Robbie Bargh

Ringmaster, Founder, Chief Storyteller Head Socialist: eating, drinking, merrymaking. Consolidating the business of pleasure with the business of providing it and inventor of the Next Big Thing. Background: Michelin Star restaurants, five-star chain and stand-alone hotels, boutique hotels, high street chains. 15 years+. Former table dancer and Manchester rough boy. Foreground: perfectionist and visionary, cued to industry paradigm shifts. What you want, as you want it, before you want it. Restless lead sprinter (in neon trainers). “I love Champagne, coffee, Indian, Japanese, bread, cheese, Negronis and dark chocolate. Have I left anything out?”

Scott Wittman

Master Illusionist and ID Creator Head Creative: design, advertising, marketing, branding. Background: Arnell Group; Laird + Partners, Select NY. Former farmhand, fashion groupie. Foreground: synthesist of design and commerce in all fields, from food to photography to architecture to couture. “At age 8, growing up in rural Idaho, branding meant cows. I'm extremely good at it.”

Katherine Arnold

Numbers Wrangler, Diplomat, Charm Offensive Head Finance and Operations Officer: competitive market cracking, campaign coordination, trouble-shooting, cross-cultural cohesion. Background: Director of Operations – wine bars, restaurants, cafes, hospitality consultancies. Former bacteriologist and virologist. Laboratory expertise with viral trends. Foreground: Olympic Juggler. Engaging Colleagues. Energising management teams. Discerning delicate situations. Keeping it real and winning the day. “Wife, mother, Director, cooking, wine, hockey, rugby, football, skiing, and in the pool every day by 6am, pounding out laps. Would you please excuse me for a moment?”

Barny Ingram

Training and Project Manager.

Background: ETM Group, Corney & Barrow, Wine and Spirit Education Trust Level 4. Former West End Wendy.

Foreground: singing, dancing, whip-cracking. Encyclopedic, hands-on wine and craft beer brain trust. Cyclist and Lycra fashion victim.

Helen Major

Senior Head of Operations.

Background: every conceivable hospitality venue over 17 years. Corney and Barrow, Jacob Guiness Group. Former Hong Kong bar boss.

Foreground: production overlord and accountability mistress. Swirlist, with an emphasis on red wine. Handbag addict.

Jodie Doyle

Office/Accounts Manager
Background: Sales Ledger; Purchase Ledger; Finance and Management Administration.

Foreground: Processes Streamliner; Responsibility Expert: Invoicing & Payment. Tight hand on the purse strings. Mother of great accomplishment – ballet, football, swimming, museum trails. And the odd disco ..

Julian de Féral

“Silverfingers” Chief Libations Officer: drinks program creation, bar management.

Background: a decade of association with the world's best bars. Former fraudulent concert pianist; 'Hungarian Rhapsody #2' is Mr. dF's signature strain.

Foreground: originality by the glass, to taste it will be to love it. Biblical bartending awareness from the conceptual to the practical. Crack trainer of mixologists and staff. World traveller, tough-love gardener and culinary pretender.

Laura Condon

Mission Controller: research, marketing, press relations and social media.

Background: University of Technology, Sydney. Former Australian.

Foreground: deep future-space cartographer. No trend left unturned – if it's out there, it will be discovered and capitalised upon. Reigning birthday baker. Unapologetically grammatical.

Lucy Davidson

Project Manager, Table-top, Crockery.

Background: family restaurant; Tio Pepe, Madrid.

Foreground: planning and delivery, design and layout, menu strategy, plates and glassware pin-pointer, bread and butter connoisseur. Sarcastic specialist.

Maartje Smolders

“M” Junior Graphic Designer.

Background: world traveller.

Foreground: collateralist – creating GG designs, materials and presentation packages that are unforgivably irresistible to clients. Dutch processed, with golden musical ear.

Maria Elia

Food Concept Creator, Chef Manager

Background: Star. Executive Chef, Joes; Head Chef, Whitechapel Dining Room & Delfina. In the kitchen knocking out the best and bravest with chefs Ferran Adria, Stephen Terry, Juan-Marie Arzk. TV chef; cookbook author. Headline material: The Independent's 'One of the Top Ten Female Chefs To Watch' award. Michelin recommendation for The Whitechapel Dining Room.

Foreground: Innovation. Highly original menus with commercial viability. Expert staff trainer and mentor. Incomparable supplier saavy. Appetite-triggering wordsmith. Media magnet.

Matteo Baldarelli

“Baldaready” Head Designer: graphic design, logo design, draftsman and portraitist.

Background: Aitor Throupe, Involve, Zaha Hadid, Leo Burnett. Recovering weekend appreciator.

Foreground: the Keen Eye for art and design. Graphic craftsman, both handmade and technological. 100% Roman, eater and drinker, cyclist.