Daniel Gestetner (38)

Daniel has 13 years of retail and consumer brand experience across a number of industries.

Having trained at Tesco Daniel left Tesco in the mid 1990’s as the cake buyer, and progressed into the FMCG industry to work for Revlon. Daniel ran the marketing for Central and Eastern Europe before a stint in New York working for the Group CEO on a consultancy project. In 1999 Daniel left Revlon as the Regional Manager for Central & Eastern Europe, and set up a successful internet company which he founded with his brother Leo. Daniel & Leo sold their internet portal to Barclaycard in 2001 and set up Brands etc as a vehicle to buy, sell and actively manage a group of brand driven companies.

Leo has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years after setting up his first company at the age of thirteen.

After leaving university, Leo launched an IT consultancy company, Unicorn IT Solutions, which provided outsourced IT solutions to SMEs. In 1999 Leo set up a successful internet company which he founded with his brother Daniel. Daniel & Leo sold their internet shopping portal to Barclaycard in 2001 and set up Brands etc as a vehicle to buy, sell and actively manage a group of brand driven companies.