Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
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Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
David Lundgren
Chief Executive Officer of Quantemplate
Dave has a wealth of experience in building insurance and technology businesses. He began his career at General Electric, leading operations for lighting, medical systems and GE Capital. He then brought his operational expertise to the world of insurance, first as Chief Sourcing Officer for Allianz, where he ran global sourcing for technology, then leading the P&C and Life Companies at CUNA Mutual. Most recently Dave served as CEO of AgPro Exchange, an open technology platform enabling farmers and their business partners to capture data from a range of sources, then normalise and securely store it for a complete analytical overview of their operations, along with sharing via a marketplace. Dave also sits on the boards of several insurance and manufacturing companies. As CEO of Quantemplate, Dave shapes the business strategy, optimises its execution and develops talent within the company.
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About Quantemplate: Insurance data integration, automation & analytics
Jason du Preez
CEO, Co-founder of Privitar
As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Jason is responsible for Privitar’s vision, strategy, culture and funding. He is passionate about the benefits of data to society and Privitar’s vision of building a centre of excellence around privacy engineering products. He is a serial entrepreneur who brings proven start-up and enterprise software experience to the business. Prior to founding Privitar he held global leadership roles across technology and data management at Thomson Reuters. Before that he co-founded and led the growth of data management software company, m35, up to a successful exit through sale to Thomson. Jason has a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Inga Mullins
Founder & CEO of Fluency
Inga Mullins is a Founder & CEO at Fluency
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About Fluency: Fluency is a CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising and powering the existing financial system.
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.
Ilyas Khan
CEO & Founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing
Ilyas Khan is the founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. Ilyas is also the Chairman and a founding Trustee of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, and the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he is also a Fellow in Management Practice. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge. Ilyas started his career in merchant banking with J Henry Schroder Wagg, and worked and lived in Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008. He has been an active investor in early stage companies since 1999, having built and then sold two start up companies of his own. Since 2013 has been instrumental in backing the Judge Business School’s highly regarded business accelerator programme. He is the Senior partner in a non executive capacity at Stanhill Capital Partners, and has a small number of other non executive positions. The Stanhill Foundation that was established by Ilyas supports research and scholarship in a number of areas and currently funds a number of doctoral and post doctoral students in the area of mathematics, quantum mechanics and philosophy.
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About Cambridge Quantum Computing, Quantinuum, Stanhill Capital Partners: CQCL develops tools for the commercialisation of quantum computers by understanding quantum protocols and also quantum algorithms.
Paul Hunter
Chief of Staff to CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine
Paul is a serial entrepreneur specialising in speech, language and artificial intelligence. In 2006, he co-founded Phonetic Arts, which developed speech software for the games industry. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, and Paul worked at Google as head of the text-to-speech group and as a research scientist until leaving in 2013. 2004-2006 Paul was a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, working and teaching in the Engineering department. During this time, he wrote Text-to-Speech synthesis, widely regarded as the definitive book in the field. In 2000, Paul co-founded Rhetorical Systems which was the world leader in text-to-speech. Rhetorical was acquired by Nuance in 2004. From 1989-2000, Paul was at Edinburgh University, where he gained his PhD, worked as a post-doc, tenured lecturer and eventually director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He is author of more than 80 academic papers.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Melissa Di Donato
Chief Executive Officer of SUSE
Prior to SAP, Melissa was the Area Vice President of Analytics for EMEA at salesforce.com and has spent more than 20 years in technology as a leader in the digital space delivering innovative and transformative enterprise cloud solutions for customers around the globe. She is dedicated to building high performing sales teams, ensuring diversity across the business and developing multi-channel go to market strategies. ComputerWeekly’s 2015 Personality of the Year UK for Cloud Computing, one of 2016’s Top 10 most influential women in UK technology, awarded the Technology Woman of Achievement award by Women in the City and as head of the technology group of the 30% Club, she endeavours to ensure that more women are represented at the top of leading technology companies across the UK and globally.
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About SAP, SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Tim Groot
CEO and Co-Founder of Grip
Tim is an entrepreneur at heart, having started his first company at the of age 17. He graduated with a BBA in International Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His passion for the app development space eventually lead him to co-found Grip in 2014. Tim is also a member of Founders of the Future.
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Max Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Pusher
Max has spent the past 5 years running the London-based Ruby on Rails development shop New Bamboo, with his co-founder [Damien Tanner](http://crunchbase.com/person/damien-tanner). Their latest company is a realtime messaging service called Pusher (http://pusherapp.com), which was incubated inside New Bamboo. Max is passionate about realtime technology, and has the goal of making it more readily available for everyone.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Michael Ferguson
CEO and Co-founder of Rainmakers
Third time founder with an exit. Michael previously co-founded and lead product development for Geomium, a top-25 social-location app. He has been featured on the BBC and in the Guardian newspapers and regularly gives talks on how the mobile space is impacting business and commerce globally. Michael holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and an MBA from the Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
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About Rainmakers: The career marketplace for top salespeople
Philippe Gelis
Co-Founder & CEO of Kantox
Philippe is a well-organized, detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. He thrives on new challenges, and his innovative approach, along with his desire to progress, allow him to always reach outstanding results. I’ve had the opportunity to work with him during almost 3 years and he’s always been one step ahead, leading with ease multifaceted projects in multicultural environments, always thinking “out of the box†to offer a new vision to deliver high-quality work. As a visionary, he will one day excel in the planet “web†where he is already a first-class surfer!
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About Barcelona Activa, Decelera, Endeavor, Kantox, Syra Coffee, The Galion Project, YZR: Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Nigel Vaz
Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Sapient
Nigel is CEO of Publicis Sapient (SapientRazorfish, Sapient Consulting), he is also a member of the Publicis Groupe Executive Committee and leads Global Business Transformation for the Groupe. He is responsible for developing and executing business strategy and identifying market opportunities to drive the growth of the business. A driving force behind the company’s vision to partner with clients to help them realize a better future for their businesses and improve their customers’ lives, Nigel works closely with clients and teams to deliver transformative experiences and business models that make a significant impact on the success of leading global brands including Carrefour, Lloyds, Nationwide,McDonalds RBS/NatWest, Unilever, BNP Paribas and Fiat Chrysler. Nigel has held a variety of leadership positions with Sapient prior to its acquisition by Publicis Groupe, where he is now part of the Groupe Executive Committee Nigel drove the evolution of Sapient’s EMEA business, helping build Sapient Consulting into one of the premier digital consulting firms, and growing SapientNitro to be one of the largest agencies in the UK from a startup a decade ago. He led Sapient’s expansion beyond the UK to be a significant presence across Europe and in Asia. With roots in business strategy, Nigel has consistently helped clients to build businesses and create sustainable value propositions for their brands by operating at the intersection of strategic thinking, creativity and technology. Prior to Sapient, he was a successful entrepreneur – co-founding a public company with interests in consulting and connectivity solutions. Nigel is an inductee of BIMA’s Digital Hall of Fame (British Interactive Marketing Association), was named Individual of the Year at the DADIs, is a Fellow of The Marketing Society and is President Elect of the IPA, and provides mentoring to startups through the Publicis90 program.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Nate Macleitch
CEO of QuickBlox
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About QuickBlox, Techstars: QuickBlox is a cloud communication backend that allows to add Chat, Video calling, Push Notifications, Cloud Sync into mobile and web apps.
David Benigson
Founder and CEO of Signal AI
David Benigson is the Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.
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About Metalogic, Rabbit Technologies, Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Mark Wrighton
Chief Executive Officer of Huddle
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About Huddle: Huddle is the enterprise document collaboration company that helps organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently.
Reece Chowdhry
Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures
Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures – an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote and panel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY. Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures’ investments.
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About RLC Ventures: RLC Ventures is an award-winning VC which continues to back founders building global tech companies, from idea to exit.
Nikola Mrkšić
Co-founder & CEO of PolyAI
Nikola is the CEO and Co-Founder of PolyAI, a London-based machine learning startup developing the next generation machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence. Their platform enables the development of machine learning powered chatbots or voice-based agents which perform tasks across many applications, in a wide array of world languages. Nikola completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working with Professor Steve Young. He worked as a machine learning researcher with the Apple Siri team in Cambridge. Before that, he was the first technical hire at VocalIQ, a Cambridge-based dialogue systems startup acquired by Apple in 2015. He graduated from the Cambridge Computer Science Tripos, completing his Master’s degree with Professor Zoubin Ghahramani.
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About Apple, PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
Founder & CEO of Reincubate
Aidan Fitzpatrick is CEO at Reincubate. He invests through Fitcap.
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About Reincubate: Helping you get more from Apple devices and data
Anne de Kerckhove
CEO of Freespee
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About Freespee: Freespee is the most comprehensive conversation cloud in the market.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Olga Kotsur
Co-founder and CEO of Mercaux
Olga Kotsur is Founder at Mercaux.
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About Mercaux, The Boston Consulting Group: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Chris Blackford
CEO & Co-founder of Sky-Futures
As COO, Chris drives the strategic development of Sky-Futures’ operational and technology frameworks and the development of new partnerships with leading companies across a range of markets. Chris combines extensive drone experience with a strong understanding of the technical and operational complexities and, indeed, the capacity of drones to provide cutting-edge solutions across industries.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo
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About Zeelo: Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
James D. Marshall
Founder and CEO of Pupil
James D Marshall is the founder and CEO at Pupil.
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
Henri Winand
Co-Founder and CEO of AkinovA
Shorter bio: Entrepreneur, insurtech/fintech, new energy, angel investors Dr Henri Winand Co-founder & CEO AkinovA Short biography • Grew technology firm globally from 40 people to USD 1bn IPO • USD 200m+ capital raised • Intelligent Energy, CEO • Rolls-Royce plc, Vice President New Ventures (M&A) • PhD Materals Science (Cantab), MBA Full biography I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd. AKINOVA is an insurance technology company I co-founded with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $250m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ public private tech partnership (PPP). I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending. I have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State including that of France, India and the UK over the last few years, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Diana Paredes
Co-Founder & CEO of Suade
Co-Founder & CEO of Suade.
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About Suade, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), The World Economic Forum: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
Jacob Waern
Founder & CEO of EduMe
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About EduMe: eduMe is a mobile-based training platform for the deskless workforce. Companies see increased productivity, retention and workforce safety.
Flavius Plesu
CEO & Founder of OutThink
A cyber security leader with almost 20 years industry experience, Flavius is the Founder and CEO of OutThink. As a former CISO, he has led complex cyber security transformation programmes across large, global organisations. It is his passion for security that motivated Flavius to challenge the status quo and start OutThink, to solve the People challenge. Flavius holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London. Strategic thinker, strong decision-making abilities, result oriented and collaborative leadership style. His primary focus is enabling organisations understand their cyber security risk exposure to make well informed business decisions. Having a strong technical background and a good understanding of business processes, he is naturally proficient at explaining the technical concepts surrounding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and supporting IT systems to all levels of management. Extensive expertise across a wide range of information security disciplines – Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), information security policies, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISF Standard of Good Practice, Data Privacy, legal and regulatory compliance – SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, NHS IGTA, computer security, network security, web application security, secure business architectures and security technologies, with a strong emphasis on information risk management. CISSP, CRISC, CISM, SABSA SCF, SCP, QSA, ISO 27001 LI/LA
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About OutThink: Cybersecurity human risk management platform (SaaS)
Ben Harris
CEO of Decibel
Ben Harris is the founder and CEO of Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Alex Siljanovski
Founder & CEO of BaseStone
Alex is a Chartered engineer with extensive civil industry experience. Specialising in rail, transportation, water, ports, mechanical & electrical systems, energy and building services sectors – all enhanced by multidisciplinary project management experience.
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About BaseStone: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO of FNA
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
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About FNA: FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
Charlie Muirhead
Founder & CEO of CognitionX
At 19 Charlie had organised the buyout of the Music Bank from Hilton Sounds Plc, before going on to study computer sciences at Imperial College. With backing from Esther Dyson, Hermann Hauser and Terry Matthews, Charlie started Orchestream which automated management of QoS, security and routing on Next Generation IP MPLS networks. By 24 Charlie raised over £50m in VC funding, and floated on the LSE & Nasdaq with a market cap peaking at £1.5bn. Charlie founded Rightster in September 2010 with the mission of building the world’s largest b2b content marketplace. The idea originated from the pioneering work his previous company t5m did in producing original brand-funded video content, after 50 t5m productions, it became clear with the massive fragmentation in online content and advertising the real need was for efficiency. Other ventures include: angel investment network iGabriel.net (OnRelay, Open Business Exchange, Sourceree, Pi-Capital), Angelic Record with Toby Smith (The Hoosiers), Nexagent which pioneered Solution Delivery and Process Automation Software for IT outsourcers, and t5m which produced and distributed online TV shows including the acclaimed Trinny and Susannah – What They Did Next.
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About CognitionX: CognitionX is an AI Advice Platform offers the richest, most comprehensive library of up-to-the-minute AI news.
David Peto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Aframe
David founded Aframe with a vision to create a video platform that is powerful enough to handle the huge volumes and myriad formats of video production, but is simple enough that anyone could use it. He’s taken this idea from a one-room office covered in post it notes, to a global business with offices across the UK and US, raising significant Venture Capital funding along the way.
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About Aframe: Aframe Media is a SaaS-based company that provides cloud video production storage and workflow.
Andrey Insarov
CEO and Founder of Intis Telecom
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About Intis Telecom, IT.com: Powerful SMS software with web-based interface and gateway API to help you grow your business with mobile messages
Antonio Separovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Oradian
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About Oradian: Oradian provides a unique enterprise solution to financial institutions across South East Asia and Africa.
Sinead McHale
CEO of Satago
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About Satago: Cover cashflow gaps, manage debtors and predict credit risks all in one easy-to-use product. Start your 14-day free trial today.
Riham Satti
Co-founder / CEO of MeVitae
Riham Satti, CEO of MeVitae is amongst the top 50 disruptive game changers in Thames Valley, top 100 influential UK tech business leaders and according to Forbes a ‘female founder taking the UK by storm’. As well as her involvement in the tech ecosystem and working with innovative start-up companies, Riham’s main interests lie in leveraging technology to unleash human capital and solve the biggest employment challenges, supported by the likes of Microsoft, European Space Agency and Oxford University – quoted as ‘disruptive recruitment technology innovation’ by Stephen Kelly (CEO of Sage). She is involved in several initiatives in promoting female founders and women in STEM. Riham is a computational neuroscientist from Oxford and Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London.
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About MeVitae, Tech London Advocates, techUK: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Alexander Sainty
CEO of swiftscale
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About swiftscale: Taking companies further, faster
Sean Nolan
Founder & CEO of Blink
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About Blink: We make remote working less remote. Welcome to the Frontline of the Future.
Nahuel Candia
Founder & CEO of Rebill
Entrepreneur
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About Rebill: Payments orchestration and recurring billing platform for companies scaling in Latin America.
Neta Meidav
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Platform
Neta Meidav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Vault.
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Ran Aroussi
Founder & CEO of Tradologics
Ran Aroussi is entrepreneur, software developer, and the founder of Tradologics – a cloud platform for trading.
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About Tradologics: Cloud platform for programmatic trading
Martin Buhr
CEO and Founder of Tyk
I’m the CEO and Founder of Tyk Technologies, A popular open source API Management platform that powers some of the worlds largest brands including USA Today, AXA Insurance and United Health Group. I’m a digital hippie, maker, gopher and a passionate advocate of open source.
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About Tyk: Tyk is an open source API gateway and management platform that provides on-premises, cloud/multi-cloud, and enterprise.
Daniel Bladen
Co-Founder & CEO of Kadence
Co-founder and CEO of Chargifi, a smart wireless charging solution. Dan came up with the idea of Chargifi whilst travelling for six months in 2012. He realised that he made strategic decisions about where to visit/stay based on the availability of power sockets, so he could recharge and reconnect with friends and family. Chargifi is deployed by over 90 organisations in 21 countries and is backed by leading technology investors including; Intel Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Techstars, Accelerated Digital Ventures, firstminute capital and R/GA Ventures. Prior to Chargifi, he oversaw a team of 50, designing and implementing a network and AV infrastructure for a £6.5 million building project in West London.
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Glen Manchester
Founder and CEO of Thunderhead
Glen began his career at Xerox, where his passion for design and publishing ignited. He tapped this corporate and creative experience to found Geneva Digital in 1991, creating a new set of customer communication solutions for the direct banking and insurance sectors. Geneva Digital was acquired by Xenos in 1999. He soon spied a gap in the market for customer engagement and in 2001 privately funded Thunderhead. A recognised tech pioneer, innovator and entrepreneur, Glen has piloted Thunderhead to become a global cloud-based tech company with operations throughout Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Australia.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Roman Mittermayr
Managing Director / CEO of TwentyPeople
Roman spent a decade working through seventeen different jobs in thirty-four countries all around the world. After leaving the Austrian military service in 2004, he joined Mace in London, and published a book on DIY electronics with Germany’s largest technology publisher. He worked at an agency in New York, with brands like Vera Wang, Disney and Marriott. Roman came up with the first large-scale alternate-reality event in Vienna, based on the Hollywood movie “The Game”, which was subsequently featured on national TV, newspapers and magazines, and attracted international funding from several major companies. He joined Microsoft to work full-time as a Product Planner for Office, and later changed roles to become a Competitive Intelligence Planner. Roman holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. He currently works and lives in London.
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About TwentyPeople: TwentyPeople is a rapid prototyping and digital design company.
Bruno Marnette
Founder and CEO of Prodo.ai
Bruno Marnette is the founder and CEO at Prodo.AI.
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About Enki, Prodo.ai: Prodo.ai uses machine learning, data science, and human guidance to provide coding software services.
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.
Co-Founder & CEO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Ravi Sharma
Founder & CEO of PoochPlay Limited
Ravi is the Founder & CEO of PoochPlay, a UK based startup behind the revolutionary intelligent dog well-being management app and a Bluetooth enabled activity tracker that delivers valuable benefits to dog owner. Previously, Ravi managed enterprise level product development projects for over a decade for leading brand viz. Faber & Faber, Pineapple Studios, Aman Resorts, Chanel, Elemis, Affordable Art Fair, Lulu Guinness, Karen Millen and many more. Ravi is an electronic engineer, possesses a degree in IT, a degree in business administration, a masters in marketing and management and is a PRINCE2 certified professional.
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About PoochPlay Limited: PoochPlay is a free mobile app & dog activity tracker that manages your dog’s complete well-being!
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.
Hemal Mehta
Founder & CEO of Atominvest
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About Atominvest: Cutting-edge tech for Private Equity, VC, Real Estate and Hedge Funds
Gillian Leng
CEO of NICE
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About King’s College London, NICE: NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Cloud Solutions for companies and institutions
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Tristan Rogers
CEO of Concrete
Tristan Rogers is CEO & Board Member at Concrete
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About Concrete: Concrete provides retail brands a platform to train and retain store staff.
Nik Whitfield
Founder & CEO of Panaseer
A globally recognised figure in the field of cyber and financial technology, Nik brings direction and leadership to the team, where he applies his phrase #deservetowin daily.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Kiran Patel
CEO of Pogoseat
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About : Pogoseat is an enterprise solution for sports teams & concert venues that lets fans upgrade seats & purchase VIP upgrades during events
Parisa Louie
CEO of DecideAct
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About DecideAct, WatchFit: DecideAct is a Software as a Solution (SaaS) delivers intelligent software solutions to support leadership & management to succeed.
Maxwell Harding
Founder & CEO of Dynamify
CEO & Co-founder, Dynamify; Ex-Investment Professional, Terra Firma Capital Partners
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Gabriel DOMBRI
CEO of Tapptitude | a product building studio
Gabriel is the CEO in Tapptitude and growth advisor in Spherik Accelerator. With over 10 years of digital experience, Gabriel has been at the intersection between marketing and product, for the last 5 years with a steady focus to help founders build better products and build sustainable businesses around them. Frequent mentor and adviser for startups worldwide and present constantly as speaker on product and tech events in Europe. Currently, Gabriel is the CEO of Tapptitude, a product agency focused on building mobile products.
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About Tapptitude | a product building studio: Tapptitude focuses on helping startup founders conceptualise, build, and grow digital products that have an impact at scale.
Nithin Thomas
CEO of Ceerus
I have over 10 years track record in developing and commercializing cutting edge cyber security technologies from early stage research. I am currently the CEO of SQR Systems, a company that I founded in 2010 to bring to market the technology I developed during my PhD. In this role, I have set up multiple R&D and commercial programmes and partnerships with the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Department of Defence and other intelligence and government agencies in the UK. In my role at SQR, I have also been working closely with global defence primes, telcos, mobile device manufacturers and some of the leading financial and professional services organisations and critical infrastructure protection. In my spare time, I like getting involved with the London startup ecosystem through various meet-ups, hackathons and I am a startup mentor at Shell LiveWire and IncuBus London.
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About Ceerus: Security to communicate freely
Shib Mathew
CEO of YunoJuno
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About YunoJuno: Online platform connecting freelancers and clients in the creative and technology sectors
Alexander Malin
CEO of Forty Seven
Founder of Forty Seven
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About Forty Seven: Forty Seven is a software consulting and development company providing IT outsourcing services.
Draven McConville
CEO of Klipboard
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About Klipboard: Mobile Field Service Made Simple. Connect Your Office, Mobile Workers & Customers Together
Karin Nielsen
Co-founder, CEO of fluently
Co-founder, CEO at fluently.
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About fluently, fluently: Translation Infrastructure On Demand
Sandeep Dhillon
CEO of Talmix
Sandeep Dhillon is the CEO at Talmix, having joined the business when it was MBA & Company as Director of Finance and Strategy at MBA & Company. Most recently he has fulfilled the role of Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Previously he was the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms EMEA Practice of GLG, a primary research firm that operates a network of senior industry executives who provide consulting services to venture capital, private equity and hedge fund clients. Prior to this he worked on a number of technology, media and telecoms M&A transactions whilst at Jefferies in the London TMT Investment Banking team and during his time at PwC both in London and San Francisco where he worked closely with Private Equity and Blue Chip Technology clients.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Simon Bird
CEO of RevLifter
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About Big Data for Humans, RevLifter, Tailify: RevLifter is an AI powered technology provider helping brands increase revenue through real-time personalised offers.
Franck Zeitoun
Co-Founder & CEO of Lendery
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About Lendery: Lendery is offers a set of technology tools to institutional investors in alternative lending
Sean Hoban
Co-Founder & CEO of Kimble Applications
Sean has over 20 years experience in IT Consultancy, working for Oracle and LogicaCMG as well as start-up consultancies. In 1997 Sean was a founding employee with Fulcrum Solutions where he was responsible for the successful development, marketing and roll out of a global Oracle Applications upgrade service with revenues growing to £4M during his tenure. After Fulcrum, Sean co-founded the software company HindSite, which developed complex business process automation software, now used in organisations such as Rolls-Royce. Following a successful sale of HindSite, Sean joined Edenbrook in 2003 and became responsible for the Enterprise Solutions practice where he grew revenues from £1.5m to £10m per annum in 5 years. He became a board Director during 2006, and during his tenure was responsible for the creation of the off-shore development centre in Pune, India, and the growth of the Managed Services practice from £2m per annum to £6m with gross margins exceeding 40%. After the sale of Edenbrook to Hitachi Consulting, Sean became a Managing Vice President responsible for expanding the Indian operation (to circa 150 heads) to cater for the US operations. He also retained ownership of the Managed Services practice as well as being the executive sponsor on some of the largest high profile accounts for Hitachi Consulting in the UK. Sean is responsible for finance, operations and working alongside Mark on business development.
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About Kimble Applications: Kimble is a Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution that helps professional service organizations to run their businesses better.
Sumit Pasupalak
CEO & Founder of Ubiq
Sumit Pasupalak is CEO at Ubiq.
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About Inovia Capital, Ubiq: Ubiq enables individuals and organizations to give wireless presentations.
Imogen Wethered
CEO & Co-Founder of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Imogen Wethered is Founder & CEO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Sam Parton
Co-Founder & CEO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Mark Richards
CEO & Founder of makepositive
As Chief Evangelist, Mark cares passionately about creating enterprises that redefine what “work” means. With the goal of releasing everyone from tedious admin and letting all loose to create their own art in the workplace. Inspirational Leader: Seth Godin translates our toughest challenges and fears into meaningful insight, advice and actions. Mark Richards is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Makepositive.
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About makepositive: Makepositive is a business and technology consultancy that delivers innovation cloud engagement and platform.
Peter Bradley
Founder & CEO of Torsion Information Security
BSc (Comp. Sci), MBA. Background in consulting, designing IT systems and management processes to maximise business outcomes for information.
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About Torsion Information Security: Confident Data Access Control – Get control of who has access to what, why and when. Secure, Compliant, Efficient.
Emanur Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of onkho
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About onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Guy Winterflood
Founder & CEO of Letyano
Guy runs a corporate finance consultancy and holds various directorships in a range of start-up businesses across various industries, including food production, customer feedback and telecoms. Guy has spent time as an international property consultant in Hong Kong and was a partner at the broker Monument Securities for more than 15 years where his roles included pit trading options and futures on the LIFFE market and institutional equity option sales. Monument introduced the use of CFD trading for the European retail equity markets, Guy ran this division until the company was sold to Insinger de Beaufort, a Dutch bank, in 2005. After a 2 year sabbatical Guy returned to the City as partner in charge of corporate finance at Silverwind Securities before setting up on his own in 2010.
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Lucy Stonehill
Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeU
Lucy grew up in the UK and the USA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where she studied Literature and Psychology. Upon graduation, Lucy worked for the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, before leaving to launch her first business, an educational consulting firm tailored to the unique needs of international students and schools. In 2013, Lucy founded BridgeU to focus on the next challenge – fixing the broken transition between secondary and higher education. Lucy has been labelled an ‘Entrepreneur Role Model’ by the European Commission, and won Techpreneur of the Year in a 2015 at a ceremony hosted at the House of Commons celebrating leading female entrepreneurs. In 2016, Lucy was selected by Forbes as a ‘Top 30 under 30” European technology innovator.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Jim Liddle
CEO of Storage Made Easy
Prior to Storage Made Easy, Jim Liddle was responsible for sales and operations for GigaSpaces in the UK Europe after joining the company in 2006 to help expand European operations. Jim was previously the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata, a business process and rules management company. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim filled in technical, product management, and product marketing roles. Jim has extensive experience in Big Data, Middleware and Cloud technologies and has successfully built teams and grown sales for high growth technology companies for the last 20 years. Jim holds a BA (honors) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science and studied for an MSc. in Data Communications at Kingston University.
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About Storage Made Easy: SME provides software, the Enterprise File Fabric, which unifies a company’s File & Object Storage accessible through a global file system.
Denys Kyrychenko
CEO and Founder of Corefy
Denys started his career in the fintech area 15 years ago. As a student, he developed a mobile application for PSP platform. Having zero prior experience, just in 4 months, Denys created a mobile wallet on SymbianOS for all available smartphones on the market (there was no trace of iOS and Android yet at that time).
Further, he expanded his hands-on experience by working with pioneers in the fintech industry in Easter Europe and delivered truly early-bird solutions to the market. Denys developed a wealth of knowledge and understanding regarding online payments and successfully launched multiple PSPs and e-wallet solutions.
6 years ago, Denys started his own fintech project, Corefy, with an HQ in London, UK, and an R&D office in Ukraine.
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About Corefy: Payment Platform & Payments Hub
Raj Burman
Chief Executive of Techfugees
Raj is CEO of Techfugees, an international non-profit social purpose organisation that mobilises the digital tech sector and volunteer community as a global collective to empower displaced inclusion by harnessing the transformative power of open responsible digital innovations, curated for and with refugees to have equitable access to information, education, health and work for their betterment.
As a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Raj is a commercial venture growth specialist and a social impact protagonist with three decades of international blended experience across the private, public and non-profit sectors working at the intersection of digital innovation, entrepreneurship and investment.
Prior, Raj worked for GS1 – a global supply chain membership standards body where he led stewardship to formulate and execute the UK strategy to guide small businesses to GS1’s worldwide standards for barcodes and trusted data services, whilst connecting SME businesses to expansion opportunities in international markets.
He has also successfully established several disruptive technology start-up ventures and led the UK business scaleup acceleration programme for a leading pan-European independent body of the European Commission.
Raj loves working with entrepreneurs, innovators and difference-makers to get their greatest work to the world being at the forefront of accelerating application of innovative digital technologies, scaling business growth and enabling collective impact that make a societal difference to people lives.
Outside of work, Raj loves to travel, read and is philanthropist to several international social impact ventures supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in making a difference to disenfranchised and marginalized communities, particularly supporting maternal & child, education and inclusion.
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About Techfugees: Techfugees is a global volunteer led non profit organization empowering displaced persons with technology
Ales Teska
CEO of TeskaLabs
Owner of SeaCat.
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About LibertyAces, SeaCat, TeskaLabs: TeskaLabs is a mobile application security provider.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Renaud Million
Chief Executive Officer of Spixii
Renaud Million has worked in the insurance industry since 2010 and co-founded Spixii in 2016. Prior to Spixii, Renaud was working as an actuarial consultant for EY in London advising large insurance companies. It gave him a unique understanding of insurance processes and the friction to solve for the end customer. Renaud holds a master in Operational Research & Management Sciences at Lancaster University and a master in engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Renaud was named Young actuarial professional of the year 2017 by Insurance ERM.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Philip Miller
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Solidatus
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About Solidatus, Threadneedle Technology: Solidatus is the award-winning data management and conceptual modelling solution that effectively manages data, people and processes.
Philip Dutton
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Solidatus
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About Solidatus, Threadneedle Technology: Solidatus is the award-winning data management and conceptual modelling solution that effectively manages data, people and processes.
Toby Heelis
CEO (Co-Founder) of virtuall
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About : Transforming industries by creating innovative products that connect the world more sustainably and profitably.
Gaetano Checinski
Founder and CEO of LoopPerfect
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About LoopPerfect: LoopPerfect’s mission is to streamline the development of C++ code, by using a just-in-time compiler.
Kirill Mikhailenko
CEO of BITOTEK
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About BITOTEK: Bitotek is an innovative IT agency that specialises in developing systems and apps for start-ups and online businesses.
Ned Mortimer
CEO of Ally Chatbot
Ned Mortimer is the Chief Executive Officer at Ally Chatbot.
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
