Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Consumer space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Hayden Wood
Co-founder / CEO of Bulb
Hayden co-founded Bulb with Amit Gudka in 2015 with a mission to reduce people’s bills and cut carbon emissions. Today Bulb has over 1 million members, supplies 100% green electricity and 100% carbon neutral gas and was recently named the fastest growing private company in the country.
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About Bulb: Bulb provides affordable renewable energy for homes and businesses.
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Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jamie Grant
CEO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
Andrew Xeni
CEO, Co-Founder of Fabacus
A highly driven and experienced CEO with a diverse portfolio of business interests. Andrew’s primary focus has till recently been in the family garment manufacturing business, Europride Ltd., founded with his brother. Having supplied most of the UKs largest fashion retailers for over a decade, Andrew understands their supply chain needs. The businesses boast a combined annual turnover in excess of $150m, with over 2,000 employees globally and including vested interests in the full supply chain: Factories in the UK, Eastern Europe, Morocco and Sri Lanka, a UK dye house, a UK knitting plant, fabric import business, and UK printing facilities. Andrew also has two ecommerce brands, Baaclothing.Com and NobodysChild.Com, that compliment his fully integrated vertical manufacturing service. Fabacus is the brainchild of all this supply chain, retail and ecommerce experience. Understanding exactly what is needed to improve each process and make businesses faster and more cost efficient, Andrew alongside his co-founder Ray Noppé, were able to build a suite of solutions. Fabacus delivers optimal efficiency for greater profit through customisable software for business intelligence, data management, relationship management and e-commerce marketing optimisation. To date Fabacus has successfully integrated its solution with the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, Salesforce and Revel. In addition to Fabacus and Europride Ltd, Andrew continues to invest in technology alongside New Look founder, Tom Singh, as well as property development and music interests: Launching his own music label, supporting and developing new talents.
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About Fabacus: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Alan Jope
Chief Executive Officer of Unilever
Alan joined Unilever in the UK in 1985, subsequently working in North America for 14 years and in Asia for 13 years. Before being appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Alan served as President of Unilever’s Personal Care business from 2014 and continued as President when the name of the division changed in 2018 to Beauty and Personal Care. From 2009 Alan led Unilever’s business in China and North Asia, doubling its size and laying important foundations for future success. He was appointed to Unilever’s Leadership Executive in 2011 in his role as President of Unilever’s businesses across North Asia. His previous senior roles have also included President Russia, Africa & Middle East; global category leader for several of Unilever’s Foods businesses; and President of Unilever’s Home & Personal Care business in North America. Earlier, Alan worked in a number of sales and marketing roles in the UK, Thailand, and the US. Alan holds a Bachelor of Commerce with honours from Edinburgh University, Scotland. He also graduated from Harvard Business School’s General Management Program in 2001.
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Tom Leathes
Co-Founder & CEO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Dan Garrett
Founder and CEO of Farewill
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About Farewill: Farewill is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Sari Anabtawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Snupps
Responsible for the overall vision and strategic direction. Sari has 25 years of experience in banking and venture capital. He was Executive Director of Abraaj Capital and previously a founding partner in Sivana Holdings. He served on the board of several startups including Century Exploration, Learningbyte, Advantiv. Sari started his career at IBM and Andersen Consulting. He later held senior positions at Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Sari holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College and an MBA from Georgetown University.
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About Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co., Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Mark Oleynik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Moley Robotics
An accomplished Ph.D. mathematician, computer scientist and proven trailblazer. Results focused, his career to date is characterized by delivering demanding major projects to time and to budget. Prior to founding Moley Robotics, Mark was a co-founder and a major shareholder of a number of companies working in a healthcare sector in Russia and internationally. Earlier in his career, Mark exercised his passion for building successful products at Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University and smaller companies. Mark Oleynik is a driven leader and passionate robotics and healthcare expert.
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About Moley Robotics: Moley Robotics develops robotic kitchen with oven, hob, sink, and two dexterous robotic arms that allow it to cook.
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Christer Holloman
Co-Founder & CEO of Divido
Christer Holloman is the CEO and co-founder of Divido (http://www.divido.com), a platform for retailers, lenders and payment providers that want to offer customers to pay anything in monthly instalments. Divido works with 500+ partners such as BMW, BNP and Mastercard. Prior to launching Divido, Christer set up Glassdoor.com in EMEA, now a billion-dollar Google-backed startup. Holloman holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Ranbir Arora
Co-Founder, CEO of Dorm
Ranbir Arora is the CEO and Co-Founder at Dorm.
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About Dorm: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Ben Patten
Founder & CEO of Good Club
Founded a number of businesses. Main skills are articulating a vision, finding the necessary resources and creating the foundations for growth. Recently studied the product management process to understand how to improve the success rate of creating a digital product. Worked closely with a number of different funding sources. Creating a business that brings sustainability to a mainstream audience. Loves swimming outdoors
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Chris Blackford
CEO & Co-founder of Sky-Futures
As COO, Chris drives the strategic development of Sky-Futures’ operational and technology frameworks and the development of new partnerships with leading companies across a range of markets. Chris combines extensive drone experience with a strong understanding of the technical and operational complexities and, indeed, the capacity of drones to provide cutting-edge solutions across industries.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
Sharon White
CEO of Ofcom
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About Ofcom: Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator.
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Founder and CEO of Archdesk
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About Archdesk, One Billion: Archdesk is a cloud-based software, specifically designed & developed for the construction industry in mind.
Vadim Toader
CEO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Gideon Lask
CEO & founder of Buyapowa
Gideon’s been leading digital brands for over 20 years. He’s proud to have built and businesses for the likes of Universal, HMV and LetsBuyIt.com, but right now he’s busy helping other brands acquire new customers in an altogether smarter way. He’s the Founder and CEO of Buyapowa, and they’re the world leaders in reward marketing, and their platform powers customer acquisition for over 200 leading enterprise brands across 27 countries and in 21 languages.
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About Buyapowa: Buyapowa is the global leader in referral marketing. Your customers have friends, let’s make them customers too.
Sho Sugihara
Co-Founder & CEO of Pave
Co-Founder and CEO at Portify.
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About Pave: The proper path to good credit
Rikke Rosenlund
Founder & CEO of BorrowMyDoggy
Rikke Rosenlund is Co-Founder at BorrowMyDoggy.Rikke has always loved to spend time with dogs (everything from Shih Tzus to Golden Retrievers) and her favourite childhood memories include playing with her grandparents cute black Labrador on their farm. She was born in Denmark, has previously studied and worked in financial services and entrepreneurship in the US, the UK and Latin America, and moved to London 8 years ago. She feels fortunate to be a part of BorrowMyDoggy and believes we can all make a difference.
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About BorrowMyDoggy: BorrowMyDoggy is a trusted community where local dog lovers help take care of dogs for walkies.
Ashleigh Hinde
Founder & CEO of Waldo
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About Waldo: Waldo delivers high quality, daily contact lenses on subscription.
Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer of Faculty Science
Dr Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of ASI. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field. In the two years since founding ASI, Marc has overseen its growth to more than 50 employees, and expanded its offer from a small fellowship scheme to a cutting edge range of software, training, project and advisory services. He has also led over 50 data science projects, with clients ranging from multinational companies like EasyJet and Siemens to the UK Government and NHS. His work has been covered by the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Independent and many more. Previously, Marc was the Marie Curie Fellow of Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His research has been published in many high impact journals and cited hundreds of times. His PhD in Quantum Computing was awarded the Stoneham prize, published in Nature, and covered in the New York Times.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Stephanie Eltz
Co-founder, CEO of Doctify
Stephanie co-founded Doctify. She is the CEO of the company.
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About Doctify: Doctify provides a solution for the millions of patients who want to search and compare healthcare and social care providers online.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Iris Anson
Founder/CEO of Solely Original
Iris is a founding director at Solely Original, an online bespoke women’s footwear brand. As a fashion conscious city professional, she decided to leave behind her career as a tax consultant to pursue a solution for women like her, who had trouble finding fashionable shoes that are comfortable to walk in.
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About Etiq AI, Solely Original: Solely Original is a shoe brand allowing clients to design their own shoes, have custom made to fit the specifications of the feet.
Tushar Srivastava
Founder & CEO of Nurturey
Tushar Srivastava is a Founder & CEO at Nurturey. He has a professional background in Finance, Management Consulting and Technology.
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About Nurturey: Nurturey is the smartest Personal Assistant for parents
Alex Rainey
CEO of Pluto
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About Pluto: Pluto helps travel lovers discover inspiration, plan their trips and connect with like-minded people. It’s like Pinterest, but for travel.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Lana Elie
Founder and CEO of Floom
Lana Elie is the Founder & CEO of Floom.
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About Floom: Floom is a tech-enabled marketplace for florists to sell their creations direct to customers.
Thang Vo-Ta
CEO & Co-Founder of Callaly
Co-founder & CEO at Callaly.Thang is a graduate of MIT and started his career in Goldman Sachs in NYC & London.
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About Callaly: Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
James Walker
Founder & CEO of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Ben Fletcher
Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership
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About Lead Bullets, Oxford Global Resources, The Mothership: The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
Gemma Godfrey
Founder and CEO of Moola
Gemma Godfrey is the Founder and CEO of Moola (https://moo.la), the online investing service. Advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger on The New Celebrity Apprentice, Gemma is a consumer champion on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and the upcoming “Eat Shop Save”, BBC Breakfast and Sky News. She was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in London” by CityAM. The former quantum physicist previously headed Investment Strategy for a publicly-listed wealth manager with £8 billion of assets
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About Moola: Moola provides Online Investment Service in the UK.
Tadas Labudis
CEO of Prodsight
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About Prodsight: Prodsight is an IT company that provides Software-as-a-Service for business intelligence through customer feedback and insights.
Tadas Labudis
CEO of Prodsight
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About Prodsight: Prodsight is an IT company that provides Software-as-a-Service for business intelligence through customer feedback and insights.
Bonnie Takhar
Lead Founder and CEO of LetsBab
Bonnie Takhar is the founder and CEO of LetsBab, a digital mall that is disrupting the way you shop and digitalising word of mouth. Takhar, a seasoned fashion executive with over 20 years experience, has held a number of high ranking positions.
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About LetsBab: LetsBab is a digital mall revolutionizing the way you shop and share products with others.
Dominic Dinardo
CEO of Aforza
Dinardo has been working in cloud computing since he joined Salesforce in 2002 and in that time he helped pioneer the Cloud Computing marketplace in Europe and beyond. Previously, he had a number of technical consulting and management roles within IBM Tivoli and Shell. Since 2012 he has held executive positions in Industry Cloud companies Veeva and Vlocity focusing on the Life Sciences, Telecoms, Energy and Insurance sectors. Prior to his time at Salesforce, Dinardo held a number of technical consulting and management roles within IBM Tivoli and Shell. In all, Dinardo has more than 25 years of technology sales and management experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Glasgow.
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About Aforza: Aforza develops cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies.
Brett Shanley
CEO & Founder of Knoma
Brett is the Founder and CEO of Knoma, the Knowledge Market, offering a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. He passionate about equipping people for the future of work and providing sound financial options.
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Darcey Croft
CEO & Co-Founder of Barenaturals
Co-Founder & CEO of Barenaturals on a mission to impact the world through conscious consumerism & replace lost habitats by planting trees. Lots of trees. Digital Evangelist and social marketing expert.
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About Barenaturals, SocialMushroom: Barenaturals is a world friendly and candle company. They make natural candles & organic skincare balms with nature’s greatest ingredients.
Kishan Vasani
Co-Founder & CEO of Spoonshot
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About Spoonshot: Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain.
Hamish Blythe
Founder & CEO of Trilo
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About Trilo: Building the simplest way for people to pay people
Celine Ivari
Co-Founder & CEO of WholyMe
Celine Ivari is the co-founder and CEO of WholyMe. She is also the co-founder of Meshkati. Celine earned her master’s degree in Genetics at UCL.
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About WholyMe: WholyMe offers the healthiest, effective relief remedies. Our products are all-natural and 100% organic certified.
Erich Bonnet
CEO, Partner of Smart Lenders Asset Management SA
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About Smart Lenders Asset Management SA: French AMF registered Asset Manager specialised in investing in loans through online marketplaces.
Paolo Zanelli
Co-Founder and CEO of Pulp
Paolo is Pulp’s in-house sommelier and CEO. Prior to founding Pulp, Paolo worked in the financial industry, including the Singaporean sovereign fund GIC. Paolo is a WSET and UKSA certified sommelier and lifelong wine lover.
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About Pulp: Pulp allows its users to get the most diverse selection of wines from independent producers.
Oliver Montague
CEO of Swytch
Oliver is the company founder and inventor of the patent pending SWYTCH system. He studied engineering at Oxford University and since graduating worked for 4 years in sustainability and engineering R&D before going full time working for himself in the eBike industry. Whilst studying at Oxford Oliver developed the first ever electromagnetic metamaterial motor (for which he was awarded the prize for the top Masters Thesis in the year). Sadly, the motor had no commercial application, but it was cool nonetheless! More importantly , this marked the start of a life-long pursuit to develop electric motor systems that were innovative but also commercially viable.
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Alex Smilansky
Co-Founder & CEO of Mayku
Before founding Mayku with Ben, Alex led the development of apps and websites as a Strategy Lead at Mint Digital. His clients included Tesco and the Cabinet Office, as well as launching multiple fresh ventures.
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About Mayku: Mayku develops tabletop machines to help streamline product development cycle.
Hellen Bowey
CEO & Co-founder of Alcove
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About Alcove: Alcove is an internet-of-things powered care technology ecosystem pioneering independent living for older and disabled adults.
Gerald Chappell
CEO and Co-Founder of Fintern
Gerald Chappell is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fintern. Prior to starting Fintern, Gerald was a partner at McKinsey where he lead the digital lending and credit analytics practices globally.
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About Fintern: Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Marc Worth
Co-Founder & CEO of Stylus Media
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About Stylus Media: Stylus is a trends intelligence service. We deliver insights that businesses need to make transformative business decisions.
Sharon Manikon
CEO of Bizzon
payments professional
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About Bizzon: Bizzon allows you to charge cash, debit and credit cards, and billing with the help of a simple application.
William Rowe
Founder & CEO of Protein
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About Protein: Protein is a global marketing company with a focus on long term strategies.
Paul Preuveneers
CEO & Founder of Uncommon
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About Uncommon: Uncommon designs and develops bespoke merchandise and teamwear
Saurabh Goyal
Founder and CEO of Satoshi Systems Limited
Saurabh, our Chief Product Strategist, has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing, designing and developing trading systems. One of the earliest bitcoin & blockchain backer, Saurabh is passionate about emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and AI for the fintech industry. He spends most of his free time with his boys (aged 5 and 8) teaching them chess and programming.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Emmanuel Eribo
Co-Founder & CEO of LOCI
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About LOCI: LOCI is an online shop that offers products for men and women.
Rutger Bruining
Founder & CEO of StoryTerrace
Rutger Bruining is the founder and CEO of Story Terrace. Prior to founding Story Terrace in 2014, Rutger worked as an investment director at Arle Capital Partners for five years. Rutger starterd his career as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2014. In 2003, Rutger graduated from University of Amsterdam where he completed master’s degree in Business & Economics (Finance). He also graduated with honors at Columbia University – Columbia Business School for his MBA in 2008.
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About StoryTerrace: StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.
Lindsay Trombley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Wovn
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About Wovn: Wovn provides fashion brands with real-time predictive insights to better predict demand, reduces waste, and increasing sales.
Liad Shababo
Founder and CEO of Wollit
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About iStay.com, Wollit: The UK’s most powerful financial membership
Jordan Fantaay
CEO of Fantoo
An innovator and lead in product design and development. Has been responsible for setting up manufacturing operations across Singapore, China, and Taiwan. Also responsible for bringing to market software and hardware patent pending products, in particular in some cases for fortune 500 companies. Has several Patents granted in his name and is continuing to seek opportunities in the consumer technology space. Is launching a disruptive consumer messaging software venture in 2012
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About Fantoo: Fantoo is a people centric, mobile and desktop, application for web apps, messengers, and notifications.
Jordan McRae
Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs
Jordan McRae is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs where they’re developing a wearable hands free / ear free voice platform using cutting edge innovations in bone conduction technology, voice recognition, and digital signal processing.
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About Mobilus Labs: Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications.
Aalok Y Shukla
Co-Founder & CEO of Straight Teeth Direct
Aalok Y Shukla is the CEO and Co-Founder of Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Paul Atherton
CEO & Co-Founder of Wayv Technologies Ltd
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About Wayv Technologies Ltd: WAYV products provide up to 30 minutes of instant and constant heat, whenever and wherever you may need it.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Paul Lynton
Founder & CEO of JiveBird
Paul Lynton is the founder of JiveBird.
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About JiveBird: JiveBird is a unique digital consumer package targeted at the card & gift market – the next disruptive innovation in the greetings market.
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
Alex Szymborski
CEO of Contained
Alex has worked in the technology sector for more than 20 years & played a part in the digital growth of the mobile industry across Europe as part of Global Crossing and Level 3 which is where he developed his interest in automotive IoT solutions. In recent years becoming more deeply involved in the MVNO market through privately backed ethnic MVNO, Kontakt Mobile & now as a director of Contained.io, a complete e2e industrial IoT solution provider as well as working in the eCommerce segment creating gateway solutions for Service Providers to access the experimenter market.
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About Contained: Contained is creates solutions using the latest cloud technologies.
Ian Hobson
Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of ChargeBox
Ian has set and delivered the mission and objectives for ChargeBox which has seen the company grow rapidly. Involved since the companies inception, Ian took over control of the company and formulated the change in strategy driven by the smart phone market and Olympics in 2012. Ian is passionate about ChargeBox and passionate about bringing free charging to everyone who needs it everywhere they need it. A graduate of Imperial College, Ian’s career has taken him from Accenture to Hambrecht & Quist and Tibco, all the time delivering rapid growth and businsess development.
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About ChargeBox: ChargeBox They pride Theirselves for providing the easiest to use, most trusted and innovative charging solutions for public spaces.
Guy Winterflood
Founder & CEO of Letyano
Guy runs a corporate finance consultancy and holds various directorships in a range of start-up businesses across various industries, including food production, customer feedback and telecoms. Guy has spent time as an international property consultant in Hong Kong and was a partner at the broker Monument Securities for more than 15 years where his roles included pit trading options and futures on the LIFFE market and institutional equity option sales. Monument introduced the use of CFD trading for the European retail equity markets, Guy ran this division until the company was sold to Insinger de Beaufort, a Dutch bank, in 2005. After a 2 year sabbatical Guy returned to the City as partner in charge of corporate finance at Silverwind Securities before setting up on his own in 2010.
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Robert Stafler
Co-Founder and CEO of Fintex Capital
Robert Stafler is the founder of Wishopoly.
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About Fintex Capital, Wishopoly: Fintex Capital is a unique investment firm dedicated to alternative credit
James Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of Envio
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About Envio: Envio powers scalable home demo programs for high-end consumer technology brands
Robert Pasco
Co-Founder & CEO of Plend
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About Plend: Building a better way to borrow, where people are no longer held back by their credit history
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Eashan Maheshwari
Founder & CEO of Zappel
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About Anime Monk, Draper University, Zappel: Zappel is a mobile app that spontaneously connects the humans via hyperlocal informal events (known as Zappels).
Kaushal Shah
Founder and CEO of envoPAP
Trying to turn Ideas into Reality!
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About envoPAP, Inwius: envoPAP is a Sustainable Materials Company utilizing green technology to provide agricultural waste with a second life.
David Kovats
Founder & CEO of Collectorism
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About Collectorism: Collectorism is a global network providing a platform for collectors to showcase and exchange their items.
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
Ed Goring
Chief Executive Officer of Kindlee
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About Kindlee: Kindlee is a brand of hand gels that are made from a unique blend of ingredients.
Umut İlhan
CEO of Wufwuf
Bachelor: Studied for Marketing – Master: Advertising Venus Digital: He started one of the first digital marketing agencies in EU (2008). www.venusajans.com Venus Ajans won tax awards 4 years in a row. (2012-2017) He worked for international brands such as Turkish Air Lines, Opera, Ulker. HAVHAV: He started Havhav.com.tr in December 2017. HavHav is the biggest subscription business in Turkey. www.havhav.com.tr has the same business model with WUFWUF. WUFWUF: After HAVHAV experience, he moved to London and started WUFWUF in 2018.
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About Wufwuf: Monthly joy box subscription for your dog
Amandeep Singh
Founder & CEO of Comparism
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About Comparism, Comparism, EquiTipz: Comparism is an online portal to help you with personal finance and money saving tips.
Sebastian Potter
CEO of Hackaball
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About Hackaball: Hackaball encourages kids to learn about technology, play together and be physically active.
John Kennedy
CEO of Adlens
John Kennedy is a versatile CEO with over 15 years of achievement rapidly growing private equity backed businesses, gained in consumer brand and retail companies, including B2C online. Specialties include general management; supply chains; operations; data analysis; project/programme management; marketing, both online and offline.
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About Adlens: Adlens is pioneering the development of lenses that change focus like the human eye – enhancing vision in XR, VR and eyewear.
Rod Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of Opun
Royal Navy veteran with experience of corporate and startup business. Co-founder of three startups, with two exits to corporate trade buyers (Tesco plc and John Lewis Partnership). Former Associate Consultant McKinsey & Co., ex Services Director at Tesco. Intrapreneur and entrepreneur. Spears Wealth Management Awards Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 nominee. British ex-Forces Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 nominee.
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About Opun: Why leave home improvement to chance? Opun is the smart new way to end your home improvement nightmares.
Joe Sillett
Co-Founder and CEO of The Funky Appliance Company
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Bhavin Shah
CEO of Chooz.Pics Ltd
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About Chooz.Pics Ltd: Visual decision making applications
Cariern Clement-Pascall
Founder & CEO of VONCRANK
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About VONCRANK: VONCRANK is a revolutionary cycling app that allows its users to book a mobile bicycle mechanic from their phone in just 4 easy steps.
Jared Ruddy
CEO – Founder of FitCat
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About FitCat: FitCat is an app, a device and a community that keeps your cat in top condition
Chris Field
CEO of Kontron Mobile Computing
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About Kontron Mobile Computing: Kontron Mobile Computing designs, manufactures and markets rugged computers for a variety of industries and applications.
Richard Edwards
Co-founder & CEO of Repairly
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About Repairly: Repairly is a U.K.-based startup that offers on demand technology repair services for phones, tablets and laptops
