Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Information Services space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Thomas Balkizas MSC, MEng, MIoD
Director Healthcare and Life Sciences EMEA of Amazon Web Services
Thomas Balkizas is a Healthcare and Life Sciences tech futurist & evangelist. Currently the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Principal Partner at AWS and as well founder at Alpha Tech Capital. Thomas is an accomplished senior executive with a wealth of experience in leadership and consulting for Global Healthcare, Technology and Private Equity businesses. He has enjoyed considerable success managing the strategic direction of businesses, developing sustainable business strategies and delivering unprecedented results in high profile, international environments. Thomas is on a mission to demystify healthcare tech for us all while highlighting its great value & the huge, life changing opportunities it offers both the public and investors of all kinds (VCs, angel, private equity, family offices or corporate) Besides his HCLS investment expertise, Thomas is an experienced senior Cloud & AI executive, currently the Head of EMEA AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences, previously IBM’s Watson Health Executive Director. His private Investment & Advisory Group, Alpha Tech Capital, has been formed with 3 other senior HCLS tech execs and expert advisors. Their mission is to identify and help the UK’s best HCLS startups to scale globally, accelerating their progress with advice, funding & expertise in cloud, AI & health tech; acting as specialist advisors to a select network of investment partners. Thomas is a creative Key Opinion Leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences, with over 120 keynote speeches at Digital Healthcare, Private Equity and Technology conferences globally.
Follow Thomas Balkizas MSC, MEng, MIoD:
About Alpha Tech Capital, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rowland Illing
Director & Chief Medical Officer, International Government Health of Amazon Web Services
Follow Rowland Illing:
About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Johannes Bauer
Data Analytics Executive Director of IHS Markit
Johannes is Data Analytics Associate Director at IHS Markit, a global information and intelligence provider. He technically manages multiple data science projects across various business lines including finance, the automotive industry and the energy sector. He has a keen interest in the full data science spectrum including mathematical statistics, machine learning, databases, distributed computing, and dynamic visualizations. He holds a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Imperial College and has been active in quantitative research for more than 10 years including research positions at Harvard University and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. He has disseminated his research in more than 30 peer reviewed publications and over 50 talks.
Follow Johannes Bauer:
About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jack Kent
Research Director, TMT of IHS Markit
Jack Kent is a director in the IHS mobile team covering all forms of mobile content with a focus on mobile applications, games, music and social networks. Jack joined the company in 2008 and launched its coverage of the mobile applications business in 2009. Jack has written a number of industry reports investigating how smartphone applications and social networks are changing the mobile media landscape and is the author of IHS Screen Digest’s quarterly Mobile Games and Applications Stores Tracker reports. Jack has contributed to a number of consultancy projects on subjects ranging from the market for children’s mobile entertainment to the potential of the applications business for media companies in the Middle East. Jack’s research and analysis includes studies of media companies’ mobile strategies, how content providers can best monetise mobile media and an investigation of mobile network operators’ response to the booming smartphone and tablet apps business. Jack has a background in media intelligence and market research, having previously worked for Brad Insight, the marketing and media intelligence division of Emap where he led its research for a number of publications covering the UK advertising market. A regular speaker at industry conferences, Jack is widely quoted in coverage of mobile media by trade publications and leading news organisations including the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Reuters, The Independent and USA Today. Jack holds a degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College London and has previously worked for GfK NOP market research group.
Follow Jack Kent:
About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Robin Minto
Head of Technical Architecture and Director of Bybox
Follow Robin Minto:
About Bybox: ByBox was founded with a simple mission: to solve the problem of having to wait in for parcels.
Hui Xie
Deputy Director of Mobile Business Department of China Telecom
Follow Hui Xie:
About China Telecom: China Telecom as China’s major basic telecom operators, is implementing the transformation and upgrading strategy.
Masroor Siddiqui
Member of the Board of Directors of News Corp
Masroor Siddiqui is the Managing Partner of Naya Management LLP, an investment firm he co-founded in May 2012. Masroor was previously a Partner at The Children’s Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP, a hedge fund, from 2009 to 2011 and a Managing Director at Canyon Partners, an investment firm, from 2006 to 2009. Masroor previously served as a Senior Vice President at Putnam Investments, where he was responsible for a broad range of investments. Masroor spent several years as an investment banker and sell-side Analyst primarily at Goldman Sachs and Jefferies & Company. Masroor is a Member of the Board of Directors at News Corp since June 2013. Masroor has significant experience in investing with a focus on media investments. Masroor offers the Board valuable insights on global markets and industries relevant to the Company’s businesses. Masroor graduated from Yale University with a Master’s degree in Management and he also holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Follow Masroor Siddiqui:
About : News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Natalie Bancroft
Member of the Board of Directors of News Corp
Natalie Bancroft is a Member of the Board of Directors at News Corp since June 2013. Natalie is a professionally trained Opera Singer, has studied journalism and is a Graduate of L’Institut de Ribaupierre in Lausanne, Switzerland. Natalie has a culturally diverse background, having lived across Europe, and speaks several languages fluently. Natalie served as a Member of the Board of Directors at 21st Century Fox from 2007 until June 2013. Natalie brings public company board and committee experience to the board gained from her service as a current Director and member of both the Company’s Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, and as a former Member of the Board of Directors of 21st Century Fox and Member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Natalie’s public company board and committee service and international experience add valuable perspective to the deliberations of the Board.
Follow Natalie Bancroft:
About : News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Tom McCave
Director, Global Audience Prospecting & CEMEA Circulation of The Economist Group
Tom McCave is Global Audience Development Director at The Economist. In his role, Tom oversees new reader acquisition through digital and mass marketing channels at the top of the funnel such as TV, radio, digital display and paid social. This includes The Economist’s multi-award winning Brand Response campaign. Prior to working for The Economist, Tom held senior marketing roles at Thomson Reuters and Melcrum Publishing.
Follow Tom McCave:
About The Economist Group: The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs.
Lynn Rothschild
Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of The Economist Group
LAppointed as a non-executive director in October 2002. A non-executive director of the Estée Lauder Companies and a trustee of the Eranda Foundation, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
Follow Lynn Rothschild:
About : The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs.
Paul Lewis
Senior Director Cloud Security (BISO) of Elsevier
Follow Paul Lewis:
About Elsevier, Imperial College London: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Sharmila Paranjpe
Program Director; Strategy & Transformation of Wipro Technologies
Follow Sharmila Paranjpe:
About Wipro Technologies: Wipro is a global information technology, consulting and business process services company.
Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director, Europe of Hearst Ventures
Megumi Ikeda is the managing director of Hearst Ventures and the general manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco. Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.
Follow Megumi Ikeda:
About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Aarti Samani
Product & Marketing Director of iProov
Aarti is an experienced executive, who drives growth through product innovation, partnerships and operational efficiencies. She has led product and commercial functions in multinational as well as applied AI firms across financial services, fast growth consumer tech and healthcare. Aarti’s work has ranged from managing technology transitions in capital markets, to spearheading product development and launch of text input solutions, revolutionising the way consumers in emerging markets interact with their smartphones. She has most recently worked at SwiftKey (purchased by Microsoft) and Digital Surgery. Aarti holds a degree in Mathematics from University of Durham.
Follow Aarti Samani:
About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Joe Palmer
Technical Director of iProov
Joe is a skilled and experienced developer and project manager with a degree in Computer Science from UCL. His expertise lies in internet technology, and as co-founder and director of SoftForge he successfully delivered large and complex web-based e-commerce and secure information solutions for clients such as the NHS and Shell. Since 2012 he has led the development of iProov’s proprietary technology.
Follow Joe Palmer:
About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Andrew Newell
Research Director of iProov
Andrew joined iProov from University College London where he was a Research Fellow in both the Department of Computer Science and CoMPLEX. His PhD and subsequent published research focused on computer vision and pattern recognition. Since 2014 he has led iProov’s work on image processing.
Follow Andrew Newell:
About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Matthew Pearch
Commercial Director of iProov
Matthew’s career in telecommunications, IT and technology spans more than 25 years in Europe and Asia Pacific where he has been working in sales, marketing and managment roles for companies including Mars, Compuware and mBlox.
Follow Matthew Pearch:
About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Hugo Holland-Bosworth
Group Operations Director of Alternative Networks
Hugo has been involved with Alternative since 1995, joining the company permanently in 2000 as a Systems Sales Executive and going on to become a Sales Manager and then Business Systems Director. In 2007 Hugo was involved in the establishment of AN Technical Services (ANTS) and in 2008 following the acquisition and subsequent merging of Echo Communications and ANTS, Hugo was promoted to Operations Director. His remit was extended in 2010 to include Client Services and Networks Project Management and then in 2012 Hugo assumed responsibility for the enlarged Group Operations as part of the Executive Board.
Follow Hugo Holland-Bosworth:
About Alternative Networks: Alternative is a leading provider of IT solutions to UK businesses from device to datacentre.
Henrietta Marsh
Member of Board of Directors of Alternative Networks
Henrietta Marsh joined the Board as a non-executive Director on 6 June 2014. She has significant public company experience, having served as a non-executive director (and chairing the Remuneration Committee) at Dods (Group) PLC from April 2012 to November 2014, been an independent non-executive director at Acal plc since May 2013 and chairing the Remuneration Committee since October 2014, and since January 2014 been a non-executive Director of Electric World plc where she is appointed by Living Bridge Equity Partners. She is also a Director of Henrietta Marsh Consulting Limited. Previously, Henrietta was a director of 3i plc where she worked as a fund manager and in private equity for 14 years. She was also a fund manager at Living Bridge Equity Partners responsible for all AIM investments. Henrietta was the founder chairman of the AIM VCT Managers Group and is a member of the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Advisory Group.
Follow Henrietta Marsh:
About : Alternative is a leading provider of IT solutions to UK businesses from device to datacentre.
Lorna Gradden
Co-founder & Director of Valideus Ltd
Lorna is co-owner and Operations Director of Com Laude. She has been working in domain name management since 1994 and co-founded Com Laude with Nick Wood. She is known for having client interests at heart in all aspects of her work and ensures all aspects of Com Laude run smoothly, taking responsibility for order fulfilment, registry relationships and information systems. A regular speaker at industry events, Lorna loves the ever-changing nature of the domain name space. She previously co-founded Net Searchers with Nick Wood, a company described by Legal Business magazine as “possibly the best domain name management company in the world and certainly the first to treat domains as IP, not IT”. After Nick and Lorna sold Net Searchers, she joined VeriSign DBMS in 2003 as head of client management for EMEA. For Lorna, job satisfaction comes from getting to work with fantastic people and when she’s not dreaming of domains, Lorna can be found tending vegetables on the South Coast of England. She says that her law degree is not quite as useful today as it was during the five years she spent managing a successful band.
Follow Lorna Gradden:
About Com Laude, Valideus Ltd: Valideus Ltd is supply consultancy and management solutions to brand and community registry operators.
Simon Presswell
Managing Director, Broadcast & Education of Ascential Plc
Follow Simon Presswell:
About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Marcus Hughes
Director of Business Development of Bottomline Technologies
Marcus Hughes serves as the Director of Business Development at Bottomline Technologies.
Follow Marcus Hughes:
About Bottomline Technologies: Bottomline Technologies provides corporations, financial institutions, and banks with e-payment, invoice, and document automation solutions.
Ben Hargreaves
Director – Head of Government & Public Sector UK & Nordics of Bureau van Dijk
Follow Ben Hargreaves:
About Bureau van Dijk: Provide company information solutions that can make you more efficient.
Russell Hart
Non-Exec Director of Obsidian
Russell is the Chief Operating Officer and a Founding Partner at Alcova Asset Management LLP, a quantitative hedge fund HQ’ed in London.
Follow Russell Hart:
About : Obsidian has developed a new portal framework for investment managers.
Peter Rutland
Board of Director of CSC
Mr. Rutland is a partner and global cohead of financial services at CVC Capital Partners Limited (CVC). Prior to joining CVC in 2007, he was a principal at Advent International and served in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Currently, Rutland is a director of Avolon Holdings Limited (NYSE: AVOL). Mr. Rutland has a Master of Arts degree in economics and management from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. Age: 36
Follow Peter Rutland:
About CVC Capital Partners: CSC is an IT services company providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.
Tim Cobbold
CEO & Executive Director of UBM Plc
Tim is the CEO & Executive Director of UBM, an event services platform.
Follow Tim Cobbold:
About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Harpreet Singh
Senior Director of Luxoft
Follow Harpreet Singh:
About Luxoft: Luxoft is an IT company that works globally to give customers software development, product engineering, and consulting.
Zach Butler
Portfolio Director, IoT World Series of Informa
Follow Zach Butler:
About Informa: Informa is a business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group.
Michael Marciano
Product Director | Radius, Propertylink, News, Legal & Jobs of EG
Follow Michael Marciano:
About EG: EG provides data and intelligence in the commercial real estate industry.
Emilio Vacca
Director Mobile Channel of Telegraph Media Group
Emilio, has seen the world of technology changing multiple times over the years. As an expert in the mobile applications arena, he is constantly asking himself “what’s next”. A technology enthusiast, he has spent his 25 year career between design, technology and leadership roles and is an avid early adopter of new technologies. His unique blend of design and technology, developed working many years as a visual and interactive designer, as a software developer and architect for enterprise software and, later on, as a engineer and then manager for mobile applications, provided him unique advantages and vision; allowing him to move quickly between different technologies and sectors, from telecommunications to healthcare, from fashion to media. In the last 5 years Emilio has founded multiple startups in various industries (insurance, real estate, mobile services, social search services) and, as a startups mentor, he is now helping other companies grow.
Follow Emilio Vacca:
About Telegraph Media Group: Telegraph Media Group is a multi-media news publisher behind The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers.
Daniel Siden
Co-Founder and Director of Lightvert Ltd.
Daniel is a Business Director, Designer and Engineering with 18-years of professional experience, 12 of those spent as an design and technology entrepreneur in London. He builds teams, digital and physical technology products, services and businesses. As a founding director of design and engineering company Haberdashery, he lead the growth of the company from 0 to 20+ employees with a turnover of £1.6M on £2M of sales. Clients includes Nissan and CREE LEDs, Changi Airport Group and British Land, and world leading luxury interior and architecture firms. From Haberdashery Daniel spun out Lightvert Ltd., an out of home media technology company utilising proprietary patented technologies to merge the power of the spectacle of out of home media with the engagement of mobile. At Lightvert Daniel successfully raising seed funding and building an outstanding operational team and supply chain partnerships, and launched Lightvert’s core products within 6 months of closing the funding round. Originally from San Francisco, with and engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Daniel moved to the UK in 2002 for his Masters in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art.
Follow Daniel Siden:
About Haberdasherylondon, Lightvert Ltd., ROLI: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Mike Wellings
Commercial Development Director of Lightvert Ltd.
Mr. Mike Wellings is a Co-Founder of Lightvert Ltd. and has been its Commercial Director since January 2015. Mr. Wellings is a Co-Founder of Twelve Management Limited and has been its Commercial Director Since June 2014. He is responsible for guiding Lightvert through fund raising, structuring, market share and revenue growth.
Follow Mike Wellings:
About Lightvert Ltd.: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
Follow Anthony Baker:
About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
Follow Anthony Baker:
About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
Follow B. Nick Popovici:
About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Purnima Sen
Operations and People Director of Sparta Global
Follow Purnima Sen:
About : Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Nic Day
Finance Director of Sparta Global
Follow Nic Day:
About : Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Wayne Pollard
Account Director of Sabre Corporation
Follow Wayne Pollard:
About Sabre Corporation: Sabre Corporation is a U.S.-based travel technology company providing software solutions to the travel industry.
Andrew Tobin
Managing Director, EMEA of Evernym
Andrew Tobin is the Managing Director, EMEA at Evernym Inc.
Follow Andrew Tobin:
About Evernym, Focus Images: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Matthew Pullen
Managing Director, Europe of CyrusOne
Follow Matthew Pullen:
About CyrusOne: CyrusOne is a data center operator that offers colocation and peering services.
Frank Bevis
Director of Pdf2xbrl
Follow Frank Bevis:
About Konnect Soft, Pdf2xbrl: Pdf2xbrl is a software that converts accounts in PDF, word, and excel format.
Tunde Sasvari
Director of Client Development, Europe of Wealth-X
Tunde Sasvari is Director of Client Development, Europe at Wealth-X where she works with clients across the luxury, non-profit and education sectors. In this role, Tunde manages accounts across all sectors and provides top tier counsel to help clients optimize their strategies to engage the HNW, VHNW and UHNW wealth segments. Prior to her role in client development, Tunde joined Wealth-X in 2013 as a Research Analyst, providing her with hands-on experience using open source intelligence methods and eventually managing an international team of research analysts. Before joining Wealth-X, Tunde worked in various commercial roles and has lived in Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Italy and Hungary. She is fluent in Italian, Hungarian and English. Tunde holds a Bachelor of Laws from Universita degli studi di Genova in Italy.
Follow Tunde Sasvari:
About Wealth-X: Wealth-X provides wealth intelligence solutions to help you uncover, understand, and engage with the world’s wealthiest individuals.
Maeen Shaban
Director of Research and Data Analytics of Wealth-X
Maeen Shaban is Director of Research and Data Analytics at Wealth-X. Maeen is a lead author of Wealth-X’s main thought leadership reports, including the World Ultra High Net Worth Report, the Billionaire Census and the High Net Worth Handbook. During his six-year tenure at Wealth-X, Maeen has employed his expertise in data science across several roles.
Follow Maeen Shaban:
About Wealth-X: Wealth-X provides wealth intelligence solutions to help you uncover, understand, and engage with the world’s wealthiest individuals.
Maya Imberg
Director of Thought Leadership and Analytics of Wealth-X
Maya Imberg is Director of Thought Leadership and Analytics at Wealth-X. She is responsible for driving thought leadership, using data analytics to showcase the company’s products and services, and fostering knowledge sharing between Wealth-X and client organizations. She joined Wealth-X in 2016 as Director of Custom Research responsible for secondary research, data analytics and branded content. She has worked with clients such as Rolls Royce, Richemont, UBS, JPMorgan and Deloitte. Maya has fifteen years of experience in research, spanning market research, macroeconomics and financial services. Prior to joining Wealth-X, Maya held Senior Consultant and Economist roles at the Economist Intelligence Unit and spent a number of years within Datamonitor’s Financial Services practice. Maya holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and has worked in China, the US and Belgium.
Follow Maya Imberg:
About Wealth-X: Wealth-X provides wealth intelligence solutions to help you uncover, understand, and engage with the world’s wealthiest individuals.
Tom Hill
Senior Director, Diligence Solutions of Wealth-X
Tom Hill is the Senior Director of Diligence Solutions at Wealth-X. Tom manages the EDD requirements of clients that operate in both regulated and non-regulated environments, and he has an exceptional understanding of the Risk Based Approach, CDD, KYC, AML, CFT, and ABC. He joined Wealth-X in February 2017 as a Senior Case Manager, initially working operationally in relation to Wealth-X’s Diligence offering, overseeing new WXD dossier requests from inception through to completion. Prior to Wealth-X, Tom worked at Meridian Advisory, a small EDD consultancy, where he built and was the head of its new Integrity Due Diligence offering. Before this, he worked at Thomson Reuters as a Case Manager for the IntegraScreen product and was later promoted within the EMEA case management team. Tom completed his bachelor’s degree in Business Studies and is a certified anti-money laundering specialist and fraud examiner. He is based in the company’s London office.
Follow Tom Hill:
About Wealth-X: Wealth-X provides wealth intelligence solutions to help you uncover, understand, and engage with the world’s wealthiest individuals.
Anthony Vollmer
Managing Director of Moorepay
Anthony Vollmer is a CEO at Tesco Mobile.
Follow Anthony Vollmer:
About Moorepay, Virgin Media: Moorepay is a clear market leader in payroll & HR solutions for UK businesses.
Paul Bednarczyk
Managing Director of Roubini Global Economics, LLC
Paul Bednarczyk is 4CAST-RGE’s MD of Research. Prior to moving into that role, he had been with 4CAST from just a year after it was founded. His speciality is G20 FX, using skills developed over nearly 20 years trading for Hill Samuel, Credit Lyonnais and NationsBank.
Follow Paul Bednarczyk:
About Roubini Global Economics, LLC: Roubini Global Economics is the leading independent, global macroeconomic research firm.
Giles Godwin-Brown
Director of Innovation Enterprise
Follow Giles Godwin-Brown:
About Global Growth Business, Innovation Enterprise, World Finance Forum: The leading global voice in enterprise innovation
Mark Maslin
Director and Co-Founder of Rezatec
Follow Mark Maslin:
About Rezatec: Rezatec applies data science to satellite imagery and geospatial data to deliver cloud-based analytics to its global customers.
Alex Wrottesley
Managing Director, Landmark Geodata of Landmark Information Group
Follow Alex Wrottesley:
About Landmark Information Group: Landmark Information Group is a company that assists clients with a variety of real estate development and management projects.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
Follow Peter Lukes:
About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Mark Webster
Managing Director UK and Europe of Give To Get
Follow Mark Webster:
About Give To Get: Social Impact
Phil Stone
Director of Sensus
British by birth, Phil began his career with British Telecom in Central London and is a true global citizen, having lived and worked in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Denmark, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. His experience, integrity and honest approach to business have been the foundations of long term and enduring partnerships. Phil is married and holds Australian and British citizenship.
Follow Phil Stone:
About Sensus, The Chapel Group: Sensus is a helps a wide range of public service providers Company.
Mark O’Herlihy
Managing Director EMEA of IBM Watson Health
Head of IBM Watson Health for Europe, Middle East & Africa. As the Managing Director, Mark holds full responsibility for the Sales & Go to Market strategy & team, for Watson Health software products and solutions to their customers. This includes the full portfolio of Life Sciences, Oncology, Genomics, Imaging, Government, Value-Based Care & Population Health Management solutions. Mark has a clinical background and has worked in the NHS as well as many senior leadership positions in global, European and start-up healthcare companies throughout his career, with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare segment, Mark brings a wealth of experience and perspective and he is passionate about health and social care for everyone.
Follow Mark O’Herlihy:
About IBM Watson Health: IBM Watson Health works across the health landscape, from payers and providers to government and life sciences.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
Follow Mitun Patel:
About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Freddie McMahon
Co-Founder, Director of Strategy and Innovation of DF2020 Limited
Responsible for developing a paradigm shift in the way firms interact with regulation, which is currently unsustainable due to the diversity, volume, rate of change and complexity.
Follow Freddie McMahon:
About Augestra, DF2020 Limited: Df2020 regtech digitises regulation and procedures through a universal and unifying blend of codification, interaction and measurement.
Gareth Morris
Senior Director of Internal Results
With over 15 years’ experience in sales & lead generation Gareth leads the business development and commercial operations of the business. As one of the senior management team of Internal Results his passion for excellence ensures we consistently deliver high-quality results for our valued customers, with a professional and honest approach.
Follow Gareth Morris:
About Internal Results: Internal Results specialize in content syndication, b2b data and buyer intent solutions for B2B organizations worldwide.
Romill Bettany
Co-Founder and Engineering Director of Modulous
Romill Bettany is the co-founder and engineering director at Modulous.
Follow Romill Bettany:
About Modulous: Redefining the design & delivery of affordable, sustainable & smart homes by leveraging disruptive digital technologies
Meta Karagianni
Service Director, Marketing Executive Services EMEA and Asia-Pacific of SiriusDecisions
Meta is a dynamic international marketing and strategy professional bringing over 15 years of experience to the Executive Edge: CMO team in SiriusDecisions. Based in London, her expertise spans a broad range of areas including marketing and sales alignment, functional and skill assessment, lead management, marketing strategy and planning, organizational design, marketing measurement, customer loyalty, customer understanding, marketing communications, competitive positioning, solution selling and sales support. Before joining SiriusDecisions, Meta spent six years with the marketing leadership council (MLC) – a membership within the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) – advising chief marketing officers/marketing directors and their teams in EMEA across both b-to-b and b-to-c markets. In this role, Meta had P&L (statement of profit and loss) responsibility for the MLC in EMEA, led the executive advisor team and delivered sales enablement and acceleration initiatives that drove customer retention and new business. Prior to CEB, Meta led the strategic marketing team in LexisNexis UK where she was responsible for planning, pricing, market and competitive intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, and the execution of strategic projects. Meta first came to the UK with Gartner, spending three years as a marketing and strategy consultant before becoming chief of staff for the Gartner CEO in EMEA and operations director for Gartner Executive Programs EMEA. Meta holds an MBA from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and a BA in Information Technology from Athens University of Economic and Business.
Follow Meta Karagianni:
About Forrester Research, SiriusDecisions: SiriusDecisions is a B2B research and advisory firm.
Richard Harries
Associate Director of Institute for Community Studies
Follow Richard Harries:
About Institute for Community Studies, St. Mary’s University: Institute for Community Studies is a research institute that focuses on people and communities.
Eliot Benzecrit
Director of avvoka
Eliot Benzecrit is a director at Avokka.
Follow Eliot Benzecrit:
About avvoka, SportsFix: Avvoka enables businesses to automatically generate, track, e-sign, and store their standard-form legal contracts online.
David Howorth
Director of avvoka
Follow David Howorth:
About : Avvoka enables businesses to automatically generate, track, e-sign, and store their standard-form legal contracts online.
Joshua Ratilal
Co-Founder and Director of Zentivo
Follow Joshua Ratilal:
About Zentivo: Zentivo is an Insurtech startup, focusing on digitising the life insurance claims process.
Hamlesh Motah
Director of Norilo
Follow Hamlesh Motah:
About Norilo: Norilo engages in cloud computing and managed services focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises.
Rob Withagen
Managing Director of Asoko Insight
Rob Withagen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asoko Insight.
Follow Rob Withagen:
About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Obi Ejimofo
COO & Operations Director of Asoko Insight
Obi is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur now focused on implementing new business models in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the former managing director of Lamudi Nigeria and previously a senior manager at Thomson Reuters and Philips Electronics, designing and delivering global enterprise programmes. London Business School (MBA); University of Nigeria (BEngr)
Follow Obi Ejimofo:
About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Katja Hall
Director of Corporate Affars of Capita Customer Mgt
Follow Katja Hall:
About Capita Customer Mgt: Capital Customer Mgt is a consulting, digital services & software business obsessed with creating a better world.
Hamish MacLeod
Director of Mobile UK
Hamish MacLeod has served as the Director of Mobile UK since its formation in March 2016. Prior to this, he chaired for 14 years the Mobile Broadband Group, one of the cross industry bodies that was merged into Mobile UK, working across a broad range of public policy matters, including child protection, privacy and payments. He is an executive board member of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety and a director of the Committee for Advertising Practice. Hamish is a graduate of Aberdeen University, a qualified accountant and holds an MBA from Cass Business School.
Follow Hamish MacLeod:
About Mobile UK: Mobile UK is the trade association for the UK’s mobile network operators.
Aneesh Sharma
Director of consean
Helping design and govern blockchain, smartcontracts and hyperledger based business use cases. Aneesh is a techno commercial expert with 20 years of global experience. He serves as the board of directors of Consean and has incubated two startups. He consult in highly converged and niche domains of business, process, data and service designs like blockchains, smart contract and hyperledger and is also instrumental in incubating conseio a cloud-based education delivery platform, which after incubation stage will be handed over to professional CEO to run and manage. With over 20 years of professional experience Aneesh has worked with some of the top organisations like IBM Global Business services, Microsoft, EMC (Now Dell / OpenText) and have hands on work experience in delivering consulting engagements for geographically and culturally diverse banking and non-banking organisations. He is a certified blockchain professional and currently, working on designing business services using blockchain, smartcontracts and hyperledger frameworks.
Follow Aneesh Sharma:
About : Consean is a business consulting firm. We specialise in designing human regulated machine automated business services.
Paddy Byrne
Non Executive Director of Target Group
Follow Paddy Byrne:
About Target Group: Target Group is a provider of business process outsourcing and software solutions.
Finian Parrick
Managing Director of Minibems
Follow Finian Parrick:
About Minibems: Minibems is a demand management system for complex heating systems that enables improved efficiency and fuel cost savings .
Mark Acton
Critical Support Director of Future-tech
Follow Mark Acton:
About Anglia Ruskin University, Ekkosense, European Commission, Future-tech, RiT Technologies Ltd.: Future-tech is a specialist data centre provider.
Rupert Taylor
Director of AltFi News
Follow Rupert Taylor:
About AltFi News: AltFi are Providing market leading news.
Serena Manzoli
Managing Director of Wildcat Legal
Follow Serena Manzoli:
About Wildcat Legal: Wildcat is a London-based Digital Marketing Agency.
Carolyn Dawson
Managing Director of KNect365
Follow Carolyn Dawson:
About KNect365: KNect365 Delivering knowledge and commercial relationships for business communities.
Tuhel Alom
Finance Director of dsp
Tuhel joined dsp in 2009 and has since been committed to helping dsp achieve its goals by providing senior level counsel, executing strategy and ensuring financial stability. Tuhel has been involved in a number of projects within dsp ranging from company acquisitions, financial audits and system implementation to employee engagement projects. A valued member of the board, Tuhel’s deep understanding of dsp makes him a primary point of contact in all decisions. The ability to have a holistic view of the business allows Tuhel to enhance the dsp brand and value. Prior to dsp Tuhel spent 6 years at MS&L, part of the Publicis Groupe, as a Financial Analyst helping the business gain deep insight to key performance drivers.
Follow Tuhel Alom:
About dsp: Award-Winning Microsoft & Oracle Databas
Daniel Mettyear
Research Director Africa & Wine of International Wine & Spirit Research
As analyst for the IWSR, Daniel Mettyear has spent the past ten years getting to the heart of market dynamics and drivers in over 30 countries, across five different regions. Now as research director for the wine category, he is drawing on his experience in a number of key producer and consumer markets to determine how the movements and trends of today are shaping the future of wine going forward.
Follow Daniel Mettyear:
About International Wine & Spirit Research: The IWSR is a global provider of data and market intelligence on beverage alcohol.
Marco Kapp
Founder & Director of Citicus
Marco Kapp’s 40+ years of experience of IT includes developing and running major systems and providing advice and assistance to leading IT users and suppliers around the world. As a Director of Coopers & Lybrand’s UK consulting practice, he led a major study into the security of network system which was supported by the European Commission and over 50 other organizations throughout Europe, and was instrumental in establishing the European Security Forum (ESF) as a successor organization – which itself went on to become the Information Security Forum (ISF). He directed the ESF during its first year of operation. He subsequently directed, managed or contributed to numerous ESF and ISF projects, including: development of the 1996 and 1998 Information Security Status Surveys evolution of the ISF’s Standard of Good Practice for Information Security statistical analysis of results of the Survey, culminating in the key factor / benchmarking process employed in recent Surveys numerous publications on the results of the Survey (eg Driving information risk out of the business, information risk reference guide) development of FIRM – a rigorous, research-based and easy to apply methodology for managing information risk and similar areas of risk across an enterprise contributing to the ISF’s fast-track-project on e-commerce. Marco was the chief architect of the FIRM methodology and is a founder and Director of Citicus Limited. He was a member of the Group of Experts on information security charged by the highly influential OECD with developing Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. When published, these stimulated and shaped the development of security legislation around the world. He also contributed to the development of the widely used COBIT 4 framework for managing information security enterprise-wide, published by the IT Governance Institute® (ITGI) in 1998.
Follow Marco Kapp:
About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Simon Oxley
Founder & Managing Director of Citicus
Simon Oxley moved into the IT industry after obtaining a science Doctorate at Oxford University. He gained a background in systems development and has now been working in the information security and risk fields for over 30 years. Having helped Logica establish one of the first two computer security evaluation facilities for the UK government, he had a career in commercial security management through heading up the information security departments at National Power and Reuters. He took both organizations into the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was a member of the ISF’s Council during 1992-94. As an independent consultant in information security from 1996 to 2000, Simon advised a range of blue chip clients and contributed to many projects for the highly-respected ISF. He was the author of the ISF’s research reports on secure e-commerce, cryptography, web security, security architecture and active content, and contributed to many others, including the project that led to the FIRM methodology supported by Citicus ONE. Simon is a regular speaker at international conferences on information security and risk. He has a strong interested in education, helping the British Computer Society to develop their information security qualifications and being a regular lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway Information Security MSc course. Simon is a founder and Managing Director of Citicus.
Follow Simon Oxley:
About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Danny Clarke
Commercial Director of add3
At the epicentre of add3’s success, Danny is responsible for developing add3’s commercial offerings and then taking them to market to find, win and retain new business. He achieves this by clearly articulating solution road maps to customers in a way that helps them understand and picture the ultimate business benefit. Danny’s technical expertise is second to none; as one of the first certified App-V consultants in the UK he is also one of only a small number of App-V trainers in the UK, whilst boasting the delivery of some of the largest deployments in the UK during his 22 year career. Highly regarded among peers, partners and customers, Danny’s primary focus is on delivering the right solution to add3’s clients over and above that of pushing specific products – at all times Danny has his eye trained on the end result, a trait that has ensured considerable customer loyalty and reference ability.
Follow Danny Clarke:
About add3: add3 is a U.K.-based company that offers its users with application transformation and cloud migration services.
Wayne Meikle
Commercial Director of Onix Solutions Limited (“OnixS”)
Follow Wayne Meikle:
About Onix Solutions Limited (“OnixS”): OnixS is a specialist technology business providing high performance Direct Market Access (DMS) solutions for automated trading.
Víctor Fernández
Board Director of Emergya
Follow Víctor Fernández:
About Emergya: Emergya is a IT company specialized in the design, development and implementation of information systems and a wide range of ICT solutions
Víctor Fernández
Board Director of Emergya
Follow Víctor Fernández:
About Emergya: Emergya is a IT company specialized in the design, development and implementation of information systems and a wide range of ICT solutions
Jeremy Newton
Director of Asimuth
Jeremy Newton trained and qualified in the Intellectual Property Group at City law firm Slaughter and May. He has over 15 years’ experience of IT law and contracts, including periods in-house with Sun Microsystems (as Assistant General Counsel in EMEA) and with HM Treasury (on secondment to the PFI Taskforce). He is co-editor of A Manager’s Guide to IT Law (British Computer Society), and contributed the chapter on computer contracts to Computer Law (Oxford University Press) which is used as a standard textbook on the University of London LLM in IT law. Jeremy joined Technology Law Alliance as a Director in 2005, having previously been a partner in the IT team at Nabarro Nathanson. Jeremy deals with a wide range of commercial contracts, e-commerce and data protection matters.
Follow Jeremy Newton:
About Asimuth: Asimuth is a software tool to allow organisations manage compliance with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Jeremy Newton
Director of Asimuth
Jeremy Newton trained and qualified in the Intellectual Property Group at City law firm Slaughter and May. He has over 15 years’ experience of IT law and contracts, including periods in-house with Sun Microsystems (as Assistant General Counsel in EMEA) and with HM Treasury (on secondment to the PFI Taskforce). He is co-editor of A Manager’s Guide to IT Law (British Computer Society), and contributed the chapter on computer contracts to Computer Law (Oxford University Press) which is used as a standard textbook on the University of London LLM in IT law. Jeremy joined Technology Law Alliance as a Director in 2005, having previously been a partner in the IT team at Nabarro Nathanson. Jeremy deals with a wide range of commercial contracts, e-commerce and data protection matters.
Follow Jeremy Newton:
About Asimuth: Asimuth is a software tool to allow organisations manage compliance with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
