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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 London based CEO / Chief Executive Officer operating in the Advertising space. If you think a CEO / Chief Executive Officer is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
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Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Joe Root
Co-Founder & CEO of Permutive
Joe is co-founder and CEO of Permutive, the only publisher-first Data Management Platform (DMP) that allows publishers to see 100% of their audience and target them in real-time. Y Combinator and EQT backed, Permutive counts Conde Nast, Immediate Media, Hubert Burda, IDG, Dennis and ESI Media among its growing list of clients. Following a BEng Computing at Imperial College and MSc Computer Sciences at Oxford, Joe chose to drop out of a PhD in Mathematical Genomics at Cambridge to start Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Ido Erlichman
Group CEO of Kape Technologies
Group CEO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Julio Bruno
CEO of Time Out Group plc
Julio Bruno is a global leader with a track record in starting, scaling, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of companies. Julio currently serves Time Out Group plc as CEO.
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About Time Out Group plc: Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
Justin Billingsley
CEO, Publicis Groupe DACH and Brazil of Publicis Groupe
Justin Billingsley is Head of Publicis Emil, the agency designed with data and digital at the core to accelerate marketing and business transformation for Mercedes-Benz. During the year-long selection process to find a new global network agency for Mercedes-Benz, Justin led the winning Publicis Groupe response in 2017 and then the subsequent creation of Publicis Emil in 2018. Justin is also a member of the Publicis Groupe Management Committee and is the Publicis Groupe Chairman for DACH and Brazil. Prior to joining Publicis Groupe in 2009 as CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi China, Justin held marketing leadership roles at Unilever, Nokia, Orange, and The Coca-Cola Company. An Australian citizen, he is based between Berlin and London.
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About Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.
Justin Billingsley
CEO, Publicis Groupe DACH and Brazil of Publicis Groupe
Justin Billingsley is Head of Publicis Emil, the agency designed with data and digital at the core to accelerate marketing and business transformation for Mercedes-Benz. During the year-long selection process to find a new global network agency for Mercedes-Benz, Justin led the winning Publicis Groupe response in 2017 and then the subsequent creation of Publicis Emil in 2018. Justin is also a member of the Publicis Groupe Management Committee and is the Publicis Groupe Chairman for DACH and Brazil. Prior to joining Publicis Groupe in 2009 as CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi China, Justin held marketing leadership roles at Unilever, Nokia, Orange, and The Coca-Cola Company. An Australian citizen, he is based between Berlin and London.
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About Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.
Euan Jarvie
Chief Executive Officer UK & Ireland of Dentsu Aegis Network
Euan is a renowned business leader with more than 25 years’ experience building progressive media and communications agencies in the UK, Ireland, EMEA and North America. He joined Dentsu Ageis Network in 2015 as the Executive Director of global clients at Carat where he drove growth across the Carat global client portfolio. In 2017 Euan went onto become President, Global Clients for Dentsu Aegis Network. Euan has a track record in establishing market leading client services, winning and leading some of the world’s most prestigious clients like JLR, Mondelez, Beiersdorf at Carat, and the likes of Goodyear Dunlop, Subway, & Sony. Prior to DAN, Euan spent 18 years at MediaCom running operations in EMEA and the US operation before that. In 1997, he founded Mediacom Scotland, growing the business to become the largest media agency in the country within six years.
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About Dentsu Aegis Network: Dentsu Aegis Network is the first digitally native network that specializes in media, digital and creative communications services.
Muayyad Shehadeh
Co-Founder and CEO of Uhive
Over 25 years of experience, CEO of Genie9, BigMIND and UHIVE A long and broad experience in machine learning algorithms and A.I. systems.Created BigMIND cloud which was the first cloud solution to utilise cold and hot storage, and integrate A.I, Muayyad has a degree in Architecture. He is well known as a Windows C++/WIN API Guru with deep conceptual thinking; which is an ability he developed and enhanced through his Architecture degree Spent last 5 years working on UHive Social Network Idea
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About Uhive, Zoolz: Uhive is a social network that lets users socialize, interact, and find people across the world while earning its own digital currency.
Norm Johnston
CEO of Unruly
Norm Johnston is Chief Digital Officer at MindShare.
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About MindShare, Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Rebecca Miskin
CEO of Gloo Networks plc
Rebecca Miskin has 23 years’ executive experience re-aligning UK, US & European organisations in media and sport, deploying a data driven, customer centric and collaborative operational approach. She has held a number of high profile industry roles in publishing, digital & sport. She specialises in business turnarounds and digital transformations delivering new revenue streams and operational improvements with a proven track record of generating growth & value in a public environment. Rebecca co-founded Gloo Networks Plc at the beginning of 2015.
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About DC Thomson, Gloo Networks plc: Gloo Networks plc is a new blueprint for digital media.
David Webb
CEO, Brands of CSM Sport and Entertainment
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About CSM Sport and Entertainment: CSM Sport and Entertainment provides sports and entertainment marketing services.
Matthew Vandrau
Group CEO of CSM Sport and Entertainment
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About CSM Sport and Entertainment: CSM Sport and Entertainment provides sports and entertainment marketing services.
Mark Whitehead
CEO, Active of CSM Sport and Entertainment
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About CSM Sport and Entertainment: CSM Sport and Entertainment provides sports and entertainment marketing services.
Alastair Bewick
CEO, Live of CSM Sport and Entertainment
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About CSM Sport and Entertainment: CSM Sport and Entertainment provides sports and entertainment marketing services.
Damon Reeve
CEO of The Ozone Project
Damon Reeve works as a CEO Of The Ozone Project. He is a former CEO at Authenticated Digital and Hereford Technologies respectively. He has 10 years of experience in the Internet and advertising industries across Europe, the United States, and Australia. Before launching Unanimis, Damon ran his own brand and interactive marketing consultancy after being Head of Marketing for Excite UK. Damon is also a co-founder of OpenX and remains on the Board as a non-executive Director.
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About The Ozone Project: The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
Graham Cooke
Founder & CEO of Qubit
Graham has always been tuned into interesting technology and cut his teeth whilst creating a new on-demand TV technology in his pre-Google days. A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13 when he opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine, he started his first company when he was 15. Graham joined Google in 2005 and lead the global strategy around how to optimize conversion rate effectiveness. He decided to leave with 3 colleagues (Dan, Emre and Ian) to set up QuBit in order to tackle the emerging data revolution.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
James Draper
Founder and CEO of Bidstack
From Bidstack.com: James founded Bidstack in 2015 utilising more than 15 years of commercial experience to launch his own business. Since the initial launch he has seen the company grow from a one man operation to an international business which trades on the London Stock Exchange. Under his stewardship, Bidstack became the first ever Crowdcube funded company to go public and he pivoted the business into gaming in 2017. James leads the business as a whole and is responsible for the company’s direction, growth, development, and vision.
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About Bidstack: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
Karen Peett
EA to Global COO & EMEA CEO of IPG Mediabrands
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About IPG Mediabrands: IPG Mediabrands is committed to driving automated buying, pay-for-performance, and digital innovation solutions.
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Andrew Peake
CEO VCCP London of VCCP Group
Andrew Peake joined VCCP from WFCA in June 2009 as Head of Retail, working predominantly on the O2 account. At WFCA Andrew was Client Services Director gaining extensive retail experience working with Budgens for six years as well as Londis, Bathstore, Carpetright, The Perfume Shop and Multiyork. He has worked on through-the-line campaigns with all these clients, including national and regional above-the-line communications, direct marketing, instore customer journey and tactical POS.
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About VCCP Group, VCCP Group: VCCP Group provides directory for top marketers, agencies, media companies.
Sophie Maunder
CEO, VCCPme of VCCP Group
Sophie started life on the WPP Fellowship sampling the best of PR, advertising and research amongst the WPP family in the UK and abroad. She stayed in Sydney and started her trade as a Strategic Planner before returning to the Motherland and finding her true home at VCCP. As lead planner on O2 for many years, her proudest moments were winning the IPA Effectiveness Award Grand Prix in 2004, the IPA Effectiviness Gold in 2006 and launching Be More Dog in 2013. She became the youngest female partner in 2006, head of planning in 2007, Group Strategy Officer in 2011. She was one of Management Today’s top 35 under 35 in 2009, was listed in the part time power list in 2014, and has served on the IPA Value of Creativity board. Sophie is an active member of WACL and sits on the Executive committee for the Future Leaders Award. Sophie became CEO OF VCCPme in 2014 where she brings her passion for the very best in strategic thinking, and her passion for creative ideas to the fore in data and direct communications.
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About VCCP Group: VCCP Group provides directory for top marketers, agencies, media companies.
Cliff Hall
Founder & CEO of VCCP Group
Cliff began his career in film before joining the Guardian Newspaper Group working in advertising and on editorial features. He then joined the Saatchi Group to handle Marks & Spencer and Ford. After that he joined Clark & Taylor, heading up part of the agency’s integrated offer looking after Sainsbury’s and Whitbread retail and their beer company. He was later appointed as MD of Loewy Integrated working on M&S Simply Food, Ray-Ban and the BAA business before joining the VCCP Partnership where he founded VCCP Blue. Cliff is responsible for comparethemarket.com and the award-winning meerkat campaign, Coors Light, Muller and ASDA.
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About VCCP Group: VCCP Group provides directory for top marketers, agencies, media companies.
Michael Sugden
CEO, VCCP Partnership of VCCP Group
Michael joined VCCP on its first day of business in 2002, becoming Managing Director in 2006 and CEO in 2012. In recent years VCCP has built itself a reputation for business transformation as evidenced by the likes of O2, comparethemarket.com and easyJet. VCCP has been Marketing or Marketing Week’s Agency of the Year for three out of the last four years and has also topped the new business league for the past three years. Michael started his career at Claydon Heeley before moving to HHCL. During his career he’s been privileged to work on brands such as O2, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Telefonica and British Gas amongst others. The proudest part of his career is being part of the team that has built VCCP to a 500 strong agency in 13 short years.
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About VCCP Group: VCCP Group provides directory for top marketers, agencies, media companies.
Matthew Kitcherside
CEO, EMEA of Hogarth Worldwide
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About Hogarth Worldwide: Hogarth is a marketing implementation agency.
Evren Kacar
Founder, CEO of DAN Global
15 years of experience in digital marketing and agency business. Established Synergy, one of the first generation of digital marketing agencies in 2002. In line with the rising trends, Co-founded Boomerang Social Media Agency in 2010. Managed both agencies and supported the development of digital marketing industry in Turkey with DijitalAjanslar.com which began as a local network for digital agencies in 2013. Witnessed the rise of the digital age. Gained deep experience in all areas of digital marketing, working with global brands and Turkey’s most respectable brands since 2002, as the definiton of web agencies became interactive agencies with web 2.0, and digital agencies as of today. Established DAN Global in Turkey to provide online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital marketing agencies and global community of marketers. Expanded his business to the UK in 2017, and established DAN Global (UK) Ltd. in London which owns and operates the Digital Agency Network (DAN), an all-in-one platform to discover the best digital marketing agencies in the world.
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About DAN Global, Digital Agency Network: DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Titus Sharpe
CEO of MVF
Titus is CEO and Co-Founder of MVF, one the world’s fastest growing customer acquisition firms. He has a passion for starting Internet companies and has had two successful exits thus far. Titus co-founded Approved Index in 2004, built it into the UK’s largest B2B Lead Generation firm and then sold it to Reed Elsevier in 2008. In 2001 Titus co-founded a Web Development agency called Moodia, specialising in website optimisation. The company was sold to Zone Content in 2009. Titus is also a Fulbright Scholar and holds a first class degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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About Goals for Giving, MVF, Profind: MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Suhail Rizvi
Co-Founder & CEO of PixelPoint Group
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About PixelPoint Group: PixelPoint Group is a Digital Agency that specialises in Video Production and Social Media Management.
Stephen Upstone
Co-Founder & CEO of LoopMe
Stephen Upstone is an established figure in the mobile industry, having worked in mobile advertising since 2006, at the world’s leading mobile companies, including Ad Infuse (sold to Velti), LoopMe and many more. He has very strong experience in mobile and an excellent track record in sales, growth and general management in venture capital backed mobile technology companies including two company sales and one NASDAQ listing. Stephen was Managing Director Europe for Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and then VP Sales and Business Development Europe for Velti after the takeover. Stephen was part of the senior management team that successfully listed Velti on the NASDAQ and was present in New York for the ringing of the opening bell, raising $300 million USD and reaching over $1 billion USD in valuation. Whilst at Ad Infuse and Velti, he opened offices across the globe, helping to build a multi-million dollar business, working with companies such as Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Sky and Daily Mail. Prior to Ad Infuse Stephen worked at Touch Clarity (sold to Omniture), FirstCapital, Universal McCann and Lowe Howard Spink. As an experienced mobile advertising expert, Stephen founded LoopMe, the world’s largest mobile video advertising platform, reaching over 2 billion consumers worldwide. Since LoopMe’s foundation, Stephen has opened ten offices all over the world and grown its employee base from only a handful to over one hundred in under three years, developing the company from a start-up to a successful medium sized company with a monthly revenue in the high six figures. Stephen is also Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association UK Advisory Board, a member of the EMEA Board and a supporter of the mobile marketing and advertising initiatives. Stephen was previously Co-Chair of the Global Advertising Committee and was a Member of the IAB Mobile Advertising Committee.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
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
Emma Robbins
Founder and CEO of Harvest Digital
Emma Wilson was in her early twenties she co-founded a new advertising agency, Harvest Digital. Setting up any new business is fraught with challenges, yet under Emma’s leadership Harvest has not only survived, but flourished as one of London’s outstanding new media agencies. It’s an exceptional achievement for someone so young – one earned through hard work, dedication, and steely determination. “I’ve had to think and act quite differently to how I might naturally want to,” says Emma, describing her reputation as a straight-talking, no-nonsense manager. “It’s not always easy, but in order to achieve the things I’ve wanted to achieve, I’ve had to sometimes be quite hard.”
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About Harvest Digital: Harvest Digital create involving experiences for consumers and deliver great results for their clients.
Mark Read
CEO of WPP
Mark Read is the CEO at WPP Digital. Mark was appointed a director in March 2005. He is chief executive of WPP Digital, and was previously WPP’s Director of Strategy.Mark is a director of CHI&Partners. Mark worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles.Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, Mark was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK. Mark is a trustee of the Natural History Museum Development Trust.
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About WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Nick Moutter
Co-founder and CEO of Admedo
Nick Moutter is an adTech entrepreneur and commercial leader with proven experience developing and commercializing cutting-edge enterprise technology solutions for some of the world’s largest advertisers and agencies. Passionate about simplifying and improving online advertising through highly scalable, data driven enterprise technology. Nick founded Admedo to help make RTB available to the masses, through its low cost self serve model.
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About Admedo, Admedo: Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform that focuses on developing performance-driven tools.
Siavash Mahdavi
CEO of AI Music
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About AI Music, University College London (UCL): Exploring the relationship between music and AI to enable a new age of music consumption
Chris Donnelly
CEO of Verb Brands
Chris Donnelly is the founder of Verb Brands; a luxury digital agency based in London & New York. Verb specialises in creating digital strategies for brands by building websites, eCommerce platforms and conducting SEO, PPC, Programmatic and social campaigns for luxury brands. Operating across fashion, hospitality and lifestyle, Chris has led large-scale digital projects for international brands such Jimmy Choo, Bugatti, Clive Christian, The Wolseley, Claridges, The Connaught, The Berkeley, ALEXACHUNG, Boodles, Creed Fragrances and many more. As an industry expert, Chris regularly writes, speaks and consults on digital marketing and the evolution of the luxury digital market and the emergence of the Chinese consumer. Chris has become one of the leading experts in the luxury Chinese consumer and helps his brands to expand their businesses by focusing on connecting with the Chinese consumer both in China and locally. Chris launched Verb at university when he was 21 and since he has grown the company organically into one of the most recognised luxury digital agencies in the world. While working in the strategy and creative part of the agency, Chris has helped drive growth to a team of 60+ who are serving both national and international luxury brands. Currently hiring for digital marketing positions for SEO, PPC and Project Management.
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About Lottie, Verb Brands: Verb Brands is a full-service digital agency that drives growth, awareness, and revenue located in London.
James Henderson
Co-founder and CEO of Zephr
James Henderson is co-founder and CEO of Zephr, the dynamic Subscription Experience Platform built for the effective optimisation and personalisation of the user experience, in order to drive conversion.
After a decade of building custom technologies for clients such as The Telegraph, Discovery and HSBC, James co-founded Zephr in 2018.
James and co-founder Chris Scott raised $3M in funding in 2018 to build Zephr, and then raised another $8M in 2020 on the back of huge success. Today, Zephr operates out of London and New York, with employees representing all corners of the world, and serves a host of international digital publishing and media brands by enabling them to create dynamic experiences for their customers.
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Jude Ower
Founder & CEO of PlayMob
Jude Ower is changing the world through game play. She has spent 10 years working within games, creating educational, training and awareness games across a range of organisations from corporate, government and education. Jude is now concentrating on social and mobile games, and how engaging mass audience of game players can make a world changing difference.
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About Department for International Trade, PlayMob: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Sam Speaight
CEO of VRJAM
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About Invisceral, VRJAM: VRJAM is a content platform that empowers rightsholders to create and share digital content and virtual events with global audiences
Ted Nash
CEO & Co-Founder of Tapdaq
Ted Nash built his first business aged 12 and eventually became the first teenager in the world to achieve 1 million app installs. He’s slightly crazy. FUN FACTS Ted is a talker, but he doesn’t get everything his own way. Ted currently holds the record for the fastest fail in a UK motorbike test – 3 seconds (he crashed into the starting gate).
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About Liquid5, Liquid5, Tapdaq: Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users.
Tim Cobbold
CEO & Executive Director of UBM Plc
Tim is the CEO & Executive Director of UBM, an event services platform.
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About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Michael Maximilian Moss
Co-Founder & CEO of PromoMii
Co-Founder & CEO at PromoMii.
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About Gazoom, PromoMii: A.I. powered video content creation SaaS platform used by the likes of Disney, NENT, VRT and more
Mike Charalambous
Founder / CEO of Threedium
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About Frenzi Media, Threedium: We create memorable brand experiences, drive product considerations and deliver conversions through 3D/AR Technology.
David Kershaw
Co-Founder ,CEO & Exec Director of M&C Saatchi
David Kershaw is a founding director of M&C Saatchi. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1982 after obtaining an MBA at London Business School. He became managing director in 1990 and was made chairman and chief executive of the UK agency in 1994.
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About M&C Saatchi: M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data and technology.
Emma Statham
CEO of Four Communications
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About Four Communications, Four Communications: Four is a leading independent, integrated communications agency with offices in London and the Gulf.
Emma Statham
CEO of Four Communications
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About Four Communications, Four Communications: Four is a leading independent, integrated communications agency with offices in London and the Gulf.
Sean Riley
Founder & CEO of Ad Dynamo
Sean Riley is founder and CEO at Ad Dynamo. Prior to this, he was managing director at Entelligence Ltd. and had worked one at E-Data Solutions and Credit Suisse.
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About Ad Dynamo: Ad Dynamo is Africa’s largest digital media sales house. Ad Dynamo manages sales in Africa for Twitter, Oath, Snapchat & Spotify.
Jonathon Whiteley
CEO of Incisive Media
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About Incisive Media, Investment Week, V3 co uk: Tweeting Career Opportunities at Incisive Media! Media Sales, Events, Marketing and Editorial / Journalism Jobs. Find us on facebook.
Asaf Peled
Founder and CEO of Minute Media
Asaf is the Chief Executive Officer of Minute Media, parent company of 90min. Asaf founded 90min in 2011as FTBpro. Since then, 90min has grown to be the world’s largest football media platform, driven by a contributor-driven model, and has expanded the brand throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Asaf is involved in all aspects of Minute Media’s growth and operations, from product development to marketing and content. Prior to 90min, Asaf was the founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Top 7 International and also spent four years at Cisco Systems Israel where he was responsible for business development in the Israeli market. Asaf has a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a bachelors of arts from Tel Aviv University. He resides in London and his favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs.
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About 90min, Minute Media: Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Shashank Sripada
Founder and CEO of Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.)
Shashank Sripada is the Founder and CEO of Bubblo and is currently associated with Marcena Capital Ltd as the company’s Vice President. He is also a former Associate at Oak Investment Management Group. He earned hos Bachelor’s Degree in Science (BSc), Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science and had his Master’s Degree in Science, Management at the same school.
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About Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.), Marcena Capital Ltd: Bubblo is an artificial Intelligence based virtual reality discovery app and marketing platform.
Pete Campbell
CEO & Founder of Kaizen
Pete Reis-Campbell is the CEO & Founder of UK-based digital marketing agency, Kaizen. Kaizen works with brands like Symantec, MusixMatch, and TravelSupermarket to create award-winning content and boost SEO performance, through earned links from top-tier media publications such as the Daily Mail, Marie Claire, Lonely Planet and Business Insider. The company is the fastest growing independent agency for gross profit, as recognized by The Drum, and was featured in the top 50 startups of 2017 by Startups.co.uk. Pete is a regular public speaker at industry-leading SEO conferences such as BrightonSEO, SMX London and SAScon, a published writer on StateofDigital and SearchEngineWatch, and has won awards himself such as the ‘Rising Star’ category at the Travolution Awards for his work with Thomas Cook. Feel free to write to Pete about content marketing, link building, PR, SEO, voice search, entrepreneurship, business growth and more.
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About Kaizen: Kaizen is a content marketing agency in London, based in Moorgate.
Ross Westgate
CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Creative Media
Ross has over 22 years in the global broadcast business, helping to launch the European TV operations of Dow Jones and CNBC. He developed the world’s first tri-anchored, transcontinental daily live newscast programme Worldwide Exchange, a show he hosted from inception in 2006 until leaving to help build Infinity, where he is also Executive Producer across the IFTV series. Whilst at CNBC Ross additionally became the face of the channel’s media coverage, presenting ‘Media Talk’ as well as hosting panels and broadcasting from MIPCOM, the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival and Mobile World Congress. Ross is a regular business commentator and has been a frequent moderator at the annual meetings of The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Ambrosetti Forum in Lake Como, the CBI and many one off events including The Future of Digital Media at BAFTA.
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About Infinity Creative Media: Infinity Creative Media creates quality media content designed for global commercial exploitation across multi-platform outlets.
Lisa Myers
Founder & CEO of Verve Search
Lisa Myers is the founder and CEO of Verve Search. She has been working in Marketing since 2001 and got “bit” by the “SEOl” bug in 2005, when she was tasked with setting up the Search department at a Integrated Marketing Agency. In 2009 she decided to start her own agency and Verve Search was born. Lisa is a prolific part of the SEO community worldwide and contributes regularly to publications on and offline as well as best practice guides and round tables. She is the founder of Women in Search, SEO-Chicks.com and co-founder of StateofSearch.com. Lisa also speaks frequently at conferences in the search and general digital marketing industry worldwide and is often hired to train internal teams, agency and universities on SEO, Content Marketing and Social.
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About Verve Search: Verve Search operates as a SEO and content marketing agency.
Sonny Michael Holmqvist
CEO of Basebone
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About Basebone: Basebone is a digital content business focused on the mobile phone user. We are the creators and owners of baseplay streaming services.
Mark Iremonger
CEO of iCrossing
Mark is the CEO of iCrossing in the UK. Owned by Hearst, iCrossing is the marketing agency for a modern world. Annual agency reviews by Forrester and Gartner have consistently ranked iCrossing as a market leader for the past five years. 2016 saw iCrossing collect the Grand Prix, Best Digital Full Service, Best Strategic Thinking and Best Search at the RAR Awards, the only UK awards based on independent client feedback. 2016 also saw iCrossing announce a strategic partnership and minority acquisition of content marketing agency Mediablaze, and move into a new home on Broadwick Street in the heart of London’s Soho. Mark became CEO in August 2015 following four years as Chief Strategy Officer. He joined from Proximity BBDO where he was Head of Digital and Planning for six years, leading its digital transformation. Before this he was MD of creative shop unit9, voted the 9th most creative agency in the UK by AdAge International, and MD of cross platform marketing start-up Sleeper, that challenged conventional advertising models by bringing the UK’s best TV and digital creatives together. Mark has been a member of the British Council’s Creative Industry’s Advisory Panel, a Vice Chair of BIMA, a member of D&AD, and is a board member of Wired Sussex, a member organisation that promotes digital creativity, innovation and growth.
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About iCrossing: iCrossing is a digital marketing company providing planning and development services for brands and agencies.
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Mihkel Jäätma
CEO of Realeyes
Mihkel is the CEO of Realeyes. An ambitious entrepreneur and a visionary, he saw opportunity for a ‘Google of Emotions’ before ‘Big Data’ was even coined. Mihkel co-founded Realeyes in 2006 with Elnar and Martin, whilst studying for his MBA at Oxford University. They set out to build a world-leading business intelligence firm – and the company is now the technology leader in webcam-based emotions measurement. Always looking for the next step in establishing Realeyes at the forefront of the industry, Mihkel has already secured multi-million partnerships with several of the world’s finest international publishers, agencies and brands.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Chris Wickson
Co-founder and CEO of Akkroo
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About Akkroo, Integrate: A universal, customisable lead capture solution that helps businesses maximise their return on exhibiting at events.
Yannis Piperakis-Papadakis
CEO of DOPE Studio
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About DOPE Studio: DOPE creates [D]ata driven, fully [O]ptimized, top [P]erforming, digital [E]xperiences for local & international brands!
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
Rupert Hodson
CEO of Dianomi
Rupert, Co-Founder and CEO, is responsible for the sales and business development of dianomi and its geographical expansion in both North America and APAC. Prior to founding dianomi Rupert spent 5 years at Interactive Investor heading up the commercial team. He began his financial career in 1994 joining Petropavlosk PLC.
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About Dianomi: Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Robert Walters
CEO and Founder of Robert Walters
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About Robert Walters: Robert Walters is a global, specialist professional recruitment consultancy.
Mark Howley
COO Publicis Media & CEO Starcom UK of Publicis Media
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About Publicis Media: Publicis Media India company’s specialized agencies and marketing services include interactive communication services.
Matt Lerner
Founder & CEO of Startup Core Strengths
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About Startup Core Strengths: Startup Core Strengths offers marketing strategy and executive coaching to startups.
Gideon Joseph
CEO of Transatlantic
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About Transatlantic: Transatlantic is a communications consultancy focused on accelerating the growth of start up fast growth businesses
Clare Julie McKeeve
Founder & CEO of Luxcite Limited
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About Eaton Gate Capital Partners, Luxcite Limited, TLNT Holdings SA: Investor – Luxury and Premium Brands
Christophe Collet
CEO of S4M
Christophe Collet is Founder & CEO at S4M.
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About S4M: S4M is an advertising technology that connects brands to consumers by bridging the gap between digital advertising and the real-world.
Reuben Selby
Founder and CEO of Contact
Reuben Selby is the Founder and CEO at Contact.
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About Contact, Cortex: Contact is the place where creatives manage their career and get paid.
Tom Hares
CEO & Co-Founder of Buzzbike
Prior to dreaming up Buzzbike, Tom led advertising for Apple, inspiring him to create something that not only made an impact on the world, but did so with craft and care at every turn.
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About Buzzbike: Buzzbike is launching a tech-driven cycle scheme for London, creating a new sponsorship platform for brands.
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Peter Mason
Co-Founder & CEO of Illuma
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About Illuma: Leading the way in contextual scaling for online advertising campaigns. Privacy friendly, without using cookies or personal data.
Joe Zender
Founder & CEO of Nez
Joe Zender is the Head of Growth at Zilch.
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About Nez, Zilch: Nez is a local marketing channel for the eating and drinking out of home sector
Tim Bleakley
CEO of Ocean Outdoor
Tim specialises in media brand building and turnarounds, with first hand experience of leading businesses through private equity consolidation and exit and leading large business units within blue chip corporates. Tim has held senior roles in TV, radio and outdoor including CBS Outdoor, Viacom and Emap Advertising. Tim led the Ocean Group through an MBO backed by LDC and LDC’s equity sale in 2014 to Searchlight Capital.
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About Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Richard Dennys
CEO of Webgains
CEO of Webgains. Europe’s fastest growing affiliate and performance marketing network.
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About Digital Business Academy, Webgains: Performance marketing specialists. We work with Europe’s most influential and exciting online publishers and technology partners.
Ayo Dawodu
CEO & Co-Founder of Loystar
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About Loystar: Loystar is a loyalty and retail platform that helps merchants build customer loyalty and drive repeat sales in their business.
Alex Northcott
Founder and CEO of Roxhill Media
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About Roxhill Media: Roxhill Media provides media intelligence and journalist information.
Michael Islip
CEO, UK of Digitas
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About Digitas: DigitasLBi operates as a marketing and technology agency that transforms businesses for the digital age.
Ezra Pierce
CEO of Avocet
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About Avocet: Avocet provides a demand-side platform for digital advertising with viewability, cross-device and class-leading optimization all built-in.
Mo Firouzabadian
co CEO of Lumata
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About Lumata: Lumata is the leading global provider of real-time customer lifecycle management, advertising, and data monetisation software and services.
Erwin Werring
Co-Founder & CEO of Attrace
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About Attrace: A Decentralised Affiliate Marketing Platform.
Alex Paterson
CEO of WhatJobs
CEO of www.whatjobs.com the global job search engine
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About WhatJobs: WHATJOBS? is a market-leading, independently-run job search engine with offices in London, Dublin and Bangalore.
Tom Bureau
Chief Executive Officer of Immediate Media Co.
Tom has extensive experience of running print, cross-media and digital content and platform companies. He was co-founder and CEO of digital start-up Silicon Media Group. After its acquisition by CNET Networks, Tom led the expansion of this highly profitable digital content pure play in Europe. Tom joined cross-media platform business Magicalia as CEO in mid 2008, working with Exponent Private Equity. The merger of Magicalia, BBC Magazines and Origin Publishing in November 2011 created Immediate Media Co. Tom has steered the company to fast growth in both profitability and digital innovation since then.
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About Immediate Media Co.: Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.
Al Ramich
Founder and CEO of SmallGiants.Agency
Al founded SmallGiants from a passion for taking small companies and building them into giants of their fields. Al is also a founder and CEO at deep-tech startup Loomi.ai. Previously leading digital innovation at Toshiba, Samsung, Vodafone and helped grow IHS Markit digital strategy from a startup to a global $40B giant.
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About Forbes Agency Council, loomi.ai, SmallGiants.Agency: Small Giants is a marketing and business development agency for architecture, engineering, construction & commercial real estate companies.
Martin Adams
Co-Founder & CEO of Codec
Martin is an international keynote speaker on innovation, artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies, and the Founder and CEO of Codec.ai. Codec.ai has raised millions & uses artificial intelligence to identify new target audiences and understand what content and products they want to consume, all before brands have to guess. Codec won ‘the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Marketing’ award at CognitionX and has been named one of the ‘Hottest AI Businesses in Europe’ by TechCrunch. Martin has been recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 Entrepreneurs by Maserati and as an innovation advisor he has worked with some of the most high-profile individuals and organisations in the world on how to use technology to be more innovative and connect more deeply with real people- including companies like Pfizer and Red Bull and governmental organisations like the Royal Marines. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the Co-Founder of the Social Media Unit @ UCL and the Digital Leadership Council.
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About Ambient Tone, Codec, CognitionX, Digital Leadership Council, London Speaker Bureau, University College London (UCL): We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Andy Taylor
Co Founder & CEO of Little Dot Studios
Andy Taylor has held several senior positions in media and has been a pioneer in online video. In 2000, he was MD of Victoria Real during the launch of Big Brother when online live streaming from the Big Brother house changed television forever. In 2004, he became Managing Director of Digital at Channel 4.
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About Little Dot Studios: Little Dot Studios is one of the fastest growing next-generation media companies.
Neil Martin
Chief Executive Officer of RugbyPass
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About RugbyPass: RugbyPass is a rugby media business that focuses on OTT broadcasting, video, social, audio, and editorial.
Sarah Golding
CEO of CHI & Partners
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About CHI & Partners: CHI & Partners was created 10 years ago by three partners, Simon Clemmow & Johnny Hornby & Charles Inge.
Rohan Freeman
CEO of Sine Wave Entertainment Ltd
Mr. Rohan Freeman serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Sine Wave Entertainment Limited. Mr. Freeman serves as the Chief Domain Consultant of Virtual Worlds & Interactions at Customer Centria Enterprise Solutions Private Limited. Mr. Freeman was a Director of Europe’s largest media investment company, Ingenious Media Plc. He also sits on the Reform Club Science & Technology Committee and he has written and spoken extensively on media, technology and investment, for The Financial Times, Deloitte Consulting, Forrester Research, PricewaterhouseCoopers and numerous journals and magazines. He has also worked as a technology strategy consultant for JP Morgan, The Cabinet Office and Hewlett Packard. Mr. Freeman is a University of Connecticut alumni.
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About Sine Wave Entertainment Ltd: Sine Wave Entertainment is a virtual space for MMO developers and creators to interact with each other.
Andrew Sharland
Founder & CEO of Fresh8 Gaming
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About Fresh8 Gaming: Fresh8 Gaming is a technology company delivering software as a service solutions to the sports betting industry.
Carl White
Co-Founder, Group CEO of Nano Interactive
Carl has extensive experience leading significant businesses in the online and offline world. He was CEO for ValueClick’s International business for over a decade and was responsible for building a very significant and profitable business for the NASDAQ listed enterprise. He oversaw huge growth in areas as diverse as affiliate marketing, mobile advertising, shopping comparison, display advertising and analytics. He was also responsible for a number of very successful acquisitions and integrations. Prior to his time in digital Carl also had a successful career as a magazine publisher. He lives in South West London with his wife and three children and includes in his list of achievements the fact that he has successfully indoctrinated his children to join him as Aston Villa supporters.
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About Nano Interactive, Search123: Nano Interactive combines live intent data with deep contextual analysis to deliver successful marketing campaigns for top brands
Rael Cline
Co-Founder / CEO of Nozzle.ai
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About Nozzle.ai: Nozzle.ai is an eCommerce and advertising optimization platform for Amazon.
Erhan Korhaliller
CEO & Founder of EAK Digital
EAK Digital is a leading tech PR agency that works with clients to help them achieve mass media coverage, brand recognition and visibility driven growth. Erhan was recently the main stage Host/MC at the Austria Blockchain Summit and is a regular Host/MC/Moderator at major blockchain conferences. Erhan is also the presenter of EAK TV, interviewing blockchain’s thought leaders, including exclusives with Changpeng Zhao of Binance, Charles Hoskinson of IOHK and Johnson Zhao of NEO.
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About EAK Digital: EAK Digital Turning Local Experts into Global Influencers. Get writing for major publications. Grow your influence today.
Marisol Grandon
Founder & CEO of Unfold Stories
Marisol Grandon is CEO of Unfold Stories, a British startup specializing in digital storytelling for international development and purpose led brands. Marisol spent 10 years in UK government including 8 years at Department for International Development as Head of Creative Content where she pioneered innovative content, immersive films and engaging social media campaigns on global issues.
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About Unfold Stories: Unfold Stories specialise in digital storytelling for people in international development and global issues.
James B Gambrell
CEO of Supponor
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About Supponor: Supponor transforms real world mass-audience TV visible signage into highly targeted virtual brand messaging in sports broadcasting.
David Ripert
CEO of Poplar Studio
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About Poplar Studio: Poplar is a creative platform that enables brands and retailers to produce 3D and AR experiences on-demand, powered by a talent cloud.
Nick Sykes
Global CEO of FutureBrand
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About FutureBrand: FutureBrand seamlessly combines expertise in brand strategy, identity, digital, retail, environmental, product and service design.
Irina Gofman
Founder & CEO of Viasat World
Irina Gofman was appointed as President and CEO of Viasat World in January 2016. Prior to this, Irina worked for MTG AB, International Media and Broadcasting Group, as Executive Vice President of the Group’s Russian & CIS broadcasting operations and Pay TV Emerging Markets, and as CEO of MTG Russia & CIS. Irina was also CEO of Rambler Media Group between 2004 and 2007, and worked for MTG between 2002 and 2004 as Chief Operating Officer of the DTV Russian TV. Irina was instrumental in the launch of Viasat Broadcasting’s wholesale pay-TV business in Russia. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Philology from Moscow State University and an MBA from Babson College in the United States.
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About Viasat World: Viasat World has a rich and diverse portfolio of content brands – movies, factual and sport.
Mark Hain
Founder and CEO of DingIt.tv
Mark Hain is the founder and CEO of DingIt.tv.
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About DingIt.tv: DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content
