Stuart Gillies

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Stuart Gillies is an English chef and former CEO of the Gordon Ramsay Group, appointed in 2016 after working as managing director for the group from 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecaterer.com/news/restaurant/flurry-of-senior-appointments-at-gordon-ramsay-group-as-stuart-gillies-promoted|title=Flurry of senior appointments at Gordon Ramsay Gro...|date=2 March 2016|website=The Caterer}}

After training in the UK, Gillies spent a year in Rome at the Lord Byron Hotel, and three years in Stockholm, Sweden. He then moved to Daniel's in New York City, working under the direction of Daniel Boulud.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecaterer.com/news/restaurant/profile-stuart-gillies-managing-director-gordon-ramsay-group|title=Profile: Stuart Gillies, managing director, Gordon...|date=17 April 2014|website=The Caterer}} On returning to the UK, he worked at Le Caprice in London. He joined Angela Hartnett as head chef at The Connaught, before opening the Gordon Ramsay-owned Boxwood Café in May 2003. He was chef director at the reopened Savoy Hotel from October 2010,{{cite web|url=http://www.cnntraveller.com/2010/06/28/savoy-hotel-to-re-open-in-london|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929133054/http://www.cnntraveller.com/2010/06/28/savoy-hotel-to-re-open-in-london/|archivedate=29 September 2011|title=Savoy Hotel to re-open in London|publisher=CNN|accessdate= 9 August 2010}} and at Plane Food.

Gillies has appeared on television on GMTV, and as a guest on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. He was chosen to compete in the second series of the Great British Menu in Spring 2007, losing in the south-east England heat to Atul Kochhar. He lives in Chislehurst with his wife and four sons, where has recently opened The Bank House restaurant.