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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Managing Director operating in the Consulting space. If you think a Managing Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Lionel Assant
Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Group
Lionel Assant is Senior Managing Director and European Head of Private Equity for Blackstone, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2003, Lionel Assant has been involved in various European investments and investment opportunities. Before joining Blackstone, Lionel Assant worked for seven years at Goldman Sachs in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Asset Management and Private Equity divisions. Lionel Assant graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique with a Master’s degree in Economics. He serves as a Director of Tangerine, Intertrust and Alliance Automotive Group. Lionel Assant served on the boards of Gerresheimer, Mivisa and United Biscuits. He is also a Trustee of Impetus-PEF, a charitable foundation which provides resources to improve the lives of children and young people living in poverty.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
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Kenneth Caplan
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Blackstone Group
Kenneth A. Caplan is a Senior Managing Director and Global Chief Investment Officer of the Real Estate Group. Since joining Blackstone in 1997, Kenneth Caplan has been involved in over $100 billion of real estate acquisitions and initiatives in the United States, Europe and Asia. These include major acquisitions such as Equity Office Properties, Hilton Hotels, Trizec Properties and La Quinta. Prior to his current role, Kenneth Caplan was Head of Real Estate Europe. Before joining Blackstone, he was at Lazard Frères & Co. in the real estate investment banking group. Kenneth Caplan received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a John Harvard Scholar. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Caroline Hill
Managing Director, Real Estate ESG of Blackstone Group
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Nick Tansley
Managing Director of Blackstone Group
Nick Tansley is the Managing Director at PJT Partners.
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About Blackstone Group, PJT Partners: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Amir Malik
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture, Accenture Interactive: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Nigel Gilbert
Managing Director of Accenture
Nigel Gilbert is the Vice President of Strategic Development of EMEA at AppNexus. Digital media pioneer, Nigel leads AppNexus’ strategic development across Europe. Prior to joining AppNexus, he served as Head of Orange Ad Market (UK & FR) for France Telecom. Nigel was responsible for all commercial operations at Orange Ad Market, the real-time bidding (RTB) exchange. In 2001 Nigel co-founded Unanimis, the first and largest digital publisher network in the UK. As Commercial Director for Unanimis, Nigel established and managed operations for eBay, BBC, Channel 5, and the London Stock Exchange, among others.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Sulabh Agarwal
Managing Director, Global Head of Payments of Accenture
Sulabh is a Managing Director in Accenture’s UK/Ireland Finance Services practice. He leads the payments and cards practice for the UK and Ireland banking market. His area of expertise is management consulting and programme delivery in areas of payments and regulatory compliance. In addition he has been advising banking clients on strategy and target operating models. His experience encompasses several payments and regulatory programmes including payments transformation, transaction banking revenue enhancement and ring fencing, FATCA, PSR, BCOB, SEPA, RDR, Sanctions, AML. In addition, he has experience in post-merger integration, payments change delivery, wholesale bank target operating model, retail and corporate bank product strategy, credit card marketing strategy, innovation strategy, governance model options, sourcing strategy and payments operations and technology.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Peter Lacy
Senior Managing Director -Global Sustainability Practice Lead; Europe Strategy Practice Lead of Accenture
Peter Lacy is managing director for Growth, Strategy and Sustainability within Accenture Strategy and is part of its Leadership Team. He is also a member of Accenture’s Global Leadership Council, and leads Accenture’s relationship with the World Economic Forum and the Digital Transformation of Industries program. His role focuses on strategy development, offering development, innovation centers and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Mr. Lacy is a world authority on sustainability in areas such as circular economy, stakeholder management and trust issues in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, mining, energy and consumer goods. He works with the CEOs and senior management of a range of Fortune 500 companies, including the United Nations, the European Union and public sector organizations. He specializes in growth and strategy, with a strong focus on environmental, social, governance and ethics issues. Prior to consulting he spent several years working in the dotcom industry.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Olivier Vuichard
Managing Director, Wealth Management of Accenture
Olivier heads their UK business with responsibility for local business development and growth in their delivery capabilities. He has worked closely with top tier clients in the UK on their change programmes. A Swiss national, Olivier has delivered several strategic transformation projects across the UK, Switzerland and Luxembourg. He is an experienced project manager and has supported clients on challenging platform delivery transformations including the integration of remote delivery elements.
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About Accenture, Orbium: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Davinder Gautam
Managing Director of Accenture
Davinder Gautam Managing Director – Products Technology Consulting.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Anthoula Madden
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Tom Graham
Managing Director, Banking of Accenture
Tom Graham is a Managing Director in Accenture’s UK Banking consulting practice, helping clients deliver change and innovate. He also sponsors the successful FinTech Innovation Labs in London, which, partnered with 30+ banks and insurers, takes 20 startups a year through a rapid accelerator for growth and innovation.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Ailsa Williams
Managing Director of Teneo
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About Teneo: A New York-based corporate advisory firm
Roger Kennedy
Managing Director of Cantor Fitzgerald
Roger Kennedy is the Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald.
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About Cantor Fitzgerald: Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that specializes in equities, investment banking, and real estate.
Charmaine Eggberry
Managing Director & Partner of McKinsey & Company
Appointed to the Board in January 2014. Charmaine is a Partner at BCG Digital Ventures (an arm of The Boston Consulting Group), a role which involves leading the creation of completely new ventures and businesses for the world’s biggest brands. Charmaine is also a Non-Executive Director of Avanti plc and software robot specialists, Blue Prism plc as well as Chairperson of Buzzmove. She is also the CEO of Plan B Consulting and undertakes advisory work for several early stage startups. Charmaine previously held international senior executive roles with Research in Motion (Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer from 2002–2008) and Nokia (Global Senior Vice President from 2010–2012). Before joining RIM in 2002 as Marketing Director for Europe she worked for Lucent Technologies where she held several positions including the roles of Global Business Partner Marketing Director and Marketing Director, EMEA. Charmaine led Wayra UK, one of the world’s largest digital business accelerators and was a non-executive director of Wayra UnLtd, a joint venture between the UK Government and Telefónica. Charmaine is also a board member and trustee of The Marketing Academy. Charmaine holds an MBA and attended Wharton Business School to study Global Marketing
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About Blue Prism, McKinsey & Company, Plan B One‑Step: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor by businesses, governments, and institutions.
Eric Kump
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
Eric J. Kump is a Managing Director and Partner. He is Head of the Carlyle Sub Sahara Africa Fund and an advisor of the Carlyle European Partners investment committee. He is based in London. Eric Kump has more than 20 years of private equity experience spanning four continents and numerous sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle European Partners in 2010 , Mr. Kump was a Managing Director and Head of the European Private Equity team of Dubai International Capital (DIC). Prior to that, he was a Managing Director with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (MLGPE) where he was a member of the global investment committee. Mr. Kump is on the Board of Directors of MPS, TiAuto Investments and J&J. Mr. Kump received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and he received a B.A. in finance and accounting from Pace.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Katherine Elmore-Jones
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Katherine Elmore-Jones is a Managing Director advising on Investor Relations and Fundraising across Europe. She is based in London. Prior to her current role, Ms. Elmore-Jones was Director of European Communications, in charge of managing Carlyle’s public relations in Europe. Before joining Carlyle, she was with Herald Communications and Seed Capital, a U.K. venture capital firm. Ms. Elmore-Jones received her M.A. in biological sciences from Oxford University. She has been registered with the FSA since 2007 for the CF30 controlled function and holds a full Investment Management Certificate.
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About The Carlyle Group, The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Fernando Chueca
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Fernando Chueca is a Managing Director with Carlyle Europe Technology Partners focusing on buyouts, growth capital and strategic minority investments throughout Europe in the technology, telecommunications, software and business services sectors. Mr. Chueca is based in London Since joining Carlyle in 2001, Mr. Chueca has been actively involved and he has advised on 11 major investments and ten completed realizations, across Europe. Mr. Chueca is a member of the Board of Directors of Livingstone Technologies, and was formerly on the Board of Directors of Itconic, Expereo, ITRS Group, Arsys Internet, Bigmouthmedia, Nature Delivered (Graze) and FRS Global.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Alex Wagenberg
Managing Director and Partner of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
David FitzGerald
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Colin Atkins
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
Colin Atkins is a Managing Director and Head of the European Structured Credit advisory team based in London. Mr. Atkins joined the firm in 2004 as Head of Credit for the European Leveraged Finance business, a role in which he worked on many notable transactions, before taking on his current position. Mr. Atkins came to Carlyle from Prudential M&G where between 1999 and November 2004, he helped establish Prudential M&G’s Leveraged Finance platform, which became a market leader in the European institutional market. Over the five year period, the business invested over €2.5 billion in leveraged finance assets and Mr. Atkins had responsibility for primary market execution and secondary market loan trading. Mr. Atkins previously worked in Corporate Private Placements at PPM America in Chicago and held positions in Prudential M&G’s Corporate Tax and Treasury departments. Mr. Atkins holds a B.A. (Hons) in accounting & finance from Nottingham Trent University. He is a member of The Association of Chartered Management Accountants (ACMA) and is a CFA charter holder. Mr. Atkins has been registered with the FSA since 2010 for the CF30 and CF4 controlled functions.
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Martin Glavin
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
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About The Carlyle Group: The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm that caters to early and later stage companies.
Martin Mellish
Managing Director of Aspen Advisory Services
Martin Mellish is founding director of Aspen Advisory Services Ltd., a London-based private investment office overseeing private and publicly traded investments in North America, Europe, and Asia. From 1984 to 1992 he was CFO of an industrial holding company with offices in North America, Asia, and the Middle East, having trained at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Martin is a Certified Public Accountant (Mass.) and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. He holds an SM (Management) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his thesis focused on the divergent interests of management and shareholders during corporate bankruptcy. He also holds an M.Sc. in Accounting from Northeastern University. Martin currently serves on the boards of Romanian Reconstruction Capital Ltd., and Omnicyte Ltd., and on the investment committees of Pi Capital (U.K.) and The Salzburg Seminar (U.S.A./Austria).
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About Aspen Advisory Services: Aspen Advisory Services is a London-based private investment office overseeing private and publicly traded investments in North America.
Richard Leigh
Managing Director of Focus Assured
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About Focus Assured: Focus Assured is a consulting firm dedicated to creating and delivering genuine value for clients’ businesses.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Antoon Schneider
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Antoon is a Managing Director and Senior Partner in the Principal Investor and Private Equity practice at Boston Consulting Group. Antoon has advised most of the 50 largest private-equity firms globally on topics that include deal sourcing, due diligence and firm strategy, as well as working with their portfolio companies on 100-day plans and operational-improvement. He also has extensive experience in corporate M&A. Before joining BCG in 2011, Antoon spent nearly 14 years with McKinsey&Co, where he led the private-equity practice in the UK. Prior to that he worked in M&A at Hambros Bank and as a Chartered Accountant.
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Phiroz Vandrevala
Managing Director of Diligenta
As the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Diligenta, a subsidiary of TCS focused on the life & pensions industry, Phiroz Vandrevala is responsible for driving the business strategy and operations of the organization and opportunities globally. Phiroz is also a Director on the Board of TCS, the global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions and part of the senior leadership team. With over 25 years of consulting and leadership experience with TCS, including as an executive director of the company since 2007, Phiroz had been involved with TCS’ foray into the life & pensions industry from the outset. He has overseen the transformation of Diligenta as the company offers new, effective solutions for the life & pensions industry using the TCS BaNCS platform. Prior to taking the leadership role at Diligenta, Phiroz was the Executive Director and Head, Global Corporate Affairs at TCS and played a prominent part in many industry initiatives as a former chairman and executive council member of the National Association of Software Companies (Nasscom), India’s apex IT industry body. In the banking & financial services sector, Phiroz has been part of numerous expert committees constituted by the Reserve Bank of India to guide the central bank in its policy-making efforts as well as IT advisory bodies in India and on the board of several prominent educational institutions. He is also the Director of Punj Lloyd Ltd. and a member of the firm’s audit committee. He is also Director of Jubilant FoodWorks Limited. Phiroz was the Co-Chair of the Indo-British Partnership (IBP) for over five years and is a board member of the Indo-British Partnership Network. Phiroz graduated from Calcutta and is a qualified chartered accountant. He worked with consumer goods firm ITC Ltd. for three years before joining TCS in 1982. In 1989, he set up Tandem Corporation’s operations in India before rejoining TCS in 1992. He has played many roles in all these years at TCS. He was born in Calcutta in December 1953 and currently lives in London with his wife Shashi
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About Diligenta: Diligenta, a UK-based FCA regulated subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is a leading provider of business process services
Ömür Topaç
Managing Director of OTTE CHRYSALIS
Ömür Topaç is currently accredited by the UK government as a “Tier 1 Exceptional Talent ” in “Digital Technologies” in the UK, which is a route designed for highly skilled individuals in the field of digital technology who will enrich the United Kingdom’s knowledge economy and cultural life. Topaç had acted in the capacity of the Head of Marketplaces and Head of Sales at GittiGidiyor, the Turkish subsidiary of eBay. Topaç graduated from TED Ankara College from the ITU Faculty of Architecture with a degree in the field of education. He continued his graduate studies at the same faculty and graduated as an architect. In 1999, Topaç switched to the internet industry and worked at Gedik Holdings, a company that was initially founded as a manufacturer of welding consumables. He developed a number of electronic commerce projects in many different areas, and created Gedikgross.com, a Turkish e-commerce website. Topaç is also primarily responsible for the acquisition of ekonomikticaret.com, a popular e-commerce site in Turkey. He also launched promotional campaigns targeting the sale of products through a deals-based platform called pazartesisendromu.com. In 2010, Topaç moved to Dixons Retail/Electro World, where he established alternative sales channels, before moving to Gittigidiyor/eBay Turkey in 2011. At Gittigidiyor, Topaç worked as a technology business development manager before serving as the director of marketplaces.
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About OTTE CHRYSALIS: OTTE Chrysalis is a London based management consultancy company.
Tim Clark
Managing Director of ie: music
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About ie: music, Unicef UK: Hagler Bailly offers the energy, utility, and environmental industries with management consulting and other services.
Alex Deane
Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK of FTI Consulting
Alex Deane is a Senior Managing Director (Partner) Strategic Communications, Head of Public Affairs UK at FTI Consulting.
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Maureen Kerr
Managing Director of FTI Consulting
Maureen Kerr is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in London. Ms. Kerr specialises in advising companies in the media & entertainment, digital and marketing services industries. Her work covers new business entry strategy and implementation, mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory, post-integration planning, business plan development and due diligence. Since joining FTI, Ms Kerr has led transactions and commercial due diligence projects for Private Equity funds and Corporates in the media sectors, comprising: film/tv rights, content production and distribution, broadcast services, advertising technology, multi-player network platform, information/data & Insights markets. Prior to joining FTI, Ms. Kerr lead business strategy and M&A for US-based Media Group working with the private equity group Apollo Global. From 2011, she headed up the M&A team at Fremantle Media, an international TV production and distribution group and lead a number of transactions in the USA and Europe in the areas of production, branded content and digital services. She co-founded MLJ Partners LLP in 2006, a business strategy and corporate finance advisory firm. Prior to forming MLJ, she was at United Business Media, a FTSE 100 company, where she held served in several capacities including M&A Director, reporting to the CEO. Ms. Kerr advised on all aspects of investment strategy and divestiture. She also led the integration planning efforts across all transactions. She began her career at KPMG Management Consultants, where she served as a consultant in the strategy, economics and marketing group.
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About Chelsea Apps Factory, FTI Consulting, MLJ Partners: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Gemma Doyle
Managing Director of FTI Consulting
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About FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm.
Steve Peskin
Managing Director of Virtual Clarity
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About Virtual Clarity: Virtual Clarity delivers strategic systems transformations, enabling you to create the right environment for successful business change.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Barry Roche
Managing Director of Rosenblatt
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About Rosenblatt: Rosenblatt is a professional legal services provider firm.
Roy Vella
Managing Director/Founder of Vella Ventures
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About Vella Ventures: Vella Ventures is an executive consultancy delivering strategic advice and commercial services to digital leaders.
Paolo Pironi
Managing Director of MightyHive
Paolo oversees EMEA business development at Adbrain. He previously worked as the Director of Business Development at Videoplaza (now an Ooyala company), where he helped build and commercialise their programmatic publisher platform. He previously spent 5 years in media and ad tech sales at Google and Doubleclick.
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About MightyHive: MightyHive is a programmatic solutions provider that simplifies complicated programmatic media buying for advertising organizations.
Amar Rajani
Founder & Managing Director of Argella
Amar Rajani is Founder and Managing Director of Argella. Advising companies on product, business development and strategy; helping companies scale and execute their business goals whilst accelerating customer sales revenue. Specialising in FinTech, SaaS and online platforms; working closely with founders, CEO’s and management teams in a hands-on or advisory board capacity.
Amar has over twenty years’ experience in the financial and technology sectors, with expertise in capital markets, investment management, corporate, research and financial services.
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About Argella: Fintech specialists, advising and advancing tech companies
David Kelnar
Managing Director, Head of Growth Capital Solutions of Numis Securities
David has eight years of entrepreneurial leadership experience in early stage companies, having served as the founding CEO and CFO, respectively, of two consumer service technology companies, and is an advisor to a range of early stage ventures. Previously, David was an equity research analyst and investor in the European technology sector, at Goldman Sachs in London and a hedge fund in New York. David graduated with double First Class Honours in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
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About Numis Securities: Numis Securities is an investment banking and stockbroking business for corporate and institutional clients.
Brynjar Agnarsson
Managing Director of PJT Partners
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About PJT Partners: Premier advisory and capital raising services for every challenge
Ian Hathaway
Managing Director of Hillgate Partners
Ian Hathaway is Research Director at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, where he leads content development efforts, publishes research and commentary, and advises on policy and strategy. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research fellow at the Technology and Policy Research Initiative at Boston University, and an adjunct professor at New York University. Ian has published for prominent research institutions, universities, non-profits, and businesses, and is regularly cited in leading press outlets for his views and research on entrepreneurship, including in The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others. He has also been an advisor to organizations in the information technology, media, life sciences, venture capital, non-profit, government, and education sectors, on a range of research, public policy, and strategy issues. Previously, Ian was an economist at the Federal Reserve, World Trade Organization, and Bloomberg, and founded Ennsyte Economics. Ian is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied economics and political economy.
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About Center for American Entrepreneurship, Hillgate Partners, The Brookings Institution: Innovation, insight, and advisory services firm
Goolshun S Belut
Managing Director of Smplicity
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About Smplicity: Smplicity is a London based salesforce partner that focuses on improving business performance with Salesforce
Mark Croston
Founder & Managing Director of Propeasy
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About Propeasy: Propeasy provides assistance to people interested in property investments.
Philip Greaves
Managing Director Protiviti UK of Protiviti
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About Protiviti: Protiviti is a global business consulting and internal audit firm.
Anthony Frizelle
Managing Director of Resource Management & Finance Company
Frizelle was the Founder and Managing Director of Merchant Banks, Resource Management & Finance Company Ltd. and RMF (UK) Ltd. Following a 20 year career spanning key management positions including the major international mining group Anglo American and Managing Director of Trade and Structured Finance at Philipp Brothers Inc./Salomon Inc. Frizelle founded, listed and promoted 11 junior mining companies including Mutual Resources, Golden Knight Resources, Jubilee Platinum plc, Nu Energy Corporation and Pan African Resources. In the process, these companies and their successors raised in excess of $750 million dollars of capital and lucrative exit strategies were implemented for early stage investors.
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Will Curley
Managing Director of DIP
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About DIP: DIP is a global advisory that focuses on payments (credit, debit, infrastructure, and digital) and sales force management.
Matthew Entwistle
Group Managing Director of Two Circles
Matthew’s twenty-year career includes senior roles in strategy consulting, marketing and commercial operations. His business passion is understanding customers and using that insight to drive tangible commercial results. He has worked across consumer and retail businesses in the UK, Europe, US and Asia, including time as Tesco’s Non-food Marketing Director and Tesco.com’s International Director. As Group Managing Director at Two Circles, he is responsible for delivering great client results in every country in which we work. As a fervent football fan, Matthew has been supporting Manchester City for the past 34 years from Maine Road to the Etihad Stadium. Having played football in his younger years he continues to keep fit and is now a keen gym-goer.
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Pascal Keutgens
Managing Director of CPP Investments
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About CPP Investments: CPP Investments helps and provides a foundation on which Canadians build financial security in retirement.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Tony Clark
Managing Director of Synechron
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About Synechron: Synechron, a technology consulting & outsourcing company helps clients in Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking and Digital.
Mark Webster
Managing Director UK and Europe of Give To Get
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Simon Faure
Managing Director of IH International Advisors
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About IH International Advisors, Silverfleet Capital: IH International Advisors provides Private Equity investment advisory services to Inter Fund Management SA.
Stephan Loose
Managing Director of Old Street Strategy
Stephan Loose Founder and Managing Director of Old Street Strategy, Stephan has over 15 years’ experience in identifying, selling and marketing integrated healthcare solutions in to a variety of private and public sector stakeholders across the globe. Driven by a passion for solving highly complex business problems, Stephan specialises in helping companies navigate rapidly changing healthcare systems and government environments in an effort to identify and create business opportunities that represent value to all stakeholders Stephan has operated at senior level across a variety of industries that market innovative products to both public and private sector organisations across life sciences, med-tech, animal health, defence and automotive. His industry experience has been collected across 4 continents and encompasses breadth of customer engagement models, including strategic account management, private and public sector marketing, government relations and market access.
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About Old Street Strategy: Old Street Strategy is a Boutique Strategy Consultancy that specializes helping organizations with innovative medical health & technologies.
Ali Moinuddin
Managing Director Europe of The Uptime Institute
Entrepreneurial and strategic CMO with SaaS experience. Strong track records of building high-performance revenue oriented marketing groups. Strong record of building new business for start-ups and supporting turnarounds and delivering growth from companies that are pre-revenue to $350M in fun, exciting and results-driven way. – COMMERCIAL ORIENTATION, HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS, REVENUE GROWTH – Exceptionally skilled at finding and nurturing talent people who to deliver on revenue and strategic goals. Proven experience in recruiting and managing international teams that punch well above their weight. Amplifying brands and building corporate and marketing cultures that can deliver sustained growth. -CORPORATE & INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS, BRANDING, POSITIONING, GLOBAL AR, PR AND PRODUCT MKT- I am a prolific producer of thought leadership content and build media and analyst programmes to amplify reach and impact. -MKT AND SALES TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE, ORGANIZATIONAL & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION- Defining, building and iterating systems & processes in optimize conversion. Working with CIO/IT groups to support analytics-based decision-making and to apply new innovations across customer interaction points. -DEMAND GENERATION, DIGITAL MKT, GROWTH HACKING, SALES ENABLEMENT & GLOBAL MKT PROGRAMMES- Focus on the digital transformation of MKT function. Tooling and restructuring direct and channel marketing and sale organizations to maximize ROI on programme spend. Building technology and channel partner relationships to deliver revenue growth. -CUSTOMER SATISFACTION & REFERENCE PROGRAMMES, USER GROUPS STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARDS & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE- Leading cross-functional teams to drive CS and benchmark and improve customer journeys and experience across all interaction points. -FUND RAISING, VENTURE CAPITAL, M&A, IPO, INVESTOR RELATIONS- Building investment cases for between $36M and $250M targeting debt and equity partners. Prior to joining Workshare Ali was CMO at SkyDox: Director of Marketing Interxion (NYSE:INXN), Director of Marketing EMEA for SPL WorldGroup (now a part of Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), Marketing Manager EMEA and Asia-Pacific at Kana (NASDAQ: KANA).
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About The Uptime Institute: Uptime Institute is focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business critical infrastructure.
Margrit Sessions
Managing Director of Tariff Consultancy
Margrit Sessions is one of the world’s leading specialists in pricing, tariffing and billing analysis. Prior to establishing Tariff Consultancy Ltd in 2006 (www.telecomspricing.com), she headed global tariff consultancy TARIFICA for 17 years. She has also held the position of Tariff Expert for the European Commission and and has been involved in a number of pricing projects, the latest one looking at data roaming across 180 operators. She is a regular speaker at international conferences, Ms Sessions also authors reports and papers covering tariffing issues.
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About Tariff Consultancy: Tariff Consultancy Ltd is a London UK based pricing and tariff services research company.
Richard Millington
Founder & Managing Director of FeverBee
Richard Millington has spent the past decade helping 250+ companies develop some of the world’s largest online communities. Richard is the founder of FeverBee, an international community consultancy, and the author of Buzzing Communities. Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and many more. Prior to FeverBee, Richard interned with Seth Godin in New York.
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About FeverBee: FeverBee provides consultancy, training, and technology to help you build your community.
Alex Lester
Managing Director of Elevate2
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About Elevate2: Helping companies to implement NetSuite’s ERP and CRM cloud business management solution.
Andrew Furlong
Managing Director of REO
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About REO: REO creates digital customer experience services for businesses.
Simon Turner
Managing Director & Founding Partner of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Nicolas Jacquier
Managing Director of Leyton France
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About Leyton France: Leyton France is a consulting firm specializing in cost optimization consulting.
Maher Lababedi
Managing Director of Sterling Bros
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About Apply.Property, Sterling Bros: Sterling Bros provides assistance and consultation services for real estate investment.
Larysa Melnychuk
Managing Director of FP&A Trends
Larysa Melnychuk is a founder and managing director of FP&A Trends Group. FP&A Trends helps companies to realise their innovative FP&A potential through training, consulting, professional networking and debating. Larysa is an experienced FP&A practitioner and held senior FP&A positions at Invensys plc, Ace Group, Key Bank and HSBC Bank before setting up the International FP&A Board in 2013 – a global and well-recognized FP&A best practices think-tank. Since then, she has been running the Board that has successfully expanded into 11 countries in Europe, the Middle East, the USA, Asia and Australia.
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About FP&A Trends: FP&A Trends Group is a global UK-based consultancy that helps organisations.
Alma Angotti
Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Investigations and Compliance of Guidehouse
Alma Angotti is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Investigations & Compliance practice. Ms. Angotti is a recognized expert in anti-money laundering (AML), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) and economic sanctions compliance. She has counselled her clients in a variety of projects, and managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex, global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, broker-dealers, and Fintech and digital assets companies, hedge funds, casinos, and multinational corporations. Ms. Angotti has held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several global and regional financial institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action. She has trained and advised the financial services industry and regulators and government officials worldwide on AML, sanctions, CFT and other regulatory compliance issues. With over 25 years of experience in regulation and enforcement, Ms. Angotti has held senior enforcement positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). In these positions, she was responsible for investigations and enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, the federal securities laws, and FINRA rules. At FinCEN and FINRA, she designed and lead the AML enforcement programs.
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About Guidehouse: Guidehouse is a global provider of consulting services with a focus on driving cross-market advancements.
Adele Ghantous
Managing Director of Lapis Angularis
Adele is the founder of Lapis Angularis, a consultancy specialized in Digital Transformation and Marketing Operations. Using a unique framework, Lapis Angularis helps marketers align stakeholders and streamline processes around marketing technology platforms to achieve efficiencies, improve ROI measurement and drive compliance with internal policies, as well as external ones, like GDPR and other data protection regulations. Adele has over 20 years of experience in the digital space, and has always been at the forefront of developing new technologies and innovative solutions. Her career in the interactive space started with launching one of the pioneering high-speed internet over fibre optic in North America in 1997, after which she joined DoubleClick in Product Management. Following that, she spent several years with WPP agencies, driving marketing transformation through the set-up of Marketing Operations and compliance centres of excellence for Wunderman’s global clients, including Microsoft and Nokia, and for the various WPP media agencies. Along her consulting practice, Adele is a published author, blogger and speaker. She also has an MBA from McGill University and you can follow her at @adeleghantous
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About Lapis Angularis: Lapis Angularis they understand the complexities facing Marketing executives with setting up and running a Marketing Operations function.
Nigel Dias
Managing Director of 3n Strategy
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About 3n Strategy: 3n Strategy is a global consultancy business that helps clients in decision-making for large organizations.
John Bugeja
Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network
John Bugeja is a highly experienced trade, supply chain and invoice finance specialist with more than 40 years’ experience in senior leadership roles with HSBC, NatWest, RBS, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group. Now Managing Director of Trade Advisory Network Limited, an advisory network specialising in the strategic development of global supply chain, trade and invoice finance. Trade Advisory Network Limited works with financial organisations, corporates and industry bodies to ensure optimal benefits realisation. Key areas of expertise include origination, risk and governance, product management and development, business development, organisation design, change management, process facilitation, training and management development. John is passionate about promoting the development of supply chain finance in all its forms and was a member of the drafting group that wrote the ICC rules for the Bank Payment Obligation (URBPO).
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About Trade Advisory Network: Trade Advisory Network is a specialist in Trade & Supply Chain Finance for banks, fintechs & corporates offering expert consultancy.
Nigel Sargent
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
With over 20 years experience as an IT Director and business leader, Nigel’s passion is to help high-skilled blue collar service organisations transform their business. He specialises in IT & Business Transformation initiatives, Strategic Planning, Programme & Project Management assignments, Business Process Optimisation and maximising Business & Customer Engagement.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Tim Coombs
Managing Director of Aviation Economics
Tim is the MD of Aviation Economics our consultancy brand and has worked in aviation ever since leaving university, which was a long time ago……..so he has a vast amount of experience in the industry! He runs a team of talented industry professionals who understand the industry end-to-end. Outside of work, Tim likes spending time with Nelson, his black Labrador (who sometimes visits the team at RDC HQ), and of course the rest of his family.
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About Aviation Economics, RDC Aviation: Aviation Economics is a consulting firm that works with aviation enterprises, including government agencies, airlines, and airports.
Nanik Mirpuri
Deputy Managing Director of Fluido
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About Fluido: Nordic Salesforce Platinum Consulting partner. We make customer data meaningful in the moments that matter the most.
Pinal Patel
Deputy Managing Director of Fluido
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About Fluido: Nordic Salesforce Platinum Consulting partner. We make customer data meaningful in the moments that matter the most.
Jonathan Anthony
Managing Director / CEO & Founder of adAPPt
Jonathan Anthony Following a long career in the broadcast industry Jon Anthony founded technology partner adappt.co.uk in 2011 with a focus on the convergent media space. adappt originally created a mobile platform with an emphasis on ease of consumption of information, which is used by banks, government organisation and NGOs. Recently Jon architected The World Health Organisation Event Information System and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network platforms, bringing a social media approach to critical systems knowledge sharing. Jon is a seed investor in Artificial Intelligence based data classifier TheHub.ai. TheHub.ai work with clients to structure, correlate and interpret disparate data streams.
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About adAPPt: adAPPt have highly experienced teams, with design, development and marketing portfolios from media multinationals and blue chip companies.
Sally Freeman
Managing Director of Love Live Music
Sally runs Love Live Music UK specialising in Digital PR & online Social Media for Musicians & Artists. An Event Producer and creative Geek you can find Sally always representing the lives, loves and conversations of stakeholders and audience in the digital environment. Sally has contributed to the Guardian, Wired and BBC Radio 4 & 6 and has a passion to get more girls involved in the exciting world of Tech.
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About Love Live Music: Love Live Music is a consultancy that provides Press, PR and Social Media strategies for Artists, companies and charities
Craig Somerville
Managing Director of The Reload Group
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About Reload Digital, The Reload Group: The Reload Group is a set of digital marketing and consulting firms that offer these services to their international clients.
Paul Owen
Managing Director of Sales Talent Spotters
Paul set up Sales Talent Spotters in 2011 to help companies find and retain good salespeople and to help people with the proven ability to sell – or the potential to sell (his particular passion) – to find great jobs. Like many business people, he identified a gap in the sales recruitment market having experienced recruitment services that claimed to do much but failed to deliver. Prior to setting up Sales Talent Spotters, Paul spent 15 years developing market-leading services alongside successful sales teams. Highlights included a property company which he grew by 400% in 5 years and a trade body he set up from scratch to over 400 members in 3 years. In 2012, as part of his mission to find new sales talent, he launched the nationwide skills programme – Let’s get Britain selling!© – to introduce thousands more people to the world of sales. It is now delivered at over 30 universities across the UK. A regular and engaging speaker at business events on all things sales, he is a judge of both National Sales Awards and Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Sales Talent Spotters: Sales Talent Spotters is an exceptional recruitment firm.
Roger Atkins
Founder & Managing Director of Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd
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About Electric Vehicles Outlook Ltd: Electric Vehicles Market Business Services
Lesley Wise
Managing Director of Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management
Lesley Wise has more than 15 years of experience in pharmacovigilance both in medicines regulation at at the MHRA, and in the pharmaceutical industry as vice-president and global head of Risk Management Centre of Excellence and Pharmacoepidemiology where she worked closely with colleagues to ensure a companywide approach to Benefit – Risk Management and to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. Lesley has liaised regularly with regulators, including meetings with PRAC, CHMP and FDA.
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About Wise Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management: Wise Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Ltd is a consultancy service for all pharmaceutical companies.
Debrah Harding
Managing Director of The Market Research Society
Debrah is Managing Director of the Market Research Society (MRS), a Vice President of the European Research Federation EFAMRO and an Executive Board member of the Global Research Business Network (GRBN). Debrah leads MRS’ standards, policy and public affairs activities working extensively with government departments and European institutions on issues which affect research, insight and data. Debrah has a wealth of knowledge of ethical codes, guidelines, data protection and on the enforcement of professional & process standards and is co-author of the book, Quality in Market Research: from Theory to Practice. Prior to joining MRS Debrah worked in accountancy and publishing. Debrah is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the RSA; and a Trustee of the McDougall Trust, a charity which promotes public understanding of electoral democracy.
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About The Market Research Society: The Market Research Society (MRS) is the world’s leading authority for the research, insight, marketing science and data analytics sectors.
Lorraine Rees
Managing Director of IR-connect
After 20 years in financial services, Lorraine founded IR-connect in 2014 as a boutique investor relations consultancy firm. During her time in the City, she realised that there was limited support available for small and medium sized companies who wanted to maximize the impact of their investor communications. With her experience and expertise, she has addressed this gap in the market. Since launching IR-connect, she has provided practical, hands-on IPO support, training courses for people new to the area or looking to expand their skills, and conducted in-depth shareholder sentiment studies to help companies position their investment case.
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About IR-connect: IR-connect is an investor relations advisory and training company.
Arun Dehiri
Managing Director of Red Dawn Consulting
Arun Dehiri is Red Dawn’s founder and Managing Director. He is a pioneering management consultant with 23 years of experience in media, telecoms, finance & management. Arun has spent 17 years in leading professional service firms including PWC, TMNG & Analysys Mason, grounded with 6 years of industry roles within BSkyB and Orange. Arun originally founded a boutique consultancy in 2004, which was acquired by Analysys Mason where on the Executive Board, led its Telecoms Sector and was the Sales Director. Arun leads strategy development and delivery teams for blue-chip brands and early growth companies across the globe addressing strategic & operational requirements. Most comfortable at the white board, Arun inspires clients to realise corporate visions and personal aspirations by delivering his thought leadership in a clear, concise and considered manner. He has developed strong C-level relationships and a trusted team of high performing consultants with both sales & operational capabilities.He has an exceptional approach to identify opportunities through market insights, listening to clients needs, and rapidly translating these into a solution framework. He is regular conference speaker and an expert in convergence, pricing, proposition innovation, mobile virtual network operators (MVNO), sales optimisation, mobile applications, enterprise solutions, mobile banking, financial and organisational transformation,IT & networking and KPI optimisation. Arun has developed a rich toolkit of robust analytical and strategic programme methodologies.
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About Red Dawn Consulting: Red Dawn Consulting are strategy and management consultants, specialists in telecoms, media and technology (TMT)
Joe Kim
Managing Director/Partner of UPIN Fund Management
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About UPIN Fund Management, XnTree: UPIN is an investment and management consulting firm that helps to optimize its clients’ business solutions and meet its goals.
João Félix
Managing Director of Wellty
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About Wellty: Wellness Consulting and Investments
Guy Redmill
Managing Director of Redmill Marketing Associates
Guy is Managing Director of Redmill Marketing Associates, a specialised strategic marketing consultancy, based in the UK. RMA was created in 2007 to provide expert marketing and analysis services for emerging technology, software, IT and telecommunications companies. The RMA team includes expert consultants, analysts, marketers and designers.
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About Redmill Marketing Associates: Redmill Marketing Associates is a full service marketing agency focused on the needs of clients in the telecoms and technology sectors.
Daniel Cooper
Managing Director of Lolly Co
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About Lolly Co: Lolly Co is an international automation firm specializing in process optimization workshops and automation.
Alexander Green
Managing Director of Zenchi
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About Zenchi: Digital Asset Consultation Firm.
Toni Vallen
Managing Director & President of Seton Services Ltd.
Toni Vallen served as Managing Director and President of Seton Services Ltd. since 1988. Before joining Seton, Toni served as Vice President for Manufactures Hanover, a International Private Banking Deparment, and she also worked in Citicorp a Latin American Department and the Mexican Government as an U.S. representative officer for the Public Works Bank. Toni Vallen has a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University, New York City and Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Literature at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Toni aims to help small and mid-sized companies to portray their investments and financial state in the best possible light. She is an expert in integrating finance, investment management and other financial responsibilities.
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About Seton Services Ltd.: Offers international small-cap companies access to all aspects of financial public relations in regard to building an investor network.
Gary Frost
Managing Director of 51zero
Gary Frost, owner and Managing Director of 51zero has over 20 years in IT and technical development experience. With an exceptional knowledge of financial services and investment banking internationally Gary focuses on within budget delivery of critical projects as well as influencing and creating agile teams that productively work together. Getting to the heart of problems quickly and communicating effectively are mainstays of Gary’s approach.
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About 51zero: Software Development Consultancy
Peter Jones
Managing Director of PSE Consulting
Peter Jones has over 35 years business and IT experience, four with a major European retailer (C&A Brenninkmeyer), 17 with a UK clearing bank (Royal Bank of Scotland) and 22 as Director and owner of PSE Consulting. He has had operational responsibility for a number of eftpos, bespoke retail systems and credit card related services. He has particular expertise in retailer systems, debit and credit cards, card schemes, interchange and processing. Over the past 22 years, he has been responsible for the management of over 1,500 payments assignments for clients within the UK and Europe. He is from a processing and IT background and has led and managed major development projects relating to payments systems. He is well known within European payments businesses and is a regular writer on payments related articles and a speaker at conferences.
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About PSE Consulting: The company is highly regarded for its advisory knowledge, expertise and independence.
Edward Kosior
Managing Director of Nextek
Edward Kosior received a Bachelor of Applied Chemistry and Diploma of Education from Melbourne University and Masters of Engineering Science in Polymer Engineering from Monash University Australia. Edward is an Honorary Professor at Brunel University London, at the Wolfson Materials Processing Centre; also Fellow of The Society of Plastics Engineers; Fellow of Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ;. Edward Kosior has been active as an innovator in polymer technology for the past 40 years both within universities, recycling enterprises and as Founder and Managing Director of Nextek Ltd, which has offices in UK, Australia and India. He holds several patents for the recycling plastics and been instrumental in the introduction of recycled plastics into food packaging in Europe and Australia (PET, HDPE and PP).
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About Nextek: Nextek is a leading projects firm with global capability in strategic consulting, engineering and project delivery.
Giles Cottle
Managing Director, Consulting of Deductive
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About Deductive: Deductive is a Data Services company focusing on applications of granular TV data
Giles Cottle
Managing Director, Consulting of Deductive
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About Deductive: Deductive is a Data Services company focusing on applications of granular TV data
Roy Russell
Managing Director, CEO of Ascertus Limited
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About Ascertus Limited: Providing information and document lifecycle management consultancy, software solutions and IT support services to law firms.
Chris Nixon
Managing Director of CJN Ventures
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About CJN Ventures: CJN Ventures provides consultation services on managing and starting businesses.
Andrew Griffin
Managing Director of Oakhall
Andrew Griffin is the managing director of [Oakhall Ltd](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oakhall#/entity). Previously, he was the senior vice president of industry and investor relations at [Monitise](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/monitise). Prior to Monitise, Griffin worked at Robertson Stephens and UBS, holding positions as technology equity analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the [University of Southampton](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-southampton-2#/entity).
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About Oakhall: Oakhall is a specialist and unique firm of consultants that helps boards and executive teams increase there company performance.
Adam Clements
Managing Director of Freshminds
Adam joined Freshminds as COO of what was the Freshminds Group in 2010, bringing with him a wealth of experience as Procurement Manager (UK) of the Morse Group, Operations Director of Morse France and Head of Partner Sales. Adam was also Founding Director of The Key Revolution Ltd – a technology spin-out from Vodafone that went on to raise more than £2m of venture funding and introduced a new secure cloud computing platform to the UK market. As Managing Director, Adam is responsible for running the Freshminds business, with a particular focus on our pool of experienced Strategy and Management Consulting candidates. He works across sectors but with a particular interest in multi-channel Retail and Consumer businesses. Adam has an MBA from Kingston Business School and a BA(Hons) from York. He classes himself as a “very average cricketer, below-average under 9s referee, and an enthusiastic tennis player”.
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About Freshminds: Freshminds sources graduates, researchers, analysts, consultants, project managers, and directors for permanent jobs or consulting projects.
James Callander
Managing Director of Freshminds
James joined Freshminds in 2003 for a 2 week project and has been here ever since, becoming Managing Director in 2008. He was part of the client development team that helped grow the firm from a start-up of 10 people to a business of over 100. He helped to launch a number of products and led on the development of some of Freshminds’ first key clients in consulting, financial services and private equity. Today, as Managing Director James is responsible for leading the commercial side of the business, with a particular focus on our pool of graduate and early career Minds and working with clients across sectors. He comments regularly in the press about the importance of hiring the best talent with a consulting skill set. James has an MA in Geography from Edinburgh University and completed a sales leadership course at Harvard Business School in 2011. Before Freshminds he worked for Roland Berger and Bell Pottinger. He’s a keen cook (albeit with limited range) and enjoys running and tennis. He has stood for parliament twice and acts as an informal advisor to his wife’s luxury travel business.
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About Freshminds: Freshminds sources graduates, researchers, analysts, consultants, project managers, and directors for permanent jobs or consulting projects.
Rachel Bridge
Founder and Managing Director of Froglet Productions
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About Froglet Productions: Froglet Productions is a consulting firm that provides digital and offline content, events and advice for all sizes of businesses.
Blaise Grimes-Viort
Founder & Managing Director of Is The Answer
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About Is The Answer: Is The Answer designs sustainable culture-driven networks and empowers people to deliver revenue, brand value, and product innovation.
Bill Hoston
Managing Director of Burkett Web Solutions
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About Burkett Web Solutions: Web Development, Internet Marketing and Social Media Management, Optimization and Marketing Agency.
Bill Hoston
Managing Director of Burkett Web Solutions
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About Burkett Web Solutions: Web Development, Internet Marketing and Social Media Management, Optimization and Marketing Agency.
Steve Roberts
Managing Director of Fripp Design and Research
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About Fripp Design and Research: Fripp Design and Research is a product design and research, and business development consultancy.
Adam Stern
Managing Director of Ibacas
Adam Stern has been involved in Asset Services since processing his first dividend payment in 1988. Prior to founding Ibacas in 2002, Adam performed a number of Asset Services related roles, from processing, to Ops Management, to Change Management, in both Custody and Investment Banking environments for Citi, Morgan Stanley and ABN Amro. During this time Adam was responsible for delivering change in relation to EMU and Y2K, initiating a major in house build project, managing a vendor implementation programme, as well as being a core member of the UK Market Practice Group Since forming Ibacas, Adam has focused on market level initiatives such as ISO standards, Proxy Voting initiative and issuer standardisation and is a regular speaker at industry events. In addition, he has formed excellent relationships with all the major data and software vendors, depositories and industry bodies. An in depth understanding of Asset Services Operations, upstream and downstream processes, regulatory initiatives, technology improvements and market trends, has allowed Adam to work with many clients to assist with defining their short, medium and long term Asset Services strategies and helping to build the associated business cases to secure funding and buy in across our clients’ organisations In addition, Adam has undertaken a number of research initiatives such as comparing the levels of process optimisation of Asset Services across the market; methods for measuring the monetary value of Operational Risk in Asset Services; and the benefits and pitfalls of outsourcing Operations functions.
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About Ibacas: Ibacas helps clients to improve performance within their Asset Services operations.
