DIRECTORS

Con Andronis

A true food and beverage legend, Con Andronis formed Clamm's Fast Fish in 1988 with a fish and chips retail outlet opening in Acland St, St Kilda in 1990. With the business also focusing on wholesale, Clamm's Seafood, as it is now known, has continued to service many of Melbourne's best restaurants and hotels.

One of the biggest in Australia, the Clamms factory buys between 35-40 tonnes of fresh and frozen fish a week from suppliers around the country for selling to more than 250 restaurants, cafes and hotels around Melbourne, as well as its own two retail stores.

Con also successful developed highly successful event space Events Warehouse on South Wharf an acclaimed venue with a menu that was created on the premises to fine restaurant standards.

In 2006, Con Andronis was inducted into the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Legends by then State Development Minister John Brumby.

Hatem Saleh

A restaurateur-turned-businessman with true entrepreneurial flair, Managing Director of the Atlantic Group (v), Hatem Saleh' s career in hospitality began in 1988 at the age of 16, when he worked his way up from a waiter to a manager at a reception centre in Melbourne, working a 45 hour week while finishing high school. Hatem's drive to succeed was evident even during his teenage years.

Hatem soon went into his business venture opening a seafood restaurant called Atlantic in St Kilda.

At around about the same time Hatem noticed there was a gap in the market for event spaces catering for 500+ people. With the then derelict Shed 7 becoming available at South Wharf, Atlantic (the event space) was born in 1999 followed by Sumac (a smaller intimate event space) and Alumbra (a waterside bar and nightclub) in Shed 6 2002.

In July 2006, the State Government announced plans to redevelop South Wharf. At the same time, Hatem's Atlantic Group won a highly competitive tender to redevelop Central Pier and as such the Atlantic Group [V] relocated existing businesses Atlantic, Sumac and Alumbra plus introduced Peninsula and Sketch as new venues.

In 2008 Hatem was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards and the Atlantic Group won 4 prestigious awards- the City of Melbourne's Melbourne Awards, Restaurant and Catering Associations' Best Function Centre Caterer and Telstra's State and National Business award.

Tony Schiavello

In 1966 Tony Schiavello and his brother established a business making office partitions. Today, that company has grown into the Schiavello Group, one of Australia's top 500 private companies, with annual sales of $180 million and a staff of nearly 1000 people. The company today provides more than just office partitions. Now, the Schiavello Group offers complete office fit-out services, with a growing focus on information technology products and services.

The company's emphasis on R&D, leading-edge design and world-best quality standards has seen it win a growing share of international markets and major clients such as NTT Japan, Hewlett-Packard, the World Bank HQ in Washington DC and Microsoft.

Tony Schiavello was proudly inducted into the 2005 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame. Other accolades include the National Australia Bank Ethnic Business of the Year Award for Manufacturing [1992]; President of the Assisi Italian Community Centre [1992]; Hon. Cavaliere from the President of the Italian Republic [1985]; and President of Juventus Melbourne [National Champions 1985].