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We are a team of professionals using our commercial expertise to support refugee entrepreneurs in new and innovative ways.

​This is our way of making the world a more inclusive place. 

Our credentials

​Born at the UNICEF FinTech Jam for Good 2016, London  
​Winners of the Infosys Challenge for Financial Inclusion 
Members of F10 - FinTech Accelerator, Zurich, 2016/17
​Members of Entrepreneurial Spark, London, 2017/18
​Members of the Decentralised Blockchain for good Incubator 2018

Members  of Pitch@Palace 11.0 London 2019
Members Xynteo Innovation Exchange 2019
Challenge Winner's EU vs Virus Hackathon 2020
Members London & Partner Business Growth Programme 2020

Our Team 

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Michael Moon
Adviser, Coach & Mentor
Michael has worked with some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our age - including Steve Jobs.  He is the CEO of GISTICS, a Silicon Valley based think tank.  He is helping us to scale and grow this FinTech for Good project. He has also worked with companies such as SAP and HP during their early days. 
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Gerry Creedon​
Finance director
Gerry is an experienced CIMA professional.   ​He has 20 years' experience in entrepreneurial organisations.  He worked at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for 18 years as an accountant.   During this time, he worked on several multi-million pound projects with Lord Hamlyn.  He is supporting BizGees with our internal financial capacity. 
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Zufi Deo
Co Founder - Strategy 
Zufi was a UK Top 50 Business Adviser for 2014 & 2018.  He has an action learning based MBA.  He was a Guest speaker at Wharton Social Entrepreneurs, 2018. He  was a Panel member at  Fintech Week London 2019 - FinTech, Social Impact & Emerging Markets.  He was also a member of two panels at Digital Impact Week, London, 2019. 

Our Volunteer Co-workers

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Jackie is the founder of Global Cadence, a PR and social media marketing company focused on tech companies and social enterprises.  She  is supporting BizGees with its media and social out reach. ​ 

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Josephine is an experienced Economist and researcher based in Nigeria.   She is a Business / Finance analyst at Business Day Media in Nigeria.  She is supporting BizGees understand the refugee expereince locally in NIgeria.

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Adam is a UX designer and a product manager.  He is the founder of Form to Function - a digital innovation facilitator.  He has previously worked on the B4RN project.  This is the worlds fasted rural broadband project in Lancashire, UK.   He is supporting BizGees with our Virtual Fashion innovation  project. 

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Gideon is a full stack developer.  He is a recent Computer Science graduate.  He has interned at Thomson Reuters as a Quality Engineer.  He has also contracted as an Web Editorial Assistant at the British Museum.  He is supporting BizGees with our Virtual Fashion Innovation. 

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Karina is the founder of Voice in Shape - a creative agency.  They build emotional connections between brands and their customers.  She is an experienced visual story teller &  has worked with some leading brands from VW, Tedx  to Moody's.

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Ed Cole is a Senior Manager at Lloyd's Banking Group.  He specialises in Customer Engagement.  He is supporting BizGees with our arts4refugees sales brand. and our data analytics. He is helping ensure we lower our trail and error rates as we build our community of supporters. 

Learn more about our volunteering program here. 


Advisers

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Kilian 
Kleinschmidt, 
​Refugee Affairs 
Adviser

​Kilian has spent over 25 years in international development.  He has held senior posts with the UN including UN Camp Manager in Zaatari, Jordan and Camp Manager in Kenya.  He was a UN Special Envoy to Pakistan.  He is helping BizGees to understand how best to serve the needs of refugee populations. 

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Jana Essebier,
Legal Adviser

Jana is a Senior Partner at Vischer AG, a Swiss law firm based in Zurich.  She has worked on several ICOs in the Crypto Valley. She is supporting BizGees with its Crypto capacity.
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Theresa Regli, 
DAM Adviser 

Theresa has 25 years expereince in the IT sector. For the last 15 years she has specialised in Digital Asset Management (DAM).   She has developed DAM & MarTech strategies for over 20% of the Fortune 500, including Unilever, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Shell, and Nestlé.  She is supporting BizGees with our DAM and MarTech capacity. 

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George Neris,
Arts 
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George is the founder of ArtFix where he is working on making the arts accessible and part of daily life.  He is supporting BizGees with its art4refugees fund raising campaigns. 

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Anna Richell,  Design & Comms Adviser
Anna is the founder of Cultivate.  She is a design specialist  with a background in product & sustainable design .  Anna's clients include Nokia, Oxfam, The Design Council, Business Link, and Dyson.  She is helping BizGees build internal capacity. 

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Martin Dow,  
Tech Adviser
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 Martin is the co-founder of viable systems platform coop, runs specialist tech services firm Acuity Digital; full stack dev/architect, over 30 years in tech.  He works in the data self-sovereignty space.  He has teamed with Adam (above) on community fibre B4RN, business network as well.    He is supporting BizGees with our P2P tech architecture using continuous delivery. 

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Peter Dowson,  Story Telling Adviser
Peter is the co founder of Digital StoryTellers.  He has worked in Music and Media Video production for 20 years.  Digital StoryTellers has been helping the impact sector generate engaging stories for 8 years now.  Peter is helping BizGees articulate refugee stories to engage their supporter base in the developed world.  


Brand Ambassadors

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Martin Campbell
Martin is the founder of Beacon Strategic Communications.  Here he has supported organisations like  The Fair Banking Foundation, Zopa, Abundance & Seedrs.  Previously he was a founding member of  Virgin Direct ( now Virgin Money). 

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Philip Horn
Philip is the Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation at Verizon.   He is a supporter of Future of Work.  We use this approach at BizGees supporting professionals upskill/ reskill themselves.  


Past Advisers

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Stephanie Rupp, Investment Adviser
Stephanie  brings more than 17 years of experience in global impact investing, impact fund design and implementation, and micro-finance, as well as crowdfunding.   Currently, she is the MD of Tiedeman Wealth Management.
She helped us in becoming investment-ready. 

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Ondrej Dusilek, Ex Co- Founder and   Adviser
​Ondrej has 12 years of experience in financial markets with specific experience in trading, clearing,  risk management, regulation and crowdfunding.  His work has focused on the  CEE, UK & Azerbaijan regions.   

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Francis Chen, Tech Adviser ​
Francis led the tech development for the Micro Chain project during his master's at MIT.  Micro Chain is a customised version of blockchain designed for the peer-to-peer, not-for-profit finance market. 

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Lars Diener-Kimmich,  Mentor
​Lars has two decades of experience working in large enterprises and in a startup.  He now leads LUDENSFABER, which enables organisations to run one-of-a-kind innovation projects like a startup, but in a corporate context. ​ He supported us during the F10 program.  He joined us on our UX trip to Zaatari UN Camp. ​


​Programs helping us along our journey...

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​Our innovation ecosystem...

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                   Contact Us

BizGees Ltd is a registered company in the UK.     est 2017
Our Company Number is 11107224
  ©  2020
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​Our registered address is
​artFix London 
​51 Powis Street 
Woolwich       London.   SE18 6HZ.

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