Mr. Oliver Ripley
Founder and CEO of Habitas GroupOliver is a serial entrepreneur whose latest venture is as the founder and CEO of Habitas Group, a disruptive hospitality company that has won multiple awards for its resorts globally and recently was voted as one of the most creative companies in the world.
Prior to founding Habitas, Oliver was the CEO & Founder of Black Ocean, a technology group, where he built and exited several companies in the digital media and ecommerce space, including Elite Daily, which at the time was the largest digital media group focused on gen Y that he sold to the Daily Mail Group, and Kite.ly, an e-commerce SAAS platform, which he sold to Cannon.
Previously he co-founded Ocean Group, an investment group where he oversaw the growth of its real estate portfolio in Europe and Asia; and he built its private equity division, Kronos Capital and its agricultural business, Natural Farming;
Oliver was born in the United Kingdom and attended Eton College and Oxford University.
