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 Founder operating in the Training space. If you think a Founder 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.
Rasha Khawaja
Founder of Toucan
Rasha Khawaja is the founder of Toucan. Rasha’s innate desire for knowledge took her to Brown University where she studied Psychiatry and Cognitive Science. Further education followed at both Oxford University and Cambridge University before Rasha started her career at Condé Nast Publications and went on to work at Christie’s. These experiences heightened her entrepreneurial drive and after spotting a gap in the market for a way to help creatives get their businesses out in front of influential business luminaries, Toucan was born. Rasha’s passion for innovation and nurturing new talent and business continues through her role as a member of the UKBAA, and being an active member of the advisory board of Innovation RCA and the development and strategy board of the ZSL. Outside of the world of Toucan, Rasha is a devoted mother and an adventurous traveller who one day hopes to conquer Kilimanjaro and The Great Wall of China. Rasha is also dedicated to a number of charities and sits on the board of ‘The Playing For Change Foundation’, as well as supporting her family’s charity, ‘The Said Foundation’. Toucan Ventures were proud to win ‘One to Watch – Best Entrant to the Angel Ecosystem’ at the 2016 Angel Investment Awards.
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About Toucan: Toucan Academy, our ever-growing online encyclopaedia where you can come to learn, refine ideas and find valuable business advice.
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Bhanu Choudhrie
Founder of Alpha Aviation Group
Bhanu Choudhrie is a British-Indian entrepreneur, investor and business owner. He specializes in emerging Asian markets such as India and China. He founded C&C Alpha Group in London and serves as the firm’s executive director. Bhanu Choudhrie was born in Delhi, India, in June of 1978 and earned a degree in international business and marketing at the University of Boston. His father is Sudhir Choudhrie, a London-based businessman with interests in media, hospitality, aviation, health care, and retail development. An internship at JP Morgan followed his graduation, and Bhanu went to work at C&C Alpha Group in London after that. C&C Alpha Group is a private investment strategy company that he is a founder of. He became the executive director in 2001 and maintains that role today. At C&C Alpha Group, Bhanu Choudhrie works with his brother and the rest of the leadership team to provide advising and consulting services to venture capital investors. In addition to identifying and sourcing deals for new and emerging markets, Bhanu develops solutions and promotes client companies in the hospitality, aviation, health care, agriculture, and utility sectors. In 2016, Bhanu expanded his education by completing the Harvard Business School’s Owner and President Management program. Those skills helped him become the director of Megalith Financial Acquisition Corp. He accepted the position in 2018 after the company’s IPO. Bhanu Choudhrie serves on the board of directors for both Citizens Bank and Atlantic Coast Bank. He is also the director of a charitable organization called Path to Success. The organization was founded by Bhanu’s mother, and it exists to help disadvantaged people and especially women access quality education and disability accommodations. It is especially known for its role in helping women with disabilities reach their sports-related goals. At the 2008 Asian Voice Political and Public Life Awards event in the UK, Bhanu Choudhrie received the award of Entrepreneur of the Year. Two years later, he was recognized again for his outstanding achievements at the Public Life Awards. Bhanu’s passions are helping businesses in new markets, helping people reach their professional goals and spending time with his family. Bhanu Choudhrie currently resides in the Belgravia area of London, United Kingdom.
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About Alpha Aviation Group, C&C Alpha Group, Megalith Financial Acquisition Corp., Path to Success: A leading provider of aviation training solutions for the global airline industry
Euan Blair
Founder & CEO of Multiverse
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About Multiverse: Multiverse is a tech startup that matches talent who have not graduated from college with apprenticeship opportunities.
Jan Lynn-Matern
Founder and Partner of Emerge Education
I am a Founder and Partner at Emerge Education. Emerge Education is a European seed investor focused on companies that bridge the skills gap. Emerge specialises in providing its portfolio companies with access to market insights, partners and customers through its unique industry network. We have a particular focus on investing in challenger universities, bootcamps, workforce re-training programmes, and companies that help universities scale online.
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About Emerge Education: The only fund backed by the world’s leading education entrepreneurs
James Manktelow
Founder and CEO of Mind Tools
James founded Mind Tools in 1996. Today he leads a global team of experts who, together, help more than 21,000,000 people each year learn “the essential skills for an excellent career.” James has written seven books on leadership, team management, and personal productivity: “WorkLife: Manage Your Time”; “WorkLife: Manage Stress”; “Mind Tools”; “Stress Tools”; “Make Time for Success!” (written with Namita Anand); “How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You”; and “Team Tools: Build and Lead an Excellent Team” (written with Felix Brodbeck and Namita Anand).
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About Mind Tools: Online, instantly available management and leadership training.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Steve Peralta
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer of Unmind
As a wellbeing consultant and facilitator, Steve has spent the past ten years helping people and organisations take proactive, effective steps to improve their wellbeing and performance. He has supported brands such as BBraun, Barclays, Absa, First National Bank and Discovery Health, focusing on evidence-based, positive behaviour change solutions. Steve designed and led the wellbeing programme for BSG, a South African business and tech consultancy which won the ‘Healthiest Company’ and ‘Healthiest Employees’ titles for small companies in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. Steve co-founded Unmind in 2016 and now works with leading academics and clinicians in creating engaging, evidence-based tools and training to help people understand and proactively support their mental health.
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Matthew C Martino
Founder & Managing Director of Lets Fly Academy
Matthew Martino (Full Name) – Matthew Mathetes Chihwai Martino born 27 October 1992 is a British Entrepreneur, Film Producer and Author. Educated at Shenfield High School in Brentwood , Martino has always held a passion for writing – He has always focused on educational writing and research. His first book Lets Fly which was published by DM Aviation was well received by pilots and aviation enthusiasts around the world. During his early years Martino showed all the qualities required to maintain proven success.
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About Lets Fly Academy: An online resource academy which was built to provide information and resources to aspiring pilots and aviations enthusiast.
Rajeeb Dey
Founder & CEO of Learnerbly
Rajeeb Dey joined Learnerbly as Founder & CEO in 2016.
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About Learnerbly: Learnerbly is a Learning Development Platform.
Fadl Al Tarzi
Founder & CEO of Nexford University
+15 years of experience in media & technology-related businesses. Hands-on experience building successful strategies, growing companies, raising VC funds, building & managing teams. Founded and played pivotal role in growing several successful businesses,
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Craig Massey
Founder of Satoshi Block Dojo
Over the last 23 years, Craig has started five technology companies primarily in the mobile and digital marketing space. He has sold four of those companies including Last Second Tickets, to Monitise PLC in June 2014 for £12.3M and Brainstorm to Opera Telecom for £3.2M. This means he totally connects with entrepreneurs and understands their pain in starting a new company. It also means that he understands how to use digital marketing efficiently to reach both B2B clients and direct to consumers.
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About Satoshi Block Dojo: Satoshi Block Dojo provides best-in-class with cutting-edge technology to educate, develop, and elevate start-up entrepreneurs.
Rhys Marc Photis
Founder & MD of GPi
Rhys is best known as a passionate advocate of people-driven business growth that is future proof. He is an entrepreneur and acclaimed leadership and business coach; co-founded GPi and developed the Pathfinder method to enable business leaders to unlock their business potential and find their own way. He regularly publishes articles on digitalization on LinkedIn and is a business writer for www.BusinessZone.co.uk. Coming from a dynamic entrepreneurial background he understood early on the ups and downs of successful family businesses. He was an intrapreneur within large organisations, setting up businesses in emerging markets and seen first-hand the dynamics of team growth as a result. Then went on to lead international internet-based projects that rolled out across over 50 countries, which inspired him to do an MBA International. He has been the founder and entrepreneur of his own businesses since 2004. Rhys is fascinated about technology and the possibilities which come with it. However, he believes we should use technology to better our lives. Furthermore, he believes the success of digitalization lies with getting the people and the organization ready to embrace change… for the better.
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About GPi: GPi Global Performance Improvement enable your sustainable growth from the inside out by providing a unique business diagnostic tool.
Lee Carlin
Co-Founder and Head of Talent & Experience of The Intern Group
International Education Entrepreneur. Passionate about accessibility & inclusion. I am a customer-focused individual who has experience in bootstrapping an international education start-up to £10m+ revenue, helping to create life-changing experiences for over 10,000 global students to date. I am based between London & Latin America.
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About The Intern Group: The Intern Group is an EdTech company that connects global talent with opportunity
David Lloyd
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of The Intern Group
A British national, David studied at University College London and the London School of Economics. He previously lived in Argentina where he completed an internship at Rolex, perfected his Spanish and fell in love with the continent. Before setting up The Intern Group he was a fixed income salesman on the Iberian desk for Merrill Lynch in London. He left Merrill to pursue his true dream – to promote international opportunities and give others fantastic experiences like he had along with advantages that last.
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About Magma Partners, The Intern Group: The Intern Group is an EdTech company that connects global talent with opportunity
Matt Lerner
Founder & CEO of Startup Core Strengths
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About Startup Core Strengths: Startup Core Strengths offers marketing strategy and executive coaching to startups.
Steve Dineen
Founder, Chief Storyteller & CEO of Fuse Universal
Founder and President of Fuse Universal.
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About Fuse Universal: The Fuse learning platform connects people with the knowledge and expertise they need to improve their skills and perform.
Kathryn Parsons
Co-Founder and CEO of Decoded
Kathryn Parsons is co-founder and CEO of Decoded, a technology education company founded in East London in 2011, which launched with the promise to teach anyone Code in a Day. The firm’s accelerated learning experiences have since expanded to include the worlds of code, data, innovation, cyber security and artificial intelligence. In addition to growing and scaling the business, Kathryn is a regular keynote speaker and campaigns globally for code on curriculums and gender diversity in technology. Described by the Evening Standard as “a woman on a mission to teach us all to code”, Kathryn was part of the successful campaign to have code introduced as a mandatory subject to the UK national curriculum in September 2014. In 2016 she was appointed Chairwoman of the UK Government Institute of Coding and received an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. In 2017 Kathryn joined the London Mayor’s Business Advisory Board, the UK Government Cyber Security Skills Advisory Board and the non-executive board of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She’s a self-confessed language lover, having studied Japanese and Mandarin in her spare time and Latin and Ancient Greek at Cambridge University.For her code is just another language, one used by billions.
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About Decoded: Decoded is the world’s leading Tech Educator, teaching digital skills to whole organisations and business leaders from across all sectors.
Naimish Gohil
CEO & Founder of Team Satchel
Naimish Gohil is Founder & CEO at Show my Homework.
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About Team Satchel: Team Satchel develops a range of school software focusing on homework, behavior, classroom management, and teaching resources.
Nick Lukic
CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Nick has 20+ years in FX, derivatives, ecommerce, technology and consulting. Nick was a founding member of Atriax, the first FX ECN where he was responsible for product development and bank relationships. He went on to form worldflow, an e-commerce specialist software and consulting firm where he worked on setting up new ecommerce businesses for banks including several FX and retail CFD businesses. Nick was global head of FX and Interest Rate Derivatives technology at Chemical/Chase Manhattan Bank where he ran the quant analytics and risk management teams. He was also global head of FX and FX options IT at Citibank where he helped start the Citi FX e-commerce business.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Mark Suter
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Mark has 30+ years of front office experience in the Global FX market. Mark has managed cash and derivative businesses for Chase Manhattan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banque Paribas and Standard Bank. In 2000, Mark joined Dresdner Bank to help build and roll out the Piranha and Click and Trade online platforms. With a strong mix of experience in Option trading and development of online trading systems. Mark was approached by FXall to develop a multi-bank FX options trading platform; as the shareholding and business focus changed, the option project was shelved in 2007. Mark’s view was that an opportunity clearly existed, backed by increasing demand from a range of clients, partnering with worldflow, an e-commerce development specialist. He went on to co-found Digital Vega.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Kaan Akın
Founder, CEO of Hackquarters
Tech investor, startup mentor and founder of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator. He is involved with corporate accelerator programs.
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About Hackquarters: Hackquarters accelerated 150+ startups and helped 40+ corporates to innovate with startup collaboration
Michael Curry
Co-Founder of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Phill Hullah
Co-Founder of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Francesco Cesarini
Founder & Technical Director of Erlang Solutions
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang.He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming,a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.
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About Erlang Solutions: We develop and build trusted, fault-tolerant systems that can scale to billions of users. Our strength is the Erlang & Elixir expertise.
Dom Barnard
Founder of Virtualspeech
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About Virtualspeech: Virtualspeech provide a realistic training platform for soft skills training in VR.
Geraint Barton
Founder and CEO of Kinderly
As a father of two young boys, Geraint founded NurseryBook based on his first-hand experience and his personal desire to be fully engaged in his child’s early years learning and development journey. Prior to NurseryBook, Geraint spent 11 years as big biological data analyst & software developer at Imperial College and established LabBook the world’s first e-labBook on Android.
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About Kinderly: Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation and more.
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Andrew Ground
Co-Founder & CEO of Tutorfair
Andrew is driven by a desire to find good tutors for his own children, Adam and Sophia, our strongest critics – woe betide a tutor who produces a boring video. Andrew loves good user experience and is totally dedicated to using the Internet to provide choice and transparency to both parents and tutors. He was also UK MD of LOVEFILM, and a school governor.
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Mark Maclaine
Co-Founder & Director of Education of Tutorfair
A tutor for 16 years, and awesome at it. Students are inspired by his energy and enthusiasm. He instils a love of learning which goes far beyond the Maths & Science he teaches. We love Mark … and all his stories. He’s responsible for making sure this works for tutors and is ruthless about vetting tutors to ensure we’ve got the best. Mark is equally passionate about our social mission and ensuring that it really makes a difference.
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Patrick Verdon
Co-Founder & CTO of Tutorfair
Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro.
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About Tutorfair, Youreko, ZYB: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Philipp Muellauer
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Angela Yu
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
Christina Richardson
Founder & chief-firestarter of Weare3Sixty
Christina Richardson is the Founder at 3sixty. She attended Durham University in 2000.
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About 3sixty, The Nurture Network, University College London (UCL), Weare3Sixty: Weare3Sixty is an impact-driven company on a mission to inspire founders to be their most effective, high-performing selves.
Hossein Houssaini
Founder of HoPe Advisory
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About HoPe Advisory: HoPe Advisory provides consultation services to improve marketing and digital growth of businesses.
Paul Foulkes Arellano
Founder of Circuthon Consulting
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About Circuthon Consulting: Circuthon Consulting is a circular economy management consultancy that provides training and coaching
Andrew Davis
Founder and Lead Trainer of Talk Dygital
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About Talk Dygital: Talk Dygital is a digital marketing and training company that helps businesses transform their new business development.
Kirsty Hulse
Founder and facilitator of Roar!
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About Roar!: Roar! offers tangible and measurable trainings designed specifically for agency environments.
Nikki Cochrane
CO-CEO & Co- Founder of DigitalMums
Nikki set up the business with Kathryn so the weight of our flexible mission falls on her shoulders. She comes out in hives if she has to leave E8 and is the only person under 90 with an addiction to wine gums.
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About DigitalMums: Digital Mums is a social media skills training.
Kathryn Tyler
Co- Founder of DigitalMums
Kathryn set up the business with Nikki so shares our responsibility for changing the world for mothers everywhere. Also known as #onetakeTyler or #Katinthehat – she has more aliases than Jason Bourne.
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About DigitalMums: Digital Mums is a social media skills training.
Alan Rutter
Founder of Fire Plus Algebra
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About Fire Plus Algebra, General Assembly, Jolt: Fire Plus Algebra helps organizations with data visualization, content strategy, consultancy, training and event services.
Graham Lee
Founder of Imparture
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About Imparture: We impart digital knowledge for the future.
David Lawlor
Co-Founder of Enforcd
David is co-founder and COO of Enforcd, and has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He is a senior product manager and content expert, who most recently led Thomson Reuters’ response to Dodd Frank and MiFID 2. As Accountable Product Owner he managed across all work streams to formulate strategy and execute on the firm’s product roadmap and was the key Thomson Reuters regulatory representative at all major industry events and groups. Earlier in his career David worked as an FX broker for ICAP, and an FX and Eurobond trader at UBS. He also spent a period of time running the content business for risk, for Deutsche Bank.
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About : Enforcd is a global regulatory intelligence platform that helps banks and others stay up to date with regulatory change and identify risks.
Mariana Lucia Marquez
Co-Founder/ Public Speaking Coach of Metaspeech
Metaspeech are Mariana Lucia Marquez and Emma Zangs. As choreographers and movement directors (Marquez&Zangs) we help performers overcome fear and use their bodies to articulate confidence. Through practice we discovered that these skills are easily transferable to pitching and other public speaking situations. We approach public speaking from the body. Presence is at the core of our method. We help our clients become relaxed and confident speakers for pitch presentations, job interviews, or in front of a camera. Our work improves anxiety and self-esteem through tailored exercises designed to achieve rock-solid confidence around one’s posture, voice, hand gestures, eye contact, clear diction, and hosting (or “owning the room”). Our one-to-one sessions and group workshops are fun and dynamic meetings that deliver the tools you need to empower an audience with a simple, efficient, straight-forward and personal communication style.
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About Metaspeech: Helping entrepreneurs and corporate clients become aware of their body language and upgrade it to professional, confident, & authentic.
Tanya Filer
Founder and Director of StateUp
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About StateUp, University of Cambridge: StateUp is building the knowledge and ideas infrastructure for public-purpose technology.
Ekaterina Matveeva
Founder of Amolingua
Ekaterina Matveeva – linguist, polyglot, memory athlete, and founder of Amolingua. She led international projects such as the blog “EuropeOnline” with her team of 6 that gathered 20,000 visitors per month and eventually turned into a basic version of a language school; Oxford-based project “E-supervisor” that consults students on their academic career. Up-to-date has had to manage over 100 people in Amolingua project on a weekly basis. She has a rich background in organising world-class events such as G20 and World Debating Championships. Kate is Scotland ScaleDo alumna. The academic background has given her an opportunity to develop Amolingua as a spin-off out of her research dedicated to relative linguistics and international education. She has published two books dedicated to language learning and effective communication, participated in TV shows promoting memory sport among young people, and started a video channel for Amolingua dedicated to languages and cultures around the globe. Her mission is to create a more connected multi-cultural multi-lingual world.
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About Amolingua: Amolingua – instant language tutoring everyday in your pocket.
Ameen Jan
CEO, Founder of EDeQUAL
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About EDeQUAL: Focused on providing students and schools with international standard education in a blended learning classroom.
Phanella Mayall Fine
Co-Founder of Up Rising
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About Up Rising: Up Rising offers group and individualized training in wellbeing areas and transforms the workplace by coaching and strategic consultancy.
Lesley Ross
Founder of Quantified Ardor
Lesley is the founder of Quantified Ardor, based in San Francisco and London, helping startups around the world define key metrics and become more data-driven in every department, at every level in order to scale. She is also the Chief Operating Officer of AtomiCo, based in Mexico City, a group focused on creating platform-based businesses that help close the gap in wealth, power, and access inequality globally. Lesley has 14+ years experience spanning management, marketing, operations, analytics, and sales working with companies including Proctor & Gamble, Novartis, Autodesk, Citrix, Sony, Electronic Arts, WPP, Aegis Media, among many others. She began working for and with startups 8+ years ago and continues to mentor globally for organizations such as Google Launchpad, Seedcamp London, 500 Startups, Mass Challenge, First Round Capital, and Village Capital. Lesley holds a BA in Psychology, MBA in Marketing, and MS in Information Systems, and was a NCAA All-American Gymnast (back in the day).
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About Addy, Quantified Ardor: Quantified Ardor puts on strategy workshops to help teams define metrics.
Omar Nabi
Founder of Flipchart.io
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About Flipchart.io: Document collaboration tool to create and share interactive documents
Oleuanna Twig
Founder of existence before essence economic and social research
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About existence before essence economic and social research: This is a social purpose organisation delivering a positive impact that will assist in the eradication of the hunger that occurs in (LDCs)
Bhavin Ranchod
Co Founder of Interviewstars
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About Interviewstars: We coach interview candidates
Anish Patel
Co-Founder of Interviewstars
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About Interviewstars: We coach interview candidates
Marie Milligan
Founder of Wild Women Do
Marie Milligan manage her own business and perform multiple roles as a Creative Consultant, a Co-active Coach, an Enterprise Educator and a Writer. Milligan’s specialisms are startup education, creative entrepreneurship skills training, the entrepreneurial mindset, and the inner wellness of entrepreneurs. Her focus is also on the development and training of creative intrapreneurs; those entrepreneurial staff in innovative enterprises who need someone who knows how to develop their ideas, minds and wellbeing. She is also an affiliate and champion of innovation tools Apptual, Entrepreneur Scan and Knodium.
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About Wild Women Do: Wild Women Do open to creative, entrepreneurial women who want to create and develop their courage.
Gareth Davies
Founder/CEO of Kwiziq
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About Kwiziq: Kwiziq is an AI language coach to help students improve their second language skills with intelligent, personalised coaching.
Dean Van Leeuwen
Co-Founder & Chief Exploration Officer of TomorrowToday
Dean is an explorer and intellectual adventurer. He enjoys looking at things differently, figuring out what works and what can be improved. He believes that just when you think you know something, that is the time to look at it differently. He’s travelled the world, photographed Minke whales for a research team off the Great Barrier Reef and has raised money for charity by cycling across Madagascar. Dean has worked in leading FTSE companies and one of the top global management consultancies. He studied economics and law and have a masters degree in business strategy. He is a founding partner of TomorrowToday, a consultancy that explores and helps leaders to succeed in a changing world. His areas of focus include leadership, strategies and future/disruptive trends. Dean’s extensive global and sector experience covers multiple industries and work across over 30 countries, and his passion for the future of work differentiates him from other speakers. He has worked in senior leadership for FTSE 250 companies and consulted to both large and small businesses. Business Schools and institutions including London Business School repeatedly request my input in their global executive development programmes. Dean’s delivery style is conversational, down-to-earth, approachable and confident.
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About TomorrowToday: Partnering with our clients to develop leaders and strategies for the new world of work.
Matthew Skelton
Founder and Head of Consulting of Conflux
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognized by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com.
He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organization dynamics for modern software systems.
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About Conflux: Conflux provides consulting, training, and books for effective software delivery.
Fergus Bell
Founder & CEO of Fathm
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About Dig Deeper, EBU, Fathm: Fathm is a management consulting agency that offers content strategy, project management services, training and creative solutions.
Fergus Bell
Founder & CEO of Fathm
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About Dig Deeper, EBU, Fathm: Fathm is a management consulting agency that offers content strategy, project management services, training and creative solutions.
Tania Seary
Founder & Chairman of Procurious
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About Procurious: The online business network for a new generation of procurement & supply chain professionals.
Emily Hinks
Founder and CEO of Mischief Makers
Emily Hinks runs SheSays in London – a global community helping women further their careers in creative media through talks, informative debates and a mentoring. Emily is also a facilitator on the rise in amongst London’s varied Creative scene. A Hyper Island Alumni, she’s jumped the globe leading Design Thinking and Team Development workshops for big brands and agencies alike.
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About Mischief Makers: A facilitation agency focused on collaborative working and the power of creativity.
Vesna Sokolovska
Founder of Green Culture World Foundation
Vesna has been an author of numerous pioneering projects and has been promoting the Balkan Cultures in the UK since 2006 through series of cultural events, such as art exhibitions, theatre performances, film festivals, concerts, literature readings, as well as educational projects on different subjects. Through her work, she is actively promoting the environmentally sustainable creative sector through raising awareness and hands-on activities such as the 3rd forthcoming Green Culture Fest and conference in September 2015. She’s been also part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Team. Vesna is a supporter and part of her local Friends of the Earth group, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts as well as a member of the Institute of Fundraising from London, UK.
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About Green Culture World Foundation: Enabling new generations of environmental leaders from the cultural sectors to lead this mission and act as Environmental Visionaries.
Vesna Sokolovska
Founder of Green Culture World Foundation
Vesna has been an author of numerous pioneering projects and has been promoting the Balkan Cultures in the UK since 2006 through series of cultural events, such as art exhibitions, theatre performances, film festivals, concerts, literature readings, as well as educational projects on different subjects. Through her work, she is actively promoting the environmentally sustainable creative sector through raising awareness and hands-on activities such as the 3rd forthcoming Green Culture Fest and conference in September 2015. She’s been also part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Team. Vesna is a supporter and part of her local Friends of the Earth group, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts as well as a member of the Institute of Fundraising from London, UK.
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About Green Culture World Foundation: Enabling new generations of environmental leaders from the cultural sectors to lead this mission and act as Environmental Visionaries.
