Our leadership - Act-Clean

Gillian Thomson

Chief Operating Officer

Gillian Thomson

Chief Operating Officer

Gillian’s vast hospitality experience includes opening restaurants in luxury hotels across the globe and working with some of the world’s top operators. After being a client for many years, Gillian joined the Act-Clean family in 2010 bringing professionalism and honesty that inspires loyalty and commitment.

Chairs the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts Associates Committee, Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and Hospitality Action Ambassador

Mark Golding

Head of Operations

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Mark Golding

Head of Operations

Mark joined the team from Claridge’s bringing with him a wealth of hotel and restaurant experience and first-hand understanding of client expectations. He has quickly developed his knowledge of all Act-Clean functions, making him perfectly placed to lead our operations teams with his unique style of knowledgeable, supportive management with a focus on developing the team.

Frank Odia

Senior Operations Manager - Nights

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Frank Odia

Senior Operations Manager - Nights

Frank came to us in 2010 as a supervisor before unwavering hard work and commitment led to his promotion to senior operations manager. His knowledge of the business and more than twenty years of hospitality industry experience make him a great leader who ensures our high standards are consistently met.

Asa Hutchinson

Head of Business Support

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Asa Hutchinson

Head of Business Support

Asa headed up Act-Clean’s Housekeeping team pre-pandemic and therefore has a strong understanding of our business and processes. Having worked in the UK and abroad, and with digital finance – she combines the ability to work with both people and processes and leads our services team with professionalism ensuring we are consistently striving for improvement.

Lawrence Yaw Adjei

Head of Night Operations, The Peninsula London

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Lawrence Yaw Adjei

Head of Night Operations, The Peninsula London

Lawrence started as a Night Cleaner and progressed his career with us to become Operations Manager where he displayed passion for creating opportunities for his teams and delivering excellent service to our clients. He was then promoted to successfully mobilise our team and deliver the services agreed to our partner and client, The Peninsula London.

Maros Kurucz

Senior Operations Manager - Days

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Maros Kurucz

Senior Operations Manager - Days

Maros joined us as kitchen porter, progressing through the ranks to supervisor, operations manager and now senior operations manager. His knowledge and experience from this path is hugely valuable and makes him ideally placed to both identify talent and create progression within the team.

Benedetta Rafai-Kuku

Operations Manager - Nights

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Benedetta Rafai-Kuku

Operations Manager - Nights

Benedetta started with us as a night cleaner, progressed to supervisor and then promoted again to operations manager – all within three years. Ben’s attention to detail, strong communication skills and genuine enthusiasm make her a natural leader valued by her teams and clients alike.

Famous Ehiogie

Operations Manager - Days

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Famous Ehiogie

Operations Manager - Days

Famous worked for a competitor but heard such good things about us that, when a friend suggested he join Act-Clean, he didn’t hesitate to apply for the operations manager role. Famous therefore has many valuable years of experience and is committed to delivering great client service and is a very welcome addition to our team.

Yekini Saromi

Operations Manager - Nights

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Yekini Saromi

Operations Manager - Nights

Yekini was promoted to Operations Manager in 2023, having proved himself to be a natural leader, considered in his approach, reliable and with excellent attention to detail in his position as Site Manager at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park.

Originally Yekini joined us as a night cleaner in 2012, so we’re proud of his career journey with Act-Clean.

Olayinka James

Operations Manager - Nights

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Olayinka James

Operations Manager - Nights

Olayinka joined us as a night cleaner early in 2022. Ola’s quality of delivery, strong communication skills and keen interest in key subject matters such as health and safety, quickly highlighted him as someone with promise – subsequently promoted to operations manager within one year of working with us.

David Murray

Chief Financial Officer

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David Murray

Chief Financial Officer

David joined us in 2014 with more than 30 years of financial and commercial experience at a number of blue chip and corporate companies under his belt. As CFO of Act-Clean, David looks after all compliance and support functions, ensuring everyone else can be focused on the client experience.

Bronwyn Groves

Director – Sales and Marketing

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Bronwyn Groves

Director – Sales and Marketing

Bronwyn has an extensive background in hospitality, having trained at the Inter-Continental Hotel School Sydney and held roles within the hotel and pub sectors at both Foxtel Australia and Sky UK before joining Act-Clean in 2020 to develop and lead the sales and marketing function with a structured commercial approach coupled with a focus on values and people.

Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality and Hospitality Action Ambassador

Adrian Ringrose

Chairman

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Adrian Ringrose

Chairman

Formerly chief executive of Interserve, Adrian brings decades of valuable facilities management experience to our board. In his role as chairman, he helps us to continue the growth and expansion of our service offer and to strengthen our position as market leader of outsourced cleaning and hospitality.