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 Enterprise 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.
Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Damien Lane
Co-Founder & Partner of Episode 1
Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1, Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.
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About Adludio, Episode 1, Scurri: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Aviad Eyal
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Entrée Capital
Aviad Eyal is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Entree Capital.
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About Empathy, Entrée Capital, SeatGeek, Stash Financial: Entrée Capital is a venture capital firm that funds multi-stage startups and companies all over the world.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Mark Beeston
Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial
Mark Beeston founded Illuminate after a 25+ year career in capital markets where he had been both the consumer of capital markets technologies as well as the entrepreneur, operator, and funder of capital markets businesses. Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was the CEO for the Post Trade Risk and Information business at ICAP (now Nex) where he oversaw the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. Prior to ICAP Mark launched T-Zero (now ICELink) during his time at Creditex before the company was acquired by ICE in 2008. He started his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank in derivatives trading and management, including periods as COO for both the Global Rates and Global Credit businesses. Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Mark was listed on the Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 35 and top 40 Lists, Financial News Fintech 40 Power List, Institutional Investor Trade Technology Top 30 and Top 40 Lists, and Derivatives Intelligence/Derivatives Week Rising Stars.
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Inga Mullins
Founder & CEO of Fluency
Inga Mullins is a Founder & CEO at Fluency
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About Fluency: Fluency is a CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising and powering the existing financial system.
Chris Bruce
Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits
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About Thomsons Online Benefits: Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company.
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Ilyas Khan
CEO & Founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing
Ilyas Khan is the founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. Ilyas is also the Chairman and a founding Trustee of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, and the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he is also a Fellow in Management Practice. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge. Ilyas started his career in merchant banking with J Henry Schroder Wagg, and worked and lived in Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008. He has been an active investor in early stage companies since 1999, having built and then sold two start up companies of his own. Since 2013 has been instrumental in backing the Judge Business School’s highly regarded business accelerator programme. He is the Senior partner in a non executive capacity at Stanhill Capital Partners, and has a small number of other non executive positions. The Stanhill Foundation that was established by Ilyas supports research and scholarship in a number of areas and currently funds a number of doctoral and post doctoral students in the area of mathematics, quantum mechanics and philosophy.
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About Cambridge Quantum Computing, Quantinuum, Stanhill Capital Partners: CQCL develops tools for the commercialisation of quantum computers by understanding quantum protocols and also quantum algorithms.
Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine
Paul is a serial entrepreneur specialising in speech, language and artificial intelligence. In 2006, he co-founded Phonetic Arts, which developed speech software for the games industry. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, and Paul worked at Google as head of the text-to-speech group and as a research scientist until leaving in 2013. 2004-2006 Paul was a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, working and teaching in the Engineering department. During this time, he wrote Text-to-Speech synthesis, widely regarded as the definitive book in the field. In 2000, Paul co-founded Rhetorical Systems which was the world leader in text-to-speech. Rhetorical was acquired by Nuance in 2004. From 1989-2000, Paul was at Edinburgh University, where he gained his PhD, worked as a post-doc, tenured lecturer and eventually director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He is author of more than 80 academic papers.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Tim Groot
CEO and Co-Founder of Grip
Tim is an entrepreneur at heart, having started his first company at the of age 17. He graduated with a BBA in International Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His passion for the app development space eventually lead him to co-found Grip in 2014. Tim is also a member of Founders of the Future.
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Laurent Laffy
Founder and Executive Chairman of SeedLegals
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About Prepay Technologies, SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Alex Rea
Founder of Colony
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About Colony : Colony provides a social collaboration platform that makes it easy for people all over the world to build companies together online.
Ben Cuthbert
Co-Founder and CEO of Celer Technologies
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About Celer Technologies: Celer is a financial software company that creates modular systems that have the flexibility to meet today’s dynamic business environment.
Adam Levene
Founder of HERO
Adam Levene is the Founder of HERO®.
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About HERO: HERO is a Virtual Shopping Platform for eCommerce.
Damien Tanner
Co-Founder of Pusher
Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.
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About Konf, Pusher, Rebase Ventures, thoughtbot: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Max Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Pusher
Max has spent the past 5 years running the London-based Ruby on Rails development shop New Bamboo, with his co-founder [Damien Tanner](http://crunchbase.com/person/damien-tanner). Their latest company is a realtime messaging service called Pusher (http://pusherapp.com), which was incubated inside New Bamboo. Max is passionate about realtime technology, and has the goal of making it more readily available for everyone.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Philippe Gelis
Co-Founder & CEO of Kantox
Philippe is a well-organized, detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. He thrives on new challenges, and his innovative approach, along with his desire to progress, allow him to always reach outstanding results. I’ve had the opportunity to work with him during almost 3 years and he’s always been one step ahead, leading with ease multifaceted projects in multicultural environments, always thinking “out of the box†to offer a new vision to deliver high-quality work. As a visionary, he will one day excel in the planet “web†where he is already a first-class surfer!
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About Barcelona Activa, Decelera, Endeavor, Kantox, Syra Coffee, The Galion Project, YZR: Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
David Benigson
Founder and CEO of Signal AI
David Benigson is the Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Miguel Martinez
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Signal AI
Miguel Martinez is the Co-Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Data Scientist.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oli Johnson
Co-Founder of Sona
Oli Johnson is a Co-founder of Sona.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Matthias Radestock
Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Matthias is the co-founder of Weaveworks. He previously co-founded RabbitMQ, and a number of other software technology start-ups. Matthias has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College, and has spent much of the past 20 years wrestling with distributed systems.
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About Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.
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About Metalogic, Rabbit Technologies, Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Reece Chowdhry
Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures
Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures – an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote and panel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY. Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures’ investments.
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About RLC Ventures: RLC Ventures is an award-winning VC which continues to back founders building global tech companies, from idea to exit.
Aidan Fitzpatrick
Founder & CEO of Reincubate
Aidan Fitzpatrick is CEO at Reincubate. He invests through Fitcap.
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About Reincubate: Helping you get more from Apple devices and data
Carl Holmquist
Founder, Chief Strategy Officer of Freespee
Carl has over 10 years of entrepreneurial telco & software leadership experience. He launched cloud services for the Nordic Next Gen telco, IP-Only.se. As a senior consultant at Ascade.com, he spent a couple of months at each of the telco Giants as Swisscom, Belgacom, Telenor, Allstream, One, Telecom New Zealand. Carl holds a MSc from the Institute of Technology at Linköping and Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble. He is also the proud father of three beautiful daughters.
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About Freespee: Freespee is the most comprehensive conversation cloud in the market.
Anton Isaykin
Co-Founder of Fundraise Up
Anton Isaykin is the Co-Founder at Fundraise Up.
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About Campus On Fire, Fundraise Up: The new standard in online giving.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Steve Peralta
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer of Unmind
As a wellbeing consultant and facilitator, Steve has spent the past ten years helping people and organisations take proactive, effective steps to improve their wellbeing and performance. He has supported brands such as BBraun, Barclays, Absa, First National Bank and Discovery Health, focusing on evidence-based, positive behaviour change solutions. Steve designed and led the wellbeing programme for BSG, a South African business and tech consultancy which won the ‘Healthiest Company’ and ‘Healthiest Employees’ titles for small companies in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. Steve co-founded Unmind in 2016 and now works with leading academics and clinicians in creating engaging, evidence-based tools and training to help people understand and proactively support their mental health.
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Michael Liberty
Co-Founder and CPO of Signifyd
Michael is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Signifyd. Prior to Signifyd, he was the Head of Digital Goods and Platform Risk at PayPal. Before PayPal, Michael served as the Director of Business Development and then COO of GWC Warranty, a 120-person specialty insurance company based in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Michael spent the early part of his career in investment banking and private equity, working at J.P. Morgan and CIVC Partners. Michael holds an A.B. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
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
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo
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About Zeelo: Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
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.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
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 .
Henri Winand
Co-Founder and CEO of AkinovA
Shorter bio: Entrepreneur, insurtech/fintech, new energy, angel investors Dr Henri Winand Co-founder & CEO AkinovA Short biography • Grew technology firm globally from 40 people to USD 1bn IPO • USD 200m+ capital raised • Intelligent Energy, CEO • Rolls-Royce plc, Vice President New Ventures (M&A) • PhD Materals Science (Cantab), MBA Full biography I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd. AKINOVA is an insurance technology company I co-founded with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $250m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ public private tech partnership (PPP). I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending. I have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State including that of France, India and the UK over the last few years, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Jean-Michel Paul
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of AkinovA
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Diana Paredes
Co-Founder & CEO of Suade
Co-Founder & CEO of Suade.
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About Suade, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), The World Economic Forum: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
Murat Abur
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade.
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About Suade: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
Jacob Waern
Founder & CEO of EduMe
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About EduMe: eduMe is a mobile-based training platform for the deskless workforce. Companies see increased productivity, retention and workforce safety.
Flavius Plesu
CEO & Founder of OutThink
A cyber security leader with almost 20 years industry experience, Flavius is the Founder and CEO of OutThink. As a former CISO, he has led complex cyber security transformation programmes across large, global organisations. It is his passion for security that motivated Flavius to challenge the status quo and start OutThink, to solve the People challenge. Flavius holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London. Strategic thinker, strong decision-making abilities, result oriented and collaborative leadership style. His primary focus is enabling organisations understand their cyber security risk exposure to make well informed business decisions. Having a strong technical background and a good understanding of business processes, he is naturally proficient at explaining the technical concepts surrounding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and supporting IT systems to all levels of management. Extensive expertise across a wide range of information security disciplines – Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), information security policies, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISF Standard of Good Practice, Data Privacy, legal and regulatory compliance – SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, NHS IGTA, computer security, network security, web application security, secure business architectures and security technologies, with a strong emphasis on information risk management. CISSP, CRISC, CISM, SABSA SCF, SCP, QSA, ISO 27001 LI/LA
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About OutThink: Cybersecurity human risk management platform (SaaS)
Doug Kessler
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Velocity Partners
Doug is a displaced Yank who started his career at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Soap and fabric softener bored him rigid so he jumped ship to specialise in B2B. Doug is a content marketing junkie. He’s a copywriter at heart but with a secret jones for analytics. And Lagavulin.
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About Velocity Partners: Velocity Partners is an innovative global nearshore software development company.
Alex Siljanovski
Founder & CEO of BaseStone
Alex is a Chartered engineer with extensive civil industry experience. Specialising in rail, transportation, water, ports, mechanical & electrical systems, energy and building services sectors – all enhanced by multidisciplinary project management experience.
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About BaseStone: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO of FNA
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
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About FNA: FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
Charlie Muirhead
Founder & CEO of CognitionX
At 19 Charlie had organised the buyout of the Music Bank from Hilton Sounds Plc, before going on to study computer sciences at Imperial College. With backing from Esther Dyson, Hermann Hauser and Terry Matthews, Charlie started Orchestream which automated management of QoS, security and routing on Next Generation IP MPLS networks. By 24 Charlie raised over £50m in VC funding, and floated on the LSE & Nasdaq with a market cap peaking at £1.5bn. Charlie founded Rightster in September 2010 with the mission of building the world’s largest b2b content marketplace. The idea originated from the pioneering work his previous company t5m did in producing original brand-funded video content, after 50 t5m productions, it became clear with the massive fragmentation in online content and advertising the real need was for efficiency. Other ventures include: angel investment network iGabriel.net (OnRelay, Open Business Exchange, Sourceree, Pi-Capital), Angelic Record with Toby Smith (The Hoosiers), Nexagent which pioneered Solution Delivery and Process Automation Software for IT outsourcers, and t5m which produced and distributed online TV shows including the acclaimed Trinny and Susannah – What They Did Next.
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About CognitionX: CognitionX is an AI Advice Platform offers the richest, most comprehensive library of up-to-the-minute AI news.
Tabitha Goldstaub
Co-Founder of CognitionX
Tabitha is co-founder of CognitionX, an AI Advice Platform which connects organisations with a global network of AI experts. She is also Director of CogX, the Festival of AIl Things AI, which in June 2018 brought together over 300 speakers and 6,500 members of the AI community to discuss the Impact of AI. Alongside CognitionX, Tabitha is the AI & Data Business Champion and chair of the AI Council for the UK government’s Office for AI, to champion a rapid and responsible adoption of AI. An advocate for increased diversity in the industry, Tabitha also set up Why Women in AI and Co-Founded Future Girl Corp. In 2008 Tabitha co-founded Rightster (now Brave Bison), the largest online video distribution company outside the US, and was part of the executive team that took the business to IPO 2011, with 250 people and offices in 11 countries.
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About CognitionX: CognitionX is an AI Advice Platform offers the richest, most comprehensive library of up-to-the-minute AI news.
David Peto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Aframe
David founded Aframe with a vision to create a video platform that is powerful enough to handle the huge volumes and myriad formats of video production, but is simple enough that anyone could use it. He’s taken this idea from a one-room office covered in post it notes, to a global business with offices across the UK and US, raising significant Venture Capital funding along the way.
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About Aframe: Aframe Media is a SaaS-based company that provides cloud video production storage and workflow.
Andrey Insarov
CEO and Founder of Intis Telecom
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About Intis Telecom, IT.com: Powerful SMS software with web-based interface and gateway API to help you grow your business with mobile messages
Antonio Separovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Oradian
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About Oradian: Oradian provides a unique enterprise solution to financial institutions across South East Asia and Africa.
Patrick Bergel
Co Founder of Chirp
Making things sing. Research Associate at UCL, Founder + Partner @animalsystems, Lord Creator @chirp_io. Looking forward to meeting you.
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About animal systems: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Sean Nolan
Founder & CEO of Blink
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About Blink: We make remote working less remote. Welcome to the Frontline of the Future.
Nahuel Candia
Founder & CEO of Rebill
Entrepreneur
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About Rebill: Payments orchestration and recurring billing platform for companies scaling in Latin America.
Neta Meidav
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Platform
Neta Meidav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Vault.
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Ran Aroussi
Founder & CEO of Tradologics
Ran Aroussi is entrepreneur, software developer, and the founder of Tradologics – a cloud platform for trading.
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About Tradologics: Cloud platform for programmatic trading
Martin Buhr
CEO and Founder of Tyk
I’m the CEO and Founder of Tyk Technologies, A popular open source API Management platform that powers some of the worlds largest brands including USA Today, AXA Insurance and United Health Group. I’m a digital hippie, maker, gopher and a passionate advocate of open source.
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About Tyk: Tyk is an open source API gateway and management platform that provides on-premises, cloud/multi-cloud, and enterprise.
Tim Perkins
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Jeremy Beament
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Charlie Cannell
Co-Founder of Kadence
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About Inflexion Private Equity, Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Daniel Bladen
Co-Founder & CEO of Kadence
Co-founder and CEO of Chargifi, a smart wireless charging solution. Dan came up with the idea of Chargifi whilst travelling for six months in 2012. He realised that he made strategic decisions about where to visit/stay based on the availability of power sockets, so he could recharge and reconnect with friends and family. Chargifi is deployed by over 90 organisations in 21 countries and is backed by leading technology investors including; Intel Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Techstars, Accelerated Digital Ventures, firstminute capital and R/GA Ventures. Prior to Chargifi, he oversaw a team of 50, designing and implementing a network and AV infrastructure for a £6.5 million building project in West London.
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Glen Manchester
Founder and CEO of Thunderhead
Glen began his career at Xerox, where his passion for design and publishing ignited. He tapped this corporate and creative experience to found Geneva Digital in 1991, creating a new set of customer communication solutions for the direct banking and insurance sectors. Geneva Digital was acquired by Xenos in 1999. He soon spied a gap in the market for customer engagement and in 2001 privately funded Thunderhead. A recognised tech pioneer, innovator and entrepreneur, Glen has piloted Thunderhead to become a global cloud-based tech company with operations throughout Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Australia.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Bruno Marnette
Founder and CEO of Prodo.ai
Bruno Marnette is the founder and CEO at Prodo.AI.
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About Enki, Prodo.ai: Prodo.ai uses machine learning, data science, and human guidance to provide coding software services.
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
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.
Co-Founder & CEO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Hassan Ahmadzadeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Ravi Sharma
Founder & CEO of PoochPlay Limited
Ravi is the Founder & CEO of PoochPlay, a UK based startup behind the revolutionary intelligent dog well-being management app and a Bluetooth enabled activity tracker that delivers valuable benefits to dog owner. Previously, Ravi managed enterprise level product development projects for over a decade for leading brand viz. Faber & Faber, Pineapple Studios, Aman Resorts, Chanel, Elemis, Affordable Art Fair, Lulu Guinness, Karen Millen and many more. Ravi is an electronic engineer, possesses a degree in IT, a degree in business administration, a masters in marketing and management and is a PRINCE2 certified professional.
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About PoochPlay Limited: PoochPlay is a free mobile app & dog activity tracker that manages your dog’s complete well-being!
Hemal Mehta
Founder & CEO of Atominvest
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About Atominvest: Cutting-edge tech for Private Equity, VC, Real Estate and Hedge Funds
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Simon Croome
Founder & VP of Engineering of Ondat
Simon Croome is the Founder & VP Engineering at StorageOS.
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About Ondat: Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Christopher Doman
CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security Ltd
Chris Doman is the CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security. He joined the industry after winning a forensics and development competition run by the US DoD. Chris is known for building the popular threat intelligence portal ThreatCrowd, which subsequently merged into the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, later acquired by ATT. Whilst working at PwC and ATT AlienVault in research and development, Chris published a number of widely read articles and papers on targeted cyber attacks. His research on topics such as the North Korean government’s crypto-currency theft schemes, and China’s attacks against dissident websites, have been widely discussed in the media. He has given interviews to print, radio, and TV such as CNN and BBC News. cdoman@cadosecurity.com
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About Cado Security Ltd, Ignite Research: Cado Security provides the cloud investigation platform that empowers security teams to respond to threats at cloud speed.
Hugh Cox
Founder, Chief Data Officer of Rosslyn Data Technologies PLC
Hugh co-founded Rosslyn Analytics Ltd. and Ockham Capital Ltd. Prior to this was the COO Investments (EMEA) with Citigroup Private Bank, he also worked for Perot Systems, JP Morgan and Logica. After leaving the British Army he took a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from City University Business School.
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About Rosslyn Data Technologies PLC: Rosslyn Data Technologies exists to challenge the traditional methods of managing and exploiting data.
Axel Coustere
Co-Founder of HUBX
Axel Coustere is the Co-Founder at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
Stephen Ong
Co-Founder of HUBX
Stephen Ong is the Co-Founder at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
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.
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.
Maxwell Harding
Founder & CEO of Dynamify
CEO & Co-founder, Dynamify; Ex-Investment Professional, Terra Firma Capital Partners
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Sean Sewell
Co-Founder | VP Revenue of Partnerize
Sean is the Co-Founder and VP Revenue EMEA of Performance Horizon, an online marketing technology provider based on a suite of performance marketing products and services. Sean has over 7 years of online experience. Formerly Commercial Director for AOL, Sean spent two years heading up buy.at and AOL lead generation products, budgets, and growth strategy. Tenacious and strong relationship builder at all levels, responsible for building growing the Performance Horizon client global client portfolio. Sean studied Marketing at University of Bedfordshire as well as at Erasmus International Business School in Rotterdam.
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Glenn Shoosmith
Founder of JRNI
After graduating in 1997 with a degree in computer science, Glenn spent 10 years working as a developer, consultant, team and project manager in the pharmaceutical, television and financial industries. In 2008 he founded BookingBug with the ambitious objective of building a platform through which time could be treated as if it were a stock innovatory item. BookingBug has become JRNI and has since grown to become the market-leading multichannel appointment scheduling and customer journey platform helping leading global retailers, banks, central and local governments enhance their customer experience and save costs. JRNI has a team of over 100 based in London, Boston and Sydney. Glenn has been a passion advocate for London and the UK as a technology hub within Europe and in the past has helped shape government policy towards innovation and technology, both as an early advocate for Tech City, and an advisor and representative of the government nationally and internationally. In 2019 Glenn swapped his CEO role to get back to the technology as Chief Architect, and is in charge of driving platform and innovation at JRNI.
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About ABN AMRO Bank, Bank of America: JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale.
