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 Board Member operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a Board Member 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.
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James Brown
CTO and Board Member of CloudMade
James Brown, CloudMade’s CTO, has been working in the field of telecommunications, geo-spatial data, database/ERP and retail industries for over 25 years. Jim has spent most of this time on creating new products and building/running technical groups and consulting practices. Jim has great experience working with a mix of large corporates (places like Kmart, Oracle and EDS) and startups/smaller technology organizations (places like Symbian, Sonopia, and SurfKitchen). He has been keeping his hands on technically around database, technical architecture and app development.
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About CloudMade: CloudMade delivers excitement through simplicity to automotive OEMs and Tier 1s
Andy Golding
Board Member of Monedo
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About : Monedo uses machine-learning technologies to provide access to better credit for the underbanked.
Joshua Alliance
Board Member of OpenWeb
Joshua Alliance serves on Board of SimilarWeb, a global leader in Web Measurement & Online Competitive Intelligence, Moon Active,social games developer and Spot.IM, a conversation network where people can share ideas and have discussions on various topics.
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About : OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online.
Rafael Neville
Board Member & Assistant Manager of Advanced Virtual
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About Advanced Virtual, Advanced Virtual, Animaclub, CleverInvest, Cosmosair, Dotspot, Flook, Kubik Records, Open Dynamics, Roirobot, Webgenius, Zanker: Artificial Intelligence, ML, DL, Operating System, Personal Supercomputers, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Big Data, IoT, Blockchain
Amy Weatherup
Board Member of Audio Analytic
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About : Audio Analytic creates exceptional human experiences through giving consumer technology a greater sense of hearing.
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Emma Blaylock
Director, Board Member of Optalysys
Emma is an experienced business strategist. She specialises in corporate strategy, corporate development, business development, M&A, media, high tech, consumer electronics, consulting and project management
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About Optalysys: Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing.
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Costis Kompis
Advisory Board Member of DMR
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About : DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Marcus Miholich
Board Member of Data Quarks Limited
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About : Online platform for facts & information neutrality. Wikipedia/Pinterest for infographics. AI curated and tamper proofed by Blockchain.
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Prof Andrew Zisserman FRS
Scientific Advisory Board Member of Optellum
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About : Optellum develops an imaging biomarker for smart lung cancer detection.