Mr. Stelio Nathanael

CEO, Gold Brands

Stelio Nathanael's entire career has revolved around the food industry, starting with his first job of being a waiter at the age of 16. Over this time, he has built about ten successful food brands: His passion is for themed restaurants and the experience created within the stores. A highlight of his career was starting and growing the Fish & Chip Co. brand from a single store to a highly successful franchise network of more than 202 franchise stores in three years, which they sold to Taste Holdings in 2012.

Stelio together with his wife founded Gold Brands in 2012 and in this time, they have quickly built up the Chesanyama brand to the network of more than 300 franchisees.

The group was awarded the RASA Franchise of the Year award in 2015.