My Skills & Hobbies

I am a fully qualified Chef specializing in Greek, French and Italian Cuisine. I have owned, run and sold for profit, 3 restaurants and helped many restaurants to achieve higher sales, less staff churn and consult daily with my restaurant clients.

I entered the print arena on September the 26th 1986 and had a very successful career for over 10 years.  My skillset around Print and Project management meant that the likes of NTL (now Virgin Media) could grow from 3 people to just over 16,000 and from Zero Clients to over 1 million during the period I managed their Marketing Collateral requirements as sole supplier for over 6 years. I decided that the web was the way forward in 1998 and have not looked back! 

As a user of the Divi Theme from Elegant Themes I along with others who have now moved on, established elegantmarketplace.com. It is the largest and most visited independent marketplace of its kind with over 50,000 registered users and nearly 200 vendors selling their products to enhance the workflow and production for thousands of customers worldwide. According to similar web, the site is the 199,593th most visited website out of every website out there receiving near 300,000 page views a month.  (source, similarweb). Along with distributing over $800,000 in Commissions to its vendors the site has showed a profit from Day one.

I am also a serial investor in small businesses ranging from Restaurants, through to Window Cleaning and Web & Design production. 

I like to play golf as often as my work/life balance allows.