DJB Food Group founding partner David Burns has devoted his international career to the food industry across manufacturing, wholesaling & retailing, including the food service & hospitality sectors. David has been a key leadership team member for organisations in driving significant financial and cultural transformation. DJB Food Group partners with entrepreneurs, small and medium sized businesses as well as large global organisations based in Australia as well as overseas markets. The most common feedback founding partner David Burns receives from his clients is the assistance he can provide through deep established domestic and international relationships, resulting from 25 years in the food industry, both in Australia and in overseas markets. The fact that David has held senior executive positions with some of the largest organisations in the world as well as starting businesses from the ground up allows David to lead from the front with a strategic but “hands on” style. David’s passion for food started as a young entrepreneurial 12 year old on the south coast of England where he would spend the Summer months catching prawns and selling them to the local fish monger and assisting his late father selling the garden produce at the local Summer markets. David’s applies a holistic approach to growing your business and will build you a winning strategy incorporating; * Crafting Your vision. * Understanding the insights. *Spending the time to understand your target customer, develop your brand & clarify your market positioning. * Product Development– ask yourself what customer need are you fulfilling. * Optimising growth – market segment selection / sales function optimisation. * Transformation facilitation for large corporate organisations. * M&A facilitation * Export & import facilitation. * People strategy including full career life cycle. * Marketing Strategy. * Supply chain efficiency and reducing your financial & reputational risk.