Simon has extensive experience in running businesses and leading them to success.He has recently taken the helm of his family contract services business with the aim of restructuring the company and focusing its activities into specialist areas of service provision such as cleaning for Schools, Care Homes and the Public Sector in general.Simon has considerable background in media, sales, marketing and customer service. In a previous career, Simon built a pioneering business in the UK and Europe, which grew to a substantial turnover over just two years and employed around 100 personnel between the UK and subsidiary offices in Paris, Gothenburg, Madrid and Warsaw.Following on from an early career in broadcast media sales, Simon created a media independent specialising in broadcast media planning, buying and commercial production then through the acquisition of a creative agency, developed the business further into a large full service, through-the-line ad agency. Simon has travelled extensively around Eastern Europe on business and speaks Russian fluently. In his spare time Simon is a keen ocean yachtsman and glider pilot.