My primary expertise is crafting captivating Escape Room games, managing their operation within my businesses, and distributing these games to other enterprises for their own operation.

Every day, I lead an Escape Room company along with its franchise arm, while also providing occasional advice and support to an e-learning and software firm as an Executive Director. Additionally, I serve as a trustee for a charity and volunteer as a Director for a community project I co-founded.

I work hard to set up businesses and learn how to improve them so they don’t take over life. I value time more than money and enjoy detailing how businesses can be run efficiently

I also like to help other businesses and organisations understand how to run more efficiently, better marketing, target quality customers, increase profit, and grow.

I am based in the South West. Married to Justina, Dad to Ryan (12) and Amelia (10). Family come first!

Key skills:

  • Creative writing (I love to write enjoyable Escape Room Games)
  • Business establishment, compliance and growth
  • Effective marketing, increasing sales, and healthy turnover
  • Financial management and fundraising for small businesses and million-pound-plus turnover companies
  • Offshore development teams, planning, communication and management
  • Bid writing and winning grant money (over £500k in grants won for various charities, community groups and third sector)

Above everything, I believe in fair, kind and ethical business.

I am ethically trained.

Companies:

Managing Director of Know Escape Ltd – An Escape Room company with corporate locations across the UK; find out more.

Managing Director of Know Escape Franchise Ltd – This is an Escape Room franchising company with franchises all over the UK and global expansion plans; find out more.

Executive Director of Creative Learning Systems Ltd – Premium eLearning business specialising in learning systems, courses and solutions for business, education, healthcare, government and sport; find out more.

Voluntary Work:

Trustee of InterAct, a charity for young people – InterAct is a charity set up in the 1990s to support people with learning difficulties and disabilities to participate in their communities actively and lead fulfilling lives; go to the Interact Website.

Founding Director of Chelmsford Community Radio C.I.C – the community radio station for Chelmsford, founded in 2013, on FM 104.4 since 2017, run on the values of inclusion and kindness; I’ve raised circa £120k in grants, bids and campaigns for CCR. Go to my page about Chelmsford Community Radio.

Previously involved in:


  • New Media Researcher at Ultralab, The Learning Technology Research centre at Anglia Ruskin University set up by Professor Stephen Heppell; find out more.
  • Executive Director at Hope Footwear, a high street shoe retailer set up by Justina after Faith Footwear went into administration; find out more.
  • Creative Director at Cleveratom, a learning, technology and creativity company set up to make learning more fun using new and emerging technologies; find out more.
  • Advisor to Coffee at the Mill, a community coffee shop, ultimately went out of business due to the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic; find out more.
  • Director at Rolling Stage Hire, a stage rental and event business; find out more.

Worked globally on projects for:

  • BBC (Children’s, Learning, Wales, Northern Ireland)
  • Oracle
  • Apple
  • Microsoft
  • Channel 4
  • V&A
  • British Council
  • British Youth Council
  • RNLI
  • UK Government
  • and many more