Carl Buckland, Operations Director, Dyaks: “We don’t employ a large in-house workforce because we want to keep our service fresh and to use the right people for the right job. Instead we choose from a stable of trusted and proven business partners and suppliers, for set building, installation, lighting, design and graphics. We think of it as our ‘little black book’, filled with the names of people who are at the top of their game and like what they do. We only work with the best and we constantly seek out fresh ideas and new partners to do business with.”

Carl Buckland has always worked for himself. A trained joiner, he began in modular timber framed building work before moving on to building exhibition stands and stage sets, managing road shows and supplying and fitting large graphic contracts.

Before founding Dyaks, fellow director Simon Jarvis handled sales and marketing for some of the UK’s biggest exhibition and display companies. Although sales is his special focus, he can still occasionally be found up a ladder, holding a hammer.