Management Team

Offsite Solutions has an experienced management team who have worked in various complimentary sectors creating a balanced mix of construction experience, technical knowledge, manufacturing expertise and financial management. The executive team is supported by a dedicated and highly skilled group of employees focussed on providing sector leading products and service.

James Stephens LLB LLM – Managing Director

Following completion of his Masters in International Commercial Law & Business, James spent 10 years as a solicitor in London with SJ Berwin and Jones Day, specialising in commercial and corporate law. James won the Nottinghamshire Young Business Person of the year award for 2009; sponsored by KPMG and Nottinghamshire County Council. James is also an Executive Director of Deanestor Plc. and Dentalstyle Limited.

Richard Tonkinson BSc Hons (Edin), ACSI – Executive Director

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh Richard spent 10 years in the City of London with Rothschilds, Williams de Broe and Citigroup/Solomon Smith Barney, latterly Richard was the department head for UK Equity Brokerage at Citigroup. Richard has experience in a wide range of capital markets and has worked on numerous corporate transactions including: M&A, IPOs/AIM admissions and secondary fund raisings. Richard was Money Week’s stock-picker of the year for 2005 and has written for a variety of financial publications. Richard holds a postgraduate diploma in accounting and is an Executive Director of Deanestor Plc. and Dentalstyle Ltd.

Jake Goddard – Technical Services Associate Director

Jake has over 35 years’ experience in the building and construction industry and has specialised in offsite construction, modular buildings, steel and GRP bathrooms pods for the last 25 years.Jake possess an unrivalled degree of knowledge regarding the design, manufacture, delivery, installation, servicing, maintenance and customer care of bathroom pods and associated products and services. Jake has  been closely involved with the supply of pods to all sectors including; Education, Student, Hotel, Key Worker, Healthcare, MoD and all sub-sectors of the Residential market. Jake and has been with Offsite Solutions since 2013 and is responsible for the site-works department including installation, commissioning and after-care.

Hugh Prior-Palmer – BSc Hons - Operations & Systems Associate Director

After graduating with a business and marketing degree, Hugh joined a management consultancy focussed on; process and productivity improvement, business restructuring, and systems re-engineering. After his initial years as a management consultant Hugh held a number of senior management positions gaining extensive experience in manufacturing and industry across the food, automotive and plastics sectors. Part of Hugh’s experience has been in production planning and systems, this aspect has been instrumental in providing the company with its current pod manufacturing systems allowing the company to manage complexity and variety with a high degree of accuracy and reliability.  Hugh Joined Offsite Solutions in 2006.

William Tonkinson BSc hons (Edin), - Executive Director

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, William moved into the financial services industry. Following a period with Rothschilds William took up employment with the group companies and became Managing Director of Dentalstyle Ltd in 2004. Since then the company has become established as the premier manufacturer of dental cabinetry in the UK. William has been instrumental in the development of the product range and client base of both Dentalstyle & Deanestor over the last 10 years and became Managing Director of Deanestor Plc. in 2013.