About Hospopreneurs
Since 2017, Hospopreneurs has covered food and beverage innovation, from agriculture and brewing to entertainment and technology. The focus is the Australian market; the audience is in more than 107 countries.
It began with the podcast. Each episode is a conversation with someone behind the business of hospitality: founders, distillers, chefs, investors, technologists. The guest’s story comes first.
The show was a Finalist in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards, has ranked in the Top 100 and 200 Apple Business Podcasts in 17 countries, and has been named a Must-Listen Business Podcast by Telstra and a Top 10 Podcast for Small Business by Canstar.
Your host
James Henderson founded the program in 2017. His work sits where hospitality, consumer brands and data meet.
He has worked on both sides of the bar: in on-premise hospitality, and in FMCG with global beverage companies Diageo and Campari, where he came to know the retail landscape. Before Hospopreneurs he founded a hospitality loyalty platform, with partners who have since achieved international success with QR order-at-the-table technology. He has also worked for Apple and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
James holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Economics, and is completing a Master of Business Administration at The University of Queensland. He is building on that grounding in economics and finance with programming (Python, HTML, CSS and JavaScript) to support data-driven decision-making. Today he consults with hospitality, retail and FMCG businesses on strategy, and photographs venues and events.
He has appeared on ABC Radio National’s Drive program as an authority on the beverage industry. For six and a half years he consulted podcasters on strategy and production. And in 2017, on the back of a viral moment, he founded a music event known as the City Bush Doof, which is a story in its own right.