Debbie Wosskow

Debbie Wosskow is a serial entrepreneur and business strategist. A former management consultant, she launched her first business, marketing and communications consultancy Mantra, at the age of just 25.

In October 2011, when she was struggling to find accommodation for her family holiday that wouldn’t use up 80 per cent of their travel budget, Debbie took inspiration from the film “The Holiday” where Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz swap homes for the Christmas holidays, and conceived of the idea for Love Home Swap (www.LoveHomeSwap.com)

Love Home Swap is a socially connected home exchange site, providing travellers interested in a local experience with an inexpensive, yet stylish way to spend their holiday. Love Home Swap presents the best community of stylish home swaps ever assembled, with thousands of homes across more than 80 countries to choose from it’s now possible to swap your home for holiday wherever and whenever you want to go.

In addition to her role overseeing the Love Home Swap business, Debbie is an active angel investor and sits on a number of advisory boards. She is a Trustee of Hampstead Theatre and a Trustee of Dramatic Need, the charity that helps African children through the creative arts. She is regular commentator on entrepreneurship and travel on TV and in print.

Debbie graduated with an MA in Philosophy and Theology from New College, Oxford University and lives in London with her two children. She has so far swapped her London apartment for a stint in the English Countryside, an exotic trip to Morocco and a harbour-side stay in Sydney, Australia, where no less than Russell Crowe turned out to be her neighbour!