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 CEO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Andrea Pignataro
CEO of ION Investment Group
Andrea Pignataro spent his early career as a bond trader before he founded ION Trading, a global provider of multi-asset class trading software, in 1999. He sold 30 percent of the company to TA Associates in 2004. In 2016, it is thought that he still retains a vast majority of the shares of the company, with the amount owned by TA Associates dropping to about 10 percent of the company.
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About ION Investment Group, Ion Trading: A Dublin, Ireland-based provider of l software to financial institutions and corporations
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Sara Murray
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Buddi
Sara Murray (M.A. Oxon) is a serial entrepreneur. She founded Ninah Consulting, which uses proprietary software to advise clients, including GSK and Coca-Cola, on marketing effectiveness, and sold it to Publicis Groupe. In 1999, Sara founded Inspop, which owns the brand Confused.com. She built and sold the online company to the Admiral Group. She was a non-executive Director of Schering Health Care and a founding board member of Seedcamp. Sara won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2009 and sits on the Technology Strategy Board Governing Board. Sara was awarded an OBE for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2012 and is a qualified helicopter pilot.
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About Buddi, Confused.com: Buddi is an innovative, high-growth and british technology company that develops location and health monitoring technologies.
Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jamie Grant
CEO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
John Finney
Founder and CEO of Isotropic Systems
John Finney is a satellite and telecoms industry veteran with over $2 billion in new revenue creation directly attributed to his leadership, he pioneered significant success for start-ups Huawei (founded Huawei in Europe) and O3b (founding employee and Chief Commercial Officer) along with other major leadership roles such as global business unit leader for Alcatel-Lucent. John has been identified as a Top 40 Executive by Global Telecoms Business three years in succession.
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About Isotropic Systems: Isotropic Systems, the leading multi-link satellite ground terminal provider, have created the world’s only antenna able to simultaneously connect with satellites in all orbits after demonstrating its multi-link terminal can connect to satellites in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, simultaneously.
David Hayes
Chief Executive Officer of WaveOptics
David Hayes is the CEO at WaveOptics, a company that designs and manufactures waveguides for AR wearables.
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About WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
Joe Atkins
CEO of Bowers & Wilkins
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About Bowers & Wilkins: Bowers & Wilkins makes advanced home and hi-fi speakers, including Abbey Road’s reference system.
Mark Oleynik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Moley Robotics
An accomplished Ph.D. mathematician, computer scientist and proven trailblazer. Results focused, his career to date is characterized by delivering demanding major projects to time and to budget. Prior to founding Moley Robotics, Mark was a co-founder and a major shareholder of a number of companies working in a healthcare sector in Russia and internationally. Earlier in his career, Mark exercised his passion for building successful products at Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University and smaller companies. Mark Oleynik is a driven leader and passionate robotics and healthcare expert.
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About Moley Robotics: Moley Robotics develops robotic kitchen with oven, hob, sink, and two dexterous robotic arms that allow it to cook.
Chris Blackford
CEO & Co-founder of Sky-Futures
As COO, Chris drives the strategic development of Sky-Futures’ operational and technology frameworks and the development of new partnerships with leading companies across a range of markets. Chris combines extensive drone experience with a strong understanding of the technical and operational complexities and, indeed, the capacity of drones to provide cutting-edge solutions across industries.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
Anthony Catterson
President and CEO of Decluttr
Anthony Catterson is a CEO at Expansys.
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About Decluttr, Expansys, Sprint: Decluttr buys and sells consumer technology, CDs, DVDs, books and games.
Sharon White
CEO of Ofcom
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About Ofcom: Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator.
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Founder and CEO of Archdesk
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About Archdesk, One Billion: Archdesk is a cloud-based software, specifically designed & developed for the construction industry in mind.
Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer of Faculty Science
Dr Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of ASI. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field. In the two years since founding ASI, Marc has overseen its growth to more than 50 employees, and expanded its offer from a small fellowship scheme to a cutting edge range of software, training, project and advisory services. He has also led over 50 data science projects, with clients ranging from multinational companies like EasyJet and Siemens to the UK Government and NHS. His work has been covered by the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Independent and many more. Previously, Marc was the Marie Curie Fellow of Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His research has been published in many high impact journals and cited hundreds of times. His PhD in Quantum Computing was awarded the Stoneham prize, published in Nature, and covered in the New York Times.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Jeremy Ben-David
Group CEO of Waterlogic
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About Angel Springs, Waterlogic: Waterlogic is a water utility company that manufactures, supplies, and distributes of water dispensers.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Steve Cliffe
CEO & President of Ultraleap
Steve has 30 years of experience in the technology industry encompassing significant exposure to global markets, senior management positions and commercial roles. He joined Ultrahaptics from Plessey Semiconductor, where he was Business Development Director. Prior to that role, he was CEO at Provision and Xintronix. He also brings extensive commercial experience to the role from previous appointments. He was VP of Sales and Marketing at eoSemi and Sales Director at Dialog Semiconductor.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Steve Oliver
Co-founder & CEO of musicMagpie
Group CEO and co-Founder of Entertainment Magpie Limited, the recommerce company
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About musicMagpie: musicMagpie buys and sells consumer technology, CDs, DVDs, books, video games & Lego
Abesh Thakur
Co-Founder and CEO of Two Big Ears Ltd
Abesh spent two years in a Fortune 500 company as a Mainframe developer, before deciding to quit and pursue a Masters degree in Acoustics and Music Technology from the prestigious University of Edinburgh. Post completion of his degree, he co-founded Two Big Ears, with the goal of creating easy to use and effective audio toolkits, which would help developers create more immersive experience without having to worry about the Maths behind all the audio magic. He takes a deep interest in all things tech and progressive deathcore bands, and utilises his spare time in teaching Maths to Primary and Secondary school kids.
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About Two Big Ears Ltd: Two Big Ears is a Scottish company specialising in creating efficient audio toolkits for game and virtual reality developers.
Dan Wood
Chief Executive Officer of Keit
Dan is responsible for leading Keit and builds on over 10 years’ senior management experience in optics and photonics-based technology companies. Previously, Dan was Head of Business Development in Dublin-based nanotech start-up Ntera and has an MSc (Oxon) in Engineering and Economics from the University of Oxford.
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About Keit, Keit: Keit’s microFTS® design is a Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer that is smaller, lighter and more rugged than any current system.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Dan Martin
Chief Executive Officer of Elmtronics
A forward thinking, motivated and award winning entrepreneur with creative vision. An effective and engaging leader that believes in developing not only a company but the important individuals that make it. I have extensive experience in managing teams to produce results and help them to realise their potentials. I am seasoned at making and developing customer relationships, I strive to deliver the best possible customer relationships. I excel within business development in both seeking and developing opportunities and in structuring a business to achieve growth. With a human and energetic approach to life and business I believe great things can be achieved through good communication, honestly and a passion for the Electric Vehicle industry which has resulted in a strong reputation within the field. As Elmtronics CEO I am responsible for overseeing the reaching out to our new customers and maintaining client satisfaction and driving the company’s strategic direction. I am passionate about building and developing our specialist EV charging business in this fast moving exciting industry. We work with key industry partners to ensure we are supplying and installing the most up-to-date EV charging equipment and are helping to push the boundaries of vehicle battery technology in the UK. Out of work I have 3 wonderful daughters that keep me busy!
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About Elmtronics: Elmtronics are the UK’s largest independent supplier and installer of electric car charging points.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Jalal Bagherli
CEO of Dialog Semiconductor
Jalal joined Dialog as CEO and an Executive Board Director in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to that Jalal was the CEO of Alphamosaic, a venture-funded silicon start-up company in Cambridge, focusing on video processing chips for mobile applications. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Sony Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, managing semiconductor product businesses and working with customers in the Far East, Europe and North America. Jalal is a non-executive Director of Lime Microsystems Ltd since 2005 and was the Chairman of Global Semiconductor Association Europe from 2011 to 2013. He has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from Essex University, and holds a PhD in Electronics from Kent University, UK.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Simon Thomas
Chief Executive Officer of Paragraf
Simon’s diverse background in physics, engineering and materials science combined with many years’ experience in the fields of semiconductors, functional materials, solid state devices and capital equipment manufacture, have equipped him with the knowledge to truly understand two-dimensional materials production. With expertise in materials deposition techniques he has developed numerous new materials and structure generation processes whilst progressing the general community understanding of the science of materials growth. As a global high-tech materials and engineering consultant, Simon has multidisciplinary skill sets in the development of equipment, deposition processes and surface science across a range of fields. The resulting technology advancements have achieved new performance levels in existing semiconductor device structures and have facilitated the capability to produce new and novel materials and devices.
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About Paragraf: Paragraf develop and deliver game-changing, commercial-quality, graphene-based electronic devices using contamination-free technology.
Linda Bell
CEO of MIRICO
Linda holds a DPhil in Chemistry from Oxford University and an MBA, she has had extensive experience of leading and growing science-based international businesses in a range of industrial and process industries. She served as managing director of Servomex Group Ltd, part of Spectris, where she was involved in the supply of gas analysis instruments to blue-chip companies in petrochemical, chemical, laboratory, environmental and healthcare fields.
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About Downing LLP, Fera Science Ltd, MIRICO: Transformational gas measurement
Sergey Ogorodnov
Founder and CEO of Voltaware
A co-founder of Voltaware and responsible for business development. Sergey has 20+ years working experience with focus on telecoms and was CEO of the largest provider of fibre optics and mobile connectivity solutions to major Russian operators, but has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. His hobbies include tennis, running, and chess.
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About Voltaware: Voltaware is a start-up electricity monitoring company based in London.
Simon Showman
CEO of Ultimate Products
Simon Showman is the CEO of Ultimate Products.
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About Ultimate Products: Ultimate Products is a brand and product development house in the UK that specializes in house-ware and electrical goods.
David Craig
CEO of Iceotope
David Craig is the CEO at Iceotope.
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About Iceotope: Engineered to cool the whole IT stack, in every use case, from Hyperscale to the Extreme Edge
Simon Beresford-Wylie
Chief Executive Officer of Imagination Technologies
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Miles Freeman
Chief Executive Officer of Aurelius Environmental
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About Aurelius Environmental: Aurelius Environmental is a battery recycling company.
Allan Gray
CEO & Co Founder of Cosmient
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About Cosmient: E-COMMERCE FROM THE FUTURE!
Timothy Burne
Chief Executive Officer of Plastic Logic Germany
Highly skilled and respected results oriented CEO, with large and small company experience. Energetic and pragmatic people manager. Skilled at restructuring organisations to meet market demands and stakeholder expectations. Proven ability in building and managing both domestic and international sales, engineering and operations teams. Skilled in high-level sales and business development and in driving P&L all with an absolute commitment to the bottom line. An experienced project manager with a demonstrated focus and ability to deliver major products to market on schedule and on budget. Good relationship builder and communicator at all levels. An engineer by training, inquisitive, practical problem solving ability coupled with strategic thinking and commitment. International outlook, appreciating regional product market differences and multinational corporate culture. Specialties: Technology, Restructuring, Offshore Supply, Overseas Sales, Channel Sales, Fundraising, Sales and Purchases (Company), VC, Boot Strapping, Cash Control, NPI, Project Managment
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About Plastic Logic Germany: Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible electrophoretic displays (EPD).
James Roberts
CEO/Founder of mOm Incubators
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About mOm Incubators, Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): mOm is an inexpensive, electronically controlled, inflatable incubator constructed to decrease the number of premature child deaths.
Leon Doyle
CEO & Co-Founder of WIFIPLUG
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About myma.io, WIFIPLUG: myma.io – the IoT cloud that powers WIFIPLUG
Oluyemi Jegede
CEO and Co-Founder of Big Pot
Oluyemi is a whole energy systems specialist. His interests cut across the multiple energy vectors and the interactions between energy supply, demand and the wider economy. More importantly, he is an ardent believer in the promise of a thriving Nigeria and his passion has seen him birth the Bigpot initiative.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Oliver Montague
CEO of Swytch
Oliver is the company founder and inventor of the patent pending SWYTCH system. He studied engineering at Oxford University and since graduating worked for 4 years in sustainability and engineering R&D before going full time working for himself in the eBike industry. Whilst studying at Oxford Oliver developed the first ever electromagnetic metamaterial motor (for which he was awarded the prize for the top Masters Thesis in the year). Sadly, the motor had no commercial application, but it was cool nonetheless! More importantly , this marked the start of a life-long pursuit to develop electric motor systems that were innovative but also commercially viable.
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Iain Silvester
Co-CEO / CFO of Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
Iain has over 20 years’ experience in private and public growth stage technology companies. Most recently, he was CFO of picoChip Inc. and Finance Director of Motion Media PLC, where he managed its IPO on the LSE in 2000. Iain holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and is a qualified Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young where he specialised in corporate finance.
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About Plessey Semiconductors Ltd: Plessey is a British high-tech company operating in the field compound semiconductors.
Keith Strickland
Co-CEO / CTO of Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
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About Plessey Semiconductors Ltd: Plessey is a British high-tech company operating in the field compound semiconductors.
Scott White
CEO of PragmatIC Semiconductor
Scott is an experienced serial entrepreneur, now leading his sixth technology venture as CEO of PragmatIC. He is also a board director at mobile visual search company Cortexica Vision Systems. Past successes include Azea Networks, which he grew from concept to eight figure sales levels before the business was acquired. He has lived and worked across the globe including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US and the UK.
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About PragmatIC Semiconductor: PragmatIC is a ultra-low-cost flexible electronics enabling novel solutions not practical with conventional electronics
Philip McAleese
Co Founder & CEO of See.Sense
Philip is a commuter cyclist with over 20 years experience in electronic and software engineering. After designing air traffic control simulators for National Air Traffic Services, he went on to design, build and maintain trading systems for several multinational investment banks. After inventing See.Sense to help make his cycle commuting journey safer, Philip left his corporate career to focus exclusively on See.Sense.
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About See.Sense: See.Sense creates award-winning products to improve rider safety, and technology that generates data needed by cities to improve mobility.
Josh Hutchinson
CEO & Co-Founder of ARX Defence
Joshua Hutchinson is the CEO at ARX Defence.
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About ARX Defence: We design, manufacture and deploy effective and sustainable security.
Richard Parsons
CEO, Instinet Europe Limited of Instinet
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About Instinet: Instinet, along with its subsidiaries, provides online security brokerage and electronic trading services.
Dominic Vergine
CEO and Co-Founder of Monumo
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About Monumo: Monumo is an electronic and mechanical engineering company that develops optimal electric motors.
Jordan McRae
Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs
Jordan McRae is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs where they’re developing a wearable hands free / ear free voice platform using cutting edge innovations in bone conduction technology, voice recognition, and digital signal processing.
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About Mobilus Labs: Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications.
Carl Bennett
Founder & CEO of Trade Skills 4U
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About Trade Skills 4U: Trade Skills 4U offer electrical courses including Part P and City & Guilds 17th Edition.
Andrew Nowell
Founder & CEO of PitPat
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About PitPat: PitPat is dedicated to improving animal health and wellbeing through the application of wearables, technology & data.
Paul Atherton
CEO & Co-Founder of Wayv Technologies Ltd
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About Wayv Technologies Ltd: WAYV products provide up to 30 minutes of instant and constant heat, whenever and wherever you may need it.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Santiago Seage
Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield
Santiago Seage was named Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield when the Company was created in December 2013. Between May and November 2015, he resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Atlantica Yield to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Abengoa S.A. and during this period he remained involved in Atlantica Yield as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2006 he was named Abengoa Solar’s CEO. Before joining Abengoa, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. Santiago Seage holds a degree in Business Management from ICADE University in Madrid.
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About Atlantica Yield: Atlantica is a total return sustainable infrastructure company.
Conall Laverty
Founder & CEO of Wia
CTO and Co-Founder at Roll TV
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About Wia: Wia unifies the IoT to help businesses better understand occupancy, air quality and energy to create smarter, safer and greener environments
Kirill Shilov
Founder & CEO of Sky-Drones
Kirill Shilov – Founder / CEO Sky-Drones, holds his MSc degree with honours in Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Flight Dynamics and Control and BSc degree with honours in Applied Math and Physics. Kirill has extensive scientific, engineering and business experience. Before starting Sky-Drones full time Kirill was engineer at Autonomous Control Systems Lab in Tokyo, Japan and Perspective Robotics GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland.
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About Sky-Drones: We accelerate the development and adoption of commercial drones for enterprise by building connected hardware and software products.
Jon Vollemaere
CEO of R5FX
Jon Vollemaere is a Co-Founder of LetsTalkFX and FXecosystem. Jon Vollemaere serves as Chief Executive Officer at R5FX Ltd. Jon Vollemaere served as Head of Marketing at FXecosystem Inc. Jon Vollemaere was a Partner of OHM, Inc. since 2007. Jon Vollemaere has over 15 years experience in International Finance and Technology, he is a diverse and deep base of expertise in Business Development. From 1992, he worked for Product , Business Development, Sales- Reuters Ltd – New Zealand, New York, London. Since 2001, he worked for Business Development – Currenex Ltd – Europe. From 2004, he worked in NZ Financial Markets Manager – Westpac Institutional Bank – Australasia. Jon Vollemaere served as Head of Sales of FXCMpro – Europe since 2005. He is successful in expanding New Business Ideas into greenfield regions across the World. He has sold and managed a wide variety of technology solutions ranging from highly complex Enterprise Software to GUI design. He is a Specialist in Business Development, New Ventures, Channel Sales, Negotiation, and Relationship Management of small and large revenue clients, he uses Creative Solutions, and an Innovative Approach to finding revenue streams and customer satisfaction for his clients. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Fair Trading Technology. He is FintechFX entrepreneur. Jon Vollemaere holds a Bachelor of Commerce ( Finance & Commercial Law) from Auckland University, New Zealand is AFMA accredited, holds certificates in both Foreign Exchange & International Finance Markets and in Film Studies from New York University.
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About R5FX: R5FX is an electronic platform for interbank liquidity pool.
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
Charles Burr
CEO & Co-founder of Corner
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About Corner: Transformative fitness, wherever you are
Alex Szymborski
CEO of Contained
Alex has worked in the technology sector for more than 20 years & played a part in the digital growth of the mobile industry across Europe as part of Global Crossing and Level 3 which is where he developed his interest in automotive IoT solutions. In recent years becoming more deeply involved in the MVNO market through privately backed ethnic MVNO, Kontakt Mobile & now as a director of Contained.io, a complete e2e industrial IoT solution provider as well as working in the eCommerce segment creating gateway solutions for Service Providers to access the experimenter market.
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About Contained: Contained is creates solutions using the latest cloud technologies.
Andrew Whitehead
CEO of Protean Electric
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About Protean Electric: Protean Electric is a global automotive technology firm.
Bruno Johnson
CEO of Cascoda
Bruno Johnson is CEO at Cascoda Ltd.
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About Cascoda: Cascoda is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies low-power semiconductor radio devices for the internet of things.
Craig Hayman
CEO of AVEVA
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About AVEVA: AVEVA is an engineering IT software provider to plant, power, and marine industries.
Dave Hutton
CEO of CISSOID
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About CISSOID: CISSOID is a semiconductor company, developing integrated circuits designed for the highest reliability in the widest range of temperatures.
Elaine Van Der Berg
Chief Executive Officer of Pufferfish
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About Pufferfish: Pufferfish open up a world of possibilities for better communication and engagement with world-beating PufferSphere® display solutions.
Ady Moores
Chief Executive Officer of P2i
Ady was appointed as Group CEO of P2i in October 2016. Having previously served eight years as the Company’s Group CFO, Ady supported P2i’s fast growth from start-up to substantive, profitable business through his leadership of a series of successful funding rounds and responsibility for P2i’s financial, legal and administrative functions. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Ady joined KPMG where he specialized in advising software and hardware companies. After spending time in the automotive industry, Ady spent three years as European Financial Controller for 3DO, a NASDAQ listed video games publishing company. In 2003, he was appointed Finance Director at Bright Things plc, an innovative interactive entertainment company, which he took from inception through IPO raising in excess of £11.5m. Immediately before joining P2i, Ady was Finance Director at 1E, a Sunday Times Tech Track 100 company specializing in PC power-management software with annual revenues of £15m and 120 employees. Ady joined P2i’s main Board as Group CFO in 2008; he also serves as Chairman of all three wholly-owned subsidiaries of P2i.
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About P2i: P2i is a provider of nanocoating technology.
Richard Cooper
CEO of novosound
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About novosound: Novosound design and end-to-end manufacturing capabilities enables the development of highly customizable and scalable ultrasound solutions
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Alex Lawrence-Berkeley
CEO of Level Five Supplies
CEO of Level Five Supplies, board member of Go-Op Trains Cooperative, Masterfilter Ltd, former co-founder of Self Driving Track Days.
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About Level Five Supplies: Marketplace and integrator of autonomous vehicle technologies
Craig McDermott
Chief Executive Officer of Idenprotect
Craig McDermott joined iDENprotect as Chief Executive Officer in 2013.
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About Idenprotect: Idenprotect gives you swift, simple and secure access to all your corporate applications without ever needing to use a password.
Mark Buchanan
Founder & CEO of ELe-Extreme Low Energy
With over 20 years of experience in technology professional services, Mark founded ELe® in 2014 with an ambition to eliminate energy wasted through the AC/DC conversion process. Having developed a unique approach to distributing power and data through Ethernet cabling, Mark now works with our in house team and specialist manufacturing partners to further develop our disruptive technology portfolio and design customer focused solutions. Mark says “being so passionate about what we do means I get to play all day developing technologies for a cause I truly believe in, I’m incredibly lucky”
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About ELe-Extreme Low Energy: Extreme Low Energy ELe® is a specialist manufacturer of patent-pending power infrastructures.
John Hansen
Managing Director and CEO of ETher NDE
John was Senior Staff Engineer for Eddy Current NDT at GE Inspection Technologies, St Albans, UK (previously Hocking NDT). John is the immediate past Chairman of the BINDT Trade Group as well as being a BINDT Council Member, BINDT UK Engineering Council Representative and ordinary member of various other committee and for ASTM he serves on the Electromagnetic and DICONDE Committees .Johns Eddy Current NDT wealth of knowledge and passion is well regarded in the industry and this teamed with Mike’s overall NDT market expertise has allowed ETher NDE to be built on a very solid foundation. With a combined industry experience of nearly 70 years, Mike and John quickly went to work to build a team based on non-destructive testing knowledge, passion and skill.
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About ETher NDE: ETher is a manufacturer of Eddy Current Testing (ECT) non-destructive testing NDT equipment.
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
Andrew Raymond
CEO of Bolero International
Andrew Raymond is the CEO for Bolero International. He joined the business in September 2017 as the Global Head of Sales and was appointed CEO in March of 2019. Andrew’s mission is to grow the Bolero user base by bringing to market new and innovative client solutions which leverage Bolero’s capabilities and which complement emerging market opportunities and technologies. Andrew has more than 20 years of global sales and client management experience with leading solution providers such as FIS / SunGard, Algorithmics and SmartStream, and has a background of innovation and client delivery in transaction banking and capital markets. Prior to Bolero, Andrew was in a senior European sales management role for FIS (formerly known as SunGard), a financial software and technology services company. Throughout his career he has launched numerous new product offerings in close collaboration with clients across diverse areas such as collateral management, corporate actions, reconciliations, credit scoring, derivatives middle office and risk reporting. Andrew is based in London and is a US Citizen who holds a BS in International Business and an MBA in Finance.
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About Bolero International: Bolero is a global leader in the handling of electronic trade finance documentation and automatic settlement.
Ashley moore
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Power
Ashley moore is a Founder at Sustainable Power.
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About Sustainable Power: Sustainable Power is specialising in the development and production of high efficiency mCHP co-generating appliances.
David Heath
Founder & CEO of Cutitronics
David Heath is Founder & CEO of Cutitronics and is the very reason we are all here. He provides leadership, guidance and inspiration on a daily basis. David’s extensive academic career led him to qualify as a medical devices researcher with degrees in physics and engineering, working in a multidisciplinary clinical, commercial and engineering team. Throughout his PhD and post-doctoral research, he focussed on transdermal medical technology. But it was while presenting at a skincare conference that David had his “light bulb moment”, realising that the expertise he developed working on transdermal medical technology could be reapplied to solve some of the major challenges of the cosmetic skincare industry. And from here Cutitronics was born! David secured funding to develop technology for the cosmetic skincare industry and validate his innovation both technically and commercially. During this time, the company was spun out of the University of Strathclyde, receiving recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and ERA Foundation for both his entrepreneurial approach and outstanding technology innovation. In 2015 David began to recruit the Cutitronics team, bringing together the experience and expertise essential to launching such disruptive technology into the skincare market.
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About Cutitronics: Cutitronics is skincare start-up
Adam Vahed
Owner / CEO of Apache
Adam Vahed is a Founder at Apache.
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About Apache: We craft compelling interactive experiences. You get meaningful brand engagement.
Sebastian Potter
CEO of Hackaball
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About Hackaball: Hackaball encourages kids to learn about technology, play together and be physically active.
John Kennedy
CEO of Adlens
John Kennedy is a versatile CEO with over 15 years of achievement rapidly growing private equity backed businesses, gained in consumer brand and retail companies, including B2C online. Specialties include general management; supply chains; operations; data analysis; project/programme management; marketing, both online and offline.
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About Adlens: Adlens is pioneering the development of lenses that change focus like the human eye – enhancing vision in XR, VR and eyewear.
Niall Cooling
CEO of Feabhas
Niall Cooling is a director of Feabhas, who are the UK’s leading independent provider of training for real-time embedded systems development. Niall lectures in many topics for Feabhas, but has particular interest in establishing a competency framework for Embedded Software Engineering. Niall has delivered training and provides consultancy and mentoring to a wide variety of electronics companies ranging from smart metering, industrial control, telecommunications and defence. Niall is a Chartered Engineer.
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About Feabhas: Feabhas has been working with the world’s leading electronic companies such as Samsung, ARM, HP and Intel, since 1995.
Paul Ash
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Basalt Global
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About Basalt Global: Basalt Global is a power generation business supplying heat and power to its clients in the UK agricultural and horticultural sectors.
Ed Maklouf
Chief Executive Officer of Siine
Ed is our Messi. Top scorer worldwide. Siine Founder and graduated from Stanford University. He´s the best at leading development teams to deliver a top product no matter what challenge we face. If the ball is in play, he scores.
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About Referee Pro, Siine: Siine offers an icon-based touchscreen keyboard that enables users to type, edit, and personalize messages on Android devices.
Joe Ryan
CEO and Founder of VRGO
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About VRGO: VRGO is a connected chair that provides hands free movement within VR.
Robert Hogg
Chief Executive Officer of Black Marble
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About Black Marble, British Computer Society: Black Marble develops solutions across the Microsoft platform, from custom developed software solutions.
Jack Ng
Founder & CEO of Sansible Wearables
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About Sansible Wearables: Sansible Wearables creates wearable technology for rugby players called LiveSkin, for better sports performance.
Henrik Thorsen
Co-Founder & CEO of Energy Cool
Henrik Thorsen is Co-Founder & CEO at Energy Cool
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About Energy Cool: The Company with the Green Vision.
John-Pierre Clark
Founding CEO of Stimply
Founder, investor and chatbot nuthead! 2016: Founder at TOPFINANCE 2014: Launched the data crunching platform Stimply.com 2013: Sold ArgentMag.com (french financial comparison site) to Marketshot SAS 2006: Sold a leading UK foreign currency comparison site
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About Kohdao Ltd., Stimply, Top 10 Ventures Ltd.: Stimply is a personal shopping assistant for home appliance and electrical products.
John Nussey
Co-founder & CEO of Ding
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About Ding: At Ding we make beautiful smart home products. Our first is a smart doorbell which allows you to talk with the person at your door.
Joe Sillett
Co-Founder and CEO of The Funky Appliance Company
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Adam Kent
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Enado
Adam is a successful entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience in running technology-based businesses. Dynamic, visionary, enthusiastic, persuasive and energetic, he has a proven track record of creating profitable businesses that successfully fulfil gaps in the market, meet latent demand and are at the leading edge of market trends. Among his business creations, Adam founded one of the UK’s leading home automation installation companies a CCTV systems supply business and founded one of the pre-emminent manufacturers of Audio Visual racking. It is through his in-depth knowledge of these sectors that he identified the opportunity for Enado and brought its first embodiment to market.
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About Enado: Enado is the result of several years of planning and development.
Selasie Ocloo
Founder and CEO of Seyann Electronics Ltd.
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About Seyann Electronics Ltd.: Seyann Electronics offers mobile payment solutions for emerging markets.
JP Lynch
CEO of Zobox Ltd
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About Zobox Ltd: Zobox is a manufacturer of IoT technology
Chris Field
CEO of Kontron Mobile Computing
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About Kontron Mobile Computing: Kontron Mobile Computing designs, manufactures and markets rugged computers for a variety of industries and applications.
Richard Edwards
Co-founder & CEO of Repairly
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About Repairly: Repairly is a U.K.-based startup that offers on demand technology repair services for phones, tablets and laptops
