Will Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hawksmoor. Having set up the first restaurant in 2006 with best friend Huw Gott, the pair have grown the business into one of the most admired restaurant brands in the UK. With restaurants across the UK and in Dublin, Chicago and New York, Hawksmoor has a reputation as one of the best steak restaurants in the world. Hawksmoor has been ranked amongst the best companies to work for by Best Companies for 13 years in a row, and amongst the most sustainable restaurant groups by the Sustainable Restaurant Association for 15 years in a row. Hawksmoor is a carbon neutral company and a certified B Corporation. Will is also Chairman of Rockfish, another sustainability-focussed restaurant group in the South West of England, is on the City Harvest Food Council, and has previously been a founding trustee of A Good Dinner, a charity he helped set up, and a member of the Hospitality Sector Council, a collaboration between government and the hospitality 
sector.