Timothy Roy Wakeman, OBE, known as Roy Wakeman, chair and chief executive of The Performance Timber Products Group (PTP), has been acknowledged for services to the joinery manufacturing industry in the Queen's New Year Honours List 2012.<br> <br> Wakeman has been widely recognised as the leading figure in the joinery and woodworking manufacturing industry for the past 25 years. He is the name behind many successful business initiatives and under his leadership has transformed ailing businesses into profitable, innovative companies.<br> <br> Wakeman has continued the growth of PTP since its inception in 2006 with the acquisition of premier timber window brand Mumford &amp; Wood. In 2010 he engineered the acquisition of John Porter Doors from administration. Between 1994 and 1999, he brought together Leaderflush Doors, Longdens and Shapland &amp; Petter, creating Leaderflush-Shapland.<br> <br> Wakeman has been re-elected to stand as president of the British Woodworking Federation on 2011 for the third time in his career.<br> <br>