OUR TEAM

KEEKO TEAM

Sarah J Parsons - Managing Director & Proprietor

Sarah joined Keeko in 1998 following several years of success at food giant Delice de France. She has managed Keeko from the early embryonic stage through to the international success that it has today.

After completing a business degree at Leeds University Sarah owned and ran a highly successful restaurant on the Wirral. Following the birth of her daughter Florence Grace, she sold the restaurant and worked as a National Accounts Manager for Delice.

In 2008 Sarah began her 2nd company – Sarah Jane (UK) Limited www.sarahjane.uk.com and more recently became a Director and Partner of Stadium Crayons Limited www.stadiumchalkandcrayon.com

Sarah loves to spend time with family and friends and walking her 2 black Labradors. She is also a keen runner and has completed the London Marathon on 5 occasions as well as raising money for her favourite charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/).

Jonathan Birch - Business Development Manager

Jonathan joined Keeko in 2007 following several years of running his own business. Jonathan’s career has also included time with multi-nationals Marconi Space & Defense and Sharp Electronics. He has extensive experience of purchasing and sales across European and Japanese companies.

Jonathan is married with 3 daughters and if he ever has any spare time he watches and plays football, plays guitar and is very involved with a local church.

Cherolyn Kelly - Head of Design

Cherolyn joined Keeko in 2002 during her second stint at university and fitted in so well that she never left.

Cherolyn gained a 2:1 honours degree in Product design from Coventry University and then went on to study Graphics and web design at Liverpool University.

Cherolyn is married and enjoys spending time with friends and family and particularly loves to travel - having visited Australia, America and the Far East.

Christine Grimwood - General Manager

Chris joined Keeko in 2003 having worked for a prestigious firm of accountants. She started her career working for the Royal Liver in Liverpool and then had a career break to bring up her children.

During that time she studied at Liverpool John Moores University and gained a BA Honours degree in Business Studies and then went on to complete her AAT accountancy qualifications.

Chris has 2 sons – one who is a successful Solicitor and one that is a professional Archer and represents Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Sarah Barton - Designer

Sarah is the newest addition to the Keeko team having joined at the start of 2010.

Sarah graduated in 2008 from Liverpool John Moores University having achieved a 2:1 Hons degree in Fine Art.

In her spare time Sarah enjoys socialising and listening to music. Sarah loves art and spends much of her spare time creating illustrations and paintings. From a background of sketching and Oil painting, Sarah is enjoying transferring her talents to computer based design.