Thomas Cakpo

Representative

Thomas Cakpo joined Mallory as our Côte d’Ivoire representative in May 2016. He has a Master’s degree in Business and Hotel Management. His experience and network are very useful for the development of our activity in the country.

David Johnson

International account manager

David handles the orders for home-schooling company Wolsey Hall as well as managing the journal and magazine subscriptions for various Mallory customers. David graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in drama, and co-manages his own independent theatre company ‘Sun & Moon Theatre’ who specialise in Shakespeare’s plays.

Ivelina Manolova

Assistant head of sales - Academic

Ivelina takes care of customers in Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi and Mauritius. She graduated with an MA in english literature and history from the University of Dundee in Scotland before relocating back to Exeter, England. Ultimately, Ivelina would describe herself as a citizen of the world, and most enjoys spending her time reading, travelling, and exploring new crafts.

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.

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.

Beryl Stanley-Marbell

Representative

In August 2013 we established a new partnership in Ghana with Beryl Stanley-Marbell of SyTris. SyTris is a major bookseller in Ghana, with four shops, and the two businesses have complementary skills.

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.

Joshua Hockings

Warehouse manager

Josh focuses mainly on packing educational supplies for Mallory’s schools customers. In his spare time Josh follows Liverpool football club, and is a gamer. Josh is also a bit of a car fanatic and can often be found detailing his current vehicle.

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.

Olivia Perkins

Senior regional manager – Europe

Olivia joined the Mallory Schools team after many years working as an educator in secondary MFL and ESL. She initially worked with schools in Cameroon, Rwanda and Eastern Europe. Since Brexit she has been more involved in Europe strategy. Olivia speaks French, Spanish and Italian and is learning Japanese. She loves to travel and learn about other cultures and has spent time living in Italy, France, Japan and Australia.

Jacky Beauchamp

IT manager

Jacky joined Mallory in the journals department and has since segued into the information and communications technology aspect of the company as well as dealing with the US import shipments.

Zuriana Van Rijswijk

Education consultant

Zuri Van Rijswijk is part of our SE Asian team with responsibility for Malaysia. Zuri was born in Malaysia and has been immersed in the educational world, having worked alongside Gerry Slessenger in North Africa for the world’s largest educational corporate group. She is married to an outstanding educator, Martin, who has had headships in Egypt, Germany, Thailand, New Zealand and now Malaysia.

Zuri can speak Malay, Arabic and Tamil with English of course and will be responsible for bringing Mallory for Schools leading services to international schools, colleges and universities in Malaysia. She is based in Kuala Lumpur (which she knows very well) visiting new and potential customers.

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.

Henry Manning

International account manager

Henry first joined Mallory as a warehouse temp for 18 months until he went to university, returning to the warehouse every summer holiday. Having now graduated with a degree in maths and philosophy he has joined our schools team where he predominantly manages our Spanish customers.