Gary Hughes is Director of Marketing, Communications and Development and has 20 years experience leading large marketing teams.

He has spent most of his career in London, working initially in the construction and property sectors on both agency and client sides. At Chesterton International, one of the UK’s largest firms of chartered surveyors, he was appointed Marketing Director of the group’s Commercial Division.

In 2003 he took up the post of Group Marketing Director at Hays plc, the UK’s largest recruitment company which employs more than 8,000 staff in 28 countries. Within four years he had re-branded the company globally and created a single marketing/web department to provide integrated online and offline marketing strategies and tactical delivery. He also led a range of web and digital marketing projects to enable better and swifter connections between clients, candidates and recruitment consultants, and managed a group-wide customer service project to reshape and underpin key performance indicators across the company.

Relocating to North Wales in 2007, he set up a consultancy to provide brand, communication and marketing services to SME-listed organisations and alternative investment market (AIM) companies, and worked as temporary Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment at Glyndwr University in Wrexham.

Gary Hughes is an economics and marketing graduate of UCW Aberystwyth. He holds an MA in Marketing Management from Middlesex University Business School and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and of the Marketing Society.