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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 Principal operating in the Software space. If you think a Principal 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.
Richard Whitehead
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
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Chris Webb
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Thomson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about using Git, and the co-host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
David Reid
Principal Consultant – CRM of Microsoft
A technologist at heart and an experienced technical seller of customer service solutions to enterprise customers. He is keen to show the value of the Microsoft Business Applications platform and how Dynamics 365 can enable your business and your customers to achieve more.
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About Behaviour Interactive, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Dean Bryen
Principal Cloud Advocate – Azure Security of Microsoft
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About Cloud Security London, Connected2, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Annette Garner
Industry Principal Solution Specialist for Healthcare of Microsoft
Annette Garner is an Azure Specialist in the Health Team at Microsoft in a role designed to challenge and support Microsoft clients to transform using Data and AI services in the cloud. The ambition of the Health Team at Microsoft is bold, to empower our clients to achieve more. Digital transformation in health is happening in all areas, and the team at Microsoft have a clear focus to bring effective solutions to the health market to support our clients, health professionals and patients with this journey. Annette has over 15 years’ experience working in Health Tech and Health Data, and has previously worked for a startup, several SMEs and an multinational Healthcare Company before joining Microsoft in 2016.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Simon Peyton Jones
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Andy Gordon
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft
Andy Gordon is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Gordon’s main project is Calc Intelligence, which brings intelligence to end-user programming, especially spreadsheets. Gordon also holds the Chair in Computer Security and is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science and the Security and Privacy group in the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh. Gordon convenes the University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics, and participates in both the Data Science PhD program and the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Network. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gordon was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Gordon has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gordon’s research is on programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases. Gordon has published and lectured on: input/output in pure functional programming, hardware description languages, mobile computation, security protocols, web services security, distributed authorization, configuration management, and database programming languages. He has also worked on probabilistic programming for machine learning.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Patrick Galbraith
Principal Platform Engineer of Oracle
Patrick Galbraith is a principal engineer at HPE as a member of the Advanced Technology Group. He is the author or two books: Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl (Wiley), and Expert PHP and MySQL (Wiley). In his “spare time”, he also works on various projects related to Kubernetes, MySQL perl driver DBD::mysql, Ansible Modules for HP Switches, and generally tinkers with new technologies. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as his Kubota tractor.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mike Hobbs
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Mike Hobbs works as a Principal Engineer at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Vikram Kimyani
Principal Cloud Sales Consultant of Oracle
Vik has many years’ experience of running a private cloud operations and on-boarding team for Credit Suisse. He now works as a solutions architect for Oracle, advising customers on cloud migrations, API and Blockchain strategy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Stephen Bourke
Master Principal IaaS Consultant of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ben Haworth
Principal Sales Consultant (IaaS) of Oracle
Ben Haworth is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle UK&I in their Infrastructure as a Service Specialist team, responsible for educating and assisting customers (start-ups through to enterprise) to design and deliver solutions on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in conjunction with Oracle Platform and Software as a Service offerings. Ben has worked with Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud technology since 2010, first at a global System Integrator as a Cloud Platform Architect, then at a Converged Infrastructure vendor before joining Oracle to work with their next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2016. Ben has 15 years’ experience in IT, starting as a network architect before progressing in to the broader Infrastructure services of Cloud but he remains interested in networking with the developments in software-defined and function virtualisation amongst others. He graduated from University of St. Andrews with First Class Honours in Computer Science. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons and playing golf.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
David Woodhouse
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Tim Boeckmann
Principal Business Development Manager of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Martin Beeby
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ed Jackson
Principal, Strategic Accounts of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Nowi Kallen
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
Nowi Kallen is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Alexander Mann
Principal of Concentric
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
David Johansson
Principal Consultant of Synopsys
David Johansson has worked as a security consultant for several leading IT-security companies and has 10 years of experience in software security. Among other things, he has worked with software development and architecture, web security testing and training developers and testers in security. David lives in London where he works as an Associate Principal Consultant for Synopsys Software Integrity Group (formerly Cigital).
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Ollie Gayton
Principal Consultant of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ollie leads the Cloud Infrastructure for Azure and Azure Stack practice for HPE Pointnext UK&I. His team is responsible for designing and implementing secure and scalable foundational cloud environments capable of hosting multiple types of workload – IaaS and PaaS – as well as defining and implementing clients’ cloud migration plans.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Ahmet Taha Sakar
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Ahmet Taha Sakar is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, information technology executive, and full stack developer with over 15 years of experience. He has served as the founding member of several startups. Since 2005, he has worked primarily with e-commerce, software as a service, and mobile products. He is endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology by Tech City UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Danilo Sato
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Danilo is a Head of Data & AI Services UK and polyglot Principal Consultant with more than 15 years of experience as an Architect, Data Engineer, Developer, and Agile Coach. He balances strategy with execution, helping clients refine their technology strategy while also adopting practices to reduce the time between having an idea, implementing it, and running it in production using Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Danilo is the author of the book “DevOps In Practice: reliable and automated software delivery”, a member of ThoughtWorks’ Office of the CTO, and an experienced international conference speaker.
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About Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Andrew Harmel-Law
Technical Principal of Thoughtworks
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Andy Wilkinson
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Pivotal
Andy is a software developer on the Spring team at Pivotal where he’s currently working on Spring Boot, Spring REST Docs, and the Spring IO Platform. When he’s not working with server-side Java, Andy enjoys the different challenges presented by developing for iOS.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
TP Honey
Principal Engineer of Puppet
TP has worked at Puppet for four years developing their supported modules. This includes working with the Puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat … and also on device-based modules like the Cisco / Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM, a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Fiona Maini
Principal – Global Compliance and Strategy of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Ben Evans
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Peter Robinson
Principal IoT Architect of Red Hat
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About Linaro, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
James Allen
Principal Solutions Architect of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
James Read
Principal Solution Architect, EMEA Alliances of Red Hat
A technically orientated IT professional, with a focus on Technical Partner Management in the Cloud and Service Provider space, especially with Azure. James has been at Red Hat for 8 years.
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Russell Herbert
Industry Principal of OSIsoft
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About AVEVA, OSIsoft: OSIsoft is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data infrastructure solutions.
Stuart Paterson
Principal Software Development Engineer of Chef Software
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Lance Grant
Principal Solutions Consultant of Pegasystems
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Don Syme
Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist, an F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language. Earlier, Don created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author on the book Expert F#.
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About Microsoft, Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Danielle Belgrave
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft Research
Danielle Belgrave is a Machine Learning Researcher in the Healthcare AI Division at Microsoft Research Cambridge. She also has a (tenured) Research Fellowship at Imperial College London and received a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in Biostatistics (2015 – 2018). Her research focuses on integrating expert scientific knowledge to develop statistical machine learning models to understand disease progression over time, with the goal of identifying personalized disease management strategies. She has experience of applied machine learning for personalized health both within the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Marc Brockschmidt
Senior Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Marc Brockschmidt is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Programming Principles and Tools group in Cambridge. Brockschmidt’s research focuses on topics around software developer productivity. This includes fully automatic analyses of implicitly specified properties (such as memory safety, termination or complexity) and the use of machine learning techniques to help where classical program analysis fails. Most recently, Brockschmidt also returned to some of his F/OSS roots and started studying the efficient use of build systems with colleagues in MSR and TSE. Brockschmidt obtained his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Jürgen Giesl, where he worked on termination and complexity analysis of (Java) programs. There, Brockschmidt focused on heap abstractions in the analysis of object-oriented programs.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Robbie Mouat
Principal Quantitative Analyst of ActiveViam
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Senior Principal Data Scientist of QuantumBlack
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About Imperial College London, QuantumBlack, Variab.ly: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Marieke Christmann
Senior Principal of Forestay Capital
Marieke joined Octopus Ventures in 2018 to source, execute and manage late stage investments. She sits on a number of investee company boards and as part of the “Future of Health” team, identifies opportunities across digital health, clinical decision tools and disease prevention technologies. Prior to Octopus Ventures Marieke focused on Leveraged Finance opportunities in TMT sector for Credit Suisse and most recently led deal origination in the German speaking market for Zouk Capital. Marieke holds a Masters of Finance and Business Administration from Mannheim University, Germany and Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She speaks French, Spanish, German and English.
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About Forestay Capital, Octopus Ventures: Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries.
Ben Furneaux
Principal Designer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI)
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About Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI): Sony Computer Entertainment engages in the research and development of hardware and software related to PlayStation platforms.
Ian Macdonald
Principal Technologist of Pyramid Analytics
A ‘hands-on’, product oriented technical marketing professional with extensive experience of the international software market. Primary focus has been on the database, development and query tools, data mining, business intelligence applications and IT infrastructure management solutions, setting product strategy, marketing, partnering and selling to senior positions within Fortune 2000 companies
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About Pyramid Analytics: Say goodbye to business intelligence. Say hello to Decision Intelligence. Meet the Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform.
Thomas Cannon
Principal Consultant of NCC Group
Thomas Cannon is the former Director of R&D at viaForensics LLC.
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About NCC Group: NCC Group exists to make the world safer and more secure.
David Christiansen
Principal Technologist of Leidos holdings
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About Leidos holdings: Leidos holdings is a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Swen-Helge Huber
Director, Principal Architect IoT of Solace
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About Solace: Solace’s event broker technology helps enterprises become real-time by making business operations and customer interactions event-driven.
Ruyman Reyes
Principal Software Engineer of Codeplay Software
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About Codeplay Software: Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Raj Fowler
Principal DevOps Consultant of DevOpsGroup
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About DevOpsGroup: We make Cloud & DevOps fast, secure and simple, empowering organisations to thrive in the Digital Economy.
Bonnie Molins
Inclusive Design Principal of Kainos
Bonnie Molins has spent the last 20 years working in the public, charity and commercial sectors to produce inclusive service solutions that provide equal access and better outcomes for diverse users with a range of access needs. She currently leads on inclusive design at leading provider of Digital Services and Platforms Kainos, with a focus on producing whole systems that work for whole populations, streamline service delivery and improve user equality.​ Bonnie believes that inclusive design is good design – because it means everyone can use the thing.
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Nikolas Markou
Principal Engineer of Yodiwo
Lifelong technologist, pragmatic software engineer and machine learning practitioner with a strong mathematical background and a passion for bringing innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions.
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About Yodiwo: Yodiwo is an Internet of Things Technology Enabler with a unique framework for bridging things and applications over the cloud.
Domenico Musto
Principal Engineer of Spektrix
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About Spektrix: Spektrix is cloud based ticketing, marketing and fundraising software, created from scratch especially for the arts in 2007.
Noel Ady
Principal Consultant and Founder of Gravity 9 Solutions
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About Gravity 9 Solutions: Gravity 9 Solutions combines arts and Science to help organizations create digital products.
Paul Hanks
Principal Consultant of Health2Works
Instrumental in shaping Health2Works development since its formation Focused on delivering effective solutions on time and on budget Strong background in R&D IT
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About Health2Works: Health2Works, an innovative software company.
Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect of Modality Systems
A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Founder and Principal at Empowering.Cloud as well as a Solutions Director at Pure IP. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks.blog, UC Today Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular speaker at events around the world.
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About Modality Systems: Modality Systems is a technology company specializing in Microsoft Unified Communications technologies.
Keith Smith
Principal Engineer of Perceptive Engineering
Keith Smith is Principal Engineer with Perceptive Engineering UK and has 20+ years of experience with advanced process control and optimisation, MVA analysis and process monitoring in the process industries,including applications on continuous and batch processes. He is responsible for optimisation of nutritional powder production for Perceptive Engineering, with particular focus on evaporation and drying processes.He has a particular interest in hybrid modelling approaches – first principle and empirical – for real time optimisation and control.
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About Perceptive Engineering: Perceptive Engineering Ltd provides leading-edge software tools and expertise, to improve process efficiency in a broad range of sectors.
Shumin Tian
Principal Software Engineer of Spectral Edge
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About Spectral Edge: Spectral Edge combines patented Image Fusion tech with Deep Learning to reveal more of the color, detail and clarity in any image.
Dan North
Principal of Dan North & Associates
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About Dan North & Associates: A product manager wakes up with a great idea
Stanley Ogbeide
Principal Network Architect of CACI Limited
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About CACI Limited: CACI offer marketing solutions and information systems to a wide range of industries across both private and public sectors.
Neil Cullum
Principal Solution Engineer of BMC Software
Neil Cullum is a senior solutions engineer on the Innovation IT team at BMC, where he specializes in Control-M and workload automation in areas such as Hadoop, DevOps, and the cloud. Neil has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, helping customers through technical and business challenges.
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About BMC Software, BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Jon Hall
Principal Product Manager of BMC Software
Based in the UK, Jon has worked in Service Management for over 20 years, focusing primarily on the development and alignment of tools and practices. He joined BMC in 2008, where he is currently Principal Product Manager for BMC Helix ITSM. A moderniser, user experience devotee, and DevOps advocate, his work on the alignment of DevOps and Service Management has been cited by leading DevOps figures such as Gene Kim. Jon is a contributing author for the new ITIL 4 framework and a regular presenter at conferences spanning ITSM, DevOps and IT Asset Management.
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About BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Olly Stephens
Principal Architect of Adarga
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About Adarga: Adarga builds powerful analytical software that allows you to analyse vast volumes of data quickly and accurately.
Paul Gerrard
Founder & Principal of Gerrard Consulting
Paul Gerrard is a Founder and Principal at Gerrard Consulting Limited since September 2006. Paul is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. Paul has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. Paul has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Paul was the founding Chair of the British Computer Society Information Systems Examination Board (BCS ISEB) of the Software Testing certification board. Paul is also the host of the UK Test Management Forum. Paul earned his M.Sc. degree in Concrete Structures from Imperial College London and M.A. in Engineering Science from Pembroke College. Paul wrote “Risk-Based E-Business Testing” with Neil Thompson in 2002 and the “Business Story Pocketbook” with Susan Windsor in 2012. He wrote “The Tester’s Pocketbook” in 2009. Paul won the EuroSTAR European Testing Excellence award in 2011 and The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013. Paul is the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR 214 conference in Dublin.
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About Gerrard Consulting: Gerrard Consulting has been delivering testing services since 1992.
Lee Sanderson
Principal Software Craftsperson of Codurance
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About Codurance: Codurance is a software company that offers embedded solutions and software creation.
Erkut Evirgen
CEO, Principal Consultant of Wisen
Erkut Evirgen is the founder and principal consultant at Wisen.
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About Wisen: Wisely Crafted Software Solutions
Kylie Fowler
Principal Consultant of ITAM Intelligence
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About ITAM Intelligence: IT Asset Management Consultancy, specialising in software, hardware and mobile device management.
