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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Events 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.
Callum Negus-Fancey
CEO & Founder of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Liam Negus-Fancey
Founder & President of Pollen
Pollen is a members-only community that curates and shares experiences for you and your friends to discover. As a marketplace of the best experiences in the world, our mission is to elevate lives by bringing people closer to the people and the things they love. From festivals, events, dining experiences, island escapes, and beyond, we want to help create unforgettable memories shared between friends old and new by allowing members to unlock a range of experiential rewards.
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Daniel Seal
Founder & CEO of Unbound Global
Daniel Seal is the Founder & CEO of unbound (formerly called AcreWhite). unbound is a platform connecting corporates and brands with start ups & disruptive technology to fuel innovation & growth. Together with Yossi Vardi, he is the co-host of Island Innovators and co-creator of unbound. Daniel was previously CEO of UK Israel Business, which under his leadership turned it from a dormancy into one the largest business networking organisations in Europe. Prior to joining UK Israel Business he was Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Bedside Manner, a healthcare software company, which provided crowd feedback to medical professionals. From 2010 – 2015, he was a Councillor representing Garden Suburb Ward in the London Borough of Barnet and sat on the investment committee of the Barnet Pension Fund, a £980 million fund investing in equities, bonds and alternate assets. Daniel was listed number 24 in ’40 Under 40 Future Leaders’ which featured in the UK national press. He has a BSc (Hons.) in Biochemistry and an MSc Business Management from the University of London. He is a mentor for the Plug & Play, SPH and H Farm Acceleration Programmes. In his spare time, he is a keen skier and golfer.
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About Unbound Global: Unbound connects founders, entrepreneurs, and start-ups through a global series of tech festivals.
Johnny Boufarhat
Founder and CEO of Hopin
Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder and CEO at Hopin.
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About Hopin: Hopin is an event platform provider that connects communities through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events.
Tim Groot
CEO and Co-Founder of Grip
Tim is an entrepreneur at heart, having started his first company at the of age 17. He graduated with a BBA in International Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His passion for the app development space eventually lead him to co-found Grip in 2014. Tim is also a member of Founders of the Future.
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Sam Browne
CEO & Co-Founder of Let’s Do This
Sam Browne mainly work on hiring and developing relationships with distributors. If you’re a Javascript engineer I will definitely buy you dinner! I love races in the wild from ultras to adventure races and I used to be a race director at an expedition race series.
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
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.
Francisco Hein
Co-Founder & CMO of Fever
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About Chaze App, Fever: Fever is a global live-entertainment discovery platform, helping people discover experiences in their cities
Michele Bonanno
Founder of Impakter
Michele Bonanno is the founder and CEO of Impakter. The company was launched on the 1st June 2014. On that day the Impakter Magazine started to publish its first article on Culture, Style, Society and Philanthropy. In September 2015, after the launch of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, he launched the Impakter SDGs Series 1. This editorial series was dedicated to give a voice to global leaders that are hands on trying to accomplish a incredible goals, make our World sustainable by 2030. Many global leaders, from the UN, NGO’s, Institutes, think tank and key influencer such as Nobel prize winner, all came together to illustrate the need to accomplish these 17 goals as a united world. A year later, in 2016, he launched the SDGs Series 2. This series is aimed at pushing further on the 17 SDGs goals and the work carried every day by millions of people.
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About Impakter: Impakter is an ecosystem focused on Sustainability. We build tools, stories and experience that makes sustainable living easy.
Kevin Brown
CEO & Founder of FanCircles
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About Brandaisy, FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Blaise Bellville
Founder & CEO of Boiler Room
Boiler Room founder Blaise Bellville created a new underground music network quite literally from a utility room. Blaise left school at 18 and founded many businesses before starting the worldwide phenomenon that is Boiler Room, which reaches over 72 million music fans every month worldwide. Beginning as a club promoter and DJ, Blaise’s first business to gain national recognition was All Age Concerts. Founded when he was 25, it kicked off an under-age gig movement across the country, even creating a festival for 10,000 in Victoria Park at the movement’s peak in 2010. In the same era, he created online magazine Read Platform, which was written by and run for teenagers. It was while running his, surrounded by other London music obsessives that Boiler Room was born. Bellville enlisted Thristian Richards, who worked for Soul Jazz and Gilles Peterson and Femi Adeyemi, founder of online radio station NTS and organised a weekly hang out/ session – broadcast from a webcam and Ustream to the world from the utility room in the warehouse it was run out of. The session run by the electronic music scene, for the electronic scene quickly drew big name guests. Jamie XX, SBKRT and Hudson Mohawke all turned up for early session to DJ and hang out. Though Read Platform was drawing 300,000 unique users, Boiler Room soon mushroomed passed it in popularity. Since 2010 it has gone global, with a growing and significant fan base in Latin America, partnership with Japan’s biggest streaming provider, key broadcast hubs in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and the dedication of the most hard core, committed music fans on the planet.
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About Boiler Room: Boiler Room is an online platform that enables its users to live stream and archive musical shows.
Elizabeth Varley
Founder & CEO of TechHub
Elizabeth is a serial entrepreneur and founded TechHub, the community for high-growth tech companies. TechHub has worked with thousands of companies to help them scale. TechHub member companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft among others, and have raised over $1billion in funding. TechHub also helps corporates like Google and BT access innovation culture and to work with startups to solve business challenges or develop new products. Previously Elizabeth ran an editorial and content agency, and built communities. She’s been selected for Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 top influencers, the Debrett’s 500, and Vogue UK’s Generation Tech among others. Elizabeth also sits on the board of the Digital City Exchange smart cities programme at Imperial College, the Open Data Institute’s Data Pitch technology innovation board, and the Silicon Valley Bank early-stage advisory board. @evarley @TechHub
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About TechHub: TechHub is the home of technology entrepreneurs and startup teams
Max Filippov
Founder of Airfair
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About Accel, Airfair: Airfair is an event platform that provides a virtual event toolkit that enables to engage an audience within an intuitive environment.
Phil Hutcheon
Founder & CEO of DICE
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About DICE: DICE is a curated platform that connects fans to live shows.
Dom Marmont
CTO & Co-Founder of FIXR
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About FIXR: FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers.
Hugh Hudleston
Commercial Director & Co-Founder of FIXR
Hugh is a founding Director of FIXR. He most recently spent a year doing his MBA at Cambridge University before joining FIXR full time in June 2014. Hugh started his financial career at Matrix Corporate Capital in equity sales. Following Matrix, Hugh became a partner of a corporate advisory boutique, Hawkwood Capital, raising money for private companies. He is also Director of a fast growing visual recognition company, WeSee. Past exploits included launching 2 magazines. He is a keen sailor.
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About FIXR: FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers.
Martin Roots
Co-Founder & Chairman of Expede Group
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About Expede Group, Expede Group: Transforming universities for tomorrow
Rebecca Kelly
Founder & CEO of VenueScanner
Combined experience across economics (1st class MA Edinburgh), investment management (CFA level 1), digital marketing (M&S, Naked Wines, Majestic Wines). Passionate about using data and analytics to drive business growth, obsessed with customer insight, understanding big problems and trying to solve them. Launched VenueScanner in 2016 after experiencing so many problems in trying to book event spaces for team offsites, parties, meetings etc at M&S. Now relentlessly trying to address the problem of matching under-utilised supply to demand in the venue and events industry. In the spare time that I used to have before I launched a company I loved travelling adventures (Richshaw Run…), micro-finance projects (Grameen Bank) and outdoor sports (mainly extreme or including at least a mild risk of life!)
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About VenueScanner: VenueScanner is a self-serve marketplace platform for event organisers to discover and book venues online.
Noor Alkhadra
Founder & CEO of WeGeek
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About WeGeek: We are passionate geeks who take great pleasure in bringing gamers together by creating AWESOME gaming events.
Andrew Needham
CEO & Founder of HeadBox
n the last 20 years Andrew Needham has successfully set up and managed companies across the fields of publishing, consumer research and social technology working as both an entrepreneur and a corporate leader within blue chip business environments. He is currently the CEO and Founder of HeadBox (www.headbox.com), the UK’s first on-line marketplace for inspiring, creative and off-site spaces allowing guests to search, book and pay for amazing spaces, all in one place. With over 1,500 venues on the platform already, HeadBox has one of the largest collection of venues in London, unlocking value from their under-utilised space as well as providing many spaces with an extra revenue stream. His mission is “to bring people and spaces together to make brilliant things happen” not just in the UK but all over the world and to do for under-utilised business space what Airbnb and Uber have done to other parts of the collaborative and sharing economy. In December 2015 HeadBox was one of Startups.co.uk’s 12 new businesses to watch in 2016.
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About HeadBox: HeadBox is an online marketplace for inspiring meeting, offsite and event spaces.
Jigar Patel
CEO & Co-Founder of The Ticket Fairy
COO & Founder at The Ticket Fairy. CEO & Founder at Desinex Group International.
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About Desinex Group International, The Ticket Fairy: Full-stack event marketing, ticketing, analytics and advertising platform
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Mike Thompson
Director and Co-Founder, London of Impact Hub
Mike is Director of Goodbrand and has been with them since it began. Mike is responsible for the stewardship of the Goodbrand community and its resources. He is also chairman of AddVenture, a Romanian social enterprise and another GoodBrand Idea and co-founder of Good Leaders Online (www.glo-china.com). Mike is currently based at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, from where he writes, travels and speaks on sustainable enterprise and responsible leadership. Mike’s passions are adventuring and the poetry and song of the Welsh landscape.
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About Impact Hub: Impact Hub provides a workspace that connects entrepreneurs for environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Wahida Samie
Founder of Studentbase
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About Studentbase: Creating the Global Student Network
Kamlesh Raichura
Chairman and Co-Founder of Raviga Group
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About Raviga Group: Raviga Group is the technology firm driving the creative and performing arts industry’s fastest growing online ticketing platform.
Paul Robertson
Co-Founder & Editorial Director of Contagious Communications
Paul Kemp Robertson is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Contagious Communications. After graduating with a masters degree in Film and Television from Goldsmiths College in London, Paul started his career at corporate communications firm Maritz before helping launch shots magazine in 1990. After a spell in commercials production, Paul returned to shots and became editor in 1994. Subscriptions trebled under his tenure. In 1998 Paul was appointed worldwide director of creative resources at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 2004, Paul co-founded Contagious with shots founder Gee Thomson and media entrepreneur John Gordon. Paul has written for publications including Business 2.0 and The Guardian, as well as co-editing D&AD’s The Commercials Book. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and his talk on alternative currencies has been viewed more than 438,000 times at ted.com.
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About Contagious Communications: Contagious helps brands and advertising agencies understand and adapt to shifts in marketing, consumer culture and technology.
Andrew Lavelle
Co-Founder & Managing Director of TalentPool
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About Alvius, TalentPool: TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates.
Sam Pettipher
Founder of EBar
A results driven founder and qualified project manager – Sam drives everything he does at a pace. 5 years into his first business he is bringing beertech to the mainstream events market.
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About EBar: A beer technology company developing an innovative dispense technique. Commercialising the EBar, a self-service, IoT enabled dispenser
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.
Jake Jenner
Co-Founder & CFO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Adam Pluta
Co-Founder & CTO and Lead Software Developer of ExpoCart
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About ExpoCart: ExpoCart is home to the biggest range of products and services for events.
Ryan Farquharson
CEO & Co-Founder of ExpoCart
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About ExpoCart: ExpoCart is home to the biggest range of products and services for events.
Tim W Cummins
Chief Software Architect & CoFounder of Swoogo
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About Swoogo: Swoogo is a fast-growing event management software company.
Scott Witters
Founder & Executive Director of Glownet
Scott is the skipper of the Glownet crew. The leader and visionary, he is passionate for good design and innovation. You rarely get to see much of Scott sitting down. His time is split between Madrid, London, and sleeping on airplanes. A family man, with two vibrant young daughters. Soon after graduating with an MBA from IE Business School in 2003, he shortly became a serial entrepreneur. Just prior to Glownet, Scott was the Festival Director/CEO of Rhythm Group. Rhythm is the producer to New Zealand’s premier music festivals including the 30,000 capacity Rhythm and Vines now in its 12th year. Scott always makes time to mentor business students and support them with their own plans and ambitions. Scott was never cured after being infected by electronic music back in rave scene of the early 90’s. He loves working in the live event industry. He seems to feed off the adrenaline of the show. To him, it’s all about the people you work with.
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About Glownet: Glownet transforms the event landscape through RFID innovation, developes world-class technology that delivers and inspires.
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.
Simon Thompson
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Conferences-uk.org.uk
Simon Thompson is Director and Co-Founder of Conferences:UK, ConferenceVenues.com and ConferencesGroup. Simon is an active member of the Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) and strongly supports Accreditation in Meetings (AIM). Simon is passionate about transforming our successful UK business into the World No.1 Hotel and Conference Booking Agency.
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About Conferences-uk.org.uk: Conferences-uk.org.uk (part of ConferencesGroup) is a flagship UK Expert Venue Finding Agency.
Philipp Muellauer
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Angela Yu
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Anna Frankowska
CEO & Co-Founder of Nightset
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About Nightset: Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.
Salih Bosca
Founder of EtkinlikAlani
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About EtkinlikAlani: EtkinlikAlani is an online platform that allows the user to create and join any online events to expand the user’s horizon
Ray Bugg
Founder of DIGIT
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About DIGIT: DIGIT is Scotland’s leading technology media & events company.
Deon Botha
Founder of Loci App
Founder at Loci App
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About Kite, Loci App: Social Discovery and Location Chat
Valentin Yeo
Co-Founder of Grid
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About Grid: Grid is a tech company out to create the new era of events
Allan Lloyds
Founder & MD of Product Forge
Founder & Managing Director, Insight Arcade Ltd
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About Product Forge: Product Forge bring together developers, creatives and entrepreneurs to build new products that solve real world problems.
Michaela Jeffery-Morrison
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Maddox Events
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About Maddox Events: Maddox Events is the world’s only B2B company exclusively dedicated to creating large-scale conferences.
Linda Agata Senya
Founder of LiveArtSocial / LAS
Linda co-founded LiveArtSocial in May 2016 with Alexa Brossard and Andreas Fux. Prior to LiveArtSocial, Linda worked in Venture Capital & several advisory roles . Previously, she worked as Structured Derivatives Sales Manager at BNP Paribas Investment Bank. She received an M.Sc. from Copenhagen Business School (2012) and B.Sc. from University Paris Dauphine (2004).
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About ePlanet Capital, LiveArtSocial / LAS: Events Management & Networking Platform for Premium Businesses
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
Maximillion Cooper
Founder & CEO of Gumball 3000
Maximillion Cooper is a Founder & CEO at Gumball 3000.
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About Gumball 3000: The Gumball 3000 is an annual British 3,000-mile international motor rally which takes place on public roads.
Adam Goodyer
Founder & CEO of Realife Tech
Adam Goodyer is the Founder and CEO of Realife Tech.
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About Realife Tech: Realife Tech is an experience automation platform that provides customized communication channels for event guests.
Daniel Cave
Founder of Inconf
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About Inconf: Inconf is a software company that develops digital platforms to enhance live streaming and networking for users.
Dennis Owusu-Sem
Founder of Success Talks
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About Success Talks: Success Talks specializes in consultancy, technology, workshops, events, networking, diversity, and conferences.
Brad Nobbs
CEO and Co-Founder of Licklist
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About Licklist: Licklist is a social marketplace for nightlife & music festivals.
Mel Bound
Founder and CEO of This Mum Runs
Mel is an innovator and a disruptor, full of ideas and hugely passionate about inspiring women who don’t believe exercise could be for them. A Mum of two, sports science graduate and qualified coach, she’s been running since she was 10 and especially loves very muddy trail running.
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About This Mum Runs: This Mum Runs is a fast growing, profitable women’s running brand.
Reid Jackson
Founder & CEO of Calfix
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About Calfix, OpenOcean, Teenage Republicans, Verdict: Calfix is a mobile application that allows users to compare their calendars.
Paul van Zyl
Founder & CEO of Maiyet
Kristy Caylor is a Co-Founder and the President and Creative Director of Maiyet. Kristy brings to the team a keen entrepreneurial spirit, a successful track record of growing globally recognized fashion businesses, and hands-on experience working within developing countries. Kristy began her fashion career in merchandising at Gap, Inc. While at Gap, Kristy led the Petite business for Banana Republic where she opened stand-alone stores and tripled the business over 2 years. She then relocated to Tokyo to lead the BR Japan merchandising division. Engaging an entirely new customer, Kristy was instrumental in positioning the BR brand and customizing product for the Japanese market. Upon returning to the US, Kristy became the head of merchandising for Gap Accessories and Product (RED). There, she redeveloped the accessories lines, led the development and launch of Gap Jewelry, and focused intensely on creating a more creative and effective business model for Product (RED). Kristy left Gap to start her own consulting business, during which time she worked with brands such as Stronghold Denim, All Saints, and Mercado Global, a fair trade company based in Guatemala. As a design consultant for Mercado Global, Kristy worked directly with indigenous artisans, teaching new techniques and guiding product development for an assortment sold to Nordstrom and Levi’s. After working as a consultant for the LA based luxury brand Band of Outsiders, Kristy joined the company full time as their President and COO, initiating a long-term growth plan that resulted in new product launches and expanded wholesale penetration. Kristy graduated with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from University of Southern California.
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About Maiyet, New York University, The Conduit: Maiyet is a modern, artisanal luxury fashion brand that designs, sources and produces apparel, accessories, and jewelry.
Robin Weil
Founder & CEO of Wedding Planner
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About Music Students for hire, Wedding Planner: Wedding Planner has helped over 275,000 brides to realise their dreams – they would love to help you to plan your BIG day.
Nikita Johnson
Founder of RE•WORK
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About RE•WORK, Sandbox: RE•WORK is a female-led company creating summits, workshops & dinners, bringing together global leaders in AI.
Graham Lee
Founder of Imparture
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About Imparture: We impart digital knowledge for the future.
Colin Yellowley
Founder & President of Igloo Vision
Colin is a co-founder of Igloo, and now runs its US operations. He previously had more than ten years’ experience of working in multimedia, web design and film production. Having originally launched Igloo on the contemporary arts circuits, he successfully steered the company into the simulation and visualisation sector, and continues to play a central role in its product development.
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About : Igloo Vision is the shared VR company. We create 360° immersive solutions and all of the enabling technologies.
George Rockett
Co-Founder & CEO of DatacenterDynamics
George is a co-founder of the global DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo Series and is the Publisher of ZeroDowntime Magazine. He and his team are responsible for the content direction of all DCD events. Having been involved in IT and Business publishing for over a decade, he cut his teeth on the data centre market in 1998 with the launch of ‘Colocation Network Europe’ and has been involved in a multitude of publishing initiatives within this market sector since that time, including the award-winning ‘Building Datacentres Europe’ Directory. George’s ability to view things continually from a fresh perspective and to join the dots between the various disciplines that converge on the data centre market are hallmarks of DCDs success as an organisation. DatacenterDynamics considers itself much more than just a B2B media provider which is highlighted by the number of long-term relationships that have been forged internationally with end-users, vendors and consultants alike.
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Vojtěch Otevřel
Founder of GoOut
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About GoOut: GoOut is a culture guide platform for events and places in Prague.
Ajay Mathur
Co-Founder of Gleanin
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
Paul Birch
Co-Founder of Gleanin
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
Yiannis Maos
Founder & CEO of Birmingham Tech (Birmingham Tech Week)
I’m the Founder of Birmingham Tech Week, a collaborative series of events that celebrate our region’s technology scene. The week is government-backed, highlights new and emerging innovation and inspires people from all walks of life to get involved in technology. Prior to this, I was Co-Founder of Hyve, a SaaS platform that helps brands to collaborate with their customers and help turn their loyal customers into word of mouth advocates. The first 10 years of my career I was spent at Rant & Rave, where I was responsible for the marketing strategy, helping them go from a challenger brand to a well established, multi-million pound SaaS company. I have over 15 years of experience in technology, marketing and CX – specialising in helping innovative brands achieve fast-growth by developing strategic customer relationships. During my career, I’ve been named Central England’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year, spoken at some of the UK’s top business schools and mentored young marketers as part of Google’s Squared programme. Highlights: • Currently a mentor for Google’s Squared Digital Marketing programme where I’m helping young marketers understand, and how to take advantage of future technologies and trends • Recognised as one of the country’s most promising marketers through the Marketing Academy, where I’ve been coached and mentored by some of the world’s top Marketing Directors from companies including; Facebook, Google, BT and Twitter • Selected to judge at the DMA Awards (Best Digital Destination), Digital Experience Awards (Best Mobile Experience), Shell Livewire Awards (Digital Innovation) and Customer Experience Awards (Global Experience Programme) • Presented at Henley Business School (Customer Experience), Coventry Business School (Inbound Marketing), The Media Trust (Mobile Marketing and Social Media), Warwick Business School (Innovative Marketing) and The International Institute of Innovation (Digital Marketing) • Awarded Central England Young Entrepreneur of the Year for achievements in Digital Marketing – Shell UK PLC
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About Birmingham Tech (Birmingham Tech Week), Bruntwood: Birmingham Tech is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the growth of the Birmingham (UK) and West Midlands Technology Sector.
Roger Atkins
Founder & Managing Director of Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd
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About Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd: Electric Vehicles Market Business Services
Peter Ward
Co-Founder & MD of WeTrack
After completing an MSc in Biology from Oxford University and turning his back on a life in academia, Peter started his professional career at a $25 billion international mutual fund based in Bermuda. Here, as well as becoming a level 1 chartered financial analyst, he learnt to design and project-manage custom built software for the finance world. Quickly he saw that, regardless of the systems functionality, the end user must always be at the heart of the system if it is to reach its full potential. After 2 years in Bermuda and London, Peter left the finance world to learn Spanish and travel around South America. Peter was involved at The London 2012 Games where he was responsible for tracking ~4000 objectives and tasks across all the departments of the Organising Committee (LOCOG) to ensure London would be ready to host the games. It was in this role that he fused the software development skills of the finance world with the complex project management requirements of the event industry to create WeTrack. Peter has directorships at CSPW Consulting and YouSoft. In his spare time he enjoys golf, cricket, solving the cryptic crossword and was a member of the British Wakeboard Team for a number of years.
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About WeTrack: WeTrack provides event delivery software for major events, federations, venues and governing bodies
Eugene Shestopal
CEO and Co-Founder of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform
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About Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform: Poptop helps event planners find and book entertainment professionals quickly, easily and safely.
Ignat Thorovsky
CTO and Co-Founder of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform
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About Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform: Poptop helps event planners find and book entertainment professionals quickly, easily and safely.
Joas Serugga
CEO/Founder of Quick Buffet U.K.
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About 3dforms UK, Quick Buffet U.K.: The new way to search and find Local Caterers. Post Catering leads and get caterers bidding within minutes, pick the best Quote in 3 simple.
Claire Skerrett
CEO / Founder of Picniq
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About Picniq: Picniq is a site for all parents on the hunt for fun things to do with the kids!
Jan Zastera
Founder of CEDAR Audio
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About CEDAR Audio: CEDAR Audio is the world in noise suppression and audio restoration.
Rachel Bridge
Founder and Managing Director of Froglet Productions
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About Froglet Productions: Froglet Productions is a consulting firm that provides digital and offline content, events and advice for all sizes of businesses.
Martin Hiscox
Founder & CEO of Tikk
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About Tikk: A social, secure and ethical event ticketing app, on the start-up journey with Ideasquares and Simpleweb. Changing event ticketing for good.
Oojal Jhutti
Founder of iWazat
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About iWazat: iWazat is a smart platform that allows event organizers to quickly create web applications for their events.
Jeremy Roberts
Founder of New World Trading Company
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About New World Trading Company: New World Trading Company is a fast-growing pub and restaurant business headquartered in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Matthew Funge
Managing Director & Founder of Your Stand Builder
Matthew is the Managing Director & Founder of event technology company Your Stand Builder, and currently lives in London. He is a graduate from the University of Manchester who already has valuable experience of living and working in both the USA and France, in addition to various parts of the UK, which has provided him with valuable international exposure already. He is responsible for building and launching the Your Stand Builder platform in March 2019, following more than 5 years’ in an exhibition project manager role preparing 25+ worldwide events annually for his previous employer – an experience which directly led to the YSB idea being born. Matthew is passionate about making a difference in the global events industry, and is committed to continually exploring technological innovation. He has taken YSB from concept all the way through to execution and plans to build upon this in the future through gradually developing the service further.
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About Your Stand Builder: SaaS, online marketplace, web platform
Antonia Anni
Founder of Platforms For Women
Founder of Platforms For Women.
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About Platforms For Women: Curating the best event, opportunities and platforms for women in technology
Gordon Johnston
Director and Co-Founder of Lineup Ninja
Gordon has worked in the technology field for twenty years designing and developing enterprise platforms. He has taken the opportunity to break out of the corporate world to co-found a start up bringing innovative agenda management tech to the event industry.
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About Lineup Ninja: Fast-track your event planning with our professional abstract and agenda management tools
Jacki Vause
Founder and CEO of dimoso
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About dimoso: It’s all changing. In the new world of apps, tablets and social media, the old media world has been turned on its head.
Charlie Lines
Events Director and Founder of The Ecommerce Club
Charlie Lines is the director and founder at Mixing Digital and The Ecommerce Club. She used to work as a freelance Marketing & Sales manager for CleanTech magazine. Charlie is a graduate of Thomas Bennett Community College & Crawley College of Technology.
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About The Ecommerce Club: The Ecommerce Club is a member-led group dedicated to encouraging and supporting retailers in developing e-commerce expertise.
Charlie Lines
Events Director and Founder of The Ecommerce Club
Charlie Lines is the director and founder at Mixing Digital and The Ecommerce Club. She used to work as a freelance Marketing & Sales manager for CleanTech magazine. Charlie is a graduate of Thomas Bennett Community College & Crawley College of Technology.
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About The Ecommerce Club: The Ecommerce Club is a member-led group dedicated to encouraging and supporting retailers in developing e-commerce expertise.
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Petra Johansson
Founder/Director of TwistedTree
Event management and event sales professional working across business to business events in the digital, technology, creative and financial sectors. Petra runs events company TwistedTree since 2007, and is a co-founder of 2Pears. Petra holds a MBA from Lund University from Lund University in Sweden and has more than 11 years experience from the business to business events industry ranging from delegate, media and sponsorship sales at organisations including IIR Conferences, Incisive Media, and Financial News. She has managed profitable events from the concept stage researching a topic, through speaker recruitment, sponsorship sales, marketing and on-the-day event management and execution, to post-event follow up and rebookings.
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About TwistedTree: TwistedTree Limited is a business to business event solutions company specialising in sponsorship sales and event management in digital,
Petra Johansson
Founder/Director of TwistedTree
Event management and event sales professional working across business to business events in the digital, technology, creative and financial sectors. Petra runs events company TwistedTree since 2007, and is a co-founder of 2Pears. Petra holds a MBA from Lund University from Lund University in Sweden and has more than 11 years experience from the business to business events industry ranging from delegate, media and sponsorship sales at organisations including IIR Conferences, Incisive Media, and Financial News. She has managed profitable events from the concept stage researching a topic, through speaker recruitment, sponsorship sales, marketing and on-the-day event management and execution, to post-event follow up and rebookings.
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About TwistedTree: TwistedTree Limited is a business to business event solutions company specialising in sponsorship sales and event management in digital,
Dave Owens
Founder of TapWalk
Founder at TapWalk
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About TapWalk: TapWalk is a platform to create mobile apps for large events and venues.
Joss Hughes
Ploxel Co-Founder of Ploxel
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About Ploxel: Sell tickets online with Ploxel in minutes with everything you need from start to finish to host your event.
Matty Lawrence
Founder of Happy Spaces
Matty Lawrence is the founder of Happy Spaces.
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About Happy Spaces: Happy Spaces is a network of local work spaces for community connection, belonging, and wellbeing.
Saayuj Dhanak
Founder of Mayton Munro
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About Mayton Munro: Mayton Munro is a music events and promotions company started by Fin Munro and Si Dhanak.
Barak Chamo
Founder of You Go I Go
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About You Go I Go: You Go I Go makes it a breeze to get your mates to more events!
