Adèle McLay Successful Entrepreneurs Stories : Meet Theresa Gattung

Theresa Gattung CNZM
MEGA Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist…. and…

Meet my friend, Theresa Gattung. She’s awesome and a mega achiever in business and life!!

At age 37, she became CEO of New Zealand’s largest publicly listed company, Telecom NZ (now Spark), and led Telecom, its people, and the telco industry through a time of massive change (1999 to 2007).

After leaving Telecom, Theresa took time out and travelled the world to think about what came next. After-all, what does one do at age 45 after having run such a big business??

Since then, Theresa has become chair of some major Australasian public companies, she’s an investor in start-ups, an active philanthropist, an entrepreneur… and more!

In 2013, along with two others, Theresa founded My Food Bag in New Zealand.

My Food Bag was born out of the idea that healthy and delicious food can also be convenient and exciting. The goal is to bring inspiring, nutritionally-balanced tasty recipes and the best seasonal produce together, delivering it to the customer’s door.

In less than two years of trading the business has turned over $50M, was profitable after nine months, has 15,000 customers, and now employs over 60 staff. How many start-ups have achieved such rapid growth?! My Food Bag is growing massively; it also recently launched in Australia, and Asia might be next.

Here’s a recent NZ Herald newspaper article on Theresa and her achievements. Have a read to learn more.

Plus, listen to this week’s Successful Entrepreneurs’ Stories interview I did with Theresa. She talks about her corporate career, entrepreneurship journey and much more. You will be inspired as you travel your own entrepreneurship path.

Oh, and Theresa was recently awarded the CNZM – Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. This award is well deserved. Congratulations, Theresa.

You can listen to the original Interview with Theresa Gattung here:

To connect with Theresa:
W: www.theresagattung.com

W: www.myfoodbag.co.nz

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