VICTORIA - Key Persons


Andrew Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director
Andrew has more than twenty years as a solicitor in private practice, specialising in company law. He has advised on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including management buy-outs and buy-ins, corporate acquisitions and disposals and listed company take-overs.

Armando Meletti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Ceramics Italy

Blake Ressel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Managing Director of Koch Equity Development LLC
Blake is a Managing Director of Koch Equity Development LLC, where he leads and manages their European team and activities with an investment mandate centred on partnered acquisitions and principal investments. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Brian Morgan - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Prior to joining Victoria in 2022, Brian was Director of Group Finance at Synthomer plc. He has worked in several other FTSE 250 multi-national companies in senior commercial finance and head office roles. Brian is a chartered accountant and has worked for Andersen and Deloitte in Corporate Finance and Audit.

Davida Decorte

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Grass Group

Doug Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Cali

Franky Viaene

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Balta Non - Woven

Gary McEwan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Interfloor

Gavin Petken

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Private Equity Investor
Gavin is a private equity investor with over 20 years experience across multiple asset classes and sectors. He was previously Head of Investment South and Quoted at BGF, responsible for leading investment and portfolio teams across a number of offices. He was also a member of BGF's national executive leadership team, national investment committee, and responsible for managing BGF's UK wide investment activity into public companies, BGF Quoted. Before BGF, Gavin was a Managing Director in Private Equity with RBS plc for 13 years.

Geoffrey Wilding

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Executive Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
  • Executive Chairman at the General Meeting
Geoff is a former investment banker. He set up his own investment company in New Zealand in 1989. Geoff was appointed Executive Chairman at the General Meeting on 3 October 2012 and has been responsible for execution of the Company's strategy ever since.

Jan Debrouwere

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • UK Soft Flooring

Jan Van Damme

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Balta UK

Jose Luis Llacuna

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Ceramics Spain

José Luis Lanuza

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Executive Team
  • Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Ceramic Tiles

Katrien Vandenbroucke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Ragolle Rugs

Luke Baxter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Executive Team
  • Director of Group Finance

Marc Dessein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Balta Home

Mauro Cavazzoli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Keradom

Ozgur Alioglu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Ceramics Türkiye

Paul Boucher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • International Wholesale Tile

Phil Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Carpets Australia

Phil Yates

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Alliance Flooring Distribution

Philippe Hamers - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Philippe has over 25 years' experience in the flooring industry and headed Europe's largest carpet manufacturing operation at Balta Group. Prior to this, Philippe was General Manager of the Tufted and Woven Division of Beaulieu International Group.

Richard Bosveld

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Estillon

Roberto Moreno - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Member of the Senior Executive Team

Saqib Karim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Ezi Floor

Sean Forde

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Dunlop Flooring

Steve Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Westex Carpets

Steve Donlan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Whitestone Group