John ODonnell has over 25 years experience in the construction industry. He founded a highly successful construction and fit out company in South Africa, which was responsible for fitting out roughly 140 McDonalds a year… and this was done with a workforce of 15 people. Logistics, planning and standardisation played a huge role in his career.
He is going to talk to us about his journey which started from seeing a gap in the market and seizing it. His road to success was a bumpy one, but there is a lot we can learn from him!
John Moore is a serial entrepreneur who has built several multi-million dollar businesses. Moore has become known as a “rebel entrepreneur” because of his unique style in building his businesses. 3D4Medical, which Moore built from scratch on a shoestring budget, has single handedly revolutionised how anatomy is studied throughout the world through disruptive proprietary 3D technology.
By the time that Moore sold 3D4Medical to Elsevier PLC, his company had replaced traditional textbooks and medical learning in over 300 of the world’s top universities, over 25 Million downloads and over 1.2 million subscribers. 3D4Medical's award-winning medical platform Complete Anatomy has dominated the top spot on every single app store in over 160 countries.
In November, 2019, Moore sold 3D4Medical to Elsevier for $50.6 million
Tobias Budig is currently studying business engineering with a focus on computer science in Karlsruhe, Germany. He served as chairman at Germany’s largest student society for entrepreneurship and innovation PionierGarage e.V. Additionally, he worked on different software projects as a freelancer in the deep-tech field. His aim is to solve real world problems with the use of technology and innovation. In 2020, he co-founded MUN Command with the aim to bring chairs, delegates, and organisers together and provide easy to use MUN Software.
My role as the Sustainability Director of Modern Botany was born out of a love and passion for the natural world we live in and its people. As a co-founder of a conscious and natural wellness and self-care company it is imperative that Modern Botany is ever reflective in our business planning to ensure that sustainability is at the heart of every stream of our company’s processes.
This means that our business strategising will always be influenced by environmental and Eco-matters, such as waste control; green energy use; growing our own natural materials using regenerative farming methods; maintaining an ethical supply chain and investing in social enterprise initiatives that empower, support and inspire others to love the planet they live in.