{"id":11856,"date":"2017-09-08T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:35:33","slug":"joseph-wu-of-t-clarke-and-charlie-harwood-of-cef-crowned-inaugural-winners-of-eca-power-players-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/joseph-wu-of-t-clarke-and-charlie-harwood-of-cef-crowned-inaugural-winners-of-eca-power-players-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Wu of T Clarke and Charlie Harwood of CEF crowned inaugural winners of ECA Power Players initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two young and outstanding performers in the electrotechnical and engineering services industry have won the inaugural \u2018Power Players\u2019 initiative, following an announcement at the ED&I Expo in Birmingham on September 6th.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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26-year-old project manager Joseph Wu of T Clarke, and 24-year-old Charlie Harwood, a branch manager of CEF, won the most votes from a high quality field of four finalists. Joseph has been one of the project leads for T Clarke on a major development in Stratford, while Charlie became a CEF branch manager after producing some impressive sales figures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph and Charlie win a number of top prizes, including a networking trip to next October\u2019s NECA conference in Philadelphia, lunch with business guru Sir John Parker, and participation in a once-in-a-lifetime fundraising trip next March to Arctic Finland with the Electrical Industries Charity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Head judge and ECA Head of Technical Steve Martin commented: \u201cMany congratulations to our winners and finalists, and indeed to everyone who entered and supported the inaugural Power Players.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted that Power Players has proved to be an effective showcase for the excellent business and technical contributions being made by younger people, across our industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Power Players winner Joseph Wu of T Clarke said: \u201cIt’s refreshing to see the ECA providing a platform for young professionals within the construction industry and demonstrates that anything can be achieved with hard work and determination. This has been a great experience for me to be involved with and I strongly recommend this initiative to future participants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Power Players winner Charlie Harwood of CEF added: “A massive thank you to everybody involved in helping towards this great achievement, particularly group manager Paul Church and general manager Tony Betteridge for their support and guidance throughout. Also a huge thank you to the ECA for hosting such an amazing initiative – it was fantastic to be a part of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some 1754 votes were tabled by the public, with Joseph collecting 566 votes, and Charlie 532 votes. The vote took place between 9 August and 5 September. Harry Bartle of Chris Bowker Ltd and George Antino of T Clarke and also reached the final four. Videos from all four finalists can still be viewed on the Power Players website \u2013 www.powerplayers.uk.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

An independent judging panel, led by the ECA\u2019s Steve Martin, determined the four finalists. The three other Power Players judges were: Tessa Ogle (CEO, Electrical Industries Charity), Russell Beattie (Chief Executive, FETA), and Margaret Fitzsimons (Managing Director, EDA).<\/span><\/p>\n

Power Players was run by the ECA between April and July this year, in collaboration with a wide range of industry partners and supporters. The initiative aimed to identify some of the leading young people across the engineering and electrotechnical services industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pictured top: Power Players finalists (left to right): Joseph Wu (winner), George Antino (finalist), Harry Bartle (finalist).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two young and outstanding performers in the electrotechnical and engineering services industry have won the inaugural \u2018Power Players\u2019 initiative, following an announcement at the ED&I Expo in Birmingham on September 6th. 26-year-old project manager Joseph Wu of T Clarke, and 24-year-old Charlie Harwood, a branch manager of CEF, won the most votes from a high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1163,2018,1468,1144,1145,2020,1540,2017,2019,1251,1016],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cef","tag-charlie-harwood","tag-chris-bowker-ltd","tag-eca","tag-electrical-contractors-association","tag-george-antino","tag-harry-bartle","tag-joseph-wu","tag-power-players","tag-steve-martin","tag-t-clarke","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Power-Players-3-finalists_v2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}