National Housing Maintenance Forum

Dr Stephen Snaith

Marketing Director ICI Paints AkzoNobel

Dr Stephen Snaith is responsible for the UK Trade Business of ICI Paints AkzoNobel, marketing and selling coatings into the construction industry, and commercial responsibility for the sustainability and environmental strategy of the UK decorative coatings business. He joined ICI Paints as a graduate in the Research and Development Department in 1981 becoming UK Technical Manager in 1989. Following a move to Malaysia where he established a Regional Technical Centre in Malaysia to support the growing decorative coatings businesses across Asia, he returned to the UK in 1995. During the following years he has held many roles in sales and marketing with most of his experience gained in business to business marketing in the construction industry; marketing to clients, professional specifiers, decorators, contractors and distributors.