Jon Parkermanaging director, Halo Group

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Jon is Managing Director of Halo Group in the UK. Halo have 28 repair centres (as of February 2024) in England and Wales and are part of the IRS Group with approximately 200 bodyshops in Europe. Halo repair about 30,000 vehicles per annum for blue-chip insurers, with an average key-to-key cycle time of 2.5 days.

Jon is an innovator and entrepreneur in TOC, CCPM and DBR, implementing processes and technology using Systems Thinking and Constraint Theory methodologies within the collision repair sector. Jon has worked in many parts of the world implementing new bodyshops, including the USA, Australia and GCC countries.

He is a keen cyclist, setting himself many challenges, including completing the Everesting challenge (climbing up 29,029 ft in one day) and Britain’s coast-to-coast of 319 miles (500km), also in one day.

He’s a fully qualified helicopter pilot with over 1000 hours of flying experience and a self-confessed ‘petrol head’, although now this have migrated to EV!