TrustMark has today announced they’ve appointed Simon Ayres as their new CEO to take over from Alan Stanley who was running the trades person accreditation service, as Interim Chief Executive Officer since June 2013. Alan will continue to reside on the Board as a non-executive director.


Joining from Capita Business Systems (Energy) where he operated as a Project Director working in the building services sector and head of two operational businesses, Ayres has extensive knowledge of running and developing customer facing businesses in both domestic and commercial sectors.

Chairman of TrustMark commented: “The Board would also like to thank Alan for his exceptional achievements in steering TrustMark through the major changes of the last 12 months to its leading position today. It means that Simon joins us at what is probably the most pivotal and exciting stage of TrustMark’s development since it was created in 2005.
“The ‘New TrustMark’ was launched this April by the Consumer Minister with a new unrestricted master licence from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and upgraded core criteria, the Government-endorsed standards at the heart of the scheme.


“Since then we have been flooded with new opportunities and expressions of interest from partners, firms and scheme operators, and we are on the cusp of launching several important new developments in TrustMark’s services to the consumer. Therefore Simon will be leading a very busy team to capitalize on all this and to maintain the momentum of growth and scheme improvement.”


Ayres added: “I’m really thrilled to be joining TrustMark and to be spearheading the future direction of the organisation. It is also a great opportunity for me to drive forward my passion to support consumers and to help build the reputation of the trades to ensure they continue to deliver quality services. TrustMark has huge potential, real momentum following the relaunch, and a strong vote of commitment from Government, industry and consumer groups. My role will be to extend TrustMark’s consumer protection work, and to explore and exploit all the further growth opportunities.


“TrustMark’s bold vision is for a future where rogue traders are effectively eliminated from the RMI sector because of the widespread recognition of TrustMark as the quality mark to look out for. Because of the extent of industry support and take up, and because the consumer will always choose to use TrustMark registered firms, I firmly believe that we can achieve this vision.”


We wish Simon Ayres every success in driving forward TrustMark, an organisation which a number of OBAS customers have already signed up to, and one which we expect will continue to have an increasingly significant benefit to the construction industry and potential customers of tradespeople throughout the UK.