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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Food and Beverage space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
George Hutton
Managing Director of Blue Skies Holdings
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About Blue Skies Holdings: Blue Skies Holdings produces, prepares, and markets fresh-cut fruit and fruit juices to retailers and supermarkets worldwide.
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Abel Campos
Director of Franchising of McDonald’s
Abel was appointed Head of Franchising for McDonald’s UK in October 2016, following a successful 20 year career with the brand spanning Operations and Franchising. He joined the business in 1997, progressing from a local restaurant team to overseeing a number of restaurants as a Consultant in the region. Abel worked in a number of roles throughout the southern region before being promoted to the position of Director of Franchising responsible for ensuring high standards of operational excellence across his group. Abel now heads up the UK franchising strategy and is also responsible for the recruitment of new franchisees.
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About McDonald’s: McDonald’s is a global foodservice retailer generating revenue through company-owned restaurants, franchise royalties, and licensing pacts.
Mark Cooper
Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific of CCL Industries
Mark Cooper is a Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific at CCL Industries.
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About Avery, CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Jamie Robinson
Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe of CCL Industries
Jamie Robinson is a Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe at CCL Industries.
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About CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Claire Hennah
Global Ecommerce Director of Unilever
Claire Hennah is the Global Ecommerce Director – Beauty and Personal Care at Unilever.
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Sunando Das
CMI Director, Predictive Marketing and Shopping Analytics of Unilever
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Mario Dughi
Digital Marketing & Innovations Director, Home Care Category of Unilever
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Emily O’Brien
Global Director of Unilever
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About Unilever, Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Nigel Wray
Non-Executive Director of Domino’s Pizza
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino’s Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors. Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community. Nigel still calls the area home, too – having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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About Domino’s Pizza: Domino’s is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery.
David Thomas
Mars PLM Program Director, Corporate Innovation of Mars
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About Mars: Mars is a manufacturer of pet food, confectionery, and other food products.
Helen Bowey
Retail Director of Rhubarb
Helen has over 20 years’ experience in the food and beverage industry. Since joining rhubarb in 1998, she has overseen a number of different departments, accumulating a wealth of experience in all fields including Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Marketing, Health and Safety, Purchasing and IT. Helen was appointed as a board member in 2003 and was instrumental in the development of Sky Garden, Pilots at Terminal 5 and the recently announced Centre Point project. In her role as Chief Development Officer Helen is responsible for growth within the current portfolio of locations, and new acquisitions both in the UK and Internationally.
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About Rhubarb: Rhubarb is a food company that creates and delivers culinary services.
Chris Hammond
Director of Rhubarb
Chris heads up service, logistics and finance at rhubarb Cranleigh. After meeting Sarah at catering college, he became instrumental to the Cottage Caterers team, managing contracts, perfecting logistics, and just about everything else vital to a seamless service. Today Chris still manages many ground-up aspects of rhubarb Cranleigh events and more recently has taken on much of the administration and strategy involved in developing business at rhubarb Cranleigh.
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About Rhubarb: Rhubarb is a food company that creates and delivers culinary services.
Katie Harel
Director of Marketing of Rhubarb
Katie Harel has over 15 years experience in marketing in luxury hotels, food and beverage in London including The Dorchester and The Lanesborough. Prior to rhubarb Katie was based in Hong Kong where she held senior marketing positions at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and The Langham, before working as director at Mango PR’s first Hong Kong office. Katie joined the rhubarb team in 2014 and quickly implemented a group marketing plan and brand strategy to ensure the rhubarb name is front of mind across the group. In her first year Katie opened the hugely successful Sky Garden, garnering impressive press coverage across national and international titles and quickly building an impressive database. Katie’s team includes the Creative Department who are responsible for ensuring that every rhubarb event and partnership is expertly thought out and creatively considered. Katie works closely with the Director team ensuring the marketing plan equally supports events and locations and that rhubarb maintains its position as a pioneer of the food and events industry.
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About Rhubarb: Rhubarb is a food company that creates and delivers culinary services.
Sarah Hammond
Director of Rhubarb
Sarah has lived and breathed the catering industry from a young age. After training as a chef, Sarah travelled the globe extending her culinary knowledge. On her return to the UK she worked as a chef for several prestigious companies, including Leslie and Godwin, Golladetz and the Hay’s Group. At the same time, Sarah was busy building up the family business, and after her first daughter was born, she started working full-time for Cottage Caterers, now rhubarb Cranleigh. Since then, Sarah has worked tirelessly to grow the company and has been instrumental in building a business that is known for its dedication to quality and taste. Sarah has catered for a diverse range of events, from intimate dinners for ten to spectacular galas and royal occasions for over 1,000 guests. Her wonderful charm and extensive experience make her every bride’s caterer of choice. Today Sarah is director of rhubarb Cranleigh and oversees all aspects of operations, cooking and planning.
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About Rhubarb: Rhubarb is a food company that creates and delivers culinary services.
Ross Mendham
Founder & Managing Director of Bare Naked Foods
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About Bare Naked Foods: Bare Naked Foods sells low carbohydrate, low fat, low calories, gluten free and sugar free products.
Anna C. Catalano
Board of Director of Mead Johnson Nutrition
Ms. Catalano, age 54, joined the Board on July 21, 2006 and currently serves as a member of the Company’s Governance Committee and Compensation Committee. She was Group Vice President, Marketing for BP plc from 2001 to 2003. Prior to that she held various executive positions at BP and Amoco, including Group Vice President, Emerging Markets at BP; Senior Vice President, Sales and Operations at Amoco; and President of Amoco Orient Oil Company. She currently serves on the Board and the Governance Committee of Mead Johnson Nutrition and Chemtura Corporation and the Compensation Committees of Mead Johnson Nutrition, Chemtura Corporation and Kraton Performance Polymers. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Houston Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and serves as a director on the National Board of the Alzheimer’s Association. Ms. Catalano formerly served on the boards of SSL International plc, Hercules Incorporated, Aviva plc and U.S. Dataworks and as an advisory board member of BT Global Services. Ms. Catalano holds a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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About : Mead Johnson Nutrition manufactures and sells infant formula, children’s nutrition, and other nutritional products.
Jane Gibbon
Group HR Director of Just Eat
Jane Gibbon is the HR Director for Just Eat. She has a strong track record of delivering business- focused employee reward, performance management, recognition, mobility, and diversity and inclusion programs internationally. Cross-culturally agile with a global mind-set, Jane has worked in over 50 geographies including her native US, Europe and Asia. Jane’s experience began in the US working for internet pioneers such as AOL, Netscape and Yahoo! With the merger of AOL and Time Warner she started to work extensively in Europe, fuelling her passion for working cross-culturally to optimize outcomes for all parties. She then moved to McDonald’s, where she was the first Reward Director in Europe, building the function from the ground up. During her eight years there, she participated in a highly-selective global leadership program, was the Chairman of the Women’s Leadership Network, and founded the Diversity and Inclusion function in Europe. Skilled at envisioning what is possible and articulating the vision to inspire others to action, she has subsequently served in a variety of HRD roles at Tesco, Starbucks and now at Just Eat, always keeping Inclusion in her remits as they grew. Last year she co-founded ”Lift As You Climb,” a non-profit group designed to create a unique networking space for women across generations to share lessons learned and pass wisdom down on a variety of topics, including mentoring, resilience and career planning.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Kim Ludlow
Managing Director of mySupermarket
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Jamie Crummie
Co-Founder and Director of Too Good To Go
Jamie Crummie is the Co-founder and Director of Too Good To Go.
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About Too Good To Go, Too Good To Go: Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food.
Mark Roberts
Founder & Director of Beer Hawk
Mark Roberts, co-founder of Beer Hawk, the UK’s leading craft beer retailer, is a rare breed of entrepreneur who masters uniting board-level B2C marketing experience with e-commerce and digital innovation. Before embarking on his own entrepreneurial journey, Mark built his commercial and innovation skills at a number of global and blue-chip companies including Direct Wines, Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS and Procter & Gamble. He has led Beer Hawk on a consistent fast-track growth trajectory over the past 7 years from nothing to a turnover of £20million this year. In 2016 Beer Hawk became part of ZX Ventures.
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About Beer Hawk, ZX Ventures: Beer Hawk is a specialist online retailer of bottled beer.
Stephen Finch
Founder and Managing Director of Vagabond Wines
Stephen Finch is the Founder and Director of VAGABOND and BOXCAR
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About BOXCAR, Vagabond Wines: Vagabond Wines is owns and operates wine bars and shops in the United Kingdom.
Stephanie Mathern
Non Executive Director of Vagabond Wines
Stephanie Mathern is the Non Executive Director at Vagabond Wines.
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About Vagabond Wines: Vagabond Wines is owns and operates wine bars and shops in the United Kingdom.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Andrew Jennings
Group Managing Director, Retail of Woolworths Limited
A highly accomplished global retail executive with more than 40 years of achievement at some of the world’s most respected high-end, speciality stores. Recognised for his leadership capabilities and performance-driven management style, Andrew Jennings commands a vast knowledge of consumer trends, vendor networks and retail practices in mature and emerging markets. He has distinguished himself in senior executive positions in six countries and on four continents including Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, The United States, South Africa and Germany.
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About Saks Fifth Avenue, Woolworths Limited: Woolworths is an Australian company that was founded in 1924 in Sydney. When we opened our first store.
Josh White
Co-Founder & Marketing Director of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Jonathan Paul Prentis
Group Finance Director of Booker Group
Jonathan qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte. He was appointed as Group Finance Director of Booker in 2005. Prior to this appointment, Jonathan was Finance Director of Woodward Foodservice Ltd and then Finance Director of Group Logistics within The Big Food Group plc. Prior to 2003, he was with TDG plc.
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About Booker Group: Booker Group plc is the United Kingdom’s largest food wholesale operator offering branded and private-label goods.
David W Garrett
Managing Director of Fane Valley
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About Fane Valley: Fane Valley is a Agri-food industry co-operative involved in the processing of milk, red meat, cereals, potatoes, animal feeds and supplies.
Amelia Harvey
Co-Founder and Director of The Collective Dairy
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About The Collective Dairy: The Collective Dairy Their quest was simple… create an extraordinary yoghurt with an unbeatable taste!.
Tina Kataria
Innovation Platforms and Strategy Director of Coca-Cola Enterprises
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About Coca-Cola Enterprises: Coca-Cola Enterprises is a marketer, producer, and distributor of non-alcoholic drinks.
Steve Webster
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Tails.com
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Duncan Glendinning
Company Director of The Thoughtful Bread Company
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About The Thoughtful Bread Company: The Thoughtful Bread Company is an artisan bakery based in Bath, England, offering hand crafted, earth-friendly bread and bread products.
Stephen Argent
Managing Director of Soupologie
Stephen Argent is a Founder at Soupologie.
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About Soupologie: Soupologie was founded by Master Soupologist, Stephen, who discovered his talent for making soups while cooking for his family.
Max Dubiel
Director and Founder of Redemption Roasters
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About Redemption Roasters: Redemption Roasters is a specialty coffee company.
Ben Hopkinson
Co-founder & Managing Director of Hop King
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About Hop King: Hop King is a dual Beer and Skateboard brand.
Mr. Sufi Miah
Director of ChefOnline
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About : Order Takeaway Food Online or make reservation at your nearest Restaurant via ChefOnline.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Ben Thoy
Non-Executive Director of Whey Box
Ben Thoy is the Sales Manager at Trustpilot.
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About Trustpilot, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Julian Burnham
Managing Director of Change Please
Julian Burnham is the Managing Director of Change Please.
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About Change Please: Change Please is empowering the homeless community by training them as baristas and giving them jobs.
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Director and Co-Founder of Change Please
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About Change Please: Change Please is empowering the homeless community by training them as baristas and giving them jobs.
Andy Yates
Director of Craved
Andy Yates is Director of Craved.
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About Craved, Home Grown, InnovationRCA, New Wave Learning, Wildgoose: Craved curates a collection of small batch food and drink made in London.
Ryan O’Rorke
Non Executive Director of Flavourly
Ryan O’Rorke is Founder at Flavourly.
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About Airbnb, Flavourly, Staff Buddy: Flavourly is the UK’s leading craft beer & spirits discovery club and also operates an eCommerce shop serving all craft alcohol categories.
Rob Shepherd
Director of Bedlam Brewery
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About Bedlam Brewery, International Ambulances, President Energy, Utas Petroleum Services: Bedlam is an environmentally friendly brewery on a farm that encourages zero waste.
Dominic Worrall
Managing Director of Bedlam Brewery
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About Bedlam Brewery: Bedlam is an environmentally friendly brewery on a farm that encourages zero waste.
Jonathan Stefani
Business Development Director & Co-Founder of WeFiFo
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About WeFiFo: WeFiFo connects people that love to cook with people who love to eat.
Tim Chambers
Co-Founder & Director of InspiraFarms
Tim Chambers is the Co-Founder and Director at InspiraFarms.
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About Carbon13, InspiraFarms, Offgrid Finance, Value for Women: InspiraFarms™ supplies modular, FOOD-SAFE certification ready modular processing and cold storage technology.
Darren Callcott
Founder & Director of StreetDots
Darren Callcott is co-founder of StreetDots.
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About CADA Design, StreetDots: StreetDots creates smart street-trading platform.
James Minkin
Owner ,Commercial Director & Founder of Purity Brewing Co
James Minkin is the Founder & NED at Purity Brewing Co.
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About Purity Brewing Co, Purity Brewing Co: Purity Brewing Company is an award winning craft brewery established in 2005.
Lasse Weber
Country Director of Joe & the Juice
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About Joe & the Juice: A Copenhagen-based urban juice bar and coffee chain
Rasmus Andersen
Partner/Director of Joe & the Juice
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About Joe & the Juice: A Copenhagen-based urban juice bar and coffee chain
Bob Park
Director of Central City Brewers + Distillers
Bob co-founded FINCAD in 1990 and is responsible for the overall management of the company. Prior to co-founding FINCAD he worked in the Canadian investment industry in the private client areas of two national firms, Richardson Greenshields and CIBC Wood Gundy, latterly as a vice president. Bob is also a member of the governing council of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance, Canada’s leading hi-tech industry alliance.
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About Central City Brewers + Distillers: Central City Brewers + Distillers is a brewery and distillery company producing craft beer, cider, spirits and ready-to-drink beverages.
Ian Jones
Property Director of The Naked Deli
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About The Naked Deli: THE place to go for Clean, Healthy, nutritious Natural foods, smoothies, GF refined sugar free treats, smoothies and cold pressed juices.
Vincent Efferoth
Co-Founder & Managing Director of NOVELTEA
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About NOVELTEA: NOVELTEA is a premium alcoholic tea blend inspired by globetrotting travels.
Ben Revell
Director of Winebuyers
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About Winebuyers: Winebuyers is an exclusive online wine club with a simple mission.
Kim Gelling
Head of Making Deals (Commercial Director) of Ella’s Kitchen
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About Ella’s Kitchen: Ella’s Kitchen’s mission is to improve children’s lives through developing a healthy relationship with food.
Nivi Jasa
Founder & Director of I AM NUT OK
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About I AM NUT OK: I AM NUT OK develops vegan-friendly alternatives to dairy food.
Andrew Sherick
Founder/Director of SSH Shakes
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About SSH Shakes: SSH Shakes is a luxury milkshake inventor and manufacturer.
Daniel Blignaut
Managing Director of UCook
An articulate and passionate entrepreneur looking to utilise my unique background in management, finance and software engineering by taking on a role that challenges me to innovate business and drive value creation
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About UCook: UCOOK is a food and beverage platform that offers meal kit delivery service.
Solveiga Pakstaite
Founder and Director of Mimica
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About Design By Sol, Mimica: Temperature-sensitive labels and caps that indicate food’s true freshness
Andrew Morgan
Commercial Director of E1 Brew
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About E1 Brew: E1 Brew develops and manufactures alcoholic beers and brand products.
Regina Borda
Managing Director of Pizza Hut
Regina Borda serves as the Managing Director at Pizza Hut in Europe, Canada, and United Kingdom.
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About Pizza Hut: Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise known for Italian-American cuisine including pizza and pasta.
Clair Scott
Finance Director of Wellocks
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About Wellocks: Wellocks provides an online ordering service to all restaurants that need ingredients.
Paul Myall
Head Of Sales and Sales Director of Tugo Food Solutions
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About Tugo Food Solutions: Tugo is an award-winning B2B foodservice company at the cutting edge of food retail.
Andrew Laurillard
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Giggling Squid
Andrew Laurillard is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Giggling Squid.
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About Giggling Squid: Giggling Squid is a Thai food sensation
Shami Radia
Co-Founder | Marketing Director of Eat Grub
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About Eat Grub: Eat Grub source and sell edible insects, host exciting insect food events, and develop delicious new insect recipes.
Tom Nicolson
Founder and Director of The Oxford Artisan Distillery
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About The Oxford Artisan Distillery: The Oxford Artisan Distillery is the very first distillery creating spirits in this ancient city’s long and illustrious history.
Mark Salter
Director of Cooking for Aisha
Mark Salter is the owner of Cooking for aisha limited, the brand behind a range of exotic halal recipes from around the globe. Cooking for aisha’s yummy recipes are created with a wide variety of healthy ingredients, providing health and weaning benefits for your little one. These wonderful ingredients mean that babies also love the taste.
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About : A range of nutritious Stage 2 & Stage 3 baby food pouches – packed full of natural, healthy ingredients for your little one.
Sean Donkin
Managing Director of Inn Collection
With an 18-year career in the hospitality sector, Sean has an outstanding track record in the market. As well as maintaining the high quality, service and facilities for customers that mark out The Inn Collection Group, Sean’s focus is leading the growth and expansion of the company, both within and further afield from its North East heartland. He is responsible for the ongoing operations and investment of the group’s units via the Board. Sean joined the business as general manager of the group’s top-performance unit, The Bamburgh Castle Inn in Seahouses in 2008. A former swimmer, sporting enthusiast Sean enjoys rugby and shooting.
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About Inn Collection: The Inn Collection, a hospitality and pub company, owns and operates a chain of pubs and inns in North England.
Thomas Ogden
Group Commercial Director of Cocogreen
Thomas Ogden and Sudesh Fernando founded Cocogreen in September 2007, since which Thomas has been serving as its commercial director….
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About Cocogreen: Cocogreen® is a leading international brand of speciality coir substrates for edible crops.
Peregrine Jackson
Technical Director of The Friday Beer Co
Peregrine Jackson is the Co-Founder & Director of The Friday Beer Co. He attended University of Hull in 1993.
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About The Friday Beer Co: From the heart of the Malvern Hills in rural Worcestershire, Friday Beer brings you a range of bottle-conditioned ales.
Gerald Williams
Director of The Friday Beer Co
Gerald Williams is the Co-Founder & Director of The Friday Beer Co. He attended Birmingham City University in 1980.
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About The Friday Beer Co: From the heart of the Malvern Hills in rural Worcestershire, Friday Beer brings you a range of bottle-conditioned ales.
Maria Trechman
Co-Founder and Director of Well&Truly
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About Well&Truly: Well&Truly is properly satisfying snacks without any artificial nonsense.
Sara Trechman
Co-Founder and Director of Well&Truly
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About Well&Truly: Well&Truly is properly satisfying snacks without any artificial nonsense.
Dominic Maxwell
Co-Founder & Director of The Primal Pantry
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About The Primal Pantry: The Primal Pantry a real food snack brand, using the finest ingredients to craft snack and and high-protein bars.
Laura Brodie
Vice President/Director of Partnerships and External Relations of International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD)
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About International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD): International Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that addresses harmful drinking and promoting responsible drinking.
Ella Mills
Founder and Brand Director of Deliciously Ella
Ella Mills is the Founder and Brand Director of Deliciously Ella.
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About Deliciously Ella: Deliciously Ella is a food company based in London.
Mamun Rashid
Managing Director of garbanzo Snacks
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About garbanzo Snacks: Chick peas a rich source of fibre, vitamins and minerals provided our chefs with a perfect base to create a range of savoury snacks.
Dean Dempsey
Marketing and Innovations Director of Naturelly Jelly Juice
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About Naturelly Jelly Juice: Naturelly is a fun & fruity juicy jelly snack for active kids.
Meg Haggar
Founder and Director of Raw Halo
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About Raw Halo: Raw Halo is an award-winning raw chocolate brand.
Alistair Williams
Operations Director of Macsween
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About Macsween, StoreHR: Macsween is a family company that offers different kinds of food to customers.
John Burke
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Craft Clubs
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About Craft Clubs: Craft Clubs offers quality food and drink brands a powerful new way to reach consumers, both in their homes and online.
Sam Ochieng
Director Marketing & Distribution of SACOMA
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About SACOMA: SACOMA develops and supplies innovative healthy and FREE FROM snacks.
Perez Ochieng
CEO & Director of SACOMA
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About SACOMA: SACOMA develops and supplies innovative healthy and FREE FROM snacks.
Shaz Shah
Co-Founder and Director of Business Development of Harry Specters
Shaz has 18 years’ experience in the technology sector having worked with multinationals and medium sized companies. He was a founder of a technology company which he built up through partnerships. He later sold his company and stayed as adviser to develop business in the Middle East, Pakistan and USA. He has an MBA degree from Cranfield School of Management and his professional interests include value co-creation through partnerships and collaboration. He likes to mentor people from disadvantaged backgrounds in order to make a positive change in their lives.
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About Harry Specters: Harry Specters is an award-winning premium craft chocolate maker .
Mona Shah
Founder, Chocolatier and Managing Director of Harry Specters
Mona has been working with chocolate as a hobby for the past 20 years and has undertaken professional chocolate making courses at the Callebaut Chocolate Academy. As a chocolatier, she has won twenty-two awards, including the coveted 3 star Gold Great Taste Award. She has a degree in Business and has worked in the NHS mental health service in corporate governance. She is passionate about making a positive change in the lives of people with autism.
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About Harry Specters: Harry Specters is an award-winning premium craft chocolate maker .
Nigel Cave
Development Director of Mademoiselle Desserts
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About Mademoiselle Desserts: Mademoiselle Desserts is manufacturing and supplying high quality, decadent desserts, cakes, slices, tortes, and tarts across UK.
Frans Visser
Group Supply Chain and Purchasing Director of Mademoiselle Desserts
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About Mademoiselle Desserts: Mademoiselle Desserts is manufacturing and supplying high quality, decadent desserts, cakes, slices, tortes, and tarts across UK.
Ann Tysoe
Channel Director of Mademoiselle Desserts
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About Mademoiselle Desserts: Mademoiselle Desserts is manufacturing and supplying high quality, decadent desserts, cakes, slices, tortes, and tarts across UK.
Charlie Thuillier
Founder and Managing Director of Oppo Ice Cream
Charlie Thuillier is the Founder & Managing Director at Oppo Brothers.
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About Oppo Ice Cream: Oppo Ice Cream provides a wide range of ice creams such as madagascan vanilla, mint choc swirl, and salted caramel.
Harry Thuillier
Co-Owner and Managing Director of Oppo Ice Cream
Harry Thuillier is the Co-Owner and Managing Director.
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About Oppo Ice Cream: Oppo Ice Cream provides a wide range of ice creams such as madagascan vanilla, mint choc swirl, and salted caramel.
Derek Stewart
Director of Advanced Plant Growth Centre
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About Advanced Plant Growth Centre: APGC develops science that underpins commercial, economic, and environmental benefits in the agriculture, food, and beverage sectors.
Louise Harris
Co-Founder and Director of Tramshed Tech
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About Tramshed Tech: A space designed to promote collaboration between some of the finest creative businesses in Wales.
Robert Bailes
Managing Director of Dineindulge
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About : A Private Chef Hire Service – Bringing the Restaurant to You
Hilary Masin
Director And Co-Founder of Sgaia’s Vegan Meats
Hilary Masin is a bilingual (Italian and English) and bicultural media, art and design graduate, interested in visual communication and creative writing. Fascinated by European cultural heritage, bookmaking and expanded photography, loves to research and write about things and to work with creative people in stimulating environments, to learn and improve both as a practitioner and as an individual. Passionate about purpose-led communication, specifically in regards to social, environmental and health-related topics and equally interested in food culture. Enthusiastic about nutrition, health and learning about the cultural significance of food in relation to current social systems and environments.
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About Sgaia’s Vegan Meats: Sgaia Foods is at the heart of a new, innovative approach to plant based living and dining.
Alberto Casotto
Business Director of Sgaia’s Vegan Meats
Alberto Casotto is an italian born and bred photographer/videographer, interested in new communication technologies and innovative solutions to customer alienation and lack of enthusiasm arising in modern consumer society. Fascinated by the power of positive thinking and motivation on lifestyle, self-perception and entrepreneurial opportunities; in constant search of creative ways to approach problems, and purpose-led strategies to achieve lifetime goals. A promoter of community spirit and motivation, strongly believes in the power of the individual to initiate and develop self-growth and in the importance of sharing this knowledge within social ventures and contexts that involve cooperation. Enthusiastic about fitness, health and nutrition, as well as Italian food heritage and traditions. His mum makes the best aubergine parmigiana in the Country.
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About Sgaia’s Vegan Meats: Sgaia Foods is at the heart of a new, innovative approach to plant based living and dining.
Jazz Ghosh
Director of The Foodfellas
Jazz has worked in the food industry all of his life and is the creative driving force within The FoodFellas. He is one of the leading people responsible for generating interest in American, Mexican and Tex–Mex cuisine within the UK and European Foodservice market, having worked as an executive chef for some of the leading brands, then as a consultant chef responsible for menu design and for many years as a food supplier. Jazz has created literally hundreds of exciting and innovative products and dishes which are used in restaurants across the UK today.
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About The Foodfellas: The Foodfellas is supplies innovative, authentic, high quality food products from around the world to the foodservice market in the UK.
Tony Levy
Director of The Foodfellas
Tony has spent the last 25 years working in the food industry, having set up or been involved in managing various food manufacturing, importation and distribution businesses. He is involved in all commercial aspects of the business, including sales.
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About The Foodfellas: The Foodfellas is supplies innovative, authentic, high quality food products from around the world to the foodservice market in the UK.
Simon Bernstein
Director of The Foodfellas
Simon is passionate about good food. A trained chef, his entire working career has been spent in food. Prior to forming The FoodFellas, Simon headed up the national accounts team at a leading food wholesaler / distributor, managing the accounts of some leading UK pub and restaurant chains.
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About The Foodfellas: The Foodfellas is supplies innovative, authentic, high quality food products from around the world to the foodservice market in the UK.
Marc Werter
Director of The Foodfellas
Marc has been involved in food importation and distribution for many years, with a leading national importer distributor. He manages the operational and logistics functions of the business and is also involved in all commercial aspects, including sales.
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About The Foodfellas: The Foodfellas is supplies innovative, authentic, high quality food products from around the world to the foodservice market in the UK.
Jon Simon
Managing Director & Founder of Pieminister
Taking Pieminister from humble beginnings into a thriving business has been an incredibly enjoyable journey. With Pieminister’s focus in the UK’s vibrant and competitive fast casual dining sector we have had to think differently and be obsessive over our customers. Together with the rest of a team of very talented people, Pieminsiter has become a highly respected, market leader in high quality pies and a unique restaurant operator with exceptional food and service levels.
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About Good Sixty, Pieminister: Pieminister is a Bristol-based family business known for making award winning pies.
Richard Wilkinson
Director of Doisy & Dam
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About Doisy & Dam: Doisy & Dam makes and package everything by hand in the UK, using globally sourced ingredients and the highest quality organic chocolate.
