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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 COO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Gloria Baeuerlein
Chief Operating Officer of Back
Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at Morgan Stanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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About Back: Back Technologies is a software company that organizes and automates employee requests on one intuitive platform.
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Louis Warner
Chief Operating Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Bilal Al-Qureshi
Co-Founder and COO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Roger Goscomb
CFO and COO of Digime
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About DAD Technology Limited, Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Roger Goscomb
CFO and COO of Digime
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About DAD Technology Limited, Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Filip Coen
COO of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Daniel Sagi
COO of Kape Technologies
COO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Graeme Wilson
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Orion Health
Working across Espion’s London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Newcastle offices, Graeme is responsible for the firm’s large portfolio of UK technology resellers. Graeme oversees the delivery of Espion’s complete and comprehensive programme which supports resellers at every stage of the sales lifecycle. Foremost in his remit is ensuring each reseller receives a tailored solution that fits the needs of their client. With a technical background in telecommunications and electrical / electronic engineering, Graeme can understand and address the increasingly complex challenges that technology needs to solve. Graeme’s career spans 20 years in senior sales and management roles at blue-chip companies BT Plc, Compaq, HP and Telindus / Belgacom ICT and has vast experience in executing strategic partnerships with resellers, managed services providers and telcos deploying transformational projects.
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About Orion Health: Orion Health is an award winning, global healthcare software company that develops creative and modern solutions.
Tony Lissaman
Chief Operating Officer Private Equity of 3i Group
Tony Lissaman In his role as Chief Operation Officer (COO), Tony is responsible for the operational running of 3i’s international Private Equity business. His responsibilities include the strategic development of the business, financial planning and reporting, business processes and systems, resource management, portfolio monitoring and valuations. Having previously qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, Tony joined 3i in 1998 initially working in 3i’s Group Finance team. Over his career at 3i, Tony has been involved in the reshaping of 3i’s Private Equity business, including its international development and integration. Tony has a Geography degree from Loughborough University and is a qualified chartered accountant.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Lee Hudson
Chief Operating Officer of AppyWay
Lee has spent 20 years bringing cutting edge technology and services to consumers in retail, online and app sectors, leading operational strategy for turnaround and growth. At AppyWay, Lee is responsible for developing strategic IOT and Connected City partnerships and scaling operations for global expansion.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Lee Perkins
Chief Operating Officer of Sage Group
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Varun Sahni
Co-Founder & COO of CreditEnable
Varun Sahni has built and operated multiple successful companies over the past 20 years across emerging and developed markets ranging across financial services, healthcare and high technology firms. He is co-founder of Impact Investment Partners a UK based FCA regulated asset manager which operates across multiple markets and sectors. Prior to which he was head of Acumen India and has worked with Unilever, CARE and Oxfam to build up their SME portfolios. Varun is on a range of global advisory boards and fund investment committees focused on emerging markets and sustainable investing. He has been widely quoted in international media over the years and is a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics, a TED Fellow and an Asia Society Global Young Leader. Varun has an MA from Columbia University, and is also a Chevening Scholar.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Arik Oslerne
Chief Operating Officer of Vauban
Arik Oslerne is the Chief Operating Officer at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Lennert Acke
COO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Steve Shirley
COO of Roc Technologies
Steve Shirley is the COO at Roc Technologies.
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About Roc Technologies, Roc Technologies: Roc Technologies is a multi-award winning business and technology services provider.
Adrian Toner
Chief Operating Officer of First Derivatives
Adrian initially joined the Board of First Derivatives plc in September 2005 as a Non-Executive Director. In July 2010 he joined the Executive Team as Chief Operations Officer and has responsibility for the Group’s Human Resources, Facilities Management and Corporate IT functions. Prior to joining First Derivatives plc, Adrian spent eighteen years with Allianz in London and Ireland where he became of Head of Allianz in Northern Ireland and Associate Commercial Director-Allianz Ireland plc. During his career he has developed expertise in directing and controlling organisational operations in accordance with the company’s strategy and growth objectives.
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About First Derivatives: First Derivatives is a provider of products and consulting services to the largest finance, technology and energy institutions.
Kunal Sharma
Cofounder & COO of AppsPicket
Kunal is a serial entrepreneur having cofounded iRunway- an intellectual property firm that helped clients drive successful outcomes in excess of $1.5 billion. Also part of founding team at Pangea3 and Evalueserve. He has studied entrepreneurship from London Business School, and has done his Masters and Bachelors from IIT Delhi.
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About AppsPicket: Frictionless secure two factor authentication based on innovative cryptographic protocol.
Steve Jeans
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Desana
Steve Jeans is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Desana.
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About Desana: Hybrid / future of work: B2B SAAS/Marketplace solution for managing hybrid workplace models, globally.
Antoine Grisay
Co-Founder and COO of Shipfix
Antoine Grisay is a co-founder and COO at Shipfix.
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About Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
Uzair Bawany
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Traydstream
Founder of a boutique search firm, Fairway Search Partners which predominantly focuses on retained mandates in the front office within three distinct areas. They are Global Transaction Banking, Private Wealth / Asset Management and Equities Capital Markets – Sales & Sales Trading. Chairman of the Contact Recruitment Group. In Jan 2003, he initiated an MBO and acquired the company and then sold this business in November 2011. He was Vice Chair of an industry trade body which is the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). APSCo provides a powerful unified voice for the Professional Recruitment market and is proud to represent, promote and support such vibrant and innovative sectors of the recruitment industry. Board Director of the National Advisory Board and Chair the London Regional Group of Mosaic which is a Prince’s trust Charity. It focuses on mentoring and developing under privileged school children.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
Rony Seamons
Chief Operating Officer & Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI
Rony Seamons is the Chief Operating Officer and Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI.
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About AMPLYFI: AMPLYFI is a privately held company that provides software platform capable of intelligently harvesting open source data from the internet.
Will Phillipson
Co-Founder and COO of SilverRail Technologies
Will is the co-founder of SilverRail Technologies and driver behind SilverRail’s product. Will brings 15 years of travel technology and product experience in a number of successful companies. Prior to co-founding SilverRail, Will was the VP Product Strategy and technical lead for distribution platforms at ITA Software, which involved building a next-generation GDS platform for airline distribution, and advising on aspects of ITA’s forthcoming Airline Reservation, Inventory and re-accommodation Systems. Prior to the travel industry, Will started several companies focusing on document management, documents on demand and eventually digital rights management. Will has a computer engineering degree from McGill University and has served on various boards, including the Board of Governors of McGill University. Claim to fame: First solo airline trip to South Africa — at age 5. Since then he has circumnavigated this planet several times.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Jennifer Coyle Byrne
COO of G-Research
Jennifer Coyle Byrne is the Chief Operating Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Ben Cranham
Chief Operating Officer of MTI
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About MTI: A leading multi-national provider of professional services and comprehensive data storage solutions
Kevin Piersialla
Chief Operating Office of Faria Education Group
Responsible for global sales, customer success, and operations.
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About Faria Education Group: Enhancing Efficiency in Education Globally
Marina Leadbetter
COO of Imployable
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About Imployable: Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career
Derek Hill
COO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Derek Hill have experience spanning several eras of technology advancement, Derek’s insights into provisioning and global deployment of online solutions and leveraging the latest ecosystem of solutions is second to none. An industry thought leader in MS Azure and architect of INSTANDA’s rapid scaling capabilities in multiple countries, Derek has worked extensively with Boards to unravel the complexity of technology-enabled change. As COO of INSTANDA, he has a simple mission: unparalleled customer service combined with unrivalled platform value and quality.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Peter Rochelle
Chief Operating Officer of Arqit Limited
Peter ‘Rocky’ Rochelle is the Chief Operating Officer at Arqit.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Andrey Dokuchaev
Founder & COO of ClauseMatch
Andrey is the COO of ClauseMatch. He has been with the company since March 2014. He also works as director for StickerRide. Earlier in life, he worked for Financial Advisory as audit manager. He has been with KPMG Moscow as senior auditor. Andrey attended The University of Texas at Dallas and studied bachelor of science and master of science in accounting.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
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.
Angie Ma
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder of Faculty Science
Angie is cofounder and COO of ASI Data Science, a London-based AI tech startup that offers data science as a service. ASI, since founding in 2014, has completed more than 200 commercial data science projects in multiple industries and sectors and regarded as EMEA-based leader in data science. She is passionate about applying machine learning to solving real world applications that generate business value for companies and organisations. She has experience delivery complex projects from prototyping to implementation. Prior to founding ASI, Angie, a physicist by training, was a researcher in nanotechnology working on developing optical detection for medical diagnostics.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Richard Sargeant
Chief Operating Officer of Faculty Science
In 2016, Richard joined ASI Data Science as a Director to grow the consulting team of expert data scientists. ASI are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to everyone. We solve practical business problems using statistical and symbolic AI; provide modern software tools for analysts and data scientists; and deliver to equip and empower data scientists, executives, and analysts to take advantage of AI. Previously, he worked in the Government as Director of Transformation in the Home Office. Before this he was one of the founding directors of the Government Digital Service. He was Head of Energy Market Design at the Department of Energy & Climate Change, leading the Electricity Market Reform programme to secure an additional £200bn of capital investment into the UK Power Generation market. Before that he was at Google as their UK Head of Public Policy. Richard was a senior policy advisor in HM Treasury. His first role in Government was in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, writing papers on innovation in the public sector and happiness, as well as unpublished work on education and healthcare. He co-founded Engineers Without Borders UK in 2001 while studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Sheila Flavell
Chief Operating Officer of FDM Group
With over 26 years of experience in both the public and private IT sectors internationally Sheila is passionate about enhancing diversity in the workplace and creating exciting careers for the next generation of digital talent. Sheila spearheads FDM’s global Women in Tech initiative and FDM’s Getting Back to Business Programme, aimed at providing opportunities for returners to work. In addition, Sheila’s experience and knowledge of the sector has been crucial in driving the Group’s global expansion programme.
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About FDM Group, Future Digital Media: FDM Group is a professional services provider with a focus on IT and business recruitment for graduates and veterans.
Paul Guthrie
Chief Operating Officer of Envelop Risk
Envelop Risk COO & Co-Founder | Chair and co-founder at VALR | QxBranch co-founder. Over a decade of experience in strategy consulting, complex market analysis, and emerging technology as Senior Economist and Director of Business Development for Bryce Space and Technology. Paul holds a master degree in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is a former member of the USRowing National Team and current Olympic development rowing coach.
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About Envelop Risk, VALR: Envelop Risk is a global specialty cyber and emerging risk underwriting firm.
Stacey Edwards
COO, CFO & Director of Ad-Lib.io
Stacey Edwards is the COO, CFO and Director at Ad-Lib.io.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Stephen Dracup
Chief Operating Officer of Chess ICT
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About Chess ICT: Chess ICT provide services including product supply and installation, storage, hosted and cloud solutions.
Filip Mihailovic
Co-founder,COO of Brisqq
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About Brisqq: Brisqq provides local logistics-as-a-service, enabling retailers to offer same day (or future date) deliveries in 1-hour timeslots.
Simon Arnell
Chief Operating Officer of Configured Things
Simon Arnell is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder at Configured Things.
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About Configured Things: Creating richer possibilities for Connected Places with real-time policy-bound federated sharing of systems and data between organisations
Helen Mayhew
COO Europe of QuantumBlack
Helen is Chief Operating Officer for Europe at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company. She has guided global organisations on their analytics journeys, advising top executives and leaders on the potential for insight and innovation through advanced analytics. As COO, she is scaling the company and its impact around the world as she helps clients do the same. Examples of her work include: Implementing advanced geospatial analytics to model the impact of consumer changes on the footprint and property portfolio of a retailer, which helped the client understand the drivers of revenue performance, giving a new view of their business Leading an advanced analytics approach to bring new techniques to a retail bank, improving performance of its mortgage sales teams; also embedding tools and mindsets of data driven decision making across frontline staff Leading a project to predict and reduce government exposure to private sector insolvency, delivering both on-the-ground training and an interactive seminar series to build capabilities of the analytics team Helen is also the founder of McKinsey’s Analytics Academy and a thought-leader in progressing ethical and sustainable AI standards. Before joining McKinsey, she was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and spent time on secondment at both Tesco and the Bank of England. She also worked at the European Commission, supporting the Directorate-General for External Relations. Passionate about sailing, Helen is a former world champion and was a training partner to team Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics.
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About QuantumBlack: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Neil Woodcock
Chief Operating Officer of Tarmin, Inc.
Neil Woodcock Chief Operating Officer Leveraging 28 years of leadership experience and a wealth of business and technology expertise, Neil Woodcock joins Tarmin as the Chief Operating Officer where he will be responsible for global operations. Neil will be directing all Tarmin corporate strategy, including overseeing infrastructure, streamlining processes and building a global organizational culture aligned with Tarmin’s aggressive growth projections. Prior to joining Tarmin, Neil spent 28 years at IBM serving in various capacities. Neil holds a degree in Engineering from the University of Leicester and management certifications from Henley College of Management.
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About Tarmin, Inc.: Tarmin delivers GridBank Data Management Platform the premier Data Defined Storage solution.
An Nguyen
COO of Koru Kids
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About Koru Kids: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Michael Williams
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Glory Global Solutions
CFO since May 2014 and COO since April 2018, Michael is responsible for the company’s Finance, Supply Chain and IS functions. He joined Glory Global Solutions from Hitachi, where he was most recently European Finance Director. Michael’s extensive experience has included consistent delivery of growth and profitability in established global businesses as well as that of large-scale projects such as mergers, acquisitions and divestments. ‘Big Four’ accountancy firm qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Michael has led technical accounting conversion projects, process efficiency drives and IT implementations. He has also been instrumental in developing and bringing to market start-up solution businesses. He has experience across a range of sectors including retail, rail, manufacturing, leasing and motor.
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About Glory Global Solutions: Glory Global Solutions is a pioneer in the development and manufacture of money handling machines and systems.
Tim Sawyer
Chief Operating Officer of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Samantha Payne
Co Founder & COO of Open Bionics
Samantha Payne is the co founder of Open Bionics; a robotics company developing assistive devices that enhance the human body. The company has won multiple awards for Engineering and Innovation including two British Engineering Excellence Awards and the James Dyson award for innovative design. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney to children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. They were the first company to bring affordable multi-grip bionic hands to the National Health Service in the UK.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Deepti Atrish
CEO & Chief Operating Officer of PCL Health
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About PCL Health: B2B SaaS Connected care platform with IoTs, mobile Apps and Online Clinician Dashboard.
Steve Pannifer
COO of Consult Hyperion
Steve Pannifer is the COO at Consult Hyperion, is a digital identity and information security expert. He has led Consult Hyperion teams delivering projects in these areas for both banks, telcos and payment schemes. Steve has a detailed understanding of the global digital identity market, the operational and information security implications of the main ID&V processes and tools, and the most efficient way to implement them in financial services, including critical financial infrastructures. He has advised clients in Australia, Europe, North America and the UK, successfully transferring the learnings and best practice from one market to another. Over the last four years, Steve has established and built up Consult Hyperion’s information security and penetration testing capabilities. Building upon Consult Hyperion’s proven Security Risk Analysis methodology, Steve’s team now includes individuals with experience in mobile penetration testing, secure code reviews and the technology available in a mobile device to secure personal and financial information. The aim is always to understand the business impact of security issues and to be able to present those in business terms in order that resources can be targeted where they are most needed. Prior to joining Consult Hyperion, Steve gained 7 years IT experience at Logica, in the areas of IT security, systems integration and database design. Steve is a member of the UK Government’s Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Jeremy Phillips
COO of KITE EDGE LTD
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About StrategyEye: Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
Stefan Catoiu
Co-Founder & COO of Vita Mojo
Stefan Catoiu is the Co-Founder and COO of Vita Mojo.
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About Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Gareth Cadwallader
Interim COO of Akkroo
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About Akkroo: A universal, customisable lead capture solution that helps businesses maximise their return on exhibiting at events.
Laura Malcolm
COO of Avanade
Laura is an experienced business and technology leader, driving industry change, diversity and inclusion with innovative and pioneering approaches. She has performed roles including COO, CTIO, Digital and Sales leadership roles, working in leading technology and consulting organisations, including Avanade, Oracle, Capgemini and IBM. She has a track record of delivering technical, operational and sales excellence, but people leadership and organisational change motivate her the most. She attributes her record of strong business results not only to a passion for technology and innovation, but mostly to her ability to get the best out of people through humility, creativity and authentic leadership.
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About Avanade: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Amit Pau
COO of Accloud
Amit Pau is a venture partner with over 25-years’ experience leading and scaling SaaS and telecoms businesses across multiple jurisdictions. He has led numerous companies to IPO or strategic exit as well as having built multi-billion dollar business units for global leaders including Vodafone and AT&T. He currently sits on the Board and serves as COO of Accloud, a technology platform which is empowering SMEs in high-growth markets with mobile first business management tools. The company’s aim is to build a platform for economic growth and financial inclusion, enabling SMEs to enter the formal economy, creating jobs, driving social well-being and promoting global prosperity. He has extensive Board level experience having served as a Board member for multiple publicly listed companies, including on the Nasdaq and FTSE Main Market, across numerous geographies, including India, Israel, Spain and The Netherlands.
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About Accloud, Entrepreneur Country: Accloud empowers SMEs in high growth markets with innovative cloud-based business management tools specially designed to meet their needs.
Chris Hornung
Chief Operating Officer of TotalMobile
Chris Hornung is a Chief Operating Officer at TotalMobile. He was responsible for Achilles’ operating strategy and performance. Since being appointed in 2010, he has established a network of operational hubs in Asia, Eastern Europe, America, India, and South America. Additionally, he has developed standard processes across these locations allowing Achilles to offer a unified service to suppliers and buyers globally. He has 12 years’ experience of working at a senior level to improve business processes and performance within the global telecommunications industry. After 8 years in the British Armed Forces, he joined the mobile operator Orange in 1999 completing a number of roles before being appointed as the Director of Strategy Implementation. He joined Cable and Wireless in 2006, becoming the Director of Customer Service Transformation in 2007 before taking up the role of Director of Operational Performance in 2009. Chris is married with two children and has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biology and Biological Sciences from The University of Birmingham.
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About TotalMobile: TotalMobile is an enterprise mobile application platform designed to provide complete mobile working solutions.
Kean Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Dion Global Solutions
Kean is the Chief Operating Officer at Dion Global Solutions and is responsible for all day to day operations within the business including Product Strategy, Product Development, Support, Project Delivery and Technology spearheading our Solution Strategy to create a truly global solution suite for financial institutions. Kean is based in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of experience in Financial services, which includes 18 years in Dion and their acquired businesses. Kean brings a wealth of relevant domain experience to the role and has already overseen the significant growth in both the Wealth and Post Trade businesses in Dion. He has rich experience in strategic planning and implementation of key processes, systems and delivery excellence across the company , guiding and directing an enterprise through substantial change management utilizing strong and effective leadership. Kean has driven a number of products and operational initiatives within Dion and has good relationships across the client base. Prior to joining Dion, Kean worked at the London Stock Exchange for nearly 10 years being part of their renowned Graduate Placement scheme and went on to run the all participant rollout of the then ground breaking T+10 and T+5 settlement changes in the early 1990s before helping with the transition to CREST in 1996.
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About Dion Global Solutions: Dion Global Solutions is a technology solution provider company.
Kean Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Dion Global Solutions
Kean is the Chief Operating Officer at Dion Global Solutions and is responsible for all day to day operations within the business including Product Strategy, Product Development, Support, Project Delivery and Technology spearheading our Solution Strategy to create a truly global solution suite for financial institutions. Kean is based in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of experience in Financial services, which includes 18 years in Dion and their acquired businesses. Kean brings a wealth of relevant domain experience to the role and has already overseen the significant growth in both the Wealth and Post Trade businesses in Dion. He has rich experience in strategic planning and implementation of key processes, systems and delivery excellence across the company , guiding and directing an enterprise through substantial change management utilizing strong and effective leadership. Kean has driven a number of products and operational initiatives within Dion and has good relationships across the client base. Prior to joining Dion, Kean worked at the London Stock Exchange for nearly 10 years being part of their renowned Graduate Placement scheme and went on to run the all participant rollout of the then ground breaking T+10 and T+5 settlement changes in the early 1990s before helping with the transition to CREST in 1996.
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About Dion Global Solutions: Dion Global Solutions is a technology solution provider company.
Yannis Korgialos
Chief Operating Officer of Ticker
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About Ticker: Ticker develops a device that calculates and controls automobile insurance.
George Georgiou
Chief Operating Officer of TiG Data Intelligence
George Georgiou is the COO of TIG. He is passionate about driving customer service operations to deliver a consistent first class service as well as innovation.
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About ThirdSpace, TiG Data Intelligence: TIG is a provider of cloud services, unified communications, and infrastructure solutions.
Alan Manuel
Chief Operating Officer – UK & Europe of Currie & Brown (Australia)
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About Currie & Brown (Australia): Currie & Brown is a project services consultancy firm.
Andrew Lynch
Co-Founder & COO of Huckletree
Co-Founder & COO at Huckletree, a coworking community of creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and VC-backed startups.
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Brandon Mensinga
Chief Operating Officer of Trint
Brandon is a commercially oriented Chief Operations Officer that specialises in scaling VC-backed technology companies. He has successfully ramped three VC-backed startups, two of which successfully exited to Nuance Communications (2009) and Microsoft (2016) both with 200M+ annual device shipments. His latest efforts at Signal Media (2018) helped transform a young, inexperienced Series A organisation into a mature, professionalised Series B operation ramping from £600K to £6M in two years.
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About Trint: Trint reinvents transcription extending automated-speech-to text so that users can trust the output. Recorded content becomes searchable.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Phil Hunter
COO of Nimbla
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About Nimbla, Synaptiv: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Guy Ballantine
Chief Operating Officer of Thomas International
As Chief Operating Officer, Guy is responsible for helping both shape the strategy at Thomas and ensure it’s executed successfully. Guy brings with him extensive experience of helping international businesses grow both organically and through acquisition. He has worked with businesses in multiple sectors, including technology, media, telecoms, business services and education. He enjoys working with businesses going through periods of extensive change, particularly where a technology transformation is required. Guy was previously a Director in corporate finance at DC Advisory, a Partner at advisory business RSM and most recently Managing Director of the Arts Division and Group Head of Corporate Development at the private equity backed Cambridge Education Group. Guy lives in London, enjoying eating out regularly with his restaurant critic wife and trying to keep up with his two young children.
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About Thomas International: Thomas International is a provider of psychometric assessment solutions with a focus on small to medium-sized businesses.
Alistair Lovegrove
COO of NTT DATA UK
Alistair Lovegrove is the Chief Operating Officer of NTT DATA UK.
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About NTT DATA UK: NTT DATA UK is a consulting and IT service provider to manufacturing, banking public sector, telecom, and financial services.
Adrian King
Founder, CTO & COO of Q9 Elements
Adrian King is the Founder and CTO at Q9 Elements.
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About Q9 Elements: Q9 Elements is a document hub that helps in cleaning up, document, and drive adoption of Salesforce.
Andrew Shawcross
COO of Endomag
Dr. Shawcross has 25 years’ experience in industrially based scientific R&D, built initially on his time with ICI, Zeneca, and Avecia, through to more recent experience with Xennia, CDT and now Endomag. Originally trained as a chemist, Andy’s career has taken him into the areas of dyes/pigments, polymers, formulation, semiconductors, nanotechnology, inkjet, displays and medical devices. In the last 15 years, Andy has held a wide range of technical and project management roles, as well as gaining significant experience in sales, business development, quality, regulatory and operational management. Andy holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Northumbria University.
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About Endomag: Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving breast cancer care through its magnetic sensing technologies.
Lizzie Brough
Chief Operating Officer of Heysummit
Lizzie is Kindaba’s Chief Experience Officer and is responsible for customer recruitment, brand and customer experience. Lizzie has a long history of building and maintaining positive partnerships, designing bespoke training programmes, and managing complex projects that require relationship development and community engagement. Over the last year, Lizzie has been fundamental to growing student sports club memberships by 13% across the region. Previously, she has held positions that focused on engagement and community building with Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt University among other institutions.
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About Heysummit, Pavilion: Heysummit specializes in helping to increase engagement, conversions, and revenue for online summits.
Chris Connell
Partner / Chief Operating Officer of Conjure
Chris Connell, is co-founder and CEO of Mixer. He is also a partner at Conjure a smartphone digital agency based in London, that specialise in native application development for high profile brands and clients.
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About Conjure, Mixer: Conjure is a London based digital experience company developing daring, original applications for emerging technology platforms.
Clive Boddington
Chief Operating Officer of Oxygen Finance
Clive joined Oxygen in 2011 with responsibility for developing Oxygen’s delivery methodology and all supporting assets. Clive has led the delivery of all of Oxygen’s client implementations. Prior to Oxygen, Clive worked for 14 years at Accenture where he specialised in large scale multi-country Supply Chain and Finance transformations. Since leaving Accenture in 2004 he has held senior management positions at Cable & Wireless, Royal Mail and was a COO & CTO at a Telco start-up. During his career Clive has won numerous industry awards for delivery and solution excellence.
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About Oxygen Finance: Oxygen Finance brings innovation to early payment solutions, generating a new source of income for companies
Andy Byrne
COO and General Counsel of H4
Andy Byrne is the COO and General Counsel at H4.
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About H4: H4 is a digital platform transforming the documentation that underpins global financial markets and legal contracts.
Uruthra Kumar Sreedharan
COO of DSSC Digital Software Solutions Ltd.
Accomplished and versatile technology executive with 20+ years of experience of delivering outstanding results across the e-commerce, mobile payments, financial services, technology, telecommunications and business process outsourcing industries. A global citizen with a deep cultural empathy and ability to bring together high performing teams across organizational and temporal barriers to create innovative solutions, driving growth and delivering value based on a deep understanding of consumer needs and market opportunities. Strongly focused on leveraging networks and relationships to provide the best service capabilities to clients and partners. A technologist with a keen head for business and new opportunities. Specialties: Business Development, Client Management and Negotiations, Systems Architecture and Development, Senior Management Roles in Technology, Solutions Design, Call/Contact Center, Customer Relationship Management and Business Process Outsourcing, Financial and Banking Solutions in Remittance, Mobile and E-Wallet Platform Solutions
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About DSSC Digital Software Solutions Ltd.: DSSC is a B2B fintech software company specialising in platforms for financial ecosystem aggregation and improvement programmes.
Grethe Vaughan
COO & Chief of Staff of Vizolution
Grethe Vaughan is COO at Vizolution.
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About Vizolution: Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Dave Falconer
COO and GM EMEA of PolSource
Dave brings over 30 years of Industry, IT Consulting and Leadership experience with 15 years in the Oil & Gas industry and 15 years in IT business consulting including several major ERP implementations, support projects and business unit management. Having specialized in large scale Business Transformation through global ERP-enabled programs and Application Outsourcing in both Solution Sales and Delivery during tenures with Deloitte, Accenture and Atos, Dave moved into Practice Management leveraging his experience within Industry as a user and customer of packaged software vendors and with Cognizant’s competitors serving diverse clients in several industry verticals. Dave now leads Cognizant’s European CRM and IPM Practices which focus on delivering innovative solutions in Digital Customer Experience, Applications Modernisation and Digital Integration Enablement. Dave is an engineering graduate and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from the Robert Gordon University. Dave lives in Aberdeen Scotland and is married to Mandy and has two grown up children who are currently studying Medicine and Econometrics at University.
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About PolSource: PolSource innovates & delivers success on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform.
Khai Vualnam
Chief Operating Officer of Satoshi Systems Limited
Khai, our Chief Operating Officer, brings nearly 2 decades of leadership experience in commodity supply chain to Satoshi. After his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Khai has worked in several locations across Africa, Asia and Europe. He is enthusiastic about applying the latest technologies to the commodity supply chain which he believes will bring a transformational change. Whenever possible Khai is delving into the world of cryptocurrency and its unique opportunities.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Steve Regis
COO of ARX Defence
Steve Regis is the Chief Operations Officer & Co-Founder at ARX Defence.
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About ARX Defence: We design, manufacture and deploy effective and sustainable security.
Richard McCann
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Kainos
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Scott Fischaber
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Analytics Engines
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About Analytics Engines, Smart Nano NI: Analytics Engines provides customers with fast and efficient processing of business and application data.
Sylvain Vuillen
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Findoc
Sylvain Vuillen is serves as a Chief Operating Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Emma O’Malley
Chief Operating Officer of Causeway Technologies
Emma O’Malley is the Chief Operating Officer at Causeway Technologies.
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About Causeway Technologies: Causeway Technologies is a provider of software solutions to the construction industry.
Rob Evans
COO of Logicalis
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Francesca Hodgson
Co-founder and COO of GoodBox
Francesca Hodgson is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at GoodBox.
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About GoodBox: GoodBox is a fundraising-focused hardware and software tech start-up, primarily serving charities and the non-profit sectors.
Rinesh Amin
Founder and COO of DrDoctor
Rinesh Amin is the Founder and COO at DrDoctor.
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About DrDoctor: DrDoctor helps hospitals to deliver patient facing digital solutions.
Simon Wheeldon
Co-Founder and COO of CloudApps
Simon is a co-founder of CloudApps and is responsible for Professional Services Delivery and Corporate Strategy. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent 4 years at Salesforce.com leading the adoption of the pioneering Force.com platform across EMEA. Under Simon’s guidance the Force.com platform in Europe grew to be a multi-million dollar business. With over 20 years experience in the software industry, Simon was responsible for the widespread sales and adoption of the Force.com platform; helping numerous Salesforce.com’s customers to build and sell their very own Software-as-a-Service applications. Prior to joining Salesforce.com Simon was responsible for the financial services business at Siebel Systems in the UK. Previously, he has held senior positions at Business Objects and Accenture. Simon has a BSc in Computer Science from Bristol University. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Adrian Shedden
Co-Founder and COO of Lumio Technologies
Adrian Shedden is the Co-founder and COO at Lumio Technologies.
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About Lumio Technologies: Lumio is you Intelligent wealth mentor. With the simple aim to maximize your money around your lifestyle
Rob Reid
Founder & COO of StayPrivate
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About StayPrivate: Founded in 2014, StayPrivate provides secure communication across the open internet.
Damien Carroll
COO of Sohonet
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About Sohonet: Sohonet operates the largest private network for Media & Entertainment in the world, linking over 400 leading studios and creatives.
Jason Muller
Co-founder and COO of Pivigo
Jason has an extensive and successful background in UK business having co-founded a group of healthcare recruitment firms in 2006, grown it to 30+staff and over £28m turnover in four years, studied an MBA at Cranfield University in 2011/12 and co-founded Pivigo in 2013.
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About Pivigo: Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us.
Reggie James
Executive Director | Co-Chief Operating Officer & SVP of Marketing & Communications of Digital Brand Media & Marketing Group, Inc
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About : DBMM Group provides investment opportunity in the growing Digital Marketing & Social Media sector. Operating in NY, London & LA
Jason Cohen
COO of EBS BrokerTec
Jason Cohen was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2012. Prior to this, Jason was the COO for ICAP Electronic Broking in the Americas and before that, Director of Financial Analysis and Planning for BrokerTec (acquired by ICAP in 2003). Prior to joining ICAP, Jason was Vice President of Management Reporting and Analysis at Morgan Stanley and held consulting roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.
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About EBS BrokerTec: EBS BrokerTec is a leading electronic trading platforms and solutions business in foreign exchange and fixed income.
John Cheese
Chief Operating Officer of ChargeBox
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About ChargeBox: ChargeBox They pride Theirselves for providing the easiest to use, most trusted and innovative charging solutions for public spaces.
Remigiusz Rynkowski
COO of Encedo
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About Encedo: Root of trust & secure enclave for cloud apps.
Roxanna Zea
Chief Operating Officer of Origami
Roxanna brings more than 20 years of experience in business operations, partnerships, strategic planning and scaling businesses. She has worked across the Technology and Telecoms industries, both within global corporations and heading up fast-growing new business. Roxanna has held various senior leadership roles at Google, and more recently has held executive roles at Tele2 Group and two-sided marketplace technology company, Rentify. She has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from London Business School, is a Chartered Accountant, and is currently studying for a Masters in Executive Coaching at Ashridge.
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About Origami: Intelligent trading and automation software for short term power trading. SaaS.
Jeremy Lock
COO of Vestemi
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Mark Flynn
COO & VP Professional Services of Kainos WorkSmart
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About Kainos WorkSmart: Kainos WorkSmart is a leading provider of digital services and platforms.
Marcus Dixon
COO of ChAI
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About ChAI: Predicting commodity prices with AI on Alternative Data to mitigate price volatility for manufacturers.
Yuriy Gnatyuk
Co-Founder & COO of KindGeek
Yuriy Gnatyuk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Ian McWilliams
COO & Co-founder of Inzura
Ian McWilliams is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years experience in the Telecoms and IT market covering both the Enterprise market and Mobile Network Operators. A business developer and leader for major business divisions in global vendors such as Motorola, Lucent Technologies & Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Ian brings a wealth of maturity and experience in managing strategic relationships and running large internationally diverse teams across EMEA, AsiaPac and the Americas. Ian also has extensive experience in multiple start-up companies, covering Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Application Development and Customer Support.
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About Inzura: Inzura’s customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines.
James Loft
COO of Rainbird Technologies
A man with his finger on the pulse of an ever-evolving marketplace, James is always looking ahead to the next ‘game-changing’ advancement in artificial intelligence. His mission: to demystify the world of ‘Applied AI’ for organisations and users alike. With a history in innovation and service design – he previously led an artificial intelligence consultancy firm that helped companies develop AI tools to fit their business needs – he possesses an in-depth understanding of the possibilities of the technology and the key part it will play in the future of industry. In his role as Chief Operations Officer, James is responsible for the daily business operations of the company. A knowledge management graduate from Loughborough University, he advocates an MVP-style approach to new technology that is designed to deliver the best results in the smartest way.
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About Rainbird Technologies: Truly intelligent automation for complex decisions and scenarios
Tim Longton
Co-Founder,Chief Operating Officer now shareholder of Adventoris
Tim is a Chartered IT Practitioner with over 25 years of commercial and technical experience in Teleco, ISP, Technology, FMCG, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Service Industries. With various senior and board appointments including OnCue Telecommunications Ltd and Business Serve Plc. Tim is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the BCS.
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About Adventoris: Adventoris specializes in the development of ground-breaking mobile business software.
Sakib Mirza
Chief Operating Officer of Vodworks
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About Vodworks: Vodworks is a specialist in providing web and app development for media companies.
Paul Brothers
COO and Co-Founder of Convosphere
Paul is a seasoned sales and operations specialist with 5 years’ experience in the social media industry having set-up and run the successful EMEA operation for a US based social media listening platform company. Paul has an enviable network of contacts in the industry and has built an impressive sales pipeline which is already delivering a stream of new business and revenues.
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About Convosphere: Convosphere offers an advanced analytics platform and supporting services organized into focused, vertical offerings.
Matthew Shaw
Chief Operating Officer of CMS Payments Intelligence
Matthew Shaw is the chief operating officer at CMSPI. Prior to joining CMSPI in 2012 as a marketing manager, Matthew served as a digital marketing manager at Marketing Cheshire. He holds an MBA degree from Alliance Manchester Business School.
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About CMS Payments Intelligence: CMS Payments Intelligence is an independent consultancy that helps merchants optimize and reduce payments costs.
