I have purchased 50 acres of derelict land in Sri Lanka's central Cultural Triangle district, and am setting up an intensive organic spice, fruits and vegetable farm specialising in coconuts and black pepper. We have built 3 huge Villas,offering 14 super luxury rooms, and have now opened an upmarket boutique Hotel on the Farm, which opened for our first guests in December 2011.

Hugalls instals and maintains catering equipment for large UK multi restaurant chains. We specialise in pizza ovens, frequently imported ex US, and provide a full national service to the pizza industry leaders, Pizza Hut, Pizza Express and many Dominos outlets.

Madliena Village is a large residentail development in Malta, offering 90 luxury apartments. I had to create a completely new and positive image for a development that had, under previous management, become bankrupted in a high profile negative manner. My new and innovative campaign stimulated considerable consumer interest, and hence actual and potential apartment sales .

Alpha Airports is a leading supplier of catering and duty free retail services to the airline and airport industry. We built leading market positions across the UK, with major and highly succesful International operations established in Eastern Europe, Sri Lanka, Jordan and Australia, and won numerous Industry Awards for Innovation.

Rexam previously had a very diverse range of small independant packaging companies. I started a process of concentrating on growth markets in Health and Beauty, Food and Beverage, and Medical packaging, and led a restructuring programme to establish global management teams in these core businesses, and the divestment of 40 small businesses that were not affiliated to these target markets..

Having been developed through a variety of General Management and Finance roles, I was appointed to run the Global Roofing business and join the Group Board in 1986. We moved the Roofing business from an historic focus on concrete tile manufacturing in Europe, to become the truly Global Roofing market leader in all tile materials- concrete, clay and slate-via a series of predominantly clay tile acquisitions and slate product innovation in Europe, combined with US concrete tile acquisitions. We… Show more Having been developed through a variety of General Management and Finance roles, I was appointed to run the Global Roofing business and join the Group Board in 1986. We moved the Roofing business from an historic focus on concrete tile manufacturing in Europe, to become the truly Global Roofing market leader in all tile materials- concrete, clay and slate-via a series of predominantly clay tile acquisitions and slate product innovation in Europe, combined with US concrete tile acquisitions. We also grew hugely and successfully in Asia and Eastern Europe, building some 5 new roof tile plants pa, costing some £40m each year. Show less

Graduate trainee leading to specialism in Investment Research in the Construction and Building Materials industries.