Richard Durrant

Richard Durrant has more than 40 years’ experience in the Fiber Optics market and has more than 20 patent assignments. Richard has been the co-founder of 3 successful start-up companies, 2 of which were sold to large US public corporations.

His career began in Engineering, moving to Sales and Marketing, to General Management and during periods of public company ownership, Executive Directorships at Stratos Lightwave Corporation, Emerson Corporation and Tyco Electronics.

Igor Stouklov

Dr. Igor Stouklov has a number of advanced degrees in Physics, Optics and Engineering from some of the world’s best technical schools and over 35 years of experience in Optics, Lasers and Fiber Optics.

He has co-founded 4 successful start-ups and has worked for several large public companies, with experience that has included engineering, technical, marketing/sales and general management of large cross-functional teams. He has numerous patents to his name in optics and fiber optics.

Jo McBrien

Jo joined the team over 20 years ago and gained a broad experience working within Sales, Customer Service and Business Development focusing predominantly on fiber connectivity solutions for the Military, Broadcast and Datacom markets.

In more recent years she has undertaken General Manager roles, and since OFP’s launch in 2016, Jo has been OFP’s General Manager overseeing the full operations of the facility in Haverhill.

Jane Beasley

Jane has been with the Haverhill team for over 35 years, and throughout her career has worked in senior financial control roles.

More recently, as Financial Director, Jane is a key member of the senior management team providing strategic financial leadership, planning and accounting for OFP.

Mark Corrigan

Having studied at the University of Nottingham Mark received first class honours in Physics and has since studied wavefront Sensing at the University of Durham. Mark joined OFP over 5 years ago, working as a Development Engineer before quickly progressing to Product Development Manager.

Utilizing his vast technical experience and knowledge, Mark has recently taken on the role of EMEA Sales and Applications Manager, providing technical sales across the EMEA markets.

Kelly Oldford

Kelly joined the team over 30 years ago and has gained a broad experience within manufacturing, customer services and sales. Kelly has strong expertise in fibre optic products for the defence sector, gained from more than 20 years’ experience producing expanded beam products for multiple markets across the world.

Kelly now focuses on providing excellent customer service management and internal sales support for our customers.

David Bailey

David joined the Haverhill team over 25 years ago and has gained broad experience within Manufacturing and Engineering across multiple product lines including telecoms, datacom and subsea.

David has worked as Quality Manager for many years, successfully leading the implementation and re-certification of OFP’s ISO9001:2015 certification. David continually drives high standards, allowing us to deliver excellent quality to our customers. 

Ian Radford

Ian Radford is an economics graduate and Chartered Accountant with many years’ experience advising companies in the electronics and biotech industries. He has been a key financial advisor to all of the team’s startups as Company Secretary.

Ian also was a founding shareholder in Mikon Ltd. He has lengthy and continuing experience advising multi-national technology companies on their UK operations.