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This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Autonomous Vehicles space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
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Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Tom Elvidge
CEO Arrival Mobility UK & Chief of Product of Arrival
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About Arrival: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
Ed Leon Klinger
CEO of Flock Ltd.
Flock is a fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles. We provide personalised, seamless insurance products for commercial motor fleets, enabling and incentivising proactive risk management. We achieve this by leveraging connected vehicle & contextual data to quantify road risk on a per-second, per-meter basis, providing our customers with risk insights and highly personalised pricing that reflect their real risk profile. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. We’re on a mission to make the world a safer, smarter place. — I graduated from Oxford University (M.Eng – Engineering, Economics and Management) where I specialised in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for brain cancer ablation. I graduated from Cambridge University (M.Phil – Technology Policy, Judge Business School), where I published papers for various academic think-tanks on the opportunities and risks of autonomous vehicles. I have past experience in Private Equity (The Blackstone Group), Technology Policy (Facebook Inc.), and have lived and worked in Asia, lecturing at Zhejiang University in China and at Hong Kong University.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Maya Pindeus
Co-Founder, CEO of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Thomas Delgado
CEO & Founder of Pollution Solution
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About Pollution Solution: Pollution Solution provides patented ground-breaking technology to eliminate road-based pollution in towns and cities.
Guillem Singla Buxarrais
Co-Founder and CEO of Neurofenix
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About MedTech Innovator, Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Nicholas Zylberglajt
Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Life
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Markus Kantonen
CEO, founder of Stormcharge Limited
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About Stormcharge Limited: Stormcharge provides the autonomous vehicles market with the safest, most scalable and most cost effective command and control environments.
