Panel Discussion: Pop-ups That Pop

For this panel, we will be learning from Nicole Compen (Founder & Director of raye the store), Jacq Ellis-Jones (Marketing Director at Pip & Nut) and Ruth Fittock (Fractional Marketing Director / Former Marketing Director at Simply Roasted Crisps)

This panel will be chaired by Carly Osman-Holme (Founder of Sprowt)

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About our panellists:

After a decade of experience in brand & marketing management, Nicole Compen founded travelling retail concept raye the store in June 2021. More than simply a place to shop, raye is cultivating an ecosystem that aligns brands, consumers and industry figures who are motivated by the same ethics of wellbeing and building challenger brands to diversify the marketplace of the future.

Jacq Ellis-Jones is an experienced Marketing Director who works with B Corp mission led brands in the world of food. She is currently at Pip & Nut, with a previous role of Head of Brand Comms at Ella’s Kitchen.

Ruth Fittock is a Fractional Marketing Director with over 15 years experience building and launching food and drink brands. Most recently Ruth was Marketing Director at Simply Roasted crisps. Prior to Simply Roasted, Ruth lead the marketing at Popchips for 8 years from launch through to exit.

Carly Osman-Holme will be asking the questions! She has almost twenty years experience building the world’s most famous brands, including Coca-Cola & Nestle. She has also acted as an advisor & fractional CMO for several scale-ups & startups.

About Mission Kitchen Panel Discussions:

Join us for some lively discussion about the highs and lows of making it in the food business world. At these talks, the UK's leading voices will be sharing their food business stories, and some of the valuable lessons they learned along the way.

This is an open session for aspiring food founders where we encourage participants to get involved, ask questions and apply ideas to their own projects and businesses.

Ticket includes post-Q&A networking drinks and samples from the speakers.