Julio Ruiz

Accounts assistant

Julio is based in Mexico and joined Mallory’s Accounts team in 2024, bringing prior experience supporting American Homeowners Association management companies remotely. He holds degrees in Accounting, Emergency Medical Technician, and Culinary Arts. At Mallory, Julio is responsible for preparing financial statements for MIE customers, processing payments to select suppliers, and customers. Outside of work, Julio enjoys painting and building miniatures, playing board games and video games, and cooking for friends and family.

Haydn Mullineux

Head of sales - Academic

Haydn worked first within the tenders team and now heads the academic sales division. Prior to that he spent several years living in Berlin working within publishing and is fluent in German.

Gervas Ifunya

Representative

Gervas Ifunya has been handling the operations for Mallory in Tanzania for many years and was appointed representative in April 2016.

Alisa Ruiz

International account manager

Alisa is working with Spanish schools customers. She lives in Mexico where previously she worked as an English teacher. She has also worked as a maintenance coordinator for an American company among many other things. She enjoys travelling, cycling, and crafting.

Julian Hardinge

Chairman

Julian has been involved in export bookselling and educational supply for over 40 years, and has chaired both the export and the college and university groups of the Booksellers Association. He has been chairman of Batch.co.uk, the UK book trade’s payment allocation and clearing system. He has sat on the knowledge and information advisory committee of the British Council, was a director of Book Tokens Ltd for 20 years, and was for some years the bookselling representative on the international board of the UK Publishers Association. He is honorary vice-president for life of the Booksellers Association.

Magali Savoye

Director

Magali joined Mallory in September 2013 as a sales coordinator after completing her business enterprise degree from Plymouth University and is now heading Mallory’s School’s team. In addition, Magali looks after customers in both anglophone and francophone countries such as : Zambia, Burundi and Switzerland.

Kirsten Dolby

Administrative manager

Kirsten plays a significant role in the accounts and admin department. Born and raised in Oxford, she now lives in the seaside resort that is Teignmouth where she enjoys up-cycling furniture and running competitively in her spare time.

Jordan Hockings

Warehouse operative

Jordan is a warehouse operative who processes goods into the warehouse and prepares the goods to be shipped. In his spare time, Jordan follows Manchester United FC and enjoys watching Formula 1.

Alice Kanyamuneza

Representative

Alice has represented Mallory International in Burundi since May 2021.

Paulo Guerreiro

Representative

Paulo Guerreiro has been appointed Mallory International’s representative. He has been a bookseller for 24 years, and for the last 20 in Mozambique. Since 2011, he has been the managing Partner of Livrarias Conhecimento, one of the 3 major bookshops in Mozambique, which supplies schools and universities all over the country.

Sophie Hardinge

Managing director

Sophie brings hands-on experience from across Africa, having worked as a director and project manager for an NGO in southeast Madagascar. Back in the UK, she’s led a range of projects in the charity sector, focusing on homelessness and disability support. At Mallory, Sophie shapes and steers strategy, keeping one eye on the big picture and the other on getting things done. She spent her 20s travelling the globe in search of adventure. These days, she’s happiest walking the coastal path or hanging out with her two boys.

Arthur Barigye Mugunga

Representative

Arthur is the Mallory representative in Rwanda. He has helped us tender for a number of tertiary projects, with significant success.

Irene Inan

Representative

Irene Inan has assisted and coordinated our South African activities for Malawi tenders since 2012. She has further been involved in growing Mallory’s footprint in Lesotho and Swaziland. This lead to our formalisation of the partnership to work with her in 2018.

Dipika Kulkarni

Digital sales and support manager

Dipika handles the digital sales for all the Mallory customers globally. Dipika received her MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Prior to joining Mallory, she worked in digital sales and marketing for over four years. On a personal side, Dipika is a cooking enthusiast, loves crafting and travelling.

Sarah Sassuna

Representative

Sarah Nassuna and Moses Mutumba have helped us to develop the Ugandan market into one of our best. The range of customers is very wide, from leading tertiary institutions to specialist and educational projects.