Martyn Pellew joins Pearson-Harper Board

Well-known Teesside business figure supports company expansion

Pearson Harper, the engineering information management specialist based on Teesside has appointed Martyn Pellew to its Board as a Non Executive Director.

Mr Pellew has extensive industrial sector experience and is currently Group Development Director at PD Ports Limited, owner of Teesport, where he played a key role in the company’s successful 2004 stock market flotation and subsequent sale to BBI in 2006.

Chairman of Tees Valley Chamber of Commerce, he also sits on the North East Chamber’s board and policy council and was appointed to the board of Business & Enterprise North East in 2006.  His charitable work includes membership of the St Francis Children’s Society adoption panel.

Commenting on the appointment, Steve Pearson, Chief Executive of Pearson-Harper, said:
“We’re delighted that Martyn has joined our Board, his extensive knowledge and experience will be invaluable to Pearson-Harper as we embark on a critical phase of growth.

“We supply specialist content engineering services to the process sector including oil and gas, petrochemical, utility and pharmaceutical – and as such we hold the key to dramatically improved commercial performance in all of these industries.  Martyn’s role will be to help leverage our technical ability so that we can deliver our process efficiencies more widely into our clients – most of which are complex and colossal organisations.”

Pearson Harper is currently working with a number of Blue Chip organisations including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Sabic at sites across the world ranging from Australia and Azerbaijan to Angola.

Before joining PD Ports in 2002, Mr Pellew held a number of senior positions at the Unipart Group, including director and general manager of Unipart Rail Logistics, customer services director at Railpart (UK) and development director at NRS. His early career was spent with engineering group Morgan Crucible plc, German based chemical and pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG, Ladbroke Group plc and included the launch of Exel, now DHL.

Visit www.pearson-harper.com or call 01642 373000 for more information about Pearson-Harper specialist services.