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 Retail 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.
Brent Hoberman
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory
Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world’s top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List.
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About 01 Founders, AccelerateHER, Firstminute Capital, Founders Factory, Founders Forum, Founders Intelligence, Founders Keepers, Founders of the Future, Grip, Karakuri, MADE, SmartUp.io: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Marc Boyan
Founder & CEO of Miroma Ventures
Marc began his career in marketing with the Goldsmith family, creating and selling events such as World Wrestling Federation, Net Aid, Smash Hits & Route of Kings. His first business venture started in 2000, setting up tourist information channel, City Tour TV. The concept can now be found in various airlines, black taxis and hotels in the UK. In 2003, Marc spotted an opportunity to use barter in all areas of modern commerce and set up corporate barter company, Miroma International. He has grown the business into one of the leading corporate barter companies in Europe with Miroma International’s growth trajectory recognized in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 report on UK businesses for four years in a row between 2008 and 2011. Outside of Miroma International, Marc has also focused on building out the Miroma Ventures portfolio, focusing on media, technology and consumer investments. Marc is a dedicated supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity, sitting on its Executive Board.
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About Miroma Group, Miroma Ventures: Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms.
Stefan Hobl
CFO & Co-Founder of Butter.co.uk
Stefan Hobl joined Butter.co.uk as CFO & Co-Founder in 2017.
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About Butter.co.uk: Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Andrew Xeni
CEO, Co-Founder of Fabacus
A highly driven and experienced CEO with a diverse portfolio of business interests. Andrew’s primary focus has till recently been in the family garment manufacturing business, Europride Ltd., founded with his brother. Having supplied most of the UKs largest fashion retailers for over a decade, Andrew understands their supply chain needs. The businesses boast a combined annual turnover in excess of $150m, with over 2,000 employees globally and including vested interests in the full supply chain: Factories in the UK, Eastern Europe, Morocco and Sri Lanka, a UK dye house, a UK knitting plant, fabric import business, and UK printing facilities. Andrew also has two ecommerce brands, Baaclothing.Com and NobodysChild.Com, that compliment his fully integrated vertical manufacturing service. Fabacus is the brainchild of all this supply chain, retail and ecommerce experience. Understanding exactly what is needed to improve each process and make businesses faster and more cost efficient, Andrew alongside his co-founder Ray Noppé, were able to build a suite of solutions. Fabacus delivers optimal efficiency for greater profit through customisable software for business intelligence, data management, relationship management and e-commerce marketing optimisation. To date Fabacus has successfully integrated its solution with the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, Salesforce and Revel. In addition to Fabacus and Europride Ltd, Andrew continues to invest in technology alongside New Look founder, Tom Singh, as well as property development and music interests: Launching his own music label, supporting and developing new talents.
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About Fabacus: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Galahad Clark
Founder & Managing Director of Vivobarefoot
Galahad Clark is the Founder and Managing Director of Vivobarefoot.
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About Terra Plana, Vivobarefoot: UK-based shoe brand and Crowdcube alum
Lloyd Amsdon
Co-Founder of Watchfinder
Lloyd Amsdon is the Founder and Brand Director of Watchfinder.
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About Watchfinder: Watchfinder is the world’s leading retailer of pre-owned watches
José Neves
Founder, Co-Chairman & CEO of Farfetch
In 2008 José Neves launched Farfetch, bringing together his interests in fashion and technology, as well as his experience in design, wholesale and retail, to create a business that would celebrate and support the diversity of the global fashion industry. The seasoned entrepreneur had experienced first-hand the challenges facing bricks-and-mortar retailers wanting to expand online. His vision was to create a single portal, offering independent boutiques the opportunity to compete with the leaders of fashion e-commerce. Farfetch now comprises more than 300 boutiques, offering over 100,000 pieces from 1,000 brands. With customers in almost 190 countries, the site receives an average of 10 million monthly hits. José has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. José later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. In 2001 José opened the renowned bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006. José has received numerous accolades as an entrepreneur and for his business ventures, including The Business of Fashion’s 500 People Shaping the Fashion Industry in 2013, Ernst & Young’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year and Vogue’s DirectorsOf.COM Top Entrepreneur in 2011.
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About Farfetch, Farfetch China, PlatformE, SIX London: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
George Graham
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger.
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About Raw Press Juice, Wolf & Badger, Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Henry Graham
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
Henry Graham is Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Wolf & Badger.
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About Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Daniel Attia
Founder & CEO of YOPA
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About YOPA, YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Andrew Barclay
Founder of YOPA
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About YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Joe Falter
Co-Founder of Zapp
Joe Falter is the founder of Zapp.
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About Zapp: Zapp is a grocery-delivery startup that provides on-demand delivery services 24/7.
Nick Wheeler
Founder & Chairman of Charles Tyrwhitt
Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965 in Ludlow, Shropshire) is an English businessman. He attempted a number of different businesses, including a photography venture and a Christmas tree delivery service. In 1986 he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns. Wheeler grew up in Ludlow and was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Bristol, where he studied geography. His first job was as a management consultant for Bain & Company. In November 1986, he set up Charles Tyrwhitt, now a well-known shirt brand in the United Kingdom. The business is a Limited Liability Partnership. It has grown to be the UK’s largest mail-order shirt business, and also has several brick and mortar locations (as of October 2014, 17 in the United Kingdom, 5 in the United States, and one in France). In 2008, he was a regional judge for the Entrepreneur Challenge in the UK. Wheeler is married with four children to Chrissie Rucker, founder of The White Company. In 2015, their collective wealth was estimated at £330 million by the Sunday Times Rich List. Together they live in Buckinghamshire and also own a chalet in Klosters, Switzerland named Haus Alpina.
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About Charles Tyrwhitt, Feefo: A multi-channel British clothing retailer, specialising in formal men’s shirts, shoes, suits, knitwear and accessories
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.
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Fiorina Benveniste-Schuler
Founder & CEO of Selec.to
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About Selec.to: The leading B2B platform for the Fashion Industry
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Cassandra Harris
Founder of Venturespring
Founder at Venturespring
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About Venturespring: A digital transformation firm and early growth venture capital fund that match makes corporates with game changing startups.
Hasna Kourda
Co-Founder & CEO of Save Your Wardrobe
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Fabrice Haiat
Co-Founder and CEO of YOOBIC
Fabrice Haiat served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Vizelia S.A. Fabrice Haiat supervised the implementation of different product and service solutions. He also contributed to the ESSEC Property management masters course and participates in numerous conferences, with the aim of sharing his forward-looking vision of the environment and informing decision-makers on the energy challenges to be faced over the next decade. He served as an International Consultant with McKinsey and gained his experience in the new technology and property sectors. He served as a Director of Vizelia S.A.
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About Petribox, YOOBIC: YOOBIC is an all-in-one platform for the deskless workforce to optimize communication, training, and process management.
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.
Daniel Price
Co-Founder of My 1st Years
Daniel Price is a Co-Founder at My 1st Years.
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About My 1st Years: My 1st Years offers personalised gifts for babies and children.
Vashi Dominguez
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Vashi
Visionary entrepreneur with strong background on branding and e-commerce. Vashi Dominguez founded Vashi in 2007 with the goal of making fine jewellery accessible for all. Previously he ran an International diamond wholesale company with clients in 4 continents.
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About Vashi: Vashi is a fine jewellery brand that offers a genuinely unique, disruptive, and omni-channel retail experience.
Scott Malkin
Founder of Value Retail PLC
Scott D. Malkin is the founder and Chairman of Value Retail PLC. He also serves as Chairman of S.D. Malkin Properties, Inc. which develops retail, residential and hotel projects in the United States. Scott is a Trustee of The New York Public Library, Partners In Health, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the U.S. Olympic Committee Foundation. In addition, he serves on various Advisory Boards including Conservacion Patagonica and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Scott is graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School.
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About Value Retail PLC: Value Retail operates luxury outlet shopping destinations.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Charles Dunstone
Founder and Chief Executive of Carphone Warehouse
Charles Dunstone is a Founder at Carphone Warehouse plc.
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About Carphone Warehouse, Freston Ventures, TalkTalk, Xmarksthespot.com: Carphone Warehouse is a telecommunications retailer that sells mobile phones, tablets, wearables, phone accessories, and SIMs.
Al Gerrie
Co-Founder & CEO of ZigZag Global
Al Gerrie is Co-Founder & CEO at ZigZag Global.
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About We Are Pentagon, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Stephen Finch
Founder and Managing Director of Vagabond Wines
Stephen Finch is the Founder and Director of VAGABOND and BOXCAR
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About BOXCAR, Vagabond Wines: Vagabond Wines is owns and operates wine bars and shops in the United Kingdom.
Eshita Kabra
Founder of By Rotation
Founder By Rotation – UK’s fashion rental app • Worked at various large buy and sell side firms as an investment analyst • Singaporean Indian living in London
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About By Rotation: The World’s First Social Fashion Rental App.
Tom Singh
Founder & Non-Executive Director of New Look
Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969. In addition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.
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About New Look: New Look is a retail seller of mens and womens clothing.
Philipp Man
Co-Founder & CEO of CHRONEXT
Philipp Man holds a Master of Philosophy in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Management from King’s College London, majoring in corporate finance, venture capital and market sociology. Besides his work at the Boston Consulting Group, Germany and Switzerland, he also gained experience at GlencoreXstrata in London. During his studies he worked for various watch dealers and focused his dissertations on luxury watch market dynamics.
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About CHRONEXT: Chronext is is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading where clients can buy, sell luxury watches.
Federico Marchetti
Founder and CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
Born in Ravenna in 1969, Federico Marchetti holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from Columbia University. Upon completing his studies, he embarked on a traditional path in the corporate world and while those early years in his career proved to be an invaluable experience, he knew all along that he would need to go out on his own to fulfil his professional objective of becoming an entrepreneur. In 2000, after having served as an advisor for several chief executives and designers in the fashion industry, both in the U.S. and in Italy, he founded YOOX, the perfect venture in which he could unite his business vision with his passion for fashion and design.
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About Yoox Net-a-Porter Group: Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and luxury brands.
Tamara Rajah
Founder & CEO of Live Better With
A couple of years ago, Tamara got really frustrated from her professional and personal experiences. She found that there are so many things that could help people living with cancer live better day-to-day, but they don’t know about them or don’t know where to buy them. She left her job in healthcare and set up Live Better With to change that.
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About Live Better With: Make life a little bit better with 100s of recommended products for people living with cancer.
Nick Whitehurst
Co-Founder and Director of Watneys
Nick Whitehurst is the co-founder and director Watneys.
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About Figura Analytics Limited, Watneys: Watneys and Home Ales brands and they are hell-bent on returning them to their former glory.
Josh Graham
Co-Founder & CMO of Airtime Rewards
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About Airtime Rewards, Samply: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Renée Elliott
Founder of Planet Organic
American-born Renée Elliott is an organic pioneer and passionate entrepreneur. In 1995, she founded Planet Organic, the UK’s first organic supermarket. With her mission to promote health in the community, Renée set out to change food culture. She challenged conventional retailing and proved that values-led, commercially-driven business is good business. For charitable work, Renée served as a Trustee of the Soil Association from 1999-2014, fighting genetically modified organisms and raising awareness about organic food. She is now on the Soil Association’s Catering Mark Standards Committee, promoting healthier menus in schools, universities, hospitals, care homes and caterers. A health and well-being expert, Renée has written three recipe books, ‘Top 100 Healthy Recipes for Babies & Toddlers,’ ‘Me, You & the Kids, Too’ and, recently, ‘What to Eat and How to Eat it’. She works part-time at Planet Organic, frequently lectures to budding entrepreneurs and is a full-on mother to her three children. In May, Renée and her partner, Sam Wigan, launched Beluga Bean, an in-person and on-line business and life skills academy. Courses include Launch, taking entrepreneurs from new or existing business to launch or re-launch and Nourish, baking and cooking for health. In everything that she does, Renée challenges convention to improve life.
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About Planet Organic: Planet Organic is a natural products retailer company.
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member of ActiveViam
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
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.
Steve Reid
Co-Founder and CEO of Simba Sleep
CEO and co-founder at Simba Sleep CEO and co-founder of Tribesports
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About Simba Sleep, Tribesports: Simba Sleep is an e-commerce company that offers a variety of mattresses.
James Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of Tails.com
James Davidson is Co-Founder & CEO at Tails.com.
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Steve Webster
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Tails.com
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Mike Charalambous
Founder / CEO of Threedium
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About Frenzi Media, Threedium: We create memorable brand experiences, drive product considerations and deliver conversions through 3D/AR Technology.
Iris Anson
Founder/CEO of Solely Original
Iris is a founding director at Solely Original, an online bespoke women’s footwear brand. As a fashion conscious city professional, she decided to leave behind her career as a tax consultant to pursue a solution for women like her, who had trouble finding fashionable shoes that are comfortable to walk in.
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About Etiq AI, Solely Original: Solely Original is a shoe brand allowing clients to design their own shoes, have custom made to fit the specifications of the feet.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
David Alstadter
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About 20th Century Studios, ISPN, Microsoft, MSN, myCircle, Paramount Pictures, Skywalker Sound, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
Karin Cabili
Founder & CEO of Dropit Shopping
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About Dropit Shopping: Dropit provides a digital handsfree shopping solution for malls and central shopping districts, delivering bags from store to door.
Tom Cohen
CTO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Tom Cohen joined Popsa as Co-Founder & CTO in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Liam Houghton
CEO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Liam Houghton joined Popsa as CEO & Founder in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Aditya Joshi
COO, Co-Founder of Greendeck
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About Greendeck: Greendeck uses AI to help brands and retailers with pricing optimisation and competitor intelligence.
Sohrab Jahanbani
Founder and COO of GoNabit
Sohrab Jahanbani is Founder and COO at GoNabit.
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About Bidvine, GoNabit: GoNabit is an internet retailer with a deal-a-day format, offering items at big discounts.
Eleanor Weaver
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Luminance
Eleanor is Chief Executive Officer at Luminance. She is a former Director at world-leading cyber AI company, Darktrace, where she spent six years as Global Head of the organisation’s Industrial Division. Prior to this, Eleanor founded and ran Darktrace’s African operations. In recognition of her work in the technology sector, Eleanor won the prestigious ‘Innovation Trailblazer Award’ at Law.com’s 2021 Legal Innovation Awards and made Management Today’s ’35 under 35’ list.
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About Darktrace, Luminance: Luminance applies supervised and unsupervised machine learning to the process of document review.
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Tim Linssen
Co-Founder & Director of Product of Quiqup
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Federico Ferraro
Co-Founder & Designer of Quiqup
Federico Ferraro is the Co-Founder and Designer of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Danny Hawkins
CTO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Danny Hawkins is the CTO and Co-Founder of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Crispin Tweddell
Founder of Piper Private Equity
Crispin founded Piper in 1985 originally as a consumer-focused strategy consultancy, having left his position as MD at Fitch & Co, the UK’s leading commercial design consultancy. He went on to start the hugely successful Pitcher & Piano brand, which was sold to Marston’s in 1996. With an unrelenting focus on helping brands stay relevant to consumers and by persistently striving to make Piper’s brands better and different versus the competition, Crispin has been instrumental in growing our investments into beacon brands as both Chairman and NED.
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About Piper Private Equity: Piper is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in consumer brands with strong growth potential.
Kostas Koukoravas
Founder and CEO of Intelistyle
Project & Product management, business development, software engineering, AI. Has 13 years experience leading the development of ideas from inception through to delivery and has launched high profile online services including BBC iPlayer Radio, Microsoft Skype on Windows 8 and Surface Hub. Has varied experience in applied machine learning ranging from real time action detection in video (Microsoft Surface Hub) to portfolio optimisation in financial data. Holds an MPhil on unsupervised learning from the University of Manchester and a coursera machine learning certificate from the University of Stanford.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Michael Michelis
Co-Founder & COO of Intelistyle
Michael Michelis joined Intelistyle as Co-Founder and COO in 2017.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Olivier Kerckhove
VP / Founder of Storm5
Olivier Kerckhove is the VP and Founder at Storm5.
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About Storm5: Storm5 are global RetailTech recruitment experts, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Markus Ehrnrooth
Co-Founder of KNOMI
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About KNOMI: Fashion. Anytime + anywhere. For you, by you.
Nick Hussey
Co-Founder of FRAHM Jacket
Nick Hussey is the Co-Founder of FRAHM Jacket.
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About FRAHM Jacket: FRAHM Jacket makes detailed and beautiful men’s jackets for curious minds.
Michael Rolph
CEO and Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Michael Rolph started his career at Barclaycard, First Data and PayPal. Prior to founding Yoyo, he was a founding member and Director at Anthemis Group, the specialist FinTech advisory and investment firm. During this time he advised multiple start-ups like Azimo and The Currency Cloud in their early stages as well as established players like Vocalink, Skrill and the Banks on digital innovation, investment and M&A. He is currently an advisor to Firestartr and has previously been a mentor at Seedcamp, the early stage funding company and a non-executive director at The MoBank Group.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Dave Nicholson
VP Strategy & Partnerships & Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Dave is a co-founder and VP Strategy & Partnerships at Yoyo Wallet, responsible for ensuring that Yoyo continues to innovate and scale in the digital loyalty space through building relationships with partners. Before starting Yoyo, he was co-founder and Head of Product at Zopa – the world’s first peer to peer lender.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Gill Davies
Founder of Wilderooms
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About Wilderooms: Try what you see online before buying
Malcolm Bell
Founder CEO of Saint and Sofia
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About Harvard Business School, Saint and Sofia, Seedcamp: Saint and Sofia is a fair and sustainable fashion and accessory brand.
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak
Founder of Nethermind
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak is the Founder at Nethermind.
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About Nethermind: API marketplace with blockchain payments for pay as you go for API usage, Ethereum clients, infrastructure and consulting.
Ben Fletcher
Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership
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About Lead Bullets, Oxford Global Resources, The Mothership: The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
Mark Elwig
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Staff Heroes
Proven Commercial leader with a track record of driving growth through technology sales with Enterprise customers across multiple sectors including Hospitality, Retail, Travel and Entertainment. Experienced go-to market strategist and sales leader. Deal brokering at a global level. International experience within EMEA and US. Focus, drive and great people skills having lead several sales, business development and client account teams for both Fortune 500 and start-up organisations. Experience in setting up and building out sales and marketing teams from scratch and most recently co-founding and running the commercial arm of an innovative staffing marketplace start-up, operating within the Hospitality sector in the UK. Specialties: Business development, Sales, business strategy, account management, client services, licensing, white label, B2B partnerships, European & Global sales, SaaS software sales, launching a start-up.
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About eBay Advertising, mydeco, Staff Heroes: Staff Heroes is an on demand & AI technology marketplace reinventing the world of work, connecting businesses and workers more efficiently.
Jonathon Blok
Co-Founder & CPO of Aura Vision
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About Aura Vision: Aura Vision enables brick-and-mortar retailers to positively influence shopper journeys with cutting-edge computer vision.
Julian Polzella
Founder & CTO of Shopwave
Julian founded Shopwave following the acquisition of his startup VouChaCha, which built multi-platform, location-based, scalable, API-driven architectures for top 200 UK retailers & enterprise clients such as Orange & Lastminute.com. VouChaCha was acquired as part of Markcomedia in a £55 million deal by Monitise PLC. Julian is an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award Winner and holds a first class honours degree in Computing Sciences. He developed expertise in economic, trading, social, reinforcement & machine learning AI technology at Palantir and at university.
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About Nift-e Labs, Shopwave: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
Ben Brown
Founder & CEO of Shopwave
Ben founded Shopwave following the acquisition of his first startup, VouChaCha. VouChaCha managed multi-channel coupon distribution and redemption for many of the UK’s top 200 retailers. VouChaCha was acquired as part of Markcomedia in a deal worth £55 million by Monitise PLC.
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About Shopwave: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
Andre Hordagoda
Co-Founder of Go Instore
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About Go Instore: Go Instore is a unique technology that closes the gap between the online and offline worlds.
Aman Khurana
Co-Founder of Go Instore
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About Go Instore: Go Instore is a unique technology that closes the gap between the online and offline worlds.
Clare Julie McKeeve
Founder & CEO of Luxcite Limited
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About Eaton Gate Capital Partners, Luxcite Limited, TLNT Holdings SA: Investor – Luxury and Premium Brands
Yodit Stanton
Founder and CEO of OpenSensors
Software and Data engineer working to helping people understand their physical space. Currently growing OpenSensors. OpenSensors aggregates data from a variety of sensors for the next generation of smart Building Management Systems. Our dashboards help you make the most effective use of your office space. With experience in helping more than 100 companies to combine data from new workplace sensors seamlessly, interoperating it with existing and familiar mobile and desktop systems, we aim to give you a fully comprehensive overview.
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About OpenSensors: OpenSensors is an internet of things company that builds a connected world that puts people first.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Andrew Hart
Co-Founder and CEO of Dent Reality
Working on AR for indoor spaces at Dent Reality. Creator of ARKit + CoreLocation, and some other things.
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About Dent Reality: Dent Reality develops an augmented reality platform that helps users find their favorite products on the market.
Paul Archer
Founder and Managing Director of Duel
World Record-breaking Adventurer, Best-selling Author and founder of Duel. Aside from his expeditions and writing, he has spent his career building technology, including the Daredevil Project app development studio, and consulting for advertising agencies and tech companies. He founded Duel to democratise and decentralise marketing for brands. Duel is solving the lack of emotional connection and social proof in often clinical looking online stores by rewarding customers for creating visual testimonials and advocating among their friends, rather than wasting millions on advertising to drive sales. Before this Paul conceived and implemented the It’s on the Meter Expedition to drive to London taxi around the World. The expedition broke two Guinness World Records, raised over £20,000 and passed through 50 countries after driving 80,000 miles from London to London in Hannah, a 1992 London Taxi bought of eBay. Paul is also an experienced speaker, moderator and a conference host. Including TEDx, SXSW, Festival of Media, Cannes Lions, Social Media Week, GenerationE, the Content Marketing Institute and Retail.Tech, as well as guest lecturing at the British School of Fashion.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Dexter Grima
CO-Founder of Everly Wellness
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About Everly Wellness: Everly Wellness is a technology healthcare company focused on providing honest, expertly researched and personalised nutritional products.
Kate Jackson
Co-Founder & Director of silkfred
Kate Jackson is a Co-Founder at silkfred.
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About silkfred, TableCrowd, We Are In The Loop: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Emma Watkinson
Co-Founder & CEO of silkfred
Emma Watkinson is a Co-Founder & CEO at silkfred.
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About silkfred: SilkFred is a luxury retail platform that helps independent brands and emerging designers get their products to market.
Jose Manuel Moller
Founder & CEO of Algramo
Jose Manuel Moller is the Founder and CEO at Algramo.
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About Algramo: Algramo aims to establish a wholesale relationship with manufacturers of consumer products such as detergents.
Deepak Ravindran
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer of Oddbox
Deepak Ravindran is the Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Oddbox.
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About Oddbox: Oddbox is a provider of fruit and veg box delivery service intended to reduce food waste.
Leroy Lawrence
Founder of Pigee
Leroy Lawrence is the Founder of Pigee Inc.
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About Pigee: Pigee is a Mobile App that allows tourists to post home purchases directly from the shops and street markets they visit.
Markus Stripf
Co-Founder & CPMO of Spoon Guru
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About Spoon Guru: A leading retail solution provider, we deliver seamless product discovery based on shopper dietary & lifestyle needs.
Darren Callcott
Founder & Director of StreetDots
Darren Callcott is co-founder of StreetDots.
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About CADA Design, StreetDots: StreetDots creates smart street-trading platform.
Maxwell Harding
Founder & CEO of Dynamify
CEO & Co-founder, Dynamify; Ex-Investment Professional, Terra Firma Capital Partners
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Peter Kriskinans
Founder & CEO of Bizie
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About Bizie: Bizie develops software and online solutions to help manage companies from the retail industry.
Wendy Martin
Co-Founder of Counter Culture Store
Wendy Martin is the co-founder of Counter Culture Store, a sustainable beauty marketplace. Also a co-founder of Startup Socially, an on-demand marketing consultancy, and a NED at myNexus. She was previously a major investor, founding director and CMO at For Good Causes until August 2020. Wendy spent 28 years at Visa, latterly as an Executive Director of business strategy and innovation.
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About Counter Culture Store, For Good Causes, Social Impact Associates: Sustainable Beauty Marketplace
Nick Brackenbury
Co-Founder & CEO of NearSt
Nick Brackenbury is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of NearSt; a retail technology start-up getting people back into high street shops. His tech company is revolutionizing the idea of shopping locally rather than ordering it online. Nick was formerly one of Ogilvy’s youngest ever Account Directors, working on pioneering teams in the agency’s analytics and digital platforms teams across brands spanning Land Rover, Nestle, BP, Ford, Diageo and IBM. He is fascinated by behavioural economics and the incredible potential currently hidden away in high street shops.
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About NearSt: NearSt is a retail technology company building the world’s source of real-time local inventory.
Max Kreijn
Co-Founder & Strategic Lead of NearSt
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About NearSt: NearSt is a retail technology company building the world’s source of real-time local inventory.
Rosie de Malmanche
Founder of o|urmoire.
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About o|urmoire.: The Brighter way to Buy & Borrow
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.
Anthony Ng Monica
Co-Founder & CEO of Swogo
CEO of Swogo – Retail Week nominated Swogo as a Top 25 Most Innovative Retail company. Hundreds of retail leaders in over 30 countries around the world drive profitable growth with Swogo. Brands like El Corte Inglés, John Lewis, Decathlon, Sephora, Media Markt and British Telecom make millions in incremental margin using Swogo’s automated cross-sell bundles. Using a unique approach that focuses on understanding a retailer’s product assortment – Swogo Product Graph ™ combined with machine learning and AI algorithms have surpassed 1.5 billion bundle recommendations in the first half of 2019. Swogo has been featured in The Financial Times, Entrepreneur and Business Insider. Prior to Swogo, Anthony studied BSc Business Economics at Westminster University and held roles at VC firm, DFJ Esprit and Seedrs.
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About Swogo: Swogo powers bundle recommendations for the world’s most successful retailers to increase their margin.
Marco Nardone
Founder & CEO of Wineapp
Marco Nardone is the Founder and CEO of Wineapp – UK’s largest app for on-demand wine delivery. www.wineapp.com / Available on iOS and Android. Wineapp is VC-backed by Rocket Internet and Speedinvest.
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About Wineapp: Mobile App – On-demand Fine Wine Delivery
