Turning The Tables: Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch & Steve O’Hear VP of Strategy, Zapp

Name: Turning The Tables: Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch & Steve O’Hear VP of Strategy, Zapp
Start: 2021-11-25T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-11-25T20:00:00+00:00

London
Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 6:00 PM (GMT)

About this event

Zapp’s VP of Strategy, Steve O'Hear, is joined by Alex Wilhelm from TechCrunch for a fireside chat.

Zapp delivers groceries and drinks in minutes - the rapid-delivery company is building the future of convenience retail. Steve is developing its strategy to help it become the most customer-focused brand in the sector. Prior to joining, Steve spent nearly 15 years as a technology and business journalist, including over 10 years as a reporter for TechCrunch, the leading global technology news site, where he focussed on the UK/European startups, companies and venture capital.

This talk will be moderated by Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch. He previously worked for Crunchbase as News as Editor in Chief, as well as The Next Web, and Mattermark.

Join this virtual talk and learn from the insights of our guests.

Speakers

Alex Wilhelm

TechCrunch

Senior Editor

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Steve O’Hear

Zapp

VP of Strategy

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Past Speakers

Sir Martin Sorrell

S4 Capital

Founder/Chairman

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Thorold Barker

The Wall Street Journal

Editor EMEA

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Tom Blomfield

Monzo | GoCardless

Co-founder

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Nic Brisbourne

Forward Partners

CEO

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Sir Martin Sorrell

S4 Capital

Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital plc, which is building a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, local clients and millennial-driven influencer brandsSir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million “shell” company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company. When Sir Martin left in April 2018, WPP had a market capitalisation of over £16 billion, revenues of over £15 billion, profits of approximately £2 billion and over 200,000 people in 113 countries. Prior to that, Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi plc for 9 years and worked for James Gulliver, Mark McCormack and Glendinning Associates before that.S4 Capital plc merged with MediaMonks, its content practice, in July 2018 and MightyHive, its programmatic practice, in December 2018 and has added eight further content programmatic and data companies to both practices in 2019, six in 2020 and four in January 2021. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L and after a little over two years, S4 Capital plc has over 4000 people in 31 countries, with a market capitalization of over $3.6 billion.Sir Martin supports a number of leading business schools and universities, including his alma maters, Harvard Business School and Cambridge University and a number of charities, including his family foundation.

Thorold Barker

The Wall Street Journal

Thorold Barker is Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa, for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires overseeing the combined editorial resources of the newspaper and newswire. Mr. Barker joined the Journal in 2008 when he relaunched Heard on the Street as a global commentary and analysis product, covering business, finance and macro-economics. Before joining the Journal he worked at the Financial Times in London and New York, having begun his career at Bain & Company, a global business and strategy consulting firm.

Tom Blomfield

Monzo | GoCardless

Tom founded Monzo in 2015 along with four co-founders. After graduating from Oxford with a Masters degree in Law, Tom joined the consulting world at OC&C before opting for startup life in Silicon Valley. At San Francisco’s Y Combinator Tom dipped his toe in the world of fintech and founded GoCardless – a direct debit processing company. A further stint Stateside at New York based dating app, Grouper saw Tom complete his time in the US and return to the UK where he has been CEO of Monzo until early 2021. In 2013 Tom was named as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission.

Nic Brisbourne

Forward Partners

Nic is the founder and CEO of Forward Partners, a VC company that recently went public. He has worked in venture capital in London and Silicon Valley for over 20 years. Prior to founding Forward in 2013, he was a founding Partner at leading venture capital firm Draper Esprit. Before entering the venture capital industry he worked as a strategy consultant for Gemini Consulting and at London based startup Operis Group plc.Outside of Forward he’s a proud husband and father of two teenage kids and a long-time season ticket holder at Chelsea Football Club. He’s developed a keen interest in mindfulness and philosophy that’s proved to be a great asset at home, at work and as a supporter of the aforementioned club.