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The Oxford Union
Frewin Court
Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3JB
United Kingdom

Areti Kampyli

Areti is a serial entrepreneur with 16 years of experience in product innovation, complex social impact projects with a track record of developing award-winning products. Areti is the COO of Alice, a former corporate advertising manager at Ogilvy & a Mother. Leading impact measurement innovation at Alice, she manages all client operations and has won several government Research and Development grants, including two high profile UK government grants and projects funded by Vodafone UK, and several Blockchain companies. She is a regular speaker at social and Blockchain conferences and holds an MSc in Media & Communications from the London School of Economics.

Callum McCahon

Callum is an Executive Strategy Director & Partner at social media agency Born Social. He oversees the strategic output across the agency for some of the world’s most exciting brands. Callum has been featured in Campaign’s 30 under 30 List, and has been published in The Guardian, The Drum, Campaign, Digital and WARC on the role that social media plays in brand building.

David Chreng

David is a tech investor and entrepreneur, one of the founding partner of LeadBlock Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in B2B data-driven start-ups leveraging Blockchain technology. During his spare time, David dedicates his time to mentor young talented students and support non-profit organizations to combat ethnic and social inequalities. In 2020, he also co-founded with two friends Generation MMXX with the mission to empower local entrepreneurs and start-ups in regions facing economic and social crises, providing a sustainable route to a better future.

Elena Reva

Elena Reva is a multi-industry entrepreneur and co-founder of dermoi, a beauty-tech platform that opens access to results-driven skincare solutions, knowledge and expertise.

Gabriel Bean

Gabriel is on a mission to ’cut the cr*p out of food and drinks.

Guy Newsom

Guy is a passionate design leader, and a VP of Design and Product at XYZ Reality, a company revolutionising the construction industry through the implementation of Engineering Grade Augmented Reality. Having previously held lead design roles at the global design studios of Samsung and Vax, Guy is now responsible for bringing innovation, aesthetics, and product design strategy to the heart of XYZ Reality, continuously striving to achieve true adoption of their exciting new precision technology products throughout the construction industry.

Nick Bennett

Nick founded Fika the Mental Fitness platform after a personal tragedy and is now helping to reshape the future of lifelong learning by bringing mental education and mental fitness into our teaching and duty of care frameworks in education and the workplace. He is committed to changing our perception of mental health and fitness and bringing about a major culture change to offset the global problem of mental health decline. Prior to Fika, Nick was a professional artist, head chef, managing partner of a top 100 digital agency, chief product officer in various data science startups and owner of a positive vibes fashion label. Married with 3 kids, he is usually found working, drinking coffee and trying to cheer people up with banter and dad jokes.

Rachel Martin

Rachel is a speaker, an author, a business owner and most importantly... an accountant! She is the founder of accountant_she, a female-led accountancy firm that specialises in working with entrepreneurs, influencers and business owners.

Rebeca Querub

Rebeca is a strategic partnerships manager at Zettle by PayPal, in the UK. She is passionate about helping female-founded companies, as a female founder herself. Rebeca is also a member of Unity, a community of allies working together to empower women at PayPal. She is also a wife and a loving mother of two girls.

Thomas Vosper

With over 14 years in e-commerce, Thomas J. Vosper has a long record of delivering growth for many of the largest names online. During over six years at Amazon, he led strategic seller acquisitions; executed new category launches; and delivered cutting-edge merchant services. After moving to Tesco, he tripled their marketplace business in twelve months. He founded online shopping marketplace aisle 3 in March 2020. Thomas has a detailed insight on strategy, performance marketing and operations across thousands of eCommerce sites, high street stores, and digital marketing agencies.

Vincent Fraux

Vincent is a co-Founder of Oxford Space Systems (OSS), a multi-award-winning UK space hardware company developing novel deployable structures for satellites. Vincent is a passionate Space Mechanical Engineer with an MSc in Astronautics and Space Engineering and more than 14 years of space hardware design experience including at Airbus Defence & Space and ABSL Space Products.