Our executive team

Andy has spent 10 years of his career at Compass, with roles which have included B&I Business Director and Finance Director for Compass' public sector businesses; healthcare, education, defence, police and prisons.

Prior to joining Compass Group UK & Ireland, Andy was the Chief Operating Office for Sitel, the fourth largest global business process outsourcing (BPO) company in the world. His background is as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with PricewaterhouseCoopers working both in the UK and Canada as a specialist in the media industry.

Andy is married with two children, one boy and one girl, and lives in Camberley, Surrey. Andy is a FA Qualified Football Coach, and Coach and Club Treasurer for an U10 football team. His other interests include golf, cricket, skiing and travelling.

Steven Cenci joined Medirest in January 2002 after a 15 year career with Group 4 where he held a number of senior appointments, latterly that of Operations Director and before that, Technical Director. The latter carried a brief for introducing innovations aimed at driving up levels of customer satisfaction and for the development of ongoing service improvement initiatives. He spent the first six years in a sales role ending as National Sales Manager for manned services.

Steven has wide ranging B2B UK contract services experience with both the large blue chip commercial and government sectors and has also worked within PFI teams.
He is currently Chairman of the British Services Association Healthcare Committee which acts on behalf of most private sector organisations that deliver facilities services into Healthcare. He also chairs the International Compass Healthcare food Forum designed to exchange global best practice from over 27 countries delivering Healthcare facilities services.

Steven is married to Julie and has three sons. He has an MBA from Hull University and is a keen club badminton player. Of Italian roots, he speaks Italian and travels often to Italy (where two of his three sisters live) enjoying both the food and weather as often as possible!

Steve joined Compass Group UK & Ireland in 2010 as MD of Eurest Services FM. Previous to this, Steve worked for Reliance Facilities Management as Operations Director. This role included a two-year secondment as Transition Director on their joint venture company with BT known as Monteray.

Steve graduated with a BSc in Sports Science from Manchester Metropolitan University and went straight into local government as a sports coach at a leisure centre, beginning an 11 year career across four public sector leisure departments culminating in a position of Chief Officer of his own Department.

Steve is married to Julia and has a son called Alex. He has been a member of Mensa since 1988 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. Still an active sportsman, Steve plays for the Surrey over 45's Badminton team

Keith joined Compass UK & Ireland following the acquisition of VSG by Compass in September 2010. As a founder owner Keith, along with three fellow Directors, started the business in 2000 and over the following 10 years grew the organisation through organic growth into one of the top manned guarding and security providers in the UK Sector. Now employing over 7000 employees, VSG enjoys an enviable reputation for service quality and innovation. Having started the business as Sales Director, Keith then took up the role of Operations Director and finally Managing Director for the past five years.

Prior to joining the security industry, Keith worked in the international car rental sector for 17 years; having started from entry level cleaning cars, he worked his way up to Operations Director where he focused on customer service and the motivation of a branch based workforce.

Keith is married with two children and lives in the village of Flore in Northamptonshire. In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing for salmon and trout, whilst at the same time being a passionate rugby fan of Northampton Saints!

Chris joined Compass Group in June 2009 as Business Director of ESS Support Services Worldwide, our Defence and Government Services business.

Promoted to Managing Director joining the UK&I Executive Committee in April 2010, Chris assumed additional responsibility for the Offshore and Remote Markets.

During his short tenure, Chris has been instrumental in the restructure, development and future strategy of this critical Compass division. In introducing a new commitment to Choice, Value and Well-being via ESS's Lifestyle brand, Chris has evolved our approach and focus on customer service, achieving demonstrably improved client and consumer relationships across the sector.

Prior to joining Compass, Chris held a variety of senior appointments in the retail industry with Dixon Stores Group, and Kesa Group under the Comet brand, acquiring knowledge and experience throughout the United Kingdom, France and United States.

Chris enjoys spending time with his family and lives in Cheshire with his wife Philippa and their three children. Chris loves watching and playing sport; particularly football, rugby, motor sport and tennis.

Andy joined Compass in November 1995 following five years at Sutcliffe Catering and previously five years with Allied Breweries.

Andy has enjoyed a fast moving career with Compass UK & Ireland, moving from a Sales Director role in the Midlands to becoming Managing Director for Eurest in a regional role, followed by positions as MD Eurest England & Wales and subsequently a period as MD for a £400m turnover National Accounts business.

Andy joined the UK&I executive team in 2008 as Sales & Retention Director, responsible for driving net growth and led the significant turnaround in the UK's Net Growth position, driven in particular by a change in culture to recognise the importance of retention. The adoption of global best practice delivered a step change in our retention outcome, helping the UK business to continue to trade strongly during a period of tough economic challenges.

He returned to operations in March 2011 and as a passionate lover of food, was thrilled to take up his current role as Managing Director, Restaurant Associates.

Andy is married with two children and is a competitive sportsman - an ex-footballer, keen golfer, occasional triathlete and regular attendee at his local gym as he fights to combat the effects of the wonderful culinary experience enjoyed by all who work with Restaurant Associates - "It's tough work, but someone's got to do it," he says!

Robin was appointed as Managing Director for Chartwells in May 2011 after three years as Human Resource Director for Compass Group UK & Ireland.

In his time as HR Director, Robin developed a commercially accountable, highly experienced HR team who delivered key initiatives to benefit Compass' 50,000 employees. These included the award-winning induction programme, new and innovative training solutions for our managers and a greater focus on externally recognised qualifications such as Apprenticeships and NVQs.

Robin joined Compass from Woolworths Group in April 2008. Previous to this, he held senior operational and functional roles with Kingfisher, Diageo, and Scottish and Newcastle PLC. His diverse experience across differing markets brings a fresh and innovative approach to the Chartwells' business.

Robin is married with four children; Arran, Ruby, Johnny and Olivia.

Fiacra joined the Compass business in March 2011, as Managing Director for Compass Group Ireland. He has international management experience across a range of business sectors including banking, foodservice, retail and franchising. Prior to joining Compass Group UK & Ireland Fiacra was Commercial Director of The ODC Group in the UK, owners of the UK's two largest on-demand printing brands: Prontaprint and Kall Kwik.

Until 2008 Fiacra was CEO of O'Brien's Sandwich Bars, a business which has proved invaluable to him in terms of his understanding of the Irish foodservice landscape and the business network which surrounds it. While at O'Brien's, he oversaw the growth of the company into Ireland's leading branded franchise business with 300 stores worldwide.

Prior to O'Brien's, Fiacra spent 15 years in international banking and project finance, latterly as Head of Telecom Finance for KBC Bank.

Matthew joined Compass Group in June 2007 from Centrica, where he was Commercial Director.

His career at Centrica saw him in a variety of roles from head of strategy and acquisitions through to MD of the information services business unit. In recent years as Commercial Director, he had responsibility for procurement and the supply chain across the Group. He was also Finance Director for the company wide IS activities.
Previous to Centrica, Matthew worked for Glaxo Wellcome in an international role, he has also run his own business, and initially was a strategy consultant for a number of years.

He has a degree in modern history and an MBA from London Business School.

Graeme started with Compass Group PLC in 1992 and has since held a number of sales roles across business sectors and in different countries. He has been based in the Middle East for the last five years, initially managing sales in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa but latterly as Sales Director for ADNH Compass - our Compass joint venture covering the UAE, Qatar and Egypt.

Graeme joined the UK & Ireland executive team as Sales Director in May 2011, bringing a breadth of invaluable experience and knowledge.

Graeme lives in Northall in Buckinghamshire, with his wife and two sons. He is a keen rugby fan, plays tennis and enjoys cooking for friends at home.