30 years experience in the pub sector having started life at Bass on their graduate programme followed by a short time with Whitbread. Set up Realpubs with Malc Heap in 2002. Over the next 10 years Nick and Malc built the highly acclaimed Realpubs into one of London's leading independent pub companies before selling an estate of 14 freehold pubs to Greene King in 2011. Director of an East London pub company London Ordinaries. Director of Alpaca bars ltd 2014 started new venture called Urban Pubs and Bars with old business partner Malc Heap Urban Pubs & Bars currently operates 67 sites across London including the highly acclaimed Salt Yard group of restaurants in and around Soho.