Xavier de Lecaros-Aquise

Warwick maths graduate Xavier de Lecaros-Aquise set up his first start-up straight out of University having already built up a stellar history of investment banking internships at the likes of Citigroup, HSBC, PWC, E&Y, to name a few.

Selling his startup 2 years later, he then joined a Venture Capital advisory boutique buying and selling European tech start-ups in the mobile, hardware, online retail and digital media space, soon leading the UK consumer and digital media efforts for the bank having worked with the likes of Aldebaran Robotics, Axel Springer, Brand Alley, Blyk, ..... Wonga.
Xavier then left his comfy job to go at it again, this time co-founding award winning fashion rental e-tailer GirlMeetsDress.com.

Girl Meets Dress.com has made its mark internationally from day one winning numerous awards, from the Drapers ‘Best Etail Innovation’ in its first year to the Real Business magazine’s ‘Future 50’. Girl Meets Dress today hires out over 4,000 designer dresses and accessories from over 150 international designers from Marc Jacobs, to Herve Leger, sporting everything from this seasons trendy asymmetric dresses to long evening ball gowns, all at a starting price of £29 with same and next day delivery options.

He is a regular contributor to the British business and technology press (The Guardian, etc) and speaker about retail and startups (Oxford University, etc) ....... and always in search of a good squash partner.