People
Dan Wright, Director
Dan Wright joined the Vision Group in 2002 bringing a wealth of financial and operating experience. Previously, he was Senior Vice-President of Cable Partners, a US-based telecoms and media buy-out fund focused on continental European markets. Responsible for business development, he assisted in the development of Telenet - a provider of cable services in Belgium – into a business with revenues exceeding €1 billion.
Prior to this, he was a Director at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Private Equity and in the Royal Bank of Scotland Leveraged Finance Group. He has an MA from Cambridge University in History and Modern Languages and qualified as an ACA with Arthur Andersen in London. |
Laurie Thomas, Managing Director
Laurie joined the Vision Group in 2002 and has commercial responsibility for the day-to-day operations and performance of Vision Support Service and its Whitaker Services and C&C business units. He is a qualified accountant (ACMA) with an extensive track record in the UK laundry, textiles and soft furnishings sectors.
In addition to a broad range of financial responsibilities, his experience includes management of knitwear and hosiery factories and the management of sampling and sample approvals processes. |
Le Kewei, VSS China
Kewei is Executive Vice-President and runs Vision’s Chinese operations from our bases in Shanghai and Ningbo. He is a Chinese national and has extensive experience in textile operations both within the PRC and in overseas markets including Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia.
Following graduation from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1991, he worked in a variety of sales and operational roles for Ningbo Textile United Import & Export Company which was later absorbed into the Ningbo Veken Group. From 2001 to 2004, he managed the Veken Group’s activities in Europe based in Amsterdam, focusing on both retail and contract market customers, working closely with both C&C Bed&Bath and Whitaker Services. He joined Vision Group on a full-time basis in 2005. |
Ali Raza, VSS Dubai
Mohammad Ali Raza manages our South Asian Operations as Executive Vice-President from our offices based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and in Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is a Pakistani National with diverse experience working in different capacities in the domestic and international Home Textile and Apparel markets.
Following his specialisation at the National College of Arts in Textile and Fibre Art, he received a diploma in international marketing from the National Textile and Management Institute. In 1998 he joined the largest textile producer in Pakistan, Nishat Mills Limited and worked for them for almost 8 years, initially in the production department, and from 2001 he was promoted to direct European Sales and Marketing for Home Textiles, Contract Textiles and Workwear markets. He joined Vision Group on a full time basis in 2006. |
|
