Meet The Leadership Team
With a strong foundation in hospitality operations and digital innovation, our leadership team is at the intersection of service and technology.
Meet The Leadership Team
With a strong foundation in hospitality operations and digital innovation, our leadership team is at the intersection of service and technology.
Clive Holland
Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director
The Holland brothers are the co-founders of the business and grew up with hospitality, living and working in their parents’ hotel and restaurant. Clive studied Business, English and Philosophy at Manchester University and started his career in various sales roles and directorships, including a couple of tech start-ups. Sugarvine was launched in 2003 as a dining guide and marketing agency for hospitality businesses and in 2019 Sugarvine Tables was launched, offering a simple and cost-effective reservations platform for hospitality venues. Clive oversees business development.
Clive is an RNLI volunteer and spends a lot of time in the Lake District National Park.
Adam Holland
Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director
Brought up in hospitality, Adam graduated in history from Birmingham University. He worked initially in finance in London before relocating to the Far East where he held various senior editorial management roles before joining a NASDAQ-listed e-commerce company. As VP of Interactive Media he was responsible for a team of 70-plus in Singapore, Shanghai and Manila. Returning to the UK, he co-founded Sugarvine with his brother Clive and he currently spearheads the operational side of the business.
Adam speaks Spanish and is a keen skier and scuba diver.
Michael Conyers
Investor and Non-Executive Chairman
Mike attended Glasgow University (B.Acc.) and then the ICAS in Glasgow. Having worked as a qualified CA for some 8 years he left the industry to become a restaurateur and hotelier. He was personally involved in building and running 14 restaurant/hotel operations before becoming the joint founder and then CEO of ResDiary. ResDiary had gone from a startup to some 11,000 customers in 68 countries when it was sold to Accor hotels in 2018 and Mike retired one year later. Mike is still keenly interested in technology and product development in the restaurant reservation space and believes Sugarvine Tables fills a gap in the market for a sophisticated but uncomplicated solution providing great value at the right price point.
Mike likes to relax fly fishing in Patagonia and skiing in the Arlberg.
Chris Sullivan
Non-Executive Director
Chris is a Cambridge graduate with an eclectic CV within the hospitality sector. He has held senior operational leadership roles with companies as diverse as Whitbread, Starbucks, Scottish & Newcastle, Balls Brothers, Harry Ramsden’s, Aberdeen Angus, Blackpool Tower and James’ Places. He has always been an early adopter of tech developments which aid pub and restaurant operators, without over-complication. Sugarvine Tables does just that as well as delivering great value at the right price.
Chris is a portfolio business advisor and is also a marriage celebrant.
