Ray formed ACS in 1990, and has over 45 years’ experience of working in the Commercial Moves and Furniture Installation industry. Positions held include the following:

Rymans – Operations Director for Warehouse & Logistics

Steelcase UK – Facilities & Operations Director

Bristow Design Systems – Head of Operations Director, UK

ACS has grown as a direct result of satisfying and keeping its customers. Ray has personally been involved in many of the larger moves and installations completed by ACS including for example PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Unilever and Deloitte.

Phil joined ACS in 2005. He is a qualified accountant and as well as working in the accountancy profession he has held senior roles in large blue chip companies in the oil and telecommunication industries.

He brings a wealth of finance and commercial business knowledge to ACS as well as an understanding of what corporate clients/customers want.

James joined ACS in 1995 starting as a porter and quickly moved into installation and supervising on site, building an understanding of the various logistics involved in arranging relocations and installation. Taking this knowledge, in 1999 he then took on the role of Warehouse and Distribution Manager, and later Director of Operations at our Barking facility before returning to the field to concentrate on the installation and project management side of the group.

In the 28 years James has worked at the Atkinson Group he has carried out and successfully delivered a number of major projects and installations of various size all throughout the UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe and as far as America.

Joe joined ACS in 2003. He runs the storage and logistics for ACS, including domestic, European and worldwide shipping. He handles all aspects of Customs declaration and clearing for our Clients and currently arranges regular European shipments from, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland and Finland.

He manages several client contracts including: TRAH, B&T Design, USM.

David joined ACS in 1999. His previous experience includes Accountancy and Works and Resource Planning Manager at the ACS Operations Centre. He looks after many of our clients including:

Standard Chartered Bank, Jones Lang Lasalle, Insightful Environments, Zaha Hadid, Mace Macro, Futurefile.

David carries out all product Order Processing for all ACS clients and can create or update CAD drawings when required.

David has over 20 years experience within the industry and joined ACS in 2016 as our New Business Director.

To date he has bought in a number of new clients including Assmann, Soundtect, ST Skoleinventar and has helped create our new Design and Build service.