Mark Jones

Experience

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  Lonrho Hotels

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1993

  Group Operations Director

  7 hotels (inc. 2 Leading Hotels of the World) and safari operations in Kenya – 1100 staff

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  Center Parcs

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  UK Operations Director

  3 Forest Resorts: Sherwood, Elveden & Longleat T/O £110m – 3,200 staff

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  Eden Project

  Dec 2001 - Mar 2005

  Operations Director

  £130m Educational facility & Visitor Attraction – T/O £18m – 388 staff

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  Macepark Hotels

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2011

  Group General Manager

  Two training centers, hotel and spa. 300 Rooms, T/O £17m – 315 staff.

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  Wyboston Lakes Ltd

  Jul 2011 - Oct 2018

  Managing Director

  This extraordinary business is set in 380 acres by the A1 near St Neots in Bedfordshire. With two specialised training centres - the Woodlands Event Centre and the Willows Training Centre together with the Wyboston Lakes Hotel, Y spa and Golf Course, the business provides genuine hospitality to both the business and leisure market in 406 bedrooms across the three venues and has capacity for up to 600 conference delegates. With stability and a long-term view of business, Wyboston Lakes has been highly regarded for training and conferencing across three decades and can quote many of the footsie 100 companies, government departments and associations as clients.The Y spa rated with 5 Bubbles has added to the experiences open to guests with 11 treatment rooms, a full thermal suite, spa cafe and fabulous south-facing spa garden with hydrotherapy pool, Russian kelo wood sauna and open air fireplace.Wyboston Lakes has been in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to work for since 2014 and is currently ranked 46th. Show less

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  WYBOSTON LAKES LIMITED

  Oct 2018 - Aug 2020

  Deputy Chairman
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  PICO TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

  Mar 2019 - now

  Designers, manufacturers, programmers and distributors of Deep Memory, High Resolution Test & Measurement equipment.

  • Chairman

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Deputy Chairman

    Mar 2019 - Jan 2020