MEET THE TEAM

Made up of a diverse team of experts and specialists in their fields, the OAPA team is dedicated to make a difference and end homelessness.

OUR TRUSTEES

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Strategic Affairs Director – UK Hospitality

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Trustee

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Trustee

Tony Sophoclides

Strategic Affairs Director – UK Hospitality

Trustee

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager – Crisis

Trustee

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner – Wellers

Trustee

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate – Freeths LLP

Trustee

OUR ADVISORS

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

James Hacon

Managing Director – THINK Hospitality

Nick Miller

FMCG & Hospitality Industry Director

Daniel Mackernan

Director – Savills

Paul Campbell

Founder – Hill Capital Partners LLP

Dawn Redman

Founder & Director of Hospitality Jobs UK | OAPA Recruitment Lead & Ambassador

David Wilson

Director – British Beer & Pub Association

Katy Moses

Managing Director – KAM Media

Paul Pavli

Exec Director, Consultant – Hospitality & Leisure Sector

Mark Stretton

Karen Wallin

Marketing & Fundraising Consultant

GET TO KNOW US

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Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Excecutive
Only A Pavement Away

In 2002 after having spent nearly 25 years in corporate life culminating in being an Operations Director Greg started his own Pub business. On the sale of this in 2005 Greg set up Resolution Leisure, a consultancy working in the pub, leisure and hospitality industries. Greg has also worked alongside a leading Corporate Financial Advisory Company and Private Equity with the aim of setting up a hybrid Pub Co.

In 2018 Greg founded Only A Pavement Away, a charity whose purpose was to help the homeless, rough sleepers, ex-offenders and VETs find work in the hospitality industry.

Greg sees the industry as a key component of peoples leisure time and works with various hospitality associations.

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & CEO
PubLove & Burger Craft

Ben is the Founder & CEO of PubLove, a London based pub hostel company.
PubLove deliver a unique accommodation experience, genuine hospitality and the buzz of the London food and drink scene on their mission to love pubs back to life.

Ben grew up in hospitality, first in a family run pub, then a hotel in Torquay, so it’s in his bones. He founded PubLove in 2007 using family savings and his credit card. Over the next 10 years Ben grew PubLove to 6 London locations.
In 2017 PubLove became a managed partner of the EI Group (formerly Enterprise Inns). This partnership provides PubLove with the investment and new site opportunities to help deliver its vision of creating a National Pub Hostel brand.

Along side growing PubLove, Ben is a husband, a father of two, a mentor, an investor and a keen supporter of the hospitality industry.

Tony Sophoclides

Director of Communications
UKHospitality

Tony Sophoclides is Director of Communications for UKHospitality, a trade association formed in early 2018 by the merger of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers and British Hospitality Association.

A public affairs and media specialist, Tony has a strong background in consultancy, as well as having worked for more than eight years in Parliament and a spell on Capitol Hill, Washington DC. He was previously a researcher for a number of backbench MPs and political adviser to Rt Hon John Prescott MP in both opposition and government.

Tony has a MA (Hons) Distinction in Diplomatic Studies and a BA(Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He is father of two adult daughters. He enjoys live music but his own attempts to play the guitar and double bass are yet to attract a paying audience.

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager
Crisis

Dulal has over 20 years’ experience supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged people to progress and achieve their goals. The last 12 years have been specifically supporting people into employment.

Dulal is currently Employment Services Manager at Crisis and has been involved with OAPA from the onset and brings his experience and knowledge of the sector to the project.

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner
Wellers

Matt works in the London and Oxfordshire offices, advising a diverse portfolio of clients. He has a wealth of experience providing compliance and advisory services to the hospitality and charity sectors. Matt’s approach is to work closely with clients to understand their organisation, history, aims and ambitions to deliver advice and solutions that add value to their operations and guide their future development.

Matt started his career at Wellers as a trainee accountant in the Oxford office in 1999. He gained the ACA qualification in 2004 and went on to become a partner at the firm 7 years later. Today, he also acts in the role of Finance Director for Wellers.

In his spare time Matt has a passion for music, both listening and performing, and is a keen golfer.

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate
Freeths LLP

Julia qualified as a solicitor in 2011, and since qualification has worked as a real estate lawyer solely advising clients in the hospitality sector. Her national client base includes tenanted and managed pub companies, casual dining operators and hotels. She chose to become a trustee in order to contribute what small part she can to assisting the disadvantaged in progressing into employment into the hugely rewarding hospitality industry.

James Hacon

Managing Director
THINK Hospitality

James Hacon is the Managing Director at THINK Hospitality and a respected investor, consultant and commentator in the restaurant sector.

His experience stretches working with more than 50 brands in 14 countries, from Michelin starred outlets to International hotel chains, casual dining groups to start-up takeaway concepts.

He is one of the worlds most prominent hospitality speakers, regularly traveling across the world appearing at conferences inspiring audiences and sharing his unique insights.

Nick Miller

Director
FMCG & Hospitality Industry

An accomplished FMCG and Hospitality Industry Director with over 20 years’ experience of sales, strategic projects and marketing specialising in the beer sector. With a proven track record of improving liquidity, capacity, route to market, branding, retail and capability, my main aim is to change people’s perception of beer to reach a wider audience.

I am currently a Director of two companies. The first, Fiery Goat Ltd is a brewery consultancy where I specialise in developing sales and marketing strategies, and the second, NASGM Investments Ltd is a property rentals and development business.

Daniel Mackernan

Director
Savills

Daniel is a Director at Savills in the Licensed Leisure team based in London.

He has spent his entire career in the pub sector, gaining experience in his early career at regional and national breweries. With over 18 years experience he specialises in providing lease, rent and valuation advice to owners, operators and lenders.

Having been parish secretary at his local church and the current secretary of industry body The Association of Valuers of Licensed Property, Daniel hopes his skill set will enable OAPA to operate efficiently and expand.

Dan is married with two children who all share his love of the great outdoors.

Paul Campbell

Founder
Hill Capital Partners LLP

Paul is the founder of Hill Capital Partners LLP, through which he carries out private investment and advisory roles across the leisure and hospitality sectors.

He is currently an investor in and sits on the Boards as Chairman/NED of a number of leisure businesses – including in the hospitality sector Hawksmoor, Blacklock, Vinoteca, The Alchemist, Tortilla, Gusto, Hickory’s and Yard Sale Pizza.

Paul supports these businesses in brand development and expansion, as well as corporate and financial strategy. At the start of his career he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.

Dawn Redman

Founder & Director of Hospitality Jobs UK
OAPA Recruitment Lead & Ambassador

Dawn is the Founder, Co owner & Director of Hospitality Jobs UK, a Hospitality online advertising Job Board advertising job opportunities across the UK.

Additionally, Dawn is the founder and CEO of H&R Recruitment, a recruitment agency providing both Temporary & Permanent staff for the Hospitality & Retail industries.

With over 27 years’ experience within the recruitment industry and has held “Head of Recruitment” positions for FTSE 100 companies; Dawn is known as one of the leading recruitment industry experts and regularly speaks at conferences, schools & universities. She is also an advisor to the industry on “anything” recruitment and enjoys being actively involved in judging industry awards.

David Wilson

Director
British Beer & Pub Association

David has been the Director of Public Affairs at the British Beer and Pub Association since May 2011.

He has over thirty years’ public affairs and communications experience including stints as a Government Special Adviser and Deputy Leader of a London Borough. He joined the BBPA from the East of England Development Agency. Prior to EEDA, David was a Partner at Portland where he led their public affairs division with high-profile clients including McDonald’s, the Wine & Spirit Trade Association and the Scouts Association.

David is also a Member of the Best Bar None Board and the Communications Advisory Team for Brewers of Europe.

Katy Moses

Managing Director
KAM Media

Katy has 20 years experience in business development, research and consultancy roles. She started off at The Daily Express where she sold ad space and got yelled at by Richard Desmond, moving on through recruitment and into research and consultancy 10 years ago. Katy is passionate about pubs and bars (and not just about being in them) and small format retail.

In retail, Katy has run research programmes for some of the biggest names in FMCG including Heineken, P&G, Diageo and Heinz. She has also worked consultatively with – and created and delivered research programmes to – most major retailers including The Co-operative, Waitrose and McColl’s. She hasn’t had a complaint yet.

In the ontrade, Katy has worked with pub and bar companies as a consultant since what seems like the dawn of time, and run bespoke and syndicated research programmes for both pub companies and ontrade suppliers such as Punch, Enterprise, St Austell, Shepherd Neame, First Drinks, and Carlsberg. They all seemed to like what she did too.

In her spare time, Katy can be found exploring new pubs, bars and restaurants around London, dancing the night away at gigs and partying in fields at festivals. However, she starts every day with a gym session and once in a while she visits a museum to balance it all out.

Paul Pavli

Exec Director, Consultant – Hospitality & Leisure Sector

Paul’s career spans over 30 years in hospitality & leisure with FTSE businesses such as Whitbread, JD Wetherspoon & Punch Taverns.

He is an Exec / C-suite leader with expertise in growth, turnaround, & business sale, exit in Private Equity & Plc’s.

Paul drives business performance & profitability to unlock value & deliver sustainable commercial success. He has a record of creating innovative strategies & a winning culture that engages staff to exceed expectations

Paul delivers award winning customer service in B2B & B2C multi-site consumer facing businesses.

Paul’s roles have predominantly focussed on the strategic operation of the business to deliver the financial & people plan across all channels, Recently, an increasing emphasis has been on longer-term strategy & business sale/exit.

With extensive experience leading & inspiring cross-functional teams he has achieved outstanding results & has coached numerous individuals to realise their full potential

As a consultant, he has worked with FTSE businesses in the hospitality & leisure sector & several business start-ups in retail & digital.

Paul is an advocate of diversity & inclusion & proactively supports & develops talent. His interests include the Plan B Mentoring Program, committed to the development of women to progress in their careers, he is a Non Exec Director at The BIIAB, the BII’s awarding body & he is a School Governor at LVS Oxford, a special needs school which is part of The Licensed Trade Charity group.

Karen Wallin

Marketing & Fundraising Consultant

Karen is an experienced Charity Officer with over 26 years’ experience working in the charity sector with extensive knowledge and understanding of both operational and executive management as well as fundraising and marketing.

Throughout her career, Karen’s roles have evolved but always included fundraising, sponsorship & events alongside Marketing & PR. She has developed sponsorship rights packages for major events, developed existing and new long term corporate partnerships, created and managed key fundraising events and has extensive experience in the development and improvement of key marketing communications channels. Karen has an extensive professional network through managing relationships with long term corporate partners, government and sector leaders.

During 10 years as CEO of a national disability charity, the charity’s income doubled to support the growth and development of the organisation achieving key increases in both participation and awareness. One of the most significant achievements during this time was working with a government PR & lobbying agency to secure a first time £2 Million central government grant and in addition, securing long term funding from Sport England, again a first in the history of the organisation, to support the charity’s strategic growth targets and develop new clubs across England.

Karen says, “I have a genuine passion for carrying out worthwhile work that supports a charity’s development to make positive and long-term changes to society. I am delighted to become an Advisor for Only A Pavement Away and looking forward to supporting the Charity through the early stages of its development and beyond”

MEET THE TEAM

OUR TRUSTEES

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Strategic Affairs Director – UK Hospitality

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Strategic Affairs Director – UK Hospitality

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager – Crisis

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner – Wellers

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate – Freeths LLP

OUR ADVISORS

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

James Hacon

Managing Director – THINK Hospitality

Nick Miller

FMCG & Hospitality Industry Director

Daniel Mackernan

Director – Savills

Paul Campbell

Founder – Hill Capital Partners LLP

Dawn Redman

Founder & Director of Hospitality Jobs UK | OAPA Recruitment Lead & Ambassador

David Wilson

Director – British Beer & Pub Association

Katy Moses

Managing Director – KAM Media

Paul Pavli

Exec Director, Consultant – Hospitality & Leisure Sector

Mark Stretton

Karen Wallin

Marketing & Fundraising Consultant

GET TO KNOW US

WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Let’s Start Something AMAZING. Say Hello!

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Excecutive Only A Pavement Away

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & CEO PubLove & Burger Craft

Tony Sophoclides

Director of Communications UKHospitality

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager Crisis

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner Wellers

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate Freeths LLP

James Hacon

Managing DirectorTHINK Hospitality

Nick Miller

DirectorFMCG & Hospitality Industry

Daniel Mackernan

DirectorSavills

Paul Campbell

FounderHill Capital Partners LLP

Dawn Redman

Founder & Director of Hospitality Jobs UKOAPA Recruitment Lead & Ambassador

David Wilson

DirectorBritish Beer & Pub Association

Katy Moses

Managing DirectorKAM Media

Paul Pavli

Exec Director, Consultant – Hospitality & Leisure Sector

Karen Wallin

Marketing & Fundraising Consultant

WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Let’s Start Something AMAZING.
Say Hello!

Founder & Chief Excecutive
Only A Pavement Away

Founder & CEO
PubLove & Burger Craft

Director of Communications
UKHospitality

Employment Services Manager
Crisis

Senior Partner
Wellers

Senior Associate
Freeths LLP

Managing Director
THINK Hospitality

Director
FMCG & Hospitality Industry

Director
Savills

Founder
Hill Capital Partners LLP

Founder & Director of Hospitality Jobs UK
OAPA Recruitment Lead & Ambassador

Director
British Beer & Pub Association

Managing Director
KAM Media