Ambassador Theatre Group Appoints Nick Potter Managing Director (Venues)

The Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) today announced the appointment of Nick Potter to the newly created Executive Director role of Managing Director (Venues).

As MD (Venues), Nick will support ATG's Joint Chief Executive, Rosemary Squire, by taking responsibility for the operational side of the venues with particular focus on management and utilization of venues, costs of running venues and all incremental spend within them. Nick will be based at ATG's Woking Head Office and will become a seventh member of the ATG Executive Board. The new role will commence on 18 April 2011.

Nick has over twenty years experience at a senior management level in the leisure and catering industries. He has led operational teams across multi-site businesses in restaurants, gaming, casinos and pubs. His most recent appointment was Managing Director of Restaurant Associates, the fine dining side of Compass Group plc, where his many clients included British Airways (Executive Club Lounges), hotels such as Sofitel at T5 and Cumberland Hotel Marble Arch, Diageo, Google, Virgin Active Clubs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Lloyds, Citi Bank, Bank of England and Bank of America and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The role also included operating a number of fine dining restaurants including Rhodes 24, Rhodes W1 and Roux on Parliament Square.

Prior to that, he spent seven years with Gala Coral Ltd initially as Managing Director Gala Casinos, and latterly as Group Commercial Director. He began his career with Allied Domecq plc where he worked in different roles for eleven years, latterly as Regional Director of over 100 pub restaurants.

Nick Potter, ATG's MD (Venues), said: "To be joining the world's biggest theatre company at such a pivotal point in its history is a great opportunity. Having worked in the leisure industry for over twenty years, the move into the theatre business is a natural career step and I'm really looking forward to working with Rosemary and the Executive Board and building on the successes already achieved by ATG."

Rosemary Squire, ATG's Joint Chief Executive, said: "I'm delighted to welcome Nick to ATG at this exciting time for the company. Nick has vast experience in the leisure industry, having worked with some of the world's biggest names and brands and his knowledge and expertise is unrivalled. This is an important new senior appointment for ATG following our expansion in 2009, and it underlines our continued growth and further strengthening of the Executive Team."

Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is the largest owner/operator of theatres in the UK with 39 venues, an internationally recognised theatre producer and a leader in theatre ticketing services.

 

Current and recent ATG co-productions include Ghost the Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Misanthrope, West Side Story, Elling, Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Company, Exit the King and The Rocky Horror Show.

 

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