Founder & ceo Hestia Hospitality
ANDREW
FISHWICK
A passionate leader in hospitality with over 15 years of CEO and advisory experience across restaurants, pubs, hotels and cultural institutions.
ABOUT
A Career Spanning Hospitality, Culture and Investment
RECOGNITION
FELLOW
The Royal Society of Arts
LIVERYMAN
Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs
Andrew is currently leading Hestia — a new investment vehicle in the hospitality sector, acquiring and building premium restaurant groups. As Founder and CEO, he leads the business and commercial strategy across a £220m+ acquisition pipeline.
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in leading hospitality and culture organisations. He has produced over two dozen West End and Broadway shows, winning Tony Awards, Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Andrew has built and run theatres, including the first new purpose-built theatre in London in over half a century.
He returned to the hospitality sector as interim CEO for several organisations including multi award-winning Michelin-starred gastro pubs, restaurant groups and hotels.
Andrew is Executive Chair for SALT, a leading marketing consultancy specialising in food and drink which he also founded. He was also a Founding Trustee for Home Kitchen, a charity working to train and employ people from the homeless community into the hospitality sector.
MBA
Warwick Business School
FORMER BOARD MEMBER
British Institute of Innkeepers
FREEDOM OF THE CITY
City of London, for services to Business and the Arts
MENTOR
The Prince's Trust
TRANSACTION & OPERATING EXPERIENCE
Founder · CEO · Sponsor · Advisor · Investment Committee Member
Andrew has been involved in a wide range of transactions across the hospitality sector — as Founder, Sponsor, CEO, Advisor and Investment Committee member. He has led fundraising rounds, completed M&A transactions and gone on to lead the businesses acquired in both buy-and-build and turnaround situations..
FOUNDER & CEO
Hestia Hospitality
Leading a new hospitality consolidation vehicle with a £220m+ acquisition pipeline of premium restaurant groups, private members clubs and all-day dining concepts. Building towards a £500m+ portfolio.
CEO & FOUNDER
Multi-Site Pub Group
Founded, built and operated a multi award-winning gastro pub group, from concept through to a successful exit.
ADVISOR & IC MEMBER
Premium High Street Brand
Advised on a £100m private equity acquisition of a national restaurant chain. Served on the Investment Committee and led interim integration.
SPONSOR & ADVISOR
Restaurant Incubator
Developer partnership producing one of the most significant post-Covid institutional investments into an incubator restaurant concept in the UK.
INTERIM CEO
Boutique Hotel Group
Capital raise and operational turnaround for a single-site boutique hotel that has since become one of England’s most decorated small properties.
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIR
SALT Consultancy
Founded a leading food and drink marketing consultancy