Richard Vickerstaff
Entrepreneur Senior Operations Management
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Vickerstaff is an entrepreneurial senior operations leader with 11+ years post-founder experience and a 25+ year track record scaling high-turnover bar and restaurant estates across the UK. He has driven multi-million pound P&Ls and led brand development, from growing a Manchester start-up to £1.6m turnover and award recognition, to overseeing 100+ outlets and £45m turnover for Whitbread. Skilled in strategy, sales, marketing and operational turnaround, he combines hands-on site experience with board-level project delivery—most notably rolling out a national wages-control program that reduced labour costs. A proactive people developer, he has built management teams, supplier networks and promotional partnerships with major suppliers like Diageo. Now focused on senior operational roles within premier bar and leisure groups, he brings a rare blend of independent operator grit and corporate-scale systems thinking. An often-overlooked strength is his consistent ability to convert investment into measurable ROCE through strategic property and commercial negotiation.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Marketing Degree, 2.1, Marketing Degree, 2.1 at Sheffield UniversityNottingham High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
serve9
rake9
jasmine6
celluloid6
mocking6
angularjs6
ruby6
unit-testing6
shadow6
api-client5
ruby-wrapper5
neovim4
vim4
rack4
react3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RichardVickerstaff/mpg321
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 11 months
ruby-wrapperruby
RichardVickerstaff/RichardVickerstaff.github.io
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Wedding website
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
react
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