Comfort  n. a state of ease and contentment.

I’ve been interested in marketing and its business impact for 20 years, focusing on the consumer and how they navigate products through clear branding and story telling.  I have worked at a senior level on recognisable household brands like Kettle Chips. After finishing my MBA, I started offering marketing director support to companies who recognised they needed extra expertise and resource.

Ten years ago I married Chix, (best move ever) and joined her wine business, The Wine Parlour, to take on a Managing Director role.  What an adventure.  We saw all aspects of life in Brixton – such an amazing community with so much history. I learnt so much about wine, a little bit about life, and picked up some good stories to tell when sitting in a bar. We closed the business in December 2022 – I am so proud to have been part of that journey. In 2023, I joined a highly regarded award-winning PR and marketing agency to work as their wine expert. This gave me fantastic exposure to the entire wine industry here in London working with clients such as Oregon Wine Board. I left the company to join J E Fells & Sons Ltd in the summer of 2024 to head up their Port portfolio which includes Dow’s, Cockburn’s and Graham’s on a maternity leave cover contract, managing a team of four. Shortly after this, I was honored to join Mentzendorff Ltd working with Taylor Fladgate partnership on a mission to bring the iconic Taylors, Fonseca and Croft brands to life across the UK market. I have interests in music, coffee, chess, food and wine of course. I have a 1965 VW Californian split-screen campervan.  I am a Norwich City FC supporter. Chix and I have a dog called Fino, he was born in Norfolk and is named after one of our favourite wine styles. He loves being in my home office – we love him completely.

We love to travel and have visited wineries around the world.  In the summer of 2020 we spent ten weeks in our camper traveling through France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Holland mainly exploring wine regions and meeting winemakers.  It was the perfect back drop from which to begin my WSET Wine Diploma.

If you would like to talk to me please do get in touch – I would love to hear from you.