Event overview
Innovation Lecture Series: Meet Alex Depledge, the trailblazing entrepreneur behind Hassle.com and passionate believer in the power of the sharing economy.
Alex is an entrepreneur in residence at Index. Prior to joining the firm, Alex Depledge founded, built and sold UK based domestic cleaning marketplace start-up, Hassle.com. As CEO of Hassle.com, Alex took the firm to a Series A funding round of $6 million and 70 full time employees within 12 months of launch - using the investment to quickly take the startup into Ireland and Europe and making it one of Tech City’s biggest successes. Alex’s forthright views, industry experience and strategic leadership has led to her appointment as chair of the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) and founding board member of the government backed Sharing Economy UK trade body SEUK. In 2016 Alex was awarded an MBE for services to the Sharing Economy.
Dates & times
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11 Oct 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
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