Bahram Ajodani
Partner & CEO
After obtaining engineering degrees at Strathclyde University, Bahram Ajodani began innovating in 1990 by founding one of the UK’s early meat-free food manufacturing companies, which supplied major supermarkets both domestically and in Europe. Following a successful exit, he worked on cutting-edge food dehydration technology to create the world’s first healthy crisps made purely from fruit and vegetables. With factories in Scotland and Germany, the company won international innovation awards and led Ajodani to a 12-year stint in the USA collaborating with PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, supplying schools and retailers across the country. He exited in 2020 A serial entrepreneur, Bahram continues to work with many businesses as an executive/ non-executive director, chairman and advisor.
John Easton
Partner
After completing a graduate trainee scheme with Grand Metropolitan John embarked on a 35+ year career in the food and drinks industry. He has in-depth expertise across a number of key disciplines to include: general management, operations, technical, product development, sales & customer experience and environment, health & safety. In 2006 he joined R&W Scott, at that time a fully owned subsidiary of Real Good Food plc, an AIMS listed publically traded entity. John, as Managing Director (and laterally Executive Chairman) successfully led a Management Buy Out from the parent company in 2018. Post-completion of a turnaround plan John orchestrated an exit of the business via an EOT in July 2024 John currently has a number of business interests as investor, advisor, consultant and non-executive roles.
Ed Smith
Partner
Ed is a CA with 25 years of international banking experience with JPMorgan and global Food & Agri focused Rabobank. In recent years he has been an active angel investor and advised companies across a range of food & drink sectors, mostly on commercial business development and accessing growth Equity/Debt capital. He brings our clients an international network, rigorous financial insights, practical commercial experience and investor connections.
OUR MISSION
To empower Scottish food and drink businesses by providing practical, real-world, lived advisory services that enhance manufacturing, operations, routes to market, branding, creativity and presence and, ultimately, measurable revenue growth. All the while promoting a vibrant, sustainable and technologically advanced Scottish food and drink industry.
