Yiannis is an award winning founder and serial entrepreneur. He has over 18 year’s experience in marketing and technology, where he’s helped a number of innovative organisations successfully scale. In 2023 he was awarded an MBE on the New Year Honours List for his services to the technology sector.

His career started at B2B SaaS company Rant & Rave, who he helped grow from a challenger brand to a market leader that eventually sold for £50m. Following this, he was chosen as the UK Chair for the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) which is the largest community of CX professionals in the world. In 2021 he helped San Francisco based Copper CRM, one the fastest-growing companies in the US, with their marketing strategy.

Yiannis also advises government and is a member of techUK’s Nation & Region’s Council and sits on the UK Tech Cluster Group board.

Patricia’s strategic advisory and non-executive work spans disciplines, sectors and geographies. The common thread is connecting: ideas and possibilities, places and people, opportunities and ambition.

Her work has been a significant catalyst in urban change, beginning in 1990’s London where she leveraged private sector interest, especially real estate partners, in active stewardship in the improvement of the built environment. This led to game-changing initiatives, including landing BIDs into the UK, and championing tangible action on public realm, critical to liveability and quality of life, and fundamental to London’s economic competitiveness.

She sits on a range of profit and not-for-profit boards and is a strategic adviser to a range of land owners, developers, local authorities and infrastructure bodies as well as chairing a variety of partnership boards.