Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Alex Head, CEO and founder of Social Pantry, tells us about working with prison leavers, and why more businesses should in Square Mile and Me

CV

• Name: Alex Head
• Job title: CEO and founder of Social Pantry
• Previous roles: Restaurant worker
• Age: 40
• Born: Canberra, Australia
• Lives: Wandsworth
• Studied: Business and Hospitality at Oxford Brookes University
• Talents: Multi-tasking
• Motto: Success is not always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success
• Biggest perk of the job? I love visiting amazing places around the world to eat, enjoy new food trends and get inspired – in the past year or two I’ve been lucky enough to go to a couple of pretty cool trips with colleagues to Japan, Nice and Helsinki.
• Coffee order: Matcha latte, who have I become?!
• Cocktail order: At the start of the night a martini, at the end a negroni…
• Currently reading: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

What was your first job?

I did a paper round when I was 14 and then during my GCSEs I set up a little business selling sandwiches in my dad’s office in Saudi. I made posters with clip art, took orders over the phone, made the sandwiches at home and then delivered them to the office on my bike. It was my first experience of working and of running my own business.

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