2010: Meet the 2010 Public Sector Catering ‘Most Influential’

31st December 2010, 11:33am

David Russell, Russell Partnership, Olympic catering consultant and member of the London Olympic Committee Organising Group (LOCOG). His advice is shaping catering policy for the 2012 Games

Fergus Chambers, chief executive of Cordia, which delivers school and civic catering for Glasgow City Council. Tireless champion of the need to mix realism with principle when attempting to influence children's eating habits

Ken Campbell, keeps busy as chair of the Scottish school catering association ASSIST, a board member of the Local Authority Caterers' Association (LACA) and catering services manager with Amey Business Services

Sandra Russell, in her second term as chair of LACA, she has been a key figure in organising its successful annual conference and combines this with her role as head of catering with Warwickshire County Caterers

Al Crisci, catering manager at HMP High Down, who had the idea of setting up a restaurant within a prison to give inmates working in the kitchen the most authentic work experience. The Clink! Project is now up and Running

Jan Matthews, head of catering, cleaning and waste services at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, says she's grabbing the chance "to use the transformational power of the Games to celebrate and promote the variety and quality of British Regional food"

Mike Pearson, head of hotel services at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, who's worked hard to help set up the Cornwall Food Production Unit that aims to source regional food to help local suppliers and his patients

Jeremy Rigby, team leader of Defence Food Services and responsible for a £175m food contract, spending £83m on operational feeding and the supply of 3m rations annually to British service personnel

Louis Levy is head of nutrition policy and advice at the Food Standards Agency with a major responsibility for providing advice and explanations of nutrition science to Government departments, NGO's and consumers

Brian Wisdom is chief executive of People 1st, the sector skills council for the hospitality industry. He has held this position since November 2004 and helped drive the company's work to build a skilled and well trained workforce for the catering industry

Kevan Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Caterers' Association (HCA) and hotel services manager of Frimley Park Hospital, has led the organization in helping members cope with staffing and budget cutbacks

Darren Byford, business development director responsible for food at Pro5, a consortium of five buying organisations that use their £2bn annual buying power to help local authorities in England and Wales

Jamie Oliver, the still relatively young TV chef has very successfully taken on the unfashionable causes of school meals and giving troubled young people a second chance in the hospitality workplace

Mark Hill, executive chef at the House of Commons, has risen to the challenge of putting the best of British culinary skill and produce in the nation's shop window at Westminster

Derek Johnson, chairman of the National Association of Care Catering (NACC) and Principal Catering Manager for the Community Meals Service at Leeds City Council, has overseen a number of significant care catering initiatives from the national organisation

Richard McGloin is managing director of TUCO Ltd, which was formed in May from the merger of The University Caterers' Organisation with the university procurement organization SNUPI to combine their buying power to gain extra leverage with suppliers

Geoff Booth is Westminster Kingsway College centre director for Hospitality, Leisure & Tourism and chairman of PACE (Professional Association of Catering Education), both roles which channel his energies into training the caterers of tomorrow

Tony Byrne is business director of Chartwells, the education catering arm of Compass UK, and is responsible for feeding pupils at 1,500 state primary schools, 500 state secondaries and more than 100 independent schools, not to mention students at 87 colleges and 30 universities

Edward Griffiths, deputy master of the Royal Household Monarchy, is the Queen's de facto head of hospitality and therefore responsible for everything from the smooth-running of state banquets for visiting heads of state to the sandwiches at every palace garden party

Richard Sprenger is an environmental health officer who has specialised in food safety. Through his work with Highfield Publications, of which he is now chairman, he has been responsible for training thousands of public sector caterers through training manuals, courses and e-learning