The great British bake shop 2019
David Caldana,
BCom'99
profile from 2019
It was during a flight to Toronto from London with best friend and fellow Canadian expat, Justin Kowbel, that David Caldana decided to make the unlikely leap from investment banker to cookware store owner. Having already helped part time at Justin's London-based Borough Kitchen, David joined as partner in 2014, and the pair set to execute an expansion plan that included more locations and a cooking school. “I am not a natural-born entrepreneur," David told Smith Magazine in 2019, "but I can’t imagine going back and working for a bank or another company that wasn’t mine.”