About Dan Bordun

Dan is a Co-Founder of Grocery Business Magazine, Canada’s leading information source for the grocery industry. Dan has also held senior executive management media positions throughout a dynamic tenure that included acquisitions and start ups of numerous business to business publications and online media, including Food in Canada, Canadian Packaging, IT for Industry, AutoPlant, Materials Management & Distribution, Design Engineering, Purchasing B2B, etc…

About Shelley King

Shelley King is a strategic, decisive, and highly respected leader in the Canadian technology commercialization, innovation, and investment space. For 25 years, she has married her scientific background in academia with her in-depth knowledge of entrepreneurship and industry to help Canadian innovations go from a bright idea to a market-ready product. As founding CEO of NPC, Shelley has positioned Canada as a global pioneer and trailblazer in the natural product sector. NPC has made connections with more than 800 organizations nationally, involved more than 600 companies in its development pipeline, invested in 10 early stage enterprises, and experienced two exits.  

Previously, Shelley was VP, Research and Business Development for Genome Atlantic, where she catalyzed industry-academic relationships, putting Canadian genomics research on the international map.

Shelley holds an MSc in medicine specializing in neuroscience and an MBA from Memorial University. She currently sits on the board for the Metabolomics Innovation Centre and Smart Landing Program Canada.

About Kenny Vannucci

"I’ve spent my life in retail. I worked front line retail in customer service and retail management, in the warehouses picking and packing orders, and I have worked in corporate office as a merchandise manager buying for numerous and varied categories within grocery and drug.  I know how a buyer thinks and what the triggers are. I know how to spot emerging and how to maintain/grow existing categories.

I’ve spent 40+ years in retail, 26 years at London Drugs before striking out on my own. Now I help small CPG companies and retailers with sales and operating fundamentals.

Helping you get and understand the mechanics of business right so you can turn a profit and scale up your business.  I love retail, love CPG and love working with and helping entrepreneurs and founders grow by using This Commerce Life – The Podcast as a platform to reach as many as I can."