Matthew Stockwin (Past Speaker)

Since January this year, Matthew has been the European Manufacturing Director of Coats plc, the world’s largest supplier of Thread. With his team of 7, he is responsible for over 1000 employees in 4 production plants. His biggest success has been the restructuring of Linde’s operations in Southern Europe 2015 to 18. He believes the biggest opportunity in the manufacturing industry is talent – recruitment and development, despite the unstoppable race to automation. People will always define our boundary of success.