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 Founder operating in the Big Data space. If you think a Founder 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.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Founder of Ocean Protocol
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About Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while…
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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
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Vishal Marria
Founder & CEO of Quantexa
Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. Previously Executive Director at EY, Vishal led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology strategy, data-driven remediation and end to end reviews of strategy and policy. Vishal was instrumental in directing and building the Detica NetReveal business globally and strives to bring together business and IT to address financial crime risks.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Priya Lakhani
Founder & CEO of CENTURY Tech
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company’s charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students’ learning outcomes. Priya has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum, an advisory board member to several educational/skills organisations, including a founding entrepreneur of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Ammad Ahmad
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Atheneum
Ammad has a comprehensive understanding of the key levers that drive better business performance given his experience in implementing industry specific best practices across various Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding Atheneum, he spent 13 years in the United States, with significant experience at Kaiser Associates, and the Advisory Board Company. Ammad is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and has a Masters from the WHU School of Management together with the Bucerius Law School in Germany.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Michael Brennan
Co Founder & Non-Executive Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Michael Brennan co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and serves as its Head of Corporate Development. Mr. Brennan co-founded Novum Securities in 2006 and served as it Chief Executive Officer. In 2009, Mr. Brennan joined Proximagen Group plc, as Head of Corporate Development, where he was focused on fund raising, corporate transactions and business development. Mr. Brennan has over 14 years of equity capital markets experience in the City focusing on the small and mid cap market. He is a Senior corporate finance executive with over 15 years City based capital markets experience. The majority of his time was spent with Evolution Securities where he served as a Director in their corporate finance department and has significant transactional experience including M&A and takeover work. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Litebulb Group Limited since September 13, 2013.
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About BenevolentAI, SimplyPayMe: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ivan Griffin
COO & Co-Founder of BenevolentAI
Ivan joined NESTA in March 2009. He makes and manages investments in the Healthcare sector. Prior to joining NESTA Ivan spent four years at IP Group where he was predominantly focused on healthcare and life science businesses. At IP Group his role encompassed all aspects of technology commercialisation, including identification of investment opportunities, spin-out company formation, business and corporate development as well as private and public equity financings and trade sales. Before joining IP Group Ivan spent two years at Oxford Technology Venture Capital Trust, and a year in post-doctoral research where he published several scientific papers.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Brent Gutekunst
Chief Development Officer & Founder of BenevolentAI
Mr. Brent Gutekunst co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and also serves as its Chief Development Officer. Mr. Gutekunst is the founder of Stratified Medical, Inc. Previously, he founded TouchDx in 2009. Prior to TouchDx, he founded E-Auction. He also founded Collectors Universe and after merging with leading firms in the collectibles industry completed a successful IPO in collectibles.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ken Mulvany
Founder & Board Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Ken Mulvany is a serial entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of business leadership experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $2bn machine intelligence company with end-to-end drug development capabilities. Mr. Mulvany was previously Founder and CEO of Proximagen, a leading biotech company developing medicines for central nervous system disorders, which he sold in 2012. Mulvany sits on several advisory boards including the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, and formerly, the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Mr. Mulvany is a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America’s Cup.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Adel Louertatani
Co-Founder of Grapedata
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About Grapedata: GrapeData aims to bridge the information gap between the financial industry and on-the-ground individuals.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deeper Insights
CEO and Founder at Deeper Insights.
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About Deeper Insights: Deeper Insights solve the toughest human problems through the transformative power of AI.
Slav Slavinski
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Behavox
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Graham Cooke
Founder & CEO of Qubit
Graham has always been tuned into interesting technology and cut his teeth whilst creating a new on-demand TV technology in his pre-Google days. A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13 when he opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine, he started his first company when he was 15. Graham joined Google in 2005 and lead the global strategy around how to optimize conversion rate effectiveness. He decided to leave with 3 colleagues (Dan, Emre and Ian) to set up QuBit in order to tackle the emerging data revolution.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Louis Decuypere
Founder & CEO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Tony Hunter
Co-Founder of Attest
Tony Hunter is the COO & Co-Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Askar Bulegenov
Founder & CEO of Grocemania
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About Grocemania: On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!
Laurence Kemball-Cook
CEO and Founder of Pavegen
Laurence is CEO and Founder of Pavegen Systems – a clean-technology company that generate electricity from footsteps. Winner of over 20 awards, including International Businessman of the Year at the PEA Awards 2013, Laurence is a renowned thought leader and worldwide speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation. He is acclaimed by The Guardian for “shifting perceptions of renewable energy.” Having spoken at more TED talks than any other technology company, Laurence’s TEDxBerlin presentation was featured among TED’s top talks on envisioning cities of the future and changing attitudes to fossil fuels. Clients include Google, Cisco, Nike, Adidas and the Federal US government and technology has been adopted in over 200 sites around the globe.
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About Pavegen: Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall.
Prakash Pilley
Co-Founder of Innovify
Founder at Innovify
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Ruchit Jani
Co-Founder of Innovify
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About Innovify, Matangi Industries LLP: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Richard Groves
Founder & COO of UXCam
Founder & COO of UXCam.
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About UXCam: Deliver the perfect app experience
Paroma Indilo
Co-Founder and CEO of Datacy
Paroma Indilo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Datacy.
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About Datacy: datacy is an online marketplace for collecting and exchanging datasets directly to businesses.
Antton Peña
Founder and CPO of Flock Ltd.
Antton Pena is the Founder of Flock, a London-based drone insurtech company which has partnered with Allianz to pioneer the future of Big-Data driven insurance.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Oliver Breach
Founder & COO of Pupil
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
James D. Marshall
Founder and CEO of Pupil
James D Marshall is the founder and CEO at Pupil.
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Jason Kingdon
Co-Founder of Telectic
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About Blue Prism, Telectic: Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Iain McLaren
Co-Founder of Telectic
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About Telectic: Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Oleksander Bondarev
Founder of SentiSum
A highly motivated and ambitious “hacker at heart”, now leveraging tech know-how in the VC game. Love: Clean UI, Web Components, Prototyping, Deep Learning (Tensor Flow, Keras, Theano), NLP and VR/AR.
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About Credo Ventures, SentiSum: SentiSum is a technology startup which is leveraging AI and big data to help enterprises gain competitive advantage.
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
Igor Svehla
Co Founder & CEO of Trakbar
Igor Svehla is the Founder at Trakbar .
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About Project 3 Mobility, Trakbar: Smart business intelligence and predictions for bars & restaurants
John Webb
Co-Founder, Director of Datalytyx
John has a background in building, managing and advising on IT businesses and has advised on rapid growth models in the IT sector. With extensive expertise in sales, strategy and finance, he has built his career on demonstrable growth acceleration and value to clients.
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About Datalytyx: Datalytyx is a leading provider of big data engineering, data analytics and cloud solutions.
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
Hugo Amos
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Black Swan Data
Black Swan Data is one of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies counting PepsiCo, Unilever, McDonald’s and Google amongst its clients. It combines cutting edge data science with publicly available social data to accurately predict trends in consumer behaviour. Hugo Amos works closely with clients to help them transform their insight, innovation and marketing programs through the application of Social Prediction technology. Prior to setting up Black Swan, Hugo spent 10 years in consumer and digital marketing for PepsiCo in both the UK and North America.
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About Black Swan Data: Black Swan’s SaaS solution uses data analytics to allow brands to more accurately predict future consumer trends
Matty Cusden-Ross
Founder and CEO of Flux Systems
Matty has eight years of experience working with various startups across industries reaching the mass consumer market. Matty firmly believes that an expert level of understanding of the customer’s needs is tantamount to a successful company and that is why his career to date has been led by a desire to solve problems he has personally experienced.
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Veronique Merriam Barbosa
Co-Founder, COO of Flux Systems
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Florian Thaler
Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX of OilX
Florian is Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX, a startup that is innovating oil trading analytics through deep empirical knowledge and state-of-the-art data science. Florian has >15 years’ oil experience at Shell, Citibank and Och-Ziff. He completed a doctorate at Vienna University of Economics and Business and a business administration degree at Bocconi University. Florian is one of 100 Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council.
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About OilX: OilX is a oil sector that provides a global real-time oil supply-demand balance.
George Frangou
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Massive Analytic
George is Massive Analytic’s founder and Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), Artificial Precognition inventor and Oscar product architect. Pushing ICT boundaries for more than 30 years, he has many firsts including the UK fibre optic broadband network run by Virgin Media. George’s CV includes CEO Platon UK (now Delloitte), analytic company Pronus founder and KPMG senior executive. Degrees incude Astrophysics and wireless and optical communications from world leading universities including UCL. Professional accreditations and honours include Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD), FRSA, Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About Massive Analytic, Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Martin Robinson
Co-Founder of Massive Analytic
Martin’s focus is operations and investment. Over the last 20 years, Martin has led early-stage businesses and blue chip firms at board level in finance, operations and IT roles. He has the ability to make strategy a reality and he has consistently achieved high investment returns for investors and venture capitalists. Martin’s CV includes Operations & Finance Director ML Integration (sold to CW) and Hamilton Rentals (sold to Compel). He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, FCCA, and has an honours degree in Business Studies.
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About Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO of Endor
Yaniv Altshuler is Co-Founder & CTO at Endor.
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About Endor: Predictive software platform that lets business users ask any predictive question and get high-quality results in minutes instead of months.
Ning Zhang
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Limejump
Ning Zhang is the Co-founder at Limejump.
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About Limejump: Limejump is a Technology-Driven Utility: harnessing the power of big data to positively disrupt and transform today’s energy market.
David John
Founder & CEO of Loyalize
David has worked for a number of financial organisations, from Private Equity to Commodity Trading. Most recently, he worked as a Financial Services Consultant, focussed on developing and supporting national and international businesses going through strategic change. Outside of business, David is a keen and accomplished rugby player, and attempting golfer!
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About Findr, Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
Christopher El Badaoui
Co-Founder, CEO of LVNDR Health
Chris is responsible for driving LVNDR’s vision, brand, and business strategy as well as building and managing a phenomenal team to revolutionize LGBTQ+ healthcare. They are a 2x founder and have previously built accelerators and investment vehicles for Parsons School of Design, Techstars and the NFL. Prior to that, they led Growth and Strategy at Pillar Tech disrupting legacy industries with Fortune 500 companies.
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About LVNDR Health: LVNDR is redesigning sexual and reproductive healthcare services through a mobile-first digital clinic designed for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Katerina Spranger
Founder and CEO of Oxford Heartbeat
Katerina is the Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford and was previously a researcher in AI at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.
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About Oxford Heartbeat, Royal Academy of Engineering: Oxford Heartbeat makes cardiovascular surgery more accurate and safe.
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Steve Denner
Founder and COO of Adestra
Steve is highly experienced in developing and delivering email solutions, having led teams responsible for bringing five email applications to market. Since co-founding Adestra, Steve is focused on ensuring Adestra’s platform continues to be today’s best email marketing system and that Adestra’s clients receive the best support.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Erkin Oksel
CEO & Founder of EyesClear
Erkin Oksel is the founder and CEO of EyesClear.
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About EyesClear: EyesClear supports finance executives in allocating capital while avoiding the traps and risks that online finance inherently brings.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Constantine Yurevich
Founder / CEO of SegmentStream
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About SegmentStream: SegmentStream is a predictive marketing attribution and optimisation platform for a cookie-less world.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Rado Lipus
Founder & CEO of Neudata
Rado is the founder and CEO of Neudata. Prior to founding Neudata, Rado’s work experience spans 20 years of leadership, sales management, FinTech and data innovation for the buy-side. Rado spent several years in quantitative portfolio construction and risk management at MSCI (Barra), S&P Capital IQ and CITE Investments. He has worked at leading financial services firms, and financial data and analytics providers including PerTrac, 2iQ Research, I/B/E/S and TIM Group. Rado received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Graz, Austria and is a CFA charterholder.
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About Neudata: Neudata’s SaaS catalogue of 5,000+ dataset reports provides tools for users to easily search, source, manage and compare data.
Nik Whitfield
Founder & CEO of Panaseer
A globally recognised figure in the field of cyber and financial technology, Nik brings direction and leadership to the team, where he applies his phrase #deservetowin daily.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Sophie Harrison
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Panaseer
Sophie is chief of co-ordination and organiser extraordinaire. She looks after all of our client activity, bringing order to the team so that we can delight our customers.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Charaka Goonatilake
Founder & CTO of Panaseer
Charaka is the brains behind our big data technology. His team lead the way in generating innovative techniques for deriving new security insight for our customers.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Markus Stripf
Co-Founder & CPMO of Spoon Guru
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About Spoon Guru: A leading retail solution provider, we deliver seamless product discovery based on shopper dietary & lifestyle needs.
Marius Cobzarenco
Co-Founder and CTO of re:infer
I believe artificial intelligence will improve most aspects of our lives in the next decade. AI is already “eating the world” today. In particular, I am interested in how emerging technologies such as deep learning can be used to build frictionless natural language interfaces. To this end I co-founded re:infer. I’m an old-fashioned hacker with strong understanding of machine learning and its proxy fields such as probability theory, statistical modelling, linear algebra and multivariate calculus. Academically, my interests are in probabilistic generative models of language.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
Phil Westcott
Founder & co-CEO of Filament AI
Phil is a former Director at IBM, and a specialist in applied Artificial Intelligence. Phil previously ran the IBM Watson Ecosystem in Europe, led their Smarter Cities business in Southeast Asia and launched IBM’s global IoT practice.
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About Filament AI: Filament helps clients to build proprietary AI capability within their organisation, through consultancy, solutions and tooling
Armaan Mehta
Co-Founder of Odore
Armaan Mehta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Karan Gupta
Co-Founder of Odore
Karan Gupta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
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About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
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.
Daniel Mohamed
Founder & Managing Director of Urban Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Urban Intelligence
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About Urban Intelligence: Data-Driven Property Development
James Weatherill
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arbor Education
Education data evangelist. He co-founded Arbor Education after spending time as an analyst and corporate venture manager, and can’t wait until education has caught up with the digital age.
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About Arbor Education: Arbor helps schools transform the way they work
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.
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
Shruti Malani Krishnan
Co-Founder of Powr of You
Co-Founder at powr of you
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About NameDrop, Powr of You, PY Insights, Qurb: Changing the personal data economy
Jacob Laurvigen
Group CEO & Co-Founder of Dexi
Jacob Laurvigen has been helping businesses achieving above expectations and personally invested in multiple successful start-up’s!
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About Blockware, Dexi, Mozenda: Dexi provides the leading Data Extraction and Data Automation Software.
Daniel White
CEO and Founder of Signol
Dan is a behavioral and environmental expert with extensive experience of devising and delivering successful innovations. Over the last 10 years, Dan has been at the forefront of applied behavioral science and has conducted several water and energy field experiments. Dan also lectures at University College London in applying field experiments to change energy consumption behavior.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Robert Hahn
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Signol
Bob is a visiting Professor and former Director of Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He also has senior affiliations with Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution. Bob’s experimental research focuses on regulatory and economic issues in energy and transport. Previously, Bob worked for the US Council of Economic Advisers where he helped design an innovative market-based approach for reducing acid rain. Bob has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University and recently served as a member of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Givi Chkhartishvili
Founder of Noxtton
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About Academy of Digital Industries, Noxtton: Noxtton, multidimensional technology and consulting company
Michalis Michael
Founder and CEO of DMR
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About DMR: DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Mike Fish
Director & Founder of BigData4Analytics
Mike Fish is the Director and Founder at BigData4Analytics.
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Founder & CEO of Mojn
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About Mojn: Mojn is now a part of the LiveIntent team.
Tim Whitehouse
Co-Founder of Risk Leadership Network
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About Risk Leadership Network: The Risk Leadership Network is an independent, collaborative network of risk management leaders.
Rafal Kwasny
Founder and CTO of Evolution AI
Rafal is co-founder and CTO of Evolution AI and has over 15 years’ experience in enterprise IT. He has developed big data and AI systems at institutions such as Credit Suisse, Coutts and Deutsche Bank.
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About Evolution AI: Evolution AI works with enterprises to uncover value in data and develop a natural language processing application.
Shanshan Xu
Co Founder of Mucho
A passionate entrepreneur. Experienced in Marketing, HR & Finance.
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About Mucho, MysteryVibe: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Juliana Zarate
Co Founder of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
Lars Kroijer
Founder & MD of AlliedCrowds
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About AlliedCrowds: AlliedCrowds combines technology, data, and finance to scale the sustainable development goals.
David Jones
Co-Founder of ipushpull
David Jones is the co-founder of iPushPull, the service that lets users link remote Excel spreadsheets and other desktop applications, and delivers live data to mobile devices. Previously he was a director of Applaud Technology, a startup which developed an investment portal for the private banking industry. Prior to that he worked in information technology at a series of leading investment banks, including BNP Paribas and Barclays Capital.
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Daniel Eccleston
Co-Founder of ipushpull
In 1999, after 5 years in the derivatives trading industry providing trading and risk management solutions, Dan co-founded one of the leading trading software providers for electronic markets. He built it into a successful business over the next 5 years leading to a trade sale. He then spent a number of years delivering trading platforms for a global broking house before launching a proprietary financial futures trading company. Subsequently he co-founded iPushPull, an exciting new venture to build a user-focussed cloud-based platform for sharing live data targeted at businesses globally.
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Alvaro Costa
Founder of Synthetic Data
Alvaro Costa, CEO of Synthetic Data, a software house with clients such as Daimler, Santander, Telefónica, Alkol Biotech, etc. He’s the author of 4 books, the last on Big Data, and a professor of Big Data at Madrid’s EOI – Escuela de Organización Industrial. He holds a Master´s Degree in Computer Engineering from USF – University of South Florida and has developed a two-way transmission architecture based on Spark Streaming and the AMQP messaging system called Roundabout.
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About Synthetic Data: Synthetic Data is a software house focused on Big Data, IOT, and AI solutions.
Lucy Stonehill
Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeU
Lucy grew up in the UK and the USA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where she studied Literature and Psychology. Upon graduation, Lucy worked for the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, before leaving to launch her first business, an educational consulting firm tailored to the unique needs of international students and schools. In 2013, Lucy founded BridgeU to focus on the next challenge – fixing the broken transition between secondary and higher education. Lucy has been labelled an ‘Entrepreneur Role Model’ by the European Commission, and won Techpreneur of the Year in a 2015 at a ceremony hosted at the House of Commons celebrating leading female entrepreneurs. In 2016, Lucy was selected by Forbes as a ‘Top 30 under 30” European technology innovator.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Christopher Elkins
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of MUSO
Chief Strategy Officer since June 2017. 2015 – 2017 served as the Chief Commercial Officer for MUSO, the world’s leading content protection, data-analytics and audience connection company, responsible for global growth & commercial strategy. Co-founded MUSO and served as its co-CEO from 2008-2011. Previously founded tech b2c music portal Sound Generator, exiting in 2006 following acquisition.
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About MUSO: MUSO is a software company that provides anti-piracy solutions for enterprises.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Lisa Mazza
Co-Founder & CCO of ThinkLab.ai
Co-founder of ThinkLab.AI, a machine learning algorithm marketplace offering clients artificial intelligence solutions to deliver game-changing insights from data. Lisa gained 10 years experience in finance prior to setting up ThinkLab, focusing on business development in foreign exchange markets and working closely with quant teams that were developing algorithms ensuring transparent and efficient ways of trading for clients. She also has experience in the Fitness & Health Tech sector. Lisa holds a first class degree in Business Management from the University of London, Queen Mary and is passionate to help democratise machine learning by creating a marketplace that brings academia and companies together to gain powerful insights into data.
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About ThinkLab.ai: ThinkLab is an educational platform.
Yazan Al Alami
Co-Founder of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Lukas Dirzys
Founder and CTO of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Gary Nelson
Founder – Chief Marketing Officer of Datasmoothie
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About Datasmoothie: Datasmoothie is a tool for data analysts and researchers in the “people data” industries, i.e. marketing, sociology, economics, psychology.
Miroslav Kovac
Founder, CEO of Coffee Cloud
CEO at Coffee Cloud.
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About Coffee Cloud: Coffee Cloud, IOT Software Analytics for professional HoReCa coffee industry
