Subscription Addiction

Matt Lane is the founder of BeerBods, the UK's original (and still the best!) online beer club and subscription service. Since selling the business to AB-InBev, the world's largest brewing company in 2019, Matt has worked as Chief Beer Officer at Beer Hawk, the UK's largest online beer retailer. He is also an investor, advisor, and non-exec director to a number of other businesses, focussing mainly on food & drink, e-commerce and subscription services.

Alexandra Rico-Lloyd is one of the founders of the Bike Club. Europes largest kids bike subscription service. Since launching in 2017, the Bike Club has grown to over 25,000 bikes; enabling families to get active and outdoors whilst learning a new skill. As Chief Operating Officer Alexandra is responsible for the operations, technology and customer service which has created thousands of happy young cyclists across the UK. She has led her team successfully through multiple challenges experienced when turning a household staple into a product-as-a-service offering.

Diane is the Tech lead for smol. Since March 2018, smol has been helping hundreds of thousands of households make a big difference with its household goods subscription service which costs less to their customers and the planet than traditional supermarket brands.

Ted Charalambides is Digital & Marketing Director at Pact Coffee and heads up the D2C & Brand functions at the company. Ted joined Pact Coffee in August 2018, coming in to lead the marketing, brand, digital proposition, acquisition, customer experience and creative teams. With experiences gained from senior digital roles at both Lily’s Kitchen and splashdirect.com, Ted has grown the Pact Coffee D2C team and led a major re-platforming and rebranding project. All of this has required a wide, developed set of skills relating to digital marketing, eCommerce strategy and web development.

Joseph Munns is the founder of Bakedin, a home baking kit brand based in Basingstoke. In 2015 Joseph left his career in the IT industry to start Bakedin and build their first factory. Today they have products in 1000 shops across the UK including Tesco, Costco and Hobbycraft. In addition to their retail presence they have over 20,000 subscribers to their Baking Club subscription box and an eCommerce site, with annual revenue in excess of £4m.

Having gained over 15 years’ experience in the areas of subscriptions and loyalty marketing, I have focused on creating the strategic direction along with the development, implementation and management of customer centric propositions to deliver both excellent customer experiences and achieve business goals.

The evolution of the UK subscriptions market over recent years and the subsequent creation of new and unique opportunities for suppliers and customers alike, continue to make this a truly exciting business area that I’m proud to be a part of.

Oddbox is a sustainable fruit and veg box tackling food waste. Oddbox work closely with farmers, rescuing fresh, seasonal surplus fruit & veg which are at risk of becoming food waste. Emilie is co-founder of Oddbox and has over 15 years' project and team management experience in Fortune 500 companies (3M and BT) across the globe.She was previously Director of Finance & Operations for an international NGO set up by the Nike Foundation and working in developing countries to empower adolescent girls to reach their potential. Before that, she worked close to 10 years in finance in the corporate sector in France, India and the UK.