Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CFO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Paul Smolinski
Chief Financial Officer of Forterro
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About Forterro: Forterro is a federation of ERP product companies serving mid-market companies with local software around the globe.
Sacha Jacobs
CFO of Fabacus
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About Fabacus, Reporo: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Arvi Chana
CFO of Quantexa
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Moran Laufer
CFO of Kape Technologies
CFO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Erin Cummins
Chief Financial Officer of Thoughtworks
She is the Chief Financial Officer at Thoughtworks.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Hugo Grimston
CFO of Paddle
Hugo Grimston is CFO at Paddle, a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps,games and other digital products.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Milan Patel
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary of dotmailer Group
Milan joined dotmailer in 2007 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in 2009. Milan is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and holds a B.A (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance. Milan was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of the reverse acquisition of West End Ventures PLC, acquisition of Netcallidus, admission to Plus and the recent introduction to AIM. He is also responsible for the Group’s functions in financial management & reporting, regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Courtney Grant
CFO of Kalo
Courtney became Kalo’s first angel investor in 2014 before joining the team as CFO in 2016. Before diving into the startup world, he spent his career in finance with a variety of corporate finance roles at leading North American and European investment banks.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Jamie Thomas
Chief Financial Officer of Qubit
Jamie Thomas has been serving as Chief Financial Officer at Qubit.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Amit Patel
Chief Financial Officer of HighQ
Amit leads financial strategy at HighQ. Prior to joining the business,Amit founded and built a prepaid credit card and e-money business, Blue Sky Card Solutions, which he successfully sold to the company’s largest UK competitor in 2012. Before setting up Blue Sky, Amit built a career within banking and private equity where he was involved in several multi-billion leveraged buy-outs, principal investments and other high profile real estate transactions with Bank of Scotland. Amit has a bachelor’s degree in Banking & International Finance from Cass Business School, London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Paula Wada
CFO of Baby2Body
Coming from New York to London in 2013, Paula has many years of experience in investment consulting – and her prowess in financials, spreadsheets and keeping us on point is her specialty. Paula is a passionate fan of dynamic Pilates, spinning, Kobe Bryant, and she is possibly the most unusual Millwall supporter.
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About Baby2Body: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Edvar Heylen
CFO of HeyJobs
After spending almost a decade in investment banking covering the media and technology space both at Citigroup and Allen & Company, Edvar now leads ROLI’s finance and business analytics team. While he is not studying business models, new innovative technologies or history, he can be found on his bicycle exploring new roads.
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About HeyJobs: HeyJobs is a talent platform matching the world’s talent to opportunities.
Iain MacLaren
Chief Financial Officer of ZigZag Global
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About ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Patrick Imbach
CFO of Callsign
As CFO at Callsign, Patrick is in charge of the Callsign’s financial strategy, financial operations, and financial and management reporting. Previously, Patrick built and led KPMG’s practice for fast growing technology businesses and innovative startups. He was a member of KPMG’s global Steering Committee for Innovative Startups and a member of KPMG’s TMT leadership team in the UK. Prior to this, Patrick has worked in multiple audit and finance roles in Germany, Japan and France with businesses across industries with a focus on Media, Telecommunications, and Technology companies.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Ryan E Gralia
CFO of FIDEL API
Ryan E Gralia is the CFO at FIDEL API.
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About FIDEL API, Zeno Vision Ltd: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
Ijoma Maluza
CFO of Blue Prism
Ijoma Maluza is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has over 10 years of experience in the Technology sector and joined Blue Prism from ip.access Limited where he was Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining ip.access Limited he served as Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development Director of Xchanging plc. Ijoma read Economics at Cambridge University.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Tom Sawyer
Chief Financial Officer of Cognetivity Neurosciences
Tom Sawyer is the Chief Financial Officer at Cognetivity Neurosciences.
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About Cognetivity Neurosciences: Cognetivity Neurosciences is a Platform technology for early, rapid and easy detection of dementia.
Abdullah Saab
CFO and Co-Founder of Paystone
Abdullah Saab is the CFO and Co-Founder at Paystone
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About Paystone: Paystone is a provider of customer engagement services and electronic payment processing solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Matthew Ashley
Chief Financial Officer of Micro Focus
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About Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Sam Samra
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of OneOcean Group
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About OneOcean Group: OneOcean is a single provider of digital solutions to the maritime industry.
Mark Mitchell
CFO of Firestartr
Mark qualified with PwC before moving on to hold Group Financial Controller positions in Merck, Getty Images and Ready 2, an internet start-up with Trinny and Susannah. After that, he joined Alain Falys at OB10 and built a global finance function from scratch, leading up to the £160m IPO and sale to Tungsten Network in 2013. As well as CFO of Firestartr, Mark is currently Financial Controller of Yoyo, a Firestartr portfolio company. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has a BSc in Banking & International Finance from City University Business School, London.
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About Crypta Labs, Firestartr, Mitch Consulting Ltd: Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Prakash Shah
CFO of Trafi
CFO – An entrepreneurial ACA/CFA trained management professional, with strong analytical and strategic planning capability. I am experienced in financial management, strategy and fundraising. I am currently the owner and CEO of Fully Financial Ltd (www.fullyfinancial.com), co-owner and CFO/COO of Fun-Keys4Kids (www.fun-keys4kids.com), and CFO of Trafi (www.trafi.com)
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About Pivigo, Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Dirk Bernhardt
CFO of spaceOS
Dirk Bernhardt is the Chief Financial Officer at spaceOS.
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About spaceOS: SpaceOS is the most beautiful and easy to use tenant experience and management software on the market.
Greg Toner
CFO and Co-Founder of SalesRight
A CPA based out of London, Ontario, Greg has been working as a startup CFO for the past several years. He specializes in working with early to growth stage startups and has been critical to the success of many SaaS companies throughout Canada. Greg straps on his skis and hits the slopes often, but always saves time to spend with his two children.
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About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Haywood Chapman
Chief Financial Officer of Iqgeo
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About Iqgeo: IQGeo is a company having end-to-end geospatial software that improves productivity and collaboration across various industrial processes.
Sean Watherston
CFO of UENI
Sean Watherston is the Chief Financial Officer at UENI.
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About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
David Kenyon
CFO of Kambi
David qualified at KPMG and joined Unibet in 2002 as Group FC where he worked on the Unibet NASDAQ OMX Stockholm listing. He then spent two years at the Capital Pub Company plc as CFO, where he floated the Company on AIM, before moving to Kambi. David has a MA from Oxford University. David Kenyon holds 42,330 shares and 60,000 options in the Company.
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About Kambi: Kambi’s service has the power to quickly transform the financial performance of your business.
Tom Coward
CFO of Cytora
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
David Brebner
Co-Founder, CFO of Mobials
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About 519 Growth Fund, Cyber Legends, Mobials: Mobials is a customer service software company located in London.
Peter Wallace
Chief Financial Officer of Kadence
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Anand Phanse
CFO of Billon Group
Anand has been a board member and advisor to several fast growing companies. Recently he was a Partner and the Investment Director at Fjord Capital, a venture investment firm and where, among the many other investments, he successfully led the last pre-IPO round of Tesla Motors. Anand was previously selected a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. He is a business innovation coach for the European Commissions Horizon 2020 SME program.
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About Billon Group: Billon Group is a fintech company that provides an enterprise DLT system for accounts and transactions and targets at bank accounts.
Malcolm Locke
Chief Financial Officer of Egress Software
Malcolm joined Egress in 2014 as Chief Financial Officer, and works widely across the business to support delivery of the company’s impressive growth and international expansion.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Daniel Hogan
CFO & Co-Founder of Ember
A Deloitte-trained, fully qualified Chartered Accountant, Daniel has been working in the finance systems space for the last 3 years where he has become increasingly frustrated with the industry’s lack of synergy, automation and ease of use.
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Benedikt Einarsson
Chief Financial Officer of Meniga
Benedikt Einarsson is Chief Financial Officer at Meniga.
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About Meniga: Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
Nick Taylor
Chief Financial Officer of Bizagi
An experienced finance professional with a wide range of experience in leadership roles across many industries including software, technology, banking, professional services and more. Nick has a proven track record of partnering with the leadership teams of high growth businesses to build finance functions that have the capabilities to enable the organization to achieve its goals. Most recently Nick was the CFO for the International Business Unit at Blackbaud, a large publicly listed software company, partnering with the business to deliver the strongest period of revenue growth and margin improvement in the business unit to date. Previously Nick has also worked at Eversheds, BT, Lloyds TSB, American Express, Travelport and Accenture.
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About Bizagi: Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
Phil Parkin
Chief Financial Officer of Symplectic
Philip Parkin is the Chief Financial Officer at Symplectic Limited.
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About Symplectic: Symplectic produces software for Higher Educational Institutions in the UK.
Phil Parkin
Chief Financial Officer of Symplectic
Philip Parkin is the Chief Financial Officer at Symplectic Limited.
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About Symplectic: Symplectic produces software for Higher Educational Institutions in the UK.
Jake Jenner
Co-Founder & CFO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Brian Southward
CFO of Symphony Ventures
Brian is a chartered accountant with a history in commercial leadership with British Airways and American Express amongst others. Brian spent the last 10 years working with SMEs at Board level within high growth, turnaround and disruptive business models and gaining significant experience of building international businesses from the ground up – including his own successful data analytics start-up. Recently the focus has been commercial innovation, fundraising and M&A including ‘buy and builds’ and exits – both trade and IPOs. During this period, Brian has spent several years working with companies looking to drive digital transformation in their own verticals.
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About Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Ben Walmsley
CFO of Skurio
Ben Walmsley serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Andrew Fabian
Chief Financial Officer of 1Spatial
Andrew has significant experience in the financial services sector and is a chartered accountant and qualified corporate treasurer.
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About 1Spatial, Association of Corporate Treasurers, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Hannah Lowry
Chief Financial Officer of Ecrebo
Hannah joined Ecrebo in July 2017 and brings proven experience in driving business performance and robust financial management for multinational companies in Europe and the Middle East. In her role as CFO, Hannah is responsible for all financial matters for Ecrebo and as part of the senior leadership team, will help set and implement the strategic direction of the company. Hannah previously served as finance director for the data and analytics business at Aimia, as well as tenures with GE Capital in Dubai, and Barclays in London.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Steve Robertson
Chief Financial Officer of Asset Control
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About Asset Control: Asset Control provides financial data management solutions to banks, insurers, investment managers and market infrastructure firms
Cinthia Danove
CFO of Akoni Hub
Cinthia started her career in financial services and feels passionate about start-ups and SMEs. She has significant experience working with businesses in the mid-market space – from analysing opportunities at a VC fund, to the role of Head of Finance for regional SMEs, as well as hands-on mentoring of entrepreneurs at Endeavor. Cinthia has been involved from different perspectives and at various stages of high-growth firms, and feels strongly about providing value-added services to businesses that are the bedrock of the economy. Cinthia is an Economist, and holds a CFA and MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
Robert Brent
CFO / COO of MSite
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About MSite: Human Recognition Systems is technology automates identity dependent business processes to deliver efficiency, safety and security.
Steve Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer of Digiterre
Steve has over 20 years experience as a senior commercial finance professional across a range of industry sectors, including IT, leisure, motor racing, professional services, and property development in the UK, USA and Australia. Steve has significant practical and advisory experience with early stage private equity backed IT businesses, achieving trade sales to US corporations with three of them.
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About Digiterre: Digiterre is a company which provides Financial Investment Management CRM and Trading Solutions software development services.
Fahim Kabani
Founder/CFO of Ugenie
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About Ugenie: Private membership mobile hub for businesses to efficiently manage, engage and monetise their existing most valuable asset – their clients!
Kim Clarke
Chief Financial Officer of Peach
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About Peach: Peach simplifies the end-to-end process of a video advertisement.
Archana Gupta
CFO of TestingXperts
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About TestingXperts: Next Gen QA & Software Testing Company
Archana Gupta
CFO of TestingXperts
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About TestingXperts: Next Gen QA & Software Testing Company
Ryan Styles
CFO of Napier AI
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About Napier AI: Napier AI develops an intelligent compliance platform for AML and trade compliance.
Richard Hutchinson
CFO of Phoenix Interactive Design
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About Phoenix Interactive Design: Phoenix has pioneered many of the banking industry’s most dramatic innovations,
Richard Hutchinson
CFO of Phoenix Interactive Design
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About Phoenix Interactive Design: Phoenix has pioneered many of the banking industry’s most dramatic innovations,
Manar Hussain
CFO of Sensible Object
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About Sensible Object: Sensible Object Makes games that combine beautiful things, custom hardware and digital apps into new kinds of play.
Nick Treston
CFO of Mobysoft
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About Mobysoft: Mobysoft is a Manchester-based company that engages providing in predictive software for social housing providers.
Steve Whant
Chief Financial Officer and Director of NiQ Health
Founding Director of PMSI, London based strategy consulting entity est. 1989. Support for new market development opportunities and particular focus on BI development. Multiple Healthcare transactions & ongoing client base in Healthcare sector.
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About AlignAlytics, NiQ Health, PMSI Strategy LLP: One of the leading care management systems for hospitals and aged care applications in January 2010.
Roberto Amerighi
Co-Founder and CFO in GreenJinn of GreenJinn
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About GreenJinn: GreenJinn is the leading UK cashback app for grocery shoppers. It helps brands to reach consumers where they live the most: their smartphone
Richard Hateley
CFO & Company Secretary of PeerIndex
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About PeerIndex: Social influence analytics platform
Nigel Dahl
Interim CFO/COO, M&A Specialist of EPM Gurus
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About EPM Gurus, PYXI Group: EPM Gurus specializes in Oracle Hyperion EPM solution planning, architecture, and implementation.
Richard Oliver
Chief Financial Officer of Provar
Richard Oliver is the Chief Financial Officer at Provar Limited.
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About Provar: Provar test automation designed for Salesforce.
Chris Verdin
Chief Financial Officer of TestPlant
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About TestPlant: Testplant helps organizations put users at the center of software testing to drive user adoption, conversion, and retention.
Cesar Ortega
Co-Founder & CFO of SKARA The Blade Remins
Cesar Ortega is Co-Founder & CFO at SKARA The Blade Remins.
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About SKARA The Blade Remins: SKARA is the next generation of eSports with versus fighting mechanics and RPG elements.
