RDM founder Andrew Chandler set to retire

UK: Andrew Chandler, MD, CEO and founder of Glasgow-based controls company Resource Data Management (RDM) is set to retire after 43 years in the HVACR industry.

He will formally step down on December 31, with current group operations director Ged Evans taking over the reins as group CEO from January 1.

Announcing the news on Linkedin, Chandler said: “After 43 years in the HVACR industry, spending the last 30 years specialising in my passion, using electronics and software to make systems more efficient, reduce waste and making the world a little bit better, the time has come for me to step aside, making room for younger blood and giving me more time to spend with my amazing wife and family.”

Forming RDM in 2000, Andrew Chandler grew the business into one of the world’s leading control and remote monitoring companies with large retail customers in the UK, US, and Asia and direct subsidiaries in the USA, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. 

He sold the business to Swedish engineering company Sdiptech AB in 2022.

Andrew Chandler started his career as an electrical apprentice at BT (at that time the GPO), going on to specialise in industrial refrigeration and air conditioning. He then joined General Refrigeration as a service tech, then commissioning engineer and finally project manager.

Prior to starting RDM in 2000, Chandler spent a number of years with Glasgow-based refrigeration controls company Elm as contracts director and later MD. 

His successor, Ged Evans, joined RDM in January 2023 after two years at panelling solutions company Grant Westfield, latterly as UK and European head of operations. Prior to that he spent a total of more than 25 years at American worldwide manufacturing services company Jabil. During two spells at the company he held a variety of roles in the UK, USA and Ireland in business development and manufacturing operations.