ABOUT US
The perfect pairing starts with the right ingredients.
Lauren Lacava and Mark Wright are the ideal combination of hospitality operations knowledge and sales and marketing expertise.
As business partners, we share one vision – to create the best possible food and beverage solutions fit for Australia’s most interesting and exciting venues.
With hands-on management experience running large catering business and venues, our collective management experience includes hands-on involvement of more than 3,000 major events.
Together, our combined CV reflects connections to high-profile stadia, arenas and other leading international venues.
It’s an impressive brand portfolio that includes iconic sporting venues, entertainment venues, convention centres, function centres, galleries, museums and world-class major events.
Trust matters - and with Lauren and Mark’s proven history of executive responsibility, covering all financial, commercial and operational disciplines, you have the peace of mind that comes from dealing with hospitality industry experts.
Industry-wide recognition of our skills and respect for our impressive individual reputations boost our potential to help your business grow - together.
Perfectly Paired.
Because better business doesn’t happen alone.
YOUR TEAM
MARK WRIGHT
Principal Consultant - Operations & Commercial
After 25 years in the food, beverage and events space and hands-on experience managing many thousands of events, Mark’s status as a highly-respected hospitality specialist is hard to beat.
As a former Executive Chef and General Manager with the world’s largest catering companies, (including Sodexho, Compass Group UK & Ireland), AEG Ogden and Melbourne Stadiums Limited, Mark has played a significant role in the progress and success of catering at many top venues that include Twickenham (London), Millennium Stadium (Cardiff), Aviva Stadium (Dublin), Allphones Arena (Sydney) and Etihad Stadium (Melbourne), where he was also responsible for the membership of the prestigious Medallion Club, Diamond Club and Corporate Suites - three of the most premium membership products in Australia. In addition to Mark’s venue duties, he has also taken on responsibility for numerous new stadia builds at Twickenham, The Oval, Edgbaston, Ricoh Arena, and Aviva Stadium, as well as one-off events that include the G20 Summit, 2006 Asian Games and European Open Golf.
Mark is a world-renowned hospitality specialist consulting venues on catering operations and environmental solutions. He has built a solid reputation for delivering outcomes, engaging a wide range of stakeholders at all levels, with a process-driven approach from creation and development to implementation. His breadth of expertise covers all aspects of the venue catering business. This includes working with architects, builders and designers on layout and design of kitchens, public retail outlets, restaurants, as well as honing skills as a master negotiator of supplier agreements across all food and beverage products, design, costing and pricing of menus, interface with venue operators and sponsors to deliver their rights, all event operations, staff training, health, safety and hygiene control and financial management.
LAUREN LACAVA
Principal Consultant -
Sales & Marketing
Lauren Lacava has 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and management at some of Australia’s most successful catering, hospitality and event organisations and venues.
As a hands-on General Manager and Sales and Marketing Manager for a diverse range of venues and catering companies, she has refined superior skills in sales and marketing strategy, strategic planning and business development – supported by the academic knowledge of her Masters Degree in Business Marketing. Lauren’s appetite for the catering industry has seen her work closely with a variety of caterers from boutique operators through to the world’s largest catering businesses in addition to selling and marketing hospitality and events at some of Australia’s most exciting major events including Spring Racing Carnival and Caulfield Cup Carnival.
Lauren has worked closely with all manner of venues – from boutique wineries and wedding receptions venues through to large sporting venues and iconic landmark venues such as Melbourne Museum, Royal Exhibition Building and National Gallery of Victoria.
In recent years, Lauren has carved out a reputation as a sought-after consultant for Australia’s best venues and her passionate vision to help hospitality and events businesses become bigger and better inspires her to create and implement streamlined sales and marketing strategies that deliver measurable results.