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Cavendish Venues Boosts Sales Team with Double Hires

July 17, 2024

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Cavendish Venues Boosts Sales Team with Double Hires

Cavendish Venues has boosted its sales team with the appointment of Nadia Zakhari and Nyall Bickley to the team, as announced in Conference News.

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Cavendish Venues is growing fast and welcomes Zakhari as business development and Bickley as sales executive.

Zakhari previously spent eight years at etc.venues in their City of London team and Bickley previously worked at Optimus Education for two years organising 20 annual national conferences.

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“Nadia and Nyall join at an exciting time as we approach the opening of our fourth London venue at The Minster Building this summer and move into a period of considered growth, based on the shift in growing demand in London for adaptable, well-priced meeting, conference and event spaces.” said Elliott Sparsis, CEO of Cavendish Venues.

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Cavendish Venues has four purpose-built venues and is a business founded in 1995 by Tom Mayers. Watch out for the next print edition of Conference News where we profile the new Minster Building venue and talk exclusively to Elliott Sparsis about the group’s plans for growth and ‘secret sauce’ for success.

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Nyall Bickley (left) and Nadia Zakhari (right)

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