Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Michael Skelly
CEO of Stacker
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About Stacker: Stacker is a no-code software creation platform that develops an application to help developers build software.
Omer Khushnood
CEO of VIVID Technologies
Omer Khushnood, CEO Vivid Technologies
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About VIVID Technologies: VIVID Technologies are transforming the traditional customer service experience.
Martijn De Wever
CEO of Force Over Mass Capital
Martijn De Wever is the Founder and CEO of Floww, democratising access for startups to venture capital. As a technologist, investor and Founder, De Wever understood the need for a transparent platform to champion merit based investing in the startup world. Floww gives Founders the opportunity to engage with investors and demonstrate key metrics, without the need for warm introductions and old school networks. Having already invested in over 160 startups through the venture capital firm he founded in 2013, Force Over Mass, De Wever is now redesigning the venture capital system through Floww. Learn more: https://www.floww.io/
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About Floww, Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
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.
Jean-luc Bressard
CEO of Hextransforma Healthcare
Social equality campaigner and entrepreneur
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About Dolerite Ltd, Hextransforma Healthcare, Time to Shine Kids: Telemedicine and digital healthcare solution provider. Owner of the Brit-Med.com medical tourism platform
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.
Ido Erlichman
Group CEO of Kape Technologies
Group CEO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
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.
Paul Hunter
Chief of Staff to CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
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.
Pal Erik Sjatil
Global Managing Partner and CEO of Lightrock
Pal Erik Sjatil is the Global Managing Partner and CEO at Lightrock, a global private equity partnership that seeks to achieve financial as well as societal and environmental returns. Lightrock invests in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs committed to innovation for systemic change at scale. The company has one of the largest impact-focused growth portfolios in Europe, Latin America and India. More recently, Lightrock has also started building out a portfolio of investments across Sub-Saharan Africa. It invests in companies that pursue scalable and technology-driven business models around the themes people, planet and productivity/tech for good. Specific investment sectors within these themes include education, healthcare, access to finance, mobility, transportation, renewables and circular-economy transition. Lightrock investments demonstrably contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Lightrock’s portfolio currently encompasses more than 70 high-growth companies, including Infarm, one of the world’s fastest growing urban farming networks with more than 1200 farms installed; PharmEasy, one of the largest omni-channel healthcare platforms in India; DrConsulta, one of the largest healthcare chains in Latin America; and M-Kopa, a global pioneer for pay-as-you-go solar energy services for off-grid customers in rural East Africa. In 2019, CMR Surgical, a developer of surgical robots that will broaden access to keyhole surgery, was the first of Lightrock’s portfolio companies to become a unicorn – followed by several others, such as Lilium, the sustainable aviation company. As an active owner, Lightrock supports its portfolio companies from a board position in their dynamic growth and expansion phase. Prior to joining Lightrock, Pal Erik Sjatil was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, a member of the firm’s Shareholders Council, and the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in Europe. Before assuming that role, he led McKinsey’s office in Norway, was part of the leadership of the Scandinavian offices, led the office complex in Eastern Europe, and was the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in EEMA (Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa). Pal Erik also held leadership roles in the firm’s Telecommunications, High Tech, and Strategy & Corporate Finance practices. At McKinsey, he served clients in the telecom, high tech, financial services, and oil and gas industries and focused on corporate strategy, operations, and organizational transformations.
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About Lightrock: Lightrock is a global private equity platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges.
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.
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.
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.
Manish Maakan
Chief Executive Officer, Intellect Global Transaction Banking of Intellect Design Arena
Manish is the CEO of Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB) business of Intellect Design Arena and is based out of London. In this role, he is responsible for driving worldwide Positioning, Sales and Implementation of Global Transaction Banking solutions. Manish joined Polaris 6 years ago from GE Money, India, where he was a CIO. Manish has an impressive career record spanning over 20 years, as a Business Leader and Technology Strategist in global financial institutions, Big 5 Consulting firms and Fortune 500 Majors. He has been a recipient of many prestigious awards during his career. Manish has successfully spearheaded the Retail Banking Products & Services Business for Polaris and has led multiple Financial Technology – Smart Legacy Modernization programs using L0 Frameworks & SOA based component architectures. Manish has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
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
Neil Saada
CEO of Teech App Ltd.
Neil Saada is the Co-Founder at Dropdaze .
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About Dropdaze, NASASEASONS, Teech App Ltd.: Teech is an app that connects students to vetted mentors as soon as they have a question.
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.
Owen Hall
CEO of Heliocor
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About Heliocor, Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
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
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
David Mills
Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
David Mills is Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe. David is responsible for the strategic direction of the company as well as the operations of Ricoh’s 20 operating companies across EMEA, marketing operations and the supply chain. He joined the Ricoh Group in 2008, having already held several senior roles in our industry including President of European operations at IKON. He then became the Managing Director of Ricoh UK, before joining the Ricoh Europe Board as Executive Vice President, and then COO. He became CEO of Ricoh Europe in April 2014.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Jerre Stead
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clarivate Analytics
Jerre L. Stead joined the PCN Technology, Inc. Board of Directors in October of 2008. From 1996 until his June 1, 2000 retirement, Mr. Stead was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Micro Inc., a leading distributor of computers and peripherals. Mr. Stead has also held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Square D Co., which was acquired by Schneider Electric, S.A. He also served as CEO of AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR Corporation) and Legent Corporation. Since 2006, Mr. Stead has served as Chairman of the Board and CEO for IHS, one of the leading global providers of critical technical information, decision-support tools, and related services to customers in the energy, defense, aerospace, construction, electronics, and automotive industries. Mr. Stead is currently also a Director of Armstrong Holdings, Inc., Conexant Systems, Mobility Electronics, Inc., Brightpoint, Inc. and TBG Group. He has also held numerous positions during a 21-year career at Honeywell. He is a well-known Author of Executive books including Flight of the Buffalo and is the Chairman of the Board for the Center of Ethics and Values at Garret Seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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About Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics.
Dan Vahdat
Co-founder & CEO of Huma Therapeutics
Dan Vahdat is Co-founder & CEO of Medopad, a British healthcare technology company enabling connected care, headquartered in London, UK. Dan is an award winning innovator in the fields of science and technology. His professional career spans from IT to medical technology including several years at Johns Hopkins in the US. Dan studied Engineering and Mathematics, after which he pursued his PhD in at Johns Hopkins including 2 years of abroad study at Oxford University. Before finishing his degree, he left to focus on his business.
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Nigel Vaz
Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Sapient
Nigel is CEO of Publicis Sapient (SapientRazorfish, Sapient Consulting), he is also a member of the Publicis Groupe Executive Committee and leads Global Business Transformation for the Groupe. He is responsible for developing and executing business strategy and identifying market opportunities to drive the growth of the business. A driving force behind the company’s vision to partner with clients to help them realize a better future for their businesses and improve their customers’ lives, Nigel works closely with clients and teams to deliver transformative experiences and business models that make a significant impact on the success of leading global brands including Carrefour, Lloyds, Nationwide,McDonalds RBS/NatWest, Unilever, BNP Paribas and Fiat Chrysler. Nigel has held a variety of leadership positions with Sapient prior to its acquisition by Publicis Groupe, where he is now part of the Groupe Executive Committee Nigel drove the evolution of Sapient’s EMEA business, helping build Sapient Consulting into one of the premier digital consulting firms, and growing SapientNitro to be one of the largest agencies in the UK from a startup a decade ago. He led Sapient’s expansion beyond the UK to be a significant presence across Europe and in Asia. With roots in business strategy, Nigel has consistently helped clients to build businesses and create sustainable value propositions for their brands by operating at the intersection of strategic thinking, creativity and technology. Prior to Sapient, he was a successful entrepreneur – co-founding a public company with interests in consulting and connectivity solutions. Nigel is an inductee of BIMA’s Digital Hall of Fame (British Interactive Marketing Association), was named Individual of the Year at the DADIs, is a Fellow of The Marketing Society and is President Elect of the IPA, and provides mentoring to startups through the Publicis90 program.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
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.
Manu Choudhary
CEO of DMALINK
Tech Focused Entrepreneur, Venture Investor and Avid Visual Artist
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Kingsley Duffy
Owner / CEO of Slovar
The founder and current CEO of HostelBookers is Mr. Kingsley Duffy. Mr. Duffy is a 44 year old British-national entrepreneur. He was also the reason why HostelBookers merged with Web Reservations International (WRI) in 2013 because Mr. Duffy is sitting on the Board of Directors of WRI.
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About Slovar: Slovar invests in exciting, high growth potential technology companies.
Jez San
CEO & founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies, Ninja Theory: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
James Spalding
Chief Executive Officer of OLR
James is a highly motivated business leader with a focus on using technology to provide businesses with a competitive advantage. A natural innovator, he has over 25 years experience successfully leading teams to deliver challenging, large scale, business critical IT projects.
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About e2x Limited, e2x Limited, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
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.
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.
Chris Clark
CEO of GB Group
Appointed to the GBG Board in April 2017 as Chief Executive. Before joining GBG Chris was Managing Director at Experian for five years where he was responsible for accelerating growth across the UK and EMEA. Chris previously worked at BT for 20 years, running several large and small technology businesses across the globe. In his final role as Managing Director of BT Enterprises, BT Retail’s fastest growing business, Chris was responsible for a global workforce of 3,000 people and revenues of £1bn. He also had overall responsibility for BT’s London 2012 Olympic activities. Prior to this Chris was CEO of BT Ireland, where he played an instrumental role in the company’s rapid growth and, before that, Director of Business Transformation for BT Retail, where he managed a radical two year transformation programme. Chris has lived and worked in the USA, Europe and Asia, as well as the UK, and has significant international experience. He was educated at Plymouth University in the UK and holds an honours degree in Geography.
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About GB Group: GB Group offers a series of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers.
Titus Sharpe
CEO of MVF
Titus is CEO and Co-Founder of MVF, one the world’s fastest growing customer acquisition firms. He has a passion for starting Internet companies and has had two successful exits thus far. Titus co-founded Approved Index in 2004, built it into the UK’s largest B2B Lead Generation firm and then sold it to Reed Elsevier in 2008. In 2001 Titus co-founded a Web Development agency called Moodia, specialising in website optimisation. The company was sold to Zone Content in 2009. Titus is also a Fulbright Scholar and holds a first class degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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About Goals for Giving, MVF, Profind: MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Mark Wrighton
Chief Executive Officer of Huddle
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About Huddle: Huddle is the enterprise document collaboration company that helps organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently.
Alpesh Doshi
Managing Partner, CEO of Fintricity
Alpesh is an entrepreneur and innovator in how enterprises can transform and future-proof their business using disruptive technologies and business models, particularly around digital, big data & analytics and blockchain. He is focused on innovative thinking and practical strategies to add value for his clients fast and often, introducing the agile approach of working to digital transformation.
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About Fintricity, Redcliffe Capital: Fintricity have been at the forefront of technology and digital transformation for over 15 years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sameer Sehgal
Chief Executive Officer of Traydstream
20+ years as a Banker, heading Citi’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Trade. Grew business by 600% in 5 years. Experienced in global trade with a focus on trade technology and operations. Wharton, FMS and IIT Kharagpur alum.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
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.
Clive Kahn
Chief Executive Officer, Co-owner & Co-founder of Payzone
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About Payzone: Payzone UK Limited is a British branded consumer payments acceptance network.
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.
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.
Maulik Sailor
CEO of Innovify
Maulik has a deep and long lasting passion for entrepreneurship and wanted a way to share that passion with the world. That’s why he founded Innovify. A company that allows him to help new entrepreneurs take their ideas to market and watch their companies flourish. His history working for leading companies like Nokia, Microsoft, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Betfair, and Visa gave him the experience and contacts that every new startup dreams of having, while his unique vision and creative spirit will help your company achieve lasting success in the marketplace. A few startups Maulik has been founder/co-founder includes Innovify, Landbay, Kwanji, Brickowner, Instantt and more. Maulik obtained his MBA (Distinction) from Imperial College, London, MSc from Brunel University, London and B. Eng. from Sardar Patel University, India.
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify, Tech London Advocates: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
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.
Jack Thorogood
CEO of Knowlocker
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About Knowlocker, NOVP, Saasuma: Knowlocker is a platform for knowledge management
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
Ian Beaumont
Chief Executive Officer of IBA Group
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About IBA Group: Software development, IT outsourcing, software solutions.
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.
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.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Sarvarth Misra
Co-Founder & CEO of ContractPodAi
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About ContractPodAi, NewGalexy Services: ContractPodAi offers One Legal Platform to support the full spectrum of corporate in-house legal needs.
Sho Sugihara
Co-Founder & CEO of Pave
Co-Founder and CEO at Portify.
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About Pave: The proper path to good credit
David Williams
Founder Chairman and CEO of Arqit Limited
David Williams is a Founder at Arqit company.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Luca Pagano
CEO of BeMyEye
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About BeMyEye: BeMyEye is a European crowdsourced in-store data as a service (DAAS) provider.
Rebecca Harding
CEO & Founder of Coriolis Technologies
Dr. Rebecca Harding is an independent economist specialising in trade and trade finance and is CEO of Coriolis Technologies, providing data as a service to the trade finance and banking sectors. She is the co-author of the acclaimed “The Weaponization of Trade: the Great Unbalancing of Policy and Economics.” She frequently appears on The Ian King Show, Sky News, BBC World and BBC Radio 5 live, Newsnight and Radio 4. She is frequently cited in the Broadsheet press, including recent articles in the Financial Times, Telegraph and CityAM. She advises the Council of the Society of Professional Economists and until February 2017 was the Chief Economist of the British Bankers’ Association. Her senior roles in business an academic institutions include Founder and CEO of Delta Economics, CEO of Equant Analytics, Senior Fellow at London Business School, Global CEO of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Head of Corporate Research at Deloitte, Chief Economist at the Work Foundation, Senior Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit and currently a Fellow at Offenburg Institute for Trade and Innovation. She was a Specialist Advisor to the Treasury Select Committee and Chief Economic Advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship.
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About Coriolis Technologies: Coriolis Technologies is the source of data and analytics as a service for trade professionals.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Daniel P Dykes
CEO of Aeotec
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About Aeotec: Creators of home automation products and specialists in Z-Wave, Aeon Labs offers a broad range of IoT accessories under its Aeotec brand.
Eduardo Martínez Garcia
Chief Executive Officer of GoMadrid
Eduardo is Co-Founder of GENIAC. In addition, Eduardo is joint managing director of Olivo, a company focused on creating innovative businesses, with Michael Galvin. He is also a non-Executive Director of PetroCorner. Eduardo and Michael have worked together for many years since they met at Accenture and it is the challenges they faced in starting up businesses that led to the creation of GENIAC. The frustrations they experienced in managing the day-to-day essential business services such as contracts, accounts, compliance issues and insurance made them want to solve this issue with GENIAC. Earlier in his career, Eduardo spent many years in various senior positions at management consultancy, Accenture. He worked across multiple industries and in the UK, US, Spain, India, East Asia and Latin America giving him a truly global approach to business. Eduardo was born and educated in Madrid and holds an MBA from IE Business School and an MSc in IT Engineering with a major in Business Administration and Finance. He has lived in London for more than 10 years.
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About GoMadrid, Toqio: GoMadrid is a technological ecosystem and innovation hub focused on venture building projects in fintech and blockchain areas.
Ingemar Svensson
Founder & CEO of iXledger
Ingemar Svensson is the Co-Foundr and CTO at Payrue and Founder of Xledger. Ingemar was the CTO of Risk and Valuation at SunGard Asset Management. His experience ranges from managing large organisations to hands-on software development.
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About iXledger, PayRue: iXledger is a groundbreaking platform for insurance utilising blockchain technology.
Evgeny Likhoded
Founder & CEO of ClauseMatch
Evgeny is the founder and CEO of ClauseMatch. He used to be the vice president of Morgan Stanley, a financial services platform. Evgeny attended University of Exeter and studied Law. He also attended University of Rennes 1 for his master’s degree in European Law.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
Marc Trup
Founder, CEO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
CEO & Co-Founder of Trafi
Martynas Gudonavičius is CEO and co-founder of Trafi. Joining the company at an early stage, Martynas has since then spearheaded global expansion and focused on the commercial side of the business. Before joining Trafi, Martynas was Head of Emerging Markets at InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network and tech platform. Previous to that, Martynas acted as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe for Adform.
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About Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer of Faculty Science
Dr Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of ASI. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field. In the two years since founding ASI, Marc has overseen its growth to more than 50 employees, and expanded its offer from a small fellowship scheme to a cutting edge range of software, training, project and advisory services. He has also led over 50 data science projects, with clients ranging from multinational companies like EasyJet and Siemens to the UK Government and NHS. His work has been covered by the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Independent and many more. Previously, Marc was the Marie Curie Fellow of Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His research has been published in many high impact journals and cited hundreds of times. His PhD in Quantum Computing was awarded the Stoneham prize, published in Nature, and covered in the New York Times.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Enrico Faccioli
CEO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Enrico Faccioli is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seedata.
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About Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
Peter Sweetbaum
CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud
Peter Sweetbaum is the CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud & he attended London Business School in 1995.
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Paul Christensen
Co-founder and CEO of Previse
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About Behavox, Founders Pledge, London Business School, Previse, Thin Green Line Foundation, University of Oxford: Previse has pioneered algorithm-driven invoice payment decisions.
Simon Marvell
CEO of Acuity Risk Management
Simon Marvell is a founder partner of Acuity Risk Management, a provider of solutions and services for Enterprise and Information Risk Management. Simon has over 30 years’ experience advising a wide range of clients across all major business sectors on risk management, business continuity and information management. He focuses on ensuring that risk management solutions reflect the objectives, priorities and strategies of the organisation and can provide practical and tangible benefits. Prior to establishing Acuity, Simon was a founder partner of Insight Consulting which he led through 13 years of profitable growth before selling the business to Siemens plc in 2004. In 2005, Simon established Acuity which now supplies software and services to 100 major organisations across 24 countries.
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About Acuity Risk Management: Creators of award-winning cyber, operational and IT risk management software
Javed Khattak
CEO and Co-Founder of Seerbytes
Javed Khattak, the CEO and leading Co-Founder of Seerbytes is a visionary, a successful serial entrepreneur, a qualified actuary (FIA) and multi award-winning C-suite executive, with 25+ years of esteemed corporate background. He has advised governments, central banks, startups and global household brands, valued at over £100 billion like HSBC, Thomson Reuters, GSK, M&S, and PwC, to name a few. He is a regular speaker, an expert panellist and often quoted in renowned publications like The Economist, Express and Metro. He was named one of the top 20 biggest names behind ICOs in the tech space. Javed is also a philanthropic person, focusing on financial inclusion and general social well being, through his numerous initiatives.
Seerbytes, under Javed’s leadership, prides itself on mastering the latest emerging technologies with deep expertise in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Natural Language Processing, Big Data, AR & VR, Data Science, Computer Vision, and Robotics. With over 55 years of technology experience, a passionate team and a strong vision, Seerbytes differentiates itself by taking a holistic approach. Having actually built businesses from scratch, combining the latest technology stacks, digital marketing pivoting, and the serial entrepreneurial spirit of Javed, Seerbytes works with founders and senior leadership to steer businesses towards their vision, rather than just providing great technology solutions.
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About Seerbytes: Seerbytes is a global award-winning software development, digital marketing and business transformation company based in London, UK. Seerbytes is grateful to have served 450+ satisfied clients including a Central Bank of a Country, HSBC, GSK, Mercedes, KFC, Domino’s, Cheqd, Ztudium, and Algo-Fund, to name a few, through a passionate team of 250+ individuals spread across 7 countries including the UK, US, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Seerbytes helps startups validate ideas and build MVPs, iterating towards reaching product-market fit, and scaling quickly. For larger enterprises, they provide technology consulting, digital marketing strategy, and business growth consulting, to enable them with digital transformation comprising business-led solutions and boosting their legacy systems to improve performance and limit inefficiencies.
Seerbytes prides itself on being customer-obsessed and excels at its goals. They enable smaller businesses to receive solutions and services that traditionally only larger brands were able to access. Under Javed’s leadership, they keep innovating and overcoming hurdles where others fail through a holistic approach and sheer dedication to their clients.
Richard Thornton
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Hokodo
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About Hokodo: Insurance APIs to make trade easier on your platform. Powerful, easy-to-use, developer friendly.
Loubna Bazine
CEO of FriendlyScore
Loubna is an experienced finance professional. She started at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Agricole, and held Director positions at Standard Chartered Bank and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities. Loubna holds a M.A. in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University (N.Y.C.) and a B.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI).
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About Elite League Alumni Club, FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
