One Christmas Ivan borrowed some money from his Mum and set up a market stall selling fireworks. That lit the blue touch paper on his career as a sales executive in Venezuela.

In 2014 he moved to Cambridge to study English and worked in a Thai restaurant to fund his studies. He then became Assistant Manager at the British Red Cross Shop, but the Red Cross couldn’t save him. He’d been bitten by the food bug and in 2016 he set up his own food stall in Cambridge market.

He manages the operational side of Arepa’s Station. In order to serve an arepa from our market stall or food truck, so many things have to happen first.