Fast Hold Publishing is a vehicle I established to navigate the route to publication of my first Children's Book, 'Meet HammerHead & Captain StinkyPants. I am also happy to offer guidance to anyone else looking to create their stories.

A subsidiary company of the Co-operative Group Ltd, FRTS Ltd oversees over £10 billion in procurement across the Co-operative movement in the UK.

Responsible for overseeing strategy and execution of the movements buying arm, Co-operative Retail Trading Group

Tactical oversight and influence. Co-operative Retail Trading Group.

Channel Islands Co-operative is the leading retailer in the islands, serving its members through 34 stores across Jersey and Guernsey - www.channelislands.coop • Grew sales from £158m to £210m despite substantial increase in competition and drawn out impacts of economic downturn• Winner - Guernsey Community Foundation Awards 2017• Winner - CIPD Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2017• IoD Director of the Year 2015 - Large Business, UK Finals 2015• IoD Jersey Director of the Year 2015 - Large Business Category• Launched Co-operative Medical Care 2014 - bringing affordable high quality healthcare to Jersey• Took Society from minority to majority shareholder in Pharmacy Locale• Winner - Large Business of the Year 2013 – Jersey Enterprise Awards• Winner - Employer of the Year 2012 – Guernsey Awards for Achievement• Drove strategic review of the scope and governance of the Co-operative Retail Trading GroupSPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS• ‘What is it to Belong?’ European Co-operative Summit - Sofia, Bulgaria June 2018• EU Retail Day - Leadership Panel, Brussels, November 2017• Leadership Jersey - Keynote '5 Short Stories on Leadership', June 2017• International Co-operative Collaboration, UK Co-operative Conference March 2017• Differentiating our Product, Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide (CCW), Brussels, April 2016• Community Engagement, Coop Foorum, Tartu, Estonia, February 2016• Pollinating the Future: Growing Jersey's Economy from the inside-out - with Michael Shuman• Retail Consumer Conference, Co-operatives UK, Stratford Upon Anon, February 2015• Association of Co-operative Officials Annual Conference, East Midlands, June 2014

• Increased Society sales from £126m to £158m• Researched and developed strategic plan and attendant budgets over a three year rolling timeframe• Created and executed a multi-layered strategic response to Waitrose entering market• Successfully protected market share through leveraging differentiators• Designed and delivered diversification strategy leading to the acquisition of a Funeral business andthe attainment of a majority share in a local Pharmacy Chain• Accelerated acquisition programme through the design and execution of a detailed locational strategy• Created new Travelmaker strategy taking the business from a sustained loss making position to aprofit within a year. Net surplus has remained constant at 2.5% since• Achieved ‘Environmental Business of the Year’ 2009 in The Jersey Enterprise Awards

• Oversaw store operations as well as HR.• Completed full store structure review• Grew stores sales from £104m to £126m

• Researched, designed and implemented formalised succession planning structures, including talent management routines• Created Absence Management platforms, reducing absence from an average of 9.6 days to 4.7 days in two years

• Created Training Function from ‘cold start’ following full Training Needs Analysis• Introduce ‘In Store Trainers’ to oversee and executive shop floor colleague development• Designed and introduced workforce scheduling

• Initially commencing as a Management Trainee, moved quickly through a number of store based roles, including managing stores through redevelopments.• Nominated by Society for Jersey Young Manager of the Year 1998

Representing the British Co-operative movement.Euro Coop is the voice of the co-operative retailers in Europe. Our association brings together the national associations of consumer co-operatives in 19 European countries, which represent 4,500 local/regional co-operatives, employing 500,000 citizens across Europe, operating 36,000 stores, which serve 32 million consumer-members daily. Euro Coop’s members together are Europe’s strongest retail force – accounting for €76 billion in annual turnover.Euro Coop represents and upholds the structure and ethics of consumer co-operative enterprises at European level. This activity is achieved in particular, by it's participation in different fora such as the Stakeholders Platform of the European Food Safety Authority "EFSA", various Advisory Groups within the European Commissions DGs, the EU "Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health', the European Retail Forum for Sustainability, the European Consumer Consultative Group "ECCG", amongst others.