The affairs of the Federation are under the absolute control of the Executive Board who volunteer their time without pay, leaving the Chief Executive the responsibility for the day to day management of the Federation. It oversees the activities of the Forums, working parties and committees. It is responsible for the entire management of the property, funds and affairs of the Federation.
Board Members
Simon Drakeford
Simon is CEO of The EO Group which leverages a proprietary e-commerce platform to target small to medium sized businesses in the Office Supplies industry. Through trading their direct channels such as Euroffice and partnering with resellers through Office Power, over the last decade, group revenues have grown from £18m to £45m. As well as Chairing the BOSS Federation, Simon is the Chairman of 15Gifts, a TMT focused software business in Brighton. He has a Henley MBA.
Julie Hawley
Julie Hawley joined YPO in May 2021 as Finance Director from her previous role as Managing Director of Office Friendly, a leading buying group in office products. She previously worked for Kingfield Heath Wholesale and has over 30 years' experience in the office products industry. Julie was awarded Professional of the Year in 2018 and European Professional of The Year in 2019. Julie leads the organisation's Finance, Business Change and HR functions.
Philip Beer
Philip began his career at Spicers manufacturing as a Business Studies graduate back in 1987 and held different positions before becoming M.D. of what had become John Dickinson in 2000. JD's was subsequently bought by Group Hamelin in 2005 and was asked to lead their business in the UK and Ireland, which he still does. Hamelin Brands has recently been awarded Investors In People Platinum, the UK's top accreditation for excellence in people management and Leadership. Hamelin has also been recognised by "Great Place to work". Philip has served on the BOSS board for many years and as Chairman in 2012/13.
Adrian Butler
Adrian is Managing Director of the UK Wholesale business which is a position he has held since 2010.
Adrian joined the organisation in 1990 within the telesales department of Neville & Gladstone and has held a number of roles in sales & operations, managing sales forces and regional distribution centre’s throughout the wholesaler’s transformation, leading the business through product and services diversification in an ever changing market place and growing its market share to become the largest broadline wholesaler within the industry.
Adrian is highly motivated individual with extensive Channel knowledge with a proven record for growing and developing business from a financial and relationship perspective across the wholesale Channel.
Emily Jones
As Head of Retail Sales my responsibilities cover account management; managing customers such as Amazon, Argos and Tesco, managing the retail team and overseeing and being responsible for the whole retail business for Fellowes UK.
Stuart Login
Stuart joined Trodat as Managing Director on January 1st 2018 and is responsible for the UK and Ireland. Prior to Trodat Stuart worked with Avery UK for over 10 years, latterly in the role of Sales Director, along with European account experience. Previous to that he gained over 10 years' experience in the photographic industry with Kodak at a time of enormous change with the move to a digital platform.
Stuart has served as the Chairman of the Boss Manufacturers' Forum since 2019 and is also President of the Rubber Stamp Manufacturers' Guild.
Frances Stephen
Frances has been involved in the Business Supplies industry for many years, having grown up with parents running a stationery company. Later, after spending 5 years working for BT , she carried out a management buy-out of Springfield Business Supplies in 1997. Having completed the acquisition of two other companies since then, the original company is still Bedford based.
She has been a trustee of the Boss Business Supplies Charity since 2010 and carries out an active fund raising and marketing role alongside her usual trustee position.
She became a non-executive director of the Boss board in 2019.
Aidan McDonough
Aidan McDonough is the CEO of Integra Business Solutions, the leading dealer group in the UK's Office and IT supplies industry. Aidan is responsible for the overall financial performance and strategic planning process for Integra. He has 30 years' experience in the sector having worked as Group Marketing Director and subsequently CEO of the group. Aidan's focus in on key stakeholders and the strategic direction of the organisation in conjunction with the board and executive team. Aidan is also the chairman of Business Products Groups International (BPGI).
Steve Haworth
Steve began his career in the office products industry at I.S.A in 1991 selling telex and fax rolls and throughout his whole career has either been an employee, supplier or customer of one of the EVO Group companies.
After 7 years at I.S.A, during which he set up a reseller subsidiary in France and created the first Public Sector Division, Steve joined Kodak to help launch their Digital Imaging (Digital Cameras, Photo Paper and CDR) business in the UK & Ireland. Steve spent 7 years at Kodak that encompassed 5 different roles, 3 different countries of residence and sales growth to over $1bn and then took over as a Director of the small UK based toner and ink remanufacturer I.T Image. Following a successful factory relocation to Romania, this business was sold to Applied Film Industries and Steve re-joined the ISA Trading Group as Wholesale Channel Director responsible for Key Accounts and Export customers. 2 years later, in 2007, Pitney Bowes asked Steve to head up and re-organise their Supplies Business across Europe and the Middle East after which, in 2009, he accepted a position in the enlarged Vasanta Group as M.D of Supplies Team. Steve gradually widened his role to include responsibility for all of Vasanta's Trading channels and joined the Vasanta Board in 2012.
After the acquisition and merger of the Vasanta and o2o businesses in 2014, Steve assumed the role of EVO Group's Sales and Marketing Director within the newly formed group and has been heavily involved in steering the expansion and development of the group. Steve has held a position on the EVO Group Holdings Board since its formation in Q4 2014. Steve was appointed to the position of Group CEO in April 2016 and held this position until December 2022.