Meet the Management Team

Nick Marshall – CEO

Nick qualified as a chartered accountant with Grant Thornton before joining Melville in 1985. Initially involved on the financial side, he later took over leadership of Melville’s standfitting division in 1992.

Between 1994 and 1997, Nick was part of the management buyout team that purchased Melville Exhibitions from the Melville Group. Following Melville’s sale in 1997 to Visual Action Holdings, Nick was appointed joint Managing Director alongside Barry Day.

In 2002, Nick took over as Chief Executive, steering Melville successfully through the challenging times of the early 2000s, before leading the sale of Melville to American services provider GES in 2007.

Nick is married with three children and in his spare time enjoys running and golf.

Jason Popp – Chief Operating Officer

Jason is the Chief Operating Officer for Melville and Senior Vice President, International for GES. He regularly travels between Birmingham and his base in Chicago. Jason joined GES from our sister company, Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, where he oversaw operating divisions in the custom design and build business in Germany, the UK and Canada.

Before entering the exhibition and events world, Jason was a strategy consultant with L.E.K. Consulting in London and Los Angeles. Jason started his career with Royal Dutch/Shell where he focused on developing new business startups in Budapest, Hungary and Barcelona, Spain.

Jason holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in marketing and international business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Donna Hyland – Financial Controller

After qualifying as a CIMA accountant in 1993, Donna worked at Saddlery confectionery & Solihull Council before joining Melville as finance manager in 2001. Donna manages a finance team of around 30, including reporting results, budgets, forecasts and analytical information.

Donna works closely with GES finance and was responsible for the successful integration of processes and systems to ensure Melville’s compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley directive.

Ted Bloom – Group Commercial Director

Ted joined Melville in 1998 and quickly progressed, becoming Sales Director in 2002 and Group Sales Director in 2005.

Since joining Melville, Ted has brought in over £10 million of new business and built a strong, dynamic sales team. His role now involves managing all client facing staff while working with the operations and financial part of the business to maintain the best possible service.

Bob Cheeseman – Group Sales Director

Bob is one of the original owners of Melville. Bob first entered the industry as a floor layer at the age of 23, becoming a manager in just a couple of years and later part owner of DFH until the company was purchased by Melville in 1992.

Over the years Bob has amassed numerous significant achievements including being Vice Chairman of BECA and winning many high profile clients. Despite all of this, Bob’s knowledge of carpets is still called upon and he can still regularly be found on site.

Paul McKenna – Finance Director

Paul joined Melville in 2001 after working as Financial Director of Blenheim Exhibitions UK Ltd and as Financial Controller of CMPi Ltd after their takeover of Blenheim. Paul now works as Financial Director of Melville, looking after all financial matters as well as health and safety, HR and property.