John Mangan

Finance Director

Name: John Mangan

Age: 55

Marital status

Married to Ann for 19 years with 2 children.  Joe, who is 18 and curently studying at university, and Olivia, 16.

Interests

Love watching all sports in particular football, rugby and cricket.  Still played football until about a year ago but both knees are now arthritic (12 years of amateur football).  A season ticket holder at the Baggies and follow the England football team home and away.  Would love to do the same with Rugby and Cricket but I think it would end up in divorce.  I was extremely lucky to have gone to South Africa for the World Cup 2010. 

Education

Went to a good grammar school but came away with just a couple of O levels (GCSEs).  In those days parents didn't tend to push you along the academic route in the same way as we parents do now. 

Other activities

Music is a real pleasure for me.  I dont tend to buy as much as I used to but have in the region of 2,000 albums on CD, vinyl and tape.  I will get them all on the computer one day. 

I don't read as much as I would like to but have a collection of books which tend to be the classics, history and biographies.  I will get round to reading them one day.  My favourite book though is fiction "Catch 22".  I must have read it at least 20 times. 

Also I have been extremely lucky in that both children are very good at sport, and I have always gone to watch them play football, cricket, rugby and even netball (although I struggle with the rules).  I always find it amazing when parents don't stay to watch their children play sport.

Travel is another great pleasure and some of the venues of England matches take you to places you would never normally go.  With the children becoming more self sufficient it will be good to get away with Ann to all the places we have planned on visiting but being parents has prevented. 

Past: 

Spent 3 years studying law with a local solicitors with the idea of taking the long route into becoming qualified but the idea of working (in Benidorm and Majorca) seemed more interesting.

In between working away, I always kept in touch with Des at DJ Ponsonbys and was involved in the growth.  We all learned a hell of a lot (particularly when things were not good).

Present:

CSL is growing in all the right directions.  We have a solid customer base and an infrastructure to handle future growth.  The 4 directors are not only great colleagues but also very good friends.

The Future:

We are installing a management system that will enable us to handle all future growth without the necessity of grand scale recruitment. We would like to make Corporate Solutions a byword in "flexible managed solutions".