Leon Aarts
OUR STORY
Sur+ is founded by Leon Aarts and Alex Vlassopulos based on their common love of food and advergeance of waste.
In the summer of 2023 they decided to start a food brand, reducing waste and creating amazingly delicious and nutrtious meals at the same time.
Leon is a chef, serial entrepreneur and most importantly a humanitarian who is the founder of 3 charities.In 2015 during the refugee crisis Leon built Calais Kitchens, a charity which within a few months supplied food to all the 9,000 people in the camps in Northern France. He founded ‘With Compassion’ at the start of the pandemic in London, cooking over 650,000 meals in one year out of surplus food for those in London living in food insecurity.
Co-founder Alex Vlassopulos has a wealth of experience in media, start-ups and most recently working for Google for 8 years as Global Head of Sustainability for Android. Alex is also Co-Founder of Kitche, a home food waste prevention app. www.linkedin.com/in/alexvlassopulos/
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