Julia Baylis is Head of Programming & Acquisitions at Choice TV. She has spent the past five years as Head of Programming and Acquisitions for Living Channel and Food TV. Prior to this Julia spent eight years with Television New Zealand in the Programming area of the company – the majority of her time with the network as Head of Programming for TV2.

Alex Breingan is Managing Director of Choice TV. Alex was formerly Channel Manager for Sky TV's Food TV and Living Channel, and spent 15 years in radio including time as Mediaworks Radio Operations Manager and Assistant Programme Director for both More FM and RadioLIVE. He began his career in the mid 1990's in UK commercial radio and later as a producer at the BBC before moving to NZ in 2002.

Laurie Clarke has been with Top Shelf as executive producer, producer and director since 2002. Prior to that he worked as a current affairs producer with TV3 and in various TV roles in Australia with the ABC.

Vincent Burke established Top Shelf Productions in 1988 and has made iconic documentary and factual programming including iconic series like Target, What's Really In Our Food?, Immigrant Nation, Frontier Of Dreams and Media 7.