CPG Bridge Partners is a North American food industry commercial representation and business development firm specializing in private label, branded products, and market expansion. We connect food manufacturers, importers, and suppliers with retail opportunities across Canada and the United States, providing hands-on support from market strategy and customer targeting through retailer engagement and commercialization. With extensive experience across major North American grocery, mass, club, and discount retailers, CPG Bridge Partners helps suppliers navigate the market, build the right retail relationships, and turn opportunities into sustainable business.

Founder Authority Advisory works with founder-led premium consumer product brands generating $300K–$2M in annual revenue, typically with 3–30 employees and 3–15 years in business, selling through e-commerce, wholesale, or both. Through Strategic Constraint Mapping™, we identify and prioritize the strategic, operational, positioning, and leadership constraints limiting growth—so founders know what to address next and in what order.

I partner with founders and leadership teams at growing CPG and food & beverage businesses to build the finance and accounting infrastructure needed to scale. I’ve sat in the CFO seat across multiple high-growth companies, helping businesses navigate growth from roughly $15M to $150M+ in revenue. My work spans financial strategy, forecasting and modeling, accounting and reporting infrastructure, cash and working capital management, COGS and margin optimization, KPI development, and decision support for founders, boards, and investors. At Little Spoon, I built the Finance & Accounting function from the ground up as the business scaled from approximately $15M to $200M+ in revenue and led the financial and operational work behind the largest food & beverage launch in Target history. I’m most useful when a business has outgrown basic bookkeeping or accounting support but doesn’t yet need—or isn’t ready for—a full-time CFO. I can help build the systems, reporting, processes, and financial discipline required for the next stage of growth while remaining hands-on enough to get into the details when needed. I’ve worked across multiple industries, with particularly deep experience in high-growth consumer and CPG businesses. My focus is always the same: give leadership better visibility into the economics of the business, improve profitability and cash management, and create a finance function that helps the company make faster, better decisions.

Billy Dietz is co-founder of BDH Consultants, where he leads tea and beverage sourcing and product development for brands and co-packers across teabag, loose leaf, powder, and RTD formats. He brings over twenty years in the industry, starting at seventeen when he became the youngest Certified Tea Specialist in North America through the Specialty Tea Institute, later becoming a certified STI instructor. He continued his education with McCormick FONA and the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe. Nine years leading R&D at DAVIDsTEA gave him the technical depth to take clients from concept to shelf-ready product, on budget and matched to format. He's since worked with tea and beverage brands to build supplier networks, develop new product lines, and bring blends to market, work he distills in his 2023 book Spill the Tea: Unveiling the Mysteries of Blended, Flavored, and Herbal Teas, and in his Substack newsletter, Steep Insights.

Texave International is a Canadian food safety, quality, and regulatory consulting company helping food and beverage businesses navigate regulatory compliance, import and export requirements, and global market access. We support businesses with CFIA and Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) compliance, import and export readiness, Preventive Control Plans (PCPs), licensing, traceability and recall systems, food safety and quality programs, product development, and audit and inspection readiness. Whether importing products into Canada, exporting Canadian products to international markets, or building compliant operations for global growth, Texave translates complex regulatory and technical requirements into practical, implementation-ready solutions. Our science-backed approach helps businesses reduce compliance risk, strengthen their systems, develop market-ready products, and confidently access new markets.

I work with food and beverage businesses to solve complex commercial and operational challenges with a practical, operator-led approach. My background spans executive leadership, corporate strategy, banking, and entrepreneurship, giving me a unique perspective on how to build, scale, and strengthen businesses in competitive markets. As President of a rapidly growing commercial bakery, I helped scale operations across North America, supporting significant revenue growth, expanding retail partnerships, and leading a team of more than 100 employees. Through Parkway Food Group, I now advise manufacturers, distributors, and emerging brands on growth strategy, sales execution, retailer relationships, procurement optimization, operational improvement, and market expansion. I understand the realities business owners face because I have lived them: margin pressure, customer concentration, operational bottlenecks, staffing challenges, and the constant need to grow while managing risk. My focus is not theoretical consulting. It is building practical solutions that drive measurable outcomes. Whether supporting a founder navigating growth, a manufacturer entering new channels, or an ownership group evaluating acquisitions and strategy, I bring a hands-on approach rooted in accountability, execution, and long-term partnership. I believe the best advisors combine strategy with the ability to get things done.

I'm a fractional leader and advisor helping CPG brands scale smarter by building foundational strategy, simplicity & connections in the natural products space. I help brands by simplifying planning complexity, strengthening partnerships, and connecting operations, finance, and sales into a unified, growth-ready strategy. Supporting brands in fractional, project-based, or advisory roles, improving supply chain, operations and procurement processes from strategy to tactical execution, helping founders reduce complexity, protect margin, and scale confidently. As a Supply Chain, Operations & Procurement leader with 25+ years in CPG, I help growing food and beverage brands turn challenges into opportunities—guiding them from strategic planning to tactical execution. Leveraging my network of supplier relationships and deep knowledge of systems, I help brands improve efficiency, flexibility, and visibility while protecting margin and enabling sustainable growth.

We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.

I've spent 30 years in the protein procurement industry, most recently directing protein strategy for HelloFresh's US operations - managing $500M+ in annual spend across beef, poultry, pork, and seafood. Before that, I led purchasing and sourcing at D'Artagnan and spent over a decade in commodity procurement at AVA Pork. My career has been defined by building procurement functions that deliver measurable results: exceeding cost savings targets by 2x, maintaining zero service disruptions through COVID-19, ASF, and HPAI outbreaks, and developing proprietary models that generated $900K+ in COGS savings within six months. Today I run HighLine Consulting Group, where I help food companies with protein procurement strategy, market analysis, and go-to-market advisory. I'm also selectively exploring leadership opportunities where I can apply my expertise at scale.

I am a sub-Saharan Africa specialist with 20+ years of experience working with Africans across the continent. I have worked in grassroots NGOs, academia, government, the UN, think tanks, NGOs, and, now, the private sector. ATD works with companies to solve problems ranging from getting government approvals to improving your operations or linking you with the latest African tech.

I provide a comprehensive consulting approach for food businesses navigating the complexities of international trade and large-scale manufacturing. My expertise lies in aligning high-level Global Regulatory Strategy with ground-level Process Excellence, ensuring that food safety protocols are both scientifically sound and financially sustainable. With extensive experience in North American and international food laws - including SFCR, FSMA, FSANZ, and EU standards - I help organizations secure global market access through rigorous label validation, export documentation, and supplier risk management. My core services include: - Multijurisdictional Compliance: Navigating CFIA and FDA requirements, including Foreign Supplier Verification (FSVP) and Preventive Control Plans (PCP). - Finance & Risk Management: Balancing quality requirements with budgetary constraints and implementing cost-effective testing and supply chain verification strategies. - Training & Auditing: Delivering technical workforce training in GMPs, HACCP, and Food Defense, while leading successful GFSI-level audit executions (BRCGS, CanadaGAP, SQF, FSSC22000). By integrating technical food safety with operational oversight, I help clients build resilient systems that reduce risk and protect brand integrity in a competitive global marketplace.

Playing in the diabetic-friendly space of low glycemic foods, we consult for firms in need of support to bring their ideas to their retailers. We deal with complex commercializations to deliver low waste processes for our customers.