Toll Group

Supporting the smooth flow of global drinks logistics.

Vice President Vertical Sales, Liquid - UK

The Worshipful Company of Distillers

Committee Chair, Steward

ewan lacey.com

Working with people and teams to make life and business better.

Some clients also hired me for senior positions.

Clients include:
Goldman Sachs
HSBC Private Bank
Marble Bar
Jascots Wine Merchants
IWSC Group
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
ProWein
Mirror Group
BBC London
Kavalan
Channel 4
Daily Telegraph
NRS Healthcare
YO!Sushi
Penfold’s
Armand de Brignac
LIDL Foodstores
PWC
Commodity Business Awards
GLG
Jamie Oliver Fabulous Feasts

Commitment 

Many individual founders, business owners and successful executives all the way up to the C-suite.

Founder

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics

As a Global Director – Beverage Logistics, I was responsible for:
Leding teams involved in both origin/destination of trade, while facilitating bilateral transactions and addressing client concerns related to prevailing logistical challenges in market, such as Brexit changes, pricing instability, and space availability; promoting to position of Global Director after providing interim support to business for a period of three years; overseeing strategic planning and managing relationships with key clients, such as Concha y Toro, The Co-Op, The Wine Society, Adnams, and Hallgarten; entrusting with task of driving strategic sales in global beverage logistics sector, while engaging with diverse portfolio of large international customers and renowned brands in the market/fostering collaborative relationships with key stakeholders.
My key highlights in this role include:
• Enhanced skillsets and increased capabilities by restructuring and reorganising of UK beverage team.
• Improved overall responsiveness to client requirements by introducing key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Achieved 20% improvement in productivity by consolidating team under one roof/fostering solid work environment.
• Reduced 30% cost of overhead expenses by merging two separate offices into single environment for UK business.

Global Director - Beverage Logistics

I served as Interim Operations Director – Beverage Logistics and was accountable for:
Providing direct leadership and oversight to beverage logistics teams across multiple countries, including UK, France, Spain, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Chile, and Argentina; cultivating strong relationships between global offices and clients to assure delivery of exceptional customer experiences.
My key successes during this role were:
• Drove impressive 25% increase in business unit turnover by achieving significant £50m growth from 2017 to 2021.
• Played pivotal role in development and coordination of highly profitable wine and spirit competition logistics business.
• Elevated EBITDA performance of UK business by transforming break-even state to achieving remarkable 17% revenue.
• Streamlined operations by merging two offices into a single location, delivering substantial cost savings of 30% on overhead expenses.
• Ensured continued competitiveness by redesigning product offerings for key routes, such as Italy-UK and Latin America-UK in response to price fluctuations.
• Exceeded £50M sales revenues/turnover by completing profit/loss (P&L) business leadership, assuming responsibility for strategic sales, business development, and day-to-day supervision of ten global offices.
• Realised £220k profit by demonstrating exceptional performance and achieving 25% increase in revenue across global competitions including Decanter, International Wine Challenge, and International Wine/Spirit Competition.

Interim Operations Director - Beverage Logistics

IWSC Group Ltd

I performed as Managing Director, and my responsibilities include:
Managing day-to-day business operations, including coordinating the customer journey, maintaining quality performance, overseeing technical and assessment procedures, and collaborating with diverse team of industry experts; overseeing team of six direct reports and administered total headcount of 22 FTEs.
My signature achievements were the following:
• Achieved a significant revenue increase of 35% from 2013 to 2017.
• Enhanced EBITDA performance from 17% to 27% by demonstrating substantial improvement in financial results.
• Developed and executed business strategies for the group companies by aligning with ambitious growth objectives.

Managing Director

During my tenure as Interim General Manager, I have finalized multiple tasks related to:
Holding full accountability for diverse portfolio of group companies, including International Wine and Spirit Competition; Strategically formulating and implemented business plans for the group companies, while effectively managing high turnover; leading and directing portfolio of over 16 consumer/trade events at prominent venues such as The Oval, The Carlton Club, Truman Brewery, and The Guildhall.
The following were my key contributions:
• Orchestrated end-to-end project lifecycle management and delivery by encompassing project planning, scope definition, budgeting, and risk management.
• Demonstrated comprehensive business leadership by assuming responsibility for all aspects of P&L, driving strategic direction, vision, and continued growth of organisation.
• Ensued exceptional client experiences and provide internal employees with ample opportunities for professional development by fostering engagement throughout organisation.

Interim General Manager

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Director, Business Consultant, Ewanlacey.com
Operations Manager, Wine of the Times
General Manager, Café Med, Notting Hill
Operations Manager, YO! Sushi
Property Manager, Lidl Foodstores Gmbh
Steward of The Worshipful Company of Distillers & Chair of Marketing Committee
Part of the ‘Distillers One of One Team, Distillers
Drinks Expert, James Martin Saturday Morning & Channel 4 Television
Drinks Industry Commentator, Channel 5 Sky News
Drinks Writer, Sunday Mirror; Daily Telegraph, Women & Home
Regular Guest & Contributor, BBC Radio

Additional Experience

With 20+ years of experience in the drinks industry I am still excited by chasing inefficiency out and bringing sustainability and good sense in.

Ewan Lacey

Lloyds Banking Group

Advise the ExCo and Board of LBCM on enterprise-wide and business specific issues with team members based across London, Jersey and New York, and previously Singapore. A member of the LBG Legal & Secretariat Senior Leadership Team.

LBCM is the group of companies operating as the non-Ringfenced bank of Lloyds Banking Group and it provides commercial lending, trade & working capital management, bonds & structured finance and risk management products and services to Commercial, Large Corporate and Financial Institutions clients in the UK and internationally, and retail and commercial products and services to customers in the UK Crown Dependencies.

The business is spread across London, Frankfurt, New York and the UK Crown Dependencies.

General Counsel, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets

Team provided in-house legal support to the Group’s Business Banking (customers with t/o up to £3m), Wealth Banking and Commercial Cards businesses in the UK, and all Retail businesses in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK Crown Dependencies. Advised on CCA regulated and non-CCA products.

Advised on the Retail bank’s approach to Brexit and LBG’s entry into the Coronavirus Business Interruption and Bounce Back Loan Schemes.

Legal lead on LBG’s 2019 group-wide own spend legal panel review.

Head of Legal, Retail - Business & Specialist Banking, Edinburgh

Team provided in-house legal support to all bilateral, club and syndicated lending end to end (including restructuring) across SME and Mid Corporates (t/o £3-25 and c£25-100m), Large Corporates (including Commercial Real Estate), Financial Institutions, Specialist Debt Finance, Infrastructure & Energy Finance, Loan Markets and the Business Support Units in the Commercial Banking Division of Lloyds Banking Group. Also supported the Commercial Banking businesses in Europe.

Legal lead for the Commercial Banking client spend panel.

Head of Legal, Commercial Banking - Debt Products, London

Team supported UK and European lending, trade finance, receivables finance, corporate asset finance, equity and investments and strategic transactions across the Mid Markets & SME Banking, the Global Corporates (including Commercial Real Estate) and Financial Institutions businesses in the Commercial Banking Division of Lloyds Banking Group.

Legal lead for the Commercial Banking client spend panel.

Advised on Lloyds' entry into the National Loan Guarantee and the Funding for Lending Schemes, and the Housing Growth Partnership with the HCA. Supported the Commercial Banking elements of the sales of TSB and LBG's operations in Australia and Spain. Team supported net increases in lending to SMEs of 4-5% year on year.

Head of Legal, Commercial Banking - Lending, London

Head of Legal, Wholesale & Commercial - Transaction & Document Support, London

Bank of Scotland Foundation

Bank of Scotland Foundation receives an annual donation from Lloyds Banking Group as part of the Group’s commitment to Helping Britain Prosper.  We donate these funds to charities across Scotland through our Grants Programme and a Matched Giving Programme for Lloyds Banking Group employees in Scotland.

Board Trustee

Street Soccer Scotland

Street Soccer Scotland works across Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow using the power of football to inspire people to change their lives.

Director

MEMUSI FOUNDATION

The Memusi Foundation believes passionately in education and the right that every person has to a quality education aligning ourselves to the United Nations SDG4. It is through quality education that every child has the opportunity to escape poverty in their own lifetime, providing a path of hope.

Memusi Foundation works primarily in Magadi, in Kajiado County.  Our work is split into a number of areas; we build our own Schools as markers of quality, we provide support for Schools across the Magadi Ward to enhance education standards across the Ward and wider Kajiado County and thirdly use our own research and programme output to influence change in Education in Kenya.

Bank of Scotland

Legal Director, Policy & Projects, Corporate, London

Senior Solicitor, Policy & Projects, Corporate, London

Clayton Utz, Sydney

Acquisition, Commercial Real Estate, Project, Asset and Aircraft Finance, Debt Restructuring and Commercial Contracts

Senior Associate

Burness LLP, Edinburgh

Acquisition, Commercial Real Estate, and Asset Finance, Debt Restructuring, Private Equity Funding and advising on Scottish Limited Partnerships for use in fund structures

Senior Solicitor

Brodies LLP, Edinburgh

Seats in Corporate, Commercial Real Estate, Rural Property and Litigation

Trainee Solicitor

Jon advises the ExCo, Board and wider business of Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets PLC on enterprise-wide and business specific issues, leading a team based across London, Jersey, New York and previously Singapore.

LBCM is the group of companies operating as the non-Ringfenced bank of Lloyds Banking Group providing commercial lending, trade & working capital management, bonds & structured finance and risk management products and services to commercial, large corporate and FI clients in the UK and internationally, and retail and commercial products and services to customers in the UK Crown dependencies.

Previously, Jon headed up a Retail Legal team providing in-house legal support to LBG’s Business Banking, Wealth Banking and Commercial Cards businesses in the UK, Retail businesses in Germany and the Netherlands and retail and commercial businesses in the UK Crown Dependencies.  It advised on CCA and non-CCA products. 

Jon’s team supported the Group’s participation in the (Coronavirus) Bounce Back Loan Scheme, through which LBG provided more than £1 billion of loans to businesses impacted by COVID-19 on the day it was launched, and £11 billion overall.  He also led legal support for the Retail Bank on Brexit.

Prior to that, Jon undertook several leadership roles as a Head of Legal in the Group’s Commercial Banking Legal team in London supporting UK and European lending (and restructuring), trade finance, receivables finance, corporate asset finance, equity and investments and strategic transactions across SME and Mid Corporates, Large Corporates, Financial Institutions, Specialist Debt Finance, Infrastructure & Energy Finance, Loan Markets and the Business Support Units.

Jon advised in the context of the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB, Lloyds’ entry into the National Loan Guarantee and Funding for Lending Schemes, and the Housing Growth Partnership with Homes England.  He also advised on the CB aspects of the sales of TSB and operations in Australia and Spain, and his team supported year on year net increases in lending to SMEs.

Jon has extensive experience in legal procurement and worked with the Group’s Sourcing team on a number of Group-wide and Divisional panel processes.

Prior to joining Lloyds, Jon worked in private practice law firms in Edinburgh and Sydney and he is qualified in Scotland, England & Wales and Australia.

Jon is a trustee of the Bank of Scotland Foundation, one of the 4 charitable foundations funded by Lloyds Banking Group.

Outside of Lloyds, Jon is a director on the Boards of Street Soccer Scotland and the Memusi Foundation.

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