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 Director operating in the Art space. If you think a 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.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
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Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ben Chisell
Director of Product of OakNorth
Ben Chisell is Product Director at Starling Bank, a modern mobile-only bank built to help customers gain better insight into their financial lives, and give them access to all of their financial products in one place through the Starling Marketplace. Ben wants to build a bank that truly puts the customer first, and solves meaningful problems that can have a positive impact on their lives.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Adam Agius
Director, Debt Finance of OakNorth
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Serena Chaudhry
Associate Director of Dataminr
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About Dataminr, Dataminr, Observer Research Foundation, One Young World: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Fredrik Cornell
Director Commercial Operations of Healthily by Your.MD
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About Healthily by Your.MD: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Michael Brennan
Co Founder & Non-Executive Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Michael Brennan co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and serves as its Head of Corporate Development. Mr. Brennan co-founded Novum Securities in 2006 and served as it Chief Executive Officer. In 2009, Mr. Brennan joined Proximagen Group plc, as Head of Corporate Development, where he was focused on fund raising, corporate transactions and business development. Mr. Brennan has over 14 years of equity capital markets experience in the City focusing on the small and mid cap market. He is a Senior corporate finance executive with over 15 years City based capital markets experience. The majority of his time was spent with Evolution Securities where he served as a Director in their corporate finance department and has significant transactional experience including M&A and takeover work. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Litebulb Group Limited since September 13, 2013.
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About BenevolentAI, SimplyPayMe: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ken Mulvany
Founder & Board Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Ken Mulvany is a serial entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of business leadership experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $2bn machine intelligence company with end-to-end drug development capabilities. Mr. Mulvany was previously Founder and CEO of Proximagen, a leading biotech company developing medicines for central nervous system disorders, which he sold in 2012. Mulvany sits on several advisory boards including the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, and formerly, the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Mr. Mulvany is a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America’s Cup.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Tom Holgate
Finance Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Tom Holgate is Group Finance Director of BenevolentAI Ltd. He is responsible for all financial aspects of the Group including operational, reporting, strategy, planning and forecasting, transaction support and investor relations. Prior to joining BenevolentAI, he held senior positions at American Express), FP & A (Amlin Plc) and EY.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
James Fricker
Managing Director of Sensat
James is a forward thinking Managing Director with a strong revenue focus, looking to push the boundaries of teams and innovation in order to drive value. Having graduated from the university of Lincoln with a Bsc in Psychology with Clinical Psychology, James started his career in the world of media with one of the UK leading publishing companies. With a strong affection to technologies, he transitioned into SaaS, leading the UK proposition of Mag+ in the digital publishing space, earning accreditation at the PPA awards with winning ‘Sales Team of the year’, he soon moved onto Fliplet to become the first commercial hire at a rapidly growing start up company, successfully commercialising the platform to its now global client base and growing revenue over 100% year on year in the 2 years he had there prior to joining SenSat.
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About Pavilion, Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Guy Roberts
Non-Executive Director of Sensat
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About : SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Peter McConnell
Commercial Director of Socital
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About Socital: Socital is a SaaS platform specialized in personalization and lead generation for ecommerce.
Richard Smith
Client Director of Elutions, Inc.
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About Elutions, Inc.: Energy and operational efficiency global market leader with AI solutions.
Rory Miller-Cheevers
Founder & Managing Director of Hyphen
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About Hyphen: Data Intelligence and Performance Marketing
Monica Hyerim Lee
Founder & CEO / Managing Director of FrontRow Global
Monica Hyerim Lee is the founder and CEO at FrontRow Global.
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About FrontRow Global, Royal College of Art: Music Data Intelligence for Music Industry
Lauren Bigland
Global Marketing & Communications Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Holly Sutton
Enterprise Sales Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
David Wayne
Senior Director of Talent and HR of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Simon Stone
Commercial Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Simon Stone
Commercial Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Anna Lowe
Director of Partnerships & Co-Founder of SMARTIFY
Anna is CoFounder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify a global platform for art described by the New Scientist as “the Shazam and Spotify of art”. A firm believer that culture needs stewardship not disruption, Anna works closely with museums to embrace new technologies that support their growth and resilience. Anna is a Trustee of Tate, the youngest ever trustee of a national museum. Anna also sits on the UK5G Creative Industries working group and is an Industry Champion for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).
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About SMARTIFY, Tate: SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Ken Lever
Non-Executive Director of Blue Prism
Ken is an ex-partner of Arthur Andersen and has held senior executive director roles in many listed, companies including Alfred McAlpine plc, Albright & Wilson plc and Tomkins plc. Ken was Chief Financial Officer of Numonyx in Switzerland from April 2008 to September 2010, and was Chief Executive Officer of Xchanging plc between 2011 and 2015. Ken currently is a Non-Executive Director of Vertu Motors plc, Gresham House Strategic plc, DAC Beachcroft and F.M. Insurance Company Limited. From 2007 to 2013 Ken was a member of the Accounting Council (formally the UK Accounting Standards Board) of the Financial Reporting Council. Ken is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Nicola Bergstrom
Director of Human Resources of Blue Prism
Nicola Bergstrom brings over 10 years experience in Human Resources management, having held a number of HR roles across BAE Systems Group. Nicola has a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (CIPD) alongside a degree in Business Management and French from the University of Manchester.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Steve Brooks
EMEA Alliance Director for Accenture & Avanade of Blue Prism
Steve Brooks is the director strategic alliances – EMEA at Blue Prism.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Alex Bentley
Director of Corporate Development of Blue Prism
Alex is responsible for leading and delivering the corporate and strategic initiatives that underpin the Blue Prism growth strategy. Prior to joining Blue Prism in 2013, Alex was a management consultant at Deloitte with a background in operational excellence and business architecture. Alex spent the majority of his consulting career delivering Target Operating Model design, process improvement and business transformation programs for Financial Services clients. He has a BA (Hons) in Management from Leeds University
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Charles Cooper-Driver
Chairman, Investor & Director of Limitless
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About : The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Eve Cross
EMEA Marketing Director of MiQ
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Shah J. Rahman
Regional Director – Middle East, Africa & APAC of Silobreaker
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
Ilya Feige
Director of Artificial Intelligence of Faculty Science
Ilya Feige is the head of data science and the head of research at Faculty. He ensures that cutting-edge machine learning is used across all Faculty’s commercial data science projects. Previously, Ilya worked at McKinsey & Company, helping to deploy artificial intelligence for some of the world’s largest brands. He’s also an honorary senior research fellow in artificial intelligence at UCL. Ilya was awarded the Goldhaber prize for the best PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and the Governor General’s award for the single highest ranked undergraduate student at McGill University.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Peter Fell
Technical Director, International of Anonos
Peter Fell is the international technical director at Anonos.
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About Anonos: Transform your data into a state-of-the-art asset, making secure, borderless innovation lawful.
Ciaran O’Callaghan
Director of Sales, EMEA of Brightflag
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About Brightflag: Brightflag is the AI-powered legal spend management and matter management platform for corporate legal teams.
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.
Colin Pye
Creative Director of Realeyes
Colin’s role is twofold: to develop the user experience of the Realeyes platform and to shape the Realeyes brand. With strategic rigour and creative excellence, he brings nearly two decades of creative agency experience, across brand, digital, advertising and film. He’s worked with many FTSE100 brands, help create new digital service propositions and created many innovative and strategic concepts to help inform senior management decisions. Colin was honored with the freedom of the City of London for industry recognition, has judged for D&AD, awarded with distinction for a mini MBA and having been part of a start-up E-commerce agency, means he’s not shy at being hands on.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
James Collier
Director Corporate & Business Development of Outra
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About 41st Parameter, Outra: Outra is a customer data science business.
Romano Oliveri
Co Founder – Art Director of Feral Horses
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About Feral Horses: Feral Horses is an online platform that makes it easy to discover, experience, and care for art.
Jonathan Shine
Global Business Development Director of Spark EV Technology
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About Spark EV Technology: Spark develops and supplies personalised journey prediction and map display software products for electric vehicles.
Charlie Henderson
Managing Directors & Founder of FeedStock Ltd
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About FeedStock Ltd: FeedStock leverages AI and NLP technologies to enable financial services companies to satisfy both their compliance and commercial goals.
Christian Mastrodonato
Director Of Engineering of Digital Catapult
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About Digital Catapult: Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Marc Mapes
Executive Director of HiringSolved
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About HiringSolved: HiringSolved makes hiring faster and easier through smart software tools. Automating inbound and outbound recruiting with AI based tech.
Jonathan Knight
Managing Director of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
Emma Priestley
Executive Director, Customer of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
Mario Bodini
Director of Firedrop
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About Firedrop: The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence website builder – uniquely designed sites in 60 seconds
Ian Foley
Client Director of Movvo
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About Movvo: Movvo is a global technology company strategically positioned at the intersection of the retail industry, artificial intelligence and custom
Nigel Hilditch
Director, Head Of Content, Europe & Asia of Sotheby’s
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About Sotheby’s: Sotheby’s conducts auctions and private sales of fine art, antiques, and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles.
Jat Sahi
Director of illumr
Jat’s background is in Sales and Marketing. Jat helped launch the 3D visualisation software for Fujitsu. He went on to design and deliver the customer facing element of their customer innovation programme for global clients. Prior to this, he helped found a venture in Human Capital Management Software which is now part of Oracle. Jat holds a BSc (Hons) from Brunel University.
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About illumr: illumr helps organizations to better understand and predict patterns of behavior that affect them.
Freddie McMahon
Co-Founder, Director of Strategy and Innovation of DF2020 Limited
Responsible for developing a paradigm shift in the way firms interact with regulation, which is currently unsustainable due to the diversity, volume, rate of change and complexity.
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About Augestra, DF2020 Limited: Df2020 regtech digitises regulation and procedures through a universal and unifying blend of codification, interaction and measurement.
Pawan Lokwani
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Pawan is a young, successful, and award-winning entrepreneur based in the UK . He has experience in the talent market globally in Europe, Americas and Asia for more than 15 years and has successfully built teams globally and sold enterprise solutions to global clients.
His passion to channel growth and economic opportunities make him stand out from the crowd. Pawan began his career with one of the world’s largest consultancy firms in India. In recognition of his outstanding performance, Pawan was moved up the ladder and transferred to the firm’s London headquarters where he, once again, outshined his peer group. He has led projects for few of the world’s largest institutions like Warner Brothers, Ofcom, Universal Pictures, Cadbury etc.
While he achieved unprecedented success in his career, Pawan was quick to pay heed to the entrepreneurial spirit within him to set up his own Technology consultancy firm in the UK. By the time he was 35, Pawan had already expanded businesses to five countries employing over 80 people.
At an early stage of his entrepreneurial journey, Pawan had a clear-sighted vision to steer opportunities in the disruptive technologies and thus started building AI business to get 10X returns on the efforts deployed.
With a background in Sales, Technology and team development, Pawan is successfully scaling up the Talent AI B2B saas venture – Recruitment Smart Technologies to achieve global heights
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Yusuf Jazakallah
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Yusuf Jazakallah is a Director at Recruitment Smart Technologies.
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Mike Fish
CEO and co-found of E-Numeracy and Director of BigData4Analytics
Mike Fish is founder and CEO of award-winning education software start-up E-Numeracy. E-Numeracy uses AI to help those who struggle with numeracy – one third of the population – to rebuild their confidence with numbers and to improve their employability. In addition Mike is director of AI & Analytics consultancy BigData4Analytics, whose clients include EY, Investec, Grant Thornton and Zurich Insurance.
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Jackie Down
Director of BigData4Analytics
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Rafael Libardi
Founder & Executive Director of NoLeak Defence
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About NoLeak Defence: Noleak Behavior Recognition is an AI-based system to identify suspicious actions and behaviors from cameras
Bryony Worthington
Co Director of Quadrature Capital
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About Quadrature Capital, Sandbag, Weinberg Foundation: Quadrature Capital is a small tech business run by programmers.
Sue Curd
Director of Commercial Operations of Royal Academy of Arts
Sue Yeend-Curd is Director of Commercial Operations at Royal Academy of Arts.
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About Royal Academy of Arts: The Royal Academy of Arts promotes the creation, enjoyment, and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education, and debate.
Chris Fieldsend
Managing Director of Achieve Intelligence
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About Achieve Intelligence, Office of Rail Regulation: Achieve Intelligence
Sean Schwarz
Founder and Managing Director of RAFT Recruitment
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About RAFT Recruitment: RAFT Recruitment is a recruiting firm that places executives, software, machine learning, and robotics engineers.
Elodie Draperi
Partnerships Director of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Simon Whiteley
Director of Engineering of Advancing Analytics
Coming from a world of traditional BI structures, Simon is now obsessed with utilising cloud technologies to revolutionise these traditions. He will dive into any interesting BI problem, whether its ETL patterns, analysis models or building custom D3 visualisations. As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, his main focus is harnessing Azure Data Services to build the next generation of Cloud Analytics Architectures!
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About Advancing Analytics: Advancing Analytics is an Advanced Analytics consultancy which specialises in the Azure Data Platform, Data Science and Data Engineering.
Garreth Gaydon
Director, Talent Engagement of Nodal
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About Escape Studios, Nodal: Nodal is revolutionising recruitment using blockchain technology
Andrew Birkby
Director of Wild Card Brewery
Raised on a healthy selection of best bitters and pale ales from his home Midlands, Andrew has always been fanatical about beer. Meticulous and calm, he brings a level head and steady hand to the Wild Card Brewery. On the few occasions when not brewing or tasting you will most likely find Andrew learning Portuguese, riding his bike or tending his garden
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About Wild Card Brewery: Wild Card Brewery is a micro-brewery and bar in Walthamstow.
Hilary Knight
Director of Digital of Tate
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About Tate: Tate is a collection of four galleries that house national collections of British and international art.
Charles Smith
Senior Director of Blain|Southern
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About Blain|Southern, Royal Academy of Arts: Blain|Southern is a contemporary art gallery based in London and Berlin.
Rajesh verma
Founder and Director of Ebuiteq Limited
Dynamic tech enthusiast working in Development, Architecture & Analysis, helping customers find their way to the best digital solution and deliver amazing digital experiences and software. My primary areas of interest: • Product development • Solution architecture (full stack: server, client, cloud, web, mobile, desktop) • Development (full stack: Java 8, React, JavaScript, Swift, iOS) • Mulesoft, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle DB, Big data – Hadoop ecosystem • Integrations of Legacy, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Mainframes • AI & VR • Cloud platforms (Amazon AWS) • Test automation (TDD, BDD) • System Analysis • Continuous Delivery • Agile delivery (Scrum CSM, Safe) I am from a Product plus Consulting background with below-mentioned Industries/Domain experience: -Banking Finance: Open Banking, Trading, Commercial Banking -Others: Retail, Energy Media and Automotive Diagnostics
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About Ebuiteq Limited: Specialised in AI, Cloud, Data, APIs, UI, Digital technology resourcing pool and transformation.
Matthew Eaton
Managing Director, EMEA of GrayMeta
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About GrayMeta: GrayMet dramatically improves efficiencies by automating the creation of metadata with an innovative approach to extracting rich metadata.
Etan Ilfeld
Owner and Managing Director of Watkins Books
Etan Ilfeld works as Director at Tenderpixel. He is a owner of Watkins Media.
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About Watkins Books: Watkins Books is one of the oldest and independent bookshops.
