Paul joins the Docks team from ASM Global, the world’s largest venue management company. He spent the last seven years as Head of Sales and Marketing at Connexin Live in Hull. During his time in Hull, the team won multiple national and international awards, bringing 700,000 people to the 4,000-capacity venue. Artists such as Bob Dylan, Noel Gallagher, Sean Paul, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Kaiser Chiefs and Blondie have performed there since it opened in 2018.
Previously, Paul spent 10 years as Marketing Manager at The Baths Hall in Scunthorpe, part of the senior leadership team which attracted the likes of Arcade Fire, Florence and the Machine, Courteeners, Paul Weller and Romesh Ranganathan to the town.
Docks Beers is a craft beer brewery based in an impressive converted church in Grimsby, just a stone’s throw from the town’s historic docks. As Lincolnshire’s highest-rated brewery according to the crowd-sourced beer app Untappd, the Docks team has won multiple Traveller’s Choice awards from Tripadvisor and garnered many other accolades including Pub/Bar Of the Year in Grimsby Live Awards and “Pandemic Thrive and Survive” award in the North Lincolnshire Business Awards.
Docks Academy is based above the brewery and taproom and has hosted the likes of Russell Kane, Twin Atlantic, Sleeper, Toploader, The Lottery Winners, The Sherlocks and Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan.
As Managing Director, Paul will oversee all aspects of Docks Beers and Docks Academy, including strategic planning for brewery and events, sales and marketing, product development, further developing commercial partnerships and will focus on strengthening the brand’s position as the best brewery in Lincolnshire. He will also work with the excellent programming team to attract more events and gigs to the venue.
The 44-year-old former Caistor Grammar School student will officially begin his role on Monday, 4 November.
Paul said: “I am incredibly excited, and feel hugely privileged, to be given the opportunity to work with the Docks team. Docks Beers and Docks Academy have become some of the most iconic brands in the region thanks to the hard work of everyone within the Docks family and I cannot wait to join them in November. Having spent most of my career working in other towns and cities, I’m very much looking forward to coming ‘home’ to work in Grimsby and to grow Docks even further.”
