Get to know us
Meet our Senior Leadership Team
Adam Starkey
Group Chair & CIO
Adam founded the business 30 years ago with a grant from the Prince of Wales trust. Adam is a futurist speaker, and a factory process expert.​
Mike Hanley
CEO
Mike joined the business 5 years ago, and came from a corporate background, including CSM, ASDA & Premier Foods. Mike fosters a trust based empowered culture, centred around high performance, having aligned the business to a vision, mission and a refreshed strategy for growth.​
Robin Bussey
CFO
Robin joined the business in March 2020 and worked with Mike to steer the business through the Pandemic, achieving a positive net profit & balance sheet movement every year. Robin is ex-GE and has PE experience.​
Estefania Di Cuffa
Managing Director​ - Education
Estefania is a commercially driven leader with a proven track record in growing food businesses, building strategic partnerships, and delivering results. Este leads our Education business with a clear focus on commercial growth, operational excellence, and purpose-led performance.
Caroline Barnes
Director of People
& Performance​
Caroline joined us from Mothercare and has been instrumental in organisational design to meet the vision. Engagement consistently ranks at 90% and the business has been awarded Great Place to Work, Best for Women and Best for Well Being.​
Dom Pelling
Culinary Director
Dom has a passion for product development he has created concepts across all our channels with specific knowledge of foodservice and travel. Dom also heads up sustainability and instrumental in gaining B –Corp certification for the business.​
Heather Savory
Head of Quality & Product
Heather joined the Green Gourmet Team in 2024 and brings with her a passion for safe and quality food. She has extensive technical experience working across lots of different products in both the northern and southern hemispheres!
Vision
Making a difference to people and planet through food.
Mission
To be the best at food innovation, most responsive, most creative and most trusted
Committed to change
Green Gourmet has set the bar high with board objectives that are ambitious and game-changing.
Every day we ensure we align with these commitments, challenging the norm to deliver these important targets that not only improve the business but in turn help people and our planet.
People
Be a great place to work for our employees and reduce child food poverty by donating 2000kg of food to Fareshare, 250kg of food to local charities by June 2023, and supporting our customers to deliver breakfast clubs and holiday feeding programs.
Profit
Deliver net profit targets through our key channels of foodservice, travel and retail to fund people and planet objectives.
VIEW OUR 2021/2022 IMPACT REPORT
Planet
Become a sustainable business, certified by B-Corp. Remove plastic packaging from all our products by 2023 and work to reduce emissions across our business, offsetting all scope 1 and 2 emissions as a minimum.
