Owners
Heather Spence
- Started professional life as a dietitian in hospital food service management;
- Gained a doctorate in food service management (Kansas);
- Taught food service management at the University of Otago;
- Moved from the relative comfort of managing hospital nutrition and food services into Food Management (NZ) Ltd;
- Contributes to New Zealand's post-graduate dietetic education programme;
- Is an external examiner for the University of Otago's degree and post-graduate food service courses;
- Gets work-life balance from interests in organic gardening, herbal preparations and other green activities.
Mike Drake
- Graduated in Electrical Engineering, Leeds Polytechnic;
- Began his career in real-time computer software, and project management in the UK defence industry, moved to Switzerland, South Africa and finally New Zealand;
- Worked on aircraft automatic test equipment, and was a software team leader in one of the first applications of digital control (using the first 16bit microprocessor) of jet engines;
- Also worked in the telecommunications industry, ranging from telex (remember telexes?) to digital microwave systems;
- Primary involvement in Food Management is development of systems for in-house and client use;
- Gets work-life balance through tramping and mountaineering, with a little running and biking;
- Is building a house in his spare time, to go with the alternative energy system he designed and built to power house and office.
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