ENTREPRENEUR

ENTREPRENEUR

ENTREPRENEUR

Melody Hu Pastry Chef Sweet Diplomacy

SWEET DIPLOMACY

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Sweet Diplomacy® is a nationally acclaimed gluten-free and special diet-friendly brand featured in Forbes and on Food Network. Built from scratch, Sweet Diplomacy has grown from a single vision, Delicious Knows No Borders, into a brand with locations in California and Colorado, shipping gift boxes nationwide across the United States.

Shaped by Melody’s Taiwanese heritage and classical French pastry training, Sweet Diplomacy reflects her globally inspired approach to baking, hospitality, and storytelling. Created to bring people together through the brand’s mission of “World Flavors and Inclusive Tastes”, the brand is known for thoughtful gifting, refined presentation, and special diet-friendly food and beverage creations spanning baked goods, teas, coffee, and cocoa—making celebration more accessible to everyone.

Melody Hu | Founder, Maison Férale. Black and white photo of a woman standing outdoors against a cloudy sky, wearing a leopard print top and matching pants with a belt, with her hand on her hip.

MAISON FÉRALE

BEAUTY & PERSONAL CARE

Maison Férale is a beauty and personal care brand inspired by ancestral plant wisdom, a deep resonance with the natural world, and the power of embracing our wild, multidimensional selves. Maison Férale explores the meeting point of mind, body, and spirit through beauty rituals, sensory anchoring, and thoughtfully crafted botanical potions for modern life.

Drawing from her Taiwanese heritage and deep personal ties to France, Melody brings a global perspective to personal care. Maison Férale reflects her belief that beauty can be intuitive, instinctive, and lived from the inside out—elevating everyday rituals into moments of presence, pleasure, and self-expression.

Starboard Expedition Creative Production Studio.

STARBOARD EXPEDITION

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

Named after the right side of a navigating vessel, Starboard Expedition is a creative production studio specializing in creative direction, cinematic storytelling, and emotionally resonant media content. Drawing from Melody’s background in luxury brand marketing and the performing arts, the studio brings together artistic intuition and strategic clarity to create films, photography, and branded content that feel both refined and deeply human.

Exploring stories of depth, navigating the human heart, and charting new frontiers of storytelling, Starboard Expedition is guided by the belief that meaningful creative work should explore, reveal, transport, and move. Through image, story, and emotion, the studio creates media experiences that resonate beyond the surface.