Carbon13's Entrepreneurs in Residence
Stephanie Alys
A Deloitte management consultant turned award-winning entrepreneur, Stephanie co-founded leading British sexual health & wellbeing brand MysteryVibe. Over 5 years, Stephanie grew MV from basic concept to pulling in £m revenues, and expanding to over 60 countries.
Stephanie’s previous work in sustainability includes business strategy for large renewable energy infrastructure projects and Demand Side Management, alongside large scale communications and public affairs campaigns. She holds an MSc in Energy & Climate policy.
Stephanie has been featured in publications such as the BBC, Times, Guardian, CNBC and TechCrunch. She was awarded the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman award in 2018 for her achievements in taking sextech to the mainstream.
Oyvind Henriksen
Founding CEO of Poq, a SaaS platform for mobile shopping apps, driving $1bn of annual app revenue with a team of 100 people, a Forrester-recognised product and £20m of VC funding. Experienced in designing, prototyping and developing innovative products, bringing them to market and growing a successful VC-backed company from zero to Series B. Passionate about learning and researching what’s new, and about mentoring and helping fellow founders on their startup journey.
Paul Rigby
Formerly an Air Traffic Control Operations and Engineering specialist at the world’s busiest en-route air traffic control centre, Paul holds professional engineering accreditations with the Royal Aeronautical society. He founded the drone consultancy and SaaS startup Consortiq and over seven years he expanded the team to the USA and delivered business to many other countries like The Gambia, Canada, and Ecuador. Consortiq were part of a consortium to use drones to deliver critical medical supplies by drone from the mainland UK to the Scilly Isles.
Paul and his company have had major features in printed publications such as Empire Magazine, provided guest commentary on Radio 4, BBC News, Sky News, Channel 5 News, and he regularly speaks at industry conferences. He is part of key government working groups for business, policy and entrepreneurship with the Department for Transport and Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Carbon13's Storyteller in Residence
Paul Bourne
Paul works in ‘Creative Engagement’. In Executive Education and Entrepreneurship, his key areas of interest are working alongside Artists exploring Creativity in the Workplace, Enterprise Thinking, Collaborative working, Communication Impact and Transformational Leadership. All wrapped up in Storytelling.
He has most recently worked with a wide variety of retained clients focusing on two key areas: Cultural Shift with The Dubai Stock Exchange (DIFC), Liverpool Football Club, NIKE and Sberbank (Russia), and Communication Impact Programmes for management and staff with Fairtrade, United States Armed Forces and McLaren Formula One Racing.