About the team at Shop4Staff
What is Shop4Staff?
Shop4Staff is an easy-to-use online searchable staff database. Employers can search by local area and trade sector to find the right staff in minutes, and then contact staff directly by phone or message.
Who we are
Dennis Bacon - Managing Director and CEO
A successful entrepreneur with an impressive track record of establishing and developing businesses that operate within the service and building industries. Having worked within two major global banking organisations between 1986 and 1995, Dennis moved into the Health and Social Care Sector, building, registering and operating a number of specialist care businesses.
In recent years he has been responsible for employing and leading several hundred staff including large diverse management teams. An accomplished strategist with a commitment to excellence Dennis’s commercial background and extensive knowledge has led him to assist in the briefing of senior politicians, including shadow front bench Ministers (now in Government), Local Authorities and GP-led Health Centres.
Outside his business life Dennis is involved in voluntary work both in the UK and abroad. He has joined Shop4Staff Ltd as CEO to help develop and lead on the strategic implementation and expansion of the business model.
John Bacon ACA. BA (Hons) - Director
John qualified as a chartered accountant in 1996 and spent 7 years with Ernst &Young, one of the World’s leading professional service organisations. John left Ernst & Young in 2002 to join Geest plc, a FTSE listed Food company with a turnover of c.£750 million. He worked on a range of projects both in the UK and overseas, including several acquisitions.
John also worked as interim Finance Director of a £30m food manufacturing business supplying both Tesco and Marks & Spencer. In 2005 John left Geest Plc to join Shirlaws, an international business coaching organisation. During that time he worked with businesses from local SME’s to multi-national organisations such as Sony Europe and International Stockbrokers, Edward Jones.
He was appointed a Board Director of Shirlaws in 2007 having built a large and successful regional team.
John is now Operations Director of a specialist care provider based in Norfolk. He joined to help set the business up from scratch in 2008, and has been instrumental in its steady growth through the recent recession into a highly regarded and successful care provider.
John joins Shop4Staff as a Director and brings both financial and operational expertise to the Board.
Philip Beasley - Director
Philip started his working life at age 15 as a clerk in a shipping office in the City of London, whilst undertaking extra studies to help him achieve his goal of reaching a managerial level in his professional career.
An enlightening spell travelling the world in the Navy showed Philip that his strengths lie in people management, the basis for his success in operating several service industry businesses up to the mid-nineties. Philip also took the time to study for a qualification in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations at Auckland University in New Zealand.
The worldwide web was born in the nineties. Even before many people in the UK knew what a website was, Philip had through his own research realised that Information Technology and particularly the internet was going to be the future for commerce and business, so he took 3 months sabbatical time in the USA studying Internet Marketing Technologies with the Global Entrepreneurs Network of Florida USA to gain their Internet Marketing Certificate. Since that time Philip has been applying these Internet Marketing strategies both to his own businesses and to those of others.
Philip has recently developed the Shop4Staff website to change the antiquated way in which recruitment currently works, both by helping companies to find workers more easily, and helping workers find jobs quickly.
The website is a user-friendly portal that enables employers and staff to use Information Technology to enhance their recruitment experience.
Clara Beasley Bsc. (Hons)
An experienced freelance PR and marketing expert as well as a successful writer and entrepreneur: Clara Beasley is an exemplary successful young businesswoman. Clara transforms creative ideas into a functional reality.
Clara was a high-achiever throughout her academic study years, attending a top UK grammar school and then spending 3 years at top university UCL studying for a Bsc.in Psychology where she became fascinated with business psychology, and wrote her final year dissertation on the woman's status in the working world.
Upon leaving university Clara gained valuable customer service experience working with the public in corporate hospitality at many international sporting events. Subsequently, Clara moved into office-based marketing and events roles, in which she learnt valuable new skills. At only 26 years of age, Clara then formed her own successful company, a modelling and promotions agency Gridmodels, in partnership with her sister Rosie. The specialist motorsport division was aimed at a niche market: the supply of grid-girls to the motorsport industry. Clients included F1 and Moto GP racing teams, car manufacturers such as SEAT, race-tracks such as Santapod and Donington Park and many more. Clara also wrote a book for new models called 'Succeed in Modelling'. The book was published in paperback in 2004.
In 2007, Clara stepped away from the running of the agency to focus on new projects by outsourcing its' bookings to a sister company. Since that time Clara has focused on freelance marketing and PR projects see www.clarabeasley.com .
Clara recently became involved in the www.shop4staff.co.uk project as Head of Marketing and PR.
