Antoinette Bruno

✔ Twenty year track record of running and growing a well regarded profitable restaurant industry multi-media platform


✔ Accomplished in turning around four companies in different industries, cut costs, reinvigorating businesses, envisioning and building new lines of revenue


✔ Executive Board Director 20 years experience in the Food & Beverage Industry


✔ Executive Board Director 2 years experience in the FEC and Theme park Industry


✔ Non-executive Board Director 4+ years experience in the restaurant industry


✔ Non-executive Board Director 2 years experience garment industry


✔ Experience in visioning business models and creating new revenue streams at Trimper Rides of Ocean City, The Body Shop, StarChefs, and for numerous advertisers


✔ 30 year track record in building countless brands, envision new marketing campaigns, executing brand strategies for StarChefs advertisers. Examples include:


  • Created marketing strategy and developed chef focused advertising campaign for Jade Range

  • Through market research, helped Jade Range envision new products growing the company from $8mm in sales to $30mm

  • Create market launch for Breville/PolyScience's new Control Freak induction burner

  • Dusted off the bottle and updated the image to gain trial of Pernod by industry professionals to create push-through to consumers

  • Conducted Market Research for Breville, Niman Ranch, Laura Chenel Goat Cheese, Symrise, Steelite USA, and Corto Olive Oil.

  • Conducted Focus Groups and Product Testing and Sampling Campaigns for Laura Chenel, Symrise, and Breville Polyscience.


✔ Talented at capital raising, seeking out investors, and building investor groups. Raised capital for several businesses over the course of my career from high yield deals on Wall Street, to several of my own entrepreneurial ventures to corporate fund raising for StarChefs.


✔ Skilled at creating causal marketing campaigns for The Body Shop (LA Marathon with Peppermint Foot Lotion), several StarChefs advertisers including Kitchen Aid (Breast Cancer), and at StarChefs (for JobFinder, Rising Stars young chef awards, and The International Chefs Congress industry symposium)


✔ Expert in designing, creating, building, and gaining traction for several foodservice industry symposiums (Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, StarChefs, New England Foodservice Expo) and creating "community" for The Body Shop, WCR, and StarChefs.


✔ Seasoned digital marketer in the restaurant space, creating digital strategics for many of our advertisers including Steelite, PolyScience, Jade Range, LT Foods, Daymark, Electrolux, Irinox, Meiko, Multivac, Unified Brands, WJ Deutsch, Zwilling, iSi, Pernod Riccard, Pacojet.


✔ Experienced at returning companies to profitable enterprises including: Diane Freis while at ChinaVest, The Body Shop USA, WCR association, and StarChefs


✔ Established reputation as a leader in the restaurant industry ; Named top Women in Foodservice by the Women's Foodservice Forum (2019, 2018, 2017).


✔ Introduced Corporate Governance to the board of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, helping to guide the value proposition, attaching our mission to our marketing goals to deliver value for all the stake holders involved.


✔ Will add experiential knowledge of food and beverage trends as well as and intellectual diversity to any board in the foodservice space