ABOUT

I have always been happiest where business meets people. I trained in hotel management, spent years running supply chains across Asia, then came home to build startups, among them Cities Unleashed, which raised £100,000 for local charities. When Covid arrived I helped run our village shop, introducing home deliveries and widening the range. I was up by 0530 several days a week and loved the community feel of it. That is what draws me to startups and to communities alike: you can see exactly who you are helping, and a small idea can change someone’s week.

Food was my father’s great joy. He loved eating, looking after people and a good party, and in his last years he lost all three. Then his partner began making him soups and more liquid meals. They did not cure him, and they did not replace his prescribed nutrition, but they made him happier and brought him back to the table. I never forgot what a difference that made. When Sophia and I became friends, building Food Untethered together felt like the obvious thing to do: real, delicious food for people who eat differently, because everyone deserves a place at the table.

Dr Julian Eason is a Consultant Neonatologist at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and a former Senior Lecturer.

He holds a Fellowship from the University of British Columbia and a Master's degree from UBC, and has contributed extensively to neonatal transport, intensive care and international training programmes.

He serves on the Food Untethered advisory board as Non-Executive Director and Clinical Adviser.

With over 15 years in the NHS and seven in social care and disability services, I understood long before Food Untethered existed what it means to navigate complex health needs, and how often the system falls short of the people inside it.

But it was lived experience that made it personal.

I am a mum of two, and one of my children has complex medical needs requiring round the clock support, so clinical nutrition became part of daily life. At 18 months, my son was transitioned to a blended diet, which began five years of close work with dietitians and specialists to balance his nutritional needs within a restricted appetite and limited stomach capacity.

The results changed everything. He came off 14 medications. A child whose days had been consumed by up to 16 hours of feeding, constant vomiting and isolation began to thrive. He now attends mainstream school, walks with aids and engages fully in his therapies.

That journey turned a parent into an advocate, and an advocate into a founder. Trained as a yoga therapist and driven by a whole person philosophy, I built Food Untethered with Nicholas on a simple but powerful belief: whilst formulas and supplements have their place, everyone deserves the choice of real, natural nutrition wherever possible.

Ruth is an NHS-trained Lead Paediatric Dietitian with 17 years of experience, including as lead dietitian for paediatric intensive care.

She holds a PG Diploma in Dietetics, an MSc in Nutrition and a BSc in Biochemistry.

Ruth has authored clinical guidelines and led blended diet policy implementation across NHS settings.

She brings rigorous nutritional science to every Food Untethered formulation.

Oh so many tales but we will wait for David to tell you them in his own, somewhat grumpy Yorkshire way.