Perspectives podcast

Princedale founder Ru Jupp caught up with Claire to talk about her maternity leave during lockdown, her move from Virgin Atlantic and what the future holds for McLaren Racing.

Today I'm talking to Sandrine Desbarbieux-Lloyd, European Vice President Digital Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics - a company which needs little introduction.

Founded in 2007, Farfetch has quickly cornered the boutique, high end fashion space with its luxury marketplace. As a result it’s share price has increased by 600% in the last year alone.

Moonpig is a card first business and is proudly for everyone and deliberately mass market.

I’m delighted to be talking to Alex Loizou, CEO & co-founder of Trouva, the wildly successful growth marketplace, founded in 2015.

PushDoctor, the first platform to offer medical consultations in the UK digitally, via video. Push Doctor is VC backed and has raised c.$50 million, most latterly with series C funding.

For this, the first podcast in the second series of Thriving/Surviving through the pandemic, my guest is Simon Jackson, Customer & Digital Director of Screwfix

In this session I’m joined by Oliver Bolton who runs Almond, an app that makes it easy for consumers to become carbon balanced by rewarding those who spend money ethically through the planting and protecting of trees.

For the first podcast in our second series on the subject of sustainability we’re joined by Nick Torday CEO and Co Founder of Bower Collective which launched in January of this year.

This week we’re talking to Nathan Coe, CEO of FTSE100 Autrotrader – the UK’s largest digital automative marketplace and one of the most profitable marketplaces in the world.

Clive Jackson is the Founder Chairman of Victor, an on demand private jet charter company for business and leisure travellers.

This week we’re talking to Claire Hennah, Global VP of E-commerce at Unilever. Claire oversees a global team of 700 E-commerce staff and has been accelerating all e-commerce channels to capitalise on the growth that has occurred as a result of the pandemic.

Today we’re talking to Debbie Bond, COO of Lovehoney which was founded in Bath in 2002. Lovehoney is the leading supplier of adult toys and sexy lingerie with nine territory sites, a team of over 340 people and 66 awards under its belt including the Queen’s award for international growth.

This week we're talking to Nick Thomas, Chief Digital Officer at Holland & Barrett. During the pandemic the company saw demand of over 800% year on year at the peak and faced challenges managing the supply side of that increased demand.

In this podcast, we’re talking to Olivier Van Calster, VP & GM Europe for StockX

Mindful Chef has thrived during the pandemic with sales increasing from £16m last year to £50m this year and a growth in customer numbers of 450%.