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 CEO’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
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Jason du Preez
CEO, Co-founder of Privitar
As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Jason is responsible for Privitar’s vision, strategy, culture and funding. He is passionate about the benefits of data to society and Privitar’s vision of building a centre of excellence around privacy engineering products. He is a serial entrepreneur who brings proven start-up and enterprise software experience to the business. Prior to founding Privitar he held global leadership roles across technology and data management at Thomson Reuters. Before that he co-founded and led the growth of data management software company, m35, up to a successful exit through sale to Thomson. Jason has a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Vishal Marria
Founder & CEO of Quantexa
Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. Previously Executive Director at EY, Vishal led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology strategy, data-driven remediation and end to end reviews of strategy and policy. Vishal was instrumental in directing and building the Detica NetReveal business globally and strives to bring together business and IT to address financial crime risks.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Priya Lakhani
Founder & CEO of CENTURY Tech
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company’s charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students’ learning outcomes. Priya has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum, an advisory board member to several educational/skills organisations, including a founding entrepreneur of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Joanna Shields
CEO of BenevolentAI
Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields OBE) is a tech industry veteran with a successful track record building some of the world’s best-known companies. Her career spans over 30 years and has focussed on harnessing the power of technology to drive change that improves connectivity, humanity and society. Joanna is currently Chief Executive Officer of BenevolentAI, a world leader in the development and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the underlying causes of disease, accelerate drug discovery and develop new and more effective medicines. Prior to joining BenevolentAI, Joanna served as the UK’s first Minister for Internet Safety and Security, Under Secretary of State, Special Advisor on the Digital Economy, and Chair & CEO of TechCityUK. Prior to her government service, Joanna held executive roles at Google, Facebook, Bebo/Aol, Decru, RealNetworks, Veon and EFI and served as a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange Group. Joanna founded WePROTECT.org, a multi-stakeholder global alliance working to protect children from online abuse and exploitation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity and the Child Dignity Alliance. She is also a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG) and sits on the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as the UK nominated expert on an AI-enabled COVID response. In November 2020, she was elected Co-Chair of the GPAI Steering Committee and Chair of the GPAI Multi-stakeholder Expert Group Plenary. In 2014, Joanna was appointed OBE for services to digital industries and voluntary service to young people and made a Life Peer of the House of Lords.
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About BenevolentAI, UK House of Lords: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
George Urdea
Co-founder & CEO of Nobly POS – Point of Sale
Founder @ Nobly POS – POINT OF SALE
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About Nobly POS – Point of Sale: Nobly is the point-of-sale, inventory management and CRM app for the iPad. A system that is beautiful designed, quick and easy to use.
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deeper Insights
CEO and Founder at Deeper Insights.
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About Deeper Insights: Deeper Insights solve the toughest human problems through the transformative power of AI.
Graham Cooke
Founder & CEO of Qubit
Graham has always been tuned into interesting technology and cut his teeth whilst creating a new on-demand TV technology in his pre-Google days. A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13 when he opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine, he started his first company when he was 15. Graham joined Google in 2005 and lead the global strategy around how to optimize conversion rate effectiveness. He decided to leave with 3 colleagues (Dan, Emre and Ian) to set up QuBit in order to tackle the emerging data revolution.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Tom Wood
CEO of Cazana
Tom hails from a business & innovation background having led technology teams within investment banking and pharmaceutical sectors and founded and sold companies in the marketing technology space. Tom has always had a passion for cars and considers himself very lucky to work on his hobby every day.
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About Car and Classic, Cazana: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Louis Decuypere
Founder & CEO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Joyeeta Das
CEO and Co-founder of GYANA
Joyeeta Das is a techie and serial entrepreneur with a background in engineering who has dabbled in both for-profit and non-profit technology companies from a young age. She has traveled and lived across the world and is driven by her passion for using technology to advance human consciousness. She is currently CEO and Founder of UK-based AI startup GYANA.
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About GYANA: No-code Data Analytics
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Askar Bulegenov
Founder & CEO of Grocemania
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About Grocemania: On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Laurence Kemball-Cook
CEO and Founder of Pavegen
Laurence is CEO and Founder of Pavegen Systems – a clean-technology company that generate electricity from footsteps. Winner of over 20 awards, including International Businessman of the Year at the PEA Awards 2013, Laurence is a renowned thought leader and worldwide speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation. He is acclaimed by The Guardian for “shifting perceptions of renewable energy.” Having spoken at more TED talks than any other technology company, Laurence’s TEDxBerlin presentation was featured among TED’s top talks on envisioning cities of the future and changing attitudes to fossil fuels. Clients include Google, Cisco, Nike, Adidas and the Federal US government and technology has been adopted in over 200 sites around the globe.
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About Pavegen: Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall.
Maulik Sailor
CEO of Innovify
Maulik has a deep and long lasting passion for entrepreneurship and wanted a way to share that passion with the world. That’s why he founded Innovify. A company that allows him to help new entrepreneurs take their ideas to market and watch their companies flourish. His history working for leading companies like Nokia, Microsoft, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Betfair, and Visa gave him the experience and contacts that every new startup dreams of having, while his unique vision and creative spirit will help your company achieve lasting success in the marketplace. A few startups Maulik has been founder/co-founder includes Innovify, Landbay, Kwanji, Brickowner, Instantt and more. Maulik obtained his MBA (Distinction) from Imperial College, London, MSc from Brunel University, London and B. Eng. from Sardar Patel University, India.
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify, Tech London Advocates: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Darko Matovski
CEO of causaLens
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About causaLens: CausaLens is a casual AI software company that develops intelligent machines.
Paroma Indilo
Co-Founder and CEO of Datacy
Paroma Indilo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Datacy.
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About Datacy: datacy is an online marketplace for collecting and exchanging datasets directly to businesses.
Ed Leon Klinger
CEO of Flock Ltd.
Flock is a fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles. We provide personalised, seamless insurance products for commercial motor fleets, enabling and incentivising proactive risk management. We achieve this by leveraging connected vehicle & contextual data to quantify road risk on a per-second, per-meter basis, providing our customers with risk insights and highly personalised pricing that reflect their real risk profile. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. We’re on a mission to make the world a safer, smarter place. — I graduated from Oxford University (M.Eng – Engineering, Economics and Management) where I specialised in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for brain cancer ablation. I graduated from Cambridge University (M.Phil – Technology Policy, Judge Business School), where I published papers for various academic think-tanks on the opportunities and risks of autonomous vehicles. I have past experience in Private Equity (The Blackstone Group), Technology Policy (Facebook Inc.), and have lived and worked in Asia, lecturing at Zhejiang University in China and at Hong Kong University.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Kristofer Mansson
CEO of Silobreaker
Kristofer entered the technology industry in 2000 when he took on the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology venture in Stockholm owned by OMX and the Boston Consulting Group. Before the millennium he spent 15 years in Financial Services as Vice-President at Salomon Brothers and Managing Director of AIG Financial Products, both in London. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
James D. Marshall
Founder and CEO of Pupil
James D Marshall is the founder and CEO at Pupil.
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Luca Pagano
CEO of BeMyEye
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About BeMyEye: BeMyEye is a European crowdsourced in-store data as a service (DAAS) provider.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Sharad Khandelwal
Co-founder & CEO of SentiSum
Sharad Khandelwal is a Co-founder and CEO at SentiSum.
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About SentiSum: SentiSum is a technology startup which is leveraging AI and big data to help enterprises gain competitive advantage.
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
Igor Svehla
Co Founder & CEO of Trakbar
Igor Svehla is the Founder at Trakbar .
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About Project 3 Mobility, Trakbar: Smart business intelligence and predictions for bars & restaurants
Steve King
CEO of Black Swan Data
Steve is co-founder and CEO of Black Swan, the fastest growing start up in the UK which uses Artificial Intelligence to predict human behaviour. Since reading Cognitive Science the 90’s, Steve’s applied his tech, coding and visualisation skills to solving his clients’ challenges.Black Swan works with brands such as Disney, PepsiCo and GSK and through connected aircraft across most of the major airlines.
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About Black Swan Data: Black Swan’s SaaS solution uses data analytics to allow brands to more accurately predict future consumer trends
Richard Conway
Chief Executive Officer of Elastacloud
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About Elastacloud: Elastacloud are a Cloud Architecture and Data Science Consultancy who specialise in bringing intelligence to your data.
Matty Cusden-Ross
Founder and CEO of Flux Systems
Matty has eight years of experience working with various startups across industries reaching the mass consumer market. Matty firmly believes that an expert level of understanding of the customer’s needs is tantamount to a successful company and that is why his career to date has been led by a desire to solve problems he has personally experienced.
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Christian Nentwich
Chief Executive Officer of Duco
Christian Nentwich is co-founder and CEO of Duco, a true disruptor in the data quality and reconciliation market. A lifelong technologist with a relentless passion for simplifying complex data using augmented machine learning and AI automation, Christian has led Duco from a few lines of code five years ago to an award winning global enterprise. He has a proven track record of building successful businesses and leadership teams that deliver transformational experiences to clients. Prior to Duco, Christian founded Systemwire, which exited to Message Automation and further to Broadridge. He holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from University College London and is a winner of its Faculty Medal in Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
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About Duco: Duco is a data engineering technology company that provides self-service data engineering in the cloud.
Florian Thaler
Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX of OilX
Florian is Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX, a startup that is innovating oil trading analytics through deep empirical knowledge and state-of-the-art data science. Florian has >15 years’ oil experience at Shell, Citibank and Och-Ziff. He completed a doctorate at Vienna University of Economics and Business and a business administration degree at Bocconi University. Florian is one of 100 Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council.
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About OilX: OilX is a oil sector that provides a global real-time oil supply-demand balance.
George Frangou
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Massive Analytic
George is Massive Analytic’s founder and Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), Artificial Precognition inventor and Oscar product architect. Pushing ICT boundaries for more than 30 years, he has many firsts including the UK fibre optic broadband network run by Virgin Media. George’s CV includes CEO Platon UK (now Delloitte), analytic company Pronus founder and KPMG senior executive. Degrees incude Astrophysics and wireless and optical communications from world leading universities including UCL. Professional accreditations and honours include Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD), FRSA, Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About Massive Analytic, Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO of Endor
Yaniv Altshuler is Co-Founder & CTO at Endor.
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About Endor: Predictive software platform that lets business users ask any predictive question and get high-quality results in minutes instead of months.
Catherine Newman
Chief Executive Officer of Limejump
Catherine Newman is the Chief Executive Officer at Limejump.
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About Limejump: Limejump is a Technology-Driven Utility: harnessing the power of big data to positively disrupt and transform today’s energy market.
Guillaume-Henri Huon
Co-founder and CEO of Dataform
Guillaume-Henri Huon is a Co-founder and CEO at dataform.co.
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About Dataform: Dataform manages data pipelines in data warehouse.
David John
Founder & CEO of Loyalize
David has worked for a number of financial organisations, from Private Equity to Commodity Trading. Most recently, he worked as a Financial Services Consultant, focussed on developing and supporting national and international businesses going through strategic change. Outside of business, David is a keen and accomplished rugby player, and attempting golfer!
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About Findr, Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
Christopher El Badaoui
Co-Founder, CEO of LVNDR Health
Chris is responsible for driving LVNDR’s vision, brand, and business strategy as well as building and managing a phenomenal team to revolutionize LGBTQ+ healthcare. They are a 2x founder and have previously built accelerators and investment vehicles for Parsons School of Design, Techstars and the NFL. Prior to that, they led Growth and Strategy at Pillar Tech disrupting legacy industries with Fortune 500 companies.
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About LVNDR Health: LVNDR is redesigning sexual and reproductive healthcare services through a mobile-first digital clinic designed for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Yaron Morgenstern
Chief Executive Officer of Glassbox
Yaron served as General Manager of Financial Markets Compliance at NICE Systems. He led both the NICE Trading Floors & NICE Actimize Capital Markets Compliance groups, and was responsible for the execution of the unique Holistic Surveillance vision that combines trade and communication surveillance capabilities. Yaron oversaw product creation, solution delivery, go-to-market planning, and client relationship management activities across NICE compliance solutions. He was responsible for growing market-leading position and ensuring continuous innovation, decision making, and agility to meet the needs of financial firms around the world. Prior to that, Yaron held the positions of Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Operations at NICE Systems. Before joining NICE Systems, he served as Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Amdocs. Yaron holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and MBA from Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
Sameet Gupte
Chief Executive Officer of Servion Global Solutions
Sameet is the Global CEO of Servion and its group companies.He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the group. Sameet comes with a fervent entrepreneurial spirit that has enabled him to build successful and scalable businesses, multiple numbers of times across the USA, UK, Continental Europe and Asia. In his previous organization, Sameet was the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Financial Services at Virtusa Polaris. He was instrumental in defining the go-to-market strategy, building domain solutions, and growing the global Financial Services business. He was also part of the leadership team that led the acquisition of Polaris. Before being named EVP, Sameet was the Managing Director for Europe where he grew the business organically fourfold within a span of four years and also expanded its footprint through acquisitions in Continental Europe. Prior to Virtusa, Sameet held leadership positions across North America and Europe for Genpact Capital Markets (Headstrong) that included setting up a joint venture in Germany. At Genpact, he grew the European Capital Markets Business organically by eightfold in five years. Prior to Genpact, he has worked for NCR Corporation and HCL across Asia Pacific. Sameet has completed his Finance and Accounting Executive Program from Stanford Graduate School of Business in California and holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Pune University.
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About Servion Global Solutions: Servion Global Solutions specializes in Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions that help companies.
Riham Satti
Co-founder / CEO of MeVitae
Riham Satti, CEO of MeVitae is amongst the top 50 disruptive game changers in Thames Valley, top 100 influential UK tech business leaders and according to Forbes a ‘female founder taking the UK by storm’. As well as her involvement in the tech ecosystem and working with innovative start-up companies, Riham’s main interests lie in leveraging technology to unleash human capital and solve the biggest employment challenges, supported by the likes of Microsoft, European Space Agency and Oxford University – quoted as ‘disruptive recruitment technology innovation’ by Stephen Kelly (CEO of Sage). She is involved in several initiatives in promoting female founders and women in STEM. Riham is a computational neuroscientist from Oxford and Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London.
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About MeVitae, Tech London Advocates, techUK: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Katerina Spranger
Founder and CEO of Oxford Heartbeat
Katerina is the Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford and was previously a researcher in AI at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.
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About Oxford Heartbeat, Royal Academy of Engineering: Oxford Heartbeat makes cardiovascular surgery more accurate and safe.
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Alexandre Omeyer
CEO of Stepsize
Alexandre Omeyer is the CEO of Stepsize. His career in the technology industry started at VC-backed startups IOVOX and then DueDil where he focused on business development. The multiple startups and projects Alex worked on with the team with whom he later co-founded Stepsize, forged him into a self-taught developer and lead him down the path of Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, how it could be used to radically simplify software development and make it accessible to all. Stepsize went through the Virgin Media x Techstars accelerator during the summer of 2016 and has since then attracted investments from some of the best Angel investors and VCs in the business.
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Ioana Hreninciuc
CEO of GameAnalytics
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About Bigstep, GameAnalytics: GameAnalytics is the world’s most popular analytics tools for games, used by developers, games studios and publishers around the world.
Erkin Oksel
CEO & Founder of EyesClear
Erkin Oksel is the founder and CEO of EyesClear.
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About EyesClear: EyesClear supports finance executives in allocating capital while avoiding the traps and risks that online finance inherently brings.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Constantine Yurevich
Founder / CEO of SegmentStream
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About SegmentStream: SegmentStream is a predictive marketing attribution and optimisation platform for a cookie-less world.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Rado Lipus
Founder & CEO of Neudata
Rado is the founder and CEO of Neudata. Prior to founding Neudata, Rado’s work experience spans 20 years of leadership, sales management, FinTech and data innovation for the buy-side. Rado spent several years in quantitative portfolio construction and risk management at MSCI (Barra), S&P Capital IQ and CITE Investments. He has worked at leading financial services firms, and financial data and analytics providers including PerTrac, 2iQ Research, I/B/E/S and TIM Group. Rado received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Graz, Austria and is a CFA charterholder.
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About Neudata: Neudata’s SaaS catalogue of 5,000+ dataset reports provides tools for users to easily search, source, manage and compare data.
Nik Whitfield
Founder & CEO of Panaseer
A globally recognised figure in the field of cyber and financial technology, Nik brings direction and leadership to the team, where he applies his phrase #deservetowin daily.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Edward Challis
Co-founder and CEO of re:infer
Edward Challis is the Co-founder and CEO at re:infer.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
Phil Westcott
Founder & co-CEO of Filament AI
Phil is a former Director at IBM, and a specialist in applied Artificial Intelligence. Phil previously ran the IBM Watson Ecosystem in Europe, led their Smarter Cities business in Southeast Asia and launched IBM’s global IoT practice.
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About Filament AI: Filament helps clients to build proprietary AI capability within their organisation, through consultancy, solutions and tooling
Julian Mills
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Quorso
Julian is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the Travel, Transport, and Infrastructure practices. He also founded and co-chaired the Global Infrastructure Initiative with Madeleine Albright, a gathering of the world’s most influential infrastructure leaders. Julian spent much of his childhood growing up on a remote Scottish island surrounded by sheep and has degrees from Oxford University and Stanford University.
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
James Weatherill
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arbor Education
Education data evangelist. He co-founded Arbor Education after spending time as an analyst and corporate venture manager, and can’t wait until education has caught up with the digital age.
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About Arbor Education: Arbor helps schools transform the way they work
Tamsin Lejeune
CEO of Common Objective (CO)
Tamsin is one of the pioneers of the sustainable fashion movement. Her entrepreneurial spirit and drive have seen her work with thousands of fashion professionals and businesses over the years, growing a global network spanning 141 countries, and pioneering solutions that overcome the challenges they face. Tamsin is a force to be reckoned with, and an inspiration to many.
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About Common Objective (CO): CO is an intelligent business network that drives more sustainable business practices, starting with the fashion industry.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Maria McKavanagh
Chief Executive Officer of Verv
Ex National Instruments, responsible for multi-million pound sales territory within Aerospace & Automotive winning ‘new sales person of the year’ for EMEIA as well as an Engineering Impact award. Holds a degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.
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About Verv: High definition fault detection technology for the next generation of smarter, longer lasting and more sustainable appliances
Sarvesh Kumar
Founder and CEO of Singular Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Singular Intelligence, building an AI Platform and Applied AI products for Smart Retail and Commerce. Earlier Built successful businesses in Europe, the US, and India. Singular Intelligence enables brands and retailers to significantly improve their profit, customer experience, and market share by automated, real-time analysis and recommendations for profitable promotions and supply planning considering all market & operations factors. Sarvesh is an Industry Expert in AI, Analytics, Data and Business Intelligence. Enabling Business Value from Data to customers like Unilever, GSK, Tesco, Barclays, Three Telecom, British Telecom, CISCO, British Petroleum etc. across customers in Europe, US, and Asia. Sarvesh founded Singular Intelligence, to pioneer a new way of consuming insight from the variety and velocity of data and build a data-driven business. Sarvesh holds an Oxford Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy & Innovation, in addition to an Engineering Degree.
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About Singular Intelligence: Singular Intelligence is an AI Platform for brands & retailers that automates & augments commercial decisions leveraging all market factors
Jacob Laurvigen
Group CEO & Co-Founder of Dexi
Jacob Laurvigen has been helping businesses achieving above expectations and personally invested in multiple successful start-up’s!
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About Blockware, Dexi, Mozenda: Dexi provides the leading Data Extraction and Data Automation Software.
Daniel White
CEO and Founder of Signol
Dan is a behavioral and environmental expert with extensive experience of devising and delivering successful innovations. Over the last 10 years, Dan has been at the forefront of applied behavioral science and has conducted several water and energy field experiments. Dan also lectures at University College London in applying field experiments to change energy consumption behavior.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Furtak Aleksandr
CEO of Mighty Digital
I have a telecom engineering background and extensive entrepreneurial experience as a Product Owner in high-growth digital areas, including mobility, gaming, marketplaces. Currently, I’m a CEO at Mighty Digital, and we empower data-informed growth for digital consumer products. We help clients leverage data to acquire, activate, and retain more customers. We build full-scale data solutions and analytics teams. If that sounds interesting to you – drop me a line, and let’s grow together!
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About Mighty Digital: Mighty Digital is a growth engineering agency that empowers data-informed decision making for digital consumer brands
Michalis Michael
Founder and CEO of DMR
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About DMR: DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Founder & CEO of Mojn
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About Mojn: Mojn is now a part of the LiveIntent team.
Martin Goodson
CEO of Evolution AI
Martin Goodson is the chief scientist and CEO of Evolution AI, where he specializes in large-scale statistical computing and natural language processing. Martin has designed data science products that are in use at companies like Time Inc., Hearst, John Lewis, Condé Nast, and Buzzfeed. Previously, Martin worked as a statistician at the University of Oxford, where he conducted research on statistical matching problems for DNA sequences.
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About Evolution AI: Evolution AI works with enterprises to uncover value in data and develop a natural language processing application.
Guido Meardi
CEO & Co-founder of V-Nova
Former senior Partner at McKinsey, where he was head of the Organization and Operations Practices of the Mediterranean Complex, Guido has a breadth of business experience and access to senior executives in a variety of industries and geographies, with well-established experience in telecoms, technology, healthcare, insurance, aerospace and defence. He led transformational projects in all continents, and was instrumental in setting up some of McKinsey’s own innovation-related business building activities. Guido is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, with many previous business ventures and half a dozen exits. Having retained his engineering expertise, he contributed to the foundational development work for PERSEUS of his co-founder Luca Rossato and is joint inventor of a number of essential aspects of the technology as well as of several of its latest developments, with over 200 patents co-authored and filed. Guido holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Siebel scholar, and a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he was an Intel scholar, and University of Texas at Austin.
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Matthew Cheung
CEO of ipushpull
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Lucy Stonehill
Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeU
Lucy grew up in the UK and the USA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where she studied Literature and Psychology. Upon graduation, Lucy worked for the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, before leaving to launch her first business, an educational consulting firm tailored to the unique needs of international students and schools. In 2013, Lucy founded BridgeU to focus on the next challenge – fixing the broken transition between secondary and higher education. Lucy has been labelled an ‘Entrepreneur Role Model’ by the European Commission, and won Techpreneur of the Year in a 2015 at a ceremony hosted at the House of Commons celebrating leading female entrepreneurs. In 2016, Lucy was selected by Forbes as a ‘Top 30 under 30” European technology innovator.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Ashmita Das
Co-founder and CEO of Kolabtree
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About Kolabtree: Find & hire experts, top postdocs & PhDs, as research collaborators for your academic or business projects.Speed up your research work!
J Angelo Gurzoni Jr
CEO of Adroit Robotics
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About Adroit Robotics: Adroit Robotics develop intelligent software for the integrated management and optimization of productivity in fruit growing.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Christoph Wilfert
CEO of everycs
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About everycs: Everycs is a product intelligence company providing financial and non-financial product analysis for speed and quality improvement.
Miroslav Kovac
Founder, CEO of Coffee Cloud
CEO at Coffee Cloud.
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About Coffee Cloud: Coffee Cloud, IOT Software Analytics for professional HoReCa coffee industry
Rupert Dunbar-Rees
Founder and CEO of Outcomes Based Healthcare Ltd
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About Outcomes Based Healthcare Ltd: Outcomes Based Healthcare is an organisation supporting the adoption of outcomes based approaches to healthcare.
Alexei Poliakov
Co-Founder & CEO of Locomizer
Co-Founder at Locomizer
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About Locomizer: Matching Audiences to Locations
Dinis Guarda
CEO and Founder of Ztudium
Dinis Guarda, author, CEO, and founder of the companies ztudium, techabc, and open business council platform. Dinis Guarda is also the founding member of the Ubuntu Tribe utribe.one impact platform that is creating access to basic financial services & wealth creation opportunities to solve global poverty trap. Dinis Guarda has a Master’s degree in new media. Dinis Guarda is an author, writer, artist, academic, B2B2C tech influencer, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Dinis is a world-renowned thought leader, strategist, futurist and speaker, an International Bestselling Author, and a media personality who covers the pressent and future of business, technology and society. Dinis is a World Class Leader in multiple fields and has a passsion to push ideas, action and technology together to create better solutions, narratives and paths. Dinis Guarda specialises in the crossroad between strategy, ideas, business, poetry, technology and how 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain are changing Humanity. Dinis Guarda has decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation. Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies. Dinis Guarda has created various companies such as ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com. Dinis has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world. Dinis Guarda has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he has been coordinating executive Masters and MBAs. Dinis Guarda is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain in 2019 and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He is also listed on multiple lists on global top leaders on Fintech, digital transformation and Technology at large. Dinis Guarda has been collaborating with multiple governments and global leading companies and organisations. An example is the collaboration with the newly-appointed Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chairman Datuk Rais Hussin collaborating in the concept of Malaysia 5.0 as a new narrative for the country. “MDEC will no doubt play a leading role in introducing emerging technologies which are essential tools in the new Malaysia 5.0 digital economy. If such a policy is missing from our national strategy, Malaysia will be left behind and excluded from digital ecosystems and workforces,” Rais said in his inaugural statement. Touting his personal passion for digital transformation, he referred to the book 4IR: Reinventing a Nation which was co-authored with blockchain / AI / Fintech expert Dinis Guarda and launched in October last year, is meant to be a blueprint of sorts to assist governments of developing nations in their digital transformation agenda. More here https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/06/16/new-mdec-chief-pushes-for-malaysia-5.0-concept/1875908
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About Gozoa, Ztudium: ztudium is maker of the industry 4.0 technologies for the future present: blockchain, AI and digital transformation solutions
Kuba Misiorny
CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Kamila Hankiewicz
Co-founder and CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Peter Duffy
CEO of Mercanto
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About Mercanto: Mercanto helps retailers show each shopper exactly what they like.
Richard Vilton
CEO and Co-Founder of Emu Analytics
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About Emu Analytics: Emu Analytics provides real-time geospatial analytics and visualisation software for IoT, Smart Cities and Digital Twins.
Richard Vilton
CEO and Co-Founder of Emu Analytics
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About Emu Analytics: Emu Analytics provides real-time geospatial analytics and visualisation software for IoT, Smart Cities and Digital Twins.
Michael Litman
CEO, Co-founder, Burst Insights of Burst Insights
Hello, I’m Michael, Co-founder and CEO of Burst (http://www.weareburst.com) and formerly Founder of Brandsonvine (http://www.brandsonvine.com). I’m a co-author of Share This Too: More Social Media Solutions for PR Professionals (Wiley, August 2013), which topped the Amazon best sellers list even before launch. My chapter is on ‘Content Curation’. I’ve previously worked at some of the top advertising and PR agencies in the country including Poke, Dare and Splendid. I’ve also written for, been interviewed or featured in: Mashable, BBC, FT.com, The Independent, The Telegraph, .NET magazine, CNet, Adverblog, The Kernel, The Wall, Read Write Web, eConsultancy, Trendspotting, Campaign, Communicate Magazine, PR Week and Project 10. For the extended version, check out https://plus.google.com/u/0/105356639785432213951/about A few highlights: • #21 in the ’30 Most Creative Advertising People Under 30′ by Business Insider • Shortlisted for the Don’t Panic #somecomms Mark Hanson Award “to recognise the brightest and most promising social media communicator under 30 years old” • #3 in the “Top 20 Most Influential Marketing Bloggers in the UK” by AdAge Specialties: digital media, online PR, social platforms, emerging technology, brand conversations, content curation, innovation, writing
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About Burst Insights: Burst Insights is a short-form video discovery engine that tracks brands and influencer video content on Instagram, Twitter Video, and Vine.
Matt Lewis
Founder, CEO of Synaptiv
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About Synaptiv: Synaptiv is a connected car platform helping fleets and car makers monetise the data generated by their connected vehicles.
Johan Herrlin
CEO of Ito World
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About Ito World: Ito World solves transportation challenges across the globe by delivering real-time transit data feeds & a platform for agencies & operators
Steve Wright
Founder & CEO of Captini
Steve Wright is the Founder & CEO at Captini.
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
Joseph Kelly
CEO of DealX
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About DealX: DealX is a big data cloud computing platform for commercial real estate.
Claire Melamed
Chief Executive Officer of Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
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About Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a network to improve lives, fighting inequality & environmental sustainability.
