Keith Jackson

Executive Chairman

Keith has an extensive background in management and governance with particular emphasis on the food and dairy industries.

He was CEO of Tegel Foods for 16 years, Deputy Chairman of Ernest Adams and Managing Director of Independent Dairy Producers, a fresh milk company. He was also a founding partner of Dairy Farm Investments. Keith established Dairyland Products which was then sold to a Danish company in 2017.

In 2008 he founded Cooks via a merger of four companies and the company acquired the global rights to the Esquires Coffee brand (excluding Australia and New Zealand) in 2013. They then acquired Triple Two Coffee brand and Cooks are now currently the #4 coffee focused cafe company in the UK.