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.
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
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
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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Our Volunteer Co-workers
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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Sukhy is the founder & CEO of Branding London a multi-award-winning creative design agency. He is also a UK Top 10 Branding Adviser & has worked with BBC, HP and other similar brands in the past. He is supporting us organise our brand identity.
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Layez has a Master's from Lund University, Sweden, in Development Economics and International Development. She has previously supported local businesses in Miami, Florida, with their social media. She is supporting BizGees with our external communications and social media marketing.
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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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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.
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Sarmad Qureshi is a Sloan Fellow 2020 at London Business School. He comes from a finance background having spent two decades raising finance and managing businesses while working with Dubai Ports World and EY. He is supporting us organise our investor proposition and financial model.
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Learn more about our volunteering program here.
Advisers
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. |
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. . |
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. |
George Neris,
Arts Adviser 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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Martin Dow,
Tech Adviser 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. |
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
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). 
Sandeep Roy
Sandeep is the founder of Innovate2Grow . Here he supports companies become digital . He is also an investor and adviser with Gravity AI - an AI based market place. He is also a mentor with the SETSqaured Partnership. |
Richard Ireland
Richard is the founder of Stretch Digital. Here he has worked with companies like Virgin, Random House, and Equiniti. He has previously worked for companies like Zopa, Egg Plc and Legal & General. 
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
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. 
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. |
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. 
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. |
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