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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

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Pierre-François Thaler
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, EcoVadis

Founded Apr 2007 I Employees 1,252
Funding $734m I Valuation $1b

Bio

Charles Gorintin
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, EcoVadis

Founded Feb 2016 I Employees 530
Funding $542 | Valuation €2.7b

Bio

Zhong Xu
CEO and Co-Founder, Deliverect

Founded Apr 2018 I Employees 448
Funding $237m I Valuation $1.4b

Bio

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Joel Perlman
Co-founder & Senior Managing Partner, OakNorth

Bio

Ed Thompson
CTO & Co-founder, Matillion

Launch 2017 | Staff 125
Funding $202m | Valuation $1.4b

Bio

Richard Potter
Co-founder & CEO, Peak

Launch 2015 | Staff 225
Funding $119m

Jordan Marie Brompton
Co-Founder, myenergi

Heather Broadbent-Staff
Co-Founder, Street Group

Launch 2015 | Staff 115

Heather Broadbent-Staff
Co-Founder, Street Group

Launch 2015 | Staff 115

Ben Fletcher
Founder, The Mothership

Launch 2021 I Staff 40
Funding $22m

Ben Fletcher
Founder, The Mothership

Launch 2021 I Staff 40
Funding $22m

Bio

Building a category leader: The art of staying focused to create an international-scale business

Presentation

Pierre-François Thaler

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, EcoVadis

Pierre-Francois is the co-founder of EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of Business Sustainability Ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains, used by 100,000 companies across 150 countries. He’s responsible for go-to-market, product strategy, and customer success globally. On a deeper level, he helps EcoVadis Fortune 2000 leverage their purchasing spend to drive improvements in business sustainability practices across global supply chains.

Pierre-François brings 25 years of experience in Procurement, Sustainability and Cloud Technologies. He was previously CEO of B2Build the 1st B2B marketplace for the European construction industry. Prior to founding EcoVadis, he was a director of Ariba (now SAP) Procurement BPO business in EMEA.

Pierre-Francois has been presenting on Sustainable Procurement in more than 100 conferences in Europe and USA and the author of multiple research studies on Sustainable Supply Chain with HEC Business School or INSEAD. He’s a member of the strategic advisory board of the Sustainable Procurement Leadership Council (Washington).

Pierre-François is an electrical engineer by trade, holding a Master of Sciencefrom Supelec and a MBA from Insead.

Founded Apr 2007 | Employees 1,252 | Funding $734m | Valuation $1b

The role of AI for effective operations

Presentation

Charles Gorintin

Co-Founder and CTO, Alan

Alan is the one-stop health partner for the body & the mind. Alan provides health insurance plans to companies of all sizes – from start-ups to large enterprises – and combines its health insurance offering with access to personalized health care information, proactive care, care delivery, payment and post-care.

Alan is the first new health insurance company licensed in France since 1986. The company covers more than 20,000 companies and more than 350k members in France, Spain and Belgium. The company has raised €500m since its creation in 2016.

Prior to co-founding Alan, Charles Gorintin was a data science leader at fast-growing social networks Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, where he worked on fighting fake accounts, on growth, and on social psychology.

Gorintin holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, a Masters degree in Machine Learning from ENS Paris-Saclay, and a Masters of Financial Engineering from UC Berkeley - Haas School of Business.

Creating the foundations for hyper-growth

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Zhong Xu

CEO and Co-Founder, Deliverect

As the CEO and co-founder of Deliverect, Zhong is integrating third-party food delivery platforms with restaurant POS systems, automating delivery so it can be managed more efficiently. Zhong, who obtained a M.Sc. degree in software engineering in 2009, created the first IPad POS in EMEA in 2012, together with co-founder Jan Hollez. This SaaS company evolved into the company that today is called Lightspeed, which is available in more than 100 countries around the world. Zhong was Global Director of Lightspeed Hospitality until 2018, when he founded Deliverect, thereby continuing to revolutionize the hospitality industry.

Founded Apr 2018 I Employees 448 | Funding $237m I Valuation $1.4b

Joel Perlman

Co-founder, OakNorth

Joel Perlman is the Co-founder of OakNorth, the neobank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. OakNorth has lent over £10bn since its launch in September 2015 and has reached profits of over £150m in 2022 (2023 results are yet to be published). Previously, Joel founded Copal Partners, a financial research company, in 2002 with just $60k. Over 12 years, he and his Co-founder, Rishi Khosla, scaled it to a 3,000-employee organization across 12 markets, before selling it to Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) and returning over 200x to seed investors. Joel grew up in Bogota, Colombia. He began his career as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company and has degrees from the London School of Economics and Georgetown University.

Creating a scalable people infrastructure

Presentation

Ed Thompson

CTO & Co-founder, Matillion

Ed Thompson is CTO and co-founder of Matillion. He started his career as an IBM software consultant, and spent 11 years consulting for some of the premier blue-chip companies in the UK. Along with CEO Matthew Scullion, he launched Matillion in 2011 and set about building a crack team of data integration experts and software engineers. He and his team launched Matillion’s flagship ETL product in 2014, which has driven the company’s growth ever since. Ed’s strength is his ability to bring together best-in-class technologies from across the software ecosystem and apply them to solving the deep and complex requirements of modern businesses in new and disruptive ways. Ed is a graduate of the University of Salford with a degree in Computer Science.

Launch 2017 | Staff 540 | Funding $202m | Valuation $1.4b

Ben Fletcher

Founder, The Mothership

Ben is the founder and CEO of The Mothership, an acquirer of e-commerce businesses, he's also the host of the Velocity² community and the creator of the Fast Growth Icons events series.

Over the last 10 years, since he left his first business, he has been dedicated to helping other founders grow their companies through mentoring, investing, his events, and the community. He's now taking e-commerce businesses to the next level with The Mothership.

PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Founded Apr 2007 I Employees 1,252Funding $734m I Valuation $1b

Founded Feb 2016 I Employees 530 Funding $542 | Valuation €2.7b

Founded Apr 2018 I Employees 448 Funding $237m I Valuation $1.4b

SPEAKERS

Launch 2017 | Staff 125Funding $202m | Valuation $1.4b

Launch 2015 | Staff 225 Funding $119m

Launch 2015 | Staff 115

Launch 2015 | Staff 115

Launch 2021 I Staff 40 Funding $22m

Launch 2021 I Staff 40 Funding $22m

Building a category leader: The art of staying focused to create an international-scale business

Pierre-François Thaler

Founded Apr 2007 | Employees 1,252 | Funding $734m | Valuation $1b

The role of AI for effective operations

Charles Gorintin

Creating the foundations for hyper-growth

Zhong Xu

Founded Apr 2018 I Employees 448 | Funding $237m I Valuation $1.4b

Joel Perlman

Creating a scalable people infrastructure

Ed Thompson

Launch 2017 | Staff 540 | Funding $202m | Valuation $1.4b

Ben Fletcher

Founded Apr 2007 I Employees 1,252
Funding $734m I Valuation $1b

Founded Feb 2016 I Employees 530
Funding $542 | Valuation €2.7b

Founded Apr 2018 I Employees 448
Funding $237m I Valuation $1.4b

Launch 2017 | Staff 125
Funding $202m | Valuation $1.4b

Launch 2015 | Staff 225
Funding $119m

Launch 2021 I Staff 40
Funding $22m

Launch 2021 I Staff 40
Funding $22m