Conference : “Fuel your entrepreneurial spirit

“Take the plunge into entre-/intra-preneurship!”

The Australia club ambassadors invite you to an evening devoted to entrepreneurship and personal development followed by drinks!

Thursday 4 April 2019
6 pm
MORDEO
CBD - Martin Place station

Theme: “Fuel your entrepreneurial spirit!” - Come and hear about some inspiring ventures started by SKEMA alumni

Priscilla Koukoui (SK 2008), Founder of OviSquare

Priscilla is a modern-day adventurer hunting for innovations in the field of VR (virtual reality). She discovered her life’s purpose and set up Ovisquare.com in 2018! She is currently working on her 1st VR original to share her values. Combining technology and creativity, she will come and share her story and the challenges she currently faces. Being employed is part of the entrepreneurial life: having devoted herself to OviSquare full-time for nearly a year, she now also works as Immersive Digital Solutions Lead for GHD Digital. "Virtual is the New Real!"

She’s also been an ambassador of the SKEMA Alumni Australia club for several years now!

Nathalie Taquet (SK 2019), Founder of Bottli

Nathalie left her position as Team Manager in a major pharmaceutical company to start her own business, Bottli. She shares her passion for French gastronomy in Sydney by organising events for discovering French and Australian wines during masterclasses led by a French/Australian sommelier with some twenty years’ experience. Her next goal is to offer home-delivered discovery packs of French wines, champagne and craft beer to open people up to a world of new flavours.

Julie Brument (SK 2013), Marketing Manager, Jayride

Julie is a food entrepreneur and marketing expert with a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation. By the age of 30, Julie had started two companies in the Food & Beverage industry (The Nine and Bio In Bev), one in Shanghai and the other in Sydney, before working as CMO for foodora and then joining the marketing teams at Jayride, a publicly traded company. Her favourite challenge is to find opportunities within an ecosystem and build new business models around those niches.

Enguerrand Vidor (SK 2002), Founder and CEO of Leezair

Enguerrand (aka Angus) is a French and Australian serial entrepreneur living in Sydney. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Leezair, a company that connects travellers to experiences, tours and activities around the world, and wants to shape the future of tourism through technological innovations. He has also just completed a successful funding round for Cosette, a new marketplace selling and hiring out authentic and traceable luxury items, of which he is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Officer. He has received several awards, including "Best Travel Innovation 2017 and 2018 by Finder", "Most Innovative Travel Startup of the year at Qantas Avro in Australia", "NSW 2018 Business Award - Excellence in Innovation” and "NSW 2018 Business Award - Outstanding Young Entrepreneur". He'll be joining us to talk about his background, his company and his plans for the future.