NEXUS BUILDS ESG ALIGNED FOUNDERS IN THE CREATIVE, TECH AND DIGITAL INDUSTRIES
NEXUS sits at the heart of the U.K government innovation strategy and is home to a global network of 150+ ESG aligned companies.
NEXUS is a forward-thinking collaborative incubator that operates as a physical and digital hub.
Established on the principle that the value in a businesses is more than just the bottom line and must include a measure of their behaviour in relation to the environment, society and the way the business is governed (ESG).
The value in membership comes through:
- Leveraging each other’s skills and contacts in our global network
- Bespoke business service support and industry specific expert guidance
- Access to infrastructure within which to conduct your business
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GET TO KNOW US
FAROUK DEEN
CO-FOUNDER, NEXUS
Farouk is an award winning Event Director and Consultant with 20+ years of pioneering creative led strategy and content for clients (B2B) and uniquely incubating in-house brands (B2C). Alongside Mark, Farouk is co-founder of NEXUS, Cellar Door, Coffee Shotter and Bollywood Fever. Prior to being a start-up founder, Farouk began his career at Barclays corporate banking, working with brands including Jimmy Choo, Versace and Zara, before moving onto investment banking / portfolio management for Deutsche Bank.
MARK SARFO-KANTANKA
CO-FOUNDER, NEXUS
Mark is co-founder of NEXUS, an incubator for creative and digital SMEs. Additional business interests include Cellar Door, a creative events agency, Coffee Shotter, an independent plant based coffee shop and Bollywood Fever, the largest Bollywood film festival in the U.K. Mark is Chair of the Croydon Creative Enterprise Zone Steering Group and Trustee of Savvy Theatre Company.
“John Newbigin OBE is an international consultant on the creative economy. He was the co-founder and first Chair of Creative England, an organisation that invests in and supports independent creative businesses.”
JOHN NEWBIGIN OBE Ambassador For The Creative Industries, Mayor of London
“Urenna is the founder and CEO of Cashmere App. A fashion-focused social savings and e-commerce fintech platform that helps trend-focused millennials save towards and purchase luxury fashion without having to dip into their personal savings.”
URENNA OKONKWO Founder, Cashmere App
“Shona is the founder and CEO of startup Utopy. And was previously the UK and Norther Europe Market Manager for Airbnb Experiences, responsible leading on the product’s meteoric growth across Northern Europe. And previous to this, was head of Operations for Accomable, the accessibility focused startup.”
SHONA MARSH Founder, Utopy (Ex Airbnb)
“Simeon is the founder and CEO of Vivida, a technology platform leveraging interactive and immersive technologies, film and storytelling, to help some of the world’s biggest brands and companies train and develop their people and teams in remarkable new ways.”
SIMEON QUARRIE Founder and CEO, Vivida
“Andrew is the founder and CEO of Kaomi, a UK and South Africa based digital marketing platform delivering SEO, analytics, and social media marketing for companies around the world.”
ANDREW BLOCH Founder, Kaomi
“Moe is the ex product and growth manager at Splento, a photography and video services platform, dubbed the Uber for photography, which has now scaled to more than 47 countries, and 400 cities worldwide.”
MOE HANAFY Product and GTM Strategy (Ex Splento)
“Henry is the founder and CEO of Percent, an API-based fundraising platform using technology to put social good into every transaction and purpose into every organisation by enabling businesses to integrate giving to good causes as part of their checkout process.”
HENRY LUDLAM Founder, Percent
“John is a Partner at MediaCom, one of the world’s leading media communications specialists, with billings of $17.6 billion, employing 8,000 people in 125 offices across 100 countries and working with some of the world’s most valuable brands and companies.”
JOHN BEARDSWORTH Partner, MediaCom
“Anthony is founder of AD:K, growing tech hubs, ventures, and ecosystems, for entrepreneurs, corporates, banks, and governments in 30 cities around the world. With Airbnb, Telefonica, Bank of Korea, the Austrian Embassy and others”
ANTHONY DAVID KING Founder, AD:K
“Ezechi is a founding member of Impact X Capital. A venture capital fund investing in startups at seed, Series A and Series B stages, with an aim to represent entrepreneurs within the entertainment, media, tech and creative industries. Ezechi is also the founder and CEO at Code Untapped, a digital skills accelerator.”
EZECHI BRITTON MBE Founding Member, Impact X Capital
“Paris is the founder and CEO of We Love Work, a technology platform that helps companies and organisations create healthier and happier workplace culture by collecting data and insights on how people and teams feel at work. A regular guest on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.”
PARIS PETGRAVE Founder, We Love Work
“Alan is a Venture Partner at EDT Partners and the former Director of Apple Education, EMEA and then Asia, where he developed the roll-out of education podcasting through iTunes Universities in the UK and Europe.”
ALAN GREENBERG Venture Partner, EDT & Partners
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