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 Retail 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.
Marc Boyan
Founder & CEO of Miroma Ventures
Marc began his career in marketing with the Goldsmith family, creating and selling events such as World Wrestling Federation, Net Aid, Smash Hits & Route of Kings. His first business venture started in 2000, setting up tourist information channel, City Tour TV. The concept can now be found in various airlines, black taxis and hotels in the UK. In 2003, Marc spotted an opportunity to use barter in all areas of modern commerce and set up corporate barter company, Miroma International. He has grown the business into one of the leading corporate barter companies in Europe with Miroma International’s growth trajectory recognized in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 report on UK businesses for four years in a row between 2008 and 2011. Outside of Miroma International, Marc has also focused on building out the Miroma Ventures portfolio, focusing on media, technology and consumer investments. Marc is a dedicated supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity, sitting on its Executive Board.
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About Miroma Group, Miroma Ventures: Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms.
Timothy Davis
CEO and Co-founder of Butter.co.uk
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About Butter.co.uk, MassChallenge: Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Andrew Xeni
CEO, Co-Founder of Fabacus
A highly driven and experienced CEO with a diverse portfolio of business interests. Andrew’s primary focus has till recently been in the family garment manufacturing business, Europride Ltd., founded with his brother. Having supplied most of the UKs largest fashion retailers for over a decade, Andrew understands their supply chain needs. The businesses boast a combined annual turnover in excess of $150m, with over 2,000 employees globally and including vested interests in the full supply chain: Factories in the UK, Eastern Europe, Morocco and Sri Lanka, a UK dye house, a UK knitting plant, fabric import business, and UK printing facilities. Andrew also has two ecommerce brands, Baaclothing.Com and NobodysChild.Com, that compliment his fully integrated vertical manufacturing service. Fabacus is the brainchild of all this supply chain, retail and ecommerce experience. Understanding exactly what is needed to improve each process and make businesses faster and more cost efficient, Andrew alongside his co-founder Ray Noppé, were able to build a suite of solutions. Fabacus delivers optimal efficiency for greater profit through customisable software for business intelligence, data management, relationship management and e-commerce marketing optimisation. To date Fabacus has successfully integrated its solution with the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, Salesforce and Revel. In addition to Fabacus and Europride Ltd, Andrew continues to invest in technology alongside New Look founder, Tom Singh, as well as property development and music interests: Launching his own music label, supporting and developing new talents.
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About Fabacus: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Philippe Chainieux
CEO of MADE
Philippe Chainieux is CEO of made.com. The company sells quality furniture at an affordable price. Made.com wants to disrupt high-end furniture stores by controlling everything from manufacturing to the e-commerce platform. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Meetic, a division of Match/IAC, listed on the French Stock Market . In his role, Philippe oversaw the management of Match.com’s european online dating portfolio that comprises leading properties like match.com, meetic, neu.de, lexa.nl, twoo.com. These businesses generated revenues of over € 165 million and EBITDA over € 39 million in 2012, across 15 markets. Prior the tender offer of IAC on Meetic in 2011, Philippe was the Managing Director of Meetic and had managed the growth of the company since 2004, through the development its brands in each individual market, the international expansion (Europe, China, Latin America) and acquisitions.
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About MADE: Made.com is an online e-commerce platform directly providing designer furniture without third party involvement.
José Neves
Founder, Co-Chairman & CEO of Farfetch
In 2008 José Neves launched Farfetch, bringing together his interests in fashion and technology, as well as his experience in design, wholesale and retail, to create a business that would celebrate and support the diversity of the global fashion industry. The seasoned entrepreneur had experienced first-hand the challenges facing bricks-and-mortar retailers wanting to expand online. His vision was to create a single portal, offering independent boutiques the opportunity to compete with the leaders of fashion e-commerce. Farfetch now comprises more than 300 boutiques, offering over 100,000 pieces from 1,000 brands. With customers in almost 190 countries, the site receives an average of 10 million monthly hits. José has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. José later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. In 2001 José opened the renowned bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006. José has received numerous accolades as an entrepreneur and for his business ventures, including The Business of Fashion’s 500 People Shaping the Fashion Industry in 2013, Ernst & Young’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year and Vogue’s DirectorsOf.COM Top Entrepreneur in 2011.
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About Farfetch, Farfetch China, PlatformE, SIX London: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
George Graham
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger.
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About Raw Press Juice, Wolf & Badger, Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Daniel Attia
Founder & CEO of YOPA
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About YOPA, YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Christoph Barchewitz
co-CEO of Global Fashion Group
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About Global Fashion Group, Kinnevik AB: Global Fashion Group designs a shopping platform that brings fashion online across 27 countries.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Fiorina Benveniste-Schuler
Founder & CEO of Selec.to
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About Selec.to: The leading B2B platform for the Fashion Industry
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Hasna Kourda
Co-Founder & CEO of Save Your Wardrobe
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Fabrice Haiat
Co-Founder and CEO of YOOBIC
Fabrice Haiat served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Vizelia S.A. Fabrice Haiat supervised the implementation of different product and service solutions. He also contributed to the ESSEC Property management masters course and participates in numerous conferences, with the aim of sharing his forward-looking vision of the environment and informing decision-makers on the energy challenges to be faced over the next decade. He served as an International Consultant with McKinsey and gained his experience in the new technology and property sectors. He served as a Director of Vizelia S.A.
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About Petribox, YOOBIC: YOOBIC is an all-in-one platform for the deskless workforce to optimize communication, training, and process management.
James Spalding
Chief Executive Officer of OLR
James is a highly motivated business leader with a focus on using technology to provide businesses with a competitive advantage. A natural innovator, he has over 25 years experience successfully leading teams to deliver challenging, large scale, business critical IT projects.
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About e2x Limited, e2x Limited, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
Dana Dunne
CEO of eDreams ODIGEO
Dana Dunne is the CEO of eDreams ODIEGO. Prior to eDreams, Dana Dunne served as CCO at EasyJet Plc., and was in charge of sales (especially online sales), marketing, productivity management and of the customer service center. Before that, he was the CEO of AOl Europe Sarl, a division of AOC LLC. He has a deep experience in high-profile international telecommunication companies, as he has been the president of the main business units at Belgacom and US West, two of the most outstanding telecommunication companies in Europe and in the US.Dana holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a degree in Economics from Weslevan University. He has a double nationality: American and British. On March 31st 2017, Dunne owned 713. 112 shares in eDreams ODIEGO. Dana Dunne was appointed CEO of eDreams during a shareholder meeting held on the 22nd of July 2015.
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About eDreams ODIGEO: eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world’s largest online travel companies and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses.
Vashi Dominguez
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Vashi
Visionary entrepreneur with strong background on branding and e-commerce. Vashi Dominguez founded Vashi in 2007 with the goal of making fine jewellery accessible for all. Previously he ran an International diamond wholesale company with clients in 4 continents.
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About Vashi: Vashi is a fine jewellery brand that offers a genuinely unique, disruptive, and omni-channel retail experience.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Al Gerrie
Co-Founder & CEO of ZigZag Global
Al Gerrie is Co-Founder & CEO at ZigZag Global.
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About We Are Pentagon, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Paula Vennells
CEO of The Post Office
Paula has worked for Post Office Limited since 2007 in a number of senior roles including Managing Director. She became Chief Executive on 1 April 2012. Previously Paula spent five years with Whitbread plc latterly as Group Commercial Director. She began her career with Unilever and L’Oreal and held directorships in sales and marketing with a number of major retailers including Dixons Stores Group and Argos. She is currently a Non-Executive Director and Trustee for Hymns Ancient and Modern Group.
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About The Post Office: Post Office is a retail post office company that provides a wide range of products, including postage stamps and banking to the public.
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.
Raphael Chow
Co-founder and CEO of Wevat
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About Wevat: Wevat is the best way to get your tax back on shopping in the UK.
Philipp Man
Co-Founder & CEO of CHRONEXT
Philipp Man holds a Master of Philosophy in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Management from King’s College London, majoring in corporate finance, venture capital and market sociology. Besides his work at the Boston Consulting Group, Germany and Switzerland, he also gained experience at GlencoreXstrata in London. During his studies he worked for various watch dealers and focused his dissertations on luxury watch market dynamics.
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About CHRONEXT: Chronext is is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading where clients can buy, sell luxury watches.
Federico Marchetti
Founder and CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
Born in Ravenna in 1969, Federico Marchetti holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from Columbia University. Upon completing his studies, he embarked on a traditional path in the corporate world and while those early years in his career proved to be an invaluable experience, he knew all along that he would need to go out on his own to fulfil his professional objective of becoming an entrepreneur. In 2000, after having served as an advisor for several chief executives and designers in the fashion industry, both in the U.S. and in Italy, he founded YOOX, the perfect venture in which he could unite his business vision with his passion for fashion and design.
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About Yoox Net-a-Porter Group: Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and luxury brands.
Tamara Rajah
Founder & CEO of Live Better With
A couple of years ago, Tamara got really frustrated from her professional and personal experiences. She found that there are so many things that could help people living with cancer live better day-to-day, but they don’t know about them or don’t know where to buy them. She left her job in healthcare and set up Live Better With to change that.
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About Live Better With: Make life a little bit better with 100s of recommended products for people living with cancer.
James Griffith
CEO & Co-founder of Mous
James Griffith is the CEO and co-founder at Mous.
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About Mous: Mous is a fashion tech brand that designs and manufactures protective accessories.
Derek O’Carroll
Chief Executive Officer of Brightpearl
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About Brightpearl: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
Steve Reid
Co-Founder and CEO of Simba Sleep
CEO and co-founder at Simba Sleep CEO and co-founder of Tribesports
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About Simba Sleep, Tribesports: Simba Sleep is an e-commerce company that offers a variety of mattresses.
James Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of Tails.com
James Davidson is Co-Founder & CEO at Tails.com.
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
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 Howden
Chief Executive Officer of Hyperion Insurance Group
David started his career as a broker at Alexander Howden in 1981. He founded the Group in 1994 originally as a wholesale broker employing just three people. He has been the fundamental driving force behind its expansion into an international insurance group offering wholesale, retail and reinsurance broking, and underwriting. As Chief Executive, David’s focus is on leading the Group’s M&A activities as well as directing and implementing the Group’s strategic growth and direction.
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About Howden Broking Group, Hyperion Insurance Group: Hyperion is an international insurance intermediary group with insurance broking and underwriting agency arms.
Ian O’Doherty
CEO of Appreciate Group
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About Appreciate Group, Chester Race Company: Appreciate Group is a company with talents and dedication, and they are experts in building positive interactions and connecting people.
Iris Anson
Founder/CEO of Solely Original
Iris is a founding director at Solely Original, an online bespoke women’s footwear brand. As a fashion conscious city professional, she decided to leave behind her career as a tax consultant to pursue a solution for women like her, who had trouble finding fashionable shoes that are comfortable to walk in.
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About Etiq AI, Solely Original: Solely Original is a shoe brand allowing clients to design their own shoes, have custom made to fit the specifications of the feet.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
Andy Cockburn
CEO & Co-founder of Mention Me
Andy co-founded Mention Me with Tim Boughton in 2013 to enable brands to realise the potential of the referral marketing channel. They bootstrapped the business and spent the first two years proving out the model. Between 2015 and 2018 they have grown from a team of two with 20 clients to a profitable, fast growing business of thirty five people with more than 250 clients. Andy was previously UK Managing Director of HomeAway where he managed the UK team of 120 employees running the HomeAway.co.uk and OwnersDirect.co.uk businesses as part of HomeAway Inc. through the successful IPO on the NASDAQ in 2011. HomeAway launched in 2005 and raised over $400M in Venture funding in order to acquire 14 leading holiday lettings companies across the world. It was one of the Wall Street Journal’s top three venture-funded companies in 2010 before successfully floating on the Nasdaq in the summer of 2011 for a valuation of over $3B. Prior to this he founded an internet start-up, Wigadoo, in the online travel & leisure and financial services sector, pioneering the Social Purchasing space. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has an MBA from INSEAD Business School in France.
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About Mention Me: Harness the exponential power of your brand fans
Karin Cabili
Founder & CEO of Dropit Shopping
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About Dropit Shopping: Dropit provides a digital handsfree shopping solution for malls and central shopping districts, delivering bags from store to door.
Liam Houghton
CEO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Liam Houghton joined Popsa as CEO & Founder in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
James Critchley
Co-founder and CEO of cloud.IQ
James Critchley is the co-founder and CEO of cloud.IQ, which he launched in 2012 after leaving his position as MD at another established, successful company that he co-founded in 2002 offering enterprise multi-channel services to brands, governments and charities. Before that, James spent time at Ogilvy Interactive until 2001 after launching another successful business – winter sports travel company, Alpine Elements. James graduated with a BSc in Economics in ’98. Today, as CEO of the leading conversion rate optimisation platform for eCommerce Enterprise brands such as Boots, TUI and Samsung. As a serial digital entrepreneur, he is leading the charge in AI and machine learning based customer experience in a way that has never before been possible. As with most start-ups, one of the biggest challenges was to get the funding required to help build a team to create a cutting-edge product and take it to market. Having already secured sufficient investment from investors that shared our view has helped us achieve our growth to date. An exclusive partnership agreed with PayPal last year is testament to cloud.IQ’s specialist expertise in conversion and has elevated the company’s market strength with access to a global merchant audience. cloud.IQ’s direction towards a fully automated AI and machine learning based CRO platform is a game-changer for any e-commerce brand. James and the cloud.IQ team are leading the thinking in this space, which means educating its customers and the wider market as to the full power of the platform and how smart brands are adopting CRO capability not previously possible. With offices in Sydney, the cloud.IQ headquarters are based in the vibrant heart of London’s tech scene in Shoreditch. This proved a smart move, as it continues to help to recruit and retain the best tech talent in the UK as well as reap the benefits of being part of a much bigger and inspiring collective of companies all trying to disrupt established ways of doing stuff. There are now over 3,000 tech companies all within a mile of cloud.IQ headquarters, creating ample opportunities to network and share ideas. James is passionate about his family, technology as an enabler and by contrast his 82 year old race car and snowboarding/skiing – in that order!
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About cloud.IQ: cloud.IQ is an AI and machine learning based automated conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce businesses.
Eleanor Weaver
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Luminance
Eleanor is Chief Executive Officer at Luminance. She is a former Director at world-leading cyber AI company, Darktrace, where she spent six years as Global Head of the organisation’s Industrial Division. Prior to this, Eleanor founded and ran Darktrace’s African operations. In recognition of her work in the technology sector, Eleanor won the prestigious ‘Innovation Trailblazer Award’ at Law.com’s 2021 Legal Innovation Awards and made Management Today’s ’35 under 35’ list.
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About Darktrace, Luminance: Luminance applies supervised and unsupervised machine learning to the process of document review.
Andrew Mukerjee
Co-founder, CEO of Brisqq
Andrew has a keen interest in solving big global problems using software. Andrew and team built Brisqq into the leading digital last mile distribution business in the London market and launched eLogii to enable commercial fleet operators around the world to increase efficiency in their planning, routing and dispatch operations. Formerly an investment banker focusing on software and internet transactions. Andrew graduated from King’s College London and speaks fluent Dutch.
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About Brisqq, eLogii: Brisqq provides local logistics-as-a-service, enabling retailers to offer same day (or future date) deliveries in 1-hour timeslots.
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Kostas Koukoravas
Founder and CEO of Intelistyle
Project & Product management, business development, software engineering, AI. Has 13 years experience leading the development of ideas from inception through to delivery and has launched high profile online services including BBC iPlayer Radio, Microsoft Skype on Windows 8 and Surface Hub. Has varied experience in applied machine learning ranging from real time action detection in video (Microsoft Surface Hub) to portfolio optimisation in financial data. Holds an MPhil on unsupervised learning from the University of Manchester and a coursera machine learning certificate from the University of Stanford.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Lara Mazzoni
CEO & CO-FOunder of Bodi.Me
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About 3D-A-PORTER, Bodi.Me: Fashion Fit Technology Innovator – UNIQUE AND AN EFFECTIVE SaaS CLOTHING SIZE SOLUTION FOR BRANDS & SHOPPERS
Gary Thompson
Co-founder and CEO of GoRaise
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About Blu Sky Chartered Accountants, Fit Gurus, GoRaise, Startup Coach, Virgin StartUp: You can fundraise for a local club, your child’s playgroup or a national charity and many other causes – you choose
Michael Rolph
CEO and Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Michael Rolph started his career at Barclaycard, First Data and PayPal. Prior to founding Yoyo, he was a founding member and Director at Anthemis Group, the specialist FinTech advisory and investment firm. During this time he advised multiple start-ups like Azimo and The Currency Cloud in their early stages as well as established players like Vocalink, Skrill and the Banks on digital innovation, investment and M&A. He is currently an advisor to Firestartr and has previously been a mentor at Seedcamp, the early stage funding company and a non-executive director at The MoBank Group.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Malcolm Bell
Founder CEO of Saint and Sofia
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About Harvard Business School, Saint and Sofia, Seedcamp: Saint and Sofia is a fair and sustainable fashion and accessory brand.
Ben Fletcher
Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership
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About Lead Bullets, Oxford Global Resources, The Mothership: The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
Adam Pikett
CEO of SportPursuit
Adam Pikett is Co-Founder & CEO at SportPursuit.
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About SportPursuit: SportPursuit is a UK-based private-sale sports website.
Ben Brown
Founder & CEO of Shopwave
Ben founded Shopwave following the acquisition of his first startup, VouChaCha. VouChaCha managed multi-channel coupon distribution and redemption for many of the UK’s top 200 retailers. VouChaCha was acquired as part of Markcomedia in a deal worth £55 million by Monitise PLC.
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About Shopwave: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
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
Yodit Stanton
Founder and CEO of OpenSensors
Software and Data engineer working to helping people understand their physical space. Currently growing OpenSensors. OpenSensors aggregates data from a variety of sensors for the next generation of smart Building Management Systems. Our dashboards help you make the most effective use of your office space. With experience in helping more than 100 companies to combine data from new workplace sensors seamlessly, interoperating it with existing and familiar mobile and desktop systems, we aim to give you a fully comprehensive overview.
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About OpenSensors: OpenSensors is an internet of things company that builds a connected world that puts people first.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Ross Bailey
CEO of Appear Here
Ross Bailey is the Founder and CEO of Appear Here. Appear Here is a short-term retail space marketplace used by thousands of brands and landlords every month. Based on the concept that renting commercial property should be as easy as booking a hotel room, Appear Here’s mission is to make retail space accessible to everyone. Hailed a “Digital game changer for the high street” by The Guardian, Appear Here, has received investment from the previous backers of Hailo, Pinterest, Spotify and Trivago.
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About Appear Here: Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space.
Andrew Hart
Co-Founder and CEO of Dent Reality
Working on AR for indoor spaces at Dent Reality. Creator of ARKit + CoreLocation, and some other things.
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About Dent Reality: Dent Reality develops an augmented reality platform that helps users find their favorite products on the market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Antony Woodcock
Co-founder and CEO of Gig
Antony Woodcock is a co-founder and the CEO at Gig since July 2015. Prior to working at Gig, Woodcock worked as a co-founder and director at Maki, director at Parliament House Hotel Co., and member of executive brand management for Holiday Inn Express Europe at InterContinental Hotels Group. Woodcock finished Bachelor of Arts, Marketing and Management Science at University of Strathclyde.
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About Gig: Gig offers a platform for millennials who want to pick up shift work in the hospitality and retail sectors.
Jose Manuel Moller
Founder & CEO of Algramo
Jose Manuel Moller is the Founder and CEO at Algramo.
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About Algramo: Algramo aims to establish a wholesale relationship with manufacturers of consumer products such as detergents.
Emilie Vanpoperinghe
Co-founder and CEO of Oddbox
Emilie Vanpoperinghe is the Co-Founder & CEO at Oddbox.
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About Oddbox: Oddbox is a provider of fruit and veg box delivery service intended to reduce food waste.
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.
Peter Kriskinans
Founder & CEO of Bizie
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About Bizie: Bizie develops software and online solutions to help manage companies from the retail industry.
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 Brackenbury
Co-Founder & CEO of NearSt
Nick Brackenbury is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of NearSt; a retail technology start-up getting people back into high street shops. His tech company is revolutionizing the idea of shopping locally rather than ordering it online. Nick was formerly one of Ogilvy’s youngest ever Account Directors, working on pioneering teams in the agency’s analytics and digital platforms teams across brands spanning Land Rover, Nestle, BP, Ford, Diageo and IBM. He is fascinated by behavioural economics and the incredible potential currently hidden away in high street shops.
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About NearSt: NearSt is a retail technology company building the world’s source of real-time local inventory.
Anthony Ng Monica
Co-Founder & CEO of Swogo
CEO of Swogo – Retail Week nominated Swogo as a Top 25 Most Innovative Retail company. Hundreds of retail leaders in over 30 countries around the world drive profitable growth with Swogo. Brands like El Corte Inglés, John Lewis, Decathlon, Sephora, Media Markt and British Telecom make millions in incremental margin using Swogo’s automated cross-sell bundles. Using a unique approach that focuses on understanding a retailer’s product assortment – Swogo Product Graph ™ combined with machine learning and AI algorithms have surpassed 1.5 billion bundle recommendations in the first half of 2019. Swogo has been featured in The Financial Times, Entrepreneur and Business Insider. Prior to Swogo, Anthony studied BSc Business Economics at Westminster University and held roles at VC firm, DFJ Esprit and Seedrs.
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About Swogo: Swogo powers bundle recommendations for the world’s most successful retailers to increase their margin.
Marco Nardone
Founder & CEO of Wineapp
Marco Nardone is the Founder and CEO of Wineapp – UK’s largest app for on-demand wine delivery. www.wineapp.com / Available on iOS and Android. Wineapp is VC-backed by Rocket Internet and Speedinvest.
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About Wineapp: Mobile App – On-demand Fine Wine Delivery
Nick Paulson-Ellis
Founder & CEO of The Sports Edit
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About The Sports Edit: The Sports Edit is a multi-channel retailer.
Julian Mills
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Quorso
Julian is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the Travel, Transport, and Infrastructure practices. He also founded and co-chaired the Global Infrastructure Initiative with Madeleine Albright, a gathering of the world’s most influential infrastructure leaders. Julian spent much of his childhood growing up on a remote Scottish island surrounded by sheep and has degrees from Oxford University and Stanford University.
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Nikolay Piriankov
CEO of Taylor & Hart
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About Taylor & Hart: Taylor & Hart make proposing with a custom designed, high quality engagement ring, easy, affordable and enjoyable.
Saurabh Goyal
Founder and CEO of Satoshi Systems Limited
Saurabh, our Chief Product Strategist, has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing, designing and developing trading systems. One of the earliest bitcoin & blockchain backer, Saurabh is passionate about emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and AI for the fintech industry. He spends most of his free time with his boys (aged 5 and 8) teaching them chess and programming.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Emmanuel Eribo
Co-Founder & CEO of LOCI
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About LOCI: LOCI is an online shop that offers products for men and women.
Marjorie Leonidas
CEO of Taggstar
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About GlobalReach Technology Ltd, Taggstar: Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.
Lindsay Trombley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Wovn
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About Wovn: Wovn provides fashion brands with real-time predictive insights to better predict demand, reduces waste, and increasing sales.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Asaf Rozin
Co-founder & CEO of Stampfeet
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About Stampfeet: Mobile loyalty solutions for retailers and brands
Emma Fox
Chief Executive Officer of Berry Bros. & Rudd
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About Berry Bros. & Rudd: Berry Bros. & Rudd is a wine and spirits merchant based in the United Kingdom. The company sells wine from around the world.
Liam Young
CEO of Harper
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About Harper, Yourfittingroom: Harper delivers the in-store experience to online customers.
Enrique Dominguez
Co-founder and CEO of Incubapps
Enrique Dominguez is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dialcom Networks, LLC. Prior to being an entrepreneur in the technology sector, Mr. Dominguez worked in the investment banking and financial technology services industries. In 1997, he co-founded Dinacom Technologies, an IP telephony software manufacturer. He also co-founded Ola Internet in 1999, the first Spanish IP telephony operator. He served on the board of Ola Internet and Netfinger Systems.
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About Dialcom Networks, Incubapps, Incubapps Limited: Build your mobile presence for free and publish segmented offers instantly.
Sarvesh Kumar
Founder and CEO of Singular Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Singular Intelligence, building an AI Platform and Applied AI products for Smart Retail and Commerce. Earlier Built successful businesses in Europe, the US, and India. Singular Intelligence enables brands and retailers to significantly improve their profit, customer experience, and market share by automated, real-time analysis and recommendations for profitable promotions and supply planning considering all market & operations factors. Sarvesh is an Industry Expert in AI, Analytics, Data and Business Intelligence. Enabling Business Value from Data to customers like Unilever, GSK, Tesco, Barclays, Three Telecom, British Telecom, CISCO, British Petroleum etc. across customers in Europe, US, and Asia. Sarvesh founded Singular Intelligence, to pioneer a new way of consuming insight from the variety and velocity of data and build a data-driven business. Sarvesh holds an Oxford Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy & Innovation, in addition to an Engineering Degree.
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About Singular Intelligence: Singular Intelligence is an AI Platform for brands & retailers that automates & augments commercial decisions leveraging all market factors
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.
Roman Drokov
Chief Executive Officer of MIO Mobile Kiosk
Roman A. Drokov is the founder and CEO of Mio Mobile Kiosk.
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About MIO Mobile Kiosk: MIO Mobile Kiosk designs a multitasker robot that assists in accomplishing personal tasks.
Rory Blain
CEO of Sedition
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About Sedition: Sedition is a website dedicated to selling digital art.
Sara Ahmadi
CEO of Shopest
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About Shopest: Shopest makes discovering nearby retail as fast and as simple as online.
Alex Econs
Chief Executive Officer of Everpress
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About Everpress: A global marketplace enabling creators to monetise their brand. No risk. No waste.
Milton Guffogg
CEO of Retail Realisation
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About Retail Realisation: Retail Realisation is a consultancy that focuses on the retail industry and provides assistance to firms that are having liquidity problems.
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dressipi
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About Dressipi: The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers.
Robert Hedberg
Co-Founder & CEO of GLIMR
Robert Hedberg is Co-Founder & CEO at GLIMR.
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About GLIMR: GLIMR connects the offline and the online world and allow retailers and brands to retarget their shoppers after they have left the store.
Bilal Itani
CEO of Modular Customer Engagement Technologies
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About Modular Customer Engagement Technologies: Modular Customer Engagement Technologies is a 3D Customer Experience Platform, Create your 3D Online Shop & 3D Product Configurator
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.
David McDonald
CEO & Co-founder of Rattle Technology
David is a commercially focused senior digital media and tech executive with over 25 years working in a broad range of digital media, technology and entertainment companies. His formative experiences included running British Airways’ Inflight Media division, running a $20 million contract publishing business in Asia for Time Inc. and as Strategic Marketing Director for CNN International across Europe.
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About Rattle Technology: Rattle enables brands and their agencies to access the power of augmented reality experiences through our unique plug and play platform.
Oliver Bridge
Founder & CEO of Cornerstone
Oliver Bridge is a Founder at Cornerstone.
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About Cornerstone: Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.
Phil Davison
Founder and CEO of Mother
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About Mother: Digitalised vending machines helping the busy eat better, and bringing top quality food and drinks to the working world and beyond.
Amanda Cook
Founder & CEO of iLOVE SNACKS
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About iLOVE SNACKS: iLOVE SNACKS, is a snack brand selling deliciously tasty snacks made wit great quality ingredients. Snacks made with love and done well!
Lanre Akinlagun
Founder and CEO of Drinks.ng
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About Drinks.ng: Drinks.ng is a technology based company transforming the way beverages are shopped, sold and shipped online in Nigeria
Henry Birch
Chief Executive Officer of The Very Group
Henry Birch is the Group CEO at The Very Group. He earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About The Very Group, Very: The Very Group is an integrated digital retailer and financial services provider.
Louise Ainsworth
CEO – EMEA, Media Division of Kantar
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About Kantar: Kantar is the data investment management division of WPP, is a global insight, information, and consultancy network.
Ana Cláudia Huzenlaub
Founder & CEO of ChicBaby.com
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About ChicBaby.com: ChicBaby is an online platform that offers fashion and apparel products for babies.
Massimo Sirolla
Co-Founder and CEO of Loyalzoo
Loyalzoo is an innovative and super simple loyalty card app for independent merchants. It helps retail businesses increase their revenue by improving repeat business. See www.loyalzoo.com for further details.
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About Loyalzoo: Digital loyalty system for independent retailers and eateries
Boris Zatezic
Founder & CEO of MuLondon
MuLondon brings joy and balance with its award-winning skin care range from London, inspired by traditional herbalism. Organic | 1% For The Planet | B Corp | Vegan | Cruelty Free. ❤️
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About MuLondon: MuLondon brings joy and balance with its award-winning skin care range from London.
Caroline Wilhelm
Founder & CEO of Copé Active Ltd.
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About Copé Active Ltd.: Copé Active is Europe’s premier online destination for luxury activewear.
