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 Manufacturing 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.
Galahad Clark
Founder & Managing Director of Vivobarefoot
Galahad Clark is the Founder and Managing Director of Vivobarefoot.
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About Terra Plana, Vivobarefoot: UK-based shoe brand and Crowdcube alum
Alex Caccia
Co-Founder & CEO of Animal Dynamics
An entrepreneur with start-up experience in, media, technology, manufacturing and a background in finance and investment banking. After a career in the City as a fund manager, and subsequently in investment banking, Alex founded a successful sports equipment business called WaterRower Ltd. In 1999 Alex joined Sportal, a European dotcom start-up, where he was head of advanced technology development. In 2003 Alex was involved in forming The Cloud (WiFi Aggregator, sold to Sky in 2010). From 2005-2010 Alex was CEO of Marmalade Technology Ltd, a leading mobile applications cross platform software SDK. In 2012, Alex founded an exercise technology business called Muoverti Ltd.
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About Animal Dynamics, iNeed: Animal Dynamics is a spinout company from the Department of Zoology at University of Oxford
Taymoor Atighetchi
Founder & CEO of Papier
Taymoor Atighetchi is a Founder & Managing Director at The Tab.
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About Papier: Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards.
Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO of Geomiq
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About Geomiq: Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts.
Jonathan Sieff
Co-Founder of Polymateria
Jonathan Sieff is the Co-Founder of Polymateria.
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About Polymateria: Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
Lee Davy-Martin
Co-Founder of Polymateria
Lee Davy-Martin is the Co-Founder of Polymateria.
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About Polymateria: Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
James Anderson
Founder of Zest
In 2013, at the age of 15, James Anderson founded Thinkspace; a project that aims to bring inspiring spaces where students can learn to code to schools across the globe. The non-profit organisation has received support from the likes of Richard Branson, Stephen Fry, Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales and many others. It’s made headlines in The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News and Forbes. At its launch James reached over 15 million via social media, had 100,000 visits to his website and received hundreds of emails from schools around the world interested in building a Thinkspace. Since then James has co-founded his second, for-profit, company with George Streten (14) — Space Lounges, the next-generation of coffee lounge that reimagines the current retail experience and brings fun back to the high street. He also presented a talk on the future of retail at the TedXTeen in the O2 last year.
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About Space Lounges, Thinkspace, WIFIPLUG, Zest: Zest is a company producing various products used by people like deodorants, soaps etc.
Krystian Zajac
Founder and CEO of Hero Labs
Krystian Zajac is a serial entrepreneur specializing in transformative smart home and IoT insurtech products. His ventures have won dozens of awards, been featured across tier-one media and recognized as some of the most disruptive companies in the world. Krystian Zajac founded Hero Labs and currently serves as the chief executive officer.
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About Hero Labs, Hero Labs, Hiro: Hero Labs develops technologies that help prevent water leaks.
Josh White
Co-Founder & Marketing Director of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Ariel Booker
Co-Founder & Sales & Distribution of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Perry Alexander Fielding
Co-Founder of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Alex Hoye
Co – Founder & CEO of The Faction Collective
Alex is a London-based entrepreneur and angel investor and in Internet, media, and consumer markets. He is CEO of Latitude Group, a European digital marketing agency, and before that co-founded GoIndustry plc, an online industrial auctions firm which he and the team listed in 2006. Hoye invested in Seedcamp and is chairman of Skimlinks and BraveNewTalent .
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About The Faction Collective: The Faction Collective manufactures high-performance freeride and freestyle skis.
Riz Smith
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Riz Boardshorts
Riz Smith is the co-founder and creative director at Riz. He is also a design tutor at Central Saint Martins. Riz is a former associate lecturer at London College of Fashion.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Alistair Murrell
Co-Founder and Director of Riz Boardshorts
Alistair Murrell is the co-founder and director at Riz Boardshorts. Prior to co-founding Riz, Alistair worked at Cairn Capital and JP Morgan.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Inty Grønneberg
CEO and Founder of Ichthion
Inty is a co-founder of Ichthion and Ph.D. researcher at Imperial College London. He is a designer, maker, and entrepreneur interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (IEEs), with a special focus on clusters of hardware and tangible technologies. Inty has a strong industrial background, as a result of his work with several companies in South America, Asia and Europe since 2007. He has also been involved as a co-founder in other initiatives, such as EvoT, Fusehunt, PHD Network and SOSEcuador. In the industrial sector, he worked in several senior roles, such as Manufacturing Operations Manager, Senior Specialist Manufacturing Engineer, among others. He was certified instructor of process improvement techniques for Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors.
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About Ichthion: Ichthion engaged in Development of cutting-edge technology to restore the ocean environment.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Isabel Lizardi
Founder & CCO of Bare Conductive
Isabel Lizardi graduated with an MA in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art in London. With training in science, graphics, crafts and industrial design, her approach to design is multi-disciplinary, and aims to develop material and technological innovations that will provide users with intuitive and engaging interactions. Isabel Lizardi is co-founder of the Bare Conductive LTD, which developed and currently produces Bare, a non-toxic and temporary conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin, allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This material allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Bibi Nelson
COO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Becky Pilditch
Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
David Stanton
Co-Founder of Reelables
David Stanton is a Co-Founder of Reelables. He is a former Solution Architect at AND Digital and CTO at Nattr. Stanton received a bachelor’s degree in Computing at The University of Buckingham and earned a Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Edinburgh.
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About Reelables: Reelables makes ultra-thin, flexible Bluetooth labels for automating logistics and supply chains.
Constantine Goulimis
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Greycon
Constantine is one of the founders (in 1985) of Greycon. Constantine was born in Greece and studied mathematics at Cambridge (BA, MA) and Control Systems at Imperial College (M.Sc.). He completed his Ph.D. in combinatorial optimisation, the cutting stock problem also at Imperial. He is particularly proud that some of the code he wrote then is still in daily production use at many plants around the world, as part of Greycon’s X-Trim. In the Greek army he learned, among other things, exactly how many chickens it takes to feed a regiment and has amassed collection of army stories to tell. He has also served as Deputy Director of the Industrial Systems Group at Imperial College. During 2010 he also consulted with the Greek Ministry of Finance, advising on how tax collection could be improved; the proposals were adopted a month later. In November 2013 he attended the 3-week Advanced Leadership Programme at Cambridge.
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About Greycon: Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling, forecasting & manufacturing execution systems.
Theo Saville
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Chris Emery
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Karen Scofield
CEO and Co-Founder of OCEANIUM
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About OCEANIUM: Oceanium develops innovative, all-natural products from sustainably-sourced seaweed.
Eliott Wertheimer
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Albert Nassar
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
James Horner
Founder of Tapferkeit Watches
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About Tapferkeit Watches: Tapferkeit Watches is a company who manufacture luxurious wrist watch.
Sakiko Reuterskiold
Founder of Nomosu
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About Nomosu, tripd.in: Nomosu is manufacturer of rusks and biscuits.
Antonio Cianci
Co-Founder & CEO of Airlite
Antonio Cianci is co-founder and CEO at Airlite® / AM Technology Ltd.
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About Airlite, Kauffman Fellows: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Arun Jayadev
Co Founder & Director of Airlite
Arun Renuka Jayadev is strengthening the cleantech team since November 2008. As a Principal, his primary task is to source and evaluate new deals and to support the current cleantech portfolio. An Indian native, Arun has exclusively focused on the cleantech industry in the last years. He has worked for Spanish S.I. Capital, a private equity firm investing in renewable energies, where he conducted extensive research on cleantech investments. Prior to this he has worked for a start up electric motorcycle company and also served as an advisor to an Australian Waste to Energy company. He has helped organize five clean technology forums across the world, e.g. the first industry-specific seminar in Spain, which brought together start-up companies, VCs and executives for the first time. Arun started his career as a consultant with Computer Associates on projects in India, the U.S. and various other locations. There, he has managed teams of up to 16 people. Arun holds a MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona in 2008, where he took also the opportunity to study one term at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles. In 2003, he finished a BE with a focus on computer science with distinction at the Rashtriya Vidhyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Massimo Bernardoni
Co-Founder & Director of Airlite
Massimo Bernardoni is co-founder and director at Airlite® / AM Technology Ltd.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Geof Kime
Co-Founder // COO of Circular Systems SPC
Geof Kime is the Co-Founder and COO at Circular Systems.
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About Circular Systems SPC: Circular Systems transform waste into a valuable fiber, yarn, and textile fabrics for the fashion industry.
Zac Gazit
Founder, CEO & Managing Director of ALVATECH
Zac Gazit is the founder, CEO & Managing Director of ALVATECH & he attended The College of Management Academic Studies in 1997.
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About ALVATECH: ALVATECH develops water treatment solutions and technology for effective farming productivity.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Alexander Schey
CEO & Co-Founder of Vantage Power
Alexander Schey is the Chief Commercial Officer & Electrification at Allison Transmission .
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About Allison Transmission Holdings, Vantage Power: Vantage Power designs and manufactures powertrain electrification and connectivity technologies for heavy-duty vehicles.
Toby Schulz
Co-Founder & CTO of Vantage Power
Toby Schulz is the Director Electrification & Systems IRD at Allison Transmission.
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About Allison Transmission Holdings, Vantage Power: Vantage Power designs and manufactures powertrain electrification and connectivity technologies for heavy-duty vehicles.
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Kevin Lind
Co-Founder and CTO of Perceptual Robotics
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Jamie Potter
CEO & Co Founder of Flexciton
Jamie has led several projects with industrial clients across industrial sectors for clients including National Grid and RWE. Jamie graduated top of his year in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Oxford. Recently, Jamie was added to the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list.
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About Flexciton: Flexciton is an optimisation technology company solving complex scheduling problems in semiconductor wafer fabrication
Gus Bartholomew
Co-Founder & CEO of SupplyCompass
Gus Bartholomew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Supplycompass.
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Ben Jensen
Founder and CTO of Surrey NanoSystems
Ben’s background is in the development of novel reactors used in Nanomaterials growth. Prior to founding SNS he was responsible for developing new technologies used in the hard disk drive industry and in sputter processing. He leads technical development of Vantablack coatings, and is involved with commercial engagement in new technology sectors from defence to luxury goods. Personally, I’m an explorer, creative thinker and solver of problems at the nano and commercial scale. Someone with serious commercial sense and a great ability to develop new business and close deals, especially in a start-up environment where competition and gaining traction are tough.
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About Surrey NanoSystems: Surrey NanoSystems manufactures nanoscale materials for use in engineering and product applications.
Sukhi Jutla
Co-Founder & COO of MarketOrders
Sukhi Jutla is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of 3 books. She is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. She is a leading international speaker, influencer and thought leader in tech and a qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer. She is recognized by a number of industry awards including the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, Management Todays ’35 Women Under 35? and named a Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. In April 2018 Sukhi made global headlines when she became the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author.
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About Department for International Trade, Haymarket, MarketOrders, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University of West London: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Ram Krishnna Rao
Founder & CEO of MarketOrders
Founder & CEO Market Orders. 20 years + experience trading FX & Commodities within capital markets
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About MarketOrders: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Ksenia Tkacheva
Co-Founder of Superfood Bakery
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About Superfood Bakery, Wishwant: Superfood Bakery manufactures and sells cookie, brownie, pancake, and other baking mixes.
Tetiana Vynokurova
Co-Founder of Superfood Bakery
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About Superfood Bakery, Wishwant: Superfood Bakery manufactures and sells cookie, brownie, pancake, and other baking mixes.
Tien Nhan
Co-Founder & CTO of Prototype Hubs
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About Prototype Hubs: Advanced Manufacturing Platform – Connecting clients to a worldwide network of manufacturing partners with hundreds of instant prices.
Chris O’Brien
Co-Founder and CEO of Optial
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About Optial: Optial is a successful global supplier of Enterprise-wide EHS, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
Colin Batt
Co Founder of Bullitt Group
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About Bullitt Group: Bullitt Group offers go-to-market solutions for brands that wish to extend into mobile or audio products.
Joe McGirr
Founder and CEO of Boatyard Distillery
Joe McGirr is the founder and CEO at The Boatyard Distillery.
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About Boatyard Distillery: Boatyard Distillery is a farm-to-bottle distillery that produces farm to bottle organic spirits.
Jianguo Lin
Founder of Impression Technologies
Jianguo has been the driving force behind the development of the HFQ process and has developed significant know how in the processing of hot and warm formed aluminium & steel . He currently heads the mechanics of materials division at Imperial, and previously was at Birmingham University.
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About Imperial College London, Impression Technologies: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Dominic Quennell
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Enertechnos
Enertechnos is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Enertechnos.
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About Enertechnos: Enertechnos develop, patent, and commercialize CTS as a new concept in ultra-low loss cable based on capacitance technology.
Gareth O Brien
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of Enertechnos
Gareth O’Brien is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Enertechnos.
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About Enertechnos: Enertechnos develop, patent, and commercialize CTS as a new concept in ultra-low loss cable based on capacitance technology.
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
Ian Hobson
Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of ChargeBox
Ian has set and delivered the mission and objectives for ChargeBox which has seen the company grow rapidly. Involved since the companies inception, Ian took over control of the company and formulated the change in strategy driven by the smart phone market and Olympics in 2012. Ian is passionate about ChargeBox and passionate about bringing free charging to everyone who needs it everywhere they need it. A graduate of Imperial College, Ian’s career has taken him from Accenture to Hambrecht & Quist and Tibco, all the time delivering rapid growth and businsess development.
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About ChargeBox: ChargeBox They pride Theirselves for providing the easiest to use, most trusted and innovative charging solutions for public spaces.
Alex Walsh
Co-Founder of JustWears
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About JustWears: JustWears is an essential wear brand for urban men.
David Uram
Founder and CEO of Factory Bucket
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About Factory Bucket: A no-code solutions for the manufacturing industry to automate processes from production to supply chain and everything in between
Yasser Khattak
Founder of Den
Yasser Khattak is the Founder at Den.
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About Den: Den is designing the next generation of light switches and plug sockets.
Adrien Hitz
Co-Founder and COO of Materialize.X
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About Materialize.X: Data-Driven Directors for Manufacturing
Haidin Rashid
Co-Founder and CEO of Materialize.X
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About Materialize.X: Data-Driven Directors for Manufacturing
Thomas Arundel
Co-Founder & Director of Precision Microdrives
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About Introversion Software, Precision Microdrives: Precision Microdrives is a manufacturer of miniature electric motors.
Ben Goldsmith
Founder of Weedingtech
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About Weedingtech: Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.
Ben Goldsmith
Founder of Weedingtech
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About Weedingtech: Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.
Jack Herring
Founder and Director of Jiva Materials
Jack Herring is a recent graduate of MA Design Products at the Royal College of Art. After inventing Soluboard® during his studies, Jack is now based within the InnovationRCA incubator. Successfully raising investment through a joint fund set up by Venrex Investment Management and the Royal College of Art has allowed Jack to further develop Soluboard® to transform it into a commercially viable product.
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About Jiva Materials: Jiva Materials strives to question the manufacturing methods of our modern technology.
Matthew Shaw
Co-Founder of ScanLAB Projects
Matt is co-founder of ScanLAB Projects. His background is in architecture, digital fabrication and speculation about digital cities of the future. Over the last five years he’s been turning the relentless, machinic eye of the 3D scanner on anything and everything, from giant mirrored sculptures, Arctic ice floes, Roman sewers and graceful dancers. He has worked with the BBC, Cambridge University and Vivienne Westwood. He lectures internationally, has exhibited at some of the world leading art galleries and his work has featured in major UK and US broadcasts. He is fascinated by the creative and critical role of the pointcloud, and is a big believer in experimentation and precision in equal measure.
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About ScanLAB Projects: We specialise in exploring the use of large scale 3D scanning in architecture and the creative industries.
Cyndi Rhoades
Co-Founder World Circular Textiles Day of Worn Again
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About Worn Again: Worn Again is a textile to textile recycling technology that can separate and recapture polyester and cotton from discarded.
Julian Sproule
Co-Founder of Hydraredox
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About Hydraredox: Hydraredox develops and manufacturers electrochemical energy storage based on proprietary vanadium redox technology.
Chris Forbes
Co-Founder & Director of The Cheeky Panda
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About The Cheeky Panda: Cheeky Panda is a sustainable bamboo tissue manufacturer.
Kaushal Shah
Founder and CEO of envoPAP
Trying to turn Ideas into Reality!
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About envoPAP, Inwius: envoPAP is a Sustainable Materials Company utilizing green technology to provide agricultural waste with a second life.
Diana Christie
Founder of Dresscode Uniforms
Fashion Designer
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About Dresscode Uniforms: Bespoke uniforms for luxury hospitality and corporate industries
Michael Larsson
Founder of Polysense
PhD
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About Polysense: Polysense develops sensors and systems for medical and industrial applications
Richard Greenhill
Founder & Non Executive Director of Shadow Robot
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About Shadow Robot: Shadow designs and manufactures state-of-the-art anthropomorphic robot hands & related systems.
Guy Monson
Co-Founder of CompAir
Guy Monson is the co-founder of CompAir.
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About CompAir: CompAir is a manufacturer of portable air pollution monitors that can detect, measure, and disclose air pollution.
Mike Coombes
Co-Founder of CompAir
Mike Coombes is the co-founder of CompAir.
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About CompAir: CompAir is a manufacturer of portable air pollution monitors that can detect, measure, and disclose air pollution.
Michael Pepper
Co Founder, Chief Scientific Director of TeraView
Michael has held positions in the University of Cambridge concurrently with positions at Plessey and then GEC. Professor of Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University 1987-2009, he was invited by the Toshiba Corporation to create and head their first corporate research laboratory outside Japan. The Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, now known as the Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, opened in 1991 with Professor Pepper as Managing Director. Professor Pepper is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and the recipient of many prizes and honours for his work on semiconductors. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has extensive connections throughout the University of Cambridge, UK and EU universities, institutes and with corporations throughout the world. He received a knighthood in 2006 for his services to physics and since 2009 is Pender Professor of Nanoelectronics at University College London.
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About TeraView, University College London (UCL): TeraView develops terahertz instruments which can generate, detect and manipulate radiation to characterize a wide range of materials.
Maria Karam
Founder, President of Tactile Audio Displays Inc.
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About Tactile Audio Displays Inc.: R&D Leaders in Sound Systems for the body
Jon Ardern
Co-Founder, Designer of Superflux
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About Superflux: Superflux is a design company that utilizes rapid prototyping and media sketches to produce concepts, experiences, products, and services.
Anab Jain
Founder & Director of Superflux
As Founder and Director of Superflux, Anab hopes to realise our vision of the studio as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Anab founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy’s client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab’s self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE. Honoured as a TED Fellow, she is the receipient of several awards, including the Award of Excellence ICSID and Apply Computers, Innovation Award, Chicago International Film Festival and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her experience and knowledge of design, futurescaping, emerging markets, new technologies and innovation has led her to be invited to speak at conferences such as PICNIC, WCIT2010, LIFT, SIGGRAPH, Global Design Forum, EPIC, Design Engaged and FuturEverything. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, Apple Computers Inc, Mattel Toys, Tate Modern, Science Gallery Dublin, National Museum of China and the London Design Festival. She is on the Board of MzTek and Broadway Cinema and Media Centre, and is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, VCUQatar, Architectural Association, Goldsmiths, Dundee Innovative Product Design and CIID. Previously Anab has held senior positions at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Nokia Design London.
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About Architectural Association School of Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, Superflux: Superflux is a design company that utilizes rapid prototyping and media sketches to produce concepts, experiences, products, and services.
Richard Friend
Co-Founder of Eight19
Research encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers. Research group was first to demonstrate using polymers efficient operation of field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. These advances revealed that the semiconductor properties of this broad class of materials are unexpectedly clean, so that semiconductor devices can both reveal their novel semiconductor physics, including their operation in efficient photovoltaic diodes, optically-pumped lasing, directly-printed polymer transistor circuits and light-emitting transistors.
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About Eight19: Eight19 develops solar cells using organic photovoltaic technology for solar power generation.
Dominic Harris
Co-Founder of CarbonQuota
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About CarbonQuota: CarbonQuota is a science-based and independent carbon monitoring service for manufacturers.
Paul Fotheringham
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints
Paul Fotheringham is Founder & Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints UK Ltd.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Henry Pinchbeck
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints
Henry Pinchbeck is Co-Founder Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
George Liarikos
Founder, CEO of OOf
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About OOf: Innovative furniture empowering mobile work
Hugo Macedo
CEO & Founder of Smart Separations Ltd
Hugo is the founder and CEO of Smart Separations Ltd. He has over 11 years of experience in entrepreneurship which helped him founding this start-up company that has developed a proprietary filter that can be tailored to suit many different applications in the poorly explored but very large microfiltration market, from biotechnology to food & drink processing. Throughout his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Hugo was constantly challenged with new and diverse tasks, in a multidisciplinary environment, where he breathed skills from chemical engineering to stem cell technology, including membrane technology, hydrodynamics, stem cell culture and bioprocessing, human blood production, amongst many others. This provided him with the right tools to create the first “3D hollow fibre bioreactor for the production of human red blood cells” – a system design that he patented. This work was featured in different magazines, including the cover page of The Chemical Engineer (TCE) in 2011, selected as one of “Ten life-changing ideas under research at UK universities” by the Research Councils UK and shortlisted for the highly prestigious IChemE Awards in 2011. Hugo currently holds 2 patents and is passionate for innovation leading to improve people’s quality of life – a vision that he has shared with Smart Separation
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About Smart Separations Ltd: Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology.
Joe Sillett
Co-Founder and CEO of The Funky Appliance Company
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Sadie Berryman Sillett
Co-Founder of The Funky Appliance Company
Sadie Berryman Sillett is Co-founder at The Funky Iron Company Limited
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Sadie Berryman Sillett
Co-Founder of The Funky Appliance Company
Sadie Berryman Sillett is Co-founder at The Funky Iron Company Limited
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Dave Williamson
Founder & CEO of EQBids Inc.
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About EQBids Inc.: Connecting contractors to multiple suppliers to quickly locate, price, compare and acquire rental equipment & construction materials
Jamie Laing
Founder of Candy Kittens
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About Candy Kittens: Candy Kittens is an innovative, gourmet sweet range that set out to focus on quality.
Akshay Vaidya
Founder of Srujan EXIM
Founder at Srujan EXIM
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About Srujan EXIM: Srujan EXIM is nutritionally balanced food with a precise balance of various ingredients (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, fats).
