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 United Kingdom based Director operating in the Internet space. If you think a Director 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.
Mark Galvin
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Infobip
Leadership | Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Product Innovation | Product Differentiation | Mergers & Acquisitions | Technical Partnerships | SaaS | MarTech | CPaaS | CCaaS | Startups | Consulting | Founder | Board Member & Advisor
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About Infobip, Venubox: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
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Nigel Abbott
Regional Director, NEMEA of GitHub
Nigel Abbott is the Regional Director, NEMEA at GitHub.
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About GitHub, GitHub: GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects in organizations.
Ben McOwen Wilson
Director, Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa of YouTube
Ben is the Director of Partnerships for YouTube where he leads the development of content and business strategy across Northern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. His remit includes working with some of YouTube’s largest global News, sports and traditional media partners as well as many of the platform’s most-recognised endemic creators – our YouTubers. Ben has led YouTube’s growth in various roles in EMEA for 6 years. Prior to starting with YouTube, Ben was a Management Board Director at ITV Plc – the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster – for six years, where he oversaw the launch and growth of ITV’s digital and new media businesses. During his tenure, he co-created, launched and was Chairman of Project Kangaroo – the proposed VoD joint venture between BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Previously a Partner in a strategy consulting firm, Ben has over twenty years experience in the field of media, entertainment, telecommunications and the internet. He has lived and worked on five continents. Ben is married with three children.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Raphaël Vergnaud
Senior Sales Director of Zendrive
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About Anatole, Zendrive: Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
Zsolt Pocsaji
Senior Director, Personalisation of Optimizely
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Orhan Hasanov
Director of SwiftGift
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About GiftMagic, SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Christopher Spray
Director of Vidsy
Christopher Spray served as a Venture Partner at Atlas Venture L.P. Mr. Spray worked in the technology group of Atlas Venture and invested in software and services and Internet related businesses. Mr. Spray established firm’s Boston office in 1986 and was responsible for United States operations until 1998 when he moved to London office. Mr. Spray had moved to United States in 1985 as an Investment Director at CIN Investment Company. He started his venture capital career in 1983 with CINVen. Mr. Spray serves as Director of DoveBid, GoIndustry, Kalido, NTRglobal, Zinwave, picoChip, KDS, and MOO Print Ltd. He served as a Director at Kalido, Inc., Koodos, Corizon Ltd., and 3V Transaction Services Limited. He has been an investor and Board Member in number of successful companies, including OnDisplay and RightPoint Software. Mr. Spray also served on the Board of Business Objects from 1992 to 1994. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Oxford University.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Tracy Figliola
Director of Global Mobility and Global HR Shared Services of Equinix
Tracy Figliola Responsible for the strategy, policy and execution of all Global Mobility services for the Equinix Group. Building a first class Global Mobility program to facilitate and enable a growth business agenda and nurture talent. In addition global responsibility for HR Shared Services, building the function to deliver core HR services to Equinix. At Equinix, Tracy is part of a dynamic and fast growing team working to deliver significant customer value to organisations who are increasingly viewing their data center strategy as a source of competitive advantage.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Michael Winterson
Managing Director of Equinix
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About Equinix, SixFortyEight: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Russell Poole
Managing Director, UK and The Nordics of Equinix
Russell joined as UK managing director in April 2000, bringing with him nine years of experience in the UK telecommunications and internet industries. From 1998 to 2000 Russell was a director of MessageNet Ltd – an internet security and messaging security provider. Responsible for sales and operations, he also led the development of e:)scan – Europe’s first e-mail virus and content control service. In October 1999 MessageNet was acquired by Articon-Integralis AG.Between 1993 and 1998, Russell was the national sales manager for General Telecom – the business telecoms division of General Cable Plc. During this time he grew the business from four sales people and £3m annual revenue to 35 sales people in three locations and £25m annual revenue. Russell attended Nottingham University, where he read production engineering. Following twelve months travelling, he commenced his managerial career at Coca-Cola and Schweppes where he enjoyed a successful career as a national account manager.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Mark Anderson
Senior Director of Global Solutions Enablement – EMEA of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Hui Xie
Deputy Director of Mobile Business Department of China Telecom
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About China Telecom: China Telecom as China’s major basic telecom operators, is implementing the transformation and upgrading strategy.
Sebastian Gray
Managing Director of Dugout
Sebastian began his career with Quest Software working in their Microsoft sales team, leaving after a number of years to establish his own company developing mobile apps. This progressed into user interactions and digital media and led him to create Sport Digital, a digital media company that specialises in the management and commercialisation of the digital landscape for athletes, actors, musicians and celebrities. Two years after its founding, Sport Digital now looks after over 300 athletes, including Gareth Bale, Anthony Joshua, and Adam Lallana, utilising and developing their digital and social media footprint with the long-term objective of optimising their digital media value.
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About Dugout: Dugout is an innovative new digital football platform.
Adrian Drury
Group Technology Strategy & Insight Director of Liberty Global
Adrian leads Liberty Global’s technology strategy group within the Liberty Technology & Innovation group, defining the roadmaps and assessing the technology choices, for entertainment and connectivity service delivery platforms that enable Liberty’s product roadmap. Adrian is educated at London School of Economics and London Business School.
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About Liberty Global, Liberty Global, Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
John Paul
Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data of Liberty Global
John Paul is Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data for Liberty Global and is based in the Company’s London office. He is responsible for the development of new advertising models, partnerships and employment of data across the company. John has over 25 years experience in the broadcast and cable sector with a focus on operations and emerging product strategy. Before rejoining Liberty Global in 2014 he was CTO of Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Australia), COO of Australia Network, and Founder & Managing Partner of Trident Media Partners where he advised Tier 1 media firms: NBC, News Corporation, Telstra and Foxtel on strategy and infrastructure. Prior to this, he was part of UGC, Liberty Global’s predecessor, where he worked in Australia on the launch of AUSTAR and its triple-play products and helped the company explore investment opportunities in Asia. He was a principal architect of Australia’s early pay TV industry – with Australis Media and has served on the boards of SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby) and Freeview Australia. He began his career in family trade publishing businessTV Editorial Corporation and NBC Affiliate operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from American University and is a Dux graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College.
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Michael Maibaum
Technology Evolution Director, UK & Ireland of Flutter Entertainment
He is an articulate, dedicated and innovative architect and engineering manager with excellent analysis skills, capable of working in and leading a team. He is responsible for making the decisions to ensure a project meets requirements, is delivered on schedule and is well supported in production. He have a keen interest in keeping up-to-date on the latest technology trends to keep ahead of the curve. His excellent communication skills ensure efficient collaboration with management, collaborators and clients.
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About Flutter Entertainment: Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming operator.
Paul Johnston
Interim Alliances Director of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
George Livingston
Director of Data Infrastructure of Farfetch
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Frederik Poelman
Managing Director of team.blue Denmark
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About Combell Group, Intelligent, team.blue Denmark: team.blue provides hosting and cloud solutions.
Andreas Lane
Creative Director of Smarter
Andreas Lane is an award winning designer and has an extensive background in product design and manufacturing. Andreas has previously set up his own business in interior design and retail. As a founding partner at Smarter, Andreas works alongside the CEO, is responsible for the planning and management of product development and design. Andreas manages a team of manufacturers, engineers and developers in the UK and manufacturers in Asia. He oversees the entire product development cycle from concept, feature creation to design and mass production. Andreas is responsible for the development of Smarter’s brand and design. He has created the Smarter product range from physical products, packaging and print to the software and its apps.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Isabella Lane
Managing Director of Smarter
Isabella is responsible for ensuring that the visions and strategic plans of the Board and CEO are realised and translated into the day-to-day running of the business. Isabella has oversight of each department from finance to customer services keeping the various teams motivated and driven to reach Smarter’s goals and targets. As a founding partner at Smarter, Isabella has extensive experience in all aspects of the business. Being instrumental alongside the CMO for strategic partnerships, Isabella has worked with some of the largest names in the industry e.g. Bosch, Unilever, Amazon, John Lewis.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Darren Barson
Finance Director of Smarter
As Finance Director at Smarter, and in addition to overall ownership of the core Finance function, Darren is part of the management team and provides commercial insight and support across a variety of key business decisions. Darren joins Smarter having spent the past 7 years working in Asia across various commercial finance roles, most recently as Head of Financial Operations for St James’s Place Wealth Management (FTSE). “Joining the Smarter team was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make. The industry leading products, global opportunity and the team translates into a journey I had to be part of.”
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Ran Janda
Executive Director of Smarter
Ran heads Internal Operations and is the Executive Director at Smarter, London. Ran has visibility of all the departments in the business. She has over five years’ experience in technology startups. Ran is responsible for ensuring that the business has the best working environment and processes in place. To this end, she has grown the business from four to 30 employees, overseen a major office move from Croydon to London. Ran is also responsible for HR, day-to-day internal management and also manages logistics for major exhibitions and conferences the Smarter attends. Before joining Smarter, Ran worked for Xively Ltd, an IoT connected product management platform. She had overall responsibility for the day-to-day financial management as well as supporting the growth of the company in recruitment and HR. Over the course of two years, the company experienced rapid growth and was acquired by Boston-based remote access firm LogMeIn in 2011 for $15M.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Raja Al-Khatib
Group Customer Experience Programme Director of Vodafone
Raja has been at Vodafone since 2000, during which time she has held various roles across commercial, HR, communications, governance and strategy. Her most recent roles were Group Organization Director (2013 – 2015) and Chief of Staff to Group CEO/Group Director of Internal Communications (2009 – 2013). Prior to Vodafone, Raja worked for Dell Computer Corp. (Europe). Raja has worked in France, the UK and Japan. She is of Lebanese origin and holds an MBA and a BSc in Computer Management.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Paul Chapple
Director of Mobile Products and Services of Vodafone
Paul Chapple is Vodafone’s Mobile Products & Services Director. Paul is responsible for the strategic relationships with key suppliers as well as all aspects of hardware and services customization and development. Paul joined Vodafone from T-Mobile U.S. where he was Vice President of Supplier and Product Management. His primary focus was developing T-Mobile’s 5G and IoT road maps and then successfully bringing those products to market. His team managed the day-to-day relationships with established suppliers like Samsung, Apple and Google as well as finding new suppliers capable of meeting the evolving needs of the wireless ecosystem. Prior to T-Mobile, Paul held executive roles with both Samsung Electronics and Nokia Inc.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Emma Smith
Group Technology Security Director of Vodafone
Emma is Group Technology Security Director at Vodafone, responsible for information and cyber security globally. The Technology Security team at Vodafone set security policy, define security architecture, deliver security solutions and operate a global cyber defence centre. Emma is passionate about security and the opportunity to contribute to improving security of the communities we operate in. She enjoys leading teams who protect customers by evolving security solutions in line with changing threats, business needs and new technologies. Prior to Vodafone, Emma led an integrated Security team at the Royal Bank of Scotland, responsible for fraud prevention; physical, information & cyber security; and business resilience.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Luc Vandevelde
Board of Director of Vodafone
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About : Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Andrew Dunnett
Director of Vodafone
Andrew joined Vodafone as Director of the Vodafone Foundation in 2006. Andrew was previously an adviser to the Sustainable Development unit at the UK Department of Trade and Industry with specific responsibility for the CSR Academy, the lead initiative of the DTI’s CSR programme. Andrew has fifteen years experience in corporate responsibility, community investment and public affairs, including advising organisations such as BTEC, the BBC, the Commission for Racial Equality and Thames Water. He also led a corporate community investment project in the City of London whilst Director of the St Ethelburga’s Foundation. In addition to his work directing Vodafone’s foundation programme, Andrew is a Trustee of the M-Pesa Foundation (Kenya) and a Board member of the M-Health Alliance (USA) and served as a member of the UK Government’s Longitude Committee.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Stephen Crompton
Senior Director of Product Management of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Michaela Peicheva
Director, People and Operations of Wefarm
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Michal Gondar
Director of Engineering of Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Glenn Lindley
Senior Director of Talent Acquisition of PubMatic
Glenn Lindley is the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at PubMatic.
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About PubMatic: PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
Mario La Pergola
Director of Operations UK & Ireland of Virtuo
Mario is a co-founder of Pulp. Before his made his way into wine, Mario spent time in investment banking and private equity firms. Mario is an avid athlete & president of a racing team, and a keen photographer.
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About Virtuo: Virtuo provides car-on-demand services.
Jenny White
Director of Sales and Marketing, Registrar Channel of Donuts
Jenny White has over 12 years of domain industry experience and has been involved in the development of the new gTLD program at the registry level since its infancy. Prior to joining Donuts, Jenny gained extensive registry operations experience at registry service provider CentralNic. Jenny played an integral part in the company’s growth, managing key registry-registrar partner relationships and developing operational procedures to successfully bring new domain extensions to market. Previously, Jenny implemented effective processes to support a dramatically increasing customer base at an internet service provider.
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Mike Parton
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arqiva
Mike brings a wealth of relevant experience from the telecoms and technology industry to Arqiva. Mike started his career as a Chartered Management Accountant, working for a number of UK technology companies including ICL, GEC, STC and Marconi. He moved into General Management in 1995 at Marconi, and became CEO in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 Mike was CEO of Marconi before overseeing a sale of the company to Ericsson. In 2007, Mike became Chairman of Damovo and joined the Board of Tele2, becoming Chairman there in 2010. Mike stepped down from the Board of Damovo in 2015 following a sale of the company.
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About : Arqiva is a communications infrastructure and media services company.
Keith Frost
Director Of Engineering of Arqiva
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About Arqiva: Arqiva is a communications infrastructure and media services company.
Maria Lam
Non-Executive Director of QPQ
Maria Lam is a Director at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Stephen Rice
Non-Executive Director of QPQ
Stephen Rice is a Non-Executive Director at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Magnus Jakobson
Corporate Finance Director of Kinnevik AB
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About Kinnevik AB: Kinnevik is an entrepreneurial investment group focused on building digital consumer businesses.
Ashley Read
Editorial Director of Buffer
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About Buffer, The Media: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Dana Pressman Tobak
Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Hyperoptic
As joint founder and Managing Director of Be Un limited, the record-breaking 24 Meg broadband provider of 2005, Dana took the business from start to launch in just six months. By placing the consumer at the heart of success (Be customer support continues to win awards to this day) and generally refusing to take no for an answer, Dana has been building successful global businesses for over 20 years. Co-founder and director of Hyperoptic, Dana brings expertise in commercial agreements, financial business practice and purchasing, and an unshakeable vision for Hyperoptic’s success.
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About Hyperoptic: Hyperoptic is a fiber-based internet service provider.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Patrick Falconer
Executive Director of The New York Times
Patrick Falconer is Managing Director of The New York Times global office in London and is responsible for advertising sales across all NYTG platforms in Northern Europe and the Middle East and Africa. He first joined the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times) in 1988 and then again in 1999 after a 3 year spell at Time Inc. where he managed advertising sales for Fortune magazine in the UK and the Netherlands. In his time at the IHT/NYT he worked on the successful launch the first ever monthly IHT magazine – International Fund Investment and was instrumental in launching the highly successful IHT Luxury Conference series in 2001 now in its twelfth year. Patrick was a founding member of the World Media Group in 1998 and served as President of the group in 2009 – 2010. He has also been a board member of British American Business since 2008. He is a History graduate, is married, has four children and lives in Winchester in the UK.
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About The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Damian McGloughlin
Managing Director of HomeBase
Damian McGloughlin is CEO at Homebase UK &Ireland.
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About HomeBase: HomeBase is a home improvement and garden retailer.
James Carter
Finance Director of Thread
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Shaunie Brett
Style Director of Thread
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Claire Cherry
Investment Partner/UK Director of Social Starts
Claire covers the consumer sector across Europe and the US. Prior to Social Starts, she ran the seed and pre-seed consumer fund at True, backing businesses across beauty, femtech, sexual wellness, mental health, and many more. With almost a decade of experience in venture, Claire is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs breaking new ground. Outside of investing, she can be found hiking the cliffs of Guernsey with her dog, or attempting to grow vegetables (sometimes successfully) in her garden.
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About Social Starts: Social Starts is a set of early-stage venture funds that uses analytics to uncover and invest in the strongest companies in the strongest segments. Based on a uniquely data-driven methodology, Social Starts has discovered and backed companies with huge value in e-commerce, employment platforms, digital brands, next-generation food, and education. The current fund, “Social Starts Health and Happiness,” focuses on startups that help people live longer, live better, or both.
Martin Arumemi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of EE
Arumemi-Ikhide is the MD and Founder of EE. He also serves as the MD of Hansworth Ltd and General Manager of Engineering for Rockson Engineering. In both Hansworth and Rockson Engineering he is responsible for the leadership, execution and construction of the 4 NIPP power plants in FGN. He has lead the firm to the successful commissioning of the first phase of the 1074MW Alaoji CCGT plant. He is also progressing the completion of the 225MW Omoku, 225MW Gbarain and 338MW Egbema OCGT also based in FGN. Prior to joining Hansworth, Dr Arumemi-Ikhide worked for GE Power and Water for more than seven years as a Senior Project Manager, overseeing the execution of several landmark projects. At GE he was the Project Manager for two combined cycle plants that were using GE 9FB based in Spain and Turkey notably. Whilst at GE, he was on the fast track of the firm’s world renowned leadership programme. Dr Arumemi-Ikhide holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Warwick University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Birmingham. He possesses and is attending a number of business management executive courses including leadership programme from Boston University and is currently completing a leadership programme at Oxford University Business School.
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About EE, Rockson Engineering: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
Sorush Lajevardi
Director, Data Science of Bain & Company
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About Bain & Company: Bain & Company is a management consulting firm that provides solutions on change in management, strategies, and technology.
Iain Jawad
Director Strategic Partnerships of Frost & Sullivan
Iain Jawad Director of Strategic Partnerships at Frost & Sullivan, a global growth partnership company.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Arthur Holcombe
Managing Director of Snupps
Responsible for operations, marketing and business development. Arthur has 15 years experience building dynamic startups and early growth companies in the wireless and Internet sectors. Previously Arthur was the Chief Revenue Officer at MobileWave, an AIM listed Company, and prior to that worked at Coordinate Technologies (Founder), The Cloud, Coremetrics (co-Founder; sold to IBM) and Dow Jones China. Arthur is a graduate from Georgetown University, with an MBA from Thunderbird.
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Christian Woolfenden
Managing Director of Photobox
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About Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Chris Shore
Director of Endpoint Ai Ecosystem of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Robin Randhawa
Technical Director for System Software of Arm Holdings
Robin Randhawa is a Technical Director for System Software Architecture with Arm’s Open Source Software group. He is responsible for open source software strategy focusing on safety critical deployments, primarily autonomous functions. Robin has been with Arm for 12 years working in various operating system themed roles. Prior to joining Arm, he worked with MIPS in the Linux kernel group.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Rob Coombs
Director, ATG, and Director of Ecosystem and Alliances, SSD of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Andrew Hopkins
Director, System Technology of Arm Holdings
Andrew leads the development of UltraDebug® and an associated technical marketing package. He is experienced in all aspects of computer architecture including SoC design, system level development support and embedded systems engineering. He has managed large multi-institution engineering programs with elite international partners. He has 4 patents pending, numerous technical publications and has served as a referee for several IEEE, IET and Elsevier journals. Andrew obtained a top first in Computer System Engineering from the University of Kent in 2003 where he also took the IEE (IET) prize for the highest placed BEng.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Stefano Cadario
Director Software Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Grant Likely
Software Senior Technical Director of Arm Holdings
Grant is a well known Linux engineer who got his start building embedded Linux systems. Grant soon picked up maintainership of several platforms and subsystems including Devicetree, SPI and GPIO, and played a major part in cleaning up support for embedded platforms in Linux. Grant has also helped support the Linux developer community in the organization of several community conferences and having served as chair and board member of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. He currently is a senior technical director at Arm in the Open Source Software group where he is responsible for networking and SmartNIC software architecture. Previously roles include Distinguished Technologist at HPE, and a Linaro Fellow.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Mike Eftimakis
Director of Business Innovation Strategy of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Tom Conway
Director, Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Sujil Kottekkat
Technical Director of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Phillip Burr
Senior Director, Business Transformation and Portfolio Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Colin Alexander
Director of Networking Marketing, Infrastructure Line of Business of Arm Holdings
Colin has worked for ARM for the last 5 years helping to deliver the appropriate system-level ARM IP and eco-system support for the networking infrastructure. At ARM, he focuses on the needs of the cellular infrastructure requirements to support the diverse latency, throughput and power targets for 4G and now 5G. Colin interacts closely with a mix of ARM partners, OEMs and network operators. Previously, Colin has held numerous positions in a range of established and start up companies working to meet Infrastructure and Networking industry requirements.
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About Arm Holdings, OpenFog Consortium: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Antonio Priore
Director of Functional Safety of Arm Holdings
Antonio Priore works for Arm as Director of Functional Safety. He leads the functional safety related processes and strategy in Arm where he is responsible for showing support for multiple safety related standards. Antonio is a Chartered Engineer with a career spanning more than a decade in Functional Safety Engineering across different domains including Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial and Railway.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
David Maidment
Director Secure Devices Ecosystem & Director IoT Devices Strategy of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Pablo Fraile
Director of Ecosystems and Director of Home Segment of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Aditya Bedi
Director of Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Geraint North
Senior Director, Client Computing and Machine Learning Tools of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Govind Wathan
Director of Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Kinjal Dave
Director Solution Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Rod Watt
Director Vehicle Architecture and System Analysis of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Daniel Owens
Director of Product Management, Models of Arm Holdings
Daniel Owens is the Director of Product Management for Models at Arm, responsible for simulation products at Arm. Daniel has over 20 years experience in embedded electronics and has previously held management positions for CodeWarrior, Realview and DS-5 software development tools.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Damien Byrne
Business Development Director of Boku
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About Boku: Boku is a global mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.
Ianina Lucca
Growth Director of Skyscanner
Ianina leads Marketing Foundations Tribe for Skyscanner across both Product and Marketing. Previous to Skyscanner she was Director of Growth at Just Eat and before that she held multiple roles in Marketing and Product at Hotels.com (Expedia Inc.). Ianina holds a MBA from Wharton and a MA in International Studies from Lauder Institute. When she’s not in a plane for work or pleasure, she loves spending time with her family and teaching her young children how to bake and ski.
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Zarir Vakil
Non Executive Director of WRLD
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About : A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Zarir Vakil
Non Executive Director of WRLD
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About : A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Jane Gibbon
Group HR Director of Just Eat
Jane Gibbon is the HR Director for Just Eat. She has a strong track record of delivering business- focused employee reward, performance management, recognition, mobility, and diversity and inclusion programs internationally. Cross-culturally agile with a global mind-set, Jane has worked in over 50 geographies including her native US, Europe and Asia. Jane’s experience began in the US working for internet pioneers such as AOL, Netscape and Yahoo! With the merger of AOL and Time Warner she started to work extensively in Europe, fuelling her passion for working cross-culturally to optimize outcomes for all parties. She then moved to McDonald’s, where she was the first Reward Director in Europe, building the function from the ground up. During her eight years there, she participated in a highly-selective global leadership program, was the Chairman of the Women’s Leadership Network, and founded the Diversity and Inclusion function in Europe. Skilled at envisioning what is possible and articulating the vision to inspire others to action, she has subsequently served in a variety of HRD roles at Tesco, Starbucks and now at Just Eat, always keeping Inclusion in her remits as they grew. Last year she co-founded ”Lift As You Climb,” a non-profit group designed to create a unique networking space for women across generations to share lessons learned and pass wisdom down on a variety of topics, including mentoring, resilience and career planning.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Kris Brown
Co-Managing Director of Piksel
As joint Managing Director of Piksel’s Media & Entertainment business, Kris holds primary responsibility for the growth of the company’s products, operations and architectural direction. During almost two decades in enterprise software, Kris has worked on architecture, design and delivery for clients spanning healthcare, financial services, the public sector and, of course, media and entertainment. Having initially joined Piksel in 2010, he returned to the company in 2014 following a period spent in-house at a major media technology company. Prior to his appointment as joint managing director, he served as the company’s Head of Product. Kris is focused on organisational culture, business transformation, metadata management and highly available data intensive systems. Kris studied at the University of Durham, where he attained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Gerry O’Sullivan
Board of Directors of Piksel
An International Media Executive with extensive experience in broadcasting, Pay TV and Media sectors including the executive management of commercial, editorial, creative, marketing, operational and technical teams for leading broadcasters and MSO’s across three continents. Gerry has worked with the most senior people in entertainment, news and sports worldwide and offers a unique perspective on how digital content and new technologies can support and create new revenue streams for the business. After a career starting at the BBC, he launched Australia’s first 24 hour news channel, a Business and Sports channel in New York and then was asked to lead the engineering and operational teams for Fox News, New York. Returning to the UK, Gerry managed the strategy and execution of BSKYB’s TV user proposition, where he was responsible for launching Sky + HD, Sky Broadband, Sky VOD, Sky + EPG, Sky 3D and Sky’s online and mobile innovations. After 10 years at Sky, he was asked to lead Deutsche Telecom’s Global TV and Entertainment businesses where he launched a multichannel offering including IPTV, Satellite, hybrid and a range of video and media OTT and 2nd screen platforms across Europe. As Interim CEO for Digicel’s TV group, he launched a number of next generation cloud based IPTV and quad play services throughout the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific. Gerry was recently invited to join the board of Piksel and is an independent consultant to the pay tv and technology industries.
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About : Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Gerry O’Sullivan
Board of Directors of Piksel
An International Media Executive with extensive experience in broadcasting, Pay TV and Media sectors including the executive management of commercial, editorial, creative, marketing, operational and technical teams for leading broadcasters and MSO’s across three continents. Gerry has worked with the most senior people in entertainment, news and sports worldwide and offers a unique perspective on how digital content and new technologies can support and create new revenue streams for the business. After a career starting at the BBC, he launched Australia’s first 24 hour news channel, a Business and Sports channel in New York and then was asked to lead the engineering and operational teams for Fox News, New York. Returning to the UK, Gerry managed the strategy and execution of BSKYB’s TV user proposition, where he was responsible for launching Sky + HD, Sky Broadband, Sky VOD, Sky + EPG, Sky 3D and Sky’s online and mobile innovations. After 10 years at Sky, he was asked to lead Deutsche Telecom’s Global TV and Entertainment businesses where he launched a multichannel offering including IPTV, Satellite, hybrid and a range of video and media OTT and 2nd screen platforms across Europe. As Interim CEO for Digicel’s TV group, he launched a number of next generation cloud based IPTV and quad play services throughout the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific. Gerry was recently invited to join the board of Piksel and is an independent consultant to the pay tv and technology industries.
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About : Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Kim Ludlow
Managing Director of mySupermarket
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Alex Sladen
Marketing Director of Western Union
Alex Sladen is the Marketing Director of Western Union.
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About Western Union: Western Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world.
Paula Bacariza
Director, Business Development, Northern Europe of AppNexus
Paula Bacariza is a director of business development for Northern Europe at AppNexus.
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About AppNexus: AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.
Kev O’Connor
Director of Customer Support of NationBuilder
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About NationBuilder: NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Jonathan Woolf
Program Director, Intelligent Journey Orchestration of O2
Jonathan Woolf serves as the Program Director, Intelligent Journey Orchestration at O2.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Dominic Grounsell
Managing Director – UK & Eire Sports Brands of Entain
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Mike Teasdale
Founder and Planning Director of Harvest Digital
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About Harvest Digital: Harvest Digital create involving experiences for consumers and deliver great results for their clients.
Patrick Wehrmann
Group Managing Director & CEO, StepStone UK of StepStone
Patrick Wehrmann joined StepStone 2012 as member of the supervisory board. In February 2014 he was appointed to his current role as Group Managing Director with specific responsibilities for the group businesses (Totaljobsgroup, Jobsite, SAON UK) in the UK, Mergers and Acquisitions and international HR. Before joining StepStone as Group Managing Director, Patrick served as Managing Director of Axel Springer Digital Classifieds. In this position he held several supervisory and advisory board positions in the digital classifieds businesses of Axel Springer worldwide. Previously, he was Commercial Publishing Director / CFO of the BILD Group and the Axel Springer Magazine Division as well as COO/CFO of the Axel Springer Magazine and International Division. In the beginning of his career he held several positions in the French, German, US and UK businesses of Axel Springer. Patrick graduated in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. He also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Dijon (France) and at the University of Colorado.
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About StepStone: StepStone is a leading international provider of software and services for the human capital management sector.
Charles Bell
Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA of Sitecore
Charles Bell is a Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Sitecore.
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About Sitecore: Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides multichannel marketing automation software and web content management.
Bonamy Grimes
Non Executive Director of Decidz
Co-Founder at Skyscanner
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About : Decidz is a simple app designed to help you meet up and do things with friends.
Charles Cooper-Driver
Chairman, Investor & Director of Limitless
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About : The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Eve Cross
EMEA Marketing Director of MiQ
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Hugo Drayton
Independent Non-Executive Director of Future
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About Future: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
Tom Horne
Co-Founder/Director of L’Estrange London
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About L’Estrange London: Reimagining smart-casual for the man on the move.
Patrick Simpson
Managing Director, Renewals of CPA Global
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About CPA Global: CPA Global provides intellectual property services.
Oliver Brough
Managing Director, EMEA of Trusona
Olly Brough serves as the Managing Director of EMEA at Trusona.
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About Trusona: Trusona secures identity authentication, removes passwords from the user experience, and elevate login experience.
Olivier Stapylton-Smith
Sales & Marketing Director, Co-founder of Moteefe
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About Moteefe: Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media.
Edwin Candy
Non Executive Director of Voip-Pal.com
Professor Ed Candy is the former Technology Director of Hutchison 3G, serving as 3 Group Technology Director for Hutchison 3G from 2000 to 2009, where he was primarily responsible for the technology for the world’s most advanced 3G Networks operating across nine countries. From 1996-2000, Mr. Candy served as Group Development Director for Simoco and from 1993-1996 as Technology Director for Orange, where he contributed significantly to the creation and success of the personal communication network. Mr. Candy now acts as a Strategic Technology advisor for the 3 Group and provides innovation guidance, strategic advice and consultancy through his company Strategitel Ltd.
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About Voip-Pal.com: Voip-Pal considers its patent suite to be fundamental to modern telecommunications using internet protocol.
David Mills
VP / Global Supply Director of Iglu Cruise
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About Iglu Cruise, Iglu Cruise: Iglu Cruise is an internet-based travel agency specializing in the sale of snowboarding and ski holidays, cruises and Christmas holidays.
Mark Wilkinson
Managing Director, EMEA & APAC of Profitero
Mark leads Profitero’s EMEA sales team, partnering with consumer brands and retailers to improve their eCommerce performance. Mark joins Profitero following his 18-year tenure at IRI. Most recently, he was Sales Director in the Technology Solutions group where he helped major FMCG organizations get the most from a diverse range of data to improve their key business processes. Mark has worked with Kellogg’s, Danone, Nestle, Mars and Heineken, helping these companies improve global business performance, in store execution, on shelf availability and multi-channel retailing (including eCommerce). Mark studied business at the University of Sheffield and is based in London.
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About Profitero: Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands around the world.
Pradeep Menon
Director of dealgobbler
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About dealgobbler: dealgobbler.com is a social e-commerce site providing users with a one-stop-shop to fantastic deals
