John Stapleton Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, London, Gb

Redesdale is the only venture capital fund dedicated to the early-stage Irish food and drink sector. John is a founding partner and a member of the Investment Committee

London, Gb

Mission Ventures is helping transform the food industry by building better challenger brands. Working in partnership with corporate and fund partners, Mission Ventures support innovative challenger brands in achieving their ambitions for growth and, ultimately exit. Led by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs with over 75 years combined industry experience and exits valued at over £50 million from brands personally founded, Mission Ventures has been the UK's leading accelerator for food and drink brands since 2015.

Fischer Farms is an innovative vertical farming business providing nutritious and fresh bagged salads in a revolutionary sustainable way. John is Chairman.

London, Gb

Insane Grain is a brand of unique, delicious, nutritious bagged snacks that are good for you and good for the planet. John is an investor.

London, England, Gb

Nix & Kix is a natural, low calorie, sugar-free vegan adult soft drink brand with a cayenne kick. John is an investor director.

London, England, Gb

Spoon produce a range of healthy, simple and tasty alternative breakfast options. John is an investor.

London, Gb

Kaleidoscope Investments help entrepreneurs with disabilities to realise their dream of running and growing their own business. Ki provides on-going help, expertise and investment throughout the duration of the business life-cycle, nurturing and encouraging ideas in order to best achieve lasting commercial success. John is a member of the KI Investment Committee and is a founder-mentor.

London, England, Gb

DIAL Global is a cross-industry global network of business leaders who exist to move the dial on diversity, inclusion and belonging. DIAL Global is a network of C-suite, senior executives, D&I and HR leaders, providing our members with on demand content, knowledge and expertise. The DIAL Global mission is to support organisations and shape the future of the workplace through the diversity and inclusion lens. www.dialglobal.org

Liverpool, Merseyside, Gb

Fusion21 is a social value enterprise, committed to helping communities thrive by providing fully compliant strategic support, specialist training, planning and consultancy programmes designed for this very purpose.

Hitchin, England, Gb

Capsicana create award winning authentic Latin American cook sauces, side dishes & seasonings. John is an investor and has been a director from December 2017 to February 2021.

Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ie

Food Works is an Irish Government-sponsored Accelerator Programme that helps develop the next generation of scaleable and export - driven Irish food businesses. The programme is run by 3 Irish Government agencies - Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board), Enterprise Ireland & Teagasc. John is a resident Business Advisor to Bord Bia and the Food Works programme.

Primal Pantry make tasty snack and protein bars from just a handful of high quality, whole food ingredients. All the ingredients used in bar manufacture are recognisable and easy to pronounce and are readily available on a supermarket shelf or in your own kitchen cupboard.

London, England, Gb

Little Dish design and supply fresh, natural foods and snacks for kids aged 1 year + which are healthy, tasty and convenient. Little Dish created and pioneered the toddler chilled food category and lead innovation in the kid's snacking aisle. John co-founded Little Dish in 2005 and sold the business in 2017 when it was listed in prime locations in all national UK high street retailers. Little Dish was the dominant brand in chilled toddler food and the fastest growing brand in the category it created, at exit. John is no longer involved with Little Dish. Please refer any enquiries to the business directly.

Created business consultancy practice with clients in US, UK & Europe. Consulting on strategy; branding; innovation; market repositioning & operational effectiveness.

Co-founded Glencoe Foods Inc. which brought the fresh soup in a carton concept to the USA.

Founder member of the start-up team that set up and built New Covent Garden Soup Co - creating and pioneering the fresh soup category by manufacturing homemade-quality fresh soups using only natural ingredients, free from additives, colourings or preservatives. John exited NCGSC in January 1998 when the business was sold to The Daniels Group and is no longer involved with the company. Please refer any enquiries to NCGSC directly.

Diploma In Marketing (Dm), Marketing; Branding; Innovation

Dms, Management; Finance.

Msc, Food Science

Bsc, Industrial Microbiology/ Chemistry

Education record