Jan 15, 2025
Ben Branson founded the world’s first and best-selling distilled non-alcoholic spirit, Seedlip. Since completing the sale of the business to Diageo in 2019, he has maintained an interest in the growing non-alc industry, recently launching Pollen Projects - an independent venture studio. Their founding project has just...
Dec 18, 2024
Dr Simon Eassom is an experienced leader, business executive and strategic thinker and today, joins me as the CEO and Executive Director of Food Frontier.
Simon has had a distinguished multidisciplinary career as a university professor with a PhD in applied ethics, freelance investigative journalist - on health and...
Oct 9, 2024
Dan Sims, award-winning sommelier and CEO of Revel - the brand behind Pinot Palooza and Mould Cheese Festival - joins the program today.
From his early days working in some of Melbourne’s top restaurants to creating international wine and cheese events across 14 cities and 6 countries, Dan has been a driving force...
Sep 18, 2024
Fabio Angele - owner and director of iconic Melbourne institution, Brunetti Classico - joins the program today. Drawing on 50 years of hospitality experience learned under his father's mentorship, Fabio rises at 1:30am everyday to oversee operations.
We explore why he does that, look at some of his...
Sep 12, 2024
Jun Lee is the founder of Korean Fried Chicken QSR, Gami Chicken and Beer. Leveraging a career in sales and strategy with multinational giants like Samsung SDS and BMC Software, Jun rekindled an old promise to his undergraduate mates after completing his MBA to form Gami - a business that reported to earn AUD 52 million...