Mike Creek | Managing Director
Managing Director Mike Creek has been in the electronics business all his working life. Having worked for a couple of companies after leaving technical college, his ambition to ultimately produce his own budget amplifier led him to establish Creek Audio in 1982.
During the 80′s Mordaunt Short acquired both Creek and Epos. Working alongside Epos’s founder, Robin Marshall, for several years, it became apparent to Mike that there was a great synergy between the two brands.
He re-acquired Creek in 1993 and in 1999 he purchased the Epos brand enabling him to design a complete range of products for the consumer market – his electronics and loudspeakers being totally complementary to each other.
Mike’s interests away from the office lean towards cars – were he not earning a living from the electronics industry, he could probably do quite well as a Formula One historian! And as if he’s not sufficiently challenged in his working life, he’s contemplating taking the odd flying lesson or two!
Giles Devlin | Company Secretary
Giles, the Company Secretary, built his first loudspeaker at the age of 16 and as a result of his efforts did not go on to become a loudspeaker designer – far from it! However his interest in all things audio has resulted in his working within the industry for more than 10 years – the last 8 with Epos and Creek.
Giles is generally the first point of contact at the company and as a rule keeps everything flowing smoothly for all customers, both in the U.K. and abroad.
He definitely has a humorous side – if a little dry at times – and no doubt amuses himself as much as the rest of us through the course of the working day!
Once away from the office his interests are somewhat diverse but probably sport of most types ranks up there fairly high on the list. Running seems to be the order of the day at the moment meaning some very early starts several mornings a week!
Dave Berriman | Loudspeaker Project Manager
Dave has extensive hi fi industry experience. He trained as an electronics engineer, becoming a hi-fi journalist, author, reviewer and loudspeaker designer. He has worked for various companies with roles as diverse as PR, brochure writing, custom installation and loudspeaker design.
Dave has worked as a design consultant for many companies of note, including Acoustic Research, Arcam, Celestion and Harman. For the last six and a half years he has worked for NXT, designing flat-panel technology into all sorts of products, with the last year and a half spent close to Chinese manufacturers in Hong Kong. He now brings this wealth of experience to Epos – and we are delighted!
Luke Creek Systems Manager
Having been almost born with a soldering iron in my hand it was not long before I became interested in Hi-Fi. In my teenage years I spent quite a lot of time developing different types of loudspeakers with some Quad-22 power amps as a hobby, my most successful speakers were undoubtedly a 6 1/2″ transmission line speaker that stood 1.5m high.
Nowadays my thinking is much more grounded, I deal with many different parts of the business here at Creek. Looking to the future I see the home audio market being all about connectivity.
David Cheung Manager, China Office
David joined Creek and Epos in 2005 to manage our Chinese office. With experience in the audio industry and a vast knowledge of suppliers and parts, he works tirelessly to ensure an exceptional standard of quality is applied to all products manufactured under the Creek and Epos brands.
He acts as interpreter when Mike and Dave visit – and as a result his English has improved enormously. Not so Mike’s and Dave’s Chinese….
Although Creek has its own offices, David’s preferred work station is at the local Starbucks where he seems to have become quite a celebrity.
Dan Zhang Quality Control Manager, China
Dan is the latest addition to the Creek and Epos team, joining the company early in 2009.
Dan is an exceptional quality control expert and spends his days and nights at the factory when Creek and Epos models are in production. He oversees production and personally tests each and every product before he signs it off for shipment.