Tim Doubleday, CFO of Burger King UK and Chair of the Sustainability Committee, Hospitality Sector Council and Chair of the Sustainability Committee for UKHospitality.

Tim has significant experience with private equity backed businesses including M&A and debt transactions. He has a successful record of creating and implementing strategies and change management, including growth, operational improvement and ESG.

Tim is part of the team that in 2017 acquired the master franchisee and development agreement for the UK from Burger King Europe. Tim has led the establishment of the business infrastructure, an imbedded ESG strategy and the acquisition of franchisees that has grown the business to revenues of circa £400m. Prior to that he has over 20 years’ experience in the hospitality sector, operating at board level across a range of sectors including pubs, hotels, contract and concession catering and casual dining.

Tim chairs the Sustainability Committee of the Hospitality Sector Council, as well as being a member of the Council, with the objective of co-creating solutions with Government to the sustainability challenges facing the hospitality sector. Tim also sits on the Advisory Board of UK Hospitality and is Chair of its Sustainability Committee and also the Finance Committee of the sector benevolent charity Hospitality Action.