Director of Certification, Jerry Quayle, started his career in the Certification Industry in 1997 having spent many years in technical and technical sales in the construction industry. His initial post was with BM TRADA Certification where he was Product Certification Manager, but his potential to develop business was quickly recognised in the industry and he was approached by BRE Certification. Jerry rose quickly to be Product Certification & Technical Approvals Manager, responsible for all construction related schemes, reporting directly to the Managing Director. After a brief, but successful period, as a Business & Quality Consultant running his own consultancy/(Q-MAC), Jerry joined IFC Certification at the beginning of August 2003. Jerry says “Product Certification must be: independent, technically accurate, client facing, forward thinking and cost effective, our Company offers all of these aspects of certification to the fire industry with responsiveness as a key element”.

Graham Wiles, Managing Director, is also a Director of the International Fire Consultants Group. Graham has been involved in steering and developing the IFC Group over the past ten or so years, into a recognised leading professional fire safety practice, offering clients a high quality independent service on all fire safety issues. The ethos he is trying to instil in the IFC Group is delivery of technically sound advice of quality and value to clients, at the same time leading the industry and setting standards for others rather than following established patterns. Graham was previously a manager with one of the leading chartered accountancy practices in the UK, leading teams on major plc assignments, he was also previously a member of the management, business development and estates team with one of the UK’s leading brewers.

Peter Jackman, Technical Director, is the Chairman and Technical Director of InternationalFire Consultants Group. He is a UK expert on several International Fire Safety committees, was the lead author of the BS476: Part 20: 1987 series of fire resistance test methods, and the author of BS8214 on fire doors. Peter also acts as the technical consultant and expert to a number of trade associations including the Intumescent Fire Seals Association (IFSA). Having witnessed well over 1,000 full scale fire tests, he is also the Chairman of the British Standards (BS) committee responsible for developing fire resistance testing procedures, overseeing the introduction of the new EN tests into BSI and the extrapolation and use of such results for applications in buildings. Peter was involved in the design and setting up of the fire testing laboratory and was the principal fire consultant for the Timber Research Association, where he worked for 15 years prior to setting up International Fire Consultants Ltd. (IFC) in 1985. The purpose of setting up IFC was to broaden the application of fire testing and to look at all aspects of fire safety solutions. Peter has also recently been a key contributor and author involved in the drafting of the new Fire Engineering Standards in the UK, PD 7974. IFC were instructed by BSI to author the Sub system 3 section on “Structural Response and Fire Spread beyond the Compartment of Origin”. Amongst other aspects this sub system deals with fire compartmentation and fire resistance issues.