Changes at the top for Domino

(L-R) Ben Rock and Will Edwards

Domino has promoted Ben Rock and Will Edwards to group sales director and European sales director respectively, with Mike Hurst taking the latter’s role as general manager for the UK sales channel. 

Mr Rock will draw on his long and varied experience within the company to bring fresh energy to the sales approach around the world, while Mr Edwards takes a role which will see him lead the company’s European business, including direct channels and distributors.

With a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from Sheffield Polytechnic, Mr Rock first joined the company in 1991 as a development chemist, before eventually moving into a sales role covering the East Midlands. He honed his leadership skills while heading up the UK Sales Team in 1999 until he relocated to Japan in 2002, where he served as country manager for four years.

In 2006, he returned to the UK to take on management responsibilities for the Global Key Accounts and Distributor Management teams, until landing the role of group sales director in 2014.

Before joining Domino in 2000, Mr Edwards was a mechanical engineering graduate forging a career in the white goods industry. Specialising originally in the design of domestic refrigeration equipment, he was subsequently promoted as part of a leadership programme to sales manager, before moving into the logistics industry as an account manager.

His initial role at was as a territory sales manager for the Product Identification Strategic Business Unit, working primarily on new business accounts. He has spent the last five years leading the Domino UK business as general manager. He said, ‘Europe continues to be an important region for Domino and I am delighted to be taking on this new leadership challenge.’

His successor Mr Hurst has held a variety of roles including overseeing start-up business units as a result of organic business growth and acquisitions.  He began his career in engineering and after attaining a first class honours degree in Computer Science, he qualified as a chartered engineer, before moving into product management.

As product director for Domino, Mr Hurst was instrumental in three new business acquisitions and Domino’s subsequent entrance into the high resolution inkjet printing and print and apply sectors.  He also contributed significantly to the company’s move into coding automation, ahead of one of his more recent roles, as director of sales channel development.