Head
Office

After a degree in Geography at Edinburgh University and a spell at being a ‘High Adventure Chief’ in North Carolina, followed by the obligatory post graduate tour of Australia and New Zealand, Mary discovered that she liked being both sides of the bar and so entered the Whitbread Graduate Training Scheme. Her career climb following an inexorably upward incline with posts as Area Manager, Ops Manager and Ops Director, finally summiting as Managing Director of Slug and Lettuce. In the spring of 2014 she said goodbye to Jagerbombs (on week days) and took over the reins as Managing Director here at B&P. A keen runner and even keener dog walker of her beloved black Lab Zeffirelli you’ll find her out and about on weekends with a pocket full of treats.

Tom studied to be a Chef at University College Birmingham. Once graduated, he (sensibly) opted to work in South Carolina before returning home to start on a graduate programme with hotel group Malmaison / Hotel Du Vin. This is where he spent a successful eight years working his way up to General Manager in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. Whilst visiting his parents local B&P, the Fox in 2010, he spotted an advert for Operations Manager which caught his eye; the rest as they say, is history! He joined Brunning and Price as Operations Manager South, before being promoted to Operations Director National. He now lives in Shropshire with wife Claire, and their two sons Oscar and Dylan.

Jane came to us after seven years with Nestle. She started there as a Customer Services Manager but soon progressed to HR Manager. At university, Jane took options in cultural studies, which basically meant watching soap operas, and she still keeps up with cultural studies to this day. She drinks Gavi di Gavi and is a self-confessed foodie, being particularly partial to a bit of haddock. She plays netball to redress the balance.

Rich worked at our ‘Mothership Company’ TRG for 4 years before joining us in early 2022. Rich studied Business Management at Birmingham Uni where he was also Club Captain of the water polo team. There he met his now wife Lucy and developed a true love story with beer. Lucy and Rich are now joined by Bilbo their German Shorthaired Pointer who, when not behind a spreadsheet, loves to take for long walks (usually culminating in a pub somewhere and more beer).

Will has so many letters involved in his qualifications; BA (Hons) Degree in Business Management, Chartered Project Manager (CIOB) and Quantity Surveyor (GradDipQS) along with a wealth of experience in previous companies; Revolution Bars Group, where he was also Property Director, OYO Rooms and Mitchells and Butlers.

He’s married to Charlie and has a daughter and dog (Noel) and loves most sports. You will find him either watching football or playing golf in whatever spare time he gets.

Mike first joined the company in 1997,and soon graduated to head up the chef team at Glasfryn. After three years of galloping success he left for the green pastures but returned to us after a year or so to run our chef support function in the company and in 2006 he became Executive Chef. He’s the man to help with in-house training, roving chefs and their rotas, trainee chefs and college liaison, and all the key areas surrounding food development and production, acting as a consultant to the pubs. He’s married to Lynn and they have two children, Jennifer and Patrick.

Kieron did a degree in Electronic Engineering at Leeds, and journeyed a full six weeks into a PHD before being lured by the siren call of business. He lived in Dubai for 2 years before joining B&P and outside of work still loves to travel, taking some pretty spectacular photos along the way and enjoying finding new cultures (and foods) to explore. He is a doting father of two boys, Oliver and Jamie aka Spud and Chubba.

Nicola has been communicating (far too often and far too loudly some might say) for years and added marketing to her talents at the tender age of 18, with the simplistic beginning of being the “best pub chalk board writer in Coventry” (remember those drawings of the Hooch Lemon?). Being a bit flamboyant her degree is in Theatre Design which came in handy when designing a myriad of not so stylish theme bars in the late 90’s. She likes to think that her hobbies include travel, parties and trying out exotic recipes, but the reality that she is slowly coming to terms with is that she likes pyjamas, anything wrapped in pastry, a good book and walks in her woolly hat with her sausage dogs.

Katie is responsible for leading our recruitment function and the team behind it. With a veritable plethora of recruitment and management experience in both internal recruitment and external agencies, Katie is a true recruitment professional with all the experience and expertise needed to support all our pubs across the UK to attract the best talent in our ever-expanding family of pubs. It’s non-stop in Katie’s world because when she’s not implementing all the latest recruitment strategies, her favourite pastimes as well as looking after her young daughter include travelling, skiing, eating fine food and sampling wines and gin varieties.