Partners in Progress

Working side-by-side with industry leaders to deliver bold, meaningful change in agri-food.

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At Culture Advisory Group, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a business model. Our partners are carefully selected
through a rigorous vetting process to ensure they bring real value to the table.

We work with professionals and organizations who:

Share our commitment to excellence and integrity.

Offer specialized knowledge that enhances our core services
Bring fresh, innovative thinking to complex agri-food challenges

What You Can Expect

Together with our partners, we offer:
Comprehensive, customized solutions that cover strategy through implementation
Future-ready insights driven by experience and innovation
An expanded team with the agility and perspective to drive
lasting results

Kelland Sewell

Executive Vice President, Marketing and Chief Risk Officer

Aperitisoft™ empowers risk and compliance officers, cybersecurity managers, operational leaders, consultants, and the C-suite to make smarter, data-driven decisions with ease. Aperitisoft™ is designed to simplify risk management by providing solutions for nearly all your risk management needs in one easy-to-use platform. The possibilities are endless!

Regional/National Presence: International

Languages Served: English

Calibre LLP CPA

Peter Niemeier

Partner

Calibre LLP is a full-service CPA firm providing comprehensive financial services, including tax preparation, financial statement preparation, auditing, and financial advisory services. We work with large, medium, and small businesses with a goal to be a proactive business advisor helping our clients achieve their goals.

Regional/National Presence: Ontario

Languages Served: English

Ariana Georgiev, Paralegal RPA

Director, Lease Audit

CREiQ is a tech and data-driven CRE-consulting firm representing commercial tenants throughout North America, with a range of services. We transform workflows and aggregate lease, landlord and location information into powerful insights and provide support throughout the lease lifecycle and beyond. As certified accountants, analysts, auditors, strategists, techies and commercial real estate experts –we are entirely independent and tenant-focused.

Regional/National Presence: Ontario

Languages Served: English

Mark Sharma

Managing Partner

Think of us as your digital dream team. Our designers and developers don’t just build pretty things – they craft experiences that work as beautifully as they look. Whether you’re a hometown hero or a global player, we transform your vision into digital reality with the precision of a master craftsman and the innovation of a tech start-up.

Regional/National Presence: Canada

Languages Served: English

Food Industry Consulting (FIC)

Christina McNeil

Admin

FIC has provided premium food safety consulting and training worldwide since 2008, with a focus on making compliance more accessible and affordable. As an early provider of online training and consulting, the company offers tailored solutions to help food businesses meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) schemes.

Regional/National Presence: International

Languages Served: English

Karen O'Leary

SR&ED Consultant

At File & Claim, we specialize in navigating the complexities of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program. Our goal is to help Canadian businesses, from startups to established enterprises, secure the financial benefits they deserve and maximize on the potential claim.

Regional/National Presence: Canada / USA

Languages Served: English, French

Food Biz Mentoring

Patricia Ryan

President

A dynamic Think Tank of seasoned food and beverage industry experts dedicated to guiding entrepreneurs through the challenging journey from concept to commercial success. We bridge the knowledge gap in retail scaling, providing personalized mentorship and practical insights on product development, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing.

Regional/National Presence: US and Canada

Languages Served: English

Food Safety Solutions (FSS)

Danni Kneeland

Director

Food Safety Solutions empowers food and beverage companies to implement tailored food safety management systems that meet regulatory standards and customer demands. Specializing in small businesses, FSS enables clients to expand into new markets, uphold brand integrity, and enhance consumer trust. Our team brings extensive expertise in diverse range of  commodity groups.

Regional/National Presence: Canada

Languages Served: English

Fulton Food Safety Inc.(FFS) 

Rafik Lang

Technical Manager

Fulton Food Safety Inc. is a full-service food safety consulting firm providing professional technical services to the food manufacturing industry to support the needs of today’s producers operating in an ever-changing global marketplace. Customized services include HACCP and Regulatory Food Safety Program Development, GFSI certification program development/consulting and gap/readiness, training, facility design, build and retrofits.

Regional/National Presence: National and International

Languages Served: English

Vera Petrova Dickinson

Founder and CEO

Innova-Q transforms product quality management by embedding AI into the core of compliance, risk prevention, and operational excellence. Our platforms empower manufacturers to move beyond reactive controls and toward predictive, intelligent systems. By connecting people, processes, and policies through advanced AI, we help manufacturers ensure every product meets the highest standards of quality, compliance, and consumer trust.

Regional/National Presence: International but mostly USA

Languages Served: English, French, our platforms operate on 20 main languages

McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP

Mike Henley

Partner

Founded in 1998, McKenzie Lake Lawyers offers a wide range of legal services, including business, personal, and family law. With deep expertise in numerous industries and practices, we are well-positioned to serve the legal needs of our community and deeply committed to engaging in charitable activities to make our communities a better place to live, raise families, and conduct business.

Regional/National Presence: Provincial – Ontario

Languages Served: English

Kathleen Niles

CEO

Nessis provides a suite of food safety and quality management system software’s that scales with your business. We are well established software company that provides the development and tools needed to digitally transform complex knowledge and documents into task-level, operational understanding, with real-time reporting capabilities.

Languages Served: English, French

Regional/National Presence: North American – Canada, US and Mexico

Arun Srinivasan

Managing Director

SusTern is a growing AI startup revolutionizing e-commerce supply chains. Our flagship product, noryX™, is an overlay and operational intelligence platform, transforming data overload into real-time actionable insights. noryX™ seamlessly integrates with existing inventory management systems without requiring costly platform replacements. noryX™ acts as an AI-powered growth partner, turning business operational data into a profit engine. It eliminates guesswork and unlocks cost savings and revenue growth.

Regional/National Presence: International

Languages Served: English

Katie Dennis

Client Services

TapScan empowers brand owners with real-time visibility into marketing, merchandising and product engagement by delivering higher level intelligence thus enabling data-driven decisions that maximize impact. Our QR technology communicates key information to shoppers and consumers throughout their path-to-purchase and product usage journey, while also measuring retailer execution and in-store activation success.

Regional/National Presence: Provincial, national and international

Languages Served: English, French, multiple language services supported