inspire people
Alongside fabulous food, our people are the key ingredient in our recipe for success.
Throughout our journey, we are fortunate to have nurtured an excellent core management team who wholeheartedly share a passion for pushing culinary boundaries and tantalising our customers’ taste buds! We are also really proud that we employ over 200 stars in Inspire who shine for us every single day!
Kevin Simpson
Paul Ferguson
Wiktoria Grabowska
Kevin Simpson
Managing Director
Kevin has an exemplary track record as both a Chef and Manager in the hospitality and contract catering sectors. His energy, drive and tenacity mean he is a shrewd operator! Commercially astute and committed to doing the best job possible, he ensures Inspire always delivers!
As a natural leader of people, Kevin pro-actively supports the Inspire team on a day to day basis. His excellent client relationships are as a result of a ‘can do’ approach and he works hard to motivate and encourage the onsite teams to always go that extra mile.
Paul Ferguson
Operations Manager
Paul joined Inspire in 2009 as a Catering Operations Manager, before progressing to the wider role of Operations Support Manager and now Operations Manager in our northern region. His previous extensive experience in the catering industry, combined with his in depth knowledge of Inspire have been invaluable in developing strong relationships with our clients and key improvements across our contracts with continual development and innovation always being a key focus.
Paul is also Inspire Catering’s Charity Champion for 2020. This is part of an overall CH&Co bid to raise £250,000 for the Prince’s Trust, of which Inspire Catering/CH&Co Scotland’s target is £25,000. The Prince’s Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales to help vulnerable young people get their lives on track.
Wiktoria Grabowska
Operations Support Manager
Wiktoria joined Inspire in 2017 as Operations Support Manager, with a wealth of experience in the catering industry working for high profile, multi-site clients.
Since joining Inspire, Wiktoria has been supporting our contracts and now, in her role as Operations Manager, has assumed management responsibility of both Education and B&I contracts in the central belt. Wiktoria’s experience and exceptional work ethic provide the perfect platform to deliver excellent performance for our clients, driving growth and continued improvements across our business.
we care
We all care deeply about doing the right thing and we not only encourage this at every level, throughout our business, we measure it too!
going the extra mile
Exceeding expectations is at the core of all we do – whether it be for our clients, customers or our staff.
We make sure everyone is clear on the strategy from day one and the part we all play in that. Keeping things simple and ensuring people know what’s
expected of them is pivotal to us delivering what we say we will.
It also makes for a happy team!