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In episode 17 of Pep Talk, Simon talks to Davin Hunt. Devin is a multi-disciplinary designer, engineer, and educator. His work focuses on the intersection of product design and entrepreneurship, often applied while building a startup. His latest venture, Useful Books, is an independent publishing platform focused on making better non-fiction. Devin is also a Venture Partner at Seedcamp, where he f...

In episode 16 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Markus Stripf. Spoon Guru co-founder, Markus, is passionate about understanding and bringing to market digital technologies that can empower consumers and provide a meaningful service to people around the globe. Spoon Guru’s overarching ambition is to build the world’s leading dietary management solution. Based on a pioneering food classification platfor...

In episode 15 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Lucy Cohen. Lucy is the Co-founder of Mazuma Accountants. Founded Mazuma in 2006 with the objective of providing a low cost, hassle-free accountancy solution for micro-businesses through our subscription-based accountancy service. Using a killer combination of technology and humans we are at the forefront of the new age of accountancy.

In season 2, episode 30 Simon interviews Michael Krayenhoff. Michael is the Co-Founder of Inner Circle, the dating app that's focussed on quality so you only see rich profiles from people you'd actually want to go on a date with. The company started bootstrapped in 2012 and is now bringing over 3.5 million singles together in over 27 countries.

In episode 14 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Daniel Priestley. Daniel is a successful entrepreneur who's built and sold businesses in Australia, Singapore, and the UK. He's the co-founder of Dent Global, one of the world's top business accelerators for entrepreneurs and leaders to stand out and scale up. With offices in London, Sydney, Singapore and Tampa, the program is endorsed by the Institute o...

In season 2, episode 29 Simon talks to John O'Brien. John is EMEA Managing Partner at ONE HUNDRED, Omnicom’s ethical purpose consortium consisting of nine of Omnicom’s leading global agencies. John is also a bestselling business author and recognized campaigner with over thirty years of experience leading initiatives covering over twenty countries. John is a senior advisor to business, high net-wo...

In episode 13 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Ed Hauck. Ed has close to 20 years’ experience in the consumer goods industry. The entrepreneurial seed was planted early, having watched his mother build a successful International market research business when he was a child. Ed began his career at L’Oréal in the branded consumer goods team, he then went onto Levi’s where he launched a new brand with t...

In season 2, episode 28 Simon interviews Joe Foster. Joe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe's Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes for the Worlds best athletes of the early 20th century, with World records and Olympics Gold Medals. Wearing (pumps) made by J W Foster & Sons Ltd,...

In episode 12 of PEP Talk, Simon talks to Craig Fenton. Craig is a business leader and entrepreneur who has worked in the technology industry for 20 years. He leads Strategy & Operations for Google in UK and Southern Europe, is an investor in and mentor of several start ups, and founded his own record label to give young artists from lower socio economic areas their start in music. Craig has a pod...

In season 2, episode 27 Simon interviews Victor Lugger. Victor Lugger is the co-founder and CEO of Big Mamma Group and Sunday App. Being at the head of 26 very popular Italian restaurants across Europe, including La Felicità on our campus, Victor is embarking on a new FinTech adventure with his Big Mamma co-founder, Tigrane Seydoux, and their new partner, Christine de Wendel, to reinvent the way t...

In episode 11 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Ilana Lever. Ilana is co-founder and co-CEO of Motley, the challenger jewellery brand with a industry-first supply chain model to make great design affordable. Starting her career as a management consultant, she went on to work for consumer and retail brands including Argos, innocent and itsu, before diving headlong into the start up world.

In season 2, episode 26 Simon interviews Justine Roberts. Justine Roberts CBE is Founder and CEO of Mumsnet, one of the UK’s largest and most influential online communities sharing advice, support and product recommendations with over 7 million unique users per month. Justine is a non-executive director of FTSE100 insurance firm Admiral and of the Open Data Institute founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee...

In episode 10 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Oliver Prill. Oliver joined Tide in 2018 and has led its rapid scaling into the UK’s leading business financial platform. He has over 20 years leadership experience in financial services, having worked across the banking and insurance sectors, including starting his own financial services company. In many of his roles, Oliver has worked closely with smal...

In season 2, episode 25 Simon interviews Shara Tochia. Prior to launching wellness brand DOSE, Shara had a career in marketing roles working for brands Ralph Lauren, Facebook, Instagram & fitness startup 1Rebel. She now runs DOSE full time & teaches spinning classes in the early morning hours. Creating a brand with feeling good at the heart of the business, Shara’s career has taught her many lesso...

In episode 9 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Michael Krayenhoff. Michael is co-founder and COO of Inner Circle, a high quality dating app focussed on helping people meet IRL. Prior to this, Michael worked for a consultancy in Singapore. He studied Industrial Engineering and Management in The Netherlands, followed by an MSc in Entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway University of London. At Inner Circle M...

In season 2, episode 24 Simon interviews Graham Hobson. Graham was the founder and first CEO of Photobox - a startup in 2000 and later becoming Europe’s largest personalisation company. Photobox acquired Moonpig as well as other European brands and the group was sold to Private Equity in 2016. Since then Graham has worked in various roles: as CTO, board member, trustee, angel investor, social impa...

In episode 8 of PEP Talk, Simon interviews Emma Jones. Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined the international accounting firm Arthur Andersen, where she worked in London, Leeds, and Manchester offices and set up the firm's Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK. In 2000, bitten by the dot.com bug, Emma left the firm to start her first busine...

In season 2, episode 23 Simon interviews Ben Francis. Ben is a 28 year old billionaire and Founder of GymShark. Ben reveals how he grew his side hustle from a family garage to become one of the world's most successful brands in the world.

In season 2, episode 22, Simon talks to James Davidson. James started his career at Unilever, gaining extensive experience in operations and management. After 6 years, he embarked on an expedition in Central America volunteering with Raleigh International, during which he realised the power of a strong purpose coupled with an entrepreneurial approach. On his return to the UK, he joined Innocent Dr...

In episode 6 of PEP Talk, Simon talks to Avin Rabheru. Avin is an entrepreneur, early-stage investor and non-executive director. He is the Founder and CEO of Housekeep.com, which became the UK market leader in the £10 billion house and office cleaner market 3 years after launch. The business has raised two VC/angel investment rounds, winning Deal of the Year in 2014, and has since raised cleaner e...

In episode 21, Simon talks to Yat Siu. Hong Kong blockchain gaming group Animoca Brands claims unicorn status recently and it's time to hear the full story from the founder, Yat Siu himself live from the StartmeupHK festival.

In this special edition episode, you will learn about Hong Kong and innovation that empowers technology startups.

In this special edition episode, you will learn how to start a business in Hong Kong and the benefit of doing business in Hong Kong.

In this special edition episode, you will learn about Hong Kong, crowdfunding for female entrepreneurs and the benefit of doing business in Hong Kong.

In this special edition episode learn about Hong Kong, the Great Bay Area, the benefit of doing business in Hong Kong and all there is to know about FinTech.