Meet the team

Peter Melia

Project Lead

Year joined: 2023

Peter joined Sapphire in 2023 and has been working in the balcony & balustrade industry since 2012. Peter started in the construction industry in 2007. Peter has a background in music production and drama, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre.

Phil Chitty

ESH Manager

Year joined: 2015

Phil came on board in 2015 when our previous H&S manager retired and brought with him a wealth of enthusiasm.  Phil previously worked for the likes of Berkeley Group, Sir Robert McAlpine and Amey, always in health and safety. Phil is an appointed person and his qualifications also include MIIRSM, first aid (including mental health) and is an IOSH member. Phil is always active in furthering our H&S standards for balcony install and accesses sites to ensure the right equipment is provided by us for each project’s needs.

Rhianna Bodman

Contract Manager Assistant

Year joined: 2022

Rhianna joined Sapphire straight after finishing school, working within our contracts team. In her spare time, Rhianna enjoys cooking and baking, occasionally bringing her baking projects in to share with the team!

Sam Estall

Content Marketing Executive

Year joined: 2022

After qualifying in Film Production, Sam joined our marketing team, having worked in previous roles producing content for the NHS and Legal industries. Sam is the editor of our quarterly Insight Magazine along with facilitating our customer service marketing activities including our social media platforms, collating our Rigid.Ready.Right. statistics, NPS scores and arranging post project meetings.

Selwyn Lindsell

Contracts Manager

Year joined: 2018

Selwyn is a Contracts Manager and joined the Sapphire team in September 2018. His responsibility is the design and project management of balcony projects. This involves the design of each balcony type for his projects and the management of the manufacture, storage, and installation of balconies. This includes close coordination with site teams along with our Supply Chain and Install teams to ensure the balcony manufacture is on track.

Selwyn McIntyre

Head of Sales

Year joined: 2021

Selwyn joined the Sapphire team in 2021 as a sales project lead, but gradually worked his way up to the Head of Sales as of 2023. Selwyn started his career in construction and initially worked in the wholesale building materials industry.

Steve Denner

Site Operations

Year joined: 2021

Steve started with Sapphire in 2021 on the Site team. Steve worked as a site coordinator on our project at Bridge House, Uxbridge when we achieved a 110-balcony install within two days.

Steve Leeves

Quality Coordinator

Year joined: 2020

Steve joined our QESH team in 2020 as a Quality Coordinator. His responsibilities include working with the contracts managers to ensure we meet our Rigid.Ready.Right. brand promise. He has worked in quality for 13 years. Industries he has worked in include precision cold drawn copy alloy and aluminium tubing within the maritime and naval industry; Rubber and Plastic moulding.

He has previously done voluntary youth work for 10 years at various churches including Wycliffe Baptist church in Reading.

Stuart Parsons

Market Researcher

Year joined:

Stuart’s career at Sapphire has been considerable from his initial role in the management of Sapphire Midlands as the company grew. He is now responsible for the assessment of project enquries, as his vast experience enables him to quickly assess projects which are of interest to our company. He also completes an important role of market research which involves reviewing thousands of planning applications and project data each year to add projects suited to our Glide-On balconies to our telemarketing pipelines from sources such as Barbour ABI.