The Hospopreneurs Podcast

Jan 23 2025 181 ep. 39 mins 29
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The Hospopreneurs Podcast explores creativity and innovation in the hospitality industry by interviewing influential people across the food and beverage ecosystem – from agriculture and distilling to retail, entertainment and technology. Host, James Henderson, blends Q&A, anecdotes and other resources into an informative program that educates and inspires. Learn why we do what we do from successful minds behind the business of hospitality.

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180: Ending Single-Use Plastic In Sport and Entertainment Venues with Martin Salter

Jan 23 2025 36 mins  
Martin Salter is the Co-Founder and CEO of social impact enterprise, WOSUP (War On Single Use Plastic) - a business replacing single-use plastic cups in large-scale sport and entertainment venues with reusable and infinitely recyclable aluminium cups. Martin’s media and advertising career has early roots in hospitality with a Swiss hotel management diploma - learnings from which

179: Non-Alcoholic Spirits and Neurodivergence: Seedlip, SEASN and Pollen Projects with Ben Branson

Jan 14 2025 53 mins  
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 gone live, ‘seasn’ - a non-alcoholic cocktail bitters. Br

178: Food Ethics and Frontier with Dr Simon Eassom

Dec 17 2024 47 mins  
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 food economics - and mid-career, worked in various executive roles

177: Pinot Palooza, Festival Innovation and Cheese with Dan Sims

Oct 08 2024 52 mins  
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 in making wine accessible, inclusive, and fun. In this episode,

176: Brunetti, Family and Heritage with Fabio Angele

Sep 18 2024 39 mins  
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 management philosophies, the history of the brand and complexities of working with

175: Korean Fried Chicken and An MBA: Building Gami with Jun Lee

Sep 11 2024 63 mins  
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 in revenue across 38 locations in F23. In the episode, Jun sh

174: Behind Mr Black: Design to Distilling with Tom Baker

Aug 27 2024 47 mins  
Founder of Mr Black Spirits, Tom Baker, joins the program today. Until the brand was acquired by Diageo in 2022, Tom led the business as CEO, alongside Master Distiller, Philip Moore. The bittersweet Australian liqueur’s iconic bottle was created by Tom - a designer by trade - and is now known the world over, with everything still produced at their distillery/roastery just North

173: Making Sense of Customer Data with David Shukri

Aug 01 2024 37 mins  
Making sense of customer data can be unbelievably difficult. Today, David Shukri - Client Service Director at Shopper Intelligence - joins the program to discuss exactly this. With over a decade of experience helping retailers and manufacturers navigate data to innovate, David has found himself focusing his interests on the Australian liquor industry - to distill complexity and nav

172: NON Brings Taste To Temperance with Aaron Trotman

Jul 09 2024 39 mins  
Aaron Trotman - the Founder of zero percent alcohol, alternative-wine brand, NON - joins the program today and shares a window to his philosophy and experience in business. While globetrotting through Europe and Asia with his partner, they noticed that the option to exercise temperance with degustation meals was lacking, sparking the idea for NON - to create a bottled drink that m

171: Sparing No Broccoli Stump with Paul Cooper

Jun 17 2024 38 mins  
Paul Cooper earned an early restaurant education in Australia before hitting his stride in world-class European kitchens - Barcelona’s ABaC, London’s iconic Pied a Terre (under Shane Osborn) and Michel Bras’ acclaimed French restaurant, Bras. Returning home with incredible Michelin-star experience, he has since come to own multiple venues, vineyards and joins the program tod