Meet our Global Team

Gordon Styles started out his career in 1983, at the age of 18, as a machining apprentice at his Father’s ten person precision engineering company. By 21, after the death of his Father, Gordon became owner and Managing Director. After years of struggling in an economically backward and industrially declining area, Gordon discovered 3D printing and soon became a national fast-growth high-tech success story as STYLES Rapid Prototyping Limited.

In 2000, the renamed 73-person STYLES Rapid Product Development Limited was sold to Japanese rapid prototyper ARRK. Gordon then went on to found another more traditional engineering company investing most of the proceeds from the first company, but sadly it failed within a few years. Disillusioned with the direction that UK industry and politics was taking, and fearing a huge recession, Gordon decided to try his luck in China.

Founded as a 3D printing and CNC machining company in Hong Kong in 2005, and later in 2007 in Zhongshan China; Star Rapid has grown organically from a one-person trading company to a 300-person manufacturing company. Having appointed a full management board, Gordon works as President and CEO of the company.

The goal now is to transform Star Rapid into a global example of excellence in Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

I am of Scottish origin and was educated in the United Kingdom, receiving my B.A. in Business Studies. I first started traveling to China in 2003 and have lived here full-time since 2015.

My core disciplines are quality assurance, supply chain management and operations management. In my professional life I’ve worked at a number of multinational high-technology firms including Flex and McLaren. I’ve gained experience in various manufacturing specialties including computer servers, printed circuit boards and automotive components.

As COO at Star my role will be to implement best-in-class management practices to our day-to-day manufacturing operations. Success for me is increasing our efficiency, improving our on-time delivery performance and ultimately delivering greater profitability for our continued long-term financial health. I look forward to the challenges and rewards that lie ahead for all of us at Star. Oh, and by the way, call me “Deed”.

Angela began working at Star Rapid in August 2015 as the Global Marketing Director.

She holds an Bachelors Degree in Social Science, a postgraduate degree in Public Relations and is now undertaking her MBA part-time. She has more than 13 years of experience using her creative marketing skills in a range of countries including Australia, Japan and Tanzania, China and Hong Kong. While in Tanzania, Angela was the marketing manager for a large not for profit school, The School of St Jude. During her time there she used her marketing skills to raise urgently needed funds to provide a free, high-quality education to students while raising awareness of the importance of education in fighting poverty.

She brings that same professionalism and drive for excellence to the team at Star Rapid.

Elaine Du joined Star Rapid in July 2018 as the new Finance Director reporting directly to Hunter. Elaine is from Shaanxi Province and studied International Accounting at Jilin University of Finance and Economics. She relocated to Zhuhai in 2002 and received her MBA from Jinan University in 2016.

She has a wealth of experience working in foreign-owned enterprises helping to control budgets, reduce costing and streamline financial operations. We know that she will be able to bring these same skills to Star.

In her spare time she goes to the gym and stays in shape with a private trainer. Elaine says, “Keeping fit has many benefits, but to me it’s more about reducing stress.”

Nic Wang, Star Rapid’s Quality Manager, is originally from Hunan Province and studied Applied Chemistry at Hunan University. Nic has worked for a number of multinational corporations including Foxconn and Flex, originally as a process engineer for flexible printed circuits.

For the last seven years he has been passionate about quality assurance, especially when applied with robust, systematic procedures driven by data. Nic loves mentoring his team of quality professionals, showing them the power of data in clear graphical form. He believes his strength is to be independent, data-driven and committed to the customer and to Star Rapid.