin King (Richard Branson biography), Tim Jackson Behind the Network (Autobiography), Bob Wilson
Favourite Film	The Shawshank Redemption

Dave Robson (Director: InstaFibre Consortium)

Dave is responsible for running the InstaFibre Consortium which oversees grant funding for Insta’s network of 85 approved installers across the UK.

Before going to university Dave spent a year teaching in Kenya which has given him a love of Africa. He graduated from Newcastle University in 2000 with a BA Hons degree in Politics as well as a great affinity for the North East region and its people.

Dave spent four years in the Civil Service including two years working in the private office of the Immigration Ministers Lord Rooker and Beverley Hughes MP. He then joined Walden Telecom in Byfleet where he ran a project on the rollout of the 3G network for O2 in the South East Area.

He joined Insta in 2005 as Assistant Consortium Manager.

Guiding Motto	Not a guiding motto but I’ve always liked Oscar Wilde’s quote "Punctuality is the thief of time"
Favourite out of work pastime	Watching Chelsea at the Bridge
Favourite Books	The No.1 Ladies' Detective Series by Alexander McCall Smith
Favourite Listening	Peter Allen on Radio 5 - I love his sense of humour.
Favourite Film	Shawshank Redemption
Favourite Play	Blood Brothers