Bec Faye is a Marketplace Optimisation & Growth Specialist (UX / CX / Product), with 11+ years experience in UX/CX/Product Design & Optimisation, including the last 4 years focused purely on marketplaces.

As a marketplace consultant, Bec works closely with founders, product and growth teams to increase conversion, engagement and retention rates through her specifically formulated Marketplace Optimisation Program and Marketplace Framework.

Bec loves running workshops with marketplace teams, especially when they are hit by a ‘Eureka!’ moment that changes everything!

She regularly runs ‘The 8 Pillars of Marketplace Success’ Online Masterclass to introduce marketplace entrepreneurs to a new way of thinking about their marketplace and it’s growth and is about to launch the ‘Two Sides Squared’ Podcast, a podcast designed to dive deep into strategies of exponential marketplace growth.

Emil joined Besedo in 2017 and has since brought his can-do spirit, hard work ethics and marketing expertise to the team.

Emil’s education and expertise lay within the marketing field, but his true passion is to contribute to great user experiences, whether it’s through online or offline interactions. Making him a great fit in the Besedo family.

Prior to his current role, Emil was working in the architecture and design industry with B2B marketing and Business Development in APAC.

Sigrid has been working with online marketplaces since 2012 and follow the industry passionately. She is currently the Global Marketing Manager at Besedo. Her favorite part of that job is that she gets to connect with incredibly smart people, who are as passionate about the sharing economy and digital communities as herself.

Manfredi has worked as a growth consultant for companies ranging from enterprises like HSBC, Ebay and Velux, to scale-ups like Faceit, Quiqup and Tide.

He helps them set up a strong performance marketing capability, designing platform strategies, create content marketing plans and delivering full go-to market strategy.

Oliver Winberg has spent the past 20+ years working in the highly competitive classifieds advertising space in South Africa – employed at the highly successful and innovative Junk Mail Digital Media.

The first 10 years of Oliver’s career was focused on the upstart of CapeAds classifieds magazine. Oliver started at CapeAds as a part-time graphic designer with the display ad sales team. Oliver quickly became responsible for the overall production of CapeAds ads magazine. During this time he also developed the first website for CapeAds and managed all aspects of the IT infrastructure. Junk Mail classifieds are the leading classifieds publishers in South Africa. Following Junk Mail’s acquiring of CapeAds, Oliver moved to Pretoria to lead the national production team. This was followed by a brief stint building the production team for Junk Mail’s car and truck for sale titles in Johannesburg. When Oliver moved back to Pretoria in 2008, he was offered the opportunity to found Junk Mail’s digital marketing team. With the help of training from Blue Rank in Poland, Oliver discovered the power of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) which has become Oliver’s passion.

Oliver has now relocated to Stockholm and survived his first real winter. With extensive experience and expertise in marketplace SEO, Oliver is looking forward to work with you to find solutions to the challenges you may be facing with your Search Engine Optimisation strategy.

C. Steven Baker recently retired as Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Midwest Region in Chicago, a position he has held from 1988 until 2016. As the Director of FTC, Steven was the recipient of honorable awards, such as the Consumer Advocate of the Year award from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators, the FTC Chairman’s Award, the highest agency honor and the Chicago Better Business Bureau’s Torchbearer Award in 2016.

Steve is currently an International Investigations Specialist for the Better Business Bureau, where he recently authored national studies on pet fraud and tech support scams. He is also author of a weekly newsletter on consumer fraud issues that goes out around the world called the Baker Fraud Report.

rnMathias Ockenfels is a Berlin-based Partner at Speedinvest x, an early stage focus fund under the Speedinvest umbrella investing into network effects. Mathias eats and breathes marketplaces: Prior to launching Speedinvest x, he was a General Manager for the German market at Uniplaces, a marketplace for student accommodation. Before that, Mathias was a Principal at Point Nine Capital, a Berlin-based early-stage fund focused on SaaS and marketplaces.rnrnEarlier in his career, Mathias worked at Naspers, previously the parent company of online auction and classifieds platform ricardo.ch, where he was heading the M&A department of the group. He started his career as an Investment Manager at Zurich-based Mountain Partners Group. Mathias holds a german-french double-diploma from European School of Business Reutlingen and Neoma Business School Reims.

Daniel Hoffer has experience as current Managing Partner at Crux Capital and former Partner at Tandem Capital, both seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. He is also co-founder and former CEO of CouchSurfing, a travel website with >15 million members across every country and city in the world, and a former Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.rnrnIn addition to the entrepreneurial experience, he has deep product management expertise from executive product roles at NortonLive (Symantec) and TripIt (Concur/SAP). Daniel has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and been featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, as well as on ABC Nightline, NBC News, National Public Radio, and in the New York Times and Time Magazine. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, and the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School.

Michal has Ph.D. in Software Engineering, in the field of user modeling and personalization on the Web. He is a software developer with a strong focus on data science, data analysis and machine learning.

He co-founded Luigi’s Box, where as a CPO he is bringing his research ideas into practice, changing the way how people search for goods on the Web. He believes that we should all care more about education of young people and share our experience with students. That is why he is still in contact with academia and is lecturing Database systems course for undergraduate students at Faculty of Informatics of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Emil joined the Besedo team in 2017 and has since brought his can-do spirit, work ethics and marketing expertise to the team.

Emil’s education and expertise lay within the marketing field, but his true passion is to contribute to great user experiences, whether it’s through online or offline interactions. Making him the perfect fit for the Besedo team.

Anton Koval is a founder of Braincode an agency that works with founders and companies to help them build their own online marketplaces. Previously Anton bootstrapped his own marketplace in HR- Tech area. Anton is a big advocate of the platform economy and remote work.

Jeroen joined Speedinvest – a Pan-European early-stage Venture Capital firm headquartered in Vienna – as a Principal in 2017. Within Speedinvest, he is part of the team that leads Speedinvest x – its dedicated 50M Euro focus-fund that invests exclusively in online marketplaces and platforms. Amongst his investments are companies such as CoachHub (Germany), Packhelp (Poland) and Kodit (Finland). Jeroen is also leading the organization of The Marketplace Conference, a one-day conference happening twice a year in San Francisco and Berlin. Before joining Speedinvest, Jeroen was CEO and co-founder of VC-backed Deskbookers out of the Netherlands.

Martin Boss is the founder of MultiMerch Systems and a fan of marketplace e-commerce. At MultiMerch, he helps companies build and grow successful online marketplace businesses.

Michal has Ph.D. in Software Engineering, in the field of user modeling and personalization on the Web. He is a software developer with a strong focus on data science, data analysis and machine learning.

He co-founded Luigi’s Box, where as a CPO he is bringing his research ideas into practice, changing the way how people search for goods on the Web. He believes that we should all care more about education of young people and share our experience with students. That is why he is still in contact with academia and is lecturing Database systems course for undergraduate students at Faculty of Informatics of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Emil joined the Besedo team in 2017 and has since brought his can-do spirit, work ethics and marketing expertise to the team.

Emil’s education and expertise lay within the marketing field, but his true passion is to contribute to great user experiences, whether it’s through online or offline interactions. Making him the perfect fit for the Besedo team.

Tiwa York is the Head Coach of Kaidee (a.k.a CEO). He is passionate about changing lives through trading second-hand goods, startups, and building great teams.

Along with a team of 5 awesome people, Tiwa founded an online C2C marketplace which is now known as Kaidee in 2011. In 2018, Kaidee had 1 million sellers, listing 8.7 million items, and reaching 30 million people in Thailand.

Tiwa has been recognized for his passion, his leadership, and his efforts to build the team and culture at Kaidee. Prior to his current role, he worked in digital advertising with leadership roles in Admax Network and Omnicom Media Group.

Emil joined the Besedo team in 2017 and has since brought his can-do spirit, work ethics and marketing expertise to the team.

Emil’s education and expertise lay within the marketing field, but his true passion is to contribute to great user experiences, whether it’s through online or offline interactions. Making him the perfect fit for the Besedo team.

Prior to his current role, Emil was working in the architecture and design industry with B2B marketing and Business Development at Eurasia Architectural Products Ltd.