Management Team

Profiles

Mike Carlin
Chief Executive Officer

Mike was responsible for founding Map Group (uk) Ltd (formerly Map Electrics Ltd) in 1993 and in combination with the Senior Management team that he rapidly put together, has helped drive the business from start-up to its current position as one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative Independent providers of Professional Technology Services to the Communications Sector.  Under Mike's leadership the company has gone from strength-to-strength since 1993 and now has a turnover in excess of £30m p.a and over a 1000 employees working across a base of clients throughout the UK.

Dave Keighley
Managing Director

Dave was appointed as the Managing Director of MAP Group (UK) in July 2008 and joined the board of Directors in the same month. He has since focused on defining and implementing group strategy through business process improvements, internal investments and mergers & acquisitions.

Dave started his career, in 1979, as a Engineer with GEC Telecommunications. When the Communications industry deregulated he moved into operations with Mercury Communications and then into the fledgling UK Cable industry, which eventually became Virgin Media, where he spent 13 years in various senior management roles. His roles included Group Director – Technology & Engineering and latterly Managing Director – Operations & Logistics.

David Percival
BA (Hons) ACA CTA
Financial Director

David joined the company in 2006 as Financial Controller and was appointed to the Board in July 2008. A chartered account and chartered tax advisor by profession, David worked in practice for five years for Jennings Johnson and then Ernst & Young in a variety of audit, accounting and tax roles. He moved into industry in 2001 working for VA Tech/Siemens in their transmission and distribution division, in a variety of financial positions.

Andy Long 
Director of Operations

Andy has been in the Commuications industry since 1993 and has held various operational roles.  He joined MAP Group (uk) in 1999 as an Operations Manager where he managed teams of engineers installing communication services to business and consumers.   Andy moved in to a Regional Managers role in 2004 and  has contributed significantly to the successful growth of MAP Group (uk), where he has created a strong ethos of 'Customer Focus' and 'Quality' within our engineering teams.  In July 2008 Andy was appointed into the role of Director of Operations and joined the Board in the same month.