Directors:

Gulf Technology Systems, as our company was originally known, was founded in 1994 by Managing Director Ian Barker. Ian has over 25 years experience working in the Middle East, first in Saudi Arabia then in the U.A.E., specifying first warehouse storage systems then packaging and printing equipment.

Ian was joined in 1999 by Tim Ansell, the two of them having previously worked together during the period 1992 - 1994. Tim's own experience includes over 15 years in the Gulf, plus 18 months in the U.S.A. and a similar period in Australia establishing sales distribution networks for coding equipment manufacturers.

Sales Team:

Ravi Shetty was promoted to Sales Manager after succesfully managing our shrink film business for several years. He travels extensively throughout the Gulf region and is developing new business in all our market areas within each Gulf state. Ravi speaks fluent Arabic.

Sathish Kumar is responsible for sales of shrink wrapping films and machinery across the U.A.E. and Oman. His previous experience included the sale and service of packaging machinery throughout the U.A.E.

Ollin Shaik is our Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) system specialist and has many years experience in telesales and customer account management. Ollin holds a degree in Chemistry and she is also responsible for administering the import of inks and other consumables.

Carl van Dyk joined us from South Africa where he had been running his own successful power transmission supplies business in the Johannesburg area. He is now responsible for our end of line / materials handling equipment including RollerForks and pallet inverters, as well as Proseal tray sealing systems

Paul Tate moved from London to Dubai to join Al Thika Packaging LLC. He has more than 15 years of retail and commercial sales experience, including two years working at the Harrods department store! Paul is responsible for Markem-Imaje and Safeline sales.

Service Team:

Mohammed Sarwar worked in the Sultanate of Oman for seven years as a service engineer on packaging machines. He has proved to be a valuable addition to our service team and was promoted to become Service Supervisor in 2006. Mohamed speaks fluent Arabic.

Thomas Thomas was based in Jebel Ali for several years maintaining packaging lines for a tea packing company. He has experience installing such equipment throughout S.E. Asia on behalf of manufacturers.

Prakash D'Souza came to us from a snack food packing company in Dubai so was already familiar with maintenance of metal detectors, coding and marking equipment and v.f.f.s. machines.

Marik Kumar previously worked with Mohamed Sarwar in Oman so he too has extensive experience of packaging machinery and the Omani market.

Dennis Susa is an electrical engineer with PLC programming experience. Formerly with a Saudi packaging machinery distributor, he is trained on Markem products plus a range of others including shrink wrap and v.f.f.s. machines.

Cesar Marquez joined us from a major snack food manufacturer, where he had installed and maintained their entire plant. He is an electrical and electronics engineer with extensive PLC programming experience.

Accounts & Administration:

Abdul Sathar deals with the day to day administration of imports and exports, as well as the majority of stock control and accounting functions. He also manages our official documentation requirements such as visas and trade licenses etc.

Dylan Kenneth handles all incoming service calls and co-ordinates the service team's activities. In addition he takes care of spare parts stock control and orders placed on our overseas suppliers.

Logistics & Warehouse:

Shamshad is known to every one of our local customers as he has the crucial role of delivering machines, consumables and spare parts throughout the U.A.E. He also keeps our warehouse orderly and clean, and manages the packing of many of our goods for export shipments.