Our People

Mark Davies
Divisional Director

Mark has 15 years experience working in soft services industry within the education and healthcare sectors. He has worked within the Sales, Operations and PFI environment and has managed projects in education & healthcare from inception to implementation over the last 10 years, including the first BSF Project to go live in the UK. This has brought him extensive experience of commercial and operational processes including contract negotiation, partnership development and operational management.

Mark has been instrumental in the successful integration of ISS Education and continues to lead the organisation by building on its strengths and its passion for providing children with a quality school meals service.

Mark has a Diploma in Management studies (DMS).

Clare Neale
Company Nutritionist

After gaining an degree in Nutrition from Surrey University, Clare worked in the NHS as a nutritionist leading the implementation of the Governments Better Hospital Food Agenda.

This role included nutritional analysis of meals and menus and developing and delivering training packages. Clare developed this role to include health promotion activity in the surrounding community including schools.

Clare returned to university to undertake an MSc in Public Health Nutrition. The research she conducted examined the Government’s policy and health targets related to food and nutrition and the likely impact they would have on children.

Clare joined ISS Education in 2009 as the education nutritionist. The role was created to ensure the catering provision within the education sector met the Governments statutory nutrition targets which became legislation in Primary schools in 2007 and for high schools September 2009. Clare’s role includes menu analysis and the provision of special diets within the schools.

Clare works in partnership with the schools to carry out health promotion activities such as consultations and focus groups with the children, food tasting sessions for teachers, parents and children.

Shane O’Connor,
Executive Chef

Shane recently joined ISS Education as our new Executive Chef. Shane’s catering background involves working in some of the best hotels and restaurants in the UK. At the tender age of twenty four he was appointed sous chef in a Michelin two star restaurant in London which fine tuned his skills in classical cooking. Shane then moved into a development role for a multi national brands company where he supported some of the top contract caterers in the UK. Shane taught food safety as well as several food training courses.

Shane joined us as a well rounded food professional whose objective is to create innovation in our food concepts, menu’s and recipes “keeping up with trends and working with quality, seasonal ingredients is the key to producing top class food”.

With a young family of his own, we can see the development of popular, yet nutritious, menu choices being tested by his fiercest critics – his child!

André Mans,
Operations Director

André is an accomplished and experienced Operations Director. He has over 12 years experience in the School meals industry in both small enterprises and large companies.

André is all about honesty and integrity and his strategic approach to his work is making a positive contribution to the Company and the morale of our team.

André has trained as a life coach and is focussed on helping everyone around him reach their potential. He has worked as an Executive Chef and is passionate about food and cooking drawing on his experience of cooking at 5 Star level. To him its about the best ingredients, cooked simply and concentrating on passion for fresh food.