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.

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Trustee

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Trustee

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

Trustee

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager – Crisis

Trustee

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner – Wellers

Trustee

Robert Humphreys

Industry Consultant & Advisor

Trustee

Sharon Dickinson

Managing Director – Events Ltd

Maureen Heffernan

Managing Director – Leisure PR

David Apparicio

CEO – Chrysalis Foundation & JP

Trustee

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate – Freeths LLP

Trustee

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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.

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.

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.

Robert Humphreys

Industry Consultant & Advisor

Non-Executive Director, Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and Chair of its Policy Committee; Vice-Chair, Best Bar None, the UK’s on-trade alcohol retailing standards promotion organisation; a director of the British Guild of Beer Writers, and a trustee of the National Brewery Heritage Trust.

Previously, Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group at Westminster and to the British Beer Club in the European Parliament from 1993 to 2014; prior to that a twenty-year career with Bass, culminating as Director of Public Relations for its brewing division.

Co-author:
Parliamentary Beer Club Beer Tax Inquiry, 1995
Licensing Law Reform Panel Report, 1999
Community Pub Inquiry, 2008
Beer Tax Fraud Inquiry, 2012

Sharon Dickinson

Managing Director
Events Ltd

Sharon has over 32 years’ experience within the Hospitality, Health & Beauty, Utilities, Manufacturing and Electrical Retailing sectors including B2B media, B2C, Events, Conferences, Exhibitions, Celebrity Sponsorships, Media spend and Brand attraction.

With a wealth of experience in events management Sharon is highly respected in the hospitality industry. Sharon will be working alongside 'Only a Pavement Away' to raise funds to support this magnificent charity.

Maureen Heffernan

Managing Director
Leisure PR

Leisure PR’s managing director, Maureen Heffernan spent her early career with the leading pub and brewery company Bass, working in a variety of communications roles in a number of the divisions including brewing, retail and leisure.

She headed up a government/industry funded initiative between the industry and the education sector whilst on secondment to The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) returning to retail as Director of Communications at Laurel Pub Company.

Her repertoire includes PR, crisis management, marketing; event management; government relations; business building and promotion. A strategic, creative and innovative thinker who delivers consistently high results for clients.

Maureen launched Leisure PR in 2004.

David Apparicio

Founder & CEO
The Chrysalis Foundation

An experienced Learning & Development professional with over 20 years of strategic HR and training project management experience in The Royal Mail Group.

Creator of the Chrysalis Programme, a Personal Leadership and Effectiveness Development Programme designed to provide a guide for change that goes beyond rehabilitation, and into engagement and re-integration. Our aim is to stimulate new thinking and attitudes, enabling participants to own and drive sustainable positive change in their lives, helping them to move away from reoffending. Runner-up 2017 National Lottery Award for Education.

Justice of the Peace (Magistrate since January 2004) and Sponsor/Judging Panel member for The Robin Corbett Award for Prisoner Re-Integration.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts…(RSA), Fellow of the Institute of Occupational Learning (ITOL), Courvoisier The Future 500 member and former Chairman, Director, Fellow of the British Institute for Learning & Development (The BILD) 2008 – 2017.

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.

MEET THE TEAM

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Executive

Ben Stackhouse

Founder & Owner of PubLove

Tony Sophoclides

Communications Director – UK Hospitality

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager – Crisis

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner – Wellers

Robert Humphreys

Industry Consultant & Advisor

Sharon Dickinson

Managing Director – Events Ltd

Maureen Heffernan

Managing Director – Leisure PR

David Apparicio

CEO – Chrysalis Foundation & JP

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate – Freeths LLP

GET TO KNOW US

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Ben Stackhouse

Founder & CEO PubLove & Burger Craft

Tony Sophoclides

Director of Communications UKHospitality

Greg Mangham

Founder & Chief Excecutive Only A Pavement Away

Dulal Ahmed

Employment Services Manager Crisis

Matt Wyatt

Senior Partner Wellers

Robert Humphreys

Industry Consultant & Advisor

Sharon Dickinson

Managing Director Events Ltd

Maureen Heffernan

Managing Director Leisure PR

David Apparicio

Founder & CEO The Chrysalis Foundation

Julia Thurston

Senior Associate Freeths LLP

WANT TO GET INVOLVED? Let’s Start Something AMAZING.
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Founder & CEO
PubLove & Burger Craft

Director of Communications
UKHospitality

Founder & Chief Excecutive
Only A Pavement Away

Employment Services Manager
Crisis

Senior Partner
Wellers

Managing Director
Events Ltd

Managing Director
Leisure PR

Founder & CEO
The Chrysalis Foundation

Senior Associate
Freeths LLP