Following a successful 12-year career as a staff journalist with The Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast before becoming Features Editor of London’s The Evening Standard, in 2009 he set up his own business to create and manage events, and IP, that could scale internationally starting with the London Restaurant Festival. In 2016 he launched The National Cookery School Guide.

Simon Davis has also has written and presented over 40 programmes for the BBC and Channel 4 on design, travel and food, including Country House Rescue, Tales From Europe and Gordon Ramsay’s Best Restaurant. A well-connected creative thinker who focuses on business development.

Simon Davis has an MA from Manchester University.

He began his career in advertising, where he became Creative Director of St Luke’s, one of London’s top advertising agencies. In 2002, he became Global Marketing Director at JCB (T/O £2bn). From 2008-2012, he was Marketing Director of Daylesford, the UK’s foremost organic food brand, prior to joining Simon Davis 
in 2013.

Chris Wright has an MA from Cambridge University, and an MBA from INSEAD.