Charles Manners

Charles is hospitality professional with senior management  experience; with clients in the university, commercial, leisure and visitor attractions markets delivering both strategic and operational hospitality consulting projects. A catering and conference consultant since 2000, Charles has worked with a wide range of organisations in the UK and Middle East.

• Prior to becoming a catering consultant Charles worked for Whitbread PLC, in a variety of senior operations, development and commercial roles all with a marketing focus.
• Directed the development of a new catering strategy with the formation of Whitbread and Marriott Hotels a business with a £200m turnover.
• Managed the Country Club Hotels, a group of 20 midmarket hotels and was responsible for managing the development of the Premier Inn brand positioning and product.
• Charles is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and a non executive director of the Ludlow Food Centre (www.ludlowfoodcentre.co.uk) , and has recently joined the board of Hope Enterprises (www.hopeenterprises.org.uk) in Northampton, a social enterprise set up Northampton's Hope Centre which has more than 30 years experience of working with the homeless.