Shedid & Parrish is a natural hair brand making it easy to look and celebrate curly & textured hair. The salon quality range is 100% natural, vegan, scent free & cruelty free and has been carefully developed using only the best ingredients to benefit all curls from the lightest wave to the tightest coil. The range offers a complete solution to wash, condition and style all types of curls. Shedid & Parrish embraces all curls from any gender, ethnicity or age. #unitedbycurls

Nominated as Chair of the freehold company managing the estate on behalf of 165 freehold members. A complex space including residencial, communal areas, recreational facilities and the estate core infrastructure. Responsible for managing the managing agent and process to replace them. Driving through the CAPEX for building longevity as well as balancing with the short term operational day to day requirements.

J.P. Riverside is an International Consultancy operating within the leisure and property sector. The business specialises in 3 key areas;Advising developers and operators within the food hall and and communal dining space. Advising Landlords and developers to deliver the best leisure mix for their assetsSupporting growing restaurant brands in their development

Time Out Market is the world’s first food and cultural market, based wholly on editorial curation. Born of decades of authentic knowledge, independent reviews and expert tasting of the best each city has to offer - information gathered by Time Out journalists all over the world - the Time Out Market is an original food curatorship concept owned by Time Out Group. Taking fine dining and making it casual, the mission of Time Out Market is a simple one: to get the best of each city and bring it together under one roof. If it’s good it goes into the magazine. If it’s great it goes into the Market.As Commercial Director, I am part of a team of 20+ based in multiple geographic locations including London, Lisbon, Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. I have a direct reporting line to the CEO of the company and was hired to set up & roll out the international business development of the brand. This involves negotiation of Lease & Management Agreements. I create and continually improve our commercial agreements, documents and blueprints to enable a coherent roll-out strategy with adaptability across all territories. I identify and negotiate with our global partners including beverage suppliers, technology providers and operational businesses for the company’s’ International roll outs. I work closely with our Editorial Team and highest calibre Chef partners to ensure Time Out Market is ‘the best of the city under one roof’. During my time in this role, I have successfully launched three new markets in New York, Miami & Boston with two more scheduled for the end of 2019 and more markets forthcoming over the next few years.

Westfield Group (now Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield) is a shopping centre group. The group undertook ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing, and marketing activities. The multinational company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and had interests in and operated one of the world's largest shopping centre portfolios with investment interests in 103 shopping centres across Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, Croatia and Brazil, encompassing around 23,000 retail outlets and total assets under management in excess of GBP29.1/USD35.8 billion. As Senior Food Leasing Manager, I was responsible for managing a GBP200m turnover per annum portfolio across two of our flagship shopping centres; Westfield London & Westfield Stratford City; at the time, the largest shopping centre in Europe. The development included the UK’s first artisanal food market. I also set the food & leisure strategy for our Milan & Croydon developments and the Westfield London extension.This involved working closely with our internal & external letting and rent review agents and specialists to drive innovation of concept and maximise asset value. I also consulted with our restaurant partners to ensure their business was optimised for success, offering my experience, expertise & advice to adapt their menus, reduce costs and maximise profits. I worked closely with both internal & external project, design & construction teams to oversee best-in-class design, construction and delivery ensuring all projects were delivered on time and on budget. During my time in this role, I built & maintained excellent senior level relationships with our network of 100+ food, restaurant & leisure partners, creating effective long-term relationships, and win-win solutions. This ensured consistently high occupancy rates across my portfolio.

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. The flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15th March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre and Exchange Square in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham.As Food & Restaurants Planning Manager, I led a team of 8. I was responsible for leading and managing the P&L of our GBP65m food & restaurants division. I worked closely with our Senior Management Team deputising for our Food & Restaurants Director when needed. During my time in this role I delivered GBP2m growth from the redevelopment of our Manchester Food hall. This was achieved through exiting low yielding partners & in-house departments and replacing them with newer, more attractive & profitable concepts as well as reducing payroll costs.

I created the role of Food & Restaurants Concessions Manager to manage and develop our Concessions division. This was achieved by contract renegotiation, Retail Consulting and identifying & partnering with new operators. My work resulted in a 20% Improvement in sales growth & profitability, building the business to a GBP30m division. My success in this role led to me being promoted to Food & Restaurants Planning Manager.

As Senior Merchandiser Food, I managed a team of 8 and was responsible for managing our GBP22m food division.During my time in this role, I successfully improved stock rotation, waste reduction & margin management. This led to a market-beating 97% sell-through on seasonal stock.My success in this role led to me identifying a new role as Food & Restaurants Concessions Manager

Costco Wholesale Corporation, doing business as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. As of 2015, Costco was the second largest retailer in the world after Walmart, and as of 2016,. The company is ranked #14 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. As of July 10, 2019, Costco had a total of 776 warehouses, 539 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 100 in Canada, 39 in Mexico, 28 in the United Kingdom, 26 in Japan, 16 in South Korea, 13 in Taiwan, 11 in Australia, two in Spain, one in Iceland, one in France, and one in China. In my first job in the industry, I worked as an Inventory Stock Specialist soon progressing to Assistant Buyer. I worked in our Produce & Grocery departments and was responsible for ordering, merchandising, buying, competitive price negotiation and marketing initiatives.In addition, while working in our GBP50m Beers Wines & Spirits (BWM) department, I grew our premium packaged spirits sector by 25% YOY through contract negotiation & competitive pricing.