About Us

Malton's management team has a good mixture of skills and experience. All of the team are passionate and demanding about giving customer satisfaction but with a personal touch.

Gordon Oakley

Managing Director
Gordon formed the company in 1989, was previously Senior Purchaser at British Airways and formerly British Caledonian Airways. Has a vast knowledge of manufacturing products for the inflight service industry - also excels at innovation and tennis.

Keith Brent

Commercial Director
Keith joined Malton in December 2006. Previously he worked for British Caledonian (13 years) and American Express (17 years) both at a senior level in sales and customer services. Well known for his diversity ethics at Malton, Keith is responsible for new business and financials.

Tony Holmes

Operations Director
Tony has been with Malton for 13 years and has a wealth of product and industry knowledge. In his previous career he was a rock star with Ultravox until his other half put her foot down.

Ian Gamba

Admininstration Manager
Ian joined the company 14 years ago and has vast experience in Finance. Is therefore an adept and skilled judge of monetary matters, except when it comes to picking horse-racing winners.

Rachel Xu

General Manager, China
Majored at Nanjing Hohai University in Foreign Trade (English); Rachel has 8 years' working experience in international commerce. Before joining us here at Malton China, she was Sales Director for a leading textile company and, prior to that, worked in an international sourcing company as department manager for nearly five years. With her academic background and extensive working experience, Rachel is extremely experienced in all exportation procedures and skilled in dealing with various factories.

Grace Luo

Sourcing Manager , China
Graduated at Wuhan University in international trade, Grace has been a buyer for over two years in one of China's leading textile exporting companies. In her role Grace specialised in sourcing new products and in packaging materials. She is skilled at developing strong supplier-partner working relationships and she pays particular attention to making sure every detail is right. Grace says she enjoys her work a lot and it shows by the great results she consistently achieves.

Yu Shi

Quality Control Manager, China
An inspector, including inflight products for over five years, Yu is very experienced and knowledgeable about all aspects of manufacturing and AQL inspection standards. She understands factory management and is extremely adept at maintaining tight quality control under difficult circumstances when the pressure to meet tight deadlines and exacting quality standards can cause friction with the production people. Her hard work usually goes unnoticed to our clients - but that's the way they and we like it - and we really appreciate and value what she does.

A professional and reliable supplier

Sudhakar Poojary Baikady - Supply Chain Management