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 Content 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.
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.
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Raj Anand
Founder & CEO of Goodman Lantern
Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by BusinessWeek, Digital Future 50 by Revolution Magazine (alongside Twitter and Spotify), Courvoisier/The Observer Future 500 (2008) and Finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur 2008. He graduated from Sussex University with a Bachelors in Engineering (1.1)/Masters in Research, at 23 he setup Anderstand Limited and developed the majority of the software. Raj worked for the European Union, Sussex University research laboratory and Shell STEP internships developing software projects for several start-ups. Raj won many national awards for projects in computer science, leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
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About Goodman Lantern: Goodman Lantern provides content that helps you increase subscriptions and grow faster.
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Matt Barker
Founder & CEO of MPB
Matt’s focus and passion is on verticalized online marketplaces within the secondary goods sector, with particular emphasis on managed marketplaces that take ownership of the product through the customer transaction process Matt founded mpb.com having developed his interest in markeplaces whilst studying Economics at The University of Warwick. Matt has since grown MPB into the largest marketplace in Europe for photographers and videographers to trade equipment. Matt believes that key to a successful product marketplace are strong network effects and an end to end focus on customer experience, delivered by the best AI and CX led technology at every stage of the transaction cycle. MPB is now internationalising, with a full US launch completed in November 2016. Matt continues to lead MPB as CEO and plans to grow MPB into the largest marketplace in the world for photographers and videographers.
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About MPB: MPB is an online platform specializing in used photography and videography kit.
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.
Farid Haque
Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios
Farid Haque is the Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios.He attended to the University of Toronto.
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About AssetVault, DataKiwi, Erly Stage Studios: An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
Jonathan Relph
Founder & CEO of VITL
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About VITL: On a mission to make healthy living more achievable, providing beautifully designed, expertly researched nutritional products and content.
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.
Victor Riparbelli
CEO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Founders, Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Lourdes Agapito
Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Steffen Tjerrild
COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
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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.
Simon Ward
Founder and CEO of Team ITG
Simon Ward ITG and Simon Ward SP Group: Simon Ward is CEO of ITG (Inspired Thinking Group) and former Commercial CEO of SP Group, a part of St Ives Group. Simon founded ITG in 2009 and has played a key role in the company’s growth, running the business and obtaining investment for expansion and acquisitions.v ITG delivers best-in-class marketing software, procurement and studio services to numerous blue-chip clients, including PUMA, M&S, KFC, Audi and Heineken. In 2015, ITG joined the London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. Prior to founding ITG, Simon Ward was commercial CEO of SP Group, based in Redditch. He joined the printers in 1999, as co-founder and head of SP Digital. This soon became the most profitable part of the business, and Simon took over the reins of SP Group in 2000. In 2004, Simon sold SP Group to St Ives, becoming the group’s commercial CEO, remaining with the company until the launch of ITG.
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About Team ITG: Team ITG is a technology-led provider of outsourced multichannel marketing services.
Franz-Josef Schrepf
Co-Founder & CEO of Tick. Done.
Co-founder & CEO of Tick. Done. Experienced entrepreneur, growth hacker, and TEDx speaker on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. Awarded Tech London Advocates 25 under 25 for his contribution to the London Tech Community. After dark, he is a talk show host, public speaker, and stand up comedian.
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About Tick. Done.: Tick. Done. is a micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills.
Jessica Butcher
Co-Founder of Tick. Done.
Jessica Butcher Co-Founder of Blippar, one of Britain’s best-funded technology scale-ups, currently enjoying rapid ascent as the world’s leading mobile visual-browser. Recipient of numerous female entrepreneur and tech awards including BBC’s Top 100 Women and Fortune’s Most Powerful female entrepreneurs, Jess is a passionate start-up mentor, public speaker and writer on subjects as diverse as women in technology, female entrepreneurialism, digital innovation, digital detox and work-life balance.
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About Tick. Done.: Tick. Done. is a micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills.
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.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Ben Drury
Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnership between BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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About Pimoroni, Yoto: Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
Phil Goldsmith
CRO & Founder of Verizon Digital Media Services
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About Openpath, Verizon Digital Media Services: Verizon Digital Media Services offers a next generation platform for all of your online video streaming and content delivery network needs.
Col Needham
Founder and CEO of IMDB
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About IMDB: IMDb, the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
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.
Solomon Rogers
Co-Founder & CEO of REWIND
Founder and CEO of REWIND, the VR content studio behind international award winning work such as the BBC’s Home: A VR Spacewalk, Björk’s NotGet VR, Red Bull Air Race VR and the acclaimed launch title Project Falcon for the FOVE eye-tracking VR headset. Sol is a BAFTA VR Advisory Group Executive, advisor and board member to globally recognised conferences including Autodesk University, FMX.de, Develop:VR, MIPCOM and MIPTV. He is co-founder of the nonprofit VR Together platform, creating VR for Good, and founder and organiser of the UK’s most popular VR meetup, VRLO. Sol was awarded the first “VR Technology & Innovation” award from UK Government Trade & Investment in 2015 and recognised as one of the digital industry’s brightest stars in the BIMA HOT 100 in 2016. Sol was a University Hertfordshire Senior Lecturer for 15 years in Digital Animation, VFX & Emerging Technology, writing four Degrees, two Masters and supervising PHDs. He is a VR evangelist and prominent international keynote speaker, often quoted in press and appearing on TV. www.REWIND.co
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About REWIND: REWIND is an award winning content production agency, working with bleeding edge technology to create unforgettable brand experiences.
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.
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
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Craig Gooding
Co-Founder of Vibrant Media
Craig co-founded Vibrant in 2000, serving as Chief Commercial Officer until 2009, when he moved into the role of Chairman. He leads a team of 300 employees in the US and Europe and oversees the strategy and execution of business and product development, marketing and sales. In his tenure, Vibrant has grown its publishing partner base to more than 6,600 and has forged long-term relationships with top advertisers, including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, General Motors and IBM. Under Craig’s leadership, the company’s rapid growth and development has propelled it to become the world leader in contextual, in-content advertising. Vibrant has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK by Media Momentum for three consecutive years, one of the best places to work in the US by Advertising Age and the Highest Rated Media Brand by Advertiser Perceptions. Prior to Vibrant, Craig was AOL Europe’s E-commerce Manager and leading dealmaker. He has 20 years of publishing, media and Internet experience across AOL, CompuServe, ICQ and Netscape, where he played an integral role in the launch of Netscape Online. He has a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Lincoln.
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About Vibrant Media, Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Glen Dormieux
Founder & CEO of Playrcart
Glen Dormieux is the Founder at Playrcart.
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About Playrcart: Playrcart lets you browse and watch video content.
Holly Stephens
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Subly
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About Subly: Subly makes content simple, by automatically transcribing, translating, and adding subtitles.
Jeff Kofman
CEO & Founder of Trint
Jeff Kofman is the CEO and founder at Trint. Jeff is a 32-year veteran journalist, Jeff Kofman is an Emmy-winning foreign and war correspondent with ABC News, CBS News and CBC News. His experience shapes the vision and later on founded Trint. He knows manual transcription too well: he has transcribed thousands of hours of interviews. He bears a degree in political science and government.
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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.
Paul Archer
Founder and Managing Director of Duel
World Record-breaking Adventurer, Best-selling Author and founder of Duel. Aside from his expeditions and writing, he has spent his career building technology, including the Daredevil Project app development studio, and consulting for advertising agencies and tech companies. He founded Duel to democratise and decentralise marketing for brands. Duel is solving the lack of emotional connection and social proof in often clinical looking online stores by rewarding customers for creating visual testimonials and advocating among their friends, rather than wasting millions on advertising to drive sales. Before this Paul conceived and implemented the It’s on the Meter Expedition to drive to London taxi around the World. The expedition broke two Guinness World Records, raised over £20,000 and passed through 50 countries after driving 80,000 miles from London to London in Hannah, a 1992 London Taxi bought of eBay. Paul is also an experienced speaker, moderator and a conference host. Including TEDx, SXSW, Festival of Media, Cannes Lions, Social Media Week, GenerationE, the Content Marketing Institute and Retail.Tech, as well as guest lecturing at the British School of Fashion.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Panagiotis Tsarouchis
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duel
Panagiotis ‘Naio’ Tsarouchis is an award winning designer and developer with prolific experience in entrepreneurship having founded design and technology education startups including Consider Magazine, Art In Progress and Treesix. Naio is Duel’s Co-Founder, CTO and expert in both complex computer science and user-centric design, having built Duel from a UGC platform into a fully-featured Brand Advocacy suite. As a fellow Co-Founder of Daredevil Project gaming studio, he has a deep, technical understanding of how gaming virology, authentic brands and customer behaviour intersect on a platform level. When not working, you’ll probably find him rescuing art in Bristol, adding to his impressive rum collection and rocking his synth.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Cameron Gordon
CTO and Co-Founder of OnePulse
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About OnePulse: OnePulse is a mobile app that connects people and businesses with opinions and reward them through PayPal.
Timothy Armoo
Co-Founder and CEO of Fanbytes
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About Fanbytes: Creating unforgettable experiences with the stars you love.
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.
Jermaine Hagan
Founder & Product Visionary of Revision App
Jermaine Hagan is the Founder and Product Visionary at Revision App.
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About Revision App: Revision App offers revision content for GCSE, 11 PLUS, and KS2 students.
Mark Popkiewicz
Founder of Mirriad
Previously a director at BBC Ventures, Mobile Media and Eicon, Mark has led several technology businesses, held senior executive positions at Lucent Technologies and spent more than half his career working with US based businesses setting up global operations including BRIC and MINT countries.
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About Mirriad: Mirriad’s patented, AI and computer vision technology dynamically inserts products and innovative signage formats after content is produced.
Neil S W Murray
Founder of The Nordic Web
Neil S W Murray founded The Nordic Web in 2014 in order to provide the Nordics with the quality coverage it deserves. As well as being Founding Editor of The Nordic Web, Neil is also an active community builder in the region, participating in a number of initiatives, and has previously worked for Tech.eu.
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About ConfiDental, The Nordic Web, The Nordic Web Ventures: The Nordic Web is an online source for content and data on nordic technology and startups.
Armaan Mehta
Co-Founder of Odore
Armaan Mehta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Karan Gupta
Co-Founder of Odore
Karan Gupta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Jenny Tsai
Founder & CEO of Wearisma
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About Wearisma: Wearisma is a premium influencer marketing solution for brands, agencies & influencers.
Charles Sekwalor
Founder of Movemeback
Charles Sekwalor is Founder at MoveMeBack. Entrepreneur, mentor, advisor and investor focused on building startups that drive change and positively influence people’s lives.
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About COS Vetures, Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Oyin Solebo
Founder of Movemeback
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About Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
William Rowe
Founder & CEO of Protein
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About Protein: Protein is a global marketing company with a focus on long term strategies.
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.
Vivian Chan
CEO and Co-Founder of Sparrho
Vivian completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, after spending a year working in a venture fund in Australia. Vivian has twice been invited to address EU ministers, alongside other speakers including Bill Gates, about the importance of Open Data for innovation, and was selected by Management Today as one of the 35 Women Under 35 in 2015. Vivian is a former President & Chairman of Cambridge University Technology Enterprise Club (CUTEC), and was part of the inaugural Entrepreneur First cohort in 2012.
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About Sparrho: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Niluka Satharasinghe
Co-Founder & CTO of Sparrho
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About Sparrho: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Melissa Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of Bookalook
Co Founder and CEO of Bookalook.
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About Bookalook, Vibia: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Lu Li
Founder, CEO of Blooming Founders
Lu Li is the founder of Blooming Founders, a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams. Blooming Founders runs popular events and an award-winning co-working space in Shoreditch that give our members a competitive edge in building and growing their businesses. We offer fundraising support for selected startups. We also offer event and marketing services to corporates and government entities who want to leverage our diverse network. Lu has also published the book Dear Female Founder which contains 66 personal letters of advice written by female entrepreneurs from 20 countries. It is globally available on Amazon and Kindle. In her previous corporate career, Lu has launched FMCG products for Procter & Gamble across Western Europe and has worked on several consulting projects for McKinsey, BMW and T-Mobile.
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About Blooming Founders: Blooming Founders is a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams.
James Eddleston
CEO and Founder of GigList
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About : GigList is a music discovery site that brings fans closer to their next favourite artists and a world of live music.
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.
Rupesh Lakhani
Founder & MD of Ask Rupert Digital Media
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About Ask Rupert Digital Media: Ask Rupert Digital Media is a digital product innovation and consultancy firm that builds a digital business.
Tamara Sword
Founder & MD of ThoughtLDR
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About infltr – for infinite filters, ThoughtLDR: ThoughtLDR helps clients transform their ideas into real influence through insightful content, authentic PR, and inbound marketing.
Myke Hurley
Co-Founder of Relay FM
Myke Hurley is a co-founder of Relay FM and that British guy you might have heard on podcasts. He has been talking into a microphone since 2010 and lives just outside of London, England with his sticker-covered MacBook Pro. Myke quit his full-time Marketing job in October 2014 to focus on Relay FM full time, and has since gone on to enjoy the pleasures of Aeropress coffee.
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About Relay FM: Relay FM is an independent podcast network that shares content created by its hosts and internet users on a weekly basis.
Danny Ashton
Founder & CEO of NeoMam Studios
Danny Ashton has a strong digital marketing background and has been an active part of the SEO industry since 2006. He founded NeoMam Studios in September 2011 and has been the CEO of the agency since then, leading a team of talented and passionate people – including designers, copywriters and digital PR specialists.
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About NeoMam Studios: NeoMam Studios is a visual content marketing agency based in Manchester, UK.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Reza Nejabati
Co Founder, Director of Zeetta Networks
Reza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. Prior to moving into academia he worked in project management and network architecture roles with leading telecom vendors. Reza has over fifteen years of experience in the field of telecommunication and computer science and has been actively involved in SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) standardisation. He has made important and pioneering contributions to the research fields of Optical Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network & Data Centre Infrastructure Virtualization, Grid Networking and Large Scale Future Internet Experimentation. He has co-/authored over 150 peer reviewed papers and three SDN standardisation documents.
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About University of Bristol, Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Edward Woodcock
Founder of Storyline Partners
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About Storyline Partners: Storyline Partners uses narrative logic and puts the story in their brand’s success story.
Ryan Hall
Founder – Chief Growth Officer of The Zeitgeist
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About The Zeitgeist: The Zeitgeist helps brands, start-ups, and creative businesses understand their growth agenda and succeed at scaling up.
Outi Pietilanaho
Co-Founder & CEO of Vimma
Entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO @vimma #passioneconomy #futureofwork
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About Vimma: The OS for the Creator Economy
Tom Marchant
Owner and Co-Founder of Black Tomato
Tom Marchant is an entrepreneurial traveler and co-founder of The Black Tomato Group, parent company of the award-winning bespoke luxury travel operator Black Tomato, strategic creative agency Studio Black Tomato and incentive travel group Black Tomato Agency. Black Tomato, a Virtuoso member, has been recognized as the leading innovative authority in global luxury travel by revered industry voices including Bloomberg, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Vogue. Tom Marchant and Black Tomato were awarded Conde Nast Traveler’s 2019 World’s Best Travel Specialists and Tom lauded as ‘one of the 50 people in the world changing the way we travel’. Marchant is a member Travel + Leisure’s A List contributor to Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar and Inc.
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About Black Tomato: Black Tomato is a bespoke luxury travel company that delivers imaginative and travel experiences around the world.
Sivan Baram
CEO & Co-Founder at radd.
Sivan Baram is the Co-Founder & CEO at radd.
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About radd.: radd. is an Intelligence eCommerce platform for boosting UGC via measurable and LIVE story reviews.
Matt Smith
Co-Founder and Director of Black Tomato
Matt Smith set up Black Tomato Ltd with Tom Marchant and James Merrett in 2005 and to date have had a broad strategic and operational remit across all areas of Black Tomato. Central to Matt’s role is the responsibility for both driving forward the day to day business operations and Business Development / Sales processes that have underpinned the Group’s commercial success and significant growth. I also oversees a number of critical areas of the business including, Office Infrastructure, Company /Staff Culture, IT, Security, Data Protection/GDPR, HR, H&S / F&S, Insurance, Legal Contracting , Procurement, Staff / Business expenses, Staff Reward / Engagement, Staff Training and Staff Meetings and Events. Alongside this, he leads critical strategic projects including those that increase profitability and productivity across the business in line with the constant reinforcement of BT’s ‘purpose’ and company culture both internally and externally.
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About Black Tomato: Black Tomato is a bespoke luxury travel company that delivers imaginative and travel experiences around the world.
Chris Liversidge
Director, CEO & Founder of QueryClick
Chris Liversidge is a Founder, CEO, and Director of QueryClick. With over 12 years of web development experience, Chris delivered his first web build projects on floppy disk. A big supporter of web standards and accessibility, search marketing was a natural fit, complementary to his skill set. Chris founded QueryClick in 2008 with a focus on harnessing data, to deliver actionable insights for clients that drive strong performance in-line with business objectives. With a focus on using R&D to deliver insights, backed up by tailored multichannel strategies tied to business metrics. QueryClick challenge assumptions and focus on transforming clients digital marketing to better find & connect with customers.
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About QueryClick: Independent digital marketing agency QueryClick uses unique technology to maximise ROI across brands’ multi-channel marketing campaigns
Marcin Grodzicki
Founder of BOOM
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About BOOM, iTech Media, Mind the Product: Content Promotion and Content Marketing Software
Deon Botha
Founder of Loci App
Founder at Loci App
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About Kite, Loci App: Social Discovery and Location Chat
Daniel Nordh
Founder of Curator & Co
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About Curator & Co, Paymobil: A fast and visual tool for creative thinking.
Bob Jones
Founder and CEO of OriginalityB2B
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About OriginalityB2B: OriginalityB2B is a marketing agency that focuses on the global electronic engineering community and technical sectors.
Matt Wilson
Co-Founder of Ball Street
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About Ball Street: Ball Street is a group of sports fans that wanted to club together to create an independent, alternative to the mainstream sports media.
Greg Barden
Founder and CEO of Pixie
Greg Barden is the Founder and CEO at Pixie.
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About Pixie: Pixie is a community marketplace for people to discover, pay and earn loyalty across independent businesses
Paul Gardiner
CEO & Founder of Eoovi
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About Eoovi: Eoovi is a Global Video Platform that allows small to large video providers access to our unique compression software.
David Creuzot
Founder and CEO of Konbini
David Creuzot is a Founder at Konbini.
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About Konbini: Konbini is a media company and an advertising agency focused on delivering creative content over the internet.
Lucie Beudet
Co-Founder of Konbini
Lucie Beudet is a Founder at Konbini.
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About Konbini: Konbini is a media company and an advertising agency focused on delivering creative content over the internet.
Sophie Rochester
CEO and Founder of Yodomo | Making Made Easy
Founder of Yodomo, the creative experience platform. Improving wellbeing and supporting sustainability through making. Sophie is a digital content specialist with over 20 years experience across the digital and publishing sectors. She has worked at Random House. 4th Estate and Good Technology, and consulted for Pan Macmillan, Hachette, Penguin Random House, Nesta, British Council and Royal Society of Literature. Listed as one of the Top 10 Creative Entrepreneurs in the UK by the British Council and in the UK’s Top 100 ‘most influential and innovative’ in the Guardian Professional’s hClub 100 list, Sophie has global contacts across publishing and technology and has also consulted on a large number of digital publishing start-ups through her award-winning company The Literary Platform. In 2015, The Literary Platform was listed as #10 on the Fortuna 50 list of the UK’s fastest-growing women-led small businesses. Sophie has successfully raised funding through Arts Council England, National Lottery, Bath Spa University, Queensland University of Technology and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation for a number of digital content initiatives. She has spoken about the future of digital content at UNESCO Paris, Editech Milan, MIX Conference (Opening Keynote), Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, O’Reilly’s Tools of Change New York, London Book Fair, Bologna Book Fair and UKTI / British Council ‘Crossing the River’ digital conferences across Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. A keen maker herself, she lives in the heart of London’s designer maker community and understands the community that is Yodomo’s marketplace. Her professional network gives her access to the right tutors, businesses, brands – and staff – to bring to the Yodomo platform.
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About Meaningful Business, Yodomo | Making Made Easy: The Marketplace for Making. Discover online courses, live workshops and kits from our artists and makers.
Garth Shephard
Founder & Partner of 72 Capital Limited
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About 72 Capital Limited: Boutique M&A, fundraising and strategic adviser to the small and mid-cap technology, digital media and sport sectors.
Stuart Logan
Founder & CEO of Twine
As the Big Boss, Stuart spends his days in a large leather armchair, staring out over the Manchester skyline while smoking a cigar and plotting world domination. (He doesn’t really). Originally from Salisbury, he studied computer science at Manchester University but was always keen to break into the exciting world of start-ups, and was involved in a number of ventures before finalising his plans for Clowdy. When not wearing his chief executive hat (metaphorically speaking) he enjoys harbouring unrealistic expectations for Manchester United’s future success and live music.
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About Twine: Twine connects companies to diverse creative and digital freelancers
Phil Spilsbury
Founder and CMO of zubbit.io
Phil Spilsbury has been in the Tech and Software Industry for over 30 years. He’s worked for a number of software companies building world class software systems used across the world in leading Retail and Logistics companies. Since 2011 he’s been running his own businesses, at first offering high end software consultancy for international and UK goverment clients but now taking his 30 years experience and expertise in the online and tech space to build world-class products for the internet age. Currently focusing down on his latest SaaS project zubbit.io with his co-founder Ron Perkins. Helping people and companies marketing and advertising online to use any online content to drive focused, targeted traffic to their business and services, and helping them build targeted advertising audiences 24-7 on auto-pilot using zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Jenk Oz
Founder of Thred Media
Jenk Oz runs Thred Media, a publisher of content for young people. He is once dubbed Britain’s Youngest CEO.
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About Thred Media: Thred Media is a publisher of content for young people.
Maya Bogle
Founder and Head of Agency Partnerships of Talenthouse
Maya Bogle is one of the Founders of Talenthouse, a platform dedicated to developing creative talent around the World with the technology to become the largest source of creative solutions for brands. Talenthouse meets the rapidly growing demand amongst brand owners to deliver these solutions at speed, at scale, with cultural relevance and at competitive cost. Maya is championing this cause and has over 25 years experience in media. She speaks regularly at conferences including Cannes Lions, Social Media Week New York, AdWeek Europe, Crowdsourcing Week Singapore, the London F.ounders Conference, Tech City Insider, the Media Summit Manchester, Ibiza Music Video Festival, Silicon Beach EU, NOAH and numerous educational establishments.
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About Talenthouse: 14.6 million strong global creative community power leading brands globally
Mads Holmen
Founder of Bibblio
Digital entrepreneur based in London, UK
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Rich Simmonds
Co Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Bibblio
Rich has 20 years experience in interface and graphic design. He holds a BSc in interactive media and has worked internationally as the principal UX designer and creative lead for businesses across communications and media. Most recently he was the senior strategic designer for AOL’s video products across Europe and Asia, where he met co-founder Mads. Rich is responsible for the Bibblio brand, its design principles and the UX across our platforms and modules.
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Nick Hayward
Co-Founder of The Companion
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About The Companion, The Narrative Digital Studios: The Companion operates an online platform for news and updates about films and television shows.
Vishnu Hariharan
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueBook Academy
CEO & Co-Founder of BlueBook Academy.
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About Atelier Technology, BlueBook Academy: BlueBook Academy is a smarter online training platform linking education tracks to jobs.
Alan Rutter
Founder of Fire Plus Algebra
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About Fire Plus Algebra, General Assembly, Jolt: Fire Plus Algebra helps organizations with data visualization, content strategy, consultancy, training and event services.
Fivos Pantazis
Founder of Aphetor
Fivos Pantazis is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Carsten Thode
Founder of Aphetor
Carsten Thode is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Alex Vaidya
Co-Founder & CEO of StoryStream
Alex is the CEO and co-founder of StoryStream, a leading live content marketing platform that helps brands such as Porsche and Unilever to source and publish user-generated content, and other forms of live content, to create a more engaging customer experience. Alex is a specialist in content marketing and how the role of technology is changing the nature of the brand communications and the connected story.
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About StoryStream: StoryStream is the world’s most advanced content marketing platform built for automotive brands.
Mike Carter
Founder and Managing Director of Ixis IT
A Drupal expert, solutions architect and big fan of open source software and contribution.
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About Ixis IT: Ixis IT is a company providing Drupal services including development, hosting and support.
Charlie Buckle
Founder / CEO of Amondo
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About Amondo: We create content destinations that drive audience engagement
Phil Barry
Founder and CEO of Blokur
Phil Barry joined Blokur as Founder in 2016.
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About Blokur: Blokur is a tech company that empowers Internet of Creators using blockchain technology.
Ben Barton
Founder of Zondle
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About Zondle: Zondle is a game-based learning website that enables teachers and students to create games that support their learning needs.
Tim Dickinson
Founder of Descrier
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About Descrier: Independent news and culture magazine
Sven Herold
CEO & Founder of LiveTube
Sven is a Media Executive with more than 15 years’ experience in Television, Communications and Reputation Management. He is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked as a Senior Investigative Correspondent, Feature Writer and News & Entertainment Correspondent at major broadcasters across Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was a global VP and member of the Communication & Marketing leadership team at Shell International. He built and led both Shell’s and SAP’s global Television divisions. In 2015, Sven founded LiveTube, a global media-house specialising in original live content-creation and distribution via mobile devices.
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About LiveTube: The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
Aldo de Pape
Founder of TeachPitch
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About TeachPitch: TeachPitch provides tools and resources to allow educators to share different aspects of teaching and learning.
Tim Wilson
CTO & Co-Founder of centiment.io
I’m the Chief Technical Officer at Centiment.io which provides predictive analytics in relation to digital content using machine learning and AI. In 2005 I sold a freeware games website/company aged 15, now over 10 years on I’ve developed a heavyweight skill set across internet-based services. Having worked in senior/lead roles in both client and server side development and user-behavioral analytics for large corporations from Amazon to Virgin, my understanding and passion for web platforms only continues to grow with the industry.
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About centiment.io: Centiment Adtech uses artificial intelligence to find out how your audience FEEL and the BEST time to serve an ad.
Andrew Canter
Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief of MrWatchMaster
Andrew is among the leading practitioners in branded content and has over twenty five years experience working in marketing communications. He is Global CEO of the BCMA (Branded Content Marketing Association) which is the pre-eminent global body for branded content practitioners, run by practitioners, promoting best practice, sharing knowledge and growing the branded content industry. He has been instrumental in developing the global content monitoring evaluation system which has been widely used by the industry. He is also responsible for spearheading the development and launching BCMA chapters across the world. He is mad about Watford FC and all things horological. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is also Co-Founder of MrWatchMaster, a new platform to ‘talk about watches’.
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About BCMA, MrWatchMaster: MrWatchMaster covers news, opinion, reviews, and entertainment about the watch sector.
