The Board
Meet The Essential Team - The Board
Meet the Board of Directors responsible for steering the Essential ship in the right direction.
Sam Rudland
Managing Director
What do you do for Essential?
As MD I’m responsible for setting the direction of the business, winning new business and ensuring that we provide a first class service to our clients.
What do you like about Essential?
The passion for excellence that ripples throughout the business, the technology we get involved with, the great team we’ve got and our great clients. We’ve grown fairly rapidly and this has meant that we’ve needed to be very dynamic to maintain our exceptionally high service levels and our team has risen to the challenge which makes me very proud.
Tell us something about you....
I used to think I was an adrenaline junky and have fond memories of scuba diving with whale sharks, paragliding over the Swiss Alps and heli skiing in Canada. I think heli skiing gave me the biggest buzz. Being taken by helicopter to the top of a mountain and skiing down through waist deep fresh powder is just incredible. A sky dive from 10,000 ft really put me back in my place as it scared the living daylights out of me and I’ve settled down a bit. Now my main hobby is skiing, which I do every year with the family, and I’d like to get back into scuba diving once my kids are old enough to learn.
Lee Lomas
Client Services Director
What do you do for Essential?
A bit of everything really. Overall I try to make sure we are in good shape to deliver what our clients need from us, so that includes our people, resources and finances.
What do you like about Essential?
We are full of good people who really seem to enjoy working together. The company has grown a lot over the past couple of years especially and everyone that has come and joined us has really blended well.
Tell us something about you....
Well – rugby played a huge part in my life as I grew up and has given me a lot over the years. I have made some lifelong friendships, experienced some incredible winning highs and losing lows and loved it all. Finally and most importantly, I met my wife over pre cup final drinks in the West Car Park at Twickenham!