Free food-sharing app Olio has revealed its inaugural eight-person c-suite includes senior executive hires from big tech companies such as Deliveroo and Uber.

Olio, the local community app to fight food waste by connecting those who have surplus food to those who need it, has recruited a group of people from consumer and tech brands. They’re ready to back co-founders Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One as they aim for one billion users by 2030.

The new sequel includes Iona Carter, former brand strategist for Plum Guide, as chief brand officer and ex-Just Eat and TripAdvisor’s Alex Higgs as chief product officer.

Alberto Lo Bue has been named Managing Director of Olio’s Food Waste Heroes program after three years leading Deliveroo’s Deliveroo for Work business, and a former role as a business development strategist at Uber. Tess Kermode has joined as Director of International Expansion, where she will focus on expanding the brand into Mexico, Singapore and Ireland, where it has grown rapidly.

New chief technology officer Fabían Díaz has joined Amazon, and chief growth officer Gareth Main brings his previous experience as a member of The Guardian’s reader revenue strategy team to the new role.

“Olio is going through an incredibly exciting metamorphosis in response to the explosive growth we’ve seen during the pandemic and beyond,” said Olio co-founder and CEO Tessa Clarke. “Saasha and I are absolutely thrilled with the caliber of our new management team.”

Other new c-suite hires include Thaisa Money as director of people and culture and Rohan Sheth as chief of staff.

The company, which was founded five years ago, has quintupled in terms of app signups since the pandemic began.

It now has over five million community members registered on the app, half of which are based in the UK.

The new executive suite will be responsible for driving growth as the company aims for massive global expansion in the coming years.

“I am thrilled to join the team at Olio to help realize such an extraordinarily ambitious, yet essential vision: to reinvent consumption,” said new brand director Iona Carter. “I think there is enormous potential to build a brand that is both large and meaningful, for Olio to be at the forefront of a movement to recycle our modern impulse to buy and sell. to throw.”