Origin Story

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Founder Background

Glen Mascall has worked in PPE testing and certification for their entire career. Their verified experience covers:

  • Laboratory testing
  • Test-team leadership
  • Technical-documentation assessment
  • Certificate issuance
  • Senior commercial delivery

This background spans the full lifecycle of protective-product compliance — from physical testing through documentation, certification and commercial delivery. Most competitors have experience in one part of the chain; Glen has worked across all of them.

Deepest Specialism

Motorcycle protective apparel is Glen's deepest technical specialism. They also work across gloves, high-visibility clothing, sports protection, hearing protection, eyewear and head protection.

Founding Motivation

Throughout their career in testing and certification, Glen was regularly asked by brands for help sorting out documentation, compliance routes and product evidence. They could never assist due to conflict of interest — working on the testing/certification side created an inherent barrier.

What Glen kept seeing from the other side of the table:

  • Good brands struggling because they couldn't hire anyone with real PPE experience
  • Good people running these businesses, but PPE compliance takes years to learn organically — there's no shortcut
  • The compliance manager cycle — companies hire a compliance manager to sort out the product range, the range gets in a deeper mess, the person leaves, and the cycle repeats
  • No accessible route for brands to get competent PPE compliance support without committing to a full-time hire

Trace exists to break that pattern. Glen's driving goals:

  1. Get people to market faster — reduce the time and confusion in the compliance route
  2. Make it less stressful — bring clarity and defined responsibility to a process that overwhelms most first-timers
  3. Embrace technology and modern ways of working — not stuck in legacy processes and PDF-based workflows

The Company

Trace Technical Compliance Ltd. was incorporated in England & Wales (company no. 17325886). It operates from a virtual registered office at 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA, with primary contact at hello@tracetechnical.co.uk and the domain tracetechnical.co.uk.

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