Sean Geddes

Indulging his passion for motorbikes with Honda UK after leaving school, Sean became Press Officer for the Motorcycle Division aged 22. He moved to Nairobi, Kenya a few years later and became involved in the cargo aviation industry subsequently becoming country manager for TNT Express Worldwide. He moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands where he headed up the TNT Global Event Logistics division. In 2001, after moving back to the UK to be with his young family, Sean opened the first of his 15 Domino’s Pizza stores in the East of Scotland which saw him win multiple awards before expanding into Germany with stores in Cologne and Aachen. On selling the UK Domino’s business in 2013 followed by the German business a year later, he opened the first of 14 Starbucks stores in the East of Scotland. The Explorer Group, a company wholly-owned by Sean and his wife Stephanie, now includes the Starbucks operating company, a M&S Food operating company with a mandate to expand throughout Scotland, and a commercial property development company.