The Team
MEET
Leadership Team
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Nick Collins
Founder Director
Nick started Cleverchefs with a serious passion for creative food & impeccable service. A successful chef for over 20 years in some of the best restaurant's, giving him the vision to put together excellent teams & offers that stand out in many sectors of the hospitality industry. A serious eye for detail and constant drive for perfection is what gives Cleverchefs that edge above other caterers.
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Jason Jones
Sales Director
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.
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Roxanne Greenwood
Operations Director Events
Roxanne has been with Cleverchefs from the early days of our expansion and has a great understanding of our vision & company ethos. Weddings & events is what makes Roxy move in the morning. Her calm & consistent approach to managing her event teams makes her one of the industries stand out leaders.
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James cannon
Senior Regional Business Manager
James has a wealth of experience in high end contract catering sites in the London financial district. With over 20 years experience working in the catering industry James looks after a regional patch of the Cleverchefs business.
Bringing a tactful professional approach to each contract leading by example delivering first class service to our clients.
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David Blake
Regional Business Chef
David heads up the kitchens and food operation in all of our contract sites, our food expert David uses his skills to bring the very best out of our onsite teams. A background in Michelin star restaurants for the last decade and a calming chef approach makes David one of the best team trainers around.
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Emma May
Regional Business Manager
Emma manages our contract catering sector of the business, responsible for the day to day operations of all of our contracts, managing the budgets and looking after our clients. Emma has a fantastic background in large scale conference & event venues giving her the understanding of multiple operations.
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Operations Team
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CHLOE SAUNDERS
Senior Wedding & Event Manager
Chloe has over 8 years experience in managing prestigious wedding venues.
Chloe guides our brides from the initial taster sessions right up to their big day, being there every step of the way ensuring they receive first class service from Cleverchefs.
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Josh PRICE
Wedding & Event Coordinator
Josh is one of our fantastic wedding & event coordinators, supporting & leading our weddings & events on a weekly basis. With a great background in hospitality, Josh makes sure our teams on the day are sticking to our strict deadlines and procedures for delivering the perfect day.
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Mike Roberts
Wedding & Event Coordinator
Mike is one of our longstanding Cleverchefs, a dream to have at our weddings or events. Mike gives customer service that makes our customers feel listened to and valued. A real team player mike makes it look easy.
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Rosie Matkin
Wedding & Event Coordinator
Rosie is one of our amazing wedding & event coordinators, supporting & leading our weddings & events. Rosie makes sure that our events teams are ready to go for the day, sticking to the Cleverchefs procedures and being sure to deliver perfection throughout the day.
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Chef Team
CENTRAL PRODUCTION
Bethan Domi
Chef Director
Beth joined Cleverchefs in 2016 and has grown with the company understanding what makes Cleverchefs unique. Beth's background is in high profile restaurants & outdoor catering companies for nearly 10 years, the experience in catering logistics and knowledge of how to deliver outstanding food in challenging environments is second to none.
Adam Maddock
Executive Chef
Adam has spent the last 10 years working in Michelin star restaurants such as Gidleigh park with chef Michael Caines MBE. Adam takes control of our food quality for the weddings and events, making sure we are constantly pushing boundaries and creating food that excites our customers.
Rhys Hill
Head Event Chef
Rhys is one of our event head chefs and manages the team whilst on location. Fresh, creative food is what gets Rhys up in the morning, with his serious attention to detail and dedication in producing breathtaking food for our weddings and events.
Harris Lloyd
Head Event Chef
Harris has over 10 years experience in high profile restaurants and hotels, heading up a bib gourmet restaurant in the capital. Harris has an attention to detail in everything he does. Making sure our chef teams onsite and in the production unit are at the highest standard.
Lucy Alchin
Head Event Chef
Lucy is another creative foodie that is an integral part of our chef team. With a background in 5 star hotels restaurants for the last 5 years Lucy brings a skilled approach to our operation.
Calm level headed and detailed Lucy is a fantastic support to our chefs.
Lewis Vie
Head Event Chef
From a young age Lewis has spent his time working in Michelin star restaurants around the South West of England such as Gidliegh Park, as well as working along side our executive chef Adam. Lewis keeps the Cleverchefs brand on point and ensures we serve only the highest standard of food.
Cory Mickelson
Event Chef
Cory is a passionate young chef in our team who works closely with the head chefs, to develop his skills and keep our prep on track in the production unit.
Mario Niecikowski
Event Sous Chef
Mario has joined us from an amazing chef background with an abundance of knowledge in the kitchen. Mario works along side the head chef ensuring everything runs smoothly for our weddings, events and restaurant's, making sure that we are only ever preparing the best food.
Ara Santana
Logistics & Store Manager
Ara heads up our very important store of crockery & props. We are proud to be able to use our own in house modern crockery, cutlery & glassware, with over a thousand settings and a fleet of vans. Ara manages a team that keep everything highly polished and ready to go to our next event.
Team
CENTRAL support
KevIN MORGAN
Financial Controller
Kevin heads up our finance department looking after all things money.
Working closely with the development team on budgets and purchasing.
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Hazel Foster
Finance Manager
Hazel makes sure that all our invoices and purchasing is in order and assists the FC in looking after the invoices, keeping the business on point.
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Michael WOODMAN
Operations Support Manager
Mike supports our operations team across the whole company, with over 30 years experience in the catering industry as a craft based chef.
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Team
Boots on the ground
Our Team
At Cleverchefs we pride ourselves on not using agency staff to work on our events. All of our team need to have gone through our hospitality school to be able to work with us.
It is really important to us that our team understand our ethos and values.
If you are looking to join our amazing team click the link below.
Our Site Teams
We also have a fantastic team of Managers, chefs and assistants on site in our contracts.
We manage a varied range of catering outlets from high street restaurants, workplace canteens, coffee shops and schools.
Each and every member of our team all have the same Cleverchefs vision.