They join Kate Nicholls of UKHospitality and Peter Martin of CM & Co in the 2019 Business Day speaker’s line-up, with more names due to be announced ‘imminently’.
CEDA director general, said:“I’m delighted that BJ and Martin will be joining us at Conference to impart their respective knowledge, wit and expertise.
“Over the last few years we have found that the blend of speakers has been crucial in delivering outstanding Business Day content. They will take the audience, momentarily, out of the catering and hospitality industry and give life and business lessons that can be implemented in to businesses across the sector.”
Whilst still a teenager Cunningham started his first enterprise, importing classic cars and Harley Davidsons from LA to London. When the market collapsed, he used his considerable debt to launch DEATH Cigarettes - positioned as ‘The Honest Smoke’ and found himself ‘taking on the combined might of the industry’ in the European Court of Justice.
He set up a brand marketing agency and built a client list including Volkswagen, B&O and Nokia. Having sold the company, he and his wife created and ran the luxury shoe designer Georgina Goodman until its acquisition by venture capitalists.
Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator, and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Literary Review and other national publications.
He spent 15 years as an investment banker in London, Brussels and the Far East - including a spell in Malaysia privatising an airline.
The ceda Conference 2019 takes place at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire on 4th & 5th April. More details can be found here