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Our Team

As the largest subsidiary of Arçelik A.Ş., we employ over 300 people in the UK and Ireland, and have several offices located nationwide.

We pride ourselves as an employer of choice, offering exciting careers and supported development in a demanding but friendly atmosphere.

We have offices located nationwide, our UK Head Office is based in Watford, three National Distribution Centre warehouses in the Midlands near Birmingham and our Irish office in Dublin.

As an innovative business, offering consumer-centric solutions in the home appliance industry, we have sustainability, diversity and the interests of both our consumers and the planet at the heart of everything we do.

To monitor the engagement of our employees, we conduct regular staff briefings and carry out comprehensive staff surveys. This ensures we recognise positive feedback and identify any concerns which can be improved.

Director Profiles

Our leadership team unite with a vast experience from a variety of industries to ensure they set the direction of the organisation, as well as support, recognise and reward employees to deliver our successful performance year after year.

Teresa Arbuckle

Regional Managing Director & Vice President UK & Ireland

Ebru Gener

Sales Director UK & Ireland

Vijay Bhardwaj

Marketing Director UK & Ireland

Rakibe Musal

Finance Director / Company Secretary

Hayley Whitwood

HR Director UK & Ireland

Andrew Parkin

Operations Director UK & Ireland

Lee Cumberland

Director Head of Consumer Care - Europe

Keval Shah

Head of D2C UK

Anna Babbs

Regional Legal & Compliance Officer

Alejandro Verdu De Haro

Commercial Counsel UK and Ireland (Senior Manager • Legal)

Ian Moverley

Head of Internal Communications, Europe

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Teresa Arbuckle

UK & Ireland
Managing Director

Teresa Arbuckle is Managing Director of Beko plc UK & Ireland. She joined the company in 2011 as Marketing Director and was promoted to Managing Director in 2015. Teresa is also Chair of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances (AMDEA) and assumed leadership of the association in April 2018.

In 1994, Teresa started her international marketing career in Paris at Scott Paper Company (now Kimberly Clark) working on pan European marketing initiatives and product launches. In 1999, she moved to London and has worked for blue chip companies – like HJ Heinz, Leapfrog Toys and Premier Foods – ever since, helping them grow sustainable businesses and accelerate their brands.

Teresa grew up in the Unites States and graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1988 with a BSc in Business Administration. In 1993, she obtained her International MBA at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, studying in both Phoenix, Arizona and Geneva, Switzerland.

She is married with 2 children.

Kevin Wackett

Sales Director

Kevin joined Beko plc in 2004 and became Sales Director for UK & Ireland in 2011.

Kevin started his career in the City - London with Nat West before pursuing a career in Sales. He joined Fox’s biscuits – Northern Foods group, in 1979 as Sales Rep for Essex & London working his way up to National Accounts Manager.

He then joined Zanussi Domestic Appliances in 1987. Electrolux acquired Zanussi in 1992 where Kevin had numerous sales roles. Up until he left in 2003, he was European Account Director for Dixons Stores group. He has extensive experience in dealing with Major retailers to Board level and has track record of transforming businesses and building sustained Sales growth wherever he has been.

Kevin lives in Essex and is married with 3 children.

Vijay Bhardwaj

Marketing Director

Vijay joined Beko plc in April 2019 as Marketing Director UK & Ireland. Prior to arriving here, Vijay worked in a variety of FMCG companies across a variety of departments and roles.

He began his career in data analytics at IRI. He then moved to Campbell’s to their Category Management department and then into sales. He first moved into marketing at Ambev looking after Stella Artois and then to United Biscuits (now Pladis) and then to KP Snacks.

Vijay enjoys demonstrating the power of brand building in driving sustainable, profitable business growth. At Beko plc he loves supporting the incredibly talented teams who continue to build powerful, scale brands that make a positive difference in people’s lives, having buckets of fun along the way.

He graduated from Loughborough University in Economics and completed a Master’s in Marketing from Bristol University.Vijay is happily married with 2 kids who remind him every day why he is here & that he continues to learn every day, from absolutely anyone.

Rakibe Musal

Finance Director

Rakibe Musal is the Finance Director and Company Secretary of Beko plc UK & Ireland which involves leading the Financial Reporting, Planning, Control, Revenue Growth Program, Finance Business Transformation, Legal Affairs in addition to managing the Information Technology for the organisation.

Before joining the Arcelik Group in 2003, Rakibe worked as an Industrial Engineer for Teba Ente AS, a Systems Engineer for KPMG llp, and as a Project Manager in Veripark AS. She has PMP, 6 Sigma Black Belt and Prince2 Foundation Certificates.

After 6 years in the Arcelik IT department where she led several IT implementation and merger projects and established the Project Office, she joined the finance function in 2009 where she founded the Corporate Performance Development & BI Department and later between 2014-2016 she was the Price Cost Analysis Manager. In 2016 she was appointed as the Finance Director of Grundig Nordics and moved to Norway for 4 years, before joining the UK and Ireland team in 2020.

Rakibe studied Industrial Engineering in the Middle East Technical University in 1995 and obtained her MBA from George Washington University in 1998.

She is mother to twin daughters.

Hayley Whitwood

HR Leader, UK and Ireland

Doug is a Chartered FCIPD qualified HR Professional with over 30 years cross sector experience in the UK and overseas in the oil and gas/geophysics, construction, property, air-conditioning, renewable energy and domestic appliance sectors working for Dutch, Japanese, Belgian, Arab, American and Turkish companies.

Brought up in the Middle East, he spent many years in Iraq, Lebanon and the UAE and his experience includes expatriate postings in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai and working in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Peru, Holland, Belgium and Turkey.

Doug joined Beko in December 2011 and has held previous positions as Head of HR Eaga Clean Energy & Renewables (Carillion Energy Services), Group HR Executive Crest Nicholson PLC, Head of HR and General Affairs Daikin Air-conditioning UK, Director of Personnel Ballast PLC and Group Personnel Manager Wates Group. In his earlier career he worked with SSL (Seismograph Service), Trafalgar House Group and offshore for Halliburton Oil Field Services.

As an HR generalist his background includes implementing major change projects from new business start-up, acquisitions and mergers, to re-structuring, harmonisation, employee engagement, performance management and cultural shift as well as responsibilities for all aspects of recruitment, training and development and pay and benefits.

Andy Parkin

Operations Director

Andy Parkin joined Beko PLC as Operations Director in July 2019, assuming responsibility for the Customer Experience, Supply Chain and Logistics functions.

Andy started his career in 2001, joining the graduate development programme of Third-Party Logistics provider Christian Salvesen (latterly Norbert Dentressangle) and working in a variety of transport and warehousing roles for customers such as House of Fraser, British Airways and WeightWatchers. In 2009 he moved to the Japanese logistics company Yusen to manage the Samsung high value and white goods distribution contracts. In 2013, following a year working with International Freight Forwarder DB Schenker, Andy joined the European Headquarters of Korean Consumer Electronics company Samsung, to manage their European Customer Service Operations.

Andy was born in Germany and grew up in the Netherlands and UK, before graduating from Brighton University in 2001 with a BSc in Geography. In 2012, he obtained his Executive MBA at the Cranfield School of Management.