Glenn is the founder and principal of Xtreme Chef Consulting building this
exciting and unique food service consulting firm over the past 10 years.
Glenn’s success is built on a genuine and extensive experience base of
both hotel and food manufacturing, together with several layers of industry
contacts, knowledge and professional affiliations manages to deliver solid
results for all of Xtreme’s clients.
Working in many markets has developed Xtreme to be now recognised globally
as an important and influential service to the food industry, having a
presence in several international markets including Japan, Canada, USA,
South Africa, India, China, Thailand, Singapore, Germany, New Zealand and
of course Australia. Xtreme is proud of its recent business portfolio
including both the summer and winter Olympic games as major international
successes.
Summary
Hospitality requires a range of qualities and commitment well beyond those
needed in main stream business. Glenn Austin has uniqueness, a special flair,
an ability to sift through information and efficiently formulate results,
providing a commitment to client satisfaction and working towards a strategy
of high return and problem solving.
The constant success of Xtreme is directly relative to the continuous
results driven by the long term influence of Glenn’s ability to perform
in a clients business environment.
As a testament to ongoing success in the past several months Glenn has had
several promotions; At the world chefs conference in Chile Glenn was re-elected
to the world board of chefs, locally Glenn has been appointed as General
Manager of FOCiS and internationally re-appointed in his Global business
development position for Fonterra , achievements that are a result of his
energy and effort.
Current Clients and Titles
- Continental Director World board of Chefs Pacific Rim
- Australian Culinary Federation Honorary Life President
- Ambassador to the Thai Government for Seafood.
- Certified Executive Chef
- X-Treme Opulence Design Consultant
- General Manager of FOCiS
- Armory Public relations corporation, industry advisor
- International Judge for Worlds association of Chefs and ACF
- Australian Culinary Olympic Team Manager
- Monthly Columnist Open House Magazine
- International Consultant to Clubs, Hotels and Restaurants Australia wide
- Yoshikin Japan industry advisor
- Fonterra Global Executive chef and business development
- Global Pizza Challenge principal
- Weekly presenter on the great weekender radio program
Awards and Australian representative Teams
- Winner Amex Restaurant of the year
- Australian International Culinary Team member twice
- Team member for the Davos Project. (Victorian Government presentation in
Switzerland for the World economic Forum)
- Australian National Team leader World Cooks tour for Hunger South Africa.
Demonstrating Australian Cuisine
- Australian Representative Chef World Cup Paris 2003 medal winner
- Australian Culinary Olympic Team Manager (current)
- Team Executive Chef, team won outright Americas Cup New York 2004/2005
- Mentor to the World winner in Sial Paris 2004
- Food service product innovation award
Career highlights
- First Australian to be voted to the World Board of Chefs
- Multiple International Medal winner
- General Manager of business development and procurement for FOCiS
- Seven Television shows including two pilots for new series
- Author of “Hospitality operators manual” pending publishing
- Principal of Global Pizza Challange
- General manager Murray Human Services (Disability service)
- Group Chef and business development for three Hotel chains
- Current Ambassador to the Thai Government for Seafood.
- Global Business development manager for Fonterra