Experience

Market Curators Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Director

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Market Curators is a new nimble and focused consultancy partnership dedicated to helping improve, curate, develop and business plan the best modern markets and food halls in the UK, Europe and beyond. We believe that the future of our High Streets and town centres will be led by exciting, independent outlets and experiences. Providing a home to these offers, and forming the heart of the local community, will be markets and food halls. A successful market and food hall will create opportunities for these businesses to thrive, offering critical mass, footfall driving events, and coordinated marketing. An entirely curated approach. These venues act as community hubs, bringing together street food, shopping, entertainment, community activities and family experiences to create venues which go beyond buying and selling, the modern market and food hall. These venues will become part of the local collective consciousness, creating a distinct sense of place that local people can be proud of, and feel a part of. Together, we founded Market Curators to put decades of experience into practice, and move away from the traditional market industry consultant roles we undertook previously. Our aim is to provide a unique, passionate and hands-on approach to create the most dynamic spaces. We are curators not consultants. For us it’s personal. We want everyone to have access to amazing good-value food, exciting dining concepts, unique independent outlets and live entertainment on their doorstep. No one disenfranchised, and everyone welcome. That is why we have helped create and curate unmissable, award-winning markets, food halls and flexi spaces across the UK.



Trading Republic Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate

• Director

  • May 2021 - Present

  An eclectic group of bars specialising in creating an alternative offer to the towns and cities they are in, often supporting market halls and street food. An eclectic group of bars specialising in creating an alternative offer to the towns and cities they are in, often supporting market halls and street food.



High Streets Task Force

• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• High Streets Task Force Mentor

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Appointed by the High Streets Task Force to help communities and local government transform their high streets Appointed by the High Streets Task Force to help communities and local government transform their high streets



Market Asset Management Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Director

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Market Asset Management Ltd is a specialist market and food hall operator, highly experienced in managing and generating income from multi-tenant spaces.Markets and food halls need to be the centre of their community, encouraging a wide user base and providing entertainment for the whole family, a safe and inclusive environment.

• Business Development Director

  • May 2018 - Aug 2019



Blackwater Fuels Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Director

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  Having assisted with the creation and early years of Blackwater Fuels alongside my Brother, I returned to assist with developing the business into new areas and altering the day-to-day operations of the company.We are a family business that prides itself on going the extra mile for its customers.The company is based in Tollesbury and deliver home heating and commercial fuel throughout Essex.To us, simply supplying your fuel at a competitive price isn’t enough. We believe in building long-term relationships with our customers and our aim is for you to be happy with every aspect of every order you place with us. We combine good old-fashioned customer service with efficient modern business practices. www.blackwaterfuels.co.uk

• Company Secretary

  • Apr 2005 - Present

  Blackwater Fuels is a family business that prides itself on going the extra mile for its customers.We are based in Tollesbury and deliver home heating and commercial fuel throughout Essex.To us, simply supplying your fuel at a competitive price isn’t enough. We believe in building long-term relationships with our customers and our aim is for you to be happy with every aspect of every order you place with us. We combine good old-fashioned customer service with efficient modern business practices. www.blackwaterfuels.co.uk

• Commercial Director

  • Sep 2005 - May 2010

  Assist with the direction of the company, having been actively involved in the business from start-up through to the company's current success.

• Start-up Manager

  • Apr 2005 - Sep 2005

  Assisting the MD in the creation and initial stages of creating the company



Fast Fix Boilers and Tanks Ltd

• Commercial Director

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Fast Fix Boilers and Tanks is a family operated business providing heating oil tank storage installation and oil fired boiler servicing and breakdown repairs across Essex and Suffolk. Fast Fix Boilers and Tanks is a family operated business providing heating oil tank storage installation and oil fired boiler servicing and breakdown repairs across Essex and Suffolk.



Quarterbridge Project Management Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Director

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

  Quarterbridge is a multi-discipline organisation specialising in developing and improving market halls, creating exciting income generating food halls, and ensuring independent traders have the best environment to thrive, bringing much-needed footfall to high streets and shopping centres.With independent businesses being drawn back to the high street, markets and food halls are their ‘new’ traditional home. Quarterbridge creates and improves markets to best suit the demographic and clients’ aspirations.

• Business Development Director

  • May 2018 - Aug 2019

  Business Development Director of Quarterbridge, the UK's leading independent consultancy to the retail market industry.Quarterbridge is a multi-discipline organisation specialising in developing and improving retail markets, food courts, food markets and street food, bring much needed footfall to high streets and shopping centres.With independent businesses being drawn back to the high street, markets are their ‘new’ traditional home. Quarterbridge creates and improves markets to best suit the demographic and clients’ aspirations.Shoppers have been conditioned to the sophisticated sales techniques of dominant supermarket groups and high street nationals. We show markets how to compete on a level footing. They will never have the vast promotional budgets of their competitors but can still out-perform on cost and personal service.



Quarterbridge Lettings Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Leasing Non-residential Real Estate

• Managing Director

  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2022

  Quarterbridge Lettings Ltd is the lettings division of Quarterbridge Project Management Ltd, specialist retail market development consultants. Quarterbridge Lettings work with owners and operators within the private and public sector to ensure first-class market traders occupy their empty market space. Our team can pre-let entire new start-up market schemes or simply help stimulate demand following a market redevelopment and reduce their voids with innovative, high calibre businesses. The UK’s only letting agency dedicated to working within the specialist covered market and market hall industry. Our unique position of understanding the market industry allows us to provide guidance to owners and operators to best develop their market and attract high calibre traders best suited for their market. Using this experience, we work with market services pitching rents at optimum levels, ensuring trader longevity whilst delivering sustainable income for operators.



Woking Market Company Ltd

• Director

  • Jul 2014 - Sep 2015

  Woking Market Company Ltd is the management company for Market Walk development in the heart of Woking. Created to undertake the day-to-day management and operations in partnership with Woking Borough Council and Woking Shopping. Woking Market Company Ltd is the management company for Market Walk development in the heart of Woking. Created to undertake the day-to-day management and operations in partnership with Woking Borough Council and Woking Shopping.

• Commercial Director

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2015

  Commercial Director of Quarterbridge, the UK's leading independent consultancy to the retail market industry.Quarterbridge is a multi-discipline organisation specialising in developing and improving retail markets, food courts, food markets and street food, bring much needed footfall to high streets and shopping centres.With independent businesses being drawn back to the high street, markets are their ‘new’ traditional home. Quarterbridge creates and improves markets to best suit the demographic and clients’ aspirations.Shoppers have been conditioned to the sophisticated sales techniques of dominant supermarket groups and high street nationals. We show markets how to compete on a level footing. They will never have the vast promotional budgets of their competitors but can still out-perform on cost and personal service.

• Lettings & Commercialisation Director

  • May 2010 - Jun 2013

  Quarterbridge offer specialist design and business planning advice for market owners, operators, traders and developers, and commercialisation guidance and management for market and shopping centre management and owners.My role was increase occupation rates within market halls based in a range of locations across the UK, specialising in sourcing new tenants for new market developments or redevelopments. This included arranging the promotion of the locations, leading a team handling all enquiries and undertaking site viewings.



Number Two - Serviced Offices

• Lettings Director

  • Jul 2012 - Sep 2015

  Fully furnished and serviced offices in the heart of Colchester available on easy in easy out contracts. 2 West Stockwell Street is a beautifully renovated Edwardian building, housing a number of serviced and luxuriously appointed offices in central Colchester. The offices and common areas are finished to a very high standard with striking interior décor, high quality fittings throughout, stylish Italian furniture, air-conditioning, telephones and high-speed broadband for your convenience. Offices are let on a monthly basis with a minimum 3-month term.



I Want It All Limited

• Director

  • Mar 2009 - Sep 2010

  I Want It All Limited offered business management and promotion guidance and support to a wide range of businesses across various sectors. Coaching senior management in how best to present their businesses and grow their customer base. I Want It All Limited offered business management and promotion guidance and support to a wide range of businesses across various sectors. Coaching senior management in how best to present their businesses and grow their customer base.



Stormwave - Designs for Web and Print

• Owner

  • Aug 2005 - Sep 2010

  Stormwave was started in 2005 to produce high-quality websites for a wide range of businesses, from small start-ups to large corporate companies. From here the business expanded into all areas of digital and graphic design. Producing corporate identities and stationery through to both online and off-line marketing. Client sizes ranged from small businesses and hobbyists, through to working for the NHS and Olympic funded programmes. In 2006, the company added an IT support department, providing SME IT support and reselling telecoms products. In late 2010 the company was sold to new owners and rebranded.



Concessions-online

• Design Services

• Consultant

  • Jun 2008 - Mar 2010

  Concessions-online are one of the Uk’s leading experts in Shopping Centre and Retail Park commercialisation strategies. We specialised in increasing income for Shopping Centres and Retail Parks by identifying underused areas of sites and creating an income stream from that area. I assisted the Managing Director in attracting new business, developing current clients and being the main point of contact for site management and asset managers. Concessions-online are one of the Uk’s leading experts in Shopping Centre and Retail Park commercialisation strategies. We specialised in increasing income for Shopping Centres and Retail Parks by identifying underused areas of sites and creating an income stream from that area. I assisted the Managing Director in attracting new business, developing current clients and being the main point of contact for site management and asset managers.