Meet The Team
Contract Catering

Sales Director
Jason Jones
Jason heads up the development and sales team, with an impressive background in national contract caterers.
Jason won a prestigious cost sector catering award for his dedication. Jason has the Cleverchefs vision for creating offers that suit our clients specific needs, tailoring them for success.

Operations Director
Steve Wishart
Steve is a customer service orientated professional and a ‘real foodie’ with substantial experience of working at a senior level in both the private and public sectors. Steve trained as a chef and has worked all over the world including America and Germany winning numerous awards throughout his career. Steve has a proven track record in achieving significant improvement in productivity, performance and maintaining high quality standards throughout all aspects of his business.

Business Development Manager
Matt Nicholas
Matt Works alongside Jason in the sales team helping to develop the business and showcasing our exciting catering offer in the contract catering sector, specialising in education and b&i sectors of the industry. Matt is a craft based chef that has spent the last ten years in a similar role to this for the large corporate catering companies and wanted to join a more agile independent caterer to allow him to use his creativity.

Regional Business Manager
Tristan Smart
Tristan manages a patch across the central region of the UK. Another creative chef with a serious passion for food but excellent attention to detail and business acumen.
Tristan inspires our teams on the ground to create the very best food and service on a daily basis.

Group Manager - Cornwall
Jim Woods
Jim looks after a patch of colleges and schools in the Cornwall area, responsible for making our food offer all about the local Cornish produce and presenting it in a way that inspires his onsite managers to really go that extra mile, Jim is an exciting foodie to be around and has a real passion for food.

Company Development Chef
Nathan Philpott
Nathan comes from a fantastic chef background, working in some of the countries best restaurants when starting out his career.
Nathan spent a-lot of time in the event industry catering for high profile large events and weddings for over 10 years, some of that time was also spent heading up the Cleverchefs event side of the business.