Managing Director, Dave Henderson, picked up the award for Young Business Person of the Year at the Examiner Business Awards 2014.
Dave Henderson (seen left), MD of Direct Voice and Data, has won Huddersfield’s prestigious title of Young Business Person of the Year at the Examiner Business Awards 2014.
Dave joined Direct Telecom in 2002. At the age of 21, he was part of a management buy-out of the business in 2005 and became sales manager – later rising to Managing Director. The business has continued to grow throughout the recession – with Dave spearheading a strategy to increase operating profit more than 10-fold from last year’s total over the next five years.
Dave, 30, said: “We have worked really hard over the last nine years since the management buyout and have put structures in place so the business can now really grow. This year should see our first acquisition of another company to add to our group. Our aim is for a profit increase of 10-fold over the next five years. We are now six months into that plan and are already ahead of target.”
Dave Henderson is developing the vision for the group of companies making up Skelmanthorpe-based Direct Telecommunications Systems Ltd, which trades as Direct Voice & Data.
