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Meet the Family...

Our family is made up of over 80 hard working individuals across a range of business segments striving every day to produce the best coffee and drive Coffee Planet forward.

Click below to meet the figure heads of the family…

meet the family

Andy James

Key Accounts Director

Information:

The latest member of the Family charged with ensuring all 150 convenience store machines are pouring perfect coffee in every cup!

Home country:

Wales, UK

Interests:

Coffee, skipping, running backwards, mooing, collecting rude-shaped fruit, competitive knitting, looking at sand, being Welsh.

Favourite Coffee:

Milky milky

Coffees per day:

Yes please!

Part of the family since:

I’m a relative new born in 2011!

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Robert Jones

Business Development Director

Information:

Responsible for the Solutions side of the business as well as design & construction of our funky retail stores!

Home country:

Wales, UK

Interests:

Coffee, Fast cars, hip-hop music, fork bending, seeing the world, elephant riding, making paper airplanes

Favourite Coffee:

Espresso – the purists choice!

Coffees per day:

3-4 during the week. I take a coffee break on weekends!

Part of the family since:

2007

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Richard Jones

Managing Director

Information:

One of the founding Directors and the leader of the pack responsible for developing the strategy to turn Coffee Planet into a regional and global player in the Coffee market.

Home country:

Wales, UK

Interests:

Coffee, the coffee business, football, squash, cars, travel, restaurants, life in Dubai in general!

Favourite Coffee:

Caramel Macchiato

Coffees per day:

I’m a 1 a day man!

Part of the family since:

The dawn of Coffee Planet in 2005

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Matthew Yorke-Smith

Operations Director

Information:

The founder of Coffee Planet it’s been my ambition to create a world leading coffee brand…

Home country:

South Africa

Interests:

Coffee, Boating, fishing, my family, the French language, yoga & meditation!

Favourite Coffee:

I espresso myself regularly!

Coffees per day:

3- 4 most days

Part of the family since:

It has been a lifelong dream!

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Shoukat Zamman-Khan

Finance Manager

Information:

I’m the man juggling the numbers…

Home country:

Pakistan

Interests:

Tea…just kidding!!, Coffee, mastering the art of coffee bean juggling, facial hair art, public speaking, telling jokes because I’m the first accountant with a sense of humor.

Favourite Coffee:

Lots of Latte!

Coffees per day:

3 a day keeps me thinking straight

Part of the family since:

The accountant is always one of the first appointed! Haha…

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Rosco Franklin

Roastmaster

Information:

Its all about the coffee…I live, breathe and dream about coffee…love it!

Home country:

New Zealand

Interests:

Coffee, coffee beans, green coffee beans, roasted beans, magic beans, baked beans, flying kites and Mexican jumping beans.

Favourite Coffee:

I love all of them equally!

Coffees per day:

Depends on the day, can work out to be a lot if we’re cupping or testing new blends.

Part of the family since:

2009

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Leon Surynt

Retail Director

Information:

Being the retail King that I am... I manage all of the Coffee Planet outlets and Bean Team members.

Home country:

New Zealand

Interests:

Talking, weight lifting, power walking, cockney rhyming slang, eating inanimate objects, drum ‘n’ bass music and flip flop wearing.

Favourite Coffee:

Anything with a shot of flavor in it

Coffees per day:

Just the 1 is good for me

Part of the family since:

2009

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John Kumaresan

Franchise Director

Information:

I'm the guardian of our franchisees making sure they get all the support they need to sell more coffee.

Home country:

India

Interests:

Coffee, stamp collecting, snakeskin shoes, moustache growing, watching ballet, writing franchise manuals and eating Nando's.

Favourite Coffee:

Cappuccino

Coffees per day:

I average about a half a cup per day.

Part of the family since:

2008

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