About

Dan Hardingham

After qualifying in 1993 as a chartered surveyor, Dan worked in private practice for three years before recognising the emerging world of mobile telecoms.

In 2000, he set up his own company predominantly providing professional property advice to all the major mobile telecoms brands. A further market insight led to providing highly bespoke architectural design to hide or disguise mobile communications equipment in everything from false chimneys to fake Victorian follies.

Dan’s instinct was spot on and within two years the company turnover had grown to £1.85m. In 2005, the company was sold and he set up George Laurel & Partners offering specialist property advice and architectural design services to private clients and developers.

In 2010, Dan and Mark began to design a new product to replace the traditional coach bolt – taking a period of five years to carefully research, patent, prototype and test what has now become the Joyner Bolt – a range of revolutionary task specific spiked timber fixings.

Having nurtured the product for so long Dan is looking forward to having the benefits of Joyner Bolt recognised throughout the global building chain.

Janice Levett

Her background in Marketing, Product Development and Business Strategy means she has a wealth of experience in developing, patenting and launching branded products through her work with Wisdom Dental and Smith & Nephew Medical.

As a board director, she was part of a management buyout at Wisdom and the subsequent resale of the business two years later. Janice has run her own Executive Coaching practice since 2003 working with senior executives across a wide range of different industries and organisations.

Throughout the five year development of Joyner Bolt Janice provided advice and support to Dan and Mark bringing much needed commercial experience and challenge to the project whilst at the same time supporting and encouraging them as they fought to bring the product to market.

Janice has been a critical influence on the commercial side of the business and is thrilled to be part of the team to launch the first benefits-led timber fixing range into the construction sector.

Mark Doye

Mark is a qualified City & Guilds carpenter who has worked on construction sites around the UK for more than 25 years gaining a wealth of in-depth knowledge about the benefits and drawbacks of both traditional and modern building materials.

After experiencing yet another failed timber framed construction joint as a consequence of a coach bolt in 2010, he had plenty of time to work out what was needed to do the best job – but also knew that such a product didn’t exist anywhere in the world.

So together Mark and Dan drew a picture of the ideal product for joining timber to timber or timber to metal and then worked tirelessly to refine the design and material spec.