About Our Founders
Mark Wixted with their brother founded Local Food and More, Schools & Co along with Wixted Catering and Innovation an event-based catering company with a food innovation consultancy offering that has become one of the fastest-growing food businesses in the Northern Territory region from School Catering, Retail Brands to Film & TV to the largest public event caters.
Greg Wixted. Award-winning global food tech FMCG & food entrepreneur, brand & and product innovator, food start-up & and venture architect, and part-time academic with over 25 years of management and leadership experience, he trained as a pastry chef under Marco Pierre White and did a baking apprenticeship from the age of 16
EXPERIENCE IN 60 SECONDS
Grew and sold my first restaurant venture at 26, spent 20 years at leading global Advertising, Brand, Digital, and food innovation firms in leadership roles, and managed over $100m in revenue> .unleashed a Brand Innovation process “Rapid Entrepreneurial Innovation” to help food companies rapidly create & test, on-trend, F2M ideas, with the quickest up and running in 8 days at the start of Covid 19, I have a total of 8 start-ups under my belt, ventured 6 food brands and created over 50 food and hospitality products, brands and services. Am a professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina, now a cookery book writer, and on my 3rd baking book!