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 Information Technology 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.
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)
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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)
Bill Edwards
Executive Advisory Board Member of Kennet Partners
Bill Edwards is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board and has served on the board, advised and/or invested in several Kennet portfolio companies including Revolution Prep, Intelepeer and Daptiv. Bill was part of the founding executive team at Siebel Systems, serving as vice president of engineering and later as chief technology officer. During his tenure, from 1993 to 2005, Siebel grew rapidly achieving revenues of almost $2 billion in just six years, went public and ultimately was acquired by Oracle for $6 billion. Siebel was one of the most capital efficient high value exits in enterprise software having raised only $8 million prior to its IPO. Prior to Siebel Systems, Bill worked with three other Silicon Valley companies that had successful IPOs during his tenure. He was responsible for graphical authoring systems at Macromedia, was senior vice president of engineering, research and development at Frame Technology, and held engineering management positions at Convergent Technologies and Apple Computer. Bill began his career at Intel. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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About : Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology and business services companies.
Tim Carter
Advisor Brand and Marketing of Baby2Body
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About : Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
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.
Gordon Tees
Advisor and Investor of Mailzinger Ltd
Gordon Tees is founder and a board director of PNC (pnc.co.uk). Formerly the Systems Manager at Goldman Sachs Europe, Tees left Goldman to found PNC (Premier Networks Consulting Ltd) in 1992. PNC came to prominence by supplying cutting-edge technology solutions to the Banking, Finance, Insurance and Media sectors. It notably won Deloitte’s Fast 50 Award two years in a row (www.deloitte.co.uk/fast50filter/) in 1997 and 1998. Tees sold his controlling stake in PNC, by then PNC (UK) plc, in 2001. He joined Lehman Brothers in 2001 and bolstered management in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack which destroyed Lehman’s technology offices in the World Trade Center. He stayed with Lehman for over four years, initially responsible for the Investment Banking, Wealth & Asset Management and Private Client Services technology divisions. Latterly he relocated to New York as Global Head of Finance Technology, responsible for the financial records of the entire company. Following Lehman, Gordon Tees returned to PNC (pnc.co.uk) as Board Director where he focuses on a number of online technology investments, providing them with management and technical expertise and, where required, financing.
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About : Mailzinger provides users with enhanced privacy, protection and control over their email conversations.
Ed Vaizey
Advisor of NEC Corporation
Ed Vaizey MP was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for digital industries on 15 July 2014. He is the Conservative MP for Wantage and Didcot.
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About : NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
Julian Lennon
Advisor of Pixhug
John Charles Julian Lennon , known simply as Julian Lennon ( Liverpool , 8 April 1963 ), is a singer-songwriter and guitarist British . Julian is the eldest son of the former lead singer and guitarist of the Beatles John Lennon , and the only son of his first wife, Cynthia Powell.
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About : Pixhug is a social change platform that connects social media with social responsibility.
James Downton
ICO Advisor of Monetha
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About : Monetha is a financial services company that decentralizes Trust and Reputation Systemon the Ethereum blockchain.
Rob Haslam
Strategic Advisor – T5-Digital ID of Tech5.ai
Rob Haslam is an expert with 30 years of experience in the secure identity industry. Rob is responsible for TECH5 strategy and customer-focused business plan for T5-MobileID – latest company’s innovation. His industry experience includes leading companies in the secure ID document and biometrics space, including HID Global, where he was responsible for the world’s first mobile National ID, in Argentina.
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About Tech5.ai: TECH5 is an international technology company which focuses on developing disruptive biometric and digital ID solutions.
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.
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Karen Alcock
Advisor – Public Affairs of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Karen Alcock
Advisor – Public Affairs of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Dotti Irving
Advisor – Public Relations of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Simon Talling-Smith
Advisor of xCheck
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About : xCheck supplies ad-tech solutions designed specifically for airlines.
Alex Barros
Advisor of RateMate
At Duetto, Alex was the first executive in EMEA to launch the product and build the European organisation from scratch with focus on revenue generation. His contribution to Duetto amount to kick starting the organisation in Europe, Revenue Growth and Business Enablement: – Delivered several multi-million dollars in EBITDA by signing more than 600 properties, more than half of the global portfolio, building the brand into a major player – Delivered substantial portion of the company new business revenue globally in 2015/2016 – Signed the cornerstone account that propelled further capital investment to accelerate global expansion – Sold successfully into the C-Suite and the power base across EMEA, signing first major enterprise deal within six months – Hired and developed senior sales directors and mentored them on all deals enabling 15 operational hires – Leveraged customer and industry insights to adapt the product to EMEA markets – Game Changer Award – Signing the biggest contract in company history (nH Hotels) At SiteMinder, Alex has successfully eliminated entry hurdles, built alliances and negotiated integrations, catapulting the breakthrough of SiteMinder’s game-changing technology to empower hotels to boost profitability making it the industry standard channel manager in Spain. His leadership at SiteMinder took the taking the company from 14 to 3,500+ customers in two years, delivering over several million dollars in recurring revenue, a significant of the company’s revenue. Among his achievements: – Enterprise Sales individual contributor delivering 40+ new hotel chains – Led business development in Southern Europe and Latin America achieving the most successful model in the company worldwide, later replicated globally – Forged partnerships to deliver integrations with 50+ major technology providers: distribution channels, Property Management Systems, Central Reservation Systems, Internet Booking Engines & Revenue Management Systems – Cultivated and managed a strong white-labeled distribution network with Tech Providers across the region – Enabled head count growth of 40+ operational staff to service new customers Prior to this Alex worked for Hospitality Marketing Concepts and VOILA Hotel Rewards.
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About : Providing forward looking event data to maximize revenue through identification of compression dates and unique data for sales prospecting.
Rabih Bashroush
Professor & Global Head, IT Infrastructure Advisory of The Uptime Institute
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About The Uptime Institute, University of East London: Uptime Institute is focused on improving the performance, efficiency, and reliability of business critical infrastructure.
Crispin Lowery
Board Advisor of Qudini – Retail Choreography
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About : Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
James Koons
Research Advisory Board of International Association of Privacy Professionals
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About International Association of Privacy Professionals: IAPP a not-for-profit association with more than 16,000 members across 83 countries, focused on education and certification.
Jon Levinson
Advisor of Crowd for Angels (UK)
Jon is a partner(des) at Keith Bailey Rogers. He has a deep knowledge of the small cap sector and its funding challenges. Jon has advised on public and private transactions, including Pre-IPO, fund raisings, IPOs, Secondary capital raisings, issue of convertible loans, EIS fundings and M&A advice. Jon completed his MBA in 1992 with a dissertation on Filling the Equity Gap.
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About : Crowd for Angels is a regulated crowdfunding platform that raises funds for companies through the issue of shares and crowd bonds.
Oliver Rothschild
Advisor of Crowd for Angels (UK)
Oliver is an active corporate strategist in various business fields and industries. Aside from holding several predominant managerial and leading positions in various companies and organisations he is a chairman of the Oliver Rothschild Corporate Advisors company and is the advisor to the board at Crowd for Angels.
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About : Crowd for Angels is a regulated crowdfunding platform that raises funds for companies through the issue of shares and crowd bonds.
Bob Eisenberg
Advisor of X-IO
Bob’s career spans 35 years principally running IT organizations in the manufacturing, retail and High Technology space. In 1996 he made the jump to an entrepreneurial role and founded NaviSite; a highly differentiated MSP funded by CMGI. As CEO, NaviSite achieved all of its operational goals over the next four years resulting in a successful IPO in October 1999 raising 89M. Following NaviSite Bob spent three years in the Private Equity sector with Boston based Alta Communications as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Specific duties were to assess and advise on potential investment deals, provide guidance to portfolio companies on all operational and strategic goals and sit on the Boards of several companies. Following the Alta experience Bob was recruited to assess Venture backed Colubris Networks a wireless networking company based in Waltham Ma. The company was underperforming in a robust market place however within 9 months the company completed a turnaround resulting in a sale to Hewlett Packard. Currently Bob is working again in the Private Equity space on projects relating to mergers and acquisitions of cloud companies in addition to working as an active board member on charitable projects that are of personal interest to him and his wife.
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About : X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise and more.
Dale Ford
Advisor of X-IO
As the Chief Executive Officer and co‐founder of Hawk Ridge Systems, Dale Ford steers the company toward market leadership, technology innovation, service excellence and profitability. With over 20 years in sales and technology management, Dale co‐founded Hawk Ridge Systems in 1996. As the leading solutions provider of 3D design and manufacturing solutions, Hawk Ridge Systems is recognized as one of the largest Dassault Systèmes strategic business partners, and has been awarded the #1 worldwide SolidWorks leadership position in three of the last six years. With over 160 employees in North America, Hawk Ridge Systems has 16 offices and training centers in the United States and Canada. Serving over 12,000 customers in all major business verticals, marquee customers include Medtronic, IGT, Electroimpact, Terrex, Google and Apple. Dale began his career at SciCan Corp. as a research and development engineer and then moved on to RAND Worldwide as an Engineering manager in Canada before starting Hawk Ridge Systems. He holds an engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and is a licensed professional engineer in Canada. Dale is a native of Ontario, Canada, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to start Hawk Ridge Systems in the mid‐90s.
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About : X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise and more.
Alastair MacWillson
Advisor of X-IO
Dr. Alastair MacWillson was formerly the Global Managing Partner within Accenture’s global technology consulting business and, for 11 years in this role, has worked with business and government leaders around the world on critical issues relating to technology strategy and risk, operational performance and management, cyber and information security, and critical infrastructure protection. He also served on the leadership council of Accenture’s technology service line. Prior to joining Accenture in 2002, Dr. MacWillson was the global leader of the technology consulting practice in PricewaterhouseCoopers. During his time with PwC he also had responsibility for the PwC technology venture fund, which had $50m invested in new business activities, and was also the founder and interim global CEO for beTRUSTed, a managed service e-security business of PwC which, after divestment, subsequently became CyberTrust. Over the past 22 years Dr. MacWillson has lead technology transformation and security projects for major organizations such as World Bank, SWIFT, DTC, CBT, LSE, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, NASA, QinetiQ, BP, Shell, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Ericsson, BT, as well as intelligence, security and defense departments of the UK, US, European, Australian and Indian Governments. He has advised clients on information and cyber security in the nuclear research and nuclear energy sector and has worked on projects for the UKAEA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. MacWillson has acted as an adviser to a number of governments on technology strategy critical infrastructure protection, cyber security and counter terrorism and has sat on related committees for the US and UK governments, the European Commission and the United Nations. Prior to moving into consultancy in 1990, Dr. MacWillson worked in government service and held senior advisory positions on security and risk related strategy with the UK Foreign Office and, through secondment, with the US State Department. During his government career, Dr. MacWillson completed tours of duty in the Middle East, Moscow and Washington DC as well as working for shorter periods in a variety of other countries. With over 23 years of experience in information technology, security and applied cryptography, Dr. MacWillson is internationally recognised as an expert in the field. As such, he is a frequent speaker and commentator on technology and security issues and his insights have been featured by some of the top media outlets such as the BBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He is also a visiting lecturer on security and technology and has presented on many programmes with MIT, Georgetown, RHUL, Stanford, Surrey universities and the LBS. During his career Dr. MacWillson has published many articles and papers on technology and risk and has authored journals on cyber and information security, risk, cryptography and cyber terrorism, as well as a widely selling textbook on Hostage Taking Terrorism (McMillan 1992). Dr. MacWillson has a B.Sc. in Physics, Postgraduate Diplomas in Computer Science and Digital Imaging, a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, a D.Phil. in Cryptographic Science and a Management Diploma from IMD in Lausanne.
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About : X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise and more.
Melissa El-Milgny Overbeek
Advisor of X-IO
Melissa El-Milgny Overbeek has 20 years of experience in international sales and channel management strategy at various global IT and networking companies. She has successfully directed large channel organizations in Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific, and developed channel and distribution strategies to deliver channel leverage in these markets. Melissa started her career at Ingram Micro, a large IT distributor, in Belgium where she held various management roles and acquired a deep knowledge of channel and distribution leverage and P&L. From there, she was recruited by Cisco Systems to manage some of their global distributors and system integrators and would eventually manage their overall distribution and commercial channels for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Melissa successfully held this position until she was reassigned to APJC, where she leveraged her experience to manage and develop the overall distribution and commercial channel landscape. She was based in Tokyo, Japan, for three years, and Singapore for another two years. Melissa retired from Cisco at the end of 2010 to focus on her family and children after a career of extensive traveling. She is originally from Belgium and holds a BA in Business and Economics from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to English, Melissa speaks French, Dutch, Italian, German and good notions of Japanese.
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About : X-IO is a storage industry related company delivering unmatched price or performance, reliability, and scale for enterprise and more.
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.
Greg Sim
Advisor of Harrman Cyber
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About : Harrman Cyber provides one of the most comprehensive assessments to help companies identify ‘insider threats’.
Paul Manister
Advisor of Harrman Cyber
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About : Harrman Cyber provides one of the most comprehensive assessments to help companies identify ‘insider threats’.
David Charters
Advisor of Harrman Cyber
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About : Harrman Cyber provides one of the most comprehensive assessments to help companies identify ‘insider threats’.
Damian McAlonnan
Advisor of Harrman Cyber
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About : Harrman Cyber provides one of the most comprehensive assessments to help companies identify ‘insider threats’.
Andrew Cooper
Advisor of Harrman Cyber
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About : Harrman Cyber provides one of the most comprehensive assessments to help companies identify ‘insider threats’.
Dean Johnson
Advisory Board Member of Continuous Ventures
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About Continuous Ventures: Supporting start-ups navigate the journey to become “fund ready” with our team of advisors with our expertise & developmental framework
Chris Penn
Non Exec. Advisor of WinwInnKeeper
Chris is a human performance specialist who has been plying his trade in the hotel industry for the past 20 years making him an ideal advisor to WinwInnkeeper from the hospitality side of the business.
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About : WinwInnKeeper offers hotel style management services for short-term lettings.
Morten Tonnesen
Advisor of Ve Global
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About : Ve Global a marketing technology business.