It's a privilege to be in a position to scale a business. I think that, with that privilege, there comes a duty to help others who are less fortunate.
Aron Gelbard is co-founder & CEO at Bloom & Wild, having launched the company in 2013.
Bloom & Wild's mission is to make sending and receiving flowers the joy that it should be, and, in doing so, to build the world's leading and most loved flower company.
Bloom & Wild is the UK's largest and top rated online florist, and was named the UK’s second fastest growing company by Deloitte in 2017. The company has raised multiple rounds of venture funding, and has expanded internationally to Germany, France, Austria and Ireland.
Prior to Bloom & Wild, Aron worked as a consultant to the consumer and technology sectors at Bain & Company in London and Silicon Valley. He has a Masters degree from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.