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 Founder operating in the Information Services space. If you think a Founder 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.
Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Adil Mohammed
CEO and Founder of Virtuoso
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About Virtuoso: Virtuoso develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions.
Ammad Ahmad
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Atheneum
Ammad has a comprehensive understanding of the key levers that drive better business performance given his experience in implementing industry specific best practices across various Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding Atheneum, he spent 13 years in the United States, with significant experience at Kaiser Associates, and the Advisory Board Company. Ammad is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and has a Masters from the WHU School of Management together with the Bucerius Law School in Germany.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Yoram Wijngaarde
Founder & CEO of Dealroom.co
Yoram founded dealroom.co in 2013. Before that he worked for 10 years in investment banking, advising media, telco and internet companies. Worked at Lehman Brothers between 2004 and 2008 in the Media Investment Banking Group in New York and London. After Lehman’s collapse he and two Lehman colleagues created NOAH Advisors (and the NOAH Conference), an independent tech M&A boutique. Yoram worked at NOAH from 2009 to 2013. Yoram completed 21 M&A deals with over $10bn in combined value and for example led the sale of Fotolia.com to KKR ($500M), the acquisition of Bigpoint by TA/Summit ($350m) and the sale of Softonic to Partners Group (€275m).
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About Dealroom.co: Global database to identify & track promising companies
Andrew Bud
Founder and CEO of iProov
Andrew Bud is Founder and CEO of iProov, the UK-based provider of online authentication based on face verification, whose patented One Time Biometric technology delivers uniquely strong resilience to spoofs, replays and hacking. iProov has been recognised, adopted and supported by UK Government agencies and has won numerous prizes from global corporations, and its remote KYC solution has received regulatory recognition. Andrew is also Global Chair of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an international industry association serving the whole mobile value chain. He was formerly CEO and Executive Chairman of mBlox Inc., the world’s largest provider of enterprise-to-consumer text messaging services worldwide, which he founded in 2000 and on whose Board he served until its sale in 2016. Until 1998 he was SVP Marketing for Azlan, Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe. In 1994 he was member of the leadership team founding Italian mobile operator Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italia). Named in 2009 as one of the top 40 telecoms executives worldwide, he is a Fellow of the IET and has a first class degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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About iProov, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, The Media Institute: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Ilya Levtov
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craft.co
Ilya is the founder and CEO ofCraft providing data and analytics on thousands of companies for free to professionals researching their next career move or conducting business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, then received his MBA from Stanford. Later he joined venture capital firm Venrock in Menlo Park, and then joined Venrock’s portfolio-company Crunchyroll, as EVP. Ilya believes that access to more and better information for professionals and candidates about employers and opportunities, is a key to solving the talent challenges we face today.
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About Craft.co, Digital Supply Chain Institute: Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Tony Pearce
Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
Coming from a 25 year background in senior management in the entertainment and gaming industry Tony has an excellent track record as a successful entrepreneur and CEO. Over the past 10 years Tony has raised over £15m in VC funding, started 5 companies and had 2 successful exits. Most recently Tony founded GamesGRABR an innovative platform (web, mobile and tablet) that marries the power and usability of a contemporary ‘pinboard-style’ interface allowing the user to curate their own collections, discover, engage, play and share them with other users with similar interests Previously Tony founded a games company called TeePee Games and developed a technology that allowed users to get recommendations on games across social networks such as Facebook. Tony was the CEO and Co-Founder of Player X and spearheaded the company from a two person start-up in 2004 and developed it into Europe’s largest mobile games distributor. The company was named by Library House as the fourth fastest growing VC backed company in the UK before it was acquired by Spanish mobile content company ZED in April 2009. Tony is also the co-founder of an executive networking event called the Centurions which is aimed at the digital entertainment industry and takes place every two months in London along with events in New York, Istanbul and Munich.
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About Centurions Networking Event, gamesGRABR, Reality Gaming Group Limited, TeePee Games: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Pavlo Tanasyuk
CEO and Founder of BlockVerify
Pavlo is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of BlockVerify. Previously was the CEO and co-founder at Monexy payment system. Pavlo holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School and Certificate in General Management from Stanford University. Pavlo was Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Journal at the London School of Economics. Pavlo is active as a researcher on blockchain technology and its social implications. He presented his work at a number of major international conferences including World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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About BlockVerify, BlockVerify, Spacebit, Spacebit Technologies: BlockVerify offers a Blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution.
Dmitriy Molokov
Founder of Absolute
Friend, partner, gentleman, entrepreneur.
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About Absolute: Absolute – the place where technologies helps self-development and connecting with the world around them.
Josh Bowyer
CEO & Co-Founder of Zint Technology
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About SalesSift, Zint Technology: Zint Technology is a specialist sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams to identify, win and grow accounts.
Marjella Alma
CEO & Co-Founder of Datamaran
Marjella Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran – a technology scale-up HQed in London. Marjella believes that the application to AI to corporate sustainability is a game-changer, and partnered with former Wall Street trader and big data expert to drive her vision. As a technical expert in the field with in-depth knowledge of non-financial disclosure and responsible investing, Marjella provides the strategic direction to the team and leads the business development efforts. Datamaran is in its 4th year of growth and has gained great traction amongst both the corporate and investor community globally. They are the “Bloomberg of ESG” – and differentiate themselves by providing a data-driven approach to non-financial risk management and by providing access to their data analytics platform that allows for ongoing monitoring of (material) issues. Additionally, in recognition of Marjella’s leadership and vision for the future, Marjella is part of Telefonica’s Sustainability Stakeholder Advisory Group. Prior to founding Datamaran, Marjella was the head of the New York office of GRI (the Global Reporting Initiative) – the most widely used standard for measuring and managing Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues. She joined the GRI headquarters in Amsterdam in 2007 where she successfully set up the services department. She became the youngest female Director for the GRI at age 30. Marjella holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Groningen and has a large and impressive international network in the field of reporting and transparency. In her career to date, Marjella has worked with governments, regulators, international organisations, businesses, civil society, labour, the accountancy profession and the media – she continues to attract new audiences to this space with her diverse global team of experts in technology, risk management, finance, law and ESG.
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About Datamaran: Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.
Daniel Siden
Co-Founder and Director of Lightvert Ltd.
Daniel is a Business Director, Designer and Engineering with 18-years of professional experience, 12 of those spent as an design and technology entrepreneur in London. He builds teams, digital and physical technology products, services and businesses. As a founding director of design and engineering company Haberdashery, he lead the growth of the company from 0 to 20+ employees with a turnover of £1.6M on £2M of sales. Clients includes Nissan and CREE LEDs, Changi Airport Group and British Land, and world leading luxury interior and architecture firms. From Haberdashery Daniel spun out Lightvert Ltd., an out of home media technology company utilising proprietary patented technologies to merge the power of the spectacle of out of home media with the engagement of mobile. At Lightvert Daniel successfully raising seed funding and building an outstanding operational team and supply chain partnerships, and launched Lightvert’s core products within 6 months of closing the funding round. Originally from San Francisco, with and engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Daniel moved to the UK in 2002 for his Masters in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art.
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About Haberdasherylondon, Lightvert Ltd., ROLI: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Stefan Catoiu
Co-Founder & COO of Vita Mojo
Stefan Catoiu is the Co-Founder and COO of Vita Mojo.
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About Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Cristian Parrino
CEO and Co-Founder of Greengame
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About Greengame, OpenUK: Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics
David Brebner
Co-Founder, CFO of Mobials
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About 519 Growth Fund, Cyber Legends, Mobials: Mobials is a customer service software company located in London.
David Rai
Founder & Group CEO of Sparta Global
David is the founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sparta Global, one of the UK’s leading technology and business services firms. He is a seasoned management professional with over 25 year’s leadership experience in the UK, Europe and North America Sparta Global is headquartered in London, and has training academies across the UK and employs over 300 staff. In 2019 Sparta Global generated over £25million in revenue and is hiring over 500 graduates in the next 12 months. As Chief Executive Officer, David Rai has overall responsibility for the day to day running of Sparta Global, its strategic development, growth strategy, financial performance and creating the optimum conditions to deliver future value. Prior to founding Sparta Global, David co-founded an online gambling organisation and worked for leading fast growth gaming organisations in key sales appointments in London, UK and the USA. He received his BSc Hons Management Studies from Aston University and MSc Management from Manchester University.
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About Sparta Global: Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Stephen Murphy
Co-Founder of NOBL Group
Stephen is Managing Director & Co-Founder of Prohibition Partners, the leading source of intelligence and insights into the European cannabis industry. As a cannabis specialist focused on developing the legal European cannabis industry, Stephen is a Co-Founder of European Cannabis Holdings, Europe’s cannabis investment group and Cannabis Europa, Europe’s premier medical cannabis conference. With a background is in technology, digital media and corporate finance, Stephen works with investors, entrepreneurs and regulators to identify, qualify and maximise the opportunities in this emerging frontier.
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About European Cannabis Holdings (ECH), NOBL Group, Prohibition Partners: NOBL is an information technology services company that specializes in cannabis data, conferences and consulting.
Julian Assange
Founder of WikiLeaks
Julian Assange is the founder of [WikiLeaks](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wikileaks). He was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and computer programmer before setting up WikiLeaks. He is currently a citizen of Australia.
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About WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes classified information provided by anonymous sources.
Sacha Carton
Co-Founder & COO of Airfinity
Sacha is co-founder & COO at Airfinity – a science information and analytics company. He is a data, tech and media entrepreneur who previously co-founded ad pepper media (FRA: APM), Adbrain (sold to NSDQ: TTD), Scala Ventures and advisory firm Ogmenta and has been an investor, advisor and director in multiple media, data, adtech, PE and M&A companies in Europe and the US.
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About Airfinity, Scala Ventures: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Chris Donnachie
Co-Founder of UniZest
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About BESPOKE, UniZest: Global banking for international students
Elliot Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of Zapaygo
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About Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Peter Dolukhanov
Founder & CEO of Decoded Consulting
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About Decoded Consulting: Decoded Consulting is a technology leadership consultancy that offers CTO services.
Ross Harper
Founder and CEO of Limbic
Ross Harper is the co-founder and CEO of Limbic. Computational neuroscientist gone rogue. With degrees from Cambridge University and University College London, Ross is skilled at drawing hidden meaning from biological data.
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About Limbic: Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers.
Justin Fitzpatrick
Co-Founder & CEO of DueDil
Justin is co-founder and CEO of DueDil. Prior to DueDil he established the Asian and European operations for two other venture-backed tech companies. Justin is also a founding Non-Executive Director of Innovate Finance, a financial technology industry body.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
David Fountaine
CEO & Founder of Creation Technology
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About Creation Technology: Creation Technology is a consultancy and product development company that offers department solutions or a complete digital transformation.
Vivek Madlani
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply
Vivek Madlani is the Cofounder and CEO at multiply.ai
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About Multiply: Multiply provides independent financial advice service.
David von Dadelszen
Co-Founder of Purposeful
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About Purposeful: Purposeful is a structured communication platform that focuses on streamlining essential communications and decisions makings.
Denis Ignatovich
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imandra
Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
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About Imandra: Imandra specializes in cloud-scale automated reasoning.
Edmond Boulle
Co-Founder of Orbital Witness
Co-Founder at Orbital Witness – we’re hiring!
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About Orbital Witness: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Will Read
CEO & Founder of Sideways 6
Will Read is Founder & CEO at Sideways 6.
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About Sideways 6: Sideways 6 is a platform helping organisations including british airways and sainsbury’s to harness the innovative ideas of their employees.
Yi Xu
Founder and CEO of Human
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About Human: Human humanises technology to decipher subliminal facial expressions into emotion and characteristics, predicting human behaviour.
Ali Adnan
Co-Founder of Authlete
Born and raised in Japan, Ali is a British citizen who comes from a multicultural background and speaks several languages. Ali has led high-tech European start-ups for over 15 years creating value by bringing people together from varied backgrounds.
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About Mytrax: Authlete provides a set of Web APIs with which developers implement servers supporting OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, etc.
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.
Vera Grablechner
Founder & CEO of myCulture
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About myCulture: MyCulture is an art curator app that provides art enthusiasts with personalized recommendations for exhibitions based on their interests.
Piers Linney
CEO & Founder of Moblox
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About Moblox: Moblox is a tech and tool platform for owner-led businesses.
Mark Maslin
Director and Co-Founder of Rezatec
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About Rezatec: Rezatec applies data science to satellite imagery and geospatial data to deliver cloud-based analytics to its global customers.
Paris Stylianides
Co-Founder. head of Strategy and Growth of Jobcha
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About Jobcha: JOBCHA is a smarter job search using machine learning algorythms.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Anka Mandleson
Co-Founder of Advantra Wealth
Anka Mandleson is the co-founder of Advantra Wealth, a digital b2b platform that puts financial institutions in control of their profitability and their clients in control of their investments. Bringing unparalleled user experience and cutting edge technology and AI, it allows banks to digitise with minimum investment, bringing client centricity to their investment model. Anka has over 10 years experience in the banking and wealth management industry, having worked with the C-suite of over 10 global banks across UK, US, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Asia and Latina America and is a former Associate Principal at McKinsey&Company.
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About Advantra Wealth: Advantra Wealth is a financial advisory firm.
Julian M. Baladurage
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MBJ LONDON
Julian Baladurage joined MBJ LONDON as CEO & Co-founder in 2011.
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About Forbes New York Business Council, MBJ LONDON: MBJ LONDON is a web and app development company offering Website as a Service.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Freddie McMahon
Co-Founder, Director of Strategy and Innovation of DF2020 Limited
Responsible for developing a paradigm shift in the way firms interact with regulation, which is currently unsustainable due to the diversity, volume, rate of change and complexity.
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About Augestra, DF2020 Limited: Df2020 regtech digitises regulation and procedures through a universal and unifying blend of codification, interaction and measurement.
Bruce Hellman
CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif
Bruce Hellman is the CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif.
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About uMotif: UMotif is a scalable and engaging patient-centred data capture platform for modern research.
Michael Trounce
Founder & CEO of Trounceflow
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About Trounceflow: Tech-centred professional services firm helping financial market professionals with data and insight on flows and positions in EMD/FX
Alex Borekull
Co Founder of Qlearsite – Organisational Science
Alex Borekull serves as a Co Founder at Qlearsite – Organisational Science.
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About Qlearsite – Organisational Science: Qlearsite provides People Analytics solutions that use machine learning techniques to analyse complex, big employee data.
Peter Clark
Co Founder of Qlearsite – Organisational Science
Peter Clark serves as a Co Founder at Qlearsite – Organisational Science.
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About Qlearsite – Organisational Science: Qlearsite provides People Analytics solutions that use machine learning techniques to analyse complex, big employee data.
Roger Wilson
Chairman and Founder of Adept Technology Group Plc
Roger has worked in telecommunications since 1993. In addition to being the first Managing Director for Telewest’s residential consumer business in the UK he spent 3 years in Poland successfully building a business for American investors. He was Managing Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association until January 2006.
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About Adept Technology Group Plc: Adept Technology Group is one of COMMS Integrators offering best-in-class breed solutions from any UK network, customized to your needs.
Christina Richardson
Founder & chief-firestarter of Weare3Sixty
Christina Richardson is the Founder at 3sixty. She attended Durham University in 2000.
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About 3sixty, The Nurture Network, University College London (UCL), Weare3Sixty: Weare3Sixty is an impact-driven company on a mission to inspire founders to be their most effective, high-performing selves.
Romill Bettany
Co-Founder and Engineering Director of Modulous
Romill Bettany is the co-founder and engineering director at Modulous.
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About Modulous: Redefining the design & delivery of affordable, sustainable & smart homes by leveraging disruptive digital technologies
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
David Edwards
Founder and CEO of ChainThat
David Edwards is the founder and product lead for ChaintThat. ChainThat provides enterprise decentralised solutions & services based on Blockchain and smart contracts for the commercial & specialty (re)insurance sector. David has proven his industry leading experience repeatedly during his work with large enterprises and start-ups alike over the past 20 years. His wide-ranging technical skills span the provision of high-level architecture design & strategy down to detailed, low-level technical solutions. He has been working with architecting Blockchain and smart contracts solutions since 2014. Prior to Chainthat, David held the role of Enterprise Infrastructure Architect for London’s leading insurance services provider. In this role he provided cloud strategy, complex data migration planning, cyber security guidance, total cost of ownership modelling for applications / services and infrastructure / storage strategy. Previously David held architecture positions at Capita, ATOS & Siemens.
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About ChainThat: ChainThat provide services and solutions that leverage new decentralised technologies to enable a step-change in peer-to-peer processing.
Adriana Nem
Founder of relak.co
Founder at Relak
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About Adriana Nem Swimwear, relak.co: Your Go-To Remote Work & Lifestyle Resource, Community & More. Join Us!
Felix Kenton
Co-Founder of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Andrew Jervis
Co-Founder and CEO of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Joshua Ratilal
Co-Founder and Director of Zentivo
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About Zentivo: Zentivo is an Insurtech startup, focusing on digitising the life insurance claims process.
Shaun Blake
Co Founder of Cygnetise
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About Cygnetise: Authorised Signatory Management on the Blockchain
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-Founder of Vestemi
Mark has a computer systems engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 7 years working in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Jason Binks
Co-Founder of Personalyze
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About Personalyze: Personalyze is the powerful profiling technology for individuals on social and mobile.
Kerstyn Comley
Co-Founder of MeeTwo Education
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About MeeTwo Education: MeeTwo Education is a safe, fully moderated app, which delivers peer support and expert help to teenagers.
Suzi Godson
Co-CEO and Founder of MeeTwo Education
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About MeeTwo Education: MeeTwo Education is a safe, fully moderated app, which delivers peer support and expert help to teenagers.
Jake Li
Co-Founder, COO & Data Scientist of Kuan Intelligence
Jake Li, PhD is Co-Founder, COO & Data Scientist at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Yan Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO of Kuan Intelligence
Yan Zhang is Co-Founder and CTO at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
David Lawlor
Co-Founder of Enforcd
David is co-founder and COO of Enforcd, and has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He is a senior product manager and content expert, who most recently led Thomson Reuters’ response to Dodd Frank and MiFID 2. As Accountable Product Owner he managed across all work streams to formulate strategy and execute on the firm’s product roadmap and was the key Thomson Reuters regulatory representative at all major industry events and groups. Earlier in his career David worked as an FX broker for ICAP, and an FX and Eurobond trader at UBS. He also spent a period of time running the content business for risk, for Deutsche Bank.
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About : Enforcd is a global regulatory intelligence platform that helps banks and others stay up to date with regulatory change and identify risks.
Parth Desai
Founder & CEO of Pelican
Parth Desai graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and was quickly hired to work with one of the most celebrated global pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , Roger Schank. Parth rapidly built a deep expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has driven his own ability to innovate over the past two decades. During that time, Parth built a global team and nurtured their collective AI expertise. Working collaboratively within the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain for Banks and Corporates, Parth has built a thorough understanding of the Payments, Securities, Anti Money Laundering and Risk Management from both the business and technology viewpoints. As Founder &CEO, Parth works closely with his global team to deliver consistent innovation and client value that continues to underpin their long-term client relationships.
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About Pelican: Pelican provides banks and corporates with solutions that enhance, streamline and secure the payments life-cycle.
Lord Victor Adebowale
Co-Founder of Visionable
Lord Adebowale has had a career long interest in innovation across housing, health and public services. He is the CEO of a major health and social care provider. He has a track record of working with both senior members of governments as well as working with communities to transform their experience of public services. Victor is a visiting professor and Chancellor at Lincoln University and is the Chair of Collaborate, a new organisation established to provide new insights into how public, private and non-profit organisations can work together in the interests of public service users.
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About IOCOM, Visionable: Visionable combines next-generation video conferencing with unparalleled clinical imaging capabilities.
David Szucs
Co-Founder of VR-Reel Media Kft
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About VR-Reel Media Kft: VR-Reel Media develops VR solutions.
John Squire
Founder & CEO of Locus Software
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About Locus Software: Locus Software Limited is an Information Technology Solution and Service Provider with a specific focus on the Shipping industry.
Scott Simpkin
Co-Founder of Buzzer Feedback
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About Waggle-It: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Dom O’Neill
Co-Founder and CTO of Buzzer Feedback
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About Buzzer Feedback: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Greg Barnett
Founder & CEO of Logical Equity
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About Logical Equity: Logical Equity specializes in providing digital solutions for pre-seed and pre-series A startups.
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.
Matt Baxter Reynolds
Founder of It’s What’s Next IT
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About It’s What’s Next IT: It’s What’s Next IT provides managed IT support services to small and medium-sized businesses.
Annika Erikson
CEO & Founder of Articheck
Annika Erikson is a CEO and founder at Articheck.
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About Articheck: Articheck is a software platform used to create digital condition reports.
Alexander Langle
CEO – Founder of Oystext
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About Oystext: Oystext allows you to communicate with other users around the world, without any language skills.
Marco Kapp
Founder & Director of Citicus
Marco Kapp’s 40+ years of experience of IT includes developing and running major systems and providing advice and assistance to leading IT users and suppliers around the world. As a Director of Coopers & Lybrand’s UK consulting practice, he led a major study into the security of network system which was supported by the European Commission and over 50 other organizations throughout Europe, and was instrumental in establishing the European Security Forum (ESF) as a successor organization – which itself went on to become the Information Security Forum (ISF). He directed the ESF during its first year of operation. He subsequently directed, managed or contributed to numerous ESF and ISF projects, including: development of the 1996 and 1998 Information Security Status Surveys evolution of the ISF’s Standard of Good Practice for Information Security statistical analysis of results of the Survey, culminating in the key factor / benchmarking process employed in recent Surveys numerous publications on the results of the Survey (eg Driving information risk out of the business, information risk reference guide) development of FIRM – a rigorous, research-based and easy to apply methodology for managing information risk and similar areas of risk across an enterprise contributing to the ISF’s fast-track-project on e-commerce. Marco was the chief architect of the FIRM methodology and is a founder and Director of Citicus Limited. He was a member of the Group of Experts on information security charged by the highly influential OECD with developing Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. When published, these stimulated and shaped the development of security legislation around the world. He also contributed to the development of the widely used COBIT 4 framework for managing information security enterprise-wide, published by the IT Governance Institute® (ITGI) in 1998.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Simon Oxley
Founder & Managing Director of Citicus
Simon Oxley moved into the IT industry after obtaining a science Doctorate at Oxford University. He gained a background in systems development and has now been working in the information security and risk fields for over 30 years. Having helped Logica establish one of the first two computer security evaluation facilities for the UK government, he had a career in commercial security management through heading up the information security departments at National Power and Reuters. He took both organizations into the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was a member of the ISF’s Council during 1992-94. As an independent consultant in information security from 1996 to 2000, Simon advised a range of blue chip clients and contributed to many projects for the highly-respected ISF. He was the author of the ISF’s research reports on secure e-commerce, cryptography, web security, security architecture and active content, and contributed to many others, including the project that led to the FIRM methodology supported by Citicus ONE. Simon is a regular speaker at international conferences on information security and risk. He has a strong interested in education, helping the British Computer Society to develop their information security qualifications and being a regular lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway Information Security MSc course. Simon is a founder and Managing Director of Citicus.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Derin Cag
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Richtopia
Derin Cag is the founder of Richtopia, a leading publisher of contributions from prominent academics and professionals discussing unique insights on leadership, technology, marketing, and sustainability. As a universal information movement, Richtopia pursues a more sustainable and prosperous world in which all 7.8+ billion people are rich; including their access to knowledge, resources, and opportunities. The Richtopian mission above gets achieved through quality information, by inspiring those who make it happen, and with alliances centring around the people, planet, and profits. Past readers and interactors of Richtopia include Paulo Coelho (Author of The Alchemist); Kristalina Georgieva (Managing Director of the IMF); Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever); Helen Clark (Former Prime Minister of New Zealand); Mohamed A. El-Erian (Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz); and Richard Branson (Founder at Virgin Group), to name a few. Richtopia has got mentioned across various media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Business Insider, to name a few. Derin also finds global trends and transformative technologies that make the world a better place of particular interest. You can contact Derin via e-mail on derin@richtopia.com
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About Richtopia: A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.
Donna McLean
Founder of passingboxes
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About passingboxes: passingboxes provides services to help secure your digital legacy and pass on the things that really matter.
Brad Cohen
Founder of Tido Music
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About Tido Music: Creator of the Tido Music app, an inspirational resource and learning tool for pianists and singers of all abilities.
Taryl Law
Co Founder and COO of How Do I?
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About How Do I?: How Do I? teaches life and vocational skills through step-by-step videos linked to the learning environment using NFC technology.
