Our People

Adrian is a Director & Chairman of the Board; Adrian has been involved in the World of contracting and machinery sales for the past 30+ years; having founded, developed and managed what is now ADP Group Ltd, since 1983 as a sole trader and then as a partnership, prior to making it a limited company in 2007.

Historically Adrian’s background has been within the Agricultural and Civil Engineering industries before diversification in 2006 saw the company move into its current field.

Adrian is still actively involved in the running of ADP Group Ltd and its subsidiary businesses; in both a hands-on and consultancy capacity.

Tom is our Managing Director; Tom’s background is in the Agricultural & Engineering industry, having grown up in the family Agricultural Contracting business he left to train as a Mechanical Engineer before being moved in to the Sales Dept. of the same industry leading firm, T H White Ltd.

Alongside Josh & Sally, Tom is responsible for the day-to-day running and general management of ADP Group Ltd.

Day-to-day duties include management of department heads, assisting with planning and delivery of all live projects, tendering/quoting and winning of new work, site visits and customer relations.

Tom can be reached at our Head Office on 01454 227 115

Sue is our Financial Director; Sue has been involved in ADP Group Ltd since its conception (in its previous form) in 1984, having been a founding partner before ADP Group became a limited business in 2007.

Sue’s responsibilities to this day include:

• Credit Control
• Accounts Payable
• VAT & Taxation
• Sales Ledger
• Purchase Ledger

As well as other general financial controller duties.

Josh is our Operations Director and handles the day-to-day management of all live projects. Josh also works closely with our Drilling Manager to ensure efficient, safe and professional delivery of services on a day to day basis.

Josh is also our Rail & Road Division Lead and assumes management for all rail & road contracts including quoting and contract management (along with contracts from many other industries!); Josh is ultimately responsible for our RISQS and Sentinel, along with most health and safety.

Sally is a Director and also serves as our Company Secretary; Sally’s background and experience is mainly within credit control and accounts admin. alongside the running and day-to-day management of small offices.

Sally joined the family firm in January 2012 to assist in our accounts and credit control dept. as we continue to slowly grow in size.

Sally’s responsibilities now include tachograph management, employee PPE control, hotel bookings, annual leave, PAYE and HR. Alongside Tom, Sally is also responsible for the day-to-day running of ADP Group.

Sally also looks after our purchase order system, authorising and ordering parts, materials and plant; as well as assisting Sue with credit control and purchase ledger.

Jake is our Survey Director; Jake joined ADP Group in early 2011 as a Senior Land & Utility Surveyor, since this time he has worked on a countless number of sites throughout the UK and France.

At the start of 2013 Jake was made division manager responsible for surveying, responsibilities include quoting, invoicing, CAD processing, logistics and planning of jobs as well as management of ADP Group surveyors; all whilst still often being onsite! In September 2014 Jake was made Survey Director.

Jake’s specialist training includes SPA, LPS (Esso), SHEA Gas and NG Persons/BESC. Jake’s attention to detail, friendly approach and “can do” attitude see him regularly requested back to sites.

Dave is our Drilling Manager.

Dave is our site crews’ first point of contact, and is in daily contact with field teams throughout the UK.

Along with Josh, Dave liaises with both ADP Group crews and clients to ensure the smooth delivery of contracts Nationwide.

Dave has been a longstanding member of our team, joining us in 2013 as a second man, before becoming a lead driller in 2015 and achieving promotion to Drilling Manger in 2018.

Dave also possesses multiple site competences, including NVQ L2 in Land Drilling, a BDA Lead Drillers Audit, CSCS, SPA, LPS & PTS to name but just a few!

As workshop manager, Craig is responsible for all things mechanical. If it moves when it shouldn’t, or doesn’t when it should, then Craig is your man. Craig provides a vital link between our field team, operations team and supply chain to ensure that all equipment is fit, healthy and well maintained.

Equipment breaks down, and when it does, Craig’s manufacturer training combined with his experience and knowledge of our fleet of vehicles and equipment ensures that downtime is kept to a minimum.

Before his move in to the drilling industry, Craig worked with military equipment, maintaining and repairing tanks associated track-laying equipment.

Sarah started work at ADP Group in Summer ’19 and works alongside Sue in accounts payable and receivable.

Sarah handles all general administration and like most of us here at ADP Group, is dynamic in her approach to her daily responsibilities- helping whichever team needs her assistance the most!

The office environment was new to Sarah in 2019, who came to us from a background in equine care, having previously taken care of event and sport horses- naturally Sarah therefore also assumes responsibility for all office pets and mascots, in a bid to keep her hand in!