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 Consulting 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.
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.
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Vincent Lambert
Founder & CEO of Orbit Partners
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About Bigpoint, Orbit Partners: Orbit Partners facilitates personalized and private discussions between corporate leaders.
Manish Madhvani
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound
Manish Madhvani is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Manish has executed M&A and capital raising transactions since 1997, involving some of the best known global internet, software and media companies, including: Spotify, King.com, Believe Digital, WPP, Wipro, Fjord, Hearst Corporation, Accenture, Newscorp and Experian. Manish who was selected as one of the top 40 dealmakers globally by M&A Advisor, started his career at Barclays Capital’s Private Equity team. He has advised the Treasury on Entrepreneurship and graduated from Southampton University with an LLB in Law / MA in Marketing. Manish is a regular speaker on Bloomberg and CNBC and is currently an Ambassador for London Technology Week. He was recognised as one of the leading Entrepreneurs in the UK by the Sunday Times / Maserati 100.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Gokce Gizer
Founder of Mercury Change Group
GG is a startup advisor, investor, coach, and expert; focused on organizational strategy and leadership development for rapid-growth digital tech companies. GG is passionate about opportunities that enable her to use her creative and analytical skills to influence change for a sustainable future; socially, environmentally and economically, creating value for all stakeholders.
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About EdenBase, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Katapult, Mercury Change Group, onkaro, Sporzy, Turkish Women’s International Network, WeWork: Mercury Change Group is a organizational change consulting group that offers training, workshops, and leadership development programs.
Sebastien Blanc
Co-Founder of RESOLVE
Sebastien is the Chief Executive Officer at Skimlinks since 2018. He joined Skimlinks as Chief Revenue Officer in 2016 and brings over a decade’s experience building and growing technology start-ups in Europe, the UK and the US. Prior to joining Skimlinks, Seb led international expansion, operations and, subsequently, the US at Struq, a UK-based retargeting start-up successfully acquired by Quantcast in 2014. Sebastien is passionate about building great technology companies: he is also on the board of London HQ-ed MentionMe and Paris-based DoLead, 2 VC-backed companies in the martech space. Sebastien started his career founding a start-up in Berlin and working as an analyst for XAnge, a Paris-based VC investing in Europe and the US. Seb is an avid reader, long distance runner, gin-cocktail drinker and amateur classical piano player.
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About RESOLVE: Resolve is a huge effort that gives scientists an efficient way to put their carbon capture and storage research into practice.
Margo Polishchuk
Co-Founder & Director of proSapient
Margo Polishchuk is the Co-Founder & Director at proSapient.
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About proSapient: proSapient is a research platform that gathers networks of insights from executives and SMEs via global consultations and surveys.
Tony Weaver
Founder of MXC Capital
Tony has significant experience of sales, operations and management in the TMT sector. He co-founded the advisory subgroup of MXC Capital with Ian Smith. Tony has founded and managed a number of successful private technology companies and Tony has served on the boards of a number of publicly quoted companies, including Xploite plc and Redstone plc. Tony was a non-executive director of Redcentric plc, having previously been CEO, a role which he held since IPO.
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About MXC Capital: MXC Capital is an investment and advisory group specializing in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Founder & Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
Jeremy was a senior partner at McKinsey until April 2016, where he worked for 24 years serving some of the world’s leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy sectors. He worked extensively with multilateral development banks, the United Nations and governments in both developed and developing countries. In 2007, he set up McKinsey’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice, supporting ambitious public, philanthropic and private sector clients to put in place low-carbon, resource-efficient strategies. Prior to this, Jeremy worked at the World Bank from 1988-1993, specialising in economic transformation programmes for middle-income countries. In 2013-2014, Jeremy was programme director of the New Climate Economy project. He sits on a number of non-profit boards, including Global Action Plan (as Chair), the Woods Hole Research Center and Rare (UK). Together with Martin Stuchtey, he is a founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ.
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About SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
Ivo Spigel
Co-Founder and Editor of Tech.eu
Co-founder of IT solutions company Perpetuum Mobile and Croatia’s premier startup program, ZIP. Former editor at The Kernel; regularly writes columns for Forbes Croatia and is working on a book with interview of European startup founders.
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About Perpetuum-Mobile, Tech.eu, ZIP – Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator: Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
Rodolphe de Hemptinne
Co Founder of Third Bridge Group
Rodolphe is Co-Founder of Third Bridge, and CEO of its Intelligence division. He is responsible for executing Third Bridge Intelligence’s strategy and growth plan. Before founding Third Bridge, Rodolphe’s career included consultancy work at Bain & Company in Boston, Johannesburg and London, and five years’ management experience with Shell Corporation in Belgium and the Netherlands. Rodolphe has an MBA from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. A true polyglot, he is fluent in French, Dutch, English, Spanish and German. He has four children and, quite coincidentally, a passion for climbing mountains in increasingly remote locations.
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About Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Emmanuel Tahar
Co-Founder & CEO of Third Bridge Group
Emmanuel has led Third Bridge from its inception and overseen its growth into a leading provider of research to the financial services industry. He now concentrates on defining company strategy and making the development plan a reality. Emmanuel’s past career includes several roles at Bain & Company in Europe and North America, where he led consulting projects for major technology corporations and diverse financial investors. He has an MBA with Honours from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania and speaks French and English fluently. A self-confessed boffin, he’s never happier than when taking electronic components apart. His MSc in Engineering may help explain his success rate at re-assembly stage.
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About Cognolink, Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Rob McCombie
Founder & CEO of Titan Capital Advisers (TCA)
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About Titan Capital Advisers (TCA): Titan Capital Advisers is a mergers and acquisition advisory services provider that helps tech and financial services businesses.
Tim Smeaton
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner of Kubrick Group
Tim Smeaton co-founded Kubrick Group in March 2016. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy of the company and its execution. Tim was previously the CEO of a public company that he grew with his co-founders to have revenues in excess of £200 million and 10 offices around the world. Tim also has a background in the technology industry with multiple non-executive roles, with a strong focus on education and charitable organisations helping them increase diversity in the technology industry. Tim also has experience as an advisor and investor in technology start ups. Tim believes that all organisations have a responsibility to develop their people to compensate for the huge impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on the global workforce.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Joshua Pennell
Founder and Chairman of IOActive
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About IOActive, ISSA-UK: IOActive is a security consultancy with a global presence and deep expertise spanning hardware, software, and wetware.
Joe Channer
Founder and CEO of Delta Capita
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About Delta Capita: Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
Leigh Carrick-Moore
Co Founder of PeopleHub
Leigh Carrick-Moore is Founder of e-Search, a boutique recruitment company that has been building tech teams in Silicon Roundabout for 15 years. e-Search has been responsible for helping one man business grow into post IPO game-ganging organisations. Leigh has personally hired entire Development teams for Skype, Opentable (formerly Toptable), Social.com (Salesforce), Lovefilm and Sony. Leigh believes that most recruitment agencies practices are broken. She believes in a open and honest approach to staffing in which team fit is just as important as technical ability and that a recruiter’s task is to pre-vet and not to scattergun CV’s. Paul Harrington, Director of Engineering Social.com and ex CTO for Opentable writes ‘She is technically astute and knows the recruitment industry inside out – in both the permanent & contract markets. Her help and advice have been invaluable in my recruitment efforts during that time, understanding my requirements exactly and finding numerous candidates of the absolute top quality for me to choose from – some of the best candidates I’ve ever hired have come through Leigh!’ As well as running e-Search, Leigh is now working her own startup, peoplehub, an HR solution for tech startups.
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About PeopleHub: People hub is a small, dynamic HR consultancy and Recruitment specialist.
Manjit Rana
Founder and CEO of Ingenin
Manjit is a founder and CEO of Ingenin, a multi-award winning technology consultancy created to help insurers grow their businesses through the adoption of disruptive, emerging and more established technologies. His broad and deep understanding of the insurance industry together with his ability to generate creative solutions means he is well placed to identify innovative and new solutions for insurance companies looking to evolve their products, services and operations to better service todays digital and mobile enabled customers. “A visionary and strategic thinker with an excellent network of key industry connections, Manjit is one of those rare individuals who has innovation at the heart of everything he does. He thinks in different ways and looks at problems and opportunities through a different lens which means that he is challenging and creative. This is helped enormously by his engaging and highly energetic personality.” David Williams, Claims & Underwriting Director at AXA Insurance
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About Ingenin, InsurTech Scout, PSKinetic: Ingenin is a multi-award winning blue sky thinking / innovation consultancy focused purely on the insurance industry.
John Gilleran
Co-Founder of Konversational
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About Konversational: Konversational is a consultancy firm helping brands accelerate customer experience & digital transformation through the LivePerson platform.
Michael Phair
Founder, Director & CEO of REG
REG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Phair, is a banking veteran with links to World Bank, N M Rothschild and UBS. Michael is a private equity investor with over 40 years’ experience in the financial markets.
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About REG: REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
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
Robin Boehringer
Founder and Partner of BBox Capital
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About BBox Capital: BBox Capital focuses on innovative and valuable real estate business models that specialize in investment management.
Matt Isaacs
Founder & Executive Chairman of Essence
As one of the founding partners, Matt helped shape Essence into the company it is today. That agency is now the world’s largest independent buyer of digital media with billings in excess of $650MM USD, is 480 people strong, and has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore and Tokyo. Current clients include Google, eBay, Financial Times and Barclays. Matt served as Global CEO of the agency until spring of this year. During his last four years in that role, both billings and headcount doubled every year. Today, as Executive Chairman, Matt oversees the Board, supports the execution of corporate strategy and helps to ensure the legacy of Essence exists well beyond the agency and the industry. Before co-founding Essence Matt was Chief Marketing Officer at Create Services & Goldfish Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group that handled all of the bank’s non LloydsTSB branded retail banking business across 15 brands and with £2B in assets. Matt’s ‘first career’ was in strategy consulting at McKinsey spin-off MMG, where he was part of the core team that built MMG Europe from 14 consultants to 400 across 13 offices. Matt lives on a small farm with his wife, 4 children, 5 hens, lots of sheep and bees in the depths of East Sussex, UK.
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About Essence: Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
Tyler Christie
Founder, Independent Interim Executive and Advisor of Natural Capital Advisors
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About Hopin, Natural Capital Advisors: Natural Capital Advisors helps businesses, governments, and philanthropic organizations manage natural capital with minimal risk.
Tim Stone
Partner & Co-Founder of Breed Reply
Tim is one of the founding partners of Breed Reply, who are an active operational investor dedicated to early stage businesses in the Internet of Things. He leads the bespoke support programme to develop and accelerate the commercialisation of their growing portfolio of seventeen companies. His career started in sales and rapidly moved through to Executive roles covering all aspects of creating and operating a successful business. His key roles have ranged from Business Development Director, CCO and CEO in both corporate organisations and startups, with a focus on the Telecoms industry A thread throughout his career has been creating success through partnerships. In Vodafone Tim created from scratch the wholesale strategy, then executed this taking market share from 0 to 30%+ in less than three years. This success was delivered through the strategic development of major new brands. He has also seen a significant exit to a major operator from one his startup ventures.
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About Breed Reply, Graystone Strategy: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Dan Scarfe
Founder of New Signature
Dan Scarfe is a passionate technologist and loves imagining the impact that technology can have on every aspect of people’s lives. As Founder of New Signature UK, Dan heads up the Solutions team. New Signature helps enterprise organisations harness the power of the Microsoft cloud. He helps conceive new products and services which can help organisations digitally differentiate, working closely with the sales and delivery teams. Dan is also part of the global products and GTM teams. Dan has been deeply engaged with Microsoft’s cloud since its inception in 2008. He was advising Microsoft on Azure when it was still called Red Dog and has seen the platform evolve substantially over that time. He presents on this topic around the world and sits on two Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils. Dan is also actively involved in the community, sitting on another two Microsoft Partner Association boards. Dan has been involved in many start-ups over the years, some successful, some not, and does his bit through passing on lessons learned as a mentor within Microsoft for Start-ups.
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About Cloud Hypermarket, New Signature: New Signature has built a record of leadership by delivering exceptional technology and web 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.
Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions
Naveed Ratansi is the Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions and Founder of UX Academy.
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About Cheetah Conversions, UX Academy: Cheetah Conversions is a marketing agency focused on paid social, paid search, and paid marketing channels.
Jamie O’Connell
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Jamie O’Connell is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. He has over 13 years of edtech expertise and a skill set suitable to establishing early stage start-ups. He is currently putting his skills to use in his own firm, Life Lessons. He is deeply committed to balancing the educational competitive landscape and giving young people with the foundations they need to be successful in life. He went to Bangor University for his education.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
Nicole Rodden
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Nicole Rodden is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. She is committed to providing young people with the foundations and skills they need to fulfill their full potential and prosper, regardless of their origin, gender, or sexual orientation. They developed Life Lessons to teach young people important life skills, beginning with relationships and sex education. She received her master’s degree in education and PGCE from UCL, as well as her bachelor’s degree in theological studies from the University of Bristol.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
Brandon Stephens
Founder & CEO of Anthem
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About Anthem, Mamma Roma, REVL, Thunderbird Fried Chicken, Tortilla Mexican Grill: Anthem embraces the seismic changes in work, entertainment, and wellbeing.
Simon Hill
CEO & Founder of Wazoku
Simon Hill is the CEO of Wazoku.
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About InnoCentive, INSEAD, The Future Shaping Media Company Limited, Wazoku: An Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management
Rhys Marc Photis
Founder & MD of GPi
Rhys is best known as a passionate advocate of people-driven business growth that is future proof. He is an entrepreneur and acclaimed leadership and business coach; co-founded GPi and developed the Pathfinder method to enable business leaders to unlock their business potential and find their own way. He regularly publishes articles on digitalization on LinkedIn and is a business writer for www.BusinessZone.co.uk. Coming from a dynamic entrepreneurial background he understood early on the ups and downs of successful family businesses. He was an intrapreneur within large organisations, setting up businesses in emerging markets and seen first-hand the dynamics of team growth as a result. Then went on to lead international internet-based projects that rolled out across over 50 countries, which inspired him to do an MBA International. He has been the founder and entrepreneur of his own businesses since 2004. Rhys is fascinated about technology and the possibilities which come with it. However, he believes we should use technology to better our lives. Furthermore, he believes the success of digitalization lies with getting the people and the organization ready to embrace change… for the better.
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About GPi: GPi Global Performance Improvement enable your sustainable growth from the inside out by providing a unique business diagnostic tool.
Seb Henkes
Founder of Sabio
Sebastian Henkes serves as Managing Director and Director at Sabio Limited. Sebastian Henkes has been instrumental in driving the Sabio Limited’s development over the last 15 years, and successfully delivering year-on-year organic growth for the business.
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About Sabio: Sabio is an innovative unified communications and contact center services company.
Jacomo Corbo
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of QuantumBlack
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About QuantumBlack: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Thomas Quinton
Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of REPL Group
A highly-experienced programme delivery director, Thomas has worked for some of the largest companies in the world across industries including retail, oil and gas, charity and banking. Thomas leads REPL’s point of sale, ecommerce and multichannel business areas, overseeing large programme delivery and representing their customers at board level.
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Paul Dowling
Founder and CEO of Mindstream-AI
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About Mindstream-AI: Mindstream AI is a provider of AI strategy, training, and consulting solutions for enterprise clients, startups, and individuals
Chris Abbass
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Phil Blaydes
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Chris Coe
Founder of DCE Partners
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About DCE Partners: South African based Private Equity firm.
Roy Vella
Managing Director/Founder of Vella Ventures
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About Vella Ventures: Vella Ventures is an executive consultancy delivering strategic advice and commercial services to digital leaders.
Matt Lerner
Founder & CEO of Startup Core Strengths
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About Startup Core Strengths: Startup Core Strengths offers marketing strategy and executive coaching to startups.
Martin Bianco
Co-Founder of Edrans
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About Edrans: Edrans is an IT service management and outsourcing provider specialised on DevOps & cloud solutions helping companies.
Robert Lynch
Co-Founder of Old.St Labs
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About CityMunch, Old.St Labs: Old.St Labs is a consultancy and development business that designs and builds digital products for start-ups and innovators.
Benjamin Hosack
Co-Founder, Director and CCO of Foregenix
Benjamin Hosack is the CCO and co-founder of Foregenix.
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About Foregenix: Foregenix prevents, protects, investigates, and solves serious cyberthreats for large enterprises and SMEs all around the globe.
Daniel van Binsbergen
CEO and Co-Founder of Lexoo
Daniel van Binsbergen Before founding Lexoo, Daniel worked for over 5 years as a lawyer at an international law firm (De Brauw), first in Amsterdam, then in London. He’s always up for a game of squash, and is easily excited.
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About Lexoo: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Josh Thomas
Co-Founder, Head of Innovation of Karakoram
I’m Josh Thomas, an engineer, designer and innovation specialist with a career devoted to discovering and exploiting opportunities that arise when emerging technologies or business changes create new consumer and user needs. I build and lead cross-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, developers, strategists, stand-up comics, and experiential artists who focus on new approaches to creating digital and physical products, platforms and organizational design.
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About BuyLevel, Glorious Labs, Karakoram: Karakoram is an award-winning innovation consultancy that creates breakthrough solutions for the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Amar Rajani
Founder & Managing Director of Argella
Amar Rajani is Founder and Managing Director of Argella. Advising companies on product, business development and strategy; helping companies scale and execute their business goals whilst accelerating customer sales revenue. Specialising in FinTech, SaaS and online platforms; working closely with founders, CEO’s and management teams in a hands-on or advisory board capacity.
Amar has over twenty years’ experience in the financial and technology sectors, with expertise in capital markets, investment management, corporate, research and financial services.
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About Argella: Fintech specialists, advising and advancing tech companies
Jose Haro Peralta
Co-Founder of microapis.io
Full stack consultant with focus on Python, JavaScript, DevOps, and automation. I’ve worked on a variety of industries, including IoT, finance, and retail. I’m the author of “Developing Microservice APIs with Python” (Manning, http://mng.bz/nz48), editor of The Python Geek https://medium.com/python-geek, and creator of microapis.io.
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About Algorizm, microapis.io: We build tools and frameworks that help developers deliver API integrations that work.
Carrie Osman
Founder & CEO of Cruxy & Company
Carrie Osman Relentless energy & fierce provocation are what Carrie is know for in the worlds of Tech & FinTech. This is the ethos that imbues CRUXY&CO, of which Carrie is founder & Chief Provocateur. Fearlessness when it comes to saying the unsayable, a razor-sharp tongue & electric spark mean Carrie makes an unforgettable contribution speaking at events. She was included in Tech World’s 2017 List of women to speak at Tech Events, was a commentator BBC Business News (http://bit.ly/2tNbIlX), & has featured on panels for ING Bank, Association of Foreign Banks & Forward Women (Guardian). Running a portfolio of £300m & 12 brands, 7 years into Mars Inc, Carrie noticed a void. The consultancies provided the quantitative rigour, the marketing agencies offered the creative flare. True growth & traction demands both. CRUXY & CO was created with a mission to bridge this chasm & forge a creative approach to growth strategy. The complex, the intricate & technical FinTech & Tech industry is where Cruxy’s agitation & market strategy is deployed. No change takes place without challenge, & results from the 40+ clients Cruxy has worked with include: A payments firm sold to Barclaycard A retail tech business that shifted win rate from 30% to 80% An Infrastructure consultancy sold 10% of the business for £15m based on their positioning & ethos Carrie actively contributes her punchy opinion and mentors whenever she can at a number of accelerators such as Cocoon networks, XN tree at Level39 and the charity Bathroom to Boardroom. She is also on the Advisory Board of a Courtside Ventures backed Silicon Valley AI platform, a gold member of Fintech Circle and has judged both firms applying for FTC funding and coached at Angel Academy. Theadvice Carrie offers is valuable & actionable which means you don’t have to deploy McKinsey: guidance that shifts results in reality, not in your head. Suzanne Chishti, CEO & Founder of FINTECH Circle, Mark Beeston Founder of Illuminate Financial & Ian Hollowbread at ING Bank all talk of Carrie as an unknown force to be reckoned with. In rebellion against the staid & numbingly dull industry networking events, Carrie founded Currency of Connections: a handpicked founder & funder only drink series injected with true vitality & establishing real business-karma. She is known as a connector who always pays it forward, you just wait.
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About Cruxy & Company: Cruxy & Company A provocative strategy consultancy. We question, dig and challenge to get to the CRUX.
Paul Cuatrecasas
Founder & CEO of Aquaa Partners
Paul Cuatrecasas is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aquaa Partners since July 2010. Previously, Paul was the Founder and a Partner of Alegro Capital from 2003-2010. Prior to Alegro, Paul was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of ARC Associates from 1993-2003. (ARC Associates was a leading independent London-based TMT mergers and acquisitions advisory practice with a full range of blue chip and entrepreneurial clients including Sonera, Cable & Wireless, Apax, Marconi, Equant, ICL, KKR, Permira and BT, amongst others). Paul has directly or indirectly completed over 35 M&A transactions around the world worth over $6 billion and over 40 corporate finance advisory and strategic consultancy assignments. Paul has directly or indirectly originated and structured over 15 private placements of equity capital raising over $500 million. Paul also directed the ARC investment programme and achieved a historical professional investment track record over 50% IRR since 1994. Prior to ARC Associates, Paul was a Senior Associate with Arkwright Capital (ex-Bain & Co. partners), an M&A and Corporate Finance advisory firm in London (1991-1993) and with GE Capital in their LBO and Restructuring Group in New York (1989-1991). Paul is a Non-Executive Director of Motive Television plc. Paul holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University where he was awarded the Roswell C. McCrea Scholarship and a B.A. from Wake Forest University. Paul holds dual US and UK citizenship and speaks fluent Spanish.
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About Aquaa Partners: Aquaa Partners is a London-based investment banking firm focused on the Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) industries.
Karen Kwong
Founder and CEO of RenOC
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About RenOC: RenOC provides psychology-based insights that help individuals for their business success.
Peter Dolukhanov
Founder & CEO of Decoded Consulting
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About Decoded Consulting: Decoded Consulting is a technology leadership consultancy that offers CTO services.
Paul Robertson
Co-Founder & Editorial Director of Contagious Communications
Paul Kemp Robertson is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Contagious Communications. After graduating with a masters degree in Film and Television from Goldsmiths College in London, Paul started his career at corporate communications firm Maritz before helping launch shots magazine in 1990. After a spell in commercials production, Paul returned to shots and became editor in 1994. Subscriptions trebled under his tenure. In 1998 Paul was appointed worldwide director of creative resources at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 2004, Paul co-founded Contagious with shots founder Gee Thomson and media entrepreneur John Gordon. Paul has written for publications including Business 2.0 and The Guardian, as well as co-editing D&AD’s The Commercials Book. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and his talk on alternative currencies has been viewed more than 438,000 times at ted.com.
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About Contagious Communications: Contagious helps brands and advertising agencies understand and adapt to shifts in marketing, consumer culture and technology.
Francesco Cesarini
Founder & Technical Director of Erlang Solutions
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang.He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming,a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.
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About Erlang Solutions: We develop and build trusted, fault-tolerant systems that can scale to billions of users. Our strength is the Erlang & Elixir expertise.
Mark Croston
Founder & Managing Director of Propeasy
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About Propeasy: Propeasy provides assistance to people interested in property investments.
Anuj Khanna
Founder & Principal Consultant of Peak State Consulting
For the past two decades, Anuj Khanna has been helping businesses around the world in achieving success through his peak performance expertise and business strategies. Anuj’s career has spanned across the Technology, Telecommunications, Advertising, Hospitality and Financial Industry. In 2009, Anuj decided to exclusively focus on his passion for helping businesses in their corporate expansion, sales and marketing strategy by setting up his own consulting practice. He has helped over 50 companies and their executive teams in achieving exponential growth and reaching their Peak State. Anuj’s office is in London but he works on projects across the world, with the vast majority of his customers based out of the Silicon Valley in California and Europe. Anuj has also done work in India, China, SE Asia, Latam and Africa. Anuj completed his MBA in Marketing from The University of Sheffield and is an Economics graduate from the University of Mumbai. Anuj also holds a diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Anuj is well trained and experienced in business practice and management principles working with both blue chip corporates and start-ups. However, he is obsessed by his passion for business turnaround and leadership psychology. Anuj specialises in perfectly blending his well-honed business expertise with important psychological skills to achieve Peak Performance. Anuj Khanna was born in India in the year 1973 and is very proud of his humble beginnings. Anuj’s mother is a home-maker and his father spent over 40 years in the hospitality and hotel industry in India. From an early age the family environment was very business and customer service oriented and he grew up with the philosophy of “Customer is God”. Anuj is an open minded, high-energy problem solver who loves a challenge, hence has got the faith and respect of leading tech Founders, Venture Capitalists and Private Equity firms in helping them in investing and expanding their start up businesses. Anuj has experience of doing business in over 80 countries. Anuj speaks five languages and has business relationships with thousands of telecommunications, IT, advertising, media and financial industry executives. Anuj is highly recognised and recommended as a business visionary and peak performance expert by several global CEO’s and entrepreneurs.
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About Peak State Consulting: Peak State Consulting helps businesses in achieving accelerated growth by building a winning strategy and getting exponential results.
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder & CEO of Tech Nordic Advocates
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About newmedia2.0, Tech Nordic Advocates: Tech Nordic Advocates is Northern Europe’s largest and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech/startup community.
Shilen Patel
Founder of Rebellisk
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About Rebellisk: Rebellisk supports drinks founders and startups with no and low Alc strategy, mentoring, and investment.
Matthew Griffin
Founder and CEO of 311 Institute
Regularly featured on AP, CNBC, Discovery and RT, his ability to identify and track hundreds of game changing emerging technologies, and explain their impact on global culture, industry and society, is unparalleled. Recognised for the past five years running as one of the world’s foremost futurists, innovation and strategy experts Matthew is an international speaker who helps governments investors, multi-nationals and regulators around the world envision, build and lead an inclusive future.
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About 311 Institute: 311 Institute is an innovation and management strategy consulting group.
David Fountaine
CEO & Founder of Creation Technology
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About Creation Technology: Creation Technology is a consultancy and product development company that offers department solutions or a complete digital transformation.
Edward Pearse Wheatley
Founder of Cafe Ventures
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About Cafe Ventures: Cafe Ventures is a specialist B2B broker and commercial real estate in the food and beverage market.
Martin Alderson
Founder of Codified
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About Codified, Codified Security: Codified provides React Native apps, Xamarin mobile application development, and digital consultancy services.
Bruce Bratley
CEO and Founder of First Mile
Bruce Bratley is the Founder and CEO of First Mile.
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About First Mile: First Mile provide super simple, low cost recycling and waste services for businesses.
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
Michael Pan
CEO and Founder of China Ventures
CEO and Founder, a China Specialist, has been working extensively in public/private placement, private equity, technology, and energy sectors, etc. Michael’s project experience includes supporting clients on strategy development (corporate, growth, market entry), alliance development, full potential transformation program, as well as acquisition evaluation and integration. Michael holds a Master degree in Global Business Strategy from London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.
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About China Ventures: China’s global deal marketplace and a leading China-centric investment community on the globe.
Edmond Boulle
Co-Founder of Orbital Witness
Co-Founder at Orbital Witness – we’re hiring!
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About Orbital Witness: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Nick Braund
Founder of Words + Pixels
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About Words + Pixels: Words + Pixels provides consultation services and solutions on effective public relations for businesses.
Daniel Fellows
Founder & CEO of Get-Optimal
Daniel is founder and CEO at Get Optimal Content. Ex-Marketing Director at Indeed.com and also spent time in senior teams at Microsoft and Vodafone Group. Daniel is a highly accomplished data-driven sales, marketing and business leader. Having ran 250 client meetings in 18 months with the worlds leading HR and Talent Attraction leaders Daniel has built a contact network to win and win fast, locally and globally. He’s an accomplished data-driven marketer and commercial business leader, open, curious and committed to learning.He played a pivotal role in enabling LifeWorks to exit for $426m to Morneau Shepell in 2018. He’s built a vault of marketing expertise, a positive mindset and learning agility operating within series B, fast-paced startups and high growth startups right through to multi Billion dollar global organisations. He’s failed a few times along the way which is a great learning and helps keep his self-awareness and emotional intelligence balanced and online. He lives in London with his young family.
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About Get-Optimal: Get-Optimal is a UK based global technology company whose core product optimises Job Ads using AI and ML for diversity, inclusion and SEO.
Ann-Christine Roope
Founder & CEO of Ethan Partners
Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.
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About Ethan Partners: Ethan Partners is a specialized executive search firm.
Mark Kukolus
Founder & Managing Partner of BICPM
Founder & Managing Partner
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About BICPM: Business Intelligence & Corporate Performance Management
John Sinclair
Co-Founder of ustwo
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About ustwo: Ustwo is a digital design studio that delivers interaction and user interface design services.
Mills Miller
Co-Founder of ustwo
A Mills is a Co-Founder at ustwo.
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About ustwo: Ustwo is a digital design studio that delivers interaction and user interface design services.
Abishek Raju
Founder and Technology Evangelist of Yobitel Communications
A highly motivated, self-driven, empowered Entrepreneur from strong IT Infrastructure background, Founder and successfully managing Yobitel Communications (Multi Cloud Business Intelligence Service Provider) Multi Cloud Technology & Business Advisor – Engineering the Open Cloud Architecture through SaaS Policy based Intelligence. Blockchain Evangelist & Technology Advisor – Redefining the evolution of Distributed Ledger Technology – DApps Applications through AI. My vision “Create a connected world and simplify IT in human life”.
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About Grabnpay eCommerce Private Limited, Yobitel Communications: Yobitel a Managed SaaS Cloud Service Provider offers Network & IT Infrastructure, Multi Cloud Hosting & Consulting, Container Orchestration
Richard Rosenberg
Partner & Co-Founder of SRLV
Richard Rosenberg is a qualified chartered accountant and a partner in SRLV, a London-based multidisciplinary accountancy and consultancy firm which he co-founded in 1988. Richard Rosenberg is the Non-Executive Chairman of Livermore Investments Group Limited, an AIM quoted investment.
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About SRLV: London Chartered Accountants and Business Consultants
Ben Latreuille
Co-Founder of Wilton & Bain
Ben Co-founded Wilton & Bain in 2001. He created the business with the ambition of becoming the number one human capital advisory business dedicated to the technology and professional services industries. During his time as Co-CEO he grew the business from a two person start up to the independently rated number one human capital advisory business in its dedicated sectors, with global offices and frequent appearances in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 of fastest growing UK Private firms. In 2017 the company secured a private equity investment and the associated MBO, Ben moved from Co- CEO to leadership of the new board. Ben still operates as a partner and advises clients within the technology and professional services segment on the full range of human capital and leadership advisory services.
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About Wilton & Bain: Wilton and Bain is providing an exceptional level of service to all clients offering both pace & coherence in delivery across capabilities.
Gareth Balch
Founder&CEO of Two Circles
Gareth co-founded Two Circles in 2011 with Matt Rogan having spent his career helping sports organisations grow commercial revenues, most recently in Commercial Strategy roles at Manchester City. Prior to assuming the role of Two Circles Chief Executive, Gareth was Managing Director of the business, where he led the delivery of their client results. As a result of these results, the business grew significantly and won plaudits & awards for the quality and innovation of its work. In Gareth’s final year as Managing Director, 40% of Two Circles clients achieved all-time commercial growth records. As Chief Executive, Gareth leads their 100-strong business to deliver results for all of their stakeholders in each market. He is also actively involved in supporting ESP Properties growth strategy and sits on the Global Executive Committee for that organisation. Gareth represented Great Britain at 800m in an international career spanning seven years and still loves nothing more than pulling his trainers on.
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Richard Ozols
Founder and CEO of Solution Rock
Richard Ozols is the Founder and CEO of Formyoula and Solution Rock.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Dinesh Acharya
Co-Founder and CTO of Solution Rock
Dinesh Acharya is the Co-Founder and CTO of Formyoula.com and Solution Rock Technologies.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Chris Donegan
Co Founder of Invention Capital Associates
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About Invention Capital Associates: A network consulting organisation that works with innovators, investors and intellectual property assets to catalyse and generate value.
James Governor
Founder of RedMonk
James Governor is a Principal Analyst and Co-founder at RedMonk. Based in London, he advises enterprises, startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. He is also proud to have open-source nonprofit organizations such as the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation as clients. James was co-author of the O’Reilly publication, “Web 2.0 Design Patterns: What Architects and Entrepreneurs Need to Know.” In 2009, he served as Chairman of SAP’s external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting. James makes extensive use of both open source and social media tools in RedMonk’s business operations – @monkchips, has more than 21K followers.
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About RedMonk: The developer-focused industry analyst firm.
David Poole
CEO and Co-Founder of Symphony Ventures
David is an industry visionary with over 20 years as a corporate executive, running multi-billion dollar outsourcing and services firms. He has grown global businesses, built industry leading sales and operations teams, and spearheaded innovation across the industry in areas including platform-based BPO, supply chain BPO, cloud-based services, and user experience. David’s priorities at Symphony are to develop a world-class team and to work closely with client leadership to help them leverage Symphony’s Digital Ecosystem of automation partners and other inspired delivery models to compete in a digital world.
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About Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Laurent Christen
CEO and Founder of e2y
Laurent Christen is a digital entrepreneur, mentor & investor. Prior to founding companies, Laurent gained 10+ years of experience managing strategy, marketing and eCommerce of Fortune 500 companies including Dell, LEGO and Nikon in European and global roles.
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About e2y: e2y is an award-winning digital experience consultancy, delivering solutions for firms aiming to improve their customer experience.
Toby Hanington
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Toby Hanington joined The Baobab Network as Co Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Tom Fairburn
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Tom Fairburn joined The Baobab Network as Co-Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Gurnek Bains
Founder and CEO of Global Future
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About Global Future: Global Future educates, informs, and helps people understand the benefits of globalization.
Solitaire Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Solutionist of Futerra
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About Futerra: To make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal.
Jonathan Lemer
Co-Founder of Brainbroker
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About Brainbroker: Brainbroker is a digital agency that uses data-driven marketing techniques to generate customers for its client.
Larry Kotch
Co Founder & Marketing Strategist of Brainbroker
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About Brainbroker: Brainbroker is a digital agency that uses data-driven marketing techniques to generate customers for its client.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Hasham Ullah
Managing Partner & Founder of White Lion
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About GymCraft, White Lion: White Lion provides consultation services and solutions for the investment industry.
John Caffery
Founder & CEO of RAMP Global
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About RAMP Global, TheJobPost: RAMP Global is a platform that offers a source-to-pay agency management solution to help employers manage staffing agencies.
Audrey Mandela
Founder & Director of Mandela Associates
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About Mandela Associates: Mandela Associates was founded in 1999 providing management consulting services.
Livio Hughes
Co-Founder & Director of Postshift
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About Postshift: Postshift is a digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations become 21st Century businesses
Lee Bryant
Co-Founder of Postshift
Lee Bryant is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century. He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change. He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations. After running a web agency focused on knowledge sharing for 6 years, he co-founded Headshift in 2002 to investigate new uses for social technology inside companies and organisations, which became a leading international social business consultancy and was acquired by Dachis Group in 2009. Lee was joint MD of Dachis Group Europe from 2009 until June 2013. In the summer of 2013, he co-founded a new company, POST*SHIFT, dedicated to exploring the intersection between new social technologies and new thinking on organisational structure and culture. An accomplished speaker, Lee has delivered many keynotes, workshops and talks around the world at conferences, events and private corporate events.
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About Postshift: Postshift is a digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations become 21st Century businesses
Alvise Recchi
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Morrow Sodali
Chief Executive Officer and founding partner of Morrow Sodali. He is currently also partner of Global Wealth Management (GWM) and Head of Corporate Communication of Greentech Energy Systems. He has been CEO and founding shareholder of GSC Proxitalia where his responsibilities included developing the shareholder service business in Europe and Latin America, together with partner Georgeson Inc. In 2005 Georgeson and Proxitalia were bought by Computershare. He started his career in 1993 at Credit Suisse dealing with the management and the distribution of financial products. In 1994 he moved to INA Group where he dealt with corporate finance and investor relations related to the listing, private placement, acquisitions and spin off of the real estate portfolio. In 1998, he moved to Telecom Italia as Investor Relations manager but left the following year after the hostile takeover and change in management. Born in Rome, he obtained a Degree in Economics and completed his post graduate studies at Insead.
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About Morrow Sodali: Morrow Sodali is the consultancy specializing in shareholder services.
Andrew Grevett
Founder of Cabot Consulting Group
Proactive and synergistic investor, with a focus on innovative technologies relating to the future of work and education. Experience in technology development, implementation, business analysis, corporate finance, capital raising and M&A.
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About : Enabling successful M&A
Serdar Senay
Co Founder of Redfoot
CTO and Co Founder at various startups
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About CoinBurp, Redfoot: Affordable, Transparent Own-Shore Software Development Teams
Danny Bluestone
Founder and CEO of Cyber-Duck
Danny Bluestone is the founder and CEO of Cyber-Duck, a leading full-service digital agency. He founded the agency in 2005, inspired by fusing creative, technical and marketing expertise into a superior user experience. Now the independent agency works internationally with prestigious brands, including the Bank of England, the EU, Cancer Research and Arsenal FC. Leading Cyber-Duck, Danny continues developing the agency’s ISO accredited user-centred design process, drawing on lean and Agile management methodologies. In 2015, he was awarded Wirehive 100’s first Digital Leader of the Year. He enjoys giving keynotes for enterprise, UX and technology communities, including the UKTI, UX London and UXPA. His digital insights have been featured in UX Magazine, Econsultancy, and Smashing Magazine.
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About Cyber-Duck: Cyber-Duck is a digital marketing firm focusing on brand and website development.
