Speakers
Rowan Gormley
Rowan is a failed accountant, who discovered that, although he can’t count, he can start new companies.
These include www.nakedwines.com, the only online wine retailer in the world that INVESTS in its winemakers, to get better wines at preferential prices. Before Naked Wines Rowan also founded Virgin Money, Virgin One Account, and Virgin Wines.
With practice, he is gradually getting better at it, with the result that Naked Wines has recruited over 100,000 new customers in only 24 months, won the IWC Innovator of the Year Award, and the Growing Business Start Up of the Year award.
Born and educated in South Africa, Rowan now lives in Bungay in Suffolk, with dogs, chickens, Mrs Gormley and 3 kids. He talks to his vegetables, and sails whenever sales permit.
