Experience

Cool Places

• United Kingdom
• Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CEO

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  Cool Places is a digital and print publishing business that celebrates Britain as a travel destination – promoting the very best independently owned places to stay in the UK – special places that you would recommend to friends – alongside lots of other great, up-the-minute content: the best pubs and restaurants, cool shops and other local businesses, as well as great walks and all kinds of stuff to see and do. Cool Places is a digital and print publishing business that celebrates Britain as a travel destination – promoting the very best independently owned places to stay in the UK – special places that you would recommend to friends – alongside lots of other great, up-the-minute content: the best pubs and restaurants, cool shops and other local businesses, as well as great walks and all kinds of stuff to see and do.



Ex-Rough Guides

• London, United Kingdom

• Travel Publisher, Editor & Author

  • 1985 - Present

  I write about travel for The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, London Evening Standard, The Independent, The i newspaper, Rough Guides and others, principally focusing the following destinations and topics: Britain (in particular East Anglia), UK hotels and restaurants, Italy (In particular Rome, Naples & Liguria), Belgium/Brussels, Netherlands/Amsterdam and Denmark. I write about travel for The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, London Evening Standard, The Independent, The i newspaper, Rough Guides and others, principally focusing the following destinations and topics: Britain (in particular East Anglia), UK hotels and restaurants, Italy (In particular Rome, Naples & Liguria), Belgium/Brussels, Netherlands/Amsterdam and Denmark.



Buenos Aires Cafe

• United Kingdom
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant and Investor

  • Aug 2014 - Aug 2022

  Investor in Buenos Aires Cafe, an Argentinian restaurant based in Southeast London. Investor in Buenos Aires Cafe, an Argentinian restaurant based in Southeast London.



Tripbod

• London, United Kingdom

• Consultant and Investor

  • Nov 2010 - May 2014

  Invested in this specialist in local travel information specialist, which was sold to Tripadvisor in May 2014. Invested in this specialist in local travel information specialist, which was sold to Tripadvisor in May 2014.



Rough Guides

• Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Publisher

  • Jan 1988 - Dec 2009

  I co-founded the company in the mid-1980s and helped to grow the business to become one of the world's major travel brands. We sold the company to Pearson in 2002 and I continued to work there as publisher until the end of 2009, when I left to pursue other interests – both in travel and elsewhere. I continue to write for Rough Guides in print and online but otherwise have no connection with the business. I co-founded the company in the mid-1980s and helped to grow the business to become one of the world's major travel brands. We sold the company to Pearson in 2002 and I continued to work there as publisher until the end of 2009, when I left to pursue other interests – both in travel and elsewhere. I continue to write for Rough Guides in print and online but otherwise have no connection with the business.