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Too Good To Go is a social impact company on a mission to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. Their app is currently the world’s largest marketplace for surplus food. Help users rescue good food from going to waste, offering great value for money at local stores, cafes and restaurants.
Amir Awan, a former optician, founded Dupeshop Beauty in 2021 to provide affordable, high-quality alternatives to expensive beauty products. Frustrated by the lack of difference in quality between pricey fashion lenses and standard glasses, he applied this insight to the beauty industry, offering ethical, cruelty-free “dupes” made with premium ingredients and top-tier manufacturing processes.
Dupeshop’s products are vetted by experts, including cosmetic scientists and dermatologists, ensuring they perform at the same level as luxury items. With a global customer base, Dupeshop ships directly from the UK, making beauty accessible to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances.
Amir’s innovative approach has been featured in Forbes, Beauty Independent, The Sun, and more.
Bob Neville leads Clark’s UK operations, overseeing 365 stores and franchises across the USA, Europe, and China. He is focused on aligning the brand’s marketing to better reflect its UK heritage, addressing concerns over the U.S-driven strategy that risks alienating a broader customer base.
With a background in senior roles at New Balance and Adidas, Bob has driven major brand transformations, including New Balance’s rebrand from “dad shoes” to a fashion staple and Adidas’ expansion of 15 stores a day for several years.
Bob’s expertise in brand strategy and global retail growth makes him a dynamic leader dedicated to preserving brand authenticity while driving expansion.
Mission led, e-commerce/digital business builder and leader, guides by values, purpose driven and passionate. Unafraid of using culture, technology and logistics to disrupt existing thought patterns and do things in a different way. As CFO then CEO at ASOS, grew turnover to £4bn from £200m and transformed the e-commerce fashion landscape. Founder Trustee of the ASOS Foundation, helping raise c£10m breaking down barriers for young people in fashion and tech. member of the Variety Club Rugby Golf Legends Committee raising c£2m. Voted Top 5 most influential retailer in Fashion (Retail Week), highly numerate, number 3 excel rated CFO & CEO. Always restless, always looking for product, brand, tech and customer opportunities.
Aim listed Online purely fashion business, founded in 200, now trading in 200 territories. the largest fashion brand never to have a store. Employing c13k people world-wide, t/o £4bn. ASOS is a purpose driven, mission led organisation guided by values, aware of its role in customer lives and its responsibility to the planet and people. ASOS has redefined global ecommerce fashion, its has driven growth through culture, technology, logistics and product. Its stocks 85k 1P products through the main site, 160k though the ASOS marketplace and delivers 6-5k new products a week. 26m social media followers. As CEO grew sales from £1.2bn to £4bn. Profits grown line to £193m. Appointed CEO in April 2009, when ASOS had 178 people, t/o £165m (20% International (£35m)) delivering PBT £14m, market cap £300m. As CFO t/o grew to £975m (60% Intn) delivering PBT £47m. Appointed Chief Operating Officer for a year, during which t/o grew to £1.2bn.
Luminar: A FTSE 250 Leisure business. Market cap c£400m. Uk’s leading operator of late night venues (>100 units and 6000 people). Transformed in response to challenging market and regulatory conditions. Led 80 people across accounting & finance, tax, treasury, IT, Procurement, IR, property, audit/ business risk, developing strategic capability and improving operational efficiency.
Matalan Retail Limited: A FTSE 250 UK based value retailer with 180 stores, 5.5m soft of retail space, 13000 team members and £1.1bn t/o. Joined when turnover was £590m from 86 stores. led finance through rapid expansion (fastest growing retail business in 1998/99 ) Held increasingly broad and senior change and finance leadership roles, ultimately Executive Director , responsible for a team of 250 people.
KPMG – from trainee to Senior manager in Business transformation, working in Corporate Recovery, Transaction Services and Consultancy.
Nick is also a member of the Retail Sector Council, was a trustee of the ASOS Foundation, Ambassador for the RetailTrust and Advisor to the Anti-Slavery Collective.
Rory Hugill is the senior innovation portfolio manager at Pangaia, the material science-focused fashion brand that received B Corp certification in 2022. A former ‘sneakerhead’, Rory is working to transform the fashion industry from its linear model to a circular Good Fashion approach that is regenerative and restorative for nature.
The CIO of River Island, Simon Pakenham-Walsh has 25 years’ experience of technical strategy, delivery and leadership across several commercial and public sector industries. He has led enterprise-sized technology departments involving internal and external resources and delivered large multi-supplier, high revenue generating programmes for several large organisations.
Until recently the CEO of Next Beauty, Amanda Scott is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Amanda was at the helm of the retail giant’s beauty arm for almost five years, where she spearheaded its initial steps into the world of premium beauty. Amanda has a wealth of experience in the beauty and retail sectors and prior to Next she was chief executive of Fabled by Marie Claire, a start up venture in partnership with Ocado , and 15 years with John Lewis during their transformation years.
