SPEAKERS
Food To Go Summit gathers a panel of expert speakers from the exciting world of food including award-winning retailers and industry specialists.
Gavin Rothwell
Head of FTG & Retail Safaris
IGD
Gavin Rothwell
Head of FTG & Retail Safaris, IGD
Gavin leads IGD's food-to-go programme and has been instrumental in building IGD's knowledge and expertise in this area. He also leads IGD's retail safari programme in Europe. Prior to this he managed Retail Analysis, IGD's global online grocery retail insight service that covers almost 400 retailers worldwide as well as markets, channels and trends. Gavin closely tracks major trends and strategies, across food-to-go, retail and the increasingly blurring ground in between the two. As well as developing insight reports covering food-to-go market evolution for IGD's Retail Analysis service, he also works with clients on a customised basis to help them unlock their growth potential in the food-to-go and retail market, including leading many of them “on safari” around London and other European cities.
Tormond Lier
Director
Deli de Luca
Tormond Lier
Director, Deli de Luca
Tormod Lier started his career in NorgesGruppen in 2005 with responsibility for developing the food and drink concept Fresh, a cooperation between Shell and NorgesGruppen. He served as CEO for Fresh until 2013, when he also became the CEO for Deli de Luca Norway AS and its subsidiaries combining this role for a period of time. In 2015 NorgesGruppen ASA and ESSO Norway AS reached an alliance agreement for operating rights and operational support for 250 ESSO stores across Norway. Tormod Lier then became CEO for both Deli de Luca Norway AS and the 250 ESSO stores from the ESSO subsidiary Tiger AS. The growth of Deli de Luca over the past few years has been fantastic, going from a smaller c-store and delicatessen chain primarily located in the big cities to a country wide concept spanning both city stores and Esso forecourts across Norway. Under his management Deli de Luca Norway AS and Tiger AS has become one of NorgesGruppen’s strategic investments for the future and sure to put convenience retailing on the map in Norway’s largest trading enterprise. Deli de Luca have recently been a finalist in NACS International Convenience Retailer of the year and have also been highlighted Retail & Food To Go Fusion Favorite by IGD.
Noel Smith
Founder & Managing Director
Fresh The Good Food Market
Noel Smith
Founder & Managing Director, Fresh The Good Food Market
Noel Smith is founder and Managing Director of the award winning Fresh the Good Food Market. He has over 25 years’ experience as an independent retailer. In 1990 Noel opened his own newsagents in Clondalkin, Co Dublin. A year or so later he won a public tender to open a newsagents/delicatessen at the train station in Dublin’s Tara Street. Over the next few years he then purchased the lease to the retail outlet at Pearse Street train station and a third convenience store on George’s Quay in 1998. In 2006 Noel established Fresh the Good Food Market in Dublin’s Smithfield and subsequently Grand Canal Square in 2007. A third store was opened late 2007 in Camden St, with IFSC and Stepaside following in 2014 and 2016. The company currently employs over 300 staff. Fresh The Good Food Market is a high quality grocery and delicatessen supermarket group with a distinct product range from around the country and internationally. Their mission is to provide customers with a combination of fresh, quality and authentic food for now and take-home grocery as well as a range of premium wines and craft beers from around the world.
Martin Kelleher
Managing Director
Musgrave
Martin Kelleher
Managing Director, Musgrave
Born in Cork, Martin has held previous roles in Gestetner and KPMG, where he qualified as a chartered accountant. Martin Kelleher joined Musgrave in 1996 and was appointed Managing Director of Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland in October 2010. Prior to his current role Martin held the position of Managing Director of Musgrave Wholesale Partners. Within Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland, Martin has previously served as Consumer Insights Director and Sales Director for both Centra and SuperValu brands, as well as holding roles in trading and finance. Martin has led the strategic development of both SuperValu and Centra brands to become leaders in the markets they operate. SuperValu's differentiation strategy through “Real Food. Real People”, has seen the brand emerge stronger through the recession, to become the best Irish quality retailer. With the Centra brand, Martin has repositioned Centra, by redefining convenience with a new healthy and innovative offering. This includes the creation of new food service brands such as Frank & Honest Coffee, Moo'd Ice-cream and Caramico pizza. Martin's visionary leadership for both brands, will ensure their continued success, but will also make our communities better and healthier places to live.
Maureen Gahan
Foodservice Specialist
Bord Bia
Maureen Gahan
Foodservice Specialist, Bord Bia
Maureen has held responsibility for managing Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Programme since 2009. Her role includes developing relationships with Trade Buyers, identifying potential opportunities for Irish food and drink manufacturers and bringing new insights to the market on an annual basis. Prior to joining Bord Bia, Maureen worked overseas in Paris and Stockholm.
Tom Fender
Managing Director
Bolt Learning
Tom Fender
Managing Director, Bolt Learning
Tom's knowledge of convenience retailing globally is significant, having owned, run, grown and ultimately sold him! research and consulting (a shopper insights business focused on the convenience sector) over a 15 year period. Tom has spoken at over 200 conferences globally - on shopper and shopping trends and how companies can maximise revenues/profits. Since selling him! research and consulting, Tom has invested in a number of businesses. One of them is Bolt Learning - a high-end online training company which is being adopted by convenience chains, wholesale businesses and FMCG companies around the world.
Peter Rigney & Brendan Boyle
Creative & Design Directors
Tap
Peter Rigney & Brendan Boyle
Creative & Design Directors, Tap
Brendan Boyle and Peter Rigney lead the creative team in TAP, designing total retail experiences that are on the pulse of consumer activity and retail culture. With a passion for making real connections with the modern consumer, they empower retail stores to create meaningful stories through brand and spatial design. By keeping up-to-date with worldwide trends, they use a forward-thinking approach to retail and food-to-go, working with clients to craft complete design experiences that change customer perceptions, promote the food offering, motivate sales and build loyalty. TAP work with award-winning stores for national brands like Musgrave Group's Supervalu and Centra to a sector-changing concept for Maxol forecourts, helping clients realise a vision for a more engaging future by managing the design process from creation to execution in store.”
Ross Mooney
Head of Sales - Large Customers Ireland
Ross Mooney
Head of Sales - Large Customers Ireland, Google
Ross is a digital brand evangelist and currently works as Head of Sales across Google's Large Irish Client team. He has been with Google for 6 years and in that time has worked as a strategic brand partner with some of the largest Irish companies operating internationally across the Travel, Finance and CPG & FMCG space. Prior to his current role at Google, Ross spent more than 3 years working alongside leading Hotel suppliers, Tourist Boards and online travel businesses in the UK, Europe and APAC, actively supporting client marketing teams with their strategic objectives, marketing goals, identifying the latest trends in consumer behaviour and technology adoption and aligning marketing strategies accordingly.
Charlotte Waring
Food To Go Category Development Manager
Co-op
Charlotte Waring
Food To Go Category Development Manager, Co-op
Charlotte joined the Co-op last Summer, after working in Category Management for 10 years across the UK and International grocery markets. She is now leading the category development across Food to Go. Her role is focused on making sure that Co-op continues to offer a convenient range that meets the current and future needs of their customers and members.
Brian O'Casey
Managing Director
Offbeat Donut Co
Brian O'Casey
Managing Director, Offbeat Donut Co
We set out on this journey to amplify the fun in what was already a fun product - donuts. We believe that life is about those brief 'Magic Moments', and Offbeat hopes to bring a little magic into our customers' lives everyday by delivering the ultimate donut experience...We put great emphasis in how fresh we make our donuts, our customers can see this by looking directly into our bakery. They'll likely get a smile from our bakers! I believe that our donuts are sublime and from our customers' reaction, this seems to be the case!
Sorcha Kavanagh
National Coordinator
Conscious Cup Campaign
Sorcha Kavanagh
National Coordinator, Conscious Cup Campaign
The Conscious Cup Campaign, was started in late 2016 by a group of concerned individuals who, inspired by similar initiatives of cafes and citizens around the world, are aiming to reduce and eventually eliminate single use cups in Ireland.The campaign is funded by the Regional Waste Management Offices, the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment and supported by VOICE.
Stephanie Johnson
Co-CEO and Co-founder
Pollen + Grace
Stephanie Johnson
Co-CEO and Co-founder, Pollen + Grace
Founded in March 2015 by Stephanie Johnson & Kristina Komlosiova, Pollen + Grace started in a home kitchen as a lunch delivery service with a few local customers. Fast forward 4 years, and we’re now a retail company creating over 10,000 fresh products a week from a range of 17 products. With every product still made by hand by our team of chefs, our aim stays the same: to make free-from, healthy options exciting, appealing and accessible to all.
Shane Kavanagh
CEO
Crussh
Shane Kavanagh
CEO, Crussh
Shane is CEO of Crussh, the UK based healthy food-to-go and juice bar chain. Shane joined the business in 2016 and has redefined the brand around three core pillars of Fit Food, Raw Juice and Smart Coffee. Over recent years Crussh has grown beyond it's core of London's high streets, starting concession partnerships with Everyone Active and in multi-tenant office buildings, signing franchise agreements with SSP and Sodexo, and starting a Food-to-go product supply relationship with WeWork and Sainsbury's. Prior to joining Crussh Shane was Managing Director of Benugo where he worked for 12 years and held various senior roles.
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The Food To Go Summit Starts on 21st May at 9:30am
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