About The SPEAKER
DEMETRIOS ZOPPOS
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer.
“onefinestay”
Zoppos is a London-based Cypriot entrepreneur and early stage tech business leader. Before founding onefinestay in 2009, he was founding CEO of GradFutures, a web community site and co-founder of GF-X, the leading airfreight trading platform, which raised £50m and was acquired by Descartes. Previously, Zoppos was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. where he specialised in e-commerce, and was an associate at the World Bank. He earned his MA with First Class Honours in Economics from Robinson College, Cambridge, and his MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Zoppos is currently launching Klevio, a start-up in the “Internet of Things” area and will walk us through the path of turning an idea into a business.
About The TALK
Going from nothing to something
Zoppos will take us through his personal experience of going from nothing to something along the path of difficult but successful entrepreneurship. He will show us how to turn a good idea into a viable business model.
Zoppos will unveil the story of “onefinestay”, a pioneering start-up in the business of hand-made hospitality which offers guests the chance to stay in the finest homes in the world’s greatest cities while the owners are out of town. The start-up currently offers around 2,600 homes–worth a combined £4bn– in destination cities including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome.
