People

John co-founded Portal to provide a unique solution to infrastructure capacity problems. Frustrated with the inherent shortcomings of in-house and outsourced models, John has been instrumental in launching Portal's Occupier Solutions business model in the UK.

From his international experience with Sitel, he has led Portal to its No.1 position in this market. The Company now operates 2,500+ workstations in prime locations around the UK and Occupier Solutions has become a must have component of accommodation delivery for businesses seeking to align their property strategy with the dynamic needs of their business.

For all sales or property related matters, John can be contacted on +44 (0)777 496 6060 or email: John.Gotley@portal-centres.com

Phil has 14 years’ experience across a broad range of hard/soft FM and property related services. With a strong operational background and client relationship management experience, Phil also has a wealth of Health and Safety experience and is NEBOSH certified.

Phil joined Portal in May 2011 and prior to that was the Operations Director for FM outsourcer Anabas where he had responsibility for over 700 employees and for the provision of full FM services across a national portfolio of clients in the retail, leisure and corporate sectors. Before that, Phil was the Regional Director and Strategic Development Director for Glendale and also worked for both Williams Lea and Initial on the facilities side.

At Portal, Phil has overall responsibility for all of the Portal sites, ensuring that agreed SLAs are met as management of project delivery for all new Portal sites. Phil can be contacted on +44 (0)7917 810508 or email: phil.sugden@portal-centres.com

Ian is an IT Professional with over twenty-five years’ experience of directing business through IT transformation and integration programmes. His background includes delivering infrastructure solutions, migrating and implementing IS/IT business systems, application development, telecommunications and data centre operations. Being MSP and Prince2 qualified Ian can also demonstrate a strong programme management capability delivering technically complex projects.

Prior to joining Portal, Ian worked for three years with the international courier company FedEx. Based from the Netherlands as EMEA Business Unit IT Manager, Ian worked in a diverse multi-cultural environment providing transitional IT consultancy and completed several European and multi-site projects in that time. He then moved on into Glasgow heading up and completing the relocation and implementation of a multi-lingual Call Centre SAP CRM project along with a large European Telecommunications requirement.

Ian started his career with Portal in 2004 bringing a breadth of managerial and project experience, and has responsibility for all new and existing client IT & Telephony services.

For further information on any of the Portal portfolio of products and solutions, Ian can be contacted on +44 (0)7917 170712 or email: Ian.Angus@portal-centres.com

John has over 30 years’ experience as a finance professional, with over 20 years at Director level. He accumulated a broad range of budgetary and strategic planning skills within large multinationals such as BP and Cable & Wireless and has subsequently operated at board level within the house-building and property development sectors.

He was part of a successful MBO team in the 90’s and joined the Portal team in 2003. He has implemented strong financial controls throughout his career and manages a team overseeing the strategic finances of the business and controlling the project costings required to allow the Portal model to run smoothly. John can be contacted on +44 (0)7787 517174 or e-mail:  John.Glennon@cannock.co.uk