ABOUT
A Career Spanning Hospitality, Culture and Investment
highlights
FELLOW
The Royal Society of Arts
LIVERYMAN
Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs
Andrew is currently leading Hestia – a new investment vehicle in the Hospitality sector, acquiring and building premium restaurant groups.
Andrew is Executive Chair for SALT, a leading marketing consultancy specialising in food and drink which he also founded. He also co-founded Home Kitchen and served as trustee during their opening of the frist site in london in 2024, home kitchen is a charity working to training and employ people from the homeless community into the Hospitality sector.
Prior to hospitality, Andrew was a renowned leader in arts and culture organisations. He has produced over two dozen West End and Broadway shows, winning Tony Awards, Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Theatre Awards and many more. Andrew has built and run theatres (including the first new, purpose-built theatre in London in over half a century) and has sat on the boards of a wide variety of cultural and arts institutions.
Andrew has previously been a board member of the British Institute of Innkeepers as well as a mentor for the Prince's Trust.
Andrew was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and has been awarded his MBA from Warwick Business School. Furthermore, Andrew has also been awarded the Freedom of the City of London for services to Business and the Arts and is Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs.
MBA
Warwick Business School
executive chair
salt - the leadinG full service agency SPECIALISING in food and drink
FREEDOM OF THE CITY
City of London, for services to Business and the Arts
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
All things bloom (beautiful coffee), various RESTAURANT groups, pub companies and members clubs
TRANSACTION & OPERATING EXPERIENCE
Founder · CEO · Non Executive director
Andrew has been involved in a wide range of transactions across the hospitality sector — as Founder, Sponsor, CEO, Advisor and Investment Committee member. He has led fundraising rounds, completed M&A transactions and gone on to lead the businesses acquired in both buy-and-build and turnaround situations.
FOUNDER & CEO
Hestia
Leading a new hospitality consolidation vehicle with a WORLD-CLASS acquisition pipeline of premium restaurant groups, private members clubs and all-day dining concepts. Building towards a £500m+ portfolio.
CEO & FOUNDER
Multi-Site Pub Group
Founded, built and operated a multi award-winning gastro pub group, from concept through to a successful exit.
founder & chair
SALT
SALT believes food and drink is the most powerful global language to create joy and share brand stories.
Founded the brand in 2016 and has helped lead its growth ever since
SPONSOR & NON EXEC
Restaurant Incubator
Developer partnership producing one of the most significant post-Covid institutional investments into an incubator restaurant concept in the UK.
INTERIM CEO
Boutique Hotel Group
Capital raise and operational turnaround for a single-site boutique hotel that has since become one of England’s most decorated small properties.
NON EXECUTIVE CHAIR
premium restaurant group
helped grow the group to 8 sites and over £20m turnover.
led the sale to private equity.