London, United Kingdom, November 2025 — The Access Group has announced the appointment of Rob Paterson as its new Commercial Director (Hospitality People Suite). In this role, Rob will lead commercial strategy, customer growth, and hospitality people product integration, strengthening Access Group’s workforce and HR technology capabilities for the global hospitality sector.
Rob Paterson most recently served as Head of Hospitality People Suite at The Access Group, where he guided portfolio performance and strengthened product alignment and commercial strategy across hospitality-focused people solutions.
Before this, Rob contributed significantly as Commercial Lead – Rotaready & People at The Access Group, supporting adoption, customer expansion, and the integration of people platforms within the broader Access ecosystem. Prior to that, he served as Head of Sales (Hospitality HCM/WFM), driving sales operations and supporting customers in workforce transformation. He had earlier served as Hospitality Product Specialist (People), contributing to capability building and customer enablement across people-centric product offerings.
Before rejoining Access, Rob gained valuable commercial and industry experience in hospitality technology through leadership roles such as Head of Sales at Kafoodle Limited and Senior Business Development Manager at Kitchen CUT, strengthening his exposure to foodtech, operations and workforce systems.
Earlier in his career, he served as Sales Manager at Harri, and earlier spent several years at Selima (now Access) as Business Development Manager – Hospitality. Rob also gained extensive experience at Fourth, where he served as Senior Relationship Manager – Team Leader and earlier as Relationship Manager, building deep client engagement and hospitality product expertise. He began his commercial journey as National Account Manager at Counter Solutions, gaining foundational experience in client relationships and commercial development in the hospitality technology domain.
About The Access Group
The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers, delivering cloud-based and AI-enabled solutions to more than 160,000 organisations across Europe, the USA and APAC. With a global team of over 8,000 employees, Access empowers businesses to work smarter through integrated, scalable and industry-leading technology solutions. The organisation continues to drive innovation and transformation through deep industry knowledge, exceptional client service and continuous product enhancement.
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