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 Founder operating in the Social Media space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Bernhard Niesner
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of busuu
Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best Education Start-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital. Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing. Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.
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About busuu: busuu is a mobile app for language learning with the goal of breaking down language barriers.
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Max Keiser
Founder of StartCOIN Holdings
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT, an English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news; presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM; and writes for [The Huffington Post](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/huffingtonpost). Keiser is the CEO and co-founder of [StartJOIN](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/startjoin-2). He is also a co-founder of HSX.com. Max Keiser invented “Virtual Specialist Technology,” a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
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About Heisenberg Capital, StartCOIN Holdings: Provides you with the world’s first rewards-based crowdfunding for startups.
Dhruv Ghulati
Co-Founder and CEO of Factmata
Dhruv holds a Distinction in Computer Science and Machine Learning from University College London, and a 1st Class BSc in Economics from the LSE. He was a product manager and co-founder of two London based machine intelligence startups, and is an Entrepreneur First alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in Technology. He wrote his thesis in cost-sensitive classification and distant supervision for statistical claim detection.
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About Factmata: Factmata is an artificial intelligence company for automated content understanding..
Anand Ramdeo
Founder of Planned Departure
Founder at Planned Departure
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About Planned Departure: Planned Departure is a life and estate planning tool for digital world.
Komal Ramdeo
Co-Founder of Planned Departure
Co-Founder at Planned Departure
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About Planned Departure: Planned Departure is a life and estate planning tool for digital world.
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About 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.
Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Archie Campbell
Co Founder of Vidsy
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Alex Morris
Founder of Vidsy
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Maisie Williams
Co-Founder of Daisie
Maisie Williams is best known for her portrayal of Arya, one of the few Starks left standing in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Off-screen, Maisie is the co-founder of Daisie, a social networking site making it easier for creatives to network, share ideas, and collaborate on projects. She is also a powerful advocate for women’s rights, and hopes Daisie will open doors for women in all sectors of the creative industry.
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About Daisie: Daisie is where creators learn together.
Dom Santry
Co-Founder & CEO of Daisie
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About Daisie: Daisie is where creators learn together.
Paul Croft
Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer of Mediatonic Games
Paul Croft is a Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.
Muayyad Shehadeh
Co-Founder and CEO of Uhive
Over 25 years of experience, CEO of Genie9, BigMIND and UHIVE A long and broad experience in machine learning algorithms and A.I. systems.Created BigMIND cloud which was the first cloud solution to utilise cold and hot storage, and integrate A.I, Muayyad has a degree in Architecture. He is well known as a Windows C++/WIN API Guru with deep conceptual thinking; which is an ability he developed and enhanced through his Architecture degree Spent last 5 years working on UHive Social Network Idea
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About Uhive, Zoolz: Uhive is a social network that lets users socialize, interact, and find people across the world while earning its own digital currency.
Scott Button
Co-Founder & CSO of Unruly
Scott Button is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Unruly. Scott has 15 years’ experience in madtech. Before founding Unruly in 2006, Scott was a Chief Executive Officer of Connextra, a venture-backed UK ad serving firm, which he led to trade sale in 2005. Scott holds an M.A. from Cambridge and a B.Phil. from Oxford, both in Philosophy, and was named an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012.
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About Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Joe Bachle-Morris
Co-Founder and COO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Caspar Lee
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of Influencer
Lee started his YouTube channel ‘dicasp’ in 2011, and later renamed it to simply ‘Caspar’. As of November 2017, Lee’s main YouTube channel has over 7.5 million subscribers and over 850 million video views, and is the 243rd most subscribed channel on the website; his second channel “morecaspar” has nearly 2 million subscribers and over 116 million video views. Lee was part of the ‘YouTube Boyband’ that raised money in 2014 for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of “12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch” in December 2013. In 2014 he starred, along with a number of other YouTubers, in the Style Haul series The Crew, described by teen website Sugarscape.com as “the male version of Loose Women, but a bit less pervy”. He featured in a 2014 episode of the American television series Web Therapy. Lee has over 6.1 million followers on Twitter and over 3.6 million on Instagram, as of April 2018. Lee played a character named Garlic in the comedy movie Spud 3: Learning to Fly, alongside fellow YouTuber Troye Sivan. In the UK version of the 2015 movie The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, he played the voice of a seagull. Lee and Joe Sugg are featured in a 2015 travel documentary, Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, and its sequel Joe and Caspar Hit The Road: USA, produced for BBC Worldwide. Also in 2016, Lee starred in Laid in America alongside YouTube comedian KSI (Olajide Olatunji). Lee appeared in the music video for Charli XCX’s 2017 single, Boys. In August 2017, it was announced that Lee would become Chief Innovation Officer of Influencer Ltd, a British influencer marketing agency. He has a series of videos where he comically interviews celebrities such as One Direction’s Liam Payne, actor Zac Efron, Channing Tatum, and a few others.
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About Banquist, Dash Water, FaceIT, Fy, Influencer, JustWears, Margravine, Proper Living, Streamloots, theUp.co, Wild, YouTube: We build meaningful relationships between brands and creators.
Amrit Johal
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
Jasneel Nagi
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
Robyn Exton
Founder and CEO of Her
Robyn is the CEO & Founder of HER the world’s largest brand for LGBTQ womxn & queer people. HER builds products and experiences that connect womxn in the way that works best for them. Their app is home to 4 million people across the world, with dating and community connections, and their events run in 15 cities, hosting 50,000 people per year. With content, events and communities, HER is opening up opportunities for LGBTQ womxn that never existed before.
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About Her: Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.
Steve Bartlett
Founder and CEO of Social Chain
Steven Bartlett, is the 25-year-old CEO of The Social Chain Group. Having founded the groups two flagship companies, Social Chain and Media Chain, the group delivered annual revenues in excess of 100m, consisting of over 20 companies within Marketing, Media, Commerce and Technology. From a bedroom in Moss Side (Manchester), this university dropout went on to build a revolutionary social media marketing agency, which now employs more than 150 staff with offices in Manchester, London, New York and Berlin. Steven’s Social Chain is currently nominated for the Sunday Times ‘Disruptors to Watch’ and considers Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Superdry, Disney, Thomas Cook and the BBC amongst its client list, with the list going on. Since its onset, Social Chain grew into two companies, adding a digital publishing house Media Chain which now owns some of the largest media assets online, reaching over 3 million people a month through a series of online brands.
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About Social Chain: Social Chain a social media marketing agency.
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Rafe Offer
Founder and Executive Chair of Sofar Sounds
Rafe Offer has held senior marketing positions such as Global Marketing Director of Coca-Cola, Director of Global Marketing at The Walt Disney Company and Director of innovation for Diageo. Rafe is an internationally lauded specialist in teamwork, leadership and brand innovation. Now he’s focusing his energy on SofarSounds.com
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About Sofar Sounds, Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller
Co-Founder of Banger Games
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller is the Co-Founder of Banger Games. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing at University of Westminster.
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About Banger Games: Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities.
Adam Hildreth
Founder & CEO of Crisp Thinking
Adam Hildreth is one of the foremost global experts on how to keep brands safe from the dangers of user-generated content posted online. He has worked with global brands, governments and law enforcement agencies for the past 12 years on issues around activist and brand attacks, child grooming, suicide threats, bomb threats, adverse events, legal risk and reputational issues. Since starting his first company, Dubit Ltd, Adam has been an advocate for the protection of children online from serious issues such as cyberbullying, child abuse, harassment and grooming, and is involved in several children’s charities. Adam’s current company, Crisp, uses cutting-edge technology to deliver the world’s leading risk detection capabilities. Using advanced AI and a global team of digital risk experts, Crisp provides complete online safety for some of the biggest brands, digital platforms, advertisers and young users to ensure they’re fully protected on social media. Adam’s pioneering thinking not only drives Crisp’s insatiable innovation, it has also won him prestigious awards over the years including: Achievement in Information Technology at the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards 2003, the CBI’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2006 Growing Business Awards, and Regional Winner for the 2010 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year UK. More recently he featured in the 2017 Maserati 100 list of game-changing entrepreneurs.
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About Crisp Thinking: Crisp is the leading provider of social media brand safety and crisis monitoring services.
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Founder & CEO of ContentCal
Alex Packham is the Founder & CEO at ContentCal.
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About ContentCal: ContentCal allows users to collaborate, share, plan and publish content to drive engagement on social media.
AJ Joshi
Founder of Ikaroa
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About FIT.live, Gignify, Ikaroa, zessoo: Ikaroa is a full 360 service which means they’ve got you covered on design and content right through to digital.
Andrey Andreev
Founder/ CEO of Badoo
Andrey focuses the majority of his time and energy on product development, strategy and new projects to continually innovate Badoo across web and mobile platforms. In addition to Badoo, he founded several other highly successful internet businesses: SpyLog, Begun and Mamba.ru. His entrepreneurial spirit continues to inspire everyone on the team and today Badoo is the largest Social Network for Meeting New People in the World with over 135 million registered users, generating over $150 million USD’s per year and operating in 180+ countries. Andrey is the serial entrepreneur and founder behind Badoo, the 4th successful company he has built in the last 10 years. His successes include Begun, a company focused on selling contextual advertising by auctioning keywords – often described as an earlier version of Google AdWords. He also created Mamba.ru, which has evolved into Russia’s largest online dating site, with over 10 million monthly active users.
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About Badoo, Bumble, Chappy, Lumen, MagicLab: Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.
Dimo Trifonov
Founder of Feeld
Dimo Trifonov is the Founder of Feeld
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About Feeld: Meet kinky, curious and openminded people.
Matt Isaacs
Founder & Executive Chairman of Essence
As one of the founding partners, Matt helped shape Essence into the company it is today. That agency is now the world’s largest independent buyer of digital media with billings in excess of $650MM USD, is 480 people strong, and has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore and Tokyo. Current clients include Google, eBay, Financial Times and Barclays. Matt served as Global CEO of the agency until spring of this year. During his last four years in that role, both billings and headcount doubled every year. Today, as Executive Chairman, Matt oversees the Board, supports the execution of corporate strategy and helps to ensure the legacy of Essence exists well beyond the agency and the industry. Before co-founding Essence Matt was Chief Marketing Officer at Create Services & Goldfish Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group that handled all of the bank’s non LloydsTSB branded retail banking business across 15 brands and with £2B in assets. Matt’s ‘first career’ was in strategy consulting at McKinsey spin-off MMG, where he was part of the core team that built MMG Europe from 14 consultants to 400 across 13 offices. Matt lives on a small farm with his wife, 4 children, 5 hens, lots of sheep and bees in the depths of East Sussex, UK.
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About Essence: Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
Doug Hare
Co-Founder and CEO of Outplay Entertainment
Working at the heart of Outplay and collaborating with each department, Douglas drives business initiatives, focusing on building Outplay as a global entity with a reputation for producing first class games to be enjoyed by all.
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About Outplay Entertainment: Outplay Entertainment develops and publishes games for social and mobile platforms.
Jude Ower
Founder & CEO of PlayMob
Jude Ower is changing the world through game play. She has spent 10 years working within games, creating educational, training and awareness games across a range of organisations from corporate, government and education. Jude is now concentrating on social and mobile games, and how engaging mass audience of game players can make a world changing difference.
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About Department for International Trade, PlayMob: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Matthew Cockerill
Creative Director and Head of Studio of Swift Creatives
Matthew is a well-established designer who has been creating world-leading products and experiences for over 20 years. Working internationally across multiple sectors to help brands increase their business value through innovation and the design of physical and digital products and experiences. His work includes consumer electronics, healthcare, domestic appliances, alcoholic beverages, endurance sports, transportation and environments. He created the world’s first ethical and modular smartphone for Fairphone which won a Cannes Lion award in 2017, imagined future lifestyles and product categories for Samsung Electronics, created luxurious whisky experiences for Diageo, retail activations for Gatorade, award experiences for Google and helped define the passenger experience at Heathrow T5. Matthew regularly brings his innovative thinking to the wider world through speaking at conferences, panel talks, commentating in the press, university lecturing and judging industry events, including the steering group for the 2017/18 Cannes Lion Award. Before joining Swift Creatives, Matthew was a board director at Seymourpowell for 10 years and has worked in-house in Seoul, South Korea for Samsung Electronics.
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About Swift Creatives: Swift Creatives is an international design studio, helping brands create innovative designs and meaningful experiences
Emanuele Musumeci
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Anakando Media Group
Mr. Musumeci, co-founded Advirally in 2012, with Alki David. He is an acknowledged authority on all aspects related to the development of Social Media marketing strategies and has more than 12 years of specialist international experience in this field. Emanuele has devised and delivered a number of award winning digital advertising and social media awareness campaigns for leading global brands including; Vodafone, Lipton, Microsoft, Toshiba, Samsung and Tempo. Prior to co-founding Advirally, he was the Senior Vice President of Marketing at London based Anakando subsidiary, FilmOn TV UK, the global IPTV platform. He was also the founder of Italy based social media marketing company INVIOTRAFFICO, which won a number of prestigious international industry awards for its work. He studied Modern Languages with a specialization in Web based Public Relations & Digital Marketing, at the University of Palermo, Italy. In his role as Vice President, Emanuele is responsible for customer acquisition and the development and implementation of the social media marketing strategy of Advirally, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anakando Media Group.
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About Anakando Media Group: The Anakando Media Group is a rapidly expanding and innovative digital media company with global interests.
Michael Breidenbruecker
Founder and CEO of Last.fm
Michael is the founder of RjDj, a London – and New York – based startup. RjDj is an app that generates a dynamic soundtrack using the Phone’s external audio input. He is a musician who used to play saxophone, changed to laptop and now plays mobile phone and iPad. In the past, Michael was one of the original founders and CEO of Last.fm.
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About Last.fm, Reality Jockey: Last.fm is an online music catalogue providing users with personalized recommendations based on their taste in music.
Mats Stigzelius
Founder of Takumi
Having started his career at McKinsey & Company, Mats Stigzelius has spent the last dozen years working in Strategy Consulting and Private Equity. His experience includes developing brand strategies, implementing business plans and arranging financing for companies across a number of industries in Europe and North America, including Retail, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Media and Telecoms sectors. Before joining Rainmaking in January 2010, Mats spent five years in Private Equity with a focus on the Retail sector, completing 15 acquisitions, refinancings and exits in that period, in addition to sitting on the board of a number of companies as a Non-Executive Director. Mats holds a 1st Class Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Manchester University and over the years he has lived in Finland, Holland, USA and the UK. Mats currently lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two young sons.
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About Rainmaking, Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Gummi Eggertsson
Co-Founder,COO & CFO of Takumi
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About Sidekick Health, Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Rohit Makol
Founder & COO of HeyHub
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About HeyHub: The community experience and tenant engagement platform driving operational efficiency across your spaces.
Gus Machado
Co-Founder of Paraslate
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About Paraslate: Internet
Luke Saunders
Co-Founder and CTO of AmaZix
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About AmaZix: AmaZix is the full-service consultancy for blockchain businesses.
David Kershaw
Co-Founder ,CEO & Exec Director of M&C Saatchi
David Kershaw is a founding director of M&C Saatchi. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1982 after obtaining an MBA at London Business School. He became managing director in 1990 and was made chairman and chief executive of the UK agency in 1994.
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About M&C Saatchi: M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data and technology.
Giles Palmer
Founder & CEO of Brandwatch
Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company. Formerly of BSkyB, Giles started Brandwatch and since its launch in August 2007, it has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media analytics and listening companies. Giles’ goal for Brandwatch is to help organisations find and engage with online conversations that matter. This motivation has turned Brandwatch into a platform that gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them. This empowers brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven business decisions. Brandwatch has developed a social listening and analytics offering, Brandwatch Analytics, and a social command center platform Brandwatch Vizia, which showcases real-time visualizations across enterprises. Currently, Brandwatch has over 1,000 customers including 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, and serves businesses across the globe, from FTSE100 companies to SMEs. Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
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About Brandwatch, Futrli: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Victor Frumkin
Co-Founder of Bookmate
Cofounder at Instreamatic.ai, the Voice AI platform powering voice-enabled advertising. CoFounder, Board member at Bookmate.com, the mobile story-on-go subscription service providing fun&convenient access to ebook, audiobook, other long-form content.
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About Bookmate: Bookmate is mobile story-on-the-go subscription service providing convenient access to ebooks, audiobooks and other long-form content
Martin Roots
Co-Founder & Chairman of Expede Group
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About Expede Group, Expede Group: Transforming universities for tomorrow
Andrea Manfredi
Founder & CEO of Blasting News
After graduating from Bocconi University in 2005, Andrea earned an MBA at INSEAD, studying in Paris and Singapore. He spent several years working as a manager in top strategic consulting firms mainly in the UK and Italy. Working as a journalist since 1998, Andrea is the Founder & CEO and the Editor-in-Chief of Blasting News.
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About Blasting News: Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
George Palmer
Founder of SendOwl
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About SendOwl: SendOwl is a software company that develops tools for selling digital products through social media and blogs.
Sean Riley
Founder & CEO of Ad Dynamo
Sean Riley is founder and CEO at Ad Dynamo. Prior to this, he was managing director at Entelligence Ltd. and had worked one at E-Data Solutions and Credit Suisse.
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About Ad Dynamo: Ad Dynamo is Africa’s largest digital media sales house. Ad Dynamo manages sales in Africa for Twitter, Oath, Snapchat & Spotify.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Jonathan Wanono
Co-Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Noor Alkhadra
Founder & CEO of WeGeek
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About WeGeek: We are passionate geeks who take great pleasure in bringing gamers together by creating AWESOME gaming events.
Andrew Dent
Founder of Family Traveller
Andrew Dent is the Founder at Family Traveller
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About Family Traveller: Family Traveller is a multi-platform brand operating across familytraveller.com, social media and email.
Andrew Foyle
Co-Founder & CEO of Miappi
Andrew Foyle joined Miappi as Co-Founder and Chief Executive in 2012.
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About Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Jeremy Jauncey
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Beautiful Destinations
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About Beautiful Destinations: Beautiful Destinations is a media company that shares authentic, inspirational, and immersive travel stories.
Emma Clark
Founder of The Sauce
Emma Clark is the Co-Founder at The Sauce.
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About The Sauce: The Sauce has a vision for bringing the next generation back together in real life using the power of social video profiles.
Sachin Karia
Co-Founder and CEO of The Sauce
Sachin Karia is the founder and CEO at The Sauce.
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About The Sauce: The Sauce has a vision for bringing the next generation back together in real life using the power of social video profiles.
Ben Knight
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Croud
Ben is the Co-founder of Croud, Google’s fastest growing agency in the UK in 2013 and 2014 Having worked within search for over ten years, Ben realised that there was a gap within the industry to deliver a more innovative and creative service to clients that could rival other agencies. In 2011, Ben, founded Croud as a new concept in digital to deliver excellence to clients expertise to help their clients grow their businesses. Prior to Croud, Ben has worked for a number of prestigious search agencies. Ben spent his first 6 years at The Search Works where he joined a small team learning his trade and later heading up the financial search vertical, Ben was a key member of the team during it’s growth from 12 to over 100 people. Following the sale at TSW, he joined Harvest Digital as Head of Search in a full service digital agency where he was responsible for paid and natural search as well as social media and analytics, in the 2 and half years he spent at Harvest he grew the size of them team 7 fold and revenues 10 fold before leaving this role in early 2011. Outside of work, Ben is an avid but often disappointed Liverpool football fan.
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About Croud, Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Neil Stanley
Founder & CEO of Natter
Neil Stanley is a Founder & CEO at Natter.
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About Natter: Natter is the nano social network where every post contains up to five words
Andy Nunn
Co Founder of Buzzbike
Andy’s the biggest cycling nut among the founders. After a decade in corporate strategy, he’s following his passion by helping Buzzbike give more Londoners the chance to cycle around town.
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About Buzzbike, Ops Stories: Buzzbike is launching a tech-driven cycle scheme for London, creating a new sponsorship platform for brands.
Tom Hares
CEO & Co-Founder of Buzzbike
Prior to dreaming up Buzzbike, Tom led advertising for Apple, inspiring him to create something that not only made an impact on the world, but did so with craft and care at every turn.
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About Buzzbike: Buzzbike is launching a tech-driven cycle scheme for London, creating a new sponsorship platform for brands.
Mike Adam
Founder and Architect of Amigo Technology
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About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Jon Burkhart
Founder & Chief Creative Officer of TBC London
Jon is the co-author of Newsjacking: The Urgent Genius of Real-time Advertising. He’s also founder of content marketing consultancy TBC Global where he finds truly unique ways for brands to earn and keep their fans’ attention. In 2010, he co-founded Urgent Genius, the world’s first blog dedicated to reactive creativity. A seasoned keynote speaker, Jon’s spoken at South By Southwest (SXSW) 7 years in a row and now serves on the programming committee. A crazy sports fan, he brings is content strategy/ fun/ games to the SEAT (Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology) conference as well. Previously, Jon was social content director at Iris Worldwide.
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About TBC London: TBC London is providing news , real time contents , events and planning.
Femi Dada
Founder of Okiki App
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About Okiki App, Parseal: Okiki is a movie streaming social app that enables movie viewers connect with each other/celebrities via chat and live-streaming.
Adebayo Dada
Founder of Okiki App
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About Okiki App: Okiki is a movie streaming social app that enables movie viewers connect with each other/celebrities via chat and live-streaming.
Mikhail Gerchuk
Founder of agenda.video
Mikhail Gerchuk is the founder of agenda.video. He is also the chief executive officer for UEurasion at VEON, the 7th largest global mobile operator in 11 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Prior to joining agenda.video he became a board member at EclecticIQ.
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About agenda.video: agenda.video produces marketing videos for internet and social media.
Ole Fjelberg
Co-Founder & COO of Brandbassador
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About Brandbassador: Ambassadors – engage with brands to earn money, freebies and other rewards. Brands – harness the power of passionate customers and fans.
Patrick Beraud
Founder & CEO of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Robert Gelb
Founder & CEO of Kindaba
Rob is the CEO and founder of Kindaba. His strengths are in project management, logistics and in successfully running large scale projects. He was responsible for developing and leading Bus 52, a 501(c3) nonprofit project that featured the production of 100 documentary-style video pieces highlighting people and organisations who were doing inspiring things across America but lacked recognition. Responsibilities included all logistics and planning, fundraising of over $140,000, and outreach which included appearing on local and national TV in the US. Most recently, Rob completed a contract with the University of St Andrews where he planned, developed and executed the establishment of career and alumni outreach for the university’s international student and alumni population. This included organising over 50 in-country events, in-country career-related initiatives, the development of a successful university work shadowing programme, among others.
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About Heysummit, Kindaba: Visual Intelligent Messenger for Families
Christopher Molozian
Co-Founder & CEO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Andrei Mihu
Co-Founder & CTO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Adam Maurice
Co-Founder and Director of Fusion Consulting
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About Fusion Consulting: Fusion is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that offers end-to-end solutions for private individuals and fast growth businesses.
Sarah Miller
Co-Founder of Triptease
Founder at Triptease
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About Sarah Miller & Partners, The Wall Street Journal, Triptease: Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
Martin Adams
Co-Founder & CEO of Codec
Martin is an international keynote speaker on innovation, artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies, and the Founder and CEO of Codec.ai. Codec.ai has raised millions & uses artificial intelligence to identify new target audiences and understand what content and products they want to consume, all before brands have to guess. Codec won ‘the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Marketing’ award at CognitionX and has been named one of the ‘Hottest AI Businesses in Europe’ by TechCrunch. Martin has been recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 Entrepreneurs by Maserati and as an innovation advisor he has worked with some of the most high-profile individuals and organisations in the world on how to use technology to be more innovative and connect more deeply with real people- including companies like Pfizer and Red Bull and governmental organisations like the Royal Marines. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the Co-Founder of the Social Media Unit @ UCL and the Digital Leadership Council.
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About Ambient Tone, Codec, CognitionX, Digital Leadership Council, London Speaker Bureau, University College London (UCL): We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Marisol Grandon
Founder & CEO of Unfold Stories
Marisol Grandon is CEO of Unfold Stories, a British startup specializing in digital storytelling for international development and purpose led brands. Marisol spent 10 years in UK government including 8 years at Department for International Development as Head of Creative Content where she pioneered innovative content, immersive films and engaging social media campaigns on global issues.
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About Unfold Stories: Unfold Stories specialise in digital storytelling for people in international development and global issues.
Marco Botticelli
Founder & CEO of OPIÑON
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About Batchday, OPIÑON: The world belongs to the curious minds.. ..OPIÑON is where the curious of the world belong. How curious will you be? (Beta coming soon..)
Ryan Kroonenburg
Founder of A Cloud Guru
Ryan is the first person to be recognized as both an AWS Community Hero and an Alexa Champion; and so far, over 135,000 students have taken his AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course. He loves being a cloud geek and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community as an online educator. Ryan’s courses are all cloud-based, and accommodate both absolute beginners and seasoned professionals. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn, where he frequently shares the latest from the Cloud.
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About A Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru is a social learning platform for cloud computing.
Max Whicher
CBO & Co-Founder of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Alex Bodini
CEO & Co-Founder of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Mihir Apte
Co-Founder of Reccit
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About Reccit, SmartAsset: Reccit helps you make decisions by giving you relevant reviews and recommendations from trusted sources in your social network.
Alexander Johnson
Founder & CEO of SnapBoost
Alexander Johnson is a British entrepreneur, public speaker and performance & leadership specialist. Alexander founded several companies in a range of industries, from financial services to technology, through to beauty and wellness. He contributes to various advisory boards and management teams as a business strategist. He is the founder and CEO of SnapBoost, a mobile and web app which connects users to a pool of on-demand professional photo editors.
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About SnapBoost: SnapBoost is an online marketplace. It connects individuals and businesses to an on-demand workforce of professional photo editors.
Kim Thesiger
Co Founder and Group Director for Asia Pacific of TVT
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About TVT: Building digital tools for the Entertainment industry
Tomi Aiyeola
Co-Founder of XPO
Co-founder @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Gilbert Corrales
Co-Founder & CEO of Leaf
Gilbert Corrales (born December 3rd, 1982 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a strategist, entrepreneur and professor. Corrales attended Costa Rica Institute of Technology (BE Computer Science, 2004) and the University of Science and Technology in South Korea (MSc Human Computer Interaction, 2010), where he helped coordinate the first [International Augmented Reality Standards](http://www.perey.com/ARStandardsMeeting.html) meeting. Since 2002, Gilbert’s work has made high profile companies like Unisys, Intel, Microsoft and world-class interactive agency Schematic achieve success in crafting new and exiting experiences. In 2009, Gilbert joined the Imaging Media Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a Research Scientist, where both Discovr Korea and the Discovr Places’ Platform saw the light of day as part of his Masters Thesis. Gilbert’s current focus is in crafting the best social experiences for travelers around the world on top of the [Discovr Places’](http://www.discovr.net) Platform, helping people make the most of their trips on the go, wherever they go.
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About Discovr Places, Leaf: Leaf, previously Leaf Grow, is a tech company that provides end-to-end performance marketing services for ambitious eCommerce businesses.
Helga Alvarez
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of Leaf
Helga Alvarez is the Co-Founder & VP Engineering at Leaf Grow.
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About Leaf: Leaf, previously Leaf Grow, is a tech company that provides end-to-end performance marketing services for ambitious eCommerce businesses.
Max Adamski
Co-Founder and CPO of Jigsaw
Max Adamski is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Alex Durrant
Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw
Alex Durrant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Jenny Tsai
Founder & CEO of Wearisma
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About Wearisma: Wearisma is a premium influencer marketing solution for brands, agencies & influencers.
Alessandra Di Lorenzo
CEO & Founder of LM Forward
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About LM Forward: LM Forward is a marketing services company that offers media and content activations.
Jake Jenner
Co-Founder & CFO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Samantha North
Co-Founder of North Cyber Research
Samantha North is a disinformation researcher at the University of Bath, and is currently based in Lisbon. Her focus is on tribalism and how disinformation seeks to exploit existing fissures and divisions within our society. And she believes the design of social media platforms tends to make things worse still. North sees tribalism as a major ongoing threat to democracy and civil society, and offers ideas about how we can better understand this weakness and how to protect ourselves.
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About North Cyber Research: Helping brands and organisations understand, identify and counter disinformation and inauthentic online behaviour.
Daniel Kempe
Co-Founder & CEO of Quuu
Daniel is a co-founder of Quuu.co which provides hand-curated content suggestions to enhance your social media activity. Daniel has always learned better by doing, so has had many jobs in the past, including being a Designer, professional photographer, HP accredited Telecommunications Engineer, Builder and touch typist, all of which he learned on the job. Daniel loves the startup world, connecting with new people and sharing success with them. He would always lend a hand to anyone with no expectation of something in return. Daniel’s passion shines through the tough times, he’s never failed, only learned something new and always says failure is to learn for next time.
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About Quuu: Your social media marketing on autopilot
Matthew Spurr
Co-Founder of Quuu
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About Quuu: Your social media marketing on autopilot
Akeem Ojuko
Co-Founder of Vima
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About Vima: The new home of premium video content. Powered by the blockchain.
Paola Marinone
Founder & CEO of BuzzMyVideos
Founder & CEO at BuzzMyVideos.
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About Blackbox, BuzzMyVideos, TechItalia:Lab: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Bengu Atamer
Co-Founder & Director of BuzzMyVideos
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About BuzzMyVideos: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Julian M. Baladurage
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MBJ LONDON
Julian Baladurage joined MBJ LONDON as CEO & Co-founder in 2011.
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About Forbes New York Business Council, MBJ LONDON: MBJ LONDON is a web and app development company offering Website as a Service.
