About Us

Mark joined ABF in 1986 as Head Miller at Allied's James Neill Mill, Belfast. He became Allied Mills' Operations Director in 1998 before being promoted to Managing Director Allied Mills. In 2006, he moved to Allied Bakeries as Managing Director and was appointed CEO, Allied Milling & Baking, two years later.

Martin joined Allied Bakeries in 2007 from a Sales Director role at Campbell's UK, where he had worked since 2002 in areas including category management and new ventures, which focused on growth through innovation. His early career included national account and customer management positions at Unilever, which he joined as a management trainee.

Nick joined United Biscuits in 1989 as a graduate production trainee, working through several manufacturing management roles, including setting up a new site to make Hula Hoops, becoming Factory Manager. He moved to Allied Bakeries in 1999 as General Manager of Stoke bakery, becoming Midlands Regional General Manager in 2002, Head of Operations Development in 2006 and Operations Director in 2007.

Nigel joined ABF in 2004 as HR Director for Allied Milling and Baking. His career began at Walkers Crisps, as Technical Training Manager. After PepsiCo acquired the business, he moved to senior operational HR roles including Regional HR Manager Manufacturing and Divisional Employee and Labour Relations Director, covering Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Jon was a graduate trainee at Kimberly Clark and held marketing roles at Kraft, Allied Lyons, Reckitt Benckiser and Vileda, rising from Brand Manager to Head of Marketing. He was Global Category Director and then Commercial Director at a venture capital-backed turnaround business and started an internet consumer business before joining Allied Bakeries in 2005 at Head of Marketing for Kingsmill. He became Marketing Director in 2006.

Wendy joined Allied Bakeries in 2009 from Premier Foods' Hovis division, where she spent a year as Interim Director of Finance, Baking.  The majority of Wendy's career was with the Mars Group of Companies where she held numerous accounting positions across four different businesses. Following the merger of Mars Electronics with Mars Drinks in 2002, Wendy managed the harmonisation of the finance teams and financial reporting before being appointed Global Finance Director of Mars Drinks.

Jacquie has held progressively senior, international roles in end-to-end supply chain within GSK, Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Sara Lee and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.  She previously worked with Allied Bakeries, rejoining in 2011 with more than 3 years experience in E2E supply strategy development and implementation as Global Supply Director with AstraZeneca.  Her background in collaboration with customers, Sales and Marketing on category and brand vision drives the supply chain transformation agenda.