Jenk​ Oz

Jenk is an 18-year-old social entrepreneur, public speaker, social change activist, and DJ as well as the Founder & CEO of Thred Media, a social enterprise focused on Publishing, Media, Consulting and Production aimed at Generation Z.

The central tenet of the business is the 100% social change-focused website Thred where the writing team covers all aspects of youth culture seen through the lens of social change in 17 different languages. It reaches 350k+ teens and young adults from 220+ countries/territories a month and has won several awards including Next Gen Media Company 2021, Vodafone Small Business Award, four W3 Awards, an International Davey Award, and an Amazon AWS Activator Award. Jenk has recently launched a second website ThredMedia, where he houses his consulting business with a focus on helping brands, agencies and research houses better understand Gen Z beliefs, behaviours and upcoming consumer trends.

Jenk has been featured in 300, articles including Forbes, Business Insider, Oracle for Startups and Great British Entrepreneur Society as well as having won several awards including MediaWeek 30 Under 30- Newcomer 2023, the Diana Award Honour Roll 2021, Digiday Future Leader Award, Webby-Anthem Young Leader Award, Top 100 Digital Leaders 2021, Great British Entrepreneur Awards- Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, Start-Up Awards- Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Rise Scholarship Foundation Finalist, ‘Progress 1000: Most Influential Person- Science and Tech’ from The Evening Standard, the ‘Tech London Advocates:  25 under 25’ award, PMI 50 Future Leaders and he was voted ‘Top 20 Young Entrepreneurs To Watch’ by Start-Up magazine.

On the speaking circuit, Jenk enjoys talking about the future of Generation Z, Young Entrepreneurship, Social Change and Youth Employment with the hope of helping other young people develop their impactful ideas.  He has spoken at more than 90 conferences including three TEDx Talks entitled ‘Ideas Ink.’; ‘Breaking the Pattern’ and ’Can a ‘Like’ change the world- the power of clicktivism’ as well as having spoken at 7 Model United Nation conferences including Oxford University: Model United Nations Conference- London. Others include Vox YMS NYC Marketing Conference- New York City; Knowledge Summit- Expo Dubai; Oxford Global: Summit For Young Leaders- Athens & London; Amazon AWS Summit- London; SES Student Employability Summit- London, NACUE Enterprise Conference and SME Beyond Borders Conference- Dubai.

Jenk is a member of the Google Z-Council, Oracle for Startups, Microsoft Surface young entrepreneur team and The Knowledge Society (TKS).

He also sits on the Marketing Board for Founders4Schools, WorkFinder App, UpNext Education, BeMe Health and Prospect 100 as well as being an Ambassador for Global Citizen, Climate Science, Earth Day, Force of Nature, Youthtopia, Bite Back 2030, Youthify, Youth Climate Database, Ivy House, Let’s Localise, BeMe Health, SoundMind, and The Song Academy.

Jenk has been seen in West End theatre, TV, commercials, music videos, short films, voice-overs and several commercial print campaigns. Jenk’s hobbies include piano, gaming, rowing and rugby.