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After 43 years of working in logistics, Tony set up UCARGO with business partner and long time friend Paul.
Beginning UCARGO was an exciting transition for Tony who had previously worked for a large shipping company for many years. Having built up relationships and vast knowledge of freight forwarding he decided to set up his own business. When paired with Paul’s corporate background, UCARGO has grown from a start-up into an international business.
The freedom to choose the clients and who he wanted to work with as well as the industries that UCARGO focused on were important to develop. Tony thrives on going after increasingly challenging and complex projects and this has allowed UCARGO to develop and do more and more projects, bring on more staff, and open offices around the world.
Favorite quote? Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. -Paulo Coelho
Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books? Anthony Middleton SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces
What are the values that drive you? Integrity
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Holidays with family, whisky
Paul has a background in corporate finance spanning three decades prior to setting up the UCARGO with Business partner and long-time friend Tony Kennedy.
Paul is one of the UCARGO partners and manages the accounts and financial side of the business. While running Ucargo provides plenty of challenges, both the control and cultivation of growing a new business is something Paul enjoys while working here.
What are the values that drive you? Do the right thing.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Fly fishing, smoking cigars and drinking malt whisky
Favourite Quote Be yourself, everyone else is already taken
Jackie has been working at UCARGO for 5 years with an experienced back ground in the industry. After stumbling into shipping by accident starting as a documentation clerk, 20 years later she has absorbed everything the shipping world has thrown at her and grown, developed and built in her experience to come to UCARGO in the early days to manage the increasingly more complex projects that we work on. Keeping the team motivated, delegating jobs and project management is an important part of Jackies role as well as as managing and retaining our clients throughout all the amusement/music/entertainment and defence industries that our clients span.
Jackie enjoys the diversity and challenges of the role and company, you can be dealing with a small shipment or a huge project, every shipment is treated the same – No two days are the same in Logistics and things can change at a drop of a hat.
Favorite quote? Smiles are contagious so please spread them 😊
Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books? Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop café/Colour purple/The Graft
What’s your background? I have 3 grown up children and 2 grandchildren I live with my partner and 3 x English springer spaniels that we rescued from Battersea dogs home and we are very happy.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? I like games nights with family and friends. I enjoy spending time with my grandchildren. And I like to binge-watch on Netflix’s with a bottle of Budweiser and a Chinese.
Mirra is the newset member of the UCARGO London team joinning this summer coming from a background of 20 years in the shipping industry. She brings experience and a wealth of knowledge to the operations team.
Favourite quote? If you don’t ask you don’t get
Your top 3 favourite Podcasts/Books? Kimberley Chambers – Queenie, Martina Cole – Two Women, Martina Cole – Revenge.
What’s your background? I started working shipping around 20 years ago and it is true what they say once you get in you never get out and here I am still in the midst of it all. I first started out in the shipping line of work, then went into working for liner agents and now in line of fire freight forwarding!
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Socialising with friends and family with a couple of Pink Gin’s in hand.
Ellis completed an NVQ in xxxx and spent 5 years prior to joining UCARGO working with another freight forwarder covering operations, and came to work with us 3 years ago. It provides a fast paced and dynamic environment for growth and to keep things interesting.
Your favourite Podcasts/Books? That Peter Crouch podcast
What are the values that drive you? Honesty & commitment.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Watching football, walking the dogs, Dining out.
Jade has been with UCARGO for 5 years, originally starting on operations, now working in accounts has become an integral part of the UCARGO team, covering the finance side of the business as well as handling IT, staff training and HR. Before UCARGO Jade was management level in the hospitality industry.
Favorite quote “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou
Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books? Time Travellers Wife, Memoirs of a Geisha, Gone With The Wind
What do you like about working at UCARGO? The team environment is very family orientated and we all work together to get the job done
What are the values that drive you? Honesty and integrity above all else, Kindness is extremely important to me also
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Spending time with son, often in the woods or exploring an old war bunker somewhere. I love history, particularly WW2.
With a back ground in fashion and Photoshoot production Tabitha joined UCARGO to start working on the Marketing and Branding development side of the company. Developing a strong visual identity including the website has been important as well as working on ways to market the company to its relevant industries.
Favourite quote? Swim Valiantly
Your top 3 favourite Podcasts/Books? I like escapism novels and have really enjoyed this year reading the books that the 90s film Practical Magic was based on. I love his Dark Materials trilogy and the other books from Philip Pullman as well.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? Seeing friends, going vintage and charity shop shopping, going out for food and drinks, getting dressed up to go out .. I like doing gym classes as well (all the things I’ve not really been able to do this year). I also love cooking and entertaining for friends and family.