Elle Tucker

Elle is Chair of the Marketplace Risk Sharing Economy Global Summit ​and is a consultant specialising in online marketplaces and the world of ‘peer to peer’. Think any business that starts with ‘the Airbnb of’… from renting out your driveway or campervan using an app, to hiring a designer dress for the night or using a ‘gig economy’ platform to pay for on-demand skills or services like housesitting.

In her talks, Elle explores topic such as:

• the sharing economy
• purpose-led businesses
• entrepreneurship
• creativity
• building communities

Originally from Oxford, Elle cut her teeth in marketing as an advertising creative in Edinburgh. At home with a baby on maternity leave, she was inspired by the (then brand-new) world of social media and blogging to explore the world of media and journalism.

Her own beauty and parenting blog quickly won awards and then she moved seamlessly into a half-decade long career as a journalist, writing for women’s magazines and broadsheets such as the Guardian on subjects ranging from gender politics to social issues and mental health – as well as working for Channel 4 and the BBC and appearing on the radio as a parenting expert.

In 2014 she pitched an article to the Guardian called ‘Shares are going up’ about the then nascent ‘sharing economy’, and went on to write about homesharing and the rise of access over ownership.