D&D London has announced the appointment of Toby Harris as Chief Financial Officer.
Toby is a chartered accountant who, after qualifying at PWC in 2001, has held a number of board level financial positions in hospitality, IT and marketing businesses. This included a spell as Finance Director of Hilton’s London hotels division. In his most recent roles Toby was the CFO of two successful high-growth private equity-backed companies.
Des Gunewardena, Chairman and CEO of D&D London commented:
“This is a very important appointment for D&D. Apart from his skills in growing private equity-backed businesses such as ourselves, Toby brings to D&D a wealth of financial and commercial experience across a number of sectors. He is also joining D&D at a very exciting time. Our business is experiencing the strongest growth in turnover and profits for many years, and we have some fabulous new restaurant and hotel projects in the pipeline.”
Toby Harris, newly appointed CFO of D&D London commented:
“From the outside I have greatly admired what Des, David and the rest of the D&D team have achieved in building the business with its unique and highly profitable portfolio of venues. I’m very excited to have joined and I know that I can make a major contribution to scaling the business further and positioning D&D as a leading global hospitality company. “
About D&D London
D&D London stands for CEO Des Gunewardena and MD David Loewi who led the buyout of Conran Restaurants in September 2006. The company has been backed by leading UK equity house LDC since April 2013 and owns and operates over 30 leading restaurants in London, Leeds, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Restaurants in London include Le Pont de la Tour, Coq d’Argent, Bluebird and Skylon as well as the company’s first hotel venture, highly acclaimed South Place Hotel.