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 Publishing 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.
Will Neale
Founder of Grabyo
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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About 418SEC, Anorak, BondAval, Boost Technology, Boundless, Carmoola, Compa, Credit Kudos, Disputed, Entrepreneur First, flatfair, Fonix, Fonoa, GDevelop, Grabyo, Graphy, Heydoc, Hometree, Kolleno, Latitude, Loc.tax, LocalGlobe, Marshmallow, OneShot, Paid, Passion Capital, proSapient, Revolut, Ryde, Seedata.io, Seedcamp, ShowCaster, Silverbird, SteadyPay, Stotles, Tabeo, Thriva, Uncapped, Urban Jungle, Vauban, Vyne: Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
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John O’Nolan
Founder & CEO of Ghost
Founder at @TryGhost. Tweets about open source, startup life, non-profits, and publishing platforms. Travels the world with a bag of kites.
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About Ghost: Professional, modern, open source publishing
Joe Root
Co-Founder & CEO of Permutive
Joe is co-founder and CEO of Permutive, the only publisher-first Data Management Platform (DMP) that allows publishers to see 100% of their audience and target them in real-time. Y Combinator and EQT backed, Permutive counts Conde Nast, Immediate Media, Hubert Burda, IDG, Dennis and ESI Media among its growing list of clients. Following a BEng Computing at Imperial College and MSc Computer Sciences at Oxford, Joe chose to drop out of a PhD in Mathematical Genomics at Cambridge to start Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Nick Sabine
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Resident Advisor
Nick Sabine is the co-founder of Resident Advisor (RA). Established in 2001, RA enables the discovery of new music and events through a unique combination of original content and listings. By providing a platform for artists, promoters and fans RA connects the global dance music community and plays an indispensable role in supporting the electronic music industry worldwide.
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About Resident Advisor: RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
Farid Haque
Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios
Farid Haque is the Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios.He attended to the University of Toronto.
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About AssetVault, DataKiwi, Erly Stage Studios: An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
Ivo Spigel
Co-Founder and Editor of Tech.eu
Co-founder of IT solutions company Perpetuum Mobile and Croatia’s premier startup program, ZIP. Former editor at The Kernel; regularly writes columns for Forbes Croatia and is working on a book with interview of European startup founders.
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About Perpetuum-Mobile, Tech.eu, ZIP – Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator: Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
Michele Bonanno
Founder of Impakter
Michele Bonanno is the founder and CEO of Impakter. The company was launched on the 1st June 2014. On that day the Impakter Magazine started to publish its first article on Culture, Style, Society and Philanthropy. In September 2015, after the launch of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, he launched the Impakter SDGs Series 1. This editorial series was dedicated to give a voice to global leaders that are hands on trying to accomplish a incredible goals, make our World sustainable by 2030. Many global leaders, from the UN, NGO’s, Institutes, think tank and key influencer such as Nobel prize winner, all came together to illustrate the need to accomplish these 17 goals as a united world. A year later, in 2016, he launched the SDGs Series 2. This series is aimed at pushing further on the 17 SDGs goals and the work carried every day by millions of people.
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About Impakter: Impakter is an ecosystem focused on Sustainability. We build tools, stories and experience that makes sustainable living easy.
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Founder & CEO of ContentCal
Alex Packham is the Founder & CEO at ContentCal.
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About ContentCal: ContentCal allows users to collaborate, share, plan and publish content to drive engagement on social media.
Dave Sherwood
Co-Founder & CEO of BibliU
Dave Sherwood co-founder and CEO of Bibliotech, a core etextbooks platform that provides academic libraries and students with unlimited access. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Teach Learn Grow Inc. Dave earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Straya, coming to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship shortly afterwards. Dave dropped out to found Bibliotech.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Matthew Cockerill
Creative Director and Head of Studio of Swift Creatives
Matthew is a well-established designer who has been creating world-leading products and experiences for over 20 years. Working internationally across multiple sectors to help brands increase their business value through innovation and the design of physical and digital products and experiences. His work includes consumer electronics, healthcare, domestic appliances, alcoholic beverages, endurance sports, transportation and environments. He created the world’s first ethical and modular smartphone for Fairphone which won a Cannes Lion award in 2017, imagined future lifestyles and product categories for Samsung Electronics, created luxurious whisky experiences for Diageo, retail activations for Gatorade, award experiences for Google and helped define the passenger experience at Heathrow T5. Matthew regularly brings his innovative thinking to the wider world through speaking at conferences, panel talks, commentating in the press, university lecturing and judging industry events, including the steering group for the 2017/18 Cannes Lion Award. Before joining Swift Creatives, Matthew was a board director at Seymourpowell for 10 years and has worked in-house in Seoul, South Korea for Samsung Electronics.
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About Swift Creatives: Swift Creatives is an international design studio, helping brands create innovative designs and meaningful experiences
Asi Sharabi
Co-Founder & CEO of Wonderbly
Founded in 2014, Wonderbly is a unique, award winning startup that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. We are building a new class of global publishing business that brings millions of people into our superbly high quality products – as co-creators and audiences – and in doing so empower them to build connections with each other. We’re calling it Personal Publishing and we believe it’s going to be massive. Backed by top VCs (inc Google Ventures) Our company is based in the UK but with a global footprint. We are a ‘full stack publisher’, handling every aspect of the process of creating our books and serving our customers through our zero inventory, direct to consumer model. While we keep growing and nurturing our core business – creating stunning, uncompromisingly high quality and technically ambitious personalised books for kids – we have recently launched Wonderbly Studios: our strategic partnerships & joint ventures platform. Wonderbly Studios offers access to our world-leading personalisation expertise across design, tech and POD manufacturing.
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About Wonderbly: Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.
Pedro Serapicos
Co-Founder of Wonderbly
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About Wonderbly: Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London.
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Adam Penny
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Beautiful Truth
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About The Beautiful Truth: The Beautiful Truth is a magazine that honors people and businesses who live their lives with purpose.
Matt Heiman
Founder & CEO of The Game Day
Matt Heiman is the Founder and CEO at The Game Day.
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About Cocoon, The Game Day: The Game Day is an operator of a multi-channel platform for sports content.
Andrea Manfredi
Founder & CEO of Blasting News
After graduating from Bocconi University in 2005, Andrea earned an MBA at INSEAD, studying in Paris and Singapore. He spent several years working as a manager in top strategic consulting firms mainly in the UK and Italy. Working as a journalist since 1998, Andrea is the Founder & CEO and the Editor-in-Chief of Blasting News.
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About Blasting News: Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
Asaf Peled
Founder and CEO of Minute Media
Asaf is the Chief Executive Officer of Minute Media, parent company of 90min. Asaf founded 90min in 2011as FTBpro. Since then, 90min has grown to be the world’s largest football media platform, driven by a contributor-driven model, and has expanded the brand throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Asaf is involved in all aspects of Minute Media’s growth and operations, from product development to marketing and content. Prior to 90min, Asaf was the founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Top 7 International and also spent four years at Cisco Systems Israel where he was responsible for business development in the Israeli market. Asaf has a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a bachelors of arts from Tel Aviv University. He resides in London and his favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs.
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About 90min, Minute Media: Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Pete Campbell
CEO & Founder of Kaizen
Pete Reis-Campbell is the CEO & Founder of UK-based digital marketing agency, Kaizen. Kaizen works with brands like Symantec, MusixMatch, and TravelSupermarket to create award-winning content and boost SEO performance, through earned links from top-tier media publications such as the Daily Mail, Marie Claire, Lonely Planet and Business Insider. The company is the fastest growing independent agency for gross profit, as recognized by The Drum, and was featured in the top 50 startups of 2017 by Startups.co.uk. Pete is a regular public speaker at industry-leading SEO conferences such as BrightonSEO, SMX London and SAScon, a published writer on StateofDigital and SearchEngineWatch, and has won awards himself such as the ‘Rising Star’ category at the Travolution Awards for his work with Thomas Cook. Feel free to write to Pete about content marketing, link building, PR, SEO, voice search, entrepreneurship, business growth and more.
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About Kaizen: Kaizen is a content marketing agency in London, based in Moorgate.
Cabell de Marcellus
Co-Founder & CTO of Dianomi
Cabell, Co-Founder and CTO, is responsible for the strategic development of dianomi’s platform, he coded the original HA/LAMP architecture. He also represents dianomi in North America presenting to advertisers and publishers. Prior to founding dianomi, Cabell was Head of Software Development and Equity Services at Interactive Investor where his software was a vital part of the $1BN flotation.
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About Buckingham Gate Chartered Financial Planners, Dianomi: Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Jon Burkhart
Founder & Chief Creative Officer of TBC London
Jon is the co-author of Newsjacking: The Urgent Genius of Real-time Advertising. He’s also founder of content marketing consultancy TBC Global where he finds truly unique ways for brands to earn and keep their fans’ attention. In 2010, he co-founded Urgent Genius, the world’s first blog dedicated to reactive creativity. A seasoned keynote speaker, Jon’s spoken at South By Southwest (SXSW) 7 years in a row and now serves on the programming committee. A crazy sports fan, he brings is content strategy/ fun/ games to the SEAT (Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology) conference as well. Previously, Jon was social content director at Iris Worldwide.
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About TBC London: TBC London is providing news , real time contents , events and planning.
Kate Hersov
Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Jumo Health
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About Jumo Health: Jumo Health provides educational content and tools to help children and families understand, manage, and own their health.
Clive Jacobs
Founder of Travel Weekly Group
Clive Jacobs is the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of holiday autos group limited, the world’s largest leisure car rental broker.From humble beginnings, Clive built holiday autos into a sector leading business, which was acquired by lastminute.com in March 2003 for £43 million. On selling holiday autos Clive joined the board of lastminute.com plc as Executive Deputy Chairman a position he held until June 2004. Having left school at 16 Clive’s early career included jobs on building sites, and even the fish department at Selfridges. His introduction to the travel and leisure sector industry was working as a messenger for a travel agency. Following that he took a job in sales with a seat only company and became Managing Director of his own flight company at the age of 21. On the look out for an unexploited niche in the travel industry, Clive and two partners founded holiday autos in 1987. holiday autos was the first car rental broker in Europe and the first car rental business to offer a pre book-able pre-paid fully inclusive product that was guaranteed in price. In 1995 Clive brought in ECI Ventures to assist him in buying out his original partners. They took a 25% stake in the company. From this point onwards and realising the international opportunity that existed in this still unexploited segment Clive then set about the task of transforming holiday autos from a small successful company, into an established, well respected global business with a turnover in excess of £200 million operating out of 30 countries worldwide. Between 1995 and 2003 holiday autos won 68 awards in 8 countries for its service and innovation. In 1999 holiday autos launched the first fully book-able car rental website which by 2003 was handling in excess of 80% of the company’s transactions. In 1997 Clive was awarded the World Travel Market Global award for his outstanding contribution to the UK Travel Industry and in 1999 he was voted Director of the Year by PWC and Decision magazine. In 2000 he was presented with a World Travel Market Tribute 21 award, an accolade given to 21 key individuals who had been instrumental in bringing pioneering changes to the travel industry over the previous 21 years. In 2003, he was inducted in to the travel industry’s highly prestigious Hall Of Fame, alongside other leading figures including Vladimir Reitz, Billy Butlin, Lord King and Richard Branson. Since June 2004 Clive has advised on several large acquisition opportunities with major banks and private equity companies. He has personally backed two businesses – the leading independent online classified business freeads.co.uk and an internet software consultancy business. In September 2008 Clive was appointed as the first Chairman of Visit Devon, a newly formed destination management organisation responsible for promoting Devon to the world. In August 2009 Clive acquired Travel Weekly from Reed Business Information, a Reed Elsevier company and became Chairman of the newly formed Travel Weekly Group, formerly known as TWgroup. Travel Weekly is one of the leading publications and information services in the travel and tourism industry, and includes the associated brands Travolution, Gazetteers.com, the Globe Travel Awards and associated websites and events. In the past four and a half years the Travel Weekly Group team, under Clive’s leadership, have built on the group’s market leadership and strengthened what were already leading brands even further into the market place. In November 2012 Clive expanded the Travel Weekly Group by acquiring Caterer and Hotelkeeper from Reed Business Information. Caterer and Hotelkeeper is the UK”s only weekly for hoteliers and restaurateurs and one of the events in their portfolio is the renowned Catey awards. Clive also acquired the Agent Achievement Awards from Kingley Event Management, which are recognised as the leading travel agent awards programme. In 2013 the business launched Connecting Travel, a revolutionary new publishing concept for the B2B market which provides a dedicated global travel, tourism, and hospitality community for its members. In March 2014 Clive expanded the Travel Weekly Group further by acquiring Kingley Event Management and its portfolio of events including the British Travel and Hospitality Industry Hall of Fame. The agreement completes the acquisition of Kingley following the purchase of the Agent Achievement Awards in 2012, and extends the Travel Weekly Group events portfolio to more than 50 events a year. In April 2014, Travel Weekly Group also launched Connections, a portfolio of events to facilitate direct business relationships in the global travel industry. Connections is a series of exclusive invitation-only events for different travel sectors to be held in luxury hotels around the world. In June 2014, Clive completed his second acquisition of the year and is now the owner of travelGBI, the premier title solely focusing on domestic travel, tourism and business news in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In July 2014, Caterer and Hotelkeeper rebranded its multimedia publishing group as The Caterer, while launching a radical new website and restyled magazine. With Travel Weekly Group growing in size and scale, and delivering new products in new sectors, Clive launched the umbrella/parent brand of Jacobs Media Group which encompasses all the titles held within Travel Weekly Group. Later in 2014 Clive fulfilled an advisory role for BC Partners, helping them in a successful bid to buy the car hire firm, CarTrawler, from ECI Partners. This outcome brought Clive full circle, with CarTrawler having purchased holiday autos from lastminute.com in 2013. Clive remains an investor, and also an active advisor in the business to both management team and private equity firm. In the same year Clive took a stake in and became Chairman of leading luxury cruise business, The Cruise Professionals, whilst also becoming Chairman of leading Canadian travel retailer itravel2000. Reflecting his own background, Clive also devotes time to mentor young entrepreneurs.Aside from business Clive is married to Suzanne, they have a daughter Martha, aged 13 and his family home is in Devon. Clive is actively involved in charity work and is a Patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust. His other passions include shooting, skiing, collecting…and drinking fine wines!
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About Travel Weekly Group: Travel Weekly Group is a publishing and events company that serves the travel industry, travel agents, tour operators, and other suppliers.
Paul Robertson
Co-Founder & Editorial Director of Contagious Communications
Paul Kemp Robertson is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Contagious Communications. After graduating with a masters degree in Film and Television from Goldsmiths College in London, Paul started his career at corporate communications firm Maritz before helping launch shots magazine in 1990. After a spell in commercials production, Paul returned to shots and became editor in 1994. Subscriptions trebled under his tenure. In 1998 Paul was appointed worldwide director of creative resources at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 2004, Paul co-founded Contagious with shots founder Gee Thomson and media entrepreneur John Gordon. Paul has written for publications including Business 2.0 and The Guardian, as well as co-editing D&AD’s The Commercials Book. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and his talk on alternative currencies has been viewed more than 438,000 times at ted.com.
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About Contagious Communications: Contagious helps brands and advertising agencies understand and adapt to shifts in marketing, consumer culture and technology.
Erhan Korhaliller
CEO & Founder of EAK Digital
EAK Digital is a leading tech PR agency that works with clients to help them achieve mass media coverage, brand recognition and visibility driven growth. Erhan was recently the main stage Host/MC at the Austria Blockchain Summit and is a regular Host/MC/Moderator at major blockchain conferences. Erhan is also the presenter of EAK TV, interviewing blockchain’s thought leaders, including exclusives with Changpeng Zhao of Binance, Charles Hoskinson of IOHK and Johnson Zhao of NEO.
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About EAK Digital: EAK Digital Turning Local Experts into Global Influencers. Get writing for major publications. Grow your influence today.
William Pryor
Co-Founder of Bookbarn International
William Pryor is founder and CEO of Eclector, the white-label bookshop company.
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About Bookbarn International, Oriental Rugs of Bath: Bookbarn International is one of the largest used bookshops in England.
Irina Gofman
Founder & CEO of Viasat World
Irina Gofman was appointed as President and CEO of Viasat World in January 2016. Prior to this, Irina worked for MTG AB, International Media and Broadcasting Group, as Executive Vice President of the Group’s Russian & CIS broadcasting operations and Pay TV Emerging Markets, and as CEO of MTG Russia & CIS. Irina was also CEO of Rambler Media Group between 2004 and 2007, and worked for MTG between 2002 and 2004 as Chief Operating Officer of the DTV Russian TV. Irina was instrumental in the launch of Viasat Broadcasting’s wholesale pay-TV business in Russia. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Philology from Moscow State University and an MBA from Babson College in the United States.
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About Viasat World: Viasat World has a rich and diverse portfolio of content brands – movies, factual and sport.
Rory Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AgriBriefing
Rory co-founded Briefing Media in 2010. Prior to that, Rory has spent over 20 years in senior positions across a wide range of international business media companies.Rory began his career in marketing at commodities and financial information specialist Metal Bulletin before joining Emap to help develop a digital subscription business for the Middle East. After marketing director positions at Risk Waters Group and Incisive Media. Rory became a divisional managing director for Incisive Media in 2005 leading an acquired division in North America. Rory currently serves as the company’s CMO with specific responsibility for agribusiness content, price discovery, subscription development and the event portfolio. He is a former director of the Specialised Information Publishers Association.
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About AgriBriefing, SIPA, The Media Briefing: AgriBriefing is a business media company that specializes in pricing, data, marketing solutions, news, market intelligence, and insight.
Darren Smith
Co-Founder of Studio PI
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About News UK, Studio PI: Studio PI promotes awareness on social issues through photography and illustration.
Adam Benzecrit
Co-Founder of inflo.Ai
Co-Founder @infloAi.
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About avvoka, inflo.Ai: inflo.Ai empowers marketers and content creators to publish high-quality content that supercharges organic website traffic, qualified leads and attributed revenue.
Combining AI to analyse search trends with human-written content, inflo.Ai is the world’s first “hybrid” content platform.
The platform utilises the strengths of AI without losing sight of the irreplaceable human touch needed to authentically connect with an audience.
Toby Cockayne
Co-Founder of inflo.Ai
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About inflo.Ai, SportsFix: inflo.Ai is a London-based software company building proprietary AI technology to make content creation simple, fast and affordable.
Sam Mohammad
Founder of Faculti
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About Faculti: Higher Education E-Learning Platform
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Jefferson Hack
Co-Founder of Dazed Media
Jefferson Hack is the CEO and co-founder of Dazed Media, an independent media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands.
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About AnOther Magazine, Dazed Media: Dazed Media is the world’s leading independent fashion and culture media brand.
Ryan Hall
Founder – Chief Growth Officer of The Zeitgeist
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About The Zeitgeist: The Zeitgeist helps brands, start-ups, and creative businesses understand their growth agenda and succeed at scaling up.
Hubertus Hoffman
Founder of Globalo
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About Globalo: Globalo is a fresh new take on digital journalism.
Geoff Baker
Founder & CEO of ICN Corporate
Geoff Baker’s background is publishing and finance. After training as a CIMA accountant and becoming Financial Controller of Dutch media giant VNU’s UK publishing company in 1997, Geoff spent 4 years coordinating mergers and acquisitions for the European Publishing Division. Geoff returned to the UK team in 2001 as Publishing Director responsible for 5 magazines and charged with overseeing the company’s transition from magazine publisher to multi media player. Geoff was then placed in charge of a global business unit of research company ACNielsen after it was acquired by VNU. After a 2 year stint as CEO of a privately backed venture, Geoff decided to launch his own company, ICN.
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About ICN Corporate: ICN offers a diverse range of products and services, primarily Apps, but also Web, IPTV and social media.
George Marangos-Gilks
Founder of Tab Media
George Marangos-Gilks is a Founder at The Tab.
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About : Tab Media is a global youth media startup for people under 25. It publishes The Tab and babe.
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Marc Hartog
Founder & CEO of 1854 Media
Marc Hartog is the Founder & CEO at 1854 Media
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About 1854 Media, MN Digital Media, theprintspace: 1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation
Ian Clethero
Founder & Director of 1Hub Media Ltd
Ian Clethero is the founder of 1Hub Media (London) and Platform8 Asia (Hong Kong). These are online media companies publishing platforms for two verticals: music education and choirs. Platform8 Asia is reponsible for marketing the projects in Hong Kong, SE Asia and the wider region. 1Hub Media takes the same role for the UK and European markets. The aim is to build MUSIC:ED and Chorally into ‘go-to’ global resources for their respective sectors. Each platform efficiently links individual users with organisations and businesses. The platforms combine independent media (news, magazine articles) with directories and listings (classifieds, project profiles, jobs, resources). Online membership, social networks and iOS/Android mobile apps will be launched in 2019 to provide new benefits for platform users, boosting overall engagement and traffic. MUSIC:ED is designed for students, educators, performers and parents as end-users. Advertisers include education providers (including university and college music departments, international schools, private music schools), music and software publishers, providers of specialist services, charities, government departments and arts councils, membership organisations and performance venues. Chorally serves the global choral sector, a market of an estimated 2m performing groups and 60m singers. The platform brings together choirs, singers and audiences in one place (the idea for Chorally came from Ian Clethero’s extensive experience as a church musician). From mid 2019, choirs will be able to create profiles and add jobs, events and news to Chorally. Both platforms are monetised through advertiser subscriptions, individual listing fees (eg for summer schools and jobs) and individual membership subscriptions (from 2019). Additional revenue is derived from sponsorship and affiliate commissions from sales originated on the platforms. The projects have bases in both Europe and Asia. Ian Clethero’s aim is to expand MUSIC:ED and Chorally in these regions. After this, the projects will be extended worldwide including to North and South America.
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About 1Hub Media Ltd: Publisher of digital information platforms, MUSIC:ED (https://musiceducation.global) and Chorally (https://choral.ly).
Paulina Sygulska
Founder and Director of GrantTree
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About GrantTree: GrantTree was started in 2010 with the explicit aim of helping innovative tech companies to access government funding.
Charles Thiede
CEO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Jon Beer
CTO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Mantas Malukas
Founder & CEO of Dapp Life
Mantas Malukas is an entrepreneur, journalist & blogger. As an entrepreneur his main focus is in the development of high level concepts mainly in the editorial news projects and journalism.
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About Dapp Life: Dapp Life is an online platform that features cryptocurrency news, crypto app reviews and incisive commentary on blockchain and dApps.
Jenk Oz
Founder of Thred Media
Jenk Oz runs Thred Media, a publisher of content for young people. He is once dubbed Britain’s Youngest CEO.
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About Thred Media: Thred Media is a publisher of content for young people.
Mads Holmen
Founder of Bibblio
Digital entrepreneur based in London, UK
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Rich Simmonds
Co Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Bibblio
Rich has 20 years experience in interface and graphic design. He holds a BSc in interactive media and has worked internationally as the principal UX designer and creative lead for businesses across communications and media. Most recently he was the senior strategic designer for AOL’s video products across Europe and Asia, where he met co-founder Mads. Rich is responsible for the Bibblio brand, its design principles and the UX across our platforms and modules.
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Dinis Guarda
CEO and Founder of Ztudium
Dinis Guarda, author, CEO, and founder of the companies ztudium, techabc, and open business council platform. Dinis Guarda is also the founding member of the Ubuntu Tribe utribe.one impact platform that is creating access to basic financial services & wealth creation opportunities to solve global poverty trap. Dinis Guarda has a Master’s degree in new media. Dinis Guarda is an author, writer, artist, academic, B2B2C tech influencer, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Dinis is a world-renowned thought leader, strategist, futurist and speaker, an International Bestselling Author, and a media personality who covers the pressent and future of business, technology and society. Dinis is a World Class Leader in multiple fields and has a passsion to push ideas, action and technology together to create better solutions, narratives and paths. Dinis Guarda specialises in the crossroad between strategy, ideas, business, poetry, technology and how 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain are changing Humanity. Dinis Guarda has decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation. Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies. Dinis Guarda has created various companies such as ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com. Dinis has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world. Dinis Guarda has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he has been coordinating executive Masters and MBAs. Dinis Guarda is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain in 2019 and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He is also listed on multiple lists on global top leaders on Fintech, digital transformation and Technology at large. Dinis Guarda has been collaborating with multiple governments and global leading companies and organisations. An example is the collaboration with the newly-appointed Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chairman Datuk Rais Hussin collaborating in the concept of Malaysia 5.0 as a new narrative for the country. “MDEC will no doubt play a leading role in introducing emerging technologies which are essential tools in the new Malaysia 5.0 digital economy. If such a policy is missing from our national strategy, Malaysia will be left behind and excluded from digital ecosystems and workforces,” Rais said in his inaugural statement. Touting his personal passion for digital transformation, he referred to the book 4IR: Reinventing a Nation which was co-authored with blockchain / AI / Fintech expert Dinis Guarda and launched in October last year, is meant to be a blueprint of sorts to assist governments of developing nations in their digital transformation agenda. More here https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/06/16/new-mdec-chief-pushes-for-malaysia-5.0-concept/1875908
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About Gozoa, Ztudium: ztudium is maker of the industry 4.0 technologies for the future present: blockchain, AI and digital transformation solutions
Tim Dickinson
Founder of Descrier
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Andrew Rhomberg
Founder of Jellybooks
Founder at Jellybooks
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About Jellybooks: Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
Thomas Buus Madsen
Partner & Founder of Bookboon
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About Bookboon: Bookboon, is a publisher of eBooks
Lily Mercer
Founder of VIPER Magazine
Hailing from North London, Lily Mercer spends most of her time running Viper Magazine, which was born out of an ever present love of hip hop, a passion for words and a devotion to print publications. With no absorbing magazines left to buy Lily decided it was time to start her own and Viper was born. Now six issues deep, previous cover stars have included Darq E Freaker, Kali Uchis, Schoolboy Q, DeJ Loaf, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples and most recently, Novelist.
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About VIPER Magazine: VIPER Magazine provides publishing magazines.
James Dudley
Founder of Meetingg
Creative and high-performance Corporate Development and Operations professional with experience in building new markets, driving revenue growth and improving competitive market positioning. Skilled in the strategic planning, marketing, sale and support of advance technologies solutions. Successful in start-up, turnaround and high-growth markets across diverse industries. James is also an amateur musician who has made several pieces that were used in early pc games He has recently joined FasterCapital incubator to have Meetingg boot off the ground. He has traveled to more than 40 countries in the past 15 years.
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About FasterCapital, Meetingg: Meetingg’s goal is to offer different customized solution to make conferencing easier, more affordable and reachble to users.
Chris Wright
Co-Founder of Chrysalis Vision
Chris founded Chrysalis Music Group that, alongside other pioneering labels like Island and Virgin, spearheaded a revolution in rock that left music changed forever. Suddenly bands found themselves treated seriously both as musicians and business people. Chris also oversaw the development of Chrysalis TV and the launch of the classic detective series, Midsomer Murders, still one of the best selling dramas internationally. Chrysalis TV was sold to become the starting point for All 3 Media and Chris became the founder Chairman of the Digital Rights Group. Chris has also created, owned and run a myriad of other British businesses spanning music, media and sports.
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About Chrysalis Vision: Chrysalis Vision is working with writers to develop and produce ambitious and authored drama.
Ian Jindal
Editor in Chief and Co-Founder of Internet Retailing
Ian creates and transforms digital businesses in retail and publishing. Ian works to create sizeable and demanding businesses from initial idea, or to effect a step-change within complex, multi-stakeholder enterprises: working with the board and either directly leading teams or mentoring senior internal leaders. Ian has been responsible for P&Ls from £5m to £400m within organisations of up to £3.3bn turnover. Since 1991 Ian has operated at Board level, either as director, CEO or investor. Ian now works as an executive (leading business transformation at Board level), non-executive (working with Board and CEOs to build businesses) and investor (founding and growing early-stage companies). Consulting clients include House of Fraser, Austin Reed, Reiss, Couturelab, Otto UK, The British Council, IPC Media, Westfield Shopping Towns, David Morris and British Airways. With Econsultancy Ian has advised clients including Lloyds TSB, TUI/Thomson Travel and New Look. Ian is committed to skills and peer development within industry sector. Ian founded InternetRetailing (with Mark Pigou), the European eCommerce Forum (with Joris Beckers), the UK’s first Masters (MSc) in Internet Retailing (with Econsultancy.com, accredited by Manchester Metropolitan University) and M-Retailing.net (our new title covering the role of mobile in multichannel retail). 2010 sees the launch of InternetRetailing in France and Germany (www.internetretailing.de). Ian also contributes to the Masters in Digital Marketing. Ian is a regular keynote speaker and conference chair, providing insight and stimulus on ecommerce, the attention economy, open standards and data, future developments and today’s demanding digital customers. Recent engagements include Econsultancy (Digital Shorts, Future of Digital Marketing) Adobe/Scene 7, Bazaarvoice, Sky, London College of Fashion, the International Association of Department Stores, the Danish eCommerce Association (FDIH), BBDO University, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Zurich and Google UK. [Speaking archive]. Ian’s skills encompass technology (Chartered IT Professional, Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society), marketing, commerce and finance (Chartered Accountant) and business-wide innovation. Previously he was Group E-commerce Director for Littlewoods Shop Direct Group where he grew online revenues to £400m per annum. Before that Ian was Head of Online Operations at the BBC, establishing the team that built over 400 BBC websites. Ian was also Business Development Director for Thomson Science & Professional, was a non-executive Director of Business Link for London, and founder of the European eCommerce Forum.
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About Internet Retailing: InternetRetailing provides analysis, insight and stimulus for Europe’s multichannel retailers.
Corrina McCann
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Infinite Mixed Reality
Corrina McCann is the creative director of Infinite Mixed Reality.
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About Infinite Mixed Reality, Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Martin Schoel
Founder of ChooseHelp
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About ChooseHelp: ChooseHelp provides private addiction treatment through a network of treatment centers and drug rehabilitation centers.
Adrienne Ferguson
Founder of TreePress
Founder of TreePress.
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About TreePress: TreePress started in response to challenges Adrienne experienced in her classroom: an acute lack of playscripts available for schools.
Derin Cag
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Richtopia
Derin Cag is the founder of Richtopia, a leading publisher of contributions from prominent academics and professionals discussing unique insights on leadership, technology, marketing, and sustainability. As a universal information movement, Richtopia pursues a more sustainable and prosperous world in which all 7.8+ billion people are rich; including their access to knowledge, resources, and opportunities. The Richtopian mission above gets achieved through quality information, by inspiring those who make it happen, and with alliances centring around the people, planet, and profits. Past readers and interactors of Richtopia include Paulo Coelho (Author of The Alchemist); Kristalina Georgieva (Managing Director of the IMF); Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever); Helen Clark (Former Prime Minister of New Zealand); Mohamed A. El-Erian (Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz); and Richard Branson (Founder at Virgin Group), to name a few. Richtopia has got mentioned across various media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Business Insider, to name a few. Derin also finds global trends and transformative technologies that make the world a better place of particular interest. You can contact Derin via e-mail on derin@richtopia.com
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About Richtopia: A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.
Joe Wade
Co-Founder of Don’t Panic
Joe Wade is a BAFTA winning British filmmaker, TV writer, producer and the CEO and co-founder of creative agency Don’t Panic. In 2012 he co-created the BBC 3 TV show The Revolution Will Be Televised, winning a BAFTA for Best Comedy in May 2013. Joe has helped DP transition from famous flyer packs to a leading creative agency, best known for making viral content such as ‘Most Shocking Second a Day’ (Save the Children), ‘Can I Be Your Friend’ (ENO) and ‘Can You Make it to the End?’ (NAS).
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About Don’t Panic: An online arts, music, style & culture magazine accompanied by an offline poster pack.
Tom Hodgkinson
Founder, CEO and Editor of Idler Academy
Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) is a British writer, and the editor of The Idler, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future.
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About Idler Academy: The Idler is a quirky brand comprising online course business, quarterly journal, book publisher.
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Co-Founder of Idler Academy
Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author,[1] known for his book The Wavewatcher’s Companion. Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004. He grew up in West London and now also lives in Somerton, Somerset.
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About Idler Academy: The Idler is a quirky brand comprising online course business, quarterly journal, book publisher.
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO of Visualise
Henry Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Visualise, an award-winning virtual reality production studio founded in 2012. A pioneer in the VR industry since 2006, Henry is regularly invited to speak at international events and is a regular contributor for national newspapers, TV, advertising, marketing and trade journals. Over the past 4 years Visualise has produced over 60 VR experiences for clients including Thomas Cook, BBC, Financial Times, Audi, Oakley, Samsung, Wimbledon, Doctors without Borders, The Economist, O2 and many more.
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About Visualise: VISUALISE are a full service Virtual Reality production agency, creating world class VR experiences and films.
Samuel Ryzycki
Co Founder of MILLION12
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About MILLION12: MILLION12 Ltd develops projects based on Neos CMS publishing platform, including the Typostrap.io
Holly Brockwell
Founder and Editor of Gadgette
Holly Brockwell is a freelance journalist, blogger, social media strategist and copywriter. Having had almost a decade’s experience in copywriting, working on brands like Honda and O2, Holly moved into technology journalism for publications including Techradar, Gizmodo, the Guardian and the Evening Standard. She also offers blogging and social media services, corporate copywriting and – as a result of a home menagerie – bird advice.
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About Gadgette: Gadgette is an online magazine for women about gadgets, gaming and geekery.
Holly Brockwell
Founder and Editor of Gadgette
Holly Brockwell is a freelance journalist, blogger, social media strategist and copywriter. Having had almost a decade’s experience in copywriting, working on brands like Honda and O2, Holly moved into technology journalism for publications including Techradar, Gizmodo, the Guardian and the Evening Standard. She also offers blogging and social media services, corporate copywriting and – as a result of a home menagerie – bird advice.
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About Gadgette: Gadgette is an online magazine for women about gadgets, gaming and geekery.
Zain Verjee
Co-Founder and CEO of aKoma
Zain Verjee is a respected and recognised journalist, with 14 years of experience at CNN as an anchor, reporter and profound interviewer. Her passion for Africa has led her to create aKoma, Africa’s premier digital storytelling platform. She is Kenyan born and passionate about Africa today.
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About aKoma: A digital storytelling and content publishing platform for Africa.
Zain Verjee
Co-Founder and CEO of aKoma
Zain Verjee is a respected and recognised journalist, with 14 years of experience at CNN as an anchor, reporter and profound interviewer. Her passion for Africa has led her to create aKoma, Africa’s premier digital storytelling platform. She is Kenyan born and passionate about Africa today.
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About aKoma: A digital storytelling and content publishing platform for Africa.
