Alex Hersham

Ometria is a customer data and experience platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue. Our solution combines the data unification and customer insight of a CDP with a cross-channel marketing orchestration platform, letting retail marketers easily and efficiently create experiences their customers love across email, mobile, on-site, social, direct mail and more. Ometria’s proven approach to accelerating revenue – our Retail Success Model™ – is a first-of-its-kind data science model for driving CRM growth in retail. It combines four proprietary AI algorithms that analyse a retailer’s CRM performance and deliver a bespoke marketing plan for reaching their revenue goals.

SPIRIT.ED is an independently owned premium drinks company which focuses on finding and selling a shortlist of exceptional drinks that have both style and substance. Founded in 2012, and formerly known as 31DOVER, we sell drinks to the Central London trade, as well as to online consumers UK-wide. Our business has three key parts - Online, Trade and Agency. Drinkspirited.co.uk is our award-winning website, which hosts our curated range of exciting flavours in artfully designed bottles, making choosing and buying a breeze. And with next day delivery as standard, you could be venturing into exciting new home bar territory tomorrow. Our SPIRIT.ED Trade business is the trusted supplier of premium spirits, champagne and wine to central London’s top restaurants, bars, hotels, and nightclubs. And our experienced in-house agency team manages the UK distribution for a portfolio of exceptional exclusive brands, as well as managing digital marketing and above the line campaigns for premium drinks brands. We are always on the lookout for amazing tasting drinks, which have style as well as substance, so get in touch!

Various board memberships

ReadOn Therapeutics is a non-profit biotechnology organisation focused on developing readthrough therapeutics for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), with an initial focus on dystrophic EB caused by nonsense mutations. Our vision is to make nonsense read-through a validated, scaleable therapeutic category, developing functional cure for EB patients and hundreds of rare diseases. We operate at the intersection of translational science, rare disease research, and patient-centred drug development, working collaboratively with researchers, clinicians, biotech partners, and the EB community to accelerate progress toward meaningful treatments. ReadOn Therapeutics is based in Munich, Germany.

Nonsense mutations cause about 10-12% of cases across over 10,000 rare diseases, impacting roughly 40 million people. These mutations often lead to the most severe disease outcomes. At Nonsense Tx, we focus on developing small-molecule therapies to boost collagen 7 production for Dystrophic EB patients. Early lab results using primary patient cells—tested with a leading expert on nonsense mutations in EB—have shown very promising outcomes

Epidermolysis Bullsosa (EB) is a painful genetic skin condition that causes the skin to tear or blister at the lightest touch. DEB (Dystrophic EB) is one of the most severe subsets of EB. Our mission is to help patients with EB to live, and to live well. By fulfilling our mission, we can transform the lives of people with DEB, as well as to develop and support technologies that can help cure thousands of other rare diseases that impact ~ 400m people worldwide.

Zencargo is a digital first freight forwarder & logistics provider. Our platform allows customers to book, manage and keep track of their international freight as well as use analytics to drive intelligent supply chain decisions that help their businesses thrive. Whilst shipping is a complex trillion dollar industry, you might be surprised to know that many of the processes that could be simplified with technology are currently done over the phone, by fax and email or even jotted down on scraps of paper Our services include ocean, air and rail freight as well as trucking and cargo insurance. We deliver significant time, paper and financial savings to our customers offering instant quoting, easy booking and an online dashboard to give them 360 degree, 24/7 visibility on their shipments. Shippers and their counterparts collaborate to manage their logistics on Zencargo and all their supply chain data is stored together in the cloud making business analytics easier than ever. At Zencargo, we believe that technology can simplify logistical complexity and tear down barriers to trade. Automating trade and logistics operations and providing access to data and analysis will help companies to trade smarter and more efficiently, freeing businesses to concentrate on key decisions. Only by combining human endeavour and technology, can we build smarter supply chains that know no borders. Interested in being a part of the journey? Zencargo is hiring so please do check our job postings!

Ometria is a customer data and experience platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue. Our solution combines the data unification and customer insight of a CDP with a cross-channel marketing orchestration platform, letting retail marketers easily and efficiently create experiences their customers love across email, mobile, on-site, social, direct mail and more. Ometria’s proven approach to accelerating revenue – our Retail Success Model™ – is a first-of-its-kind data science model for driving CRM growth in retail. It combines four proprietary AI algorithms that analyse a retailer’s CRM performance and deliver a bespoke marketing plan for reaching their revenue goals.