Starting with one physical shop in 1987, Ruth co-founded what was to become Matchesfashion.com, a one-stop shop for designer clothing.
Ruth Chapman
Matches
Anne MacCaig
Non-Executive Director, OPRL
Anne is a Non-Executive Director at the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL). It is committed to transforming levels of UK recycling by making it easier for consumers to recycle more material, more often.
Previously Anne was CEO of Cafedirect PLC, (£14 million) running the organisation on behalf of small-holder farmers in Africa and Latin America.
Cafedirect reinvests profits into programmes to support farmers and their communities. Examples of these investments included carbon sequestration programmes in South America, provision of energy-efficient stoves to reduce deforestation in Africa and the planting of indigenous trees to improve the level of the water table in tea growing communities in Africa.
Earlier in her career she worked in marketing for Unilever on Comfort, Persil and the Dove brand when she lead the Personal Wash Business Unit. In GSK she was Marketing Director of Ribena, creating the “95% of Britain’s Blackcurrants make it “ campaign, initiating the trend to champion British produce, working in partnership with The Wildlife Trusts to protect biodiversity on British blackcurrant farms and introducing the first 100% recycled plastic bottle in the UK. As a Brand Consultant her work has included an organic milk strategy for Fonterra and work on London 2012.
You can read more about Anne here.
The ‘Jim’ in Jimmy’s Iced Coffee, Cregan has gone from delivering his own product to shops to being stocked in every major supermarket.
Jim Cregan
Jimmy’s Iced Coffee
An early Apple employee who became very successful in digital publishing, Hugh now invests in online startups.
Hugh Chappell
LADbible Group
A tech entrepreneur who disrupted the fashion business, Tom is now on the board of Verco, which helps companies achieve zero carbon emissions.
Tom Adeyoola
Metail
