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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Software space. If you think a Director 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.
Scott Boocock
Senior Director – Europe, Middle East, Africa and India of Treasure Data
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About Treasure Data: Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform that offers end-to-end, fully-managed cloud service for big data.
Adam Joseph
Director of Customer Success of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Martin Carazo
Programme Director, Dynamics Global Domain EMEA of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Adrian Cutler
Global Agency Director of Microsoft
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About Cuttlefish Group, MakeITaplan, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Martyn Gooding
Creative Director of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alex Baggallay
Strategic Account Director of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alex Baggallay
Strategic Account Director of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Florian Tournier
Senior Director, IoT and Security of Oracle
Florian Tournier heads a product team developing the next generation of Java technology for IoT edge security. Florian joined Oracle in 2010 as part of the Sun Microsystems acquisition, where he was heading Java ME and Java Card product management. He has been working with connected device vendors and IoT technology solution providers for about 15 years.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
David Ebert
Director of Higher Education – EMEA of Oracle
David has worked with education institutions for 17 years. Currently working for Oracle’s Education and Research – Industry Solutions Group, David is Director for the Education and Research Industry for the EMEA region David is responsible for providing industry expertise and supporting the growth of Oracle in education and research. David covers all solutions – applications and technology – but is the group’s global lead for institutional excellence solutions which includes ERP and EPM. Prior to his current role, David worked at one of the world’s leading, research intensive universities – Imperial College London – for nearly 10 years. David worked in the central IT department delivering many programmes and projects related to student and research information management systems and processes. Before Imperial, David spent the first part of his career working for Oracle as a functional implementation consultant; mostly implementing student management systems across many higher education institutions.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nik Adhia
Senior Director – Global Operations and Strategy (Oracle for Startups) of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tom Bird
Senior Director of Sales Development & Strategy CX EMEA of Oracle
Tom Bird is a Senior Director of Sales Development & Strategy CX EMEA at Orcale.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nick Fleetwood
Director of Strategy and Analytics of Oracle
Nick Fleetwood is the Director of Strategy and Analytics at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ian Malone
Experience Director of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Amr Elrawi
Director of Marketing Strategy of Oracle
Amr Elrawi is a Director of Marketing Strategy at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Renaud Di Francesco
Director – Europe Technology Standards of Sony
Renaud Di Francesco joined Sony in 1998 to develop its external R&D cooperation, then leading its first Digital Cinema project. He is now in charge of the standardisation activity for Europe, with projects involving R&D and committee contributions. His current interests include energy efficiency, network architectures, M2M, multimedia from large venue cinema to personal wrist-watch formats, Mobility, M2M, industrial Internet and real time systems, user interface and accessibility, AAL. In previous assignments, he has worked for the European Commission, coordinating the preparation of Telecom Councils of Ministers, and earlier he managed the portfolio of network management, security and e-commerce in the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services programme. He started his career as a researcher in real time detection and speech coding (PhD, patent) at France Telecom, where he then became department head for new satellite services. His next move was to develop the multi-operator projects of France Telecom in core network (SDH, IP over ATM), service (ACE2000) and R&D (Eurescom).
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About CEN and CENELEC, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Lyndon Hedderly
Director Customer Solutions of Confluent
Lyndon is a director of customer solutions at Confluent. He helps organizations model how digital and specifically how fast data can enable new business models and improve company performance. Prior to joining Confluent, Lyndon was a director of digital strategy at Acquia (2014-2017), Head of Customer Success at Centrix –a U.K. digital start-up (2009-2014)—and an IT strategist and enterprise architect at Accenture (1996-2008). Lyndon holds an MSc in Neuroscience incl. Neural Networks & AI, from Oxford University. He runs his own blog on all things digital and data here: https://lyndon.london.
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Nigel Gurney
Finance Director EMEA of Guidewire Software
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About Guidewire Software: Guidewire Software provides core back-end systems software to the global property, casual and worker’s compensation insurance industry.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Thomas Balkizas MSC, MEng, MIoD
Director Healthcare and Life Sciences EMEA of Amazon Web Services
Thomas Balkizas is a Healthcare and Life Sciences tech futurist & evangelist. Currently the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Principal Partner at AWS and as well founder at Alpha Tech Capital. Thomas is an accomplished senior executive with a wealth of experience in leadership and consulting for Global Healthcare, Technology and Private Equity businesses. He has enjoyed considerable success managing the strategic direction of businesses, developing sustainable business strategies and delivering unprecedented results in high profile, international environments. Thomas is on a mission to demystify healthcare tech for us all while highlighting its great value & the huge, life changing opportunities it offers both the public and investors of all kinds (VCs, angel, private equity, family offices or corporate) Besides his HCLS investment expertise, Thomas is an experienced senior Cloud & AI executive, currently the Head of EMEA AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences, previously IBM’s Watson Health Executive Director. His private Investment & Advisory Group, Alpha Tech Capital, has been formed with 3 other senior HCLS tech execs and expert advisors. Their mission is to identify and help the UK’s best HCLS startups to scale globally, accelerating their progress with advice, funding & expertise in cloud, AI & health tech; acting as specialist advisors to a select network of investment partners. Thomas is a creative Key Opinion Leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences, with over 120 keynote speeches at Digital Healthcare, Private Equity and Technology conferences globally.
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About Alpha Tech Capital, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rowland Illing
Director & Chief Medical Officer, International Government Health of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Simon Marsh
Marketing Procurement Director of Dell EMC
Simon has been at Dell EMC since 2010 as a procurement manager for indirect spend, and is now Marketing Procurement Director. Previously he was at BP.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Matthew Hardcastle
Director & Client Development of DealCloud
Matt is one of the Client Development Directors responsible for delivering DealCloud’s expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining DealCloud Matt was an Assistant Director at Inflexion, a UK based mid-market investor currently managing £5.4bn. He originally trained as a consultant with CIL Management Consultants and holds a BA in Classics from Durham University.
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About DealCloud: Deal management and business development software for principal investing and M&A advisory professionals.
Daniel Hurst
Principle Consultant & Practice Director, Enterprise DevOps Transformation of Contino
Daniel Hurst is a DevOps consultant specialising in defining and driving successful DevOps and Agile adoption within Financial Services organisations. He operates using a data-driven transformational approach: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.
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About Contino: Contino is a professional services consultancy providing a range of services for DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Pragmatic Agile practices.
Federico Pienovi
Regional Managing Director – Head of EMEA of Globant
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About Globant: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Guy Whittaker
Non-Exec Director of Digime
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About Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Maximilian Bleyleben
Managing Director and Chief Privacy Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Zsolt Pocsaji
Senior Director, Personalisation of Optimizely
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Tracy Figliola
Director of Global Mobility and Global HR Shared Services of Equinix
Tracy Figliola Responsible for the strategy, policy and execution of all Global Mobility services for the Equinix Group. Building a first class Global Mobility program to facilitate and enable a growth business agenda and nurture talent. In addition global responsibility for HR Shared Services, building the function to deliver core HR services to Equinix. At Equinix, Tracy is part of a dynamic and fast growing team working to deliver significant customer value to organisations who are increasingly viewing their data center strategy as a source of competitive advantage.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Michael Winterson
Managing Director of Equinix
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About Equinix, SixFortyEight: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Ilya Kondrashov
Co-founder & Managing Director of MarketFinance
Having spent three years working within one of the world’s largest legacy financial institutions, Ilya was exposed to the outdated service banks were providing to private businesses. He realised that business owners felt let down by their bank, and set out to build a better alternative. He also represents MarketInvoice in its efforts to promote transparency and fairness within the alternative finance industry, sitting on multiple compliance and regulatory bodies including the P2PFA.
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About MarketFinance: MarketFinance is a FinTech company providing business finance solutions that help companies grow.
Serena Chaudhry
Associate Director of Dataminr
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About Dataminr, Dataminr, Observer Research Foundation, One Young World: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Charlotte Salasky
Director of Investor Relations of Notion Capital
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About Notion Capital: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Maddy Cross
Talent Director of Notion Capital
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About Notion Capital: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Matt Lock
Director of Sales Engineers, UK of Varonis Systems
Matthew has 17 years’ experience in the field of Network Security, which includes extensive contracts with many global businesses, including BP and JPMorgan. Specialising in risk assessment, risk management, policy compliance, security reviews and managing network behaviour anomaly systems, Matthew now leads Varonis’ sales engineering team in the UK, Ireland and Middle East, ensuring the team is helping customers and partners from a range of sectors in data governance projects, and organizing, securing and managing their unstructured data.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Matt Lock
Director of Sales Engineers, UK of Varonis Systems
Matthew has 17 years’ experience in the field of Network Security, which includes extensive contracts with many global businesses, including BP and JPMorgan. Specialising in risk assessment, risk management, policy compliance, security reviews and managing network behaviour anomaly systems, Matthew now leads Varonis’ sales engineering team in the UK, Ireland and Middle East, ensuring the team is helping customers and partners from a range of sectors in data governance projects, and organizing, securing and managing their unstructured data.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Avi Corfas
VP, Latin America & Director, Central Europe of Skybox Security
Mr. Avi Corfas serves as Vice President of Sales – Asia-Pacific & Latin America at Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas served as Head of International Markets of Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas serves as Advisor of WorkLight Inc. He served as Vice President of worldwide Sales and Managing Director of Europe, Middle East & Africa of Skybox Security, Inc., since April 2004. He served as Vice President of Skybox Security, Inc. since April 2004. Mr. Corfas served as Executive
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Cheryl Hung
Director of Ecosystem of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Cheryl is an ex-Google software engineer with a passion for developer tools, experience and community. She founded the Cloud Native London meetup and codes, writes and speaks about containers, storage and cloud computing.
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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Simon Bullivant
Director of Rentify
Specialising in advice to owner entrepreneurs, Simon has been involved in transactions at every stage of the life cycle, from raising venture capital finance to hundred million pound sales of businesses. Transactions for which he has been responsible include the acquisition of Byron Hamburgers by Hutton Collins, the sale of Soho House to Ron Burkle, multiple transactions involving Virgin Active; the acquisition of DFS by Advent International; various Transactions involving Trainline over an extended period; the growth of Rentify, including raising capital and ongoing advice, and many more. Simon also sits on the board of certain client companies to which ongoing advice is given, including Jellycat and Rentify. Simon was a founding shareholder of New Boathouse Capital, a business he started with other colleagues in 2000. New Boathouse was sold to Quayle Munro in 2007 where he was a managing director until he founded Ashcombe in 2010. Simon originally trained as a corporate lawyer at Macfarlanes, specialising in corporate transactions focused on private equity. He graduated from Oxford University in 1991.
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About Ashcombe Advisers, Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Marc Waters
Managing Director UK&I of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Marc is the UK & Ireland Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He joined HP Company in November 1999 and was appointed Managing Director in July 2016. As UK&I Managing Director, Marc is responsible for all people and business operations. He oversees a technology portfolio that includes Hybrid Cloud, Edge solutions and comprehensive set of services capabilities. Previously Marc has held key positions including Vice President Enterprise Group, Services Sales Director, Chief of Staff and a number of Sales Management roles. Marc is a passionate supporter of UK business and actively engaged with both Government and the CBI. A practitioner of values based leadership he believes business is a force for good and places personal energy into supporting opportunities for young people. Marc holds a Masters in Business Administration from Henley Business School. He has five children and is interested in football, politics and economics.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Dirk Anderson
Director of Hybrid Cloud of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Dirk Anderson runs the UK&I Cloud business at HPE. Prior to joining HPE, Dirk was the Managing Director at RedPixie, a leading Azure consultancy that was acquired by HPE in 2017. As leader of the UKI Cloud business, Dirk heads-up a team of high end consultants and engineers who design, build and manage Cloud platforms and solutions for a variety of enterprise customers across various sectors.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Richard Little
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
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About Azur Group, CENTURY Tech, Concirrus, IQ Capital, Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Prodigy Finance, PROfounders Capital, Thought Machine, Trainline: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Mark Champkins
Creative Director of The LEGO Group
Mark Champkins is a designer and inventor at London. He was a Design Director at Kano Computing since February, 2016 and also a Director at Mark Champkins Ltd since April 2011 to present. Mark also lectures about Communication in Design Module at Dyson School of Design Engineering. He founded Concentrate Design Ltd. Mark won as the British Inventor of the Year, for designing Self-Heating Crockery, a range of plates, cups and bowls that heat up to sixty degrees at the touch of a button. Mark studied Manufacturing Engineering at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and Industrial Design Engineering at Royal College of Art.
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About The LEGO Group: The LEGO Group is a family-owned company that specializes in the development of children’s creativity through playing and learning.
Rob Lowe
Managing Director – Digital Play, LEGO Ventures of The LEGO Group
Rob Lowe is responsible for the global strategy, development and day-to-day running of LEGO® Life, the new creative, social and safe digital experience for LEGO kids. He has been at the LEGO Group for three years, prior to that he has worked in marketing and product development leadership roles at Nintendo and BBC Worldwide.
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About LEGO Ventures, The LEGO Group: The LEGO Group is a family-owned company that specializes in the development of children’s creativity through playing and learning.
Costas Syrmos
Global Marketing Director of The LEGO Group
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About The LEGO Group: The LEGO Group is a family-owned company that specializes in the development of children’s creativity through playing and learning.
Ian Evans
Managing Director, EMEA of OneTrust
Ian Evans is vice president and managing director, EMEA, at AirWatch. He is responsible for growing AirWatch’s business in the European, Middle Eastern and African regions. Evans brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to AirWatch, with more than 10 years in direct and channel sales. He has been successful in helping companies achieve forecasted goals by structuring sales and operation processes and coaching sales teams to deliver multi-year, multimillion-dollar contracts.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Ciara Jordan
Global Operations & Professional Services Director of SHL
Ciara Jordan is the Senior Vice President, Global Operations at Cision. Jordan has more than 20 years of business operations and process expertise. She is responsible for Cision’s global influencer research teams, monitoring production, distribution editorial ops and client services for EMEA and India. Prior to joining Cision, Ciara held leadership roles at Dell, Durrants and Gorkana Group. Ciara has a Bachelor of Commerce and Master in Business Studies from University College Galway, Ireland.
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Denise Parkinson
Global Entertainment Director of OneFootball
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About OneFootball: The ultimate football media platform – news, scores, stats & more.
James Gilmore
Board Of Director of CACI International
The Honorable James S. Gilmore, III (Outside Director) – During his term as Virginia’s executive leader, from 1998 to 2002, Governor Gilmore created the nation’s first secretariat of technology, established a statewide technology commission and signed into law the nation’s first comprehensive state Internet policy. He also chaired the U.S. Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities Involving Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, a national panel established by Congress to assess federal, state and local government capabilities to respond to the consequences of a terrorist attack. Also known as the “Gilmore Commission,” this panel was influential in developing the Office of Homeland Security. In 2003 President George W. Bush appointed him to the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors and he was elected Chairman of the Air Force Board in the fall of 2003. Governor Gilmore was also Virginia’s Attorney General from 1993 to 1997. His military career includes service as a U.S. Army counterintelligence agent in West Germany from 1971 to 1974. Governor Gilmore’s board experience includes serving as Chairman of the Board of Everquest Financial Ltd. He is currently a member of the boards of directors of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., Cypress Communications, Inc, and Global Relief Technologies of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He served on the board of Barr Pharmaceuticals from 2002 to 2008 and IDT Corporation from 2002 to 2006. From 2002 to 2008 Governor Gilmore was a partner at the law firm of Kelley Drye and Warren, where he chaired the firm’s Homeland Security Practice Group and focused on corporate, technology, information technology and international matters. Governor Gilmore is a 1971 graduate of the University of Virginia and a 1977 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.
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About : CACI International Inc provides information systems, and technology and professional services to the U.S.
Nial Ferguson
Regional Director of Sourcepoint
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Jon Koplin
Managing Director EMEAR, Cisco Investments and Corporate Development of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Olivier de Trogoff
CEO @ Maje invest and member of the Board of Director @ ClicData of ClicData
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About : ClicData is a provider of cloud-based dashboard systems that are designed to improve business efficiency through better reporting.
Jenny White
Director of Sales and Marketing, Registrar Channel of Donuts
Jenny White has over 12 years of domain industry experience and has been involved in the development of the new gTLD program at the registry level since its infancy. Prior to joining Donuts, Jenny gained extensive registry operations experience at registry service provider CentralNic. Jenny played an integral part in the company’s growth, managing key registry-registrar partner relationships and developing operational procedures to successfully bring new domain extensions to market. Previously, Jenny implemented effective processes to support a dramatically increasing customer base at an internet service provider.
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About Donuts: Donuts is a domain name registry offering new domain names in multiple languages and character sets.
Maria Lam
Non-Executive Director of QPQ
Maria Lam is a Director at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Oliver Wessling
Director of NOS Microsystems
Oliver Wessling is the Director at NOS Microsystems.
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About NOS Microsystems: Specialist in electronic software distribution and cloud services tools for all platforms.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Simone Barratt
Non Executive Director of dotmailer Group
Simone Barratt has over 15 years’ experience of ecommerce and online marketing. She has grown businesses to multi $m from incorporation. She has International expansion experience in Europe and the Asia Pac. She was appointed Global President of e-Dialog Inc an Ebay company in 2011 with Income Statement responsibility for just under $100m business across USA, EMEA and APAC and 450 employees.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Richard Kellet
Senior Independent Non Executive Director of dotmailer Group
Mr Richard Kellett-Clarke brings to the board over 25 years of management experience in the turn round and strategic repositioning and recovery of creative businesses in CMCG, media, electronics and software industries. He was a founder of AFX NEWS ltd, now part of Thomson Reuters, and Sealed Media, now owned by Oracle. He has held numerous CFO roles in subsidiaries of large PLC’s as well as the role of IT Director at Financial Times Information. He was part of the team as CFO which brought Picwick Group PLC to the main market and Brady Plc to AIM. He is currently the CEO of Idox Plc an AIM listed specialist software, solutions and KM consultancy business.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Ashley Read
Editorial Director of Buffer
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About Buffer, The Media: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Lewis Mitchell
Senior Director, EMEA of Taulia
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Heleen Snelting
Director Data Science EMEA of TIBCO
Heleen Snelting is Director Data Science EMEA at TIBCO, where she and her team help TIBCO customers optimise business and operational processes through the use of advanced analytics. She previously held international roles at market- and shopper research company IRI. Heleen is passionate about knowledge sharing and is an active TIBCO Community contributor.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Jonathan Beddoes
Director of Engineering of Avast
Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduate studies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of ‘silicon village’ in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.
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About Avast, Conscious 2, Twine: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Jonathan Beddoes
Director of Engineering of Avast
Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduate studies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of ‘silicon village’ in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.
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About Avast, Conscious 2, Twine: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Alessandro Benedetti
Director of Versatile Systems
Alessandro Benedetti joined Equus Total Return as Director in 2010.
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About Equus Total Return,Inc., Versatile Systems: Versatile Systems is a organization that specializes in the field of Data Management.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Derek Weaver
Director of Logistics of Metapack
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Stephen Britto
Finance Director of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Richard Doherty
Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA of Workday
Richard Doherty is senior director product marketing at Workday with EMEA-wide responsibilities for Workday’s HCM and financial management applications. Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe. Joining Jobpartners as one of the first employees in 2000, Richard held a number of positions across professional services, sales and marketing, helping Jobpartners grow into one of the market leaders in Europe. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday. Richard holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Costas Frangeskou
Director of Sales of Goodlord
Costas brings more than 14 years experience in the property industry to Goodlord. This includes over a decade with Rightmove, where he held positions including National Sales Director and Commercial Operations Director.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Matt Chatters
Finance Director of Goodlord
Goodlord’s resident Kiwi Matt has worked in London since 2013 at a number of exciting start-ups, and he has a particularly keen interest in the subscription-based SaaS business model. Away from Goodlord he enjoys travel, cycling, talking about how great New Zealand is, and being cannon fodder in PUBG.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Sharmila Paranjpe
Program Director; Strategy & Transformation of Wipro Technologies
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About Wipro Technologies: Wipro is a global information technology, consulting and business process services company.
Vineet Bewtra
Director, Investments of Omidyar Network
Vineet leads Omidyar Network’s impact investing strategy in and from Europe. He is also responsible for leading Omidyar Network’s education-related investments across Africa as well as globally applicable platforms coming out of Europe. Vineet joined Omidyar Network in mid-2011, before which he spent three years as an investment manager at The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. He spearheaded the foundation’s work in educational achievement, concentrating on Sub-Saharan Africa and India. His work included leading an innovative remedial education program with the Government of Ghana aimed at improving the literacy and numeracy of primary schoolchildren, developing the foundation’s straregy around early childhood education, and creating school-based deworming programs. Previously, Vineet worked for 14 years in Europe’s structured and illiquid fixed income markets. He served as managing director at Dresdner Kleinwort, running a proprietary investment desk and participating on the firm’s underwriting committee. Vineet also worked at Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and Chemical. Vineet received a BA with honors from Cambridge University and an MSc in development management from the London School of Economics.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
James Rowley
Associate Director – Communications, Media and Technology of Cognizant
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Riti Chatterjee
Senior Director, MSI of Cognizant
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Vijay Parthasarathy
Director – Agile & DevOps Cognizant of Cognizant
Vijay Parthasarathy is a technical leader and a practitioner in Cognizant’s Agile-DevOps practice in UK & Europe. He is an evangelist & a coach helping large enterprises to embrace Agile & DevOps practices beyond digital applications. He emphasizes the need to think innovatively and apply smart technologies to bring Agile and DevOps to legacy and COTS applications. He has led several initiatives with clients, motivated them to adopt ‘next practices’ not just ‘best practices based on case studies’. His experience spans a variety of roles including software development, business analysis, testing, business development and marketing. This breath has helped him solve client problems using a holistic lens.
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Peter Elvidge
Director, Media and Entertainment of Cognizant
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Lars Kurth
Director of Open Source Solutions of Citrix Systems
Lars Kurth had his first contact with the open source community in 1997 when he worked on various parts of the ARM toolchain. This experience led Lars to become a passionate open source enthusiast who worked with and for many open source communities over the past 19 years. Lars contributed to projects such as GCC, Eclipse, Symbian and Xen and became the open source community manager for Xen.org in 2011 and later chairman of the Xen Project Advisory Board.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Caspar Woolley
Founder & Director of FREE NOW
Caspar Woolley is the founder and president of [Hailo](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hailo#/entity), an easy-to-use smartphone application that allows passengers to find taxis. Previously, he was the chief executive officer of eCourier.co.uk. Woolley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Cambridge. He lives in London, United Kingdom.
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About FREE NOW, Sifted: FREE NOW is one of the biggest ride-hailing apps in Europe and currently available in 11 countries.
Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director, Europe of Hearst Ventures
Megumi Ikeda is the managing director of Hearst Ventures and the general manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco. Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.
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About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Henry Church
Director of Mobile and Digital First Services, EMEA of mParticle
Henry Church is the director of mobile and digital first services, EMEA at mParticle.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Arthur Holcombe
Managing Director of Snupps
Responsible for operations, marketing and business development. Arthur has 15 years experience building dynamic startups and early growth companies in the wireless and Internet sectors. Previously Arthur was the Chief Revenue Officer at MobileWave, an AIM listed Company, and prior to that worked at Coordinate Technologies (Founder), The Cloud, Coremetrics (co-Founder; sold to IBM) and Dow Jones China. Arthur is a graduate from Georgetown University, with an MBA from Thunderbird.
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Bradley Gamage
Senior Director of Publicis Sapient
Bradley is responsible for a number of SapientRazorfish’s professional services business delivering digital services across multiple client organisations, including Barclays, Ashurst, HCA, Fidelity International, Bupa, Schroders Asset Management and Travelers Insurance. Experienced and passionate in helping clients navigate the complexities of digital transformation and deliver meaningful, engaging and relevant experiences for their customers. Bradley currently serves on the Digital & Direct Marketing Steering Committee for the Financial Services Forum, an Independent organisation for marketing effectiveness in UK financial services.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Craig Walmsley
Senior Director – Customer Experience & Innovation Consulting of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Ronnie Mitra
Director Of Technology of Publicis Sapient
Ronnie Mitra is an author, consultant and speaker who helps companies around the world improve their organizational designs and system architectures. He combines a focus on UX principles and managing system complexity to tackle the challenges of building effective API programs and establishing practical strategies for transformation. His most recent work is the O’Reilly book Continuous API Management which he co-authored.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
James Betteley
Director of Technology of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Aman Krishna
Associate Director | Data Strategy & Analytics of Publicis Sapient
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Neil Sawyer
Commercial Channel & Edu/SMB Director of HP
Neil Sawyer is Director of Education for HP in the UK&I. Over the last 15 years Neil has developed a broad knowledge of the key solutions, partnerships and insights that have helped a number of schools, colleges and Universities in their decision making and investment in educational technology.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Rob Swan
Business Development Director UKI & FST of Temenos
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About Temenos: Temenos Group is a market leading provider of banking software systems.
Simon Kirby
Senior Director, Customer Success of Qlik
Simon is the Director of Financial Services Industry Solutions at Qlik and works with customers and partners to build value driven solutions for banks, insurers and capital markets firms. Simon has over twenty five years’ experience working in the insurance and banking sectors with a focus primarily on Audit, Risk Management and Regulation at companies including RSA Insurance Group, PWC and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to joining Qlik in 2015, Simon worked for the Financial Services Authority in the UK where he headed a team of insurance regulators supervising the activities of over thirty companies in complying with regulations such as Solvency II.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Alessandro Perilli
Senior Director, Management Strategy of Red Hat
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About European AI Alliance, H+, Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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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.
James Fricker
Managing Director of Sensat
James is a forward thinking Managing Director with a strong revenue focus, looking to push the boundaries of teams and innovation in order to drive value. Having graduated from the university of Lincoln with a Bsc in Psychology with Clinical Psychology, James started his career in the world of media with one of the UK leading publishing companies. With a strong affection to technologies, he transitioned into SaaS, leading the UK proposition of Mag+ in the digital publishing space, earning accreditation at the PPA awards with winning ‘Sales Team of the year’, he soon moved onto Fliplet to become the first commercial hire at a rapidly growing start up company, successfully commercialising the platform to its now global client base and growing revenue over 100% year on year in the 2 years he had there prior to joining SenSat.
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About Pavilion, Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Guy Roberts
Non-Executive Director of Sensat
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About : SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Hugo Holland-Bosworth
Group Operations Director of Alternative Networks
Hugo has been involved with Alternative since 1995, joining the company permanently in 2000 as a Systems Sales Executive and going on to become a Sales Manager and then Business Systems Director. In 2007 Hugo was involved in the establishment of AN Technical Services (ANTS) and in 2008 following the acquisition and subsequent merging of Echo Communications and ANTS, Hugo was promoted to Operations Director. His remit was extended in 2010 to include Client Services and Networks Project Management and then in 2012 Hugo assumed responsibility for the enlarged Group Operations as part of the Executive Board.
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About Alternative Networks: Alternative is a leading provider of IT solutions to UK businesses from device to datacentre.
Henrietta Marsh
Member of Board of Directors of Alternative Networks
Henrietta Marsh joined the Board as a non-executive Director on 6 June 2014. She has significant public company experience, having served as a non-executive director (and chairing the Remuneration Committee) at Dods (Group) PLC from April 2012 to November 2014, been an independent non-executive director at Acal plc since May 2013 and chairing the Remuneration Committee since October 2014, and since January 2014 been a non-executive Director of Electric World plc where she is appointed by Living Bridge Equity Partners. She is also a Director of Henrietta Marsh Consulting Limited. Previously, Henrietta was a director of 3i plc where she worked as a fund manager and in private equity for 14 years. She was also a fund manager at Living Bridge Equity Partners responsible for all AIM investments. Henrietta was the founder chairman of the AIM VCT Managers Group and is a member of the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Advisory Group.
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About : Alternative is a leading provider of IT solutions to UK businesses from device to datacentre.
Zarir Vakil
Non Executive Director of WRLD
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About : A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
