The UltraForce Group Senior Team
Simon C Windsor - Principal & Company Founder
Simon Windsor is the Founder of the entire UltraForce Group (UFg) in 1985. Simon originally worked for a well known large 5 star international chain all over the Middle East. After a 10- year period Simon returned to the UK to develop a new concept in international recruitment ~ The UltraForce Group (UFg)
With now a total of 35- years career experience of recruitment, management & consultancy, Simon is leading UFg as one of the longest established organisations with his unique style within the market. Simon has promoted his success to date, through his personable approach to Employers & Job-Hunters alike, to achieve the highest level of customer service & the respect that they rightly deserve as industry professionals.
Larry Bowman - Senior HR Consultant & Divisional GM for HRFORCE
Larry Bowman is a specialist in the People Dimensions of the international hospitality, leisure and tourism business. He designs and delivers a wide range of bespoke people-centred solutions to enable UFg's clients to achieve their strategic goals. He heads up our Human Resources and Hospitality recruitment divisions as well as managing UFg's consulting activities.
His areas of expertise include business performance improvement and assessment, management and organisation effectiveness, training and development, HR strategy and cross-cultural awareness. His experience includes Director of Consulting and HR at the Glion Group in Switzerland and VP HR at ITT Sheraton Hotels.
Larry, who manages UFg's Swiss office, has lived and worked in Barbados, Belgium, India, Oman, Qatar and the Seychelles. He has carried out assignments for clients in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East & Asia
He has an MBA from Henley Business School and a BSc. Hons from the University of Surrey. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK.
Duncan MacArthur - Senior Hospitality Consultant
Duncan MacArthur is a Hotel & Catering graduate & has worked extensively for more than 30 years in the Hospitality, Hotel & Resort, Condo-Resort & Real Estate industries in Executive Management & Senior Consulting capacities.
His areas of expertise include Project Management, General Management, Property Management, Sales & Marketing, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Training & Development and Business Market analysis.
Duncan has lived & worked in Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East, Asia & Europe so his broad cultural understanding with clients is assured.
He enjoys the challenge of improving hospitality businesses by immersing himself in the operation, identifying available solutions, agreeing the recovery strategy and then implementing the necessary changes at a hands-on or guidance level.
Duncan offers to UFg Clients, a menu of bespoke creative & commercially-sound solutions in the management & operation of any form of hospitality & tourism project.
Duncan is based in the UK & manages the central England office for UFg.
duncan.macarthur@ultraforce.co.uk
Michael Livesey - Senior Legal & Commercial Consultant
Michael Livesey is an experienced and resourceful Commercial Lawyer, qualified over 35 years. He has undertaken extensive work in commercial landlord and tenant agreements, acquisitions and disposals, residential and commercial development, non-contentious construction, town and country planning, development funding, commercial bridge lending, mezzanine funding, corporate finance, franchising, software supply contracts & industrial supply contracts for domestic and international organisations.
He is a networker with contacts throughout the UK, Eire and also China, USA and Europe. Based in the North West of England, Mike currently acts as a facilitator for deals / funding for business and is a Partner in two retail ventures launched in November 2010 as well as being a member of Rowton Developments LLP & also being involved in other business projects.
Mike has been the Legal Advisor to UFg since 1995.
Eric Fairweather - Senior Consultant Corporate Finance & Business Recovery
Eric Fairweather is a respected and experienced Banker with 41 years in the banking industry of which 34 were with Midland / HSBC and 7 with The Co-operative Bank. He offers strategic business development skills, detailed financial experience and a proven skill set in understanding and developing high growth companies.
He spent 2 years on secondment to the DTI as Director of the Industrial Development Unit when he was responsible for the negotiation of major inward investment grant assistance and the assessment of Regional Development Assistance applications. He was also responsible for the monitoring of Launch Aid to BL, Rolls Royce Aircraft Engines and Westland Helicopters.
Key appointments include having been Corporate Banking Area Manager, Midland Bank for Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire, Regional General Manager, North of England, the Co-operative Bank and Head of Asset Finance, the Co-operative Bank. Since retirement Eric has acted as a Financial Consultant and has held various non-executive directorships with companies in the mortgage, IT Recycling, Ophthalmology and Soccer leisurewear sectors.
Eric is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and is an alumnus of the International General Management Programme, CEDEP, Fontainebleau, France. He holds the Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMAP) and the Certificate of Regulated General Insurance (CeRGI).
He is a Governor at Bolton School, in Lancashire.
eric.fairweather@ultraforce.co.uk
Jamal Siddiqui - Senior Sports & Leisure Consultant
Jamal Siddiqui is a specialist in the Leisure, Fitness & Spa sectors successfully assigned by UFg to a number of international assignments both at home and abroad spanning a career of 25 years.
He specialises in planning and implementation of bespoke business recovery and improvement models to gain organisational effectiveness that include management systems and procedures. Jamal can install & train staff onsite for our Clients in highly effective sales and membership IT packages, to radically improve sales revenue against KPIs and self imposed financial targets.
His international experience includes operating as an UFg Senior Consultant in the capacity of CEO for a new 5 star chain of Fitness and Spa Clubs based in India & a Principle Consultant for a major leisure facility build in the former Czechoslovakian Republic valued at US$ 500 million dollars. In the UK home market, he has extensive experience in local authority & held the senior role of MD of Leisure facilities for a leading Leisure Trust in the South East of the UK.
Jamal lives & was educated in the UK & has an MBA from the Southampton Institute of Higher Education specialising in strategic management, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Studies for the University of Portsmouth. He is a qualified Fitness & Karate Instructor with roots based in Athletics to National standard. In more recent times, he became a Fellow Member to the former ILAM & is also an accredited Business Consultant with the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).
jamal.siddiqui@ultraforce.co.uk
Lulu Katrivesis - Senior Spa Consultant & UFg Business Agent for the UAE
Lulu Katrivesis is a specialist in the Spa sector successfully assigned by UFg for Home & International assignments spanning a career of 15 years experience in International 5* Hotel establishments and exquisite Spas for Royal Families. Lulu also acts as the UFg Business Agent for all Clients in the UAE region as she lives in Abu Dhabi. So she welcomes any direct contacts on her email address below from any new & existing Clients seeking management staff from any of 9 recruitment divisions within UFg.
Lulu specialises in the creation & improvement of existing Spas to gain maximum organisational effectiveness, radically improving Treatment & Retail Sales revenues by introducing Spa Software Systems and Spa Operating Procedures. We can help to market your Spa by applying new trends and ideas in advance of other competitors, by being innovative which is essential.
Our Planning and Consulting service can offer new concept ideas through to opening and hiring of professional talent. We can train Spa staff onsite to a highly knowledgeable level in the Esthetical field, making them ready for a new opening or a major upgrade.
Lulu monitors the Spa Design to introduce a concept according to the Client’s required style & also cultural requirements. This evolves to create not only beautiful and organised spaces, but ensures efficiency in the delivery of the Spa & that it meets operational needs.
She pays attention to the creation of the Senses of touch, sound, light & scent for an atmosphere that is essential to help create the perfect harmonious environment. Lulu is an expert at working with the Client & Design teams, once the concept is established and she also engages closely with the Client’s chosen Architects, steering the development of an architectural brief towards a successful Spa realisation.
Tony Snowden - Senior Operations Management Consultant
Tony Snowden has over 35 years experience in Hotel management, Leisure, Catering and Conference & Exhibition management. He is a graduate of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration obtaining a Master of Management in Hospitality and Advanced Management programme.
Tony has extensive knowledge of "hands-on" management at all levels, including financial planning, strategic policymaking, marketing and operational control. His specialist role is operational management, corporate support and financial engineering. He has experience of multi-unit management at Hilton & Marriott Hotels and has also applied his expertise at Ramsay Health Care overseeing 32 hospitals covering Hard & Soft Facility Management and Hotel Services.
A proactive, focused and committed professional with extensive expertise, Tony is commercially astute with the ability to identify business opportunities and implement effective promotional/marketing activities to raise corporate profile and consolidate year on year expansion. He is an accomplished time manager, organiser and change manager whom is capable of conceptualising, introducing and integrating innovative strategies, streamlining resources to maximise performance and quality standards to ensure the ongoing provision of the highest standards of customer care. A well presented confident & articulate communicator and negotiator at all levels.
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