Experience

SquareMeal

• United Kingdom
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & Director

  • 1990 - Present

  Since the early nineties SquareMeal has been the market-leading, multi-platform, independent restaurant commentator, with reviews of over 15,000 restaurants and bars throughout the UK. It is written by a team of critics with the aid of comments from thousands of restaurant customers. Beyond booking functionality and information on restaurants, pubs and bars, the site also provides inspiration for group and private dining in restaurants, venues for parties and other events, plus ideas for… Show more Since the early nineties SquareMeal has been the market-leading, multi-platform, independent restaurant commentator, with reviews of over 15,000 restaurants and bars throughout the UK. It is written by a team of critics with the aid of comments from thousands of restaurant customers. Beyond booking functionality and information on restaurants, pubs and bars, the site also provides inspiration for group and private dining in restaurants, venues for parties and other events, plus ideas for Christmas parties and weddings. It also runs a new rewards programme using card-linked technology. Consumers collect points when dining in restaurants and exchange the points for vouchers that can be redeemed in hundreds of restaurants. www.squaremeal.co.uk Show less



Square Meal Venues & Events

• Co-founder, MD

  • May 2004 - 2017

  Venues + Events Live is the unmissable show for anyone who organises events. With over 250 venues and event suppliers, plus expert seminars and masterclasses, Venues + Events Live is invaluable for planning 12 months of parties, conferences, private dinners, weddings, meetings, Christmas parties, launches or any kind of corporate event. In June 2018 Venues and Events Live was sold to Ocean Media Group. www.venuesandevents.co.uk/



Sommelier Wine Awards

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & MD

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2016

  The Sommelier Wine Awards is an annual wine competition showcasing the best wines across all categories sold in the UK on-trade. It targets [thousands of] entries from wines that want to sell into the on-trade. The competition is judged by sommeliers, people who know better than anyone the wines that will succeed on restaurant wine lists. In December 2016 Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX Plc, acquired Imbibe and Sommelier Wine Awards. Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser… Show more The Sommelier Wine Awards is an annual wine competition showcasing the best wines across all categories sold in the UK on-trade. It targets [thousands of] entries from wines that want to sell into the on-trade. The competition is judged by sommeliers, people who know better than anyone the wines that will succeed on restaurant wine lists. In December 2016 Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX Plc, acquired Imbibe and Sommelier Wine Awards. Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 30 countries. Show less



Imbibe Live

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & MD

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2016

  With its Imbibe Live Exhibition, various industry awards, magazine, website and social media channels, Imbibe is the UK’s leading media platform for on-trade drinks professionals. Imbibe Live is the UK's market leading on-trade drinks exhibition, held at Olympia. It attracts around 12,000 drinks professionals in a business-focused but energetic environment; people who source, buy or serve drinks, and want to stay on top of the key trends in the licensed on-trade. Imbibe Magazine was… Show more With its Imbibe Live Exhibition, various industry awards, magazine, website and social media channels, Imbibe is the UK’s leading media platform for on-trade drinks professionals. Imbibe Live is the UK's market leading on-trade drinks exhibition, held at Olympia. It attracts around 12,000 drinks professionals in a business-focused but energetic environment; people who source, buy or serve drinks, and want to stay on top of the key trends in the licensed on-trade. Imbibe Magazine was launched in 2007 and established itself, together with its website, as the UK’s leading mouthpiece for all wet-focused matters in the on-trade. The Sommelier Wine Awards, held every year, is a wine competition specifically geared to the needs of the on-trade. The competition is judged by sommeliers. In December 2016 Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX Plc, acquired Imbibe and Sommelier Wine Awards. Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 30 countries. Show less



Bradman's Business Guides

• Co-founder & MD

  • Jan 1995 - Jan 2005

  Essential reading for the business traveller giving information on where to stay, entertain and how to do business in hundreds of cities around the world. Bradman's guides were distributed to business travellers via the UK's leading travel management companies. In 2005 Bradman's guides were sold to Ink Media, the global leader in travel publishing.



BZW (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)

• Executive

  • 1985 - 1988