Key Management

Ben Barker - Development Director

Ben is an international hotel and tourism graduate with a vast experience of working in the tourism and leisure industry. Prior to working at Select Contracts Select Contracts, Ben held senior positions in product and development management at various tourism, hospitality and leisure companies across the globe, including Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, UK, Dubai and the USA.

His remit is to oversee all of the company's projects from a development perspective to ensure that all client expectations are consistently met. This starts with overseeing the concept and costings through to being on site during the build and fit out process. Ben brings with him first hand experience and contacts in the industry, which he utilises for maximum benefit to the company, projects and clients alike.

Ben is married with a daughter, and he enjoys travelling, sports, and the great outdoors and is an aspiring photographer.

John Fisher - Operations Director

John Fisher provides the detailed structure for overall operations and management. Construction hand-off and opening time-line management is the key to every successful launch.

Management recruitment, training, and promoting the company's vision to successfully launch new facilities are among his responsibilities and experience. His hands-on management style, eye for detail, and coaching skills make him a natural choice for this position.

An honor role graduate in 1981 of Hospitality Management in Toronto and 25 years in the hospitality and gaming industry has earned John a solid reputation in the industry. His worldwide experience supports the operational objectives in opening independent or multi faceted projects. John believes that once a project is ready to launch it is imperative that the right people be in place to operate the business.

Lloyd Ravenscroft - Sales Director

Lloyd has recently joined the company after a wealth of success in his sales career.

Lloyd specialised in sales after studying Engineering and Design at the University of Surrey, thereby giving him a sympathetic knowledge into the many differing aspects of Select Contracts as a whole and together with his previous experiences in varied sales environments, particularly within the leisure industry, contributes to his success on our team.

Lloyd is based out of our Dubai office and travels extensively to oversee the sales of all of the company's projects.

Away from the office Lloyd spends most of his time outdoors and enjoys travelling to various surf locations around the world. He enjoys wakeboarding, boating, golf and getting involved in the technical side of cars and racing.

Amanda Twidale - Design Manager

Amanda is from the UK and has worked for Select Contracts for the past 12 years and is the main design manager on all Select Contracts projects.

As Amanda has been with the company during 12 years of significant growth, her experience goes into all sectors that the business is involved with, from family entertainment centres through to large hotel resorts. In her team, Amanda has architects, CAD technicians and imagineers to assist with the design aspect on every project.

Amanda graduated with a degree in Illustration from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and due to this her main skill is in conceptualising new projects and being able to convert plans & thoughts into full 3D hand drawn renderings.

Once projects move to site, Amanda co-ordinates the theming team to ensure that the conceptual design that the client approves gets matched exactly to the reality built on site and also liases between the interior designers & our project team to ensure a high quality of finish.

When away from projects, Amanda is married and has two children, when she gets time to herself she is a keen horse rider and also enjoys Pilates.