Adoreum

My Role

Creative Partner and equity partner. I developed the positioning and creative platform with co-founder Marcus Watson and continue to collaborate with him and the team on event and content concepts, brand and business direction, and everything else besides.

What’s Emerged

At the heart of Adoreum is a single animating idea.

Held Open

People, ideas and communities stay alive when they remain open, but openness only becomes possible when people feel sufficiently held. Everything Adoreum is grows from it, felt by everyone inside it.

The Long Game

The belief this acts on, that everything valuable compounds. Trust, knowledge, resilience, relationships, health, wealth, taste, creativity. In a culture of shallowness and short-termism, Adoreum exists to play the long game, which is really just the natural consequence of remaining open for long enough.

Depth is the Shortcut

This is the creative platform that brings it to life. Counterintuitive for a world addicted to shallowness and speed, it’s the idea that the deepest foundations produce the fastest, most confident movement. The Japanese call their version of it nemawashi, build what matters slowly so that when the moment comes, you act with total certainty.

Adoreum is a community co-founded by Marcus Watson, powered by 35,000+ HNWIs and UHNWIs and 500+ club members. It creates conditions for beautiful generative collision, putting people in rooms where the unexpected meeting of different worlds produces something none of them could find alone. The community itself is the compound investment, deepening understanding of self, reality, and what's possible with every connection made.

Modern Affluence Exchange

I’m also culture and equity partner in Modern Affluence Exchange (MAX), an Adoreum spin-off running a yearly summit at 180 Studios, redefining affluence for a more values-led culturally astute cohort. I’ve defined summit themes, panel ideas, and guest curation, expanding the conversation beyond pure luxury to keep social impact, equity, and legacy central.

I've got to be real here, Modern Affluence isn't my usual stomping ground. But beyond the bros and broligarchs, there's a lot of lovely folk who've amassed the dollars too.

Summit themes

'The Great Wealth Transfer', AI everything, the future of ESG (with the creator of the ESG framework), the quantum computing revolution, sustainable luxury, 'what type of ancestor do you want to be?' and on and on.

Speakers & panelists

Adam Handling MBE (Michelin-starred zero-waste chef), Thomas Signer (author/economist on demographics and societal change), Claire Kent (advisor, NED, Prada S.A.), Sally Tennant OBE (founder, Acorn Capital Advisors), Ada Parris (futurist, author, artist), Sara Pantuliano (CEO, ODI), Veronica Chou (president, Novel Fashion Holdings), Wenmiao Yu (co-founder, Quantum Dice), Duncan Anderson (founder, Barnacle Labs, ex-IBM Watson), and many more.

Partners

VGC Partners, The Future Laboratory, Bentley, Bloomberg

"Andy is a brilliant, incredibly well read, strategic creative visionary. As our Creative Partner, he has helped to define and articulate Adoreum’s values-led vision and created untold event, content and initiative ideas for members to help propel the business forward. Most importantly he is a calm, considered and compassionate human being loved and respected by team, members, and clients."

Marcus Watson, Founder, Adoreum

"Working with Andy is a breath of fresh air. I've had the joy of working with him on numerous projects over ten years, including Modern Affluence, and he never disappoints. Cultural awareness with a genuine passion for creativity and commercial application. From start up to big brand, he's ready and able to deploy his experience and passion."

Ben Whattam, CMO, Bentley Motors, Co-Creator, Modern Affluence Exchange

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