Director, We Make Websites
CEO/Founder, the-Bias-Cut.com & Ageism Is Never In Style
Augmented Retail Manager, Farfetch
Hostess Extraordinaire, TableCrowd
Director, Winternational.co.uk
Media, Arts & Entertainment Account Executive, La Playa Insurance
Co-Founder & CTO, Save Your Wardrobe
Technology Transactions/Data Protection Partner, Cooley LLP
CEO & Founder, Metail
CoFounder SVP, Jolitel
Founder, Hello Bezlo
Founder & CEO
Luxury Business Senior Consultant & Buyer
Started by:
Table Crowd
Enjoy dinner drinks and a chance to meet…
Tom Adeyoola is CEO and founder of Metail, a virtual fitting room service for fashion retailers that allows customers to create a 3D model of themselves and try on clothes. Metail solves a fundamental customer need - helping people to confidently try on clothes online. To date Metail have raised a whopping $32m in investment, with most recently £10m raised in July last year in series B funding. Tom will be sharing all on building a successful fashtech business and raising $32m along the way!
This dinner is perfect for…
Business owners, CEOs and management level working in fashtech or fashion.
If you'd like to join but don't fall neatly within the above categories, please email us at hello@tablecrowd.com to discuss whether this is the right dinner for you. Also feel free to check out our other dinners as another might match you perfectly!
The dinner conversation will be…
A technology entrepreneur with over 15 years experience in new media and disruptive technology and business models, Tom is perfectly placed to speak about:
✓ How to build an exceptional and unique fashtech platform.
✓ Growing your team and expanding your business internationally.
✓ Finding investors that understand the scalability of your fashtech business.
✓ The journey of Metail - and what you can learn from it.
Expect to hear from Tom on what is currently cutting edge in the fashtech sector, to leave with inspiration for your own business, as well as a great opportunity to speak to others facing similar industry challenges and opportunities as you informally over dinner.
Who is Tom Adeyoola?
Tom Adeyoola is the CEO and Founder of Metail, a virtual fitting room service for fashion retailers that allows customers to create a 3D model of themselves and try on clothes. Metail was born back in 2008 after Tom teamed up with co-founder Duncan Robertson and the two started to look at using breakthroughs in advanced computer vision technology from Cambridge University to help consumers love shopping online as well as in store. Since then the Metail team has grown from two to about sixty.
What’s included?
You get a private dining experience with a knowledgeable speaker, 2 course dinner with wine or 2 soft drinks plus highly curated and relevant crowd. This is a dinner, not a drop-in event, so we ask that guests turn up on time and don’t leave until after the Q&A.
#MeetandEat
P.S. TableCrowd are offering complimentary cab rides home (£15) thanks to their partner, Gett, on first download of the app. Download the app in advance.
Tom Adeyoola is the CEO and Founder of Metail, a virtual fitting room service for fashion retailers that allows customers to create a 3D model of themselves and try on clothes. Metail was born back in 2008 after Tom teamed up with co-founder Duncan Robertson and the two started to look at using breakthroughs in advanced computer vision technology from Cambridge University to help consumers love shopping online as well as in store. Since then the Metail team has grown from two to about sixty.
An Economics graduate from Cambridge, Tom’s career has spanned all forms of new media, from Sportal to 3 and most recently as head of gaming at Inspired Gaming Group. Tom has also founded the Cambridge technology start-up recruitment fair Silicon Milkround Cambridge, has been an active member of the UK government’s DCMS Think Tank on the Convergence of Media (2009), a Demos working group on technology legislation and is the inspiration behind the launch of the government’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). Tom is also a patron for the creative industries incubator MeWe360 and a Non-Executive Director of emerging personal wellness technology startup Chiaro.
One of the TableCrowd hosting team will be on hand to make sure you are welcomed through the door and introduced to the most relevant people to you.
For any advance questions about this dinner, it is best to reach us at hello@tablecrowd.com.