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Co-founded a startup aimed at disrupting the convenience food market, launching 10 months after graduating from Newcastle University.Raised seed debt and equity funding and recruited a board of directors.Pivoted into cultural venue hospitality, securing exclusive contracts at prestigious venues and grew the business to over 120 staff.Created several distinct sub-brands within the group of businesses for the various restaurant, cafe and event venues operated.Oversaw and negotiated the sale of two of the businesses within the group.Managed and procured all technology within the business, including the deployment of three bespoke CRM platforms for managing the sales pipeline.Oversaw all branding, marketing and advertising for the group. Agreed targets, budgets and strategies for each division and worked with managers to deliver them.Set all sales targets, devised and managed bonus and incentive schemes and developed dashboards to report relevant sales data to the board and staff at all levels.Negotiated several long-term, multi-million pound hospitality contracts with cultural venues.Developed a consultancy arm of the business to advise cultural venues on hospitality. Pitched for and won long term contracts to design hospitality concepts and project managed them to completion.Completely restructured the business in response to the Covid pandemic and navigated through, returning to profitability by the end of 2021.