Having succeeded providing luxury lifestyle services to the world’s wealthy, Ben’s experience also covers cultural and environmental sectors.
Ben Elliot
Quintessentially
John Hunt
Founder, Archimedia
John is a serial entrepreneur who has helped to create companies worth several billion dollars. He has extensive experience across many sectors and geographies having spent over five years in each of London, New York and Silicon Valley.
His entrepreneurial activities started as co-founder of Seattle Coffee Company (which was later acquired by Starbucks) and founder of Syzygy (e-commerce consulting) which floated on the German Stock market. He subsequently founded or co-founded businesses that either went public or were acquired by public companies.
He is now an active ‘value-added’ investor (through his holding company Archimedia) in the technology, real estate and consumer sectors. The current Archimedia portfolio includes Aman Resorts, Geckoboard, Made.com, Pollen, SuperValu and Virgin Mobile.
John has mentored
Exponentials
We support entrepreneurs and organisations that have the potential to make a massive positive impact in the world.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
I have been able to scale my business within the past 6 months faster than I had ever hoped for! His savvy advice and powerful introductions have been the rocket fuel that we needed to get our company off the ground.
Anton Chernikov, Founder of Exponentials
John has mentored
Makers Academy
Makers Academy is Europe’s leading Web Developer bootcamp. We’ve graduated over 1000 students into their dream jobs as junior developers.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
Really enjoyed the meeting. John was open, interested and caring which is really positive!”
Ruben Kostucki, Founder of Makers Academy
John has mentored
Museum of Architecture
The Museum of Architecture (MoA) is a charity that creates pop-up exhibitions and programming to help the public better engage with architecture and supports architects to be more entrepreneurial.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
It was great meeting John, I learnt lots about other businesses and would love to be able to have more sessions as we grow!
Melissa Woolford, Founder & Director of Museum of Architecture
John has mentored
Internews Europe
Internews, an international nonprofit organization, works to ensure access to trusted, quality information that empowers people to have a voice in their future and to live healthy, secure, and rewarding lives.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
…for convening the aspiring with the wise achievers, and for matching me so well with a somebody with such insights into what I need to focus on!
Mark Harvey, ex-Executive of Internews
John has mentored
Readingwise
The literacy intervention that jump-starts reading. Using a broad range of innovative techniques, we’ve developed a groundbreaking literacy intervention with amazing results.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
My session with John was explosive. I started making deep changes to my business and work the same week. These changes have led me to new, unexpected and very auspicious places.
Jamie Fries, CEO of Reading Wise
John has mentored
Mucho
Like a personal stylist, for your tastebuds. Shop recipes & products, chosen just for you.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
John is not only supremely focused, he is also greatly relatable and keeps the mission of the business in mind throughout the conversion. Quickly pin pointing a pressing need of our business and thinking how he could add value on a specific issue was priceless.
Juliana Zarate, Co-Founder of Mucho
John has mentored
WeFarm
Sharing vital information that improves lives around the world… Even without access to internet.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
Insightful and so helpful. The most useful hour of advice I have had all year. I took a huge amount of insight from the session and am very much looking forward to staying in touch.”
Kenny Ewan, CEO and Founder at WeFarm
John has mentored
Lemonaid
Organic soft drinks from Fairtrade ingredients. Every bottle sold supports social projects.
- Exponentials
- Makers Academy
- Museum of Architecture
- Internews Europe
- Readingwise
- Mucho
- WeFarm
- Lemonaid
10/10. John’s analytical and fast-paced assessment of the business revealed interesting insights from the perspective of a seasoned marketing professional. He was well-prepared for the session and quickly outlined our challenges on the UK market.”
Julian Warowioff, Manage Director Uk for Lemonaid
Want to meet John?
Having co-founded a number of internet startups he consequently sold to recognised companies, Charles now works in private equity.
Charles Mindenhall
Blenheim Chalcot
The co-founder of Made.com was a pioneer in offering online only made-to-order designer furniture at affordable prices.
Chloe Macintosh
https://kama.co/about
Identifying customer data as valuable as early as 1989, Edwina established Tesco Clubcard and continues to innovate with analytics insights.
Edwina Dunn
Dunnhumby, Starcount
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