Senior London Team

Dennis Reid – Chairman
Dennis has been in retail nearly all his working life. He was an international sportsman in his native New Zealand, and went on to work with Olympic individuals and teams, as well as studying at the Australian Institute of Sport. By combining his retail background, sports psychology, the burning desire of a professional athlete to be the best, the ability to get the best out of others, a fierce self-belief and dedication for the long-haul, Dennis built RPS into the world class organisation it is today – and along the way RPS has improved the performance of hundreds of retailers. Dennis has spoken on many public platforms, led workshops and seminars, and regularly makes keynote speeches at retailers’ own programmes.

Barry Martin – General Manager
Barry has 30 years experience in retail from Store Manager to Divisional Director and working on strategy review teams. This is complimented with 10 years of running a retail consultancy and training business helping clients to improve the performance of their people through developing a simple formula for a “Predictable Sales Process”.
 
Simon Watkins – Business Development
Simon specialises in the area of retail and brand business development for RPS. Simon’s expertise in sales has been developed working for one of the UK’s largest business to business multiplatform media groups within the retail and fashion sector.

Michael Poynor – Associate Retail Consultant 
Formerly Adjunct Professor of International Retailing at Syracuse University and Principal Retail Lecturer at the London Institute, Michael has been working with a broad cross-section of retail companies and brands on operational, strategic and financial projects, at all levels - from discount formats to luxury goods - and on all scales - from substantial M&A deals to detailed shop floor assignments. Michael previously held senior executive posts at C&A (UK & The Netherlands) Stuncroft Limited and Asda (now part of Walmart).

Back to top