3-4 Jun 2024
ICC SYDNEY, DARLING HARBOUR

Business Pods

The Business Pods, located on the show floor, allow visitors to book one-on-one appointments with our hand-selected specialists. Bookings are essential!

Date TBC
ICC Sydney
FREE

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to grow your business with the help of industry experts at the Naturally Good Expo!

Due to overwhelming demand in 2023, we’re excited to announce that the Naturally Good Business Pods will return in 2024. Book one-on-one appointments with our hand-selected experts. Whether you’re looking for guidance on marketing strategies, sourcing suppliers, or scaling your business, our experts have the experience and knowledge to help you take your business to the next level. 

2024 experts to be announced.

Check who our 2023 experts were…

Going Global Specialist

Peter Lynar, Country Manager For Australia & NZ Payoneer

With over 15 years in the financial services & international payments space, Peter’s experience includes extensive business development in Australia, the U.S. and UK. At Payoneer, he’s responsible for all aspects of Payoneer’s customers and growth across Australia & New Zealand.

Prior to joining Payoneer in 2020, Peter oversaw WorldFirst’s global sales operations. With OFX, he led the FP&A team and helped take the company public on the ASX. In both past roles, he was actively involved in the transformation of digital payments and commerce at a global scale. Being passionate about SMBs & financial inclusion, he pushed to build partnerships with global merchants, fintechs, banks and digital wallets.

Manufacturing Nuts & Bolts Specialist

Brian Nasr, Founder of

Brian Nasr found the traditional Contract Manufacturing landscape too painful for his own startup food business to navigate so he decided to change it!

High MOQ’s, outdated processes, too much red tape and no room for collaboration led him to create Healthy Food Crew – a contract manufacturing venture that makes the entire process of getting your product to market as seamless, pain free and easy as possible.

Manufacturing should be about collaboration, education and innovation – small business needs speed to market, flexibility and people who can help bring their vision to life, and that is exactly what Brian and his team are driven to do.

Packaging Design Specialist

John Chan, Managing Director at Berge Farrell APAC

 

John has well over a decade of deep passion and expertise for the FMCG / CPG industry. This has been honed from his prior roles in marketing, strategy, sales and trade marketing at SABMiller where amongst others, he worked on one of the world’s Top 25 most valuable beer brands, and in in his current role as Managing Director of a global brand design agency. With an enviable specialism in packaging and below the line support material, they have worked across nearly every FMCG / CPG category, with brands from start-up to global icons.

Business Scale Up Specialist – Booked Out!

 

Chelsea Ford is a highly regarded and award winning collaboration and business growth expert, coach and mentor. Chelsea helps foodpreneurs realise their dreams. Chelsea is the founder of the powerful and purposeful network, Females in Food®, the impactful Foodpreneurs Festival and creator of the Foodpreneurs Formula coaching program for women scaling packaged food and drink brands.

David Burns, Founder at DJB Food Group

 

David is a well known food industry entrepreneur who has partnered with many well known food businesses to create new products and brands to supply into retail. Throughout 2022 David has also helped achieve in excess of $50 mil in retail revenue for the brands he has partnered with through sales, marketing and distribution strategies. David partners with people with an idea, start ups, SME’s as well as large enterprises and multinationals.

 

A naturopath, nutritionist and herbalist, Jacqueline is passionate about health and wellness, and making the healthiest and most nutritious foods and sustainable eco products accessible to everyone! Jacqueline transformed the health space under the banner of Ritchies Healthy Living in the company’s independent supermarkets over nine years ago. Healthy Living has grown consistently over the years to the thriving all-encompassing and comprehensive health offering we see in store today.

Amaury Treguer, Co-Founder of Bread Agency

 

With over 15 years of marcomms experience, Amaury is now focusing his efforts on creating and implementing social and digital strategies for clients such as Netflix, Universal Pictures, Sony, Toyota, BIG W, WooliesX, Specsavers, P&G, NIVEA, J&J, SunRice, Kellogg’s, Nestle, FedEx, Electrolux, DNSW, Expedia, P&O Cruises, Cancer Council and Novartis.

Mary Proulx, Co-Founder of Bread Agency

 

Mary has established herself as a go-to expert for some of the world’s best known brands seeking to deliver innovative social media and influencer marketing programs.

She has worked as the strategic social lead in Content Marketing, Social Media and Influencer Marketing agencies across both Canada and Australia, with brands including, Toyota, The Body Shop, Amazon, Beiersdorf (NIVEA and Elastoplast), Virgin Australia, Australian Lamb and SunRice.

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