Collinson

Global travel facilitator, operating airport lounges & experiences, loyalty, customer experience and insurance programmes. Collinson works with 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups, and supports 400+ million travellers.

Strategy Consultant

Tech platform providing a holistic approach to recognition, reward and retention for a brand's most important people.

Advisor

DataHawks

Consultancy helping hospitality and retail clients to maximise and monetise their customer data. DataHawks prepares bespoke reports to identify and profile a brand's most valuable customers and creates CRM-based campaigns to power acquisition, retention and incremental revenue.

Peckish

Hospitality tech platform, helping operators complete stock takes within seconds and automate orders, reducing wastage, increasing profits and ensuring the right stock turn up, on time, every time.

Servo AI

Hospitality tech platform helping multi-site hospitality operators drive service improvements, enhance guest experience and increase revenue using insights from current CCTV infrastructure.

Selbey Anderson

Faculty member for Selbey Labs, part of the Selbey Anderson group, helping SME & enterprise clients make sense of an increasingly complex world with research, foresight and innovation.

Faculty Member

The Big Table Group

Operator of 230+ casual dining restaurants, employing 6,000 people across UK & Ireland, including Las Iguanas, Bella Italia, Banana Tree and Frankie & Benny's. The group continues to create, develop and acquire brands throughout high streets, resorts, shopping centres and concessions.

Strategy Director

Wildfarmed

Vertically integrated regenerative farming, flour and food company, literally writing the book on regen ag, paying each member of the supply chain fairly, and bringing better bread to supermarket shelves, restaurant menus and bakery windows across the country.

Canvas Offices

Rapidly-scaling flexible office provider with design-led, low-waste spaces in London's most vibrant neighbourhoods.

Forty Eight Point One

Challenger creative agency focused on strategy, brand, and digital, working with category-defining brands including Coca Cola, LEON, Fairline Yachts, Diageo, Franco Manca, and Gozney. 

Led strategy, new business, partnership, and client services functions. Exited in August 2022.

Co-Founder & Strategy Director

Commercial + Brand Strategy with Operational Rigour for Food, Drink & Experience businesses.

Enterprise consultancy. Startup advisory.

This has been hard and manual.

It's been tiring and challenging.

It's involved flooded basement hotel rooms (don't ask), early morning karaoke (I won't tell) and thousands (I counted) of hours spent networking and discussing.

And it's been entirely worth it.

If you're a eComm, retail or CPG founder in Europe - let's talk. 

To those already a part of Venice Founders Network - let's go.

James Sandrini

Founder at Venice | Building Europe’s consumer brand network.

18 months ago I came to the realisation that there were plenty of US centric eCommerce communities - But none purpose built for Europe.

The first person I rang was Kasper Brandi Petersen: “How do you meet other founders and keep your finger on the pulse of what's new?”

His reply: “Honestly? It’s a full-time job to keep on top of it. You should facilitate it for us!”

So I set out to build Venice Founders Network - One central point for the European Consumer space.

Today, Venice is 175+ founders & CEOs of Consumer Brands doing €1m+ in ARR. Connecting, problem-solving, and opening doors for each other.

What started as a community, has now become a fully fledged network.
✅ Founders sharing real numbers and strategies in our All Hands calls
✅ IRL events in Amsterdam and London (new cities launching in 2026!)
✅ Expert sessions with people like Tom Gozney and Kevin Indig
✅ 50+ exclusive SAAS partner discounts negotiated for members
✅ A vetted agency list built from founder recommendations 

The most rewarding part is the stuff we don't orchestrate:
📈 1000's of DMs, 1:1 Founder calls and in-person meet-ups
💬 Late-night Slack threads solving supply chain crises
✈️ Even founders flying to different countries to meet up for strategy sessions!

Huge shout out to our early members who believed in this vision, opened up countless doors and made Venice what it is today. Anders Reckendorff, Harry Zalk, Isobel Ridley, Micha Medendorp, Daisy Kelly, Tom Reid, Ruben Peters, Madi A, Tom van der Kolk, Marien Jansen, Julian Osborne to name just a few!

& to James Sandrini, Ash Read and Hope Kelly for putting in the hard yards!

If you know a European Brand founder who should join, send me a DM or tag them in the comments :)

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