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Michael Botto

Michael Botto

Sales Executive

How long have you worked at Spire?
About a 2 years.


What type of music are you in to?
Anything and everything! 'S Club' are my guilty pleasure.


What do you get up to on a typical weekend?
Wow I feel like I'm on one of those dating websites! (Not that I go on them?!?) I follow AFC Bournemouth around the country and at home games I am the matchday announcer. I also do a show on a local radio station.

 
What's the best thing about working at Spire?
I'd love to say the camaraderie, my passion for computer components, or serving the IT community with the gifts and skills that God blessed me with… but there is a food van on site that does the best bacon sarnies you've ever tasted!

 
If you were a PC component what would you be and why?
A cpu with fan as I am both hot and cool! (that photo really doesn't do me justice)

 

Give one unusual fact about yourself?
I once had lunch with Geoff Hurst and Grotbags from Emu.  

 
What makes you laugh?
Harry Hill, Everybody loves Raymond, Peep Show and Leeds losing!

Tel: 01202 810 337
E-Mail: michael@spire.co.uk
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Jon-Michael Lindsey

Jon-Michael Lindsey

Senior Sales Executive

How long have you worked at Spire?
9 years.

 
What type of music are you in to?
Epic/Gothic/Industrial/Melodic/Power Metal, classical, and DJ Tiësto

 
What do you get up to on a typical weekend?
It often involves ending up in London for gigs, or weaponry of some kind, or investigating hauntings.


 
What's the best thing about working at Spire?
The freedom to try out new ideas.

 
If you were a PC component what would you be and why?
A high-end graphics card, because with me it's all about great performance.

 
Give one unusual fact about yourself?
I have stood shoulder to shoulder in battle with Brian Blessed.


 
What makes you laugh?
Good stand-up comedy, Monty Python, Bill Bailey, Boothby Graffoe.


 
Tel: 01202 810 305
E-Mail: jonl@spire.co.uk
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Jason Oakley

Jason Oakley

Sales Executive

How long have you worked at Spire?
5 Years, now back after a sabbatical

 

 

What type of music are you in to?
Dance, and alot of the songs on the radio 1 playlist  (Sad i know)

 

 

What do you get up to on a typical weekend?
Socialising , how you define that is up to the individual some may say that means drinking

 

 

What's the best thing about working at Spire?
The team i work with as they say "there is no I in team"
 


If you were a PC component what would you be and why?
I would be a cpu as I always get hot under the cooler
 


Give one unusual fact about yourself?
I have appeared on Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson called me a man in a skirt whilst sat in a Ford KA

 

 

What makes you laugh?
Michael Macintyre, and any of the national lampoon films

 

 

 

 

Tel: 01202 810 304
E-Mail: jason.oakley@spire.co.uk
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Marlon Sharland

Marlon Sharland

Senior Sales Executive

How long have you worked at Spire?
Longer than I'd care to mention.


What type of music are you in to?
All sorts really. At the time of writing my car CD changer contains: Turbonegro, Motley Crue, Lynyrd Skynyrd, SOAD, Pendulum and Fu Manchu.

 
What do you get up to on a typical weekend?
I'm such a professional, I don't get weekends!

 
What's the best thing about working at Spire?
The long hours and the great atmosphere.

 
If you were a PC component what would you be and why?
A hard drive. Unless I'm drunk in which case I'd be a old PC, as they are a bit noisy and have a tendency to fall over.

 
Give one unusual fact about yourself?
I secretly like Ford Capris and Alan Preston

 
What makes you laugh?
Nathan Barley, Brass Eye and Republican Space Rangers.
 
Tel: 01202 810 307
E-Mail: marlon@spire.co.uk
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Paul Turner

Paul Turner

Component Sales Manager

How long have you worked at Spire?
Over 10 years.

 
What type of music are you in to?
Anything really. Some will be a bit embarrassing to mention.

 
What do you get up to on a typical weekend?
Golf, socialising, relaxing

 
What's the best thing about working at Spire?
Is it a bit creepy to say the people?

 
If you were a PC component what would you be and why?
Any Sweex product – Variety Is The Spice Of Life

 
Give one unusual fact about yourself?
I once jumped off a bridge with a piece of elastic attached to my feet.

 
What makes you laugh?
Some of the other answers on these pages.

 
Tel: 01202 810 323
E-Mail: paul.turner@spire.co.uk
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