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 Product operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Product 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.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jennyfer Yeung-Williams
Head of Insurance Products, Europe of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Padilla
Vice President Product Strategy of NTT Communications
Len is a highly knowledgeable IT professional with considerable experience in a variety of areas from scientific super-computing to shared and dedicated hosting to selective outsourcing. Len has worked in all technical aspects and management levels of IT: supercomputing and financial systems programing, administration of large server and content delivery networks, PCI-DSS certification, management of international operations teams, product engineering and strategy.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Harry Edmonds
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Chris Stutz
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
David Histon
Head Of Product Development of Luther Systems
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Alasdair Monk
Product designer of Heroku
Alasdair Monk is the Principal Designer at HashiCorp.
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About HashiCorp, Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Monira Rhaimi
Lead Product Strategist of Thoughtworks
Monira Rhaimi is a Lead Product Strategist at Thoughtworks. She has worked across multiple roles from software engineer to product manager, in different regions of the world. Having experienced many different environments, teams and cultures, she developed a passion for product management, lean and agile practices and culture change in organizations. Currently working for ThoughtWorks as a Product Consultant, she has the opportunity to practice her craft and deepen her learnings while helping teams start a change.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Oli Gibson
Lead Product Manager of Thoughtworks
Oli Gibson is a Lead Product Manager at ThoughtWorks. He has worked with companies, across all sectors, helping them build better products. He has been an entrepreneur, developer and is now a Product & Strategy Consultant at ThoughtWorks. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise where he now helps organizations transform their business strategy, take an experimental approach to product development and manage cultural transformation.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Ben Hall
VP of Product Interactivity of O’Reilly
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Hiwot Mendahun
Technical Product Manager (Security) of Mimecast
Hiwot Mendahun is a cyber resilience expert and product manager at Mimecast. Having joined Mimecast in 2011, Hiwot works closely with all areas of the organization to bring new security products and service innovations to our customers. Hiwot has a passion for security and technology and holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. When not saving the world, Hiwot shares her enthusiasm by mentoring young people on behalf of The Princes Trust.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Victoria Thompson
Product Manager of Elsevier
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About Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare
Product Design Lead of Huma Therapeutics
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Adam Jones
Talent Partner – Technology and Product of Huma Therapeutics
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Aarti Samani
Product & Marketing Director of iProov
Aarti is an experienced executive, who drives growth through product innovation, partnerships and operational efficiencies. She has led product and commercial functions in multinational as well as applied AI firms across financial services, fast growth consumer tech and healthcare. Aarti’s work has ranged from managing technology transitions in capital markets, to spearheading product development and launch of text input solutions, revolutionising the way consumers in emerging markets interact with their smartphones. She has most recently worked at SwiftKey (purchased by Microsoft) and Digital Surgery. Aarti holds a degree in Mathematics from University of Durham.
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About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Charlotte Fernando
Squad Pro AND Product Analyst of AND Digital
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About AND Digital: AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery. We work with top clients to build remarkable digital products and teams.
Richard Bentley
Chief Product and Engineering Officer of Calypso Technology
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About Calypso Technology: Calypso Technology provides an integrated trading, risk and processing platform for financial institutions and corporate treasuries.
Stephen Holmes
Chief Product Officer of Arqit Limited
Stephen Holmes is the Chief Product Officer at Arqit.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Chris O’Brien
Products and Services Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
George Evers
Senior Vice President, Product, Realtime Payments of VocaLink
George has spent the last 15 years driving technology innovations, leading product and strategy development across emerging technologies and enabling digital banking channel transformation. He is a huge advocate of providing more businesses and consumers with access to immediate payments.George joined VocaLink in November 2014 as Immediate Payments Services Director. He oversees the international development of VocaLink’s real-time payments proposition and associated mobile payments solutions. Since joining, George has pioneered the development of international strategies for VocaLink in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Before joining VocaLink, George was Head of Channels within the Corporate Banking Division at RBS. It was there that he developed a Corporate Banking self-service channel strategy and managed existing core digital channel propositions. George also held the position of Head of Product Management & Development for RBS Global Transaction Services where he managed the growth development of the UK Domestic Cash product set. Building on VocaLink’s 2014 success of implementing Immediate Payments in Singapore, George’s most recent career highlight has been part of the team involved in the signing of a contract with The Clearing House- a partnership that will bring real-time payments to the United States.
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About VocaLink, VocaLink: VocaLink develops and operates payments infrastructure solutions in the United Kingdom.
Andrew Quan
Head of Product of Littlepay
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About Littlepay: littlepay is an Australian fintech start-up focused on transit contactless payments
Javier Colón
Head of Product Development of Darwinex
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About Darwinex: Darwinex allows independent traders around the world to quote their strategies and thus access investor capital.
James Foxlee
Head of Product, Co-founder of Circular Wave
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About Circular Wave: Temporary Staffing Platform for the NHS
Ben Brophy
Head of Product & Sales of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Ben Brophy
Head of Product & Sales of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Niklas Friedberg
Head of Product & Co-founder of Clustermarket
Niklas Friedberg has been Head of Product at Clustermarket LTD. Niklas Friedberg has over 3 years experience in pharma, startups and commodity trading. He holds Master in International Business and Bachelor in Business and Finance.
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About Clustermarket: One lab management platform that brings people, equipment and data together – no matter where they are.
Eli Rosner
Chief Product and Technology Officer of Finastra
Eli Rosner is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Software Solutions for NCR Corporation. In this role, he is accountable for the company’s strategy, formulation, development and cross-functional delivery of NCR’s software portfolio. Rosner also participates in the NCR Leadership Team led by NCR’s President, CEO and Chairman Bill Nuti. Prior to his role leading NCR’s Software Group, Eli was the CTO and Head of Product Management for NCR’s Retail Solutions Division. Eli led software development teams across all Retail segments. He originally joined NCR as Vice President of Global Software Engineering and Development. He oversaw architecture definition, technology selection, solution development and testing. Eli’s previous positions before joining NCR include: Vice President and Chief Business Delivery Officer for the Americas and as Vice President for Global Technology Strategy at Solera Holdings. Prior to this role Eli was accountable for the Office of Strategy Management (OSM) for the overall product strategy for Solera. Eli held numerous leadership roles in product management, engineering and operation, including CIO and SVP of Product Development and GM of International Operations at Mitchell International Inc. He was also CTO and Vice President of Product Management and Engineering at Autodesk (ADSK) Location Based Services. Rosner is a proven leader with more than 25 years of experience in managing diverse product portfolios and strategies, and in working closely with channel partners to drive software innovation. He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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About Finastra: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
Nick Omeyer
Co-founder, Product & Data of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
James Monaghan
VP Product of Evernym
James Monaghan is the VP Product at Evernym.
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About Evernym: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Dickie Smith
Product Manager of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Jonathon Moore
Chief Product Officer of Trainline
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About Trainline: Trainline is the world’s leading independent digital rail platform.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Steve Cowler
Product Manager – TRG Screen of Axon Financial Systems
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About Axon Financial Systems: Axon is a technology-driven product and services business.
Emily Savage
Commercial Product Lead – Immersive (XR) 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.
James Monighan
Head of Product of Axora
Over 20 years building “connected” products, platforms and services in both the consumer & business sectors for high change telecoms, technology and retail companies ranging from start ups to blue chip organisations. Extensive management experience of market leading brands within the UK and across Europe. A commercially orientated, delivery focused business leader with a proven track record of growing revenue, enhancing business profitability and increasing customer satisfaction.
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About Axora, British Gas: B2B digital solutions marketplace and community for industrial innovators.
Mark Thompson
Head of Advertising Production of ITN Productions
Mark has spent the last 5 years creating, strategizing and producing content for large global brands including Barclays, American Express, Stella Artois, Kenco, Guinness and Barings, Mark was also instrumental in the 2016 growth and success of the Barclays UK YouTube channel and picked up the Gold award for finance at the International Content Marketing Association Awards. Mark has been an active member of the Barclays Editorial Board, an international content judge and has recently had a number of industry thought leadership articles published.
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About ITN Productions: ITN Productions is the creative and commercial arm of ITN, producing bespoke content for broadcasters, businesses, brands, rights holders.
Terry Carter
Head of Product of Kafoodle
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About Kafoodle: Award-winning B2B SaaS company in foodtech on a mission to improve health by connecting people with the food they need.
Terry Carter
Head of Product of Kafoodle
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About Kafoodle: Award-winning B2B SaaS company in foodtech on a mission to improve health by connecting people with the food they need.
Piers Wilson
Head of Product Management of Huntsman Security
Piers Wilson has over 20 years experience working in a range of areas in cybersecurity, information assurance, IT security and data protection at Huntsman Security, IISP, PwC and Insight Consulting. He is Head of Product Management at Huntsman Security and also Director of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). He has worked across most sectors and at all levels from technical to managerial and has spent many years in consulting, service and product businesses focussing on the management of technical, business and compliance risks.
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About Huntsman Security: Cyber-security management, threat detection, real-time compliance and SIEM solutions
Royyuru Avinash
VP Products of tenCube
Royyuru Avinash is a VP Products at tenCube.
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About tenCube: tenCube enables its users to remotely lock and track down a lost device, retrieve a copy of the data securely, and remotely wipe off data.
Jim O’Reilly
Strategic Product and Innovation Manager of Ordnance Survey
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About Ordnance Survey: Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain providing the definitive spatial database.
Mitzi Lagerweij
Lead Product Owner of The App Business
Mitzi is a Lead Product Owner at TAB. Her work has encompassed the development of new propositions for Visa and TfL and accelerating product delivery for clients including Unilever, Shell and Tesco. Outside of project work, Mitzi initiated Women on the Rise to support the women of TAB as well as the business as a whole to truly embrace inclusivity and diversity as it continues to grow. Starting as a support network facilitating open discussion, it has grown into a company-wide initiative that continues to deliver positive change towards a more diverse TAB.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Javier Lecanda
Sr. Product Development Manager, Network On Demand of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Rui Ferraz
Global Product Manager Unified and Intelligent Communications of Colt Technology
Rui Ferraz’s main focus is simplification and acceleration, enabling users to focus on their work instead of the technological details around it. This objective has been the motivator of his professional life, be it in the early years spent working in Portugal Telecom and Vodafone as pre-sales and product management, as Unified Communication Director for Huawei Italy, and in his current role. Rui’s passion for UC is infectious, where he is always on the look for the next big thing in the UC space and how can it help customers. Rui is Portuguese and lived in Portugal (Braga, Lisbon, Porto) and Italy (Rome) before moving to the UK (London). He is a foodie, travel enthusiast and loves a good talk, feel free ping him for a talk.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Nigel Tromans
Product Manager of Colt Technology
Nigel has over 16 years’ telecoms experience at Colt, during which time he has been responsible for a range of key product developments and go-to-market launches spanning the Ethernet and Optical product portfolios. During this time Colt has been recognised as one of the world’s leading telecoms providers, regularly winning prestigious MEF awards and other accolades. He is currently responsible for Colt’s optical portfolio, which is delivered via a state-of-the-art Europe-wide WDM infrastructure and directly connects Europe’s key data centre markets, enterprise buildings and international cable landing points. Prior to joining Colt in 2000, Nigel worked as a Director and Network Consultant for a systems integrator, providing local and wide area network solutions for leading organisations in London.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Michael South
On Demand / SDN Product Management of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Mark Daley
Director of Corporate Strategy and Product of Epsilon Telecommunications
Mark plays a leading role in identifying and developing Epsilon’s cutting edge Cloud and communication strategies, with a focus on market and customer needs.A veteran telecommunications professional, Mark served 14 years with Telstra and other high profile Telecommunication companies such as NTT and eircom. Mark held leading Products and Marketing roles in Telstra’s move into the European market in the mid 90’s, and wrote NTT’s European ICT strategy in the mid 2000’s which they continue to deliver today, as well as winning NTT’s first ever World Communications Award. Mark has also held executive Marketing & Product Director positions at Cap Gemini TMN UK and spent 8 innovative years in the Mobile Roaming world including at WSI’s first US Roaming Hub and launching Syniverse’s first hosted intelligent network services portfolio. Recently, Mark spent 4 years at NetDev that had developed the next generation of web based OTT voice, video and WebRTC service functions, as well as developing the leading innovative Audio Conferencing platform at BT, which now includes Spatial Audio.
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About Epsilon Telecommunications: Epsilon is one of the largest independent providers of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems.
Saurabh Kedia
VP of Product Marketing of iYogi
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About iYogi: iYogi provides online technical support services for a range of computing and communication devices.
Ollie Cadman
Chief Product Officer of Vela
Ollie Cadman is Head of Business Operations responsible for providing leadership support and guidance to the European teams. His broad remit includes spearheading integration efforts from the OptionsCity and Object Trading acquisitions in Europe. Prior to his current role, Ollie was Head of Product and Strategy, EMEA, responsible for driving product development, strategy, and roadmap priorities at Vela. His role also included identifying new market, partnership, and product opportunities through ongoing engagements with the firm’s global client base. Ollie joined Vela from Intercontinental Exchange (previously Interactive Data) and has a proven track record in global rollout and development of a wide range of products and services. He has an extensive background in electronic trading, exchange connectivity, and real-time data. Combined with his strong analytical skills, he has an ability to adapt to market challenges and optimize new business opportunities. Ollie has held senior roles at Citihub Consulting, JP Morgan, and the London Stock Exchange. Ollie holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire.
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About Vela: Vela is a leading provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading.
David Bowman
Product Director of Content and Code
David Bowman is Content and Code’s Products Director and oversees Fresh – an accelerator for delivering Office 365 to clients end-users. He is responsible for all elements of the product’s direction – from marketing and branding to consultancy with clients to feature concept design. David’s background is in solution architecture for custom application development and SharePoint in media and advertising. He joined Content and Code to run the professional services team’s more creative client engagements before moving over to setting up and managing the successful products division of the business.
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About Content and Code: Content and Code solves business challenges with creative IT solutions.
Ludre Stevens
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of iNBOTiQA
Ludre Stevens is the co-founder and chief product officer at iNBOTiQA.
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About iNBOTiQA: Intelligent Business Email solution
Bjorn Goosen
Product Manager of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Seung Wook Lyeo
Product Lead of Vesuvio
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About Vesuvio: Vesuvio is a building financial services platforms.
Duncan Malcolm
Product & Growth of TightShip
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About TightShip: We help organizations document, distribute and report their SOPs for quality & compliance.
Fady Kalo
Product Manager of Blue Vision Labs
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About Blue Vision Labs: Blue Vision Labs is a technology-focused company creating next-generation machine perception technology.
Alexandre Mercier
Co-Founder and VP, Product Development of Corymbus Asset Management
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About Corymbus Asset Management: Corymbus is a business risk analytics and fund development platform that uses unstructured data.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
