Jordan Grand Prix has grown from just 43 employees in its first season to over 200 staff today, based in 24 different departments at the purpose built factory headquarters across the road from the Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire and the team's wind tunnel in nearby Brackley. A number of employees have been with Jordan since day one, and these 'veterans' span the whole company, from designers to truckies, mechanics. The team is housed in original factory premises which have evolved and expanded over the years to accommodate the growing workforce, and in 2001 two mezzanine levels were built to create extra office space, freeing up room on the factory floor.
After purchase by the Midland Group in early 2005 Jordan Grand Prix has appointed a new set of management personnel to take the team forward. With Eddie Jordan stepping down from his role has Chief Executive, the management of the team has undergone key changes. Dr Colin Kolles has been appointed Managing Director of Jordan Grand Prix. His first contact with motorsport was through Rally Racing twenty years ago. Since 2000, he entered the F3 Euro Series with his own team and then operated Germany’s most successful F3 teams.
At his side, newly appointed Sporting Director, Trevor Carlin has a long background in motorsport as well, starting his racing career in 1980 as a junior mechanic working on Formula Ford 1600 and Formula Ford 2000. Since then, he successfully managed various British F3 teams and in 1998, he started his own team Carlin Motorsport with Indian driver Narain Karthikeyan finishing twice on the podium at the end of the season. To complete the list, Adrian Burgess will act as Sporting Manager, Ricky Taylor as Chief Mechanic, Christian Geistdoerfer as Marketing Director and Salvatore Cuccu as Sponsorship Manager. The team has also appointed Paul Monaghan as Chief Engineer with Bradley Joyce joining as race engineer. Annouck Heinrichs has taken the role of Press Officer and will be the point of contact for all media enquiries.