Martin Mellish

Head of warehousing

Martin joined Mallory in November 2022, and is responsible for the warehouse operations for orders of educational resources and furniture.

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.

Rachel Dickson

Director

Rachel joined Mallory after graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in Hispanic studies. After a break in Mexico, volunteering in marine conservation, she re-joined us in 2009 to develop the international schools business. She now specialises in the systems side of the business, including the Mallory Online Portal. She is one of our fluent Spanish speakers. Now the mum of a cracking little girl, Rachel enjoys nothing more than a kick around and a BBQ on one of our beautiful East Devon beaches.

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.

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.

Anthony Faison

Representative

Tony Faison represents Pearson in various West African countries, and we are delighted to have established a partnership with his organisation. He began representing Mallory in Cameroon in November 2010.

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.

Antoine Donnet-Roche

International account manager

Antoine works with customers from all over Africa, particularly in Southern Africa and francophone countries. Originally from France, where he worked as a music journalist among many other things, he likes to spend his free time cooking, travelling and gaming.

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.

Joshua Hockings

Warehouse manager

Josh joined Mallory in 2022 as a warehouse operative and is now our Warehouse Manager.

Josh enjoys cleaning his car and going to car shows with his show car. Josh also enjoys watching F1 in his spare time and enjoys supporting his football team, Liverpool.

Haydn Mullineux

Head of sales - Academic

Haydn worked first within the tenders team and now heads the academic sales division. Prior to that he spent several years living in Berlin working within publishing and is fluent in German.

Fidelis Katongo

Representative

Fidelis Katongo has been Mallory’s representative since 2006. His daughter, Misozi Zondi, has just joined him to share the representation. Their family have been well known in the book trade in Zambia for a number of years.

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.

Sarah Sassuna

Representative

Sarah Nassuna and Moses Mutumba have helped us to develop the Ugandan market into one of our best. The range of customers is very wide, from leading tertiary institutions to specialist and educational projects.

Gaulphine Nyirenda

Representative

Gaulphine has represented Mallory in Malawi since 1989, making her our longest serving partner. She also represents leading publishers, and owns the best bookshop in Lilongwe. Over the years we have been consistently successful in Malawi, with both projects and regular business.