James Poole

Founder Aardvark Recruitment. The First Word In Recruitment. Specializing in Recruitment in the Education and Legal Sectors.

Interim Head of Company Secretarial Services, MITIE Group PLC a FTSE250 facilities management company. Responsible for the Company Secretarial Department (including 2 Company Secretarial Assistants and 1 Company Secretarial Administrator) with over 250 registered companies (including overseas registered entities).

Group Company Secretary, Enterprise Inns plc . Legal, Commercial and Administrative matters including managing the day to day corporate legal function. Full day to day responsibility for the Company Secretarial functions for plc and up to 50 subsidiaries, including preparation of Board papers and minute taking for PLC board and board committees. Corporate Governance. Regulation. Compliance.

Assistant Company Secretary, Discovery Inns Limited: - a pub retail company with an estate of approximately 280 premises, including a managed house estate with a turnover of £21 million. I joined shortly after the company was established and lead the legal delivery of the proposed floatation in 1996 and the subsequent disposal of the business by private equity investors in 1997 to Enterprise Inns plc.

Assistant Solicitor - Cartwrights, Bristol: - dealing predominantly with contentious private client litigation with commercial property mix.