Margaret Nyambura

Representative

Margaret Nyambura from Corporate Campus is our local contact, and is developing our Mallory business in Kenya. She has been working energetically to supply educational DVDs to academic institutions and is already known to many of our customers.

Evariste Adjaho

Representative

Evariste Adjaho recently became our representantive in Togo. Passionate about books, he and his wife opened a bookshop in Lomé in 2020, which, amongst other things, promotes local culture.

Arthur Barigye Mugunga

Representative

Arthur is the Mallory representative in Rwanda. He has helped us tender for a number of tertiary projects, with significant success.

Noelia Garcia

Regional manager - East Africa and South America

Noelia has a degree in international trade and worked in a customs office in Argentina, her country of origin. She mainly looks after our school customers in Uganda and Latin America. In Noelia’s spare time she enjoys traveling and getting to know different places and cultures.

Jordan Hockings

Warehouse operative

Jordan is a warehouse operative who processes goods into the warehouse and prepares the goods to be shipped. In his spare time, Jordan follows Manchester United FC and enjoys watching Formula 1.

Julian Hardinge

Chairman

Julian has been involved in export bookselling and educational supply for over 40 years, and has chaired both the export and the college and university groups of the Booksellers Association. He has been chairman of Batch.co.uk, the UK book trade’s payment allocation and clearing system. He has sat on the knowledge and information advisory committee of the British Council, was a director of Book Tokens Ltd for 20 years, and was for some years the bookselling representative on the international board of the UK Publishers Association. He is honorary vice-president for life of the Booksellers Association.

Jan Langmaier

Regional manager – Europe (Czech office)

Jan joined us in April 2017 when we acquired the educational side of ADC Blackfire, Prague. He has years of experience in international trade and now as a regional manager for Europe he is involved in developing Mallory’s Europe strategy. Jan attended Ghent University in Belgium and then graduated with a master’s degree in economics and rural development at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. In Jan’s spare time he enjoys travelling with his partner and long walks in mountains with their dogs.

Roger Stevens-Jennings

Warehouse operative

Roger is from South Africa and came to the UK to be closer to his two daughters and four grandchildren. He enjoys being a handyman around the house, reading and walking around Seaton where he presently resides with his wife, Jennifer. His main interest is boating and sailing.

Paulo Guerreiro

Representative

Paulo Guerreiro has been appointed Mallory International’s representative. He has been a bookseller for 24 years, and for the last 20 in Mozambique. Since 2011, he has been the managing Partner of Livrarias Conhecimento, one of the 3 major bookshops in Mozambique, which supplies schools and universities all over the country.

Renata Lantos

International account manager

Sophie Hardinge

Managing director

Sophie brings hands-on experience from across Africa, having worked as a director and project manager for an NGO in southeast Madagascar. Back in the UK, she’s led a range of projects in the charity sector, focusing on homelessness and disability support. At Mallory, Sophie shapes and steers strategy, keeping one eye on the big picture and the other on getting things done. She spent her 20s travelling the globe in search of adventure. These days, she’s happiest walking the coastal path or hanging out with her two boys.

Robyn Bennett

International account manager

Robyn joined Mallory shortly after relocating from London to Devon, and is originally from South Africa. She mainly looks after our school customers in Zambia and Ghana. Robyn has a BComm degree in politics, philosophy and economics and has mainly worked in retail in finance and marketing. Robyn has recently gone back to ballet dancing and is keen on yoga and pilates. Robyn also enjoys exploring the coastlines of Southwest England and loves to travel.

Gary Davies

Head of accounts

Gary joined the company in 2011 as a part of the warehouse team. With a degree in accounting and finance, Mallory thought his skills would be more useful in the accounts team where he started as a clerk before moving on to become the accounts manager. He has a keen interest in international relations and enjoys listening to and playing music in his free time.

Kirsten Dolby

Administrative manager

Kirsten plays a significant role in the accounts and admin department. Born and raised in Oxford, she now lives in the seaside resort that is Teignmouth where she enjoys up-cycling furniture and running competitively in her spare time.

Louis Wenley

Senior business development manager

Louis joined Mallory after a year of travelling through various countries in South America, Asia, and Europe. He looks after our customers in Kenya and Tanzania, amongst many others. In 2016, Louis graduated from the University of Reading with a degree in politics and international relations, leading to a keen interest in current affairs. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, trips to the local national park and making the most of his season ticket at Exeter City FC.