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This list showcases the top London based VP’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a VP’ 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.
James Stanbridge
Vice President of Oracle
James Stanbridge, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, is a leadership practitioner based in United Kingdom, having spent the past 10 years living in Asia, moving to Shanghai, China in 2005 and to Singapore in 2009. During his corporate career, James successfully attracted, hired and developed diverse teams of technologists in China, Singapore, India, Japan as well as Europe for Oracle, Microsoft, Alta Vista and Yamaha Motor in a multinational, corporate leadership career spanning more than 20 years. James is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), has been an Executive coach in the ‘Excelerrate’ program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a former Board member of the not-for- profit organization Lifeline Shanghai. He is currently the CTO of a Singapore based NGO fighting human trafficking and travels to Cambodia to support Sala Bai, a school for young women who are at risk of trafficking.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
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Chris Talago
VP Communications, EMEA and APAC of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Matt Blanks
VP MasterCard Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Edoardo Volta
VP, Head of Fintechs of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Neil Taylor
Vice President Data Strategy of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Liz Oakes
Executive Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Padilla
Vice President Product Strategy of NTT Communications
Len is a highly knowledgeable IT professional with considerable experience in a variety of areas from scientific super-computing to shared and dedicated hosting to selective outsourcing. Len has worked in all technical aspects and management levels of IT: supercomputing and financial systems programing, administration of large server and content delivery networks, PCI-DSS certification, management of international operations teams, product engineering and strategy.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
George Rigby
Vice President of Sales – Managed Cloud & Infrastructure Services (EU) of NTT Communications
George deals primarily with end user IT clients, advising on strategy and consultancy for digital transformation across financial and manufacturing industries. Over the last ten years he has helped companies achieve major gains for their businesses and describes how their aims translate into actions for the industry, focusing on value as part of ROI rather than pure cost calculations.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Dayne Turbitt
Senior Vice President of Dell EMC
Dayne holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Lisa Clark
Vice President – Contact Centre PM of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Richard Harris
EVP Head Of Global Sales of Feedzai
A veteran in both the finance and technology industries, Richard is helping to lead Feedzai’s global scaling. Before joining Feedzai, Richard held Vice President roles at both Experian and Accertify, during which time he built global sales teams and helped lead regional expansion. Richard has held leadership positions with Visa and PayPal, following various technical and development roles, and has also served as a member on the board of the Merchant Risk Council.
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About Feedzai: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Michele Drummond
Vice President of Marketing of Mercator
Michele is an accomplished B2B marketing strategy expert with over 15 years of experience in driving demand, and building successful, profitable organizations. As Vice President of Marketing, she is focused on supporting Mercator’s growth and business generating efforts globally through effective and results-oriented marketing campaigns and brand cultivation. Prior to joining Mercator, Michele held marketing leadership roles at SunGard and was instrumental in leading the company’s transformation after a merger to help form a disparate business. Michele brings cross-cultural experience and a global outlook, having worked in the US, Europe and the Middle East. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and a Master of Business Administration.
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About Mercator: Mercator is a leading provider of software and tech-enabled outsourcing solutions to the global aviation industry.
Allison Searle
Senior Vice President Of Global Sales of Mercator
Allison joins Mercator after a successful career spanning over two decades working with global software companies in both North America and Europe. Prior to that, Allison held the role of Vice President at Infor, responsible for the sales strategy of the CRM and BPM divisions. Allison led the sales team to transform new business opportunities by implementing innovative and creative sales strategies within a one year period. Allison has held several successful General Manager roles with industry leading companies to include Adobe and Aptean Software, and was involved in the due diligence for their acquisition of Supportsoft which proved transformational for business in Europe. She enjoys working closely with her team and motivating people with energy, drive, and determination along the way.
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About Mercator: Mercator is a leading provider of software and tech-enabled outsourcing solutions to the global aviation industry.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sonalee Parekh
SVP Finance, Head of corporate development M and A and Investor relations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sonalee is a seasoned corporate advisor who adds more than 20 years experience in the global technology, media, and telecommunications industries to our leadership group. She has held senior leadership roles at several international investment banks, including Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies. Parekh currently serves as the SVP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Edward Axon
SVP Business Development of Trōv
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About Blackdog Creative, Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.
Ben Hall
VP of Product Interactivity of O’Reilly
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Kriti Sharma
VP of Artificial Intelligence of Sage Group
Kriti Sharma is VP of bots and AI at Sage. She was recently named in Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30. She built her first robot at the age of 17, designed to bring chocolates to its controller. The software bots she works on at Sage today are designed to helping business builders do less admin, and more of what they love. Sharma is a trailblaser for smart machines that work and react like humans to help to make business admin invisible. Sharma is the creator of Pegg, the world’s first accounting chatbot, launched to market in 2017 which now boasts users in 135 countries.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Peter Francis
SVP – Global Head of Professional Services – Corporate Liquidity & Insurance of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Matthew Locsin
Vice President of Publicis Sapient
Matt Locsin is a Vice President at Publicis Sapient, where he leads the firm’s practice for innovation and drives Digital business transformation. He works with leaders and their teams to conceive, develop, and launch ‘what’s next’ and helps organisations to build their innovation competencies.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Neerav Shah
VP EMEA of commercetools
Neerav Shah has more than 20 years’ experience in complex, high-value enterprise sales across a range of technologies, including next-generation commerce solutions, big data, data and application integration, api management, social media and online community management platforms, mobile and fixed line device management systems, and network and systems management solutions. He has proven experience helping companies quickly scale in EMEA by building and growing high-performing sales and channel teams which surpass expectations and achieve above industry customer retention rates. Currently Mr Shah is the Vice President of EMEA for commercetools, the global leader in next-generation commerce software. Prior to commercetools, Mr. Shah was the Vice President of EMEA for SnapLogic, the leader in data, application, API integration and iPaaS. Previously, Mr Shah held sales management and consulting positions at Lithium Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent Motive, KPMG, and IBM Tivoli Systems. Mr. Shah has an extensive network of telecoms, financial services, retail, utilities, hi-tech and media contacts across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the United States. Mr. Shah holds a BSc in Computer Science from City University London.
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About commercetools: commercetools is an enterprise commerce company providing modern cloud-native API-lead offerings.
David Hawkings
Vice President EMEA & Global Planning & Optimisation Practice of OLR
David Hawkings is the SVP EMEA at Antuit.
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About Antuit, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
Bonno van Der putten
Senior Vice President of Alphabet
Bonno Van Der Putten is Investment Partner at Alphabet/Google Ventures. GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies. GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc. We’ve invested in more than 300 companies that push the edge of what’s possible. In the fields of life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cyber security, and agriculture, our companies aim to improve lives and change industries.
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About Alphabet, Carrefour: Alphabet is a holding company that provides projects with resources, freedom, and focus to make their ideas happen.
Tom Eilon
VP Strategy of AccuRx
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About AccuRx, Founders Academy: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Doug Norton Bilsby
VP, Industries Retail & CPG of ForgeRock
Doug Norton-Bilsby is responsible for setting the direction of all ForgeRock’s client facing activity in the Retail and Consumer Products arena globally. He is charged with defining the strategy for the operation and ensuring its consistent execution through Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing and Product. He also leads and sets the direction for all Partner and Alliance activity for the market across the region. Doug joined ForgeRock in January 2017. Doug comes to ForgeRock after spending the past five years helping early stage Mobile Commerce technology businesses build international operations. Prior to this Doug has led the European and International businesses of market leading Enterprise Technology Companies including Experian, Oracle and IBM. Doug holds a number of Professional Business and Management qualifications including a Masters.
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About ForgeRock: ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open source identity and access management products.
Yigal Elstein
Vice President UK&I of Tricentis
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About Tricentis: Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks.
Phillip Duncan
SVP Global Procurement of McKesson
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Yaacov Mutnikas
EVP – Head of FInancial Markets Technology of IHS
Yaacov Mutnikas is the EVP IHS Markit.
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About IHS, IHS Markit, Markit Securities Finance: IHS Inc. provides critical information and insight products and services through Internet-based applications and portals. It offers its
Fotis Karonis
Executive Vice President, Group Leader 5G and Edge of Capgemini
Fotis is the chief technology officer for EE, responsible for the IT and network development strategy and implementation. Fotis has overseen IT since EE was formed in 2010 with the merger of Orange and T-Mobile. Prior to his role at EE, he held the role of chief information officer for Romtelecom. Prior to that, he worked at Athens International Airport, as director of information technology and the telecommunications business unit. In this role, Fotis planned, implemented and ensured round-the-clock integrated IT services and infrastructure to the airport that serves over 16 million passengers and five million visitors every year. Prior to this, he worked with Cap Gemini and Alcatel in France.
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
George Evers
Senior Vice President, Product, Realtime Payments of VocaLink
George has spent the last 15 years driving technology innovations, leading product and strategy development across emerging technologies and enabling digital banking channel transformation. He is a huge advocate of providing more businesses and consumers with access to immediate payments.George joined VocaLink in November 2014 as Immediate Payments Services Director. He oversees the international development of VocaLink’s real-time payments proposition and associated mobile payments solutions. Since joining, George has pioneered the development of international strategies for VocaLink in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Before joining VocaLink, George was Head of Channels within the Corporate Banking Division at RBS. It was there that he developed a Corporate Banking self-service channel strategy and managed existing core digital channel propositions. George also held the position of Head of Product Management & Development for RBS Global Transaction Services where he managed the growth development of the UK Domestic Cash product set. Building on VocaLink’s 2014 success of implementing Immediate Payments in Singapore, George’s most recent career highlight has been part of the team involved in the signing of a contract with The Clearing House- a partnership that will bring real-time payments to the United States.
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About VocaLink, VocaLink: VocaLink develops and operates payments infrastructure solutions in the United Kingdom.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Andrew Lonergan
VP Sales and Marketing of Aspect Imaging
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About Aspect Imaging: World leader in the design and manufacture of compact, high-performance MRI & NMR systems offering Complete Point-of-Care MRI systems
David Byron
SVP Global Alliances and New Markets and General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Farhat Shiraz
VP Sales-India/South Asia/EMEA of Stelae Technologies
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Olivier Kerckhove
VP / Founder of Storm5
Olivier Kerckhove is the VP and Founder at Storm5.
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About Storm5: Storm5 are global RetailTech recruitment experts, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Rebecca Matthews
VP Marketing of Koru Kids
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About Koru Kids: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Mark Harries
Executive Vice President, MillenniumIT and General Manager, Technology Services, LSEG of MillenniumIT
Mark joined the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and has been involved in a number of the major projects and strategic initiatives since then. Following the acquisition of MillenniumIT in October 2009, he is currently responsible for the LSE Group – MillenniumIT interface and splits his time between London and Colombo. Mark is a graduate engineer and prior to joining the LSE worked as a consultant project manager in the engineering, construction and financial services sectors.
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About MillenniumIT: MillenniumIT is a leading innovative trading technology business.
Marion Feldhofer
SVP Corporate Partnerships of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Audelia Boker
Global VP Marketing of Glassbox
Audelia Boker joined Glassbox in January 2016 after spending over 17 years in Israel’s largest FMCG and flagship tech companies, including Strauss-Elite, Orange (now Partner), Comverse (now Xura) and NICE Systems. Equally at home with storytelling as with crunching analytical data, Audelia’s international background and leadership abilities have recently brought her back to Europe, where she grew up. Her most recent role was in London, where she headed Demand Generation for EMEA at NICE Systems, managing inside sales teams as well as the Enterprise integrated off-line and online marketing strategy and execution for the company across Europe. Before this, Audelia ran a team of marketing managers and had global responsibility over the Real-Time Solutions product marketing activities, significantly contributing to the success of the fastest growing business within NICE’s Enterprise portfolio. Audelia holds an MBA from ESCP Europe where she studied in Paris, France, majoring in Strategy and Marketing.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
Shashi Nirale
SVP and GM, EMEA of Servion Global Solutions
Shashi serves as the Senior Vice President and GM for the Europe and Middle East business at Servion. Shashi has a deep understanding of the customer experience domain and a strong track record of growing businesses across the region. At Servion, he drives Servion’s business operations and is responsible for strategic market expansion across the EMEA region. In his previous organization, Shashi was the Vice President and Head – UK Operations at Synechron, where he was responsible for setting the direction for organic and inorganic growth of the European business. Prior to Synechron, Shashi served as a Vertical Head at Capgemini where he managed and grew the capital markets, asset and wealth management, and security services businesses globally. Before Capgemini, Shashi held leadership roles in Headstrong’s UK and European business. Post-acquisition by Genpact, Shashi led the European Sales and Business operations for the capital markets business. Shashi has also been associated with brands like Red and Lowe Lintas. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from the Mumbai University, India and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde (UK).
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About Servion Global Solutions: Servion Global Solutions specializes in Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions that help companies.
Michael Charalambous
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President Of Commercial Operations of FuelPlus
Michael joined FuelPlus in 2016 and is responsible for global marketing and communications, based in their UK office. Michael has been helping scale-up great technology companies for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining FuelPlus, he was the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Director of Marketing for Diligent Corporation, a $100m Delloite top 50 growth company. Michael started his career at British Airways and has held senior marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Oracle, Carbon Trust and Opower. Michael has a degree in aeronautical engineering and a masters in strategic marketing.
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About FuelPlus: The FuelPlus Group is the leading provider of fuel administration and management software to the aviation industry.
Julian Eccles
VP PR & Communications of Travelport International
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About Travelport International: Travelport Limited provides business services, as well as transaction processing solutions and data to companies operating in the travel.
Simon Negus
EVP Worldwide Sales of Tenefit
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About Tenefit: Tenefit provides a simple, secure, and real-time solution for enterprise-grade digital transformation.
Edward Sweigart
Vice President Global Partners & Ecosystem of Finastra
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About Finastra: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
James Monaghan
VP Product of Evernym
James Monaghan is the VP Product at Evernym.
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About Evernym: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Clare Cooper
Founder and Vice President of Storm3
Clare Cooper is the Founder and Vice President at Storm3.
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About Storm3: Storm3 are a global HealthTech talent marketplace, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Barry Lyne
VP Sales of Panaseer
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Giovanni Dolci
Vice President, Theatre Development and Managing Director, Europe and Africa of IMAX
Giovanni Dolci joined IMAX Corporation in October 2012 as Vice President, Theatre Development. In January 2017 he was also appointed Managing Director Europe and Africa, where he is responsible for growing and expanding the IMAX theatre network across the two continents. He previously served as Director of Business Development and Commercial Operations at Arts Alliance, where he was in charge of negotiations with cinema exhibitors and film distributors throughout EMEA to support the market’s transition to digital projection technology and where he helped establish a worldwide digital distribution platform. Prior to Arts Alliance, Giovanni Dolci worked in film financing and oversaw a number of projects based in New Zealand, Italy and the UK. He has a degree in Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan and an MSc in Management from Cass Business School in London. He is a Junior Fellow of the Aspen Institute Italy.
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About IMAX: IMAX Corporation is one of the world’s leading entertainment technology companies, specializing in immersive motion picture technologies.
Craig Vallis
VP Enterprise of My Voice
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About My Voice: My Voice is a Norwegian voice tech company.
Craig Vallis
VP Enterprise of My Voice
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About My Voice: My Voice is a Norwegian voice tech company.
Roei Haberman
SVP Sales Transformation & Head of Telco, Media and Technology of NTT DATA UK
Roei Haberman is the SVP of Sales Transformation & Head of Telco, Media and Technology at NTT DATA UK.
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About NTT DATA UK: NTT DATA UK is a consulting and IT service provider to manufacturing, banking public sector, telecom, and financial services.
Nik Dinning
VP of Marketing of Edge by Ascential
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About Edge by Ascential: Edge by Ascential delivers some of the industry’s most accurate and actionable sales-driving data, insights and advisory solutions.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Barry Dahan
Executive Vice President, Global Sales of DragonWave
Barry Dahan is the Executive Vice President of Global Sales at DragonWave. Barry has 30 years’ experience in the International Telecom industry in various roles. Prior to joining DragonWave in 2011, Barry was tasked with building the business and infrastructure for Starent Networks. Barry was employed with ALU and Nortel in various Executive / Leadership roles. Since 2010 Barry is investing in private growth companies. Barry holds a Business Degree in Finance as well as a Bachelor in Engineering from Polytechnique in Canada.
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About DragonWave: DragonWave Inc. (DragonWave) is a provider of high-capacity Ethernet microwave solutions for Internet protocol (IP) networks. Its
Patrick Traynor
Consultant (VP Sales / Sales Director) of Silicon Growth Ltd
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About Silicon Growth Ltd: Silicon Growth helps startups scale. Sales strategy, enablement and operations.
Royyuru Avinash
VP Products of tenCube
Royyuru Avinash is a VP Products at tenCube.
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About tenCube: tenCube enables its users to remotely lock and track down a lost device, retrieve a copy of the data securely, and remotely wipe off data.
David Chalmers
VP Marketing of Skurio
David Chalmers serves as the Vice President of Marketing at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Arun Shenoy
CMO and SVP Global Sales of Serverfarm
Arun Shenoy is the CMO and SVP Sales at Serverfarm.
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About Gibss, Serverfarm: Serverfarm is a data center company providing a complete data center oversight from facility to IT infrastructure management.
Ed Lloyd
Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales of encompass
Over the past decade, Ed has led sales and served as a member of the Executive Management Teams at a number of organisations in the Know Your Customer and Governance Risk & Compliance space. Ed managed the New Business Sales and Account Management teams covering EMEA and Asia Pacific for these firms, delivering new business sales growth and increasing the brands’ footprints in new logos and new geographies, that helped take two of them to successful sale, one to a FTSE 100 company, the other to Private Equity.
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About encompass: encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Aaron Boasman-Patel
VP, AI & Customer Experience of TMForum
Aaron Boasman-Patel serves as the Vice President of AI and Customer Experience at TMForum.
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About TMForum: TM Forum is a global trade association that connects enterprises, service providers, and suppliers in the digital ecosystem.
Reggie James
Executive Director | Co-Chief Operating Officer & SVP of Marketing & Communications of Digital Brand Media & Marketing Group, Inc
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About : DBMM Group provides investment opportunity in the growing Digital Marketing & Social Media sector. Operating in NY, London & LA
Saurabh Kedia
VP of Product Marketing of iYogi
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About iYogi: iYogi provides online technical support services for a range of computing and communication devices.
Christian Bower
Senior Vice President -Digital Services of Celent
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About Celent: Celent is a research and consulting firm.
Chris West
VP of Engineering of Toyota Connected Europe
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About Toyota Connected Europe: Toyota Connected Europe uses the power of data science to develop and deliver new mobility solutions for consumers.
Olly Cooper
Vice President of Platforms of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
Vice President of Platforms at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Chris Wakely
Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise of Benify
Chris Wakely has been working in global benefits technology for the last 15 years. He has seen the changes taking place both in insurance provision and the increasing importance of the employee experience. He is based out of the Benify London office.
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About Benify: Benefits Management and Total Rewards platform – SaaS
Steven Kahn
AVP of GSIs of LogicMonitor
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About LogicMonitor: LogicMonitor provides IT observability and monitoring for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures.
Andy Powell
VP Customer Experience of VersionOne
A During his 13-year career in the software development industry, Andy Powell has assisted in numerous enterprise agile rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre. Since joining VersionOne in 2006, Andy has served in various roles that include product management, leading VersionOne’s sales engineering team, and serving as a product evangelist for the company’s strategic initiatives. Recently, he has helped lead VersionOne’s strategy with respect to agile program and portfolio management. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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About VersionOne: VersionOne is a management tool supporting agile software development methodologies.
Andy Powell
VP Customer Experience of VersionOne
A During his 13-year career in the software development industry, Andy Powell has assisted in numerous enterprise agile rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre. Since joining VersionOne in 2006, Andy has served in various roles that include product management, leading VersionOne’s sales engineering team, and serving as a product evangelist for the company’s strategic initiatives. Recently, he has helped lead VersionOne’s strategy with respect to agile program and portfolio management. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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About VersionOne: VersionOne is a management tool supporting agile software development methodologies.
Alexandre Mercier
Co-Founder and VP, Product Development of Corymbus Asset Management
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About Corymbus Asset Management: Corymbus is a business risk analytics and fund development platform that uses unstructured data.
Carl Franklin
Executive Vice President of App vNext
Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Kinect for Windows, a MicrosoftRegional Director, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.
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About App vNext, Microsoft, Pwop Productions: Our clients trust us because we commit to their business issues with enormous intensity, bringing to bear not only world-class development.
Paul Lefrere
Vice President Innovation Strategy of Strategic Bridge
Through partnerships & as a senior executive, delivering globally & at scale, in these areas: – Building capacity for competitiveness (horizon scanning & risk management; analytics; new thinking, competencies, processes, networks & supply chains; open innovation), working with ministries, public & private institutions & corporates – Helping organizations & individual learners (regardless of sex and age) to transform knowledge, find value in it, share it (see website for free downloadable book), commercialize it if they want HOW By building ad hoc teams & partnerships (some are pro bono), which deploy cross-disciplinary approaches, evidence-based analysis & appropriate enabling technologies (eg agents, asynchronous & mobile communications, educational technologies, HR portfolios, recommender systems, re-usable objects) DRILLING DOWN: COMMERCIAL SECTOR – Codifying & exploiting knowledge & expertise (outcomes include: increasing net revenue from existing products & services; reducing the time & other resources needed to develop & market new products & services) – Identifying research findings available for exploitation or requiring action (in B2B, B2C markets) DRILLING DOWN: PUBLIC SECTOR – Leading transformative change & unlocking talent – Building personal & organizational capability in innovative & powerful ways – Sustainable business models using viable mixes of cost-recovery & openness
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