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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 Advisor operating in the Internet space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Alex Stephany
Board Advisor of JustPark
Alex Stephany is the Founder and CEO of Beam. Previously, he was CEO of JustPark and remains a Board Advisor. He is the author of The Business of Sharing, published by Macmillan, and an expert on the sharing economy. Before working in startups, he worked at a niche strategy consultancy and trained as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP. He holds a Double First Class Honours Degree from Oxford University.
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About Beam, Founders Pledge: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Simon Edelstyn
Sr. Advisor Publisher Development & Strategy of Outbrain
Simon is Managing Director of ROKT’s European, Middle East and African markets and is focused on growing and expanding all elements of the ROKT business within the region. Previously, Edelstyn served as Managing Director (MD) of Outbrain’s European operation where he was responsible for domestic and international business development, sales strategy, market intelligence and product development. Before that he was Google’s Director of Syndication, a post that saw Edelstyn establish and manage partnerships with top-tier ISP, content sites and portals across Europe for the syndication of search and monetisation services. Simon is based in London.
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About Outbrain, Serious Games Interactive: Outbrain provides a recommendation platform to connect advertisers to open web consumers.
Matt Varughese
Tech Advisor of Propoly
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About : Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Matt Varughese
Tech Advisor of Propoly
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About : Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Lopo Champalimaud
Advisor of Treatwell
Lopo is currently the CEO of Wahanda (http://www.wahanda.com), a London based health, beauty and wellness community & marketplace that connects consumers, wellness businesses and professionals through content, ratings & reviews and commerce. Lopo co-founded Wahanda with Salim Mitha in February 2008. Prior to Wahanda, Lopo was the Managing Director of European Lifestyle for lastminute.com. In this role he was responsible for developing all aspects of the non-travel business across Europe at lastminute.com which included Theatre ticketing, concert ticketing, restaurant bookings, days out, experiences and spas. Lopo joined lastminute.com in January 2004 and when he left to found Wahanda, lifestyle respresented more than 40% of all the sales by volume at the company. From 1994 to 2004, Lopo was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fulcrum Analytics (http://www.fulcrumanalytics.com). Fulcrum is today one of the leading database marketing firms in North America but was initially known as Cyber Dialogue and was the world’s first online market research firm. Cyber Dialogue is credited with having created the online survey, the online focus group while providing industry leading insight on the internet consumer.
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About Treatwell: Treatwell is Europe’s leading marketplace for booking hair and beauty appointments online.
Nigel Shadbolt
Advisor of State.it
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Open Data Institute. He is also Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Web and Internet Science Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. With over 400 publications he has researched on topics ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence to the Semantic Web. He was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of Web Science and is a Director of the Web Science Trust which seeks to advance our understanding of the Web and promote the Web’s positive impact on society. He has recently been awarded £6M funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead a research project on The Study and Practice of Social Machines (SOCIAM).
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About : State.it is a public global opinion network that focuses on empowering individuals, democracy, and social progress.
Robin Lawson
Board Advisor of MVF
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About : MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Richard Skaife
Advisor of Modex
Richard has worked in the mobile industry for over 20 years, launching his own direct-to-consumer hardware firm, which he sold to Cellnet in the 90s, before being part of the early-stage team for a T- Mobile backed start up. He went on to become Managing Director of Digital for one of the UK’s biggest independent music labels, launching a number of high profile mobile music projects. Before co-founding YUZA, Richard was the Managing Director of the Mobile Content division for US-based Phoenix Media Group. Richard also serves as Chairman on a number of YUZA ventures including BETFUZE, SNAPCAM and Swaya, and as a Director of Pollen.
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About : We help organizations, businesses, and people to protect their digital data.
Tim McSweeney
Senior Advisor of Inogesis
Tim is a founding member of Inogesis. He is responsible for the business strategy and process design, business development, special projects design, development and management support. Tim joined Inogesis in early 2017 after supporting the company as an advisor. He has over 15+ years’ experience in business analytics and information design, in the healthcare, media and non-profit sectors. Tim is also Partner of Restoration Partners and previously worked at GLL where he supported a partnership between GLL and the NHS in designing, implementing and operating a patient referral scheme.
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About Inogesis: Inogesis is a collaboration platform designed to drive impact between SME innovators and corporates.
Daniel King
Advisor of HotelRunner
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About : SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Ash Shahata
Enterprise Strategy & CIO Advisory of Wipro Digital
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About Wipro Digital: Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro
Mark Call
Advisor of Pointr
Following an MBA at INSEAD, Mark joined McKinsey to work on strategy and business development issues globally. He worked in over 40 countries in aviation and infrastructure, including over 20 years experience advising airports on privatisation, commercialisation, and business development. Mark is an experienced NED and senior adviser and loves sailing in his spare time.
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About : Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Agostino RUSSO
Technology Advisor of FXCH Ltd.
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About : Blockchain-based Spot-FX Institutional Clearing House
Tim Chambers
Advisor of TicketingHub
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About : TicketingHub is a cloud based ticketing platform and is the easiest way to keep track, save time and sell more tickets on line and offline.
Anton Kaszubowski
Advisory Board Member of Betfect
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About : Betfect is an innovative online-based platform that merges the online betting experience with the social aspect.
Aeneas Mackay
Advisor of ScreenHits TV
Aeneas Mackay is a graduate from Brown University in Economics. He has worked for Salomon Brothers, Robert Fleming and JP Morgan before setting up his own financial advisory and capital raising business, Montrose Partners. At Montrose, Aeneas has advised and raised finance for a number of growth businesses in the media sector as well as technology and natural resource companies. At ScreenHits he oversees our capital raising, corporate structure, and the development and management of our strategic investment partners.
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About : ScreenHits TV app integrates all your TV and film streaming apps, Live TV and VOD channels into one place.
Tom Tobia
Advisor of Envio
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About : Envio powers scalable home demo programs for high-end consumer technology brands
Tom Tobia
Advisor of Envio
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About : Envio powers scalable home demo programs for high-end consumer technology brands
Luis Carranza
Senior Advisor of Fintech Worldwide
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About : The World’s Leading Network for Fintech, Blockchain & Digital Impact.
Tristan Caulfield
Advisor of Tuittio
Dr Tristan Caulfield is a Research Associate at University College London. He works in the field of information security, particularly looking at security within businesses. Tristan previously held postdoctoral positions in security, at the University of Aberdeen, and in economics, at the University of Bath, where he also received his PhD in Computer Science. He has extensive experience teaching and tutoring for a range of university courses. Tristan and a team from UCL recently won the “best go-to-market strategy” prize at the London CyberHack for Financial Security.
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About : Tuittio connects bilingual, subject expert tutors with learners online.
Indy Dhami
Advisor of Crypta Labs
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About : Crypta Labs is an award winning Mobile and IoT Security company.
Dennis Kerslake
Advisor of ConnectiD
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About : ConnectiD, the smartest address book, wants to change consumer behaviour and organise the worlds contact information
Juan Martin
Advisor of Oystext
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About Oystext: Oystext allows you to communicate with other users around the world, without any language skills.
Steve Cook
Biometrics Technical Advisor of FinTech Connect
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About : FinTech Connect is a free global network offering for the fintech industry, hosting live events, a connection portal, and original content.
Steve Cook
Biometrics Technical Advisor of FinTech Connect
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About : FinTech Connect is a free global network offering for the fintech industry, hosting live events, a connection portal, and original content.
Steve Booth
Advisory Board of Pollen – Social Platform
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About : Next Generation Social Publishing
David Clark
Marketing Advisor of Twile
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About : Making family history more exciting and engaging for the wider family, using rich, visual timelines of milestones and photos
