Our Team

Personal Bio

Lynda Hulme, HR Director at Fowler Welch, has a degree in Business Studies and a professional diploma in HR management, both obtained prior to starting work in the hard-edged world of manufacturing. Before joining Fowler Welch, Lynda worked in banking and insurance for 12 years, in a variety of HR and operational management roles, having joined the forward thinking, socially responsible Co-operative Bank in 2005. During this time, she supported a wide range of business sectors as an HR practitioner, including retail and corporate banking. As important, Lynda also chose to spend time as an operational line manager in a number of customer contact centres which gave her an unparalleled, first hand understanding of managing both teams and individuals. After a short break to establish her own hospitality sector business, Lynda joined Fowler Welch. While she had little knowledge of the industry, she quickly became addicted to the pace and challenge of logistics and, more specifically, to the drive to shape a people agenda and ensure on-going support and investment in both management capability and the wider workforce. Through her team, Lynda has overseen the introduction of a number of initiatives in support of the overall people strategy, including a performance management / development process, management process and soft skills workshops and a range of employee benefits including childcare vouchers, a cycle to work scheme, a colleague referral programme and a collision reduction incentive scheme for LGV drivers. Under Lynda’s leadership, the HR function at Fowler Welch has developed from being reactive and transaction-focused into more ‘valued adding’, supporting and enabling change across the business. It now works in close partnership with the operational and support teams to ensure the people activities are aligned to the vision of being an ‘Employer of Choice’.

Personal Bio

Jonathan Lee was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for boys and, on completing his education here, he chose to move straight into the commercial sector. He started his working life in the distribution industry with Henley Transport as a traffic operator. In a typically thorough approach to his work, Jonathan threw himself into a wide variety of role opportunities, covering everything in his early days from order entry to planning and organising drivers. His energy and dedication saw him make quick progress through the business. He soon moved into an early role as Transport Manager, before rising to the position of Operations Manager and finally General Manager. Jonathan then moved into account management with Fowler Welch, with responsibility for one of the company’s largest customers. This central role gave him a strong working knowledge of all the sites and his fellow team members across the Fowler Welch network. Now, in more recent years, his role has grown to encompass business development for the whole of south of the UK, covering all aspects of the business from transport movements to warehousing and consolidation. Jonathan’s earlier operational experience, with its exposure to our broad capabilities and inherent flexibility, has been an ideal platform for his new position. He was promoted to Head of Sales in 2016. Jonathan is a family man with two children and, when time allows, his outside interests include football, sports, cooking and wine collecting.

Personal Bio

Jimmy Lee, the Head of Operations for Chill at Fowler Welch, was born and raised in Huddersfield where he attended All Saints Secondary School and Sixth Form College. He began his working career with a food manufacturing company, where, for twelve years, he gained invaluable experience across a variety of management positions in several locations nationwide. Jimmy followed this with a move into the mainstream logistics sector, joining Corby Chilled Distribution. He spent ten very successful years with the company, working in a number of varied management roles that culminated with his position as Operations Director. In this role he held direct responsibility for the company’s national chilled network based over six sites. Following the buy out of Corby Chilled in 2006, Jimmy transferred to Innovate Logistics, taking on the role of Transport and Chilled Warehousing Director. He joined Fowler Welch in 2008 as Regional General Manager (North), before taking the position of Head of Operations for Chill and Express. In his current position he has responsibility for the company’s operations in Kent, Hilsea , Washington and Spalding. In Jimmy’s younger days he was a professional Rugby League player with Huddersfield, a team he still supports very actively today.