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 Technology 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.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Founder of Ocean Protocol
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About Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while…
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Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Brent Hoberman
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory
Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world’s top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List.
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About 01 Founders, AccelerateHER, Firstminute Capital, Founders Factory, Founders Forum, Founders Intelligence, Founders Keepers, Founders of the Future, Grip, Karakuri, MADE, SmartUp.io: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Craig Wright
Founder & Chief Scientist of nChain
Craig Wright is an inventor, computer scientist and businessman, who is one of the earliest minds behind Bitcoin. He is the Chief Scientist at nChain, research and development company involved in bitcoin and blockchain technologies. His vision is to transform how the world conducts all transactions – using the blockchain’s distributed, decentralised ledger that chronologically records transactions in an immutable way – and to grow the bitcoin network to its full potential as a transformative technology platform.
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About nChain: nChain is in blockchain centric research and development.The nChain Group includes nChain Holdings Limited and nChain Limited.
Sebastien Breteau
Founder & CEO of QIMA
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network. QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data. In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.
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About Breteau Foundation, QIMA: QIMA is a provider of supply chain compliance solutions to secure, manage and optimize global supply networks.
Sergiu Matei
Founder of Index
Sergiu Matei is the founder of Index, the London-based platform helping enterprises like Vodafone and Twilio find and hire world-class remote software developers, and be globally compliant from the get-go. Before launching Index, Sergiu founded Travod, the translation marketplace providing 2,000+ brands such as Amazon and Swissport with locally hired translators in 100+ countries in every continent across the globe.
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About Index, Index.dev: Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
Indu Khemchandani
Founder of Uplatz
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About Uplatz: Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Fredrik Broberg
Founder & CEO of Marketflow
Successful serial entrepreneur with a strong emphasis on defining companies at the crossroads of technology and finance. Fredrik leads the strategy of the company which defines Marketflow and its innovative and unique approach.
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About Marketflow: Marketflow is an innovative FinTech company.
Dominic Perks
Partner, Co-Founder of Hambro Perks Ltd.
Dominic Perks graduated from Oxford University and went on to work as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, and then as a Strategy Consultant at McKinsey. Dominic is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a growing portfolio of fast growth UK tech businesses. Founded by Dominic Perks and Rupert Hambro in 2014, Hambro Perks backs and builds fast-growth start-ups using SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) and EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) structures.
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About Hambro Perks Ltd., Takumi, Tootle: Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.
Rupert Hambro
Partner, Co-Founder of Hambro Perks Ltd.
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About Hambro Perks Ltd., ThePresent.Co: Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Rob Whitehead
CPO & Co-Founder of Improbable
Robert Whitehead is the Co-Founder & CTO at Improbable. He worked as Cohort Member at Entrepreneur First. He served as Technical Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was the Founder of TyroTech Software. He also served as Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg LP.
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About Improbable, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Herman Narula
CEO and Co-Founder of Improbable
Herman Narula is the cofounder and CEO of Improbable, a London-based technology startup born out of Cambridge University. Improbable is creating SpatialOS, a distributed, cloud-based platform for game development that integrates with and augments existing workflows, engines, and tools. SpatialOS empowers developers to build, run and operate previously impossible online games, with unprecedented levels of scale, complexity and persistence. Improbable has investment from some of the world’s most admired venture capitalists. Improbable currently has a team of over 200 people in offices in London and San Francisco, including top software engineering talent from world-renowned academic institutions and companies such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Microsoft. Founded in 2012, Improbable received $20m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz in March 2015, with a $30m follow-on led by Horizons Ventures in July 2015. In May 2017 Improbable announced a $502m Series B funding round, led by SoftBank and including Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures. Herman holds a computer science degree from Cambridge, and is interested in the potential impact that powerful, virtual worlds will have on how they think, play and make decisions.
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Bilal Al-Qureshi
Co-Founder and COO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Omar Rafii
Co-Founder and CEO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Julien Renard
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Renard is the Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
Julien Poublon
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Poublon is a Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
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.
Chris Bruce
Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits
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About Thomsons Online Benefits: Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company.
Hossein Kakavand
Founder and CEO of Luther Systems
Hossein is an entrepreneur with a diverse background in the enterprise technology industry. He did his Ph.D at Stanford in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School. He was a fund manager at Soliton Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He was at Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform focused on Peer to Peer (P2P) financing. He has also advised startups, with highly successful exits including, a distributed computation platform for automation of portfolio risk modelling, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine.
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
Ajoy Veer Kapoor
Founder of Velocity Capital Advisors
Ajoy Veer Kapoor is a banker, private equity manager, angel investor, mentor and entrepreneur. His career and professional experience has been spread across the globe, giving him a unique overview and incisive micro-view of a range of different sectors. Ajoy began his career as a retail banker at Barclays Bank and migrated to treasury, investment banking and then on to senior roles within the management structure of Standard Chartered and HSBC. He left HSBC and founded The Saffron Group – an independent private equity house investing in India through a variety of listed, unlisted and managed funds. Ajoy created and led a team of 39 private equity professionals managing and fund raising over £200 million across three funds. The business was eventually acquired by ILFS, India’s leading private equity house. More recently, Ajoy has focused on expanding his personal portfolio, investing in and mentoring start-up businesses across the globe.
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About Velocity Capital Advisors: Velocity seeks to combine a deep consumer understanding with brilliant, innovative, useful business ideas.
Bil Bungay
Founder, Creative Director of Velocity Capital Advisors
Bil co-founded Beattie McGuiness Bungay (BMB), an advertising agency that went on to become one of the fastest growing agencies and considered one of the most creative advertising and marketing agencies of the decade. BMB went on to create nationally famous, highly effective campaigns for brands such as: McCain, Tui, Carling, and Virgin Money. Within three years of their establishment BMB had won Marketing Agency of the Year. Bil has a lifelong passion for innovation and creativity. His entrepreneurial spirit, combined with almost 30 years of creative and marketing experience, has helped him bring many ideas to fruition, for example Purple Bricks, and mentoring numerous early stage businesses. As deputy chairman of BMB, Bil maintains a strong connection with the agency he co- founded. Bil is a member of the Investment Committee.
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About Velocity Capital Advisors: Velocity seeks to combine a deep consumer understanding with brilliant, innovative, useful business ideas.
Jamie Burke
CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures
Jamie Burke is the chief executive officer of Outlier Ventures.
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About Outlier Ventures: The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Subhranil Banerjee
CEO & Founder of YOcoin
Subhranil Banejree is a qualified, highly sought after expert in financial and investment strategy. He understands the structure of the commercial world and is ambitious to revolutionise the industry. Subhranil Banerjee has been exploring the best crypto currencies to achieve information and value communication within different decentralized ledger systems for years to solve real world problems. He is also the host of a television show called “Dollars with Sense”, educating people about current financial and legal matters. Indeed, his entrepreneurship and vision will lead Yocoin to another level.
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About YOcoin: YoCoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency that enables you to easily send money online.
Lorenzo Simonelli
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Baker Hughes
Lorenzo Simonelli is President & CEO of GE Oil & Gas, an advanced technology equipment and services company that serves all segments of the oil and gas industry from extraction to transportation to end use. The business employs 43,000 people around the world. Before joining GE Oil & Gas, Lorenzo was President and CEO of GE Transportation, a global transportation leader in the rail, mining, marine and energy storage industries. During his five-year tenure, he expanded and diversified GE Transportation by focusing on advanced technology manufacturing, intelligent control systems, and a diverse approach to new propulsion solutions to solve the world’s toughest transportation challenges. Lorenzo has also served as CFO Americas for GE Consumer & Industrial, as well as General Manager, Product Management for GE Appliances, Lighting, Electrical Distribution and Motors. He joined GE’s Financial Management Program in 1994, where he worked on assignments in GE International, GE Shared Services, GE Oil & Gas and Consolidated Financial Insurance. Originally from Florence, Italy, Lorenzo is is a Business & Economics Graduate from Cardiff University in South Wales.
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About Baker Hughes: Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.
Chris Taggart
Founder & CEO of OpenCorporates
Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates. Chris Taggart was originally a magazine journalist and publisher, and is an experienced and successful entrepreneur, having started and grown several successful companies. He has been working exclusively in the field of open government and public sector information since 2009. Chris was name in the Top 10 Digital Social Innovators to watch out for by The Guardian.
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About OpenCorporates: OpenCorporates is an online database that provides its users with information related to companies in the world.
Daniel Kinder
Founder & CEO of Double Kingdom
Daniel is the Founder & CEO of Double Kingdom Holdings, an urban infrastructure development and investment company focused on sub Saharan Africa. Double Kingdom is managed from London with offices throughout sub Saharan Africa and in Beijing and has active developments in government anchored real estate and power sectors. Daniel was the managing partner of Great Ocean Group in Beijing and China, an infrastructure investment company from 2009 to 2012. From 2001 to 2009 he was the co-managing partner of Park Avenue Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity fund focused on infrastructure services assets. Daniel is a member of the Board of Directors and investment committee of the CITIC Securities RenGuo Fund (Beijing, China) and a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute. He is co-founder of charity:water, a global water NGO, with operations across 14 countries in Africa and 26 worldwide. Daniel is Chairman of charity:water London.
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About Double Kingdom: Double Kingdom provides sovereign governments in rapidly developing markets a bespoke infrastructure development and financing solution.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Co-Founder of Blockchainsmokers
Daniel Doll-Steinberg had a successful career in investment banking in London and New York. Daniel is a Founder / Director of several other companies in the entertainment, marketing and health spaces, and also advises the UK Government and European Commission on Innovation and education policy. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the values of Intellectual Property (IP) and IP protection.
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About Blockchainsmokers: Blockchainsmokers provides a platform and expertise to those wishing to embrace blockchain technology to achieve transformational growth.
Sandy Chen
Founder and CEO of Graphene Composites
Sandy Chen came up with the idea of a graphene/aerogel composite six years ago. However, since he was committed full-time as a City analyst, there was little time to pursue the idea. Sandy Chen gained prominence as the analyst who called the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9, identifying key weaknesses in the UK banks (e.g. Northern Rock, RBS) and in the financial system overall. Since then, he has written a book on bank analysis and valuation, and testified on banks at a Parliamentary committee hearing. He is a regular media commentator on banks and macroeconomic issues.
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About Graphene Composites, Unity Trust Bank: Graphene Composites is a nano-technology startup that combines graphene with aerogel .
Anand Verma
Founder & CEO of Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.)
Anand Verma @anandverma Anand is the Founder and CEO of climate tech startup Expect. A London-based company committed to decarbonising greening companies, profitably. Prior to my recent ventures, I was the Owner, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys), an award winning Global Digital and Innovation company headquartered in London with studios all over the world. Successfully acquired by Infosys in 2017 to accelerate Design and Innovation for Infosys and its clients globally. I also led Infosys’ digital capabilities in EMEA and was a part of the Infosys leadership team. I am also deeply involved with leading design school and university partnerships for Infosys. I am a digital visionary, innovator and successful entrepreneur who understands new products and services, revenue growth, operations and people. I have over 20 years’ experience in management consulting, digital and tech businesses. I have built a successful career by consistently delivering value through digital and customer-centricity. I love creating value by reducing complexity in the digital world at both speed x scale. Prior to founding Brilliant Basics, I was one of the youngest Presidents and CEO’s at Interpublic Group (IPG) leading IPG Mediabrands Ventures in EMEA, a global advertising and media conglomerate where I led digital Operations, Innovative Products and Services and M&A. And previous to that I held leadership roles at Sapient (now a part of Publicis), AKQA (now a part of WPP) and Modem Media (now a part of Publicis). I am an active investor, adviser, non exec board director, academia, podcast host and speaker. Related Information: – Anand was a co-founder of atp.io in 2012, a Marketing Tech Platform. – Anand was a cofounder of Everpress, a product incubator. – Anand was a co-founder of haberdash app, a digital textile printing startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Weekly, a media startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Mesmerise, a VR and AR Tech Platform. – Anand was the Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys) – Anand was INED for HML Holdings Plc, next generation Property Management company. Exited to Harwood Capital PE. – Anand was a Senior Leader at Infosys, Sapient, Publicis.Sapient, Interpublic Group IPG, AKQA…
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About Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.): Expect. is the decarbonisation management platform for large enterprises and heavy industries.
James Hind
Founder & CEO of Carwow
James is the big boss of carwow, so it’s hardly a surprise that cars are one of his biggest passions.He studied Finance but was put off a city career after just 2 months of trying one. He’s very competitive, especially when it comes to ping pong at the office. He invented the rule that if anyone loses a game 11-0 they have to buy donuts for the entire team!
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Alexandra Margolis
Co-Founder/Creative Director of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
David Santoro
CTO / Co-Founder of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
John C. Drake
Director & Co-Founder of iLOOKABOUT
John C. Drake is the President and co-founder of Drake Goodwin Corporation, a London, Ontario investment firm with diverse interests in financial services, real estate development and manufacturing. Mr. Drake is the Chair of the Board of Critical Outcome Technologies Inc., a TSXV company whose business is focused on the identification, profiling and optimization of targeted small molecules potentially effective in the treatment of human diseases through a proprietary computational platform technology. Mr. Drake is also the Vice Chairman of Children’s Choice Learning Centers, a leading provider of corporate childcare in the United States. Mr. Drake was the Chairman of DGM Bank and Trust Inc., a privately-owned offshore bank located in Barbados, from 2002 to 2008, and a director of Discovery Air Inc., an aviation services company whose shares are listed on the TSX, from 2006 until 2008. Mr. Drake is the co-owner of Redtail Golf Course, an exclusive private golf course located outside of Port Stanley, Ontario. Mr. Drake was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 1st Hussars of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps. in 1999. Mr. Drake obtained his B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Western Ontario and was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1973 to 2012.
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About iLOOKABOUT: iLOOKABOUT is a data analytics and visual intelligence company that produces and delivers geo-coded images to businesses and governments.
Paolo Malaguti
Founder & CEO of Credit-Vision
Paolo is the driving force behind Credit-Vision. Under his leadership the Company has rapidly grown into an award-winning FinTech start-up partnering with major technology and financial firms, as well as receiving the backing of the UK Government’s digital innovation department (InnovateUK). Paolo founded Credit-Vision following a decade working in leveraged finance at various leading banks where he appreciated the fundamental role of data accessibility and accuracy in the private credit markets as well as the potential for financial data platforms to substantially improve market efficiency. Paolo studied finance at the University of Bologna, where he is also a regular guest speaker, and the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton. He holds Chartered Accountant and Auditor qualifications and he often features in various specialist financial and technology media outlets.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Vytautas Karalevicius
CEO & Co-Founder of SpectroCoin
Serial fintech enterpreneur, founder of SpectroCoin (all in one solution for cryptocurrency) and Bankera (banking for the blockchain era) companies.
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About Bankera, SpectroCoin, UAB Pervesk: All in one solution for cryptocurrencies
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Robin Farrell
Founder of Arch International Group
Experienced business builder and investor | Private equity and asset financier 30 years experience across asset management, structured finance, private equity, business development, investment banking, risk management and trading. Structured over $30 billion (equity) of corporate and investment transactions and set up numerous multi-$billion businesses. Management of alternative and traditional asset portfolios for families and institutions over a 25 year period. Founded ARCH in 2002, building it into an international investment banking and asset management group, with highly diverse focus on alternative investments, hedge funds, mutual funds, thematic private equity and physical assets. Offices in London, Zurich, Dubai, Riyadh, Delhi, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Gibraltar. Prior to ARCH Global, Mr. Farrell was a consultant to Goldman Sachs International and Global Head of the Alternative Investments Group at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Earlier experience includes Head of Equity Structured Products for Societe Generale and Executive Director – Global Equity Derivatives for Union Bank of Switzerland. Spent the first part of his career in Quantitative Investment Management and Risk Management, including the management of c.£1 billion of investment / derivative portfolios, mutual funds and structured products for the Legal and General Group and the building of trading and risk management systems for Barings Treasury and Trading (Global Fixed Income). Mr Farrell graduated from the Imperial College London in Mathematics (BSc. ARCS) in 1988. He is a Chartered Mathematician and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the Royal Statistical Society.
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About Arch International Group: Arch International Group Inc is a premier IT staffing and solutions company with a nationwide and growing international presence.
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Fahd Rachidy
Founder and CEO of ABAKA Holdings
Fahd is a serial entrepreneur passionate about helping the industry creates secure financial futures for everyone, and re-inventing the way the financial industry works using Artificial Intelligence. Fahd was previously co-founder of Scientificbeta.com, the leading index retirement digital platform recently acquired by SGX for $205m. Ecole Centrale, Sorbonne University, Lycée Louis Le Grand Paris.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Ray Kyrson
Co-Founder of Propoly
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About Propoly: Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Benoy Berry
CEO & Founder of Contec Global Inc.
As CEO and managing director of Continental Transfer Technique Limited (Contec Global), Benoy Berry leads a Chicago firm that engages in ventures around the globe in hospitality, secure technologies, infrastructure, and research and development. In recent years, Benoy Berry has emphasized investments in the energy sector, and his firm maintains a longstanding presence in the African oil, gas, and power markets. His company also pursues alternative technology projects, including the development of an electric automobile in China and an ammonia-powered vehicle. Benoy Berry has a degree in economics from Delhi University along with an MA in finance from the same institution. He pursued doctoral studies in communication arts at the World Open University. His professional accomplishments include earning the Nigeria Association of Science’s Outstanding Achievement in Technology Award in 2011. Benoy Berry supports a number of humanitarian causes, and he also received an award for sponsoring the National Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign.
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About Contec Global Inc.: Continental Transfer Technique Limited (CONTEC), a biometric technology and secured system organization.
Matteo Berlucchi
CEO & Co-Founder of Healthily by Your.MD
Matteo’s digital career spans 20 years, during which he has conceived, built and launched several successful companies and services both online and on mobile. Most recently, Matteo was Chief Digital Officer at Northern & Shell, the largest independent media company in the UK,where he grew traffic and revenues 4-fold in just 12 months. Matteo was also the founder and CEO of aNobii, the ebook platform funded by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins which was acquired by Sainsbury’s in 2012. Matteo founded Livestation, the leading service for live TV news online and the first company in the world to stream live TV on iPhones. Livestation is also the winner of the Guardian Digital Innovation Award 2008. Prior to this, Matteo was CEO and co-founder of Skinkers, a software company, which defined the market for desktop widgets and the winner of several international innovation awards in the digital space. Matteo started his career by launching the first online property system in Europe in 1995.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Vini Italiani: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Kash Amini
Founder of MasLife
Kash Amini is a British serial entrepreneur from an age of 13, Founder and CEO of Maslife; the world’s first banking and wellbeing platform that revolutionises the way people manage their finances. By employing a fusion of A.I., nudge theory, and gamification, the app guides users towards a healthier, wealthier, and happier lifestyle. Kash has a background in launching and investing in various start-ups within Blockchain and security industry and is an early Bitcoin investor from 2015 with a net worth of 100Mil.
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About MasLife: Financial services, Well-being, AI
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.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Jeremy Longley
CTO & Co Founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Oliver Hopton
Co Founder & Developer of FunFair Technologies
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About EveryFan, FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Spyro Korsanos
Founder & Managing Partner of Fuse Venture Partners
An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker, Spyro Korsanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Global Venture Partners. Global Venture Partners invests in the consumer internet sector and provides strategic advice and corporate finance for technology ventures. Since 2014, Spyro has led over 40 e-commerce transactions, valued at $2bn, which have created more than €1bn in capital gain. As a global development advisor, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of Delivery Hero, foodpanda and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. Global Venture Partners has recently invested in Kurly, the Korean online grocer, and pet tech platform Felcana, based in the UK. Spyro was awarded TMT Rising Star in 2017. Previously, he held corporate strategy and investment roles with Sky, Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless. Spyro started his career as a corporate lawyer at Gilbert & Tobin and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Fuse Venture Partners: FUSE VENTURE PARTNERS Investors in, and advisors to, investors and ventures in the high-growth internet space
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Varun Sahni
Co-Founder & COO of CreditEnable
Varun Sahni has built and operated multiple successful companies over the past 20 years across emerging and developed markets ranging across financial services, healthcare and high technology firms. He is co-founder of Impact Investment Partners a UK based FCA regulated asset manager which operates across multiple markets and sectors. Prior to which he was head of Acumen India and has worked with Unilever, CARE and Oxfam to build up their SME portfolios. Varun is on a range of global advisory boards and fund investment committees focused on emerging markets and sustainable investing. He has been widely quoted in international media over the years and is a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics, a TED Fellow and an Asia Society Global Young Leader. Varun has an MA from Columbia University, and is also a Chevening Scholar.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Nadia Sood
CEO & Co-Founder of CreditEnable
Nadia Sood has more than 20 years of emerging markets debt and equity investment experience. Through her career she has successfully executed and managed complex investments ranging in size from several million $USD to several billion involving a range of investors and financiers such as IFC, Citibank, ICICI, IDFC, ADB, the largest of which was the establishment of an USD 8 billion JV with Tata Power in India. Nadia has founded and built a number of successful businesses including Impact Investment Partners LLP. In 2018 Nadia was admitted into the Young Presidents Organisation, and in 2019 received a runners-up award at Techpreneurs Women in Tech Awards. Nadia holds a BSFS from Georgetown University and a MIA from Columbia University.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Philip Hua
Co-Founder of CreditEnable
Philip Hua has 25 years experience in financial services. He has held senior IT and credit and risk management positions at several investment banks and asset management houses including: Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Bankers Trust and DSP and Oldfield Partners. Phillip is also the co-creator of Crashmetrics, the only real-time VaR methodology to focus on events that wipe out major institutions. He has published various articles on risk management in academic journals and trade publications. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Imperial College and an MBA in Finance from Cass Business School.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
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.
Rodolphe de Hemptinne
Co Founder of Third Bridge Group
Rodolphe is Co-Founder of Third Bridge, and CEO of its Intelligence division. He is responsible for executing Third Bridge Intelligence’s strategy and growth plan. Before founding Third Bridge, Rodolphe’s career included consultancy work at Bain & Company in Boston, Johannesburg and London, and five years’ management experience with Shell Corporation in Belgium and the Netherlands. Rodolphe has an MBA from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. A true polyglot, he is fluent in French, Dutch, English, Spanish and German. He has four children and, quite coincidentally, a passion for climbing mountains in increasingly remote locations.
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About Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Emmanuel Tahar
Co-Founder & CEO of Third Bridge Group
Emmanuel has led Third Bridge from its inception and overseen its growth into a leading provider of research to the financial services industry. He now concentrates on defining company strategy and making the development plan a reality. Emmanuel’s past career includes several roles at Bain & Company in Europe and North America, where he led consulting projects for major technology corporations and diverse financial investors. He has an MBA with Honours from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania and speaks French and English fluently. A self-confessed boffin, he’s never happier than when taking electronic components apart. His MSc in Engineering may help explain his success rate at re-assembly stage.
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About Cognolink, Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Nicolas Sharp
Founder and CEO of Attio
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About Attio: Attio is a CRM tool to manage teams’ workflows and relationships.
Aron Rachamim
Founder & CEO of Senzo
Aron Rachamim is committed to changing the world by putting healthcare information into everyone’s hands. A serial entrepreneur, scientist, and experienced leader, Aron aims to apply pioneering technologies to improve people’s quality of life. His expertise and passion for the science of microfluidics builds on his background in life sciences, physics, and engineering. His company Orphidia intends to transform the world of medical diagnostics. Aron launched Orphidia in 2013 to provide affordable, point-of-care diagnostics that allow everyone to know their health. Orphidia has advanced the state-of-the-art with microfluidic-based medical diagnostics that are minimally invasive, replacing venous blood draws from a phlebotomist with a simple fingerstick that anyone can perform. Aron is a serial entrepreneur, whose background combines a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a focus on microfluidics and biotechnology with strong experience in professional management. At Protein Logic, a spin-out from Cambridge University that raised more than £3 million in initial funding to develop proprietary biomarker technology for the diagnosis and prediction of diseases, he served as COO. At WiseMed, where he was Co-founder, his team developed crowdsourced medical diagnostic technology as an affordable solution for improving healthcare in the developing world. Now, at Orphidia, Aron is providing the vision and leadership that will usher in the next generation of medical diagnostics, empowering everyone to know their health.
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About Senzo: Senzo is a deep-tech bio-med company developing testing products and IP.
John Michael
CEO & Founder of iStorage
With 32 years within the Data Storage Industry, John Michael has been running successful innovative businesses throughout his working life. With John’s extensive knowledge and experience within the industry, he recognised early on that data was becoming a precious commodity. John’s vision of creating secure solutions to protect sensitive data led him to develop a range of ground-breaking industry leading products, consisting of USB Flash, Hard Disk and Solid-State Drives, which have been certified to the highest government accreditations!
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About iStorage: iStorage is the trusted global leader of PIN authenticated, hardware encrypted data storage devices.
Louis Decuypere
Founder & CEO of Datatonic
Datatonic, Google Cloud’s Specialization Partner of the Year for AI + ML, is a data consultancy enabling companies to make better business decisions with the power of Modern Data Stack and MLOps.
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Pip Witheridge
Founder & Director of Grove
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About Grove: Grove is unlock business success through the power of leading-edge cloud computing, custom software development, cybersecurity & analytics.
Melinda Nicci
Founder and CEO of Baby2Body
Melinda is founder and CEO of Body Collective (Baby2body) the award- winning, wellness company for women.
She is a Sports and Exercise Psychologist, author of two bestselling books, is a regular contributor on the BBC, and sits on numerous boards as a NED, including The ICE List and Team GB (Olympic and Para-olympics snow-sport teams).
Melinda was named the UKBAA High Growth Founder of the year 2019/20, and has won numerous accolades and awards for entrepreneurship, including being named in the UK list of the Most Influential Women in Tech for 4 years running.
A serial entrepreneur, she founded and sold her first business at the age of 25 in South Africa, and held the position of Senior Director for Consumer health Innovation at Philips in Amsterdam. Melinda brings her passion for sport, performance and wellness to the numerous companies she advises and has created a global business with Body Collective, helping millions of women all over the world to live healthier and happier lives.
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About Baby2Body, GB Snowsport, ICE List: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Tim Smeaton
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner of Kubrick Group
Tim Smeaton co-founded Kubrick Group in March 2016. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy of the company and its execution. Tim was previously the CEO of a public company that he grew with his co-founders to have revenues in excess of £200 million and 10 offices around the world. Tim also has a background in the technology industry with multiple non-executive roles, with a strong focus on education and charitable organisations helping them increase diversity in the technology industry. Tim also has experience as an advisor and investor in technology start ups. Tim believes that all organisations have a responsibility to develop their people to compensate for the huge impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on the global workforce.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Joshua Pennell
Founder and Chairman of IOActive
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About IOActive, ISSA-UK: IOActive is a security consultancy with a global presence and deep expertise spanning hardware, software, and wetware.
Matthew Luczynski
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Office of Travala.com
Matthew Luczynski is a Tech & Marketing Entrepreneur, Strategic & Innovative Thinker, and the Founder of Travala.com. Book 2,200,000 hotels and homes worldwide with savings of up to 40%. Pay with 30 cryptos and credit card. Best price guaranteed and 24/7 Support. Matthew has worked on a number of start-ups within the travel space, with a focus on Fintech & Blockchain technology.
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About Travala.com: Travala.com, the world’s leading cryptocurrency-friendly hotel booking service with the best prices on 2 Million+ properties, worldwide.
Serge Alleyne
Co-Founder & CEO of Shipfix
Serge Alleyne is a co-founder and CEO at Shipfix.
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About Nomao.com, Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
Antoine Grisay
Co-Founder and COO of Shipfix
Antoine Grisay is a co-founder and COO at Shipfix.
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About Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
Allister Furey
Co-Founder & CEO of Sylvera
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About Sylvera: Sylvera develops machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets.
Andrew Dillon
Founder & Chief Executive of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Andrew Dillon joined the NHS in 1975 and has held a number of senior management positions, including General Manager of the Royal Free Hospital and Chief Executive of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust. He joined the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as its founding Chief Executive in 1999.
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About National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Thomas Fairey
Founder & CEO of Stakester
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Ross Nicol
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Stakester
Ross Nicol is the Co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Phil McGriskin
CEO & Founder of Vitesse PSP
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Uzair Bawany
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Traydstream
Founder of a boutique search firm, Fairway Search Partners which predominantly focuses on retained mandates in the front office within three distinct areas. They are Global Transaction Banking, Private Wealth / Asset Management and Equities Capital Markets – Sales & Sales Trading. Chairman of the Contact Recruitment Group. In Jan 2003, he initiated an MBO and acquired the company and then sold this business in November 2011. He was Vice Chair of an industry trade body which is the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). APSCo provides a powerful unified voice for the Professional Recruitment market and is proud to represent, promote and support such vibrant and innovative sectors of the recruitment industry. Board Director of the National Advisory Board and Chair the London Regional Group of Mosaic which is a Prince’s trust Charity. It focuses on mentoring and developing under privileged school children.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
Jacob Haddad
Co-Founder of AccuRx
Jacob Haddad is a Co-Founder at accuRx Company.
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About AccuRx, Entrepreneur First, Founders of the Future: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Russell Glenister
Founder, Investor & CEO of Curation Zone
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About Curation Zone: Curation Zone develops an online platform that analyzes and ranks creative talents.
Aaron Gowell
Co-Founder and CEO of SilverRail Technologies
Aaron Gowell, Company Founder and CEO, SilverRail Technologies Prior to founding SilverRail in 2009, Aaron built one of the largest travel technology and distribution companies in the US: National Leisure Group (NLG), a $1 Billion ecommerce leader in vacations & cruise. NLG pioneered several early online travel technologies including the cruise industry’s first online booking platform and one of the first dynamic packaging systems. Previously, Aaron honed his survival skills in US Army’s 82nd Airborne and at global management consultancy Bain & Company. Aaron was also a founding member of General Catalyst Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Boston where he was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Will Phillipson
Co-Founder and COO of SilverRail Technologies
Will is the co-founder of SilverRail Technologies and driver behind SilverRail’s product. Will brings 15 years of travel technology and product experience in a number of successful companies. Prior to co-founding SilverRail, Will was the VP Product Strategy and technical lead for distribution platforms at ITA Software, which involved building a next-generation GDS platform for airline distribution, and advising on aspects of ITA’s forthcoming Airline Reservation, Inventory and re-accommodation Systems. Prior to the travel industry, Will started several companies focusing on document management, documents on demand and eventually digital rights management. Will has a computer engineering degree from McGill University and has served on various boards, including the Board of Governors of McGill University. Claim to fame: First solo airline trip to South Africa — at age 5. Since then he has circumnavigated this planet several times.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Valerio Magliulo
Co-Founder of Abatable
Valerio Magliulo is the Co-Founder at Abatable.
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About Abatable: Abatable is the robo-advisor for high quality carbon offsetting.
John Gilleran
Co-Founder of Konversational
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About Konversational: Konversational is a consultancy firm helping brands accelerate customer experience & digital transformation through the LivePerson platform.
Manoj Ganapathy
Founder & CEO of SalesTrip
Proven entrepreneur solving real world business problems using technology. Previously built and sold Invoice IT to Salesforce.
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About SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Richard Goodall
Founder of SalesTrip
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About PhiX Technologies, Precursive, SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Prakash Pilley
Co-Founder of Innovify
Founder at Innovify
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Ruchit Jani
Co-Founder of Innovify
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About Innovify, Matangi Industries LLP: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Richard Frawley
Founder of Savvi
Founder at Savvi.
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About Savvi: Savvi is an IT company that empowers their customers with tools and interfaces, enabling them to gain value from various data sources.
AJ Joshi
Founder of Ikaroa
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About FIT.live, Gignify, Ikaroa, zessoo: Ikaroa is a full 360 service which means they’ve got you covered on design and content right through to digital.
Jessica Barker
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cygenta
Jessica Barker is a leader in the human nature of cybersecurity. She has been named one of the top 20 most influential women in cybersecurity in the UK and in 2017 she was awarded as one of the UK’s Tech Women 50. She is Co-Founder and co-CEO of Cygenta, where she follows her passion of positively influencing cybersecurity awareness, behaviours and culture in organisations around the world. She is a popular keynote speaker and regularly shares her expertise in the media, for example on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News and in Grazia magazine and the Sunday Times. She is the Chair of ClubCISO and a board member of BlackHat Executive Summit Europe and SANS Security Awareness Summit EU.
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About Cygenta: Cygenta support clients dealing with the multi-dimensional challenge of cyber-security.
Matthew Larby
Co-Founder & CEO of Unified Technologies
Matthew Larby is the Co-Founder & CEO at Unified Technologies.
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About Unified Technologies: Advanced indoor-location services, sensor-based analytics and workforce management solutions for buildings.
Krystian Zajac
Founder and CEO of Hero Labs
Krystian Zajac is a serial entrepreneur specializing in transformative smart home and IoT insurtech products. His ventures have won dozens of awards, been featured across tier-one media and recognized as some of the most disruptive companies in the world. Krystian Zajac founded Hero Labs and currently serves as the chief executive officer.
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About Hero Labs, Hero Labs, Hiro: Hero Labs develops technologies that help prevent water leaks.
Paramjit Uppal
Founder & Pacesetter of AND Digital
Paramjit Uppal is the Founder and Pacesetter of AND Digital. He is a graduate of The University of Manchester.
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About AND Digital: AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery. We work with top clients to build remarkable digital products and teams.
Alexander Fitzgerald
Founder and CEO of Cuckoo
Former HM Treasury official, helped Bulb grow and interested in economics and defence.
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About Cuckoo: Cuckoo is a broadband services provider used to simplify broadband for users.
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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.
Elizabeth Varley
Founder & CEO of TechHub
Elizabeth is a serial entrepreneur and founded TechHub, the community for high-growth tech companies. TechHub has worked with thousands of companies to help them scale. TechHub member companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft among others, and have raised over $1billion in funding. TechHub also helps corporates like Google and BT access innovation culture and to work with startups to solve business challenges or develop new products. Previously Elizabeth ran an editorial and content agency, and built communities. She’s been selected for Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 top influencers, the Debrett’s 500, and Vogue UK’s Generation Tech among others. Elizabeth also sits on the board of the Digital City Exchange smart cities programme at Imperial College, the Open Data Institute’s Data Pitch technology innovation board, and the Silicon Valley Bank early-stage advisory board. @evarley @TechHub
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About TechHub: TechHub is the home of technology entrepreneurs and startup teams
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)
Tim Hardcastle
CEO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Tim is a highly experienced Board level CIO/COO in FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. His experience managing and leading technology-enabled business change and his determination to consistently exceed outcome expectations led him to lead the development of the entirely new business and service model that is INSTANDA.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Derek Hill
COO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Derek Hill have experience spanning several eras of technology advancement, Derek’s insights into provisioning and global deployment of online solutions and leveraging the latest ecosystem of solutions is second to none. An industry thought leader in MS Azure and architect of INSTANDA’s rapid scaling capabilities in multiple countries, Derek has worked extensively with Boards to unravel the complexity of technology-enabled change. As COO of INSTANDA, he has a simple mission: unparalleled customer service combined with unrivalled platform value and quality.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Daisy Robinton
Co-Founder and CEO of Stealth Mode
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About Cambrian Biopharma, Stealth Mode, University of California: Challenging the way humAns Interact. Backed by top-tier investors in the Bay Area.
Mikela Druckman
Founder and CEO of Greyparrot
Mikela is the Founder & CEO of Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI based computer vision to power next generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was CCO at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products and partnering with global brands to deliver award-winning projects. She is a Global Future Council member at the World Economic Forum, providing thought leadership on emerging technologies including AI for the private and public sector. In 2018, Mikela was listed as “TopWomen50” in tech by WeAreTheCity. She is passionate about using new technologies to solve key challenges in our society.
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About Greyparrot: AI-based computer vision solutions to power next generation robotics and smart systems for the waste management industry
Thomas Mann
CEO, Founder of Raycast
Thomas Paul Mann is the CEO and Founder at Raycast.
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About Raycast: Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.
