Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Digital Media 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.
Brent Hoberman
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory
Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world’s top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List.
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About 01 Founders, AccelerateHER, Firstminute Capital, Founders Factory, Founders Forum, Founders Intelligence, Founders Keepers, Founders of the Future, Grip, Karakuri, MADE, SmartUp.io: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
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Marc Boyan
Founder & CEO of Miroma Ventures
Marc began his career in marketing with the Goldsmith family, creating and selling events such as World Wrestling Federation, Net Aid, Smash Hits & Route of Kings. His first business venture started in 2000, setting up tourist information channel, City Tour TV. The concept can now be found in various airlines, black taxis and hotels in the UK. In 2003, Marc spotted an opportunity to use barter in all areas of modern commerce and set up corporate barter company, Miroma International. He has grown the business into one of the leading corporate barter companies in Europe with Miroma International’s growth trajectory recognized in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 report on UK businesses for four years in a row between 2008 and 2011. Outside of Miroma International, Marc has also focused on building out the Miroma Ventures portfolio, focusing on media, technology and consumer investments. Marc is a dedicated supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity, sitting on its Executive Board.
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About Miroma Group, Miroma Ventures: Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms.
John O’Nolan
Founder & CEO of Ghost
Founder at @TryGhost. Tweets about open source, startup life, non-profits, and publishing platforms. Travels the world with a bag of kites.
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About Ghost: Professional, modern, open source publishing
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Founder & Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
Jeremy was a senior partner at McKinsey until April 2016, where he worked for 24 years serving some of the world’s leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy sectors. He worked extensively with multilateral development banks, the United Nations and governments in both developed and developing countries. In 2007, he set up McKinsey’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice, supporting ambitious public, philanthropic and private sector clients to put in place low-carbon, resource-efficient strategies. Prior to this, Jeremy worked at the World Bank from 1988-1993, specialising in economic transformation programmes for middle-income countries. In 2013-2014, Jeremy was programme director of the New Climate Economy project. He sits on a number of non-profit boards, including Global Action Plan (as Chair), the Woods Hole Research Center and Rare (UK). Together with Martin Stuchtey, he is a founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ.
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About SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
Ivo Spigel
Co-Founder and Editor of Tech.eu
Co-founder of IT solutions company Perpetuum Mobile and Croatia’s premier startup program, ZIP. Former editor at The Kernel; regularly writes columns for Forbes Croatia and is working on a book with interview of European startup founders.
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About Perpetuum-Mobile, Tech.eu, ZIP – Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator: Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
Evren Kacar
Founder, CEO of DAN Global
15 years of experience in digital marketing and agency business. Established Synergy, one of the first generation of digital marketing agencies in 2002. In line with the rising trends, Co-founded Boomerang Social Media Agency in 2010. Managed both agencies and supported the development of digital marketing industry in Turkey with DijitalAjanslar.com which began as a local network for digital agencies in 2013. Witnessed the rise of the digital age. Gained deep experience in all areas of digital marketing, working with global brands and Turkey’s most respectable brands since 2002, as the definiton of web agencies became interactive agencies with web 2.0, and digital agencies as of today. Established DAN Global in Turkey to provide online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital marketing agencies and global community of marketers. Expanded his business to the UK in 2017, and established DAN Global (UK) Ltd. in London which owns and operates the Digital Agency Network (DAN), an all-in-one platform to discover the best digital marketing agencies in the world.
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About DAN Global, Digital Agency Network: DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Paul Goad
Founder of Crimtan
Paul started in print media at VNU Business Communications and joined DoubleClick as one of its founder employees in 1997. After five years with the company Paul moved on to work at 365 Media Group as Commercial Director where he built their media network. Paul joined Tacoda in August 2006 as UK MD and set up their first international office. Just prior to the takeover of Tacoda by AOL, Paul moved to join NebuAd as UK MD in November 2008 before founding Crimtan in September 2009.
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About Crimtan: Crimtan is the dynamic marketing company that makes brands distinctive and compelling to consumers across all digital media platforms.
Govind Balakrishnan
Co-Founder & CEO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Srikant Chakravarti
Co-Founder & COO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Greg Williams
Co-Founder, SVP, Strategic Business Development of MediaMath
Greg leads MediaMath’s business development efforts globally. In this role, Greg creates business and technology relationships with partners and oversees MediaMath’s OPEN Partnership program. Having focused his career at the intersection of marketing and technology, Greg is an expert in automation and large-scale technology offerings. Leveraging his unique blend of business and technical skills, Greg works with clients and with data and inventory partners across media channels to help them build their businesses on MediaMath’s TerminalOne platform. Prior to his move to London, Greg managed all internal and external reporting and analyses from MediaMath’s New York headquarters. In this role, Greg spearheaded the design, development, and management of MediaMath’s analytics platform. Before co-founding MediaMath, Greg led advertiser media strategy at [x+1], working with global brands on website and media optimisation. In that role, Greg also worked with a team to establish a new media division that quickly outpaced its established parent company. Before [x+1], Greg’s background was in econometric data modeling, marketing strategy, and integration of marketing platforms for Fortune 500 companies at Nielsen and Accenture. Greg holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Fordham University with concentrations in accounting and finance.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Emanuele Musumeci
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Anakando Media Group
Mr. Musumeci, co-founded Advirally in 2012, with Alki David. He is an acknowledged authority on all aspects related to the development of Social Media marketing strategies and has more than 12 years of specialist international experience in this field. Emanuele has devised and delivered a number of award winning digital advertising and social media awareness campaigns for leading global brands including; Vodafone, Lipton, Microsoft, Toshiba, Samsung and Tempo. Prior to co-founding Advirally, he was the Senior Vice President of Marketing at London based Anakando subsidiary, FilmOn TV UK, the global IPTV platform. He was also the founder of Italy based social media marketing company INVIOTRAFFICO, which won a number of prestigious international industry awards for its work. He studied Modern Languages with a specialization in Web based Public Relations & Digital Marketing, at the University of Palermo, Italy. In his role as Vice President, Emanuele is responsible for customer acquisition and the development and implementation of the social media marketing strategy of Advirally, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anakando Media Group.
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About Anakando Media Group: The Anakando Media Group is a rapidly expanding and innovative digital media company with global interests.
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Phil Goldsmith
CRO & Founder of Verizon Digital Media Services
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About Openpath, Verizon Digital Media Services: Verizon Digital Media Services offers a next generation platform for all of your online video streaming and content delivery network needs.
David Spindler
Co-Founder of Electric Gamebox
David Spindler is a Co-Founder and CFO at Electric Gamebox. Previously, David founded Tough Mudder Bootcamp- the studio fitness concept of Tough Mudder Inc. David joined Tough Mudder in 2012, leading Strategy and Marketing teams. He built growth projects and new business initiatives from after-parties to Global Mudder marketing events. Prior to Tough Mudder, David was a Consultant at Bain and Company in London, Zurich and Johannesburg. David graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Philosophy and Economics.
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About Electric Gamebox: Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room
Andrea Manfredi
Founder & CEO of Blasting News
After graduating from Bocconi University in 2005, Andrea earned an MBA at INSEAD, studying in Paris and Singapore. He spent several years working as a manager in top strategic consulting firms mainly in the UK and Italy. Working as a journalist since 1998, Andrea is the Founder & CEO and the Editor-in-Chief of Blasting News.
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About Blasting News: Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
George Palmer
Founder of SendOwl
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About SendOwl: SendOwl is a software company that develops tools for selling digital products through social media and blogs.
Asaf Peled
Founder and CEO of Minute Media
Asaf is the Chief Executive Officer of Minute Media, parent company of 90min. Asaf founded 90min in 2011as FTBpro. Since then, 90min has grown to be the world’s largest football media platform, driven by a contributor-driven model, and has expanded the brand throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Asaf is involved in all aspects of Minute Media’s growth and operations, from product development to marketing and content. Prior to 90min, Asaf was the founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Top 7 International and also spent four years at Cisco Systems Israel where he was responsible for business development in the Israeli market. Asaf has a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a bachelors of arts from Tel Aviv University. He resides in London and his favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs.
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About 90min, Minute Media: Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Beau Lotto
Founder of Traces
Beau Lotto is the Founder and CEO of Lab of Misfits, the world’s first neuro-design studio. Uncertainty and the brain’s need to resolve it is essential for thinking about not only branding and business, but design, leadership and innovation. Misfits is a team of scientists, designers and producers who discover the essential questions about the nature of uncertainty. Their work provides a deeper, scientific basis for an organisations DNA & Strategy, creates content that expands PR & marketing potential, and strengthens its internal and external relationships. By focusing on how the perceptual brain resolves the fundamental challenge of uncertainty, The Lab of Misfits gives audiences and clients the opportunity to create … and more than this … to embody innovation. Their results inform and transform. They have worked with the Edelman Group and TJ Max, Golin and L’Oreal, and are currently working Cirque du Soleil. Beau is one of the few speakers to have given two TED talks, which have amassed over 6 million views combined. He has also spoken at Google’s Zeitgest Minds, Wired, G8 and made significant programme contributions to BBC’s Horizon, National Geographic Channel and PBS in the US. In 2017, Beau published a new major popular science book, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. He draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn’t evolve to see the world accurately. It can’t! Visually stunning, with entertaining illustrations and optical illusions throughout, and with clear and comprehensive explanations of the science behind how our perceptions operate, Deviate will revolutionise the way you see yourself, others and the world. With this new understanding of how the brain functions, we can apply these insights to every aspect of life, love and work. Deviate is not just an illuminating account of the neuroscience of thought, behaviour and creativity: it is a call to action, enlisting readers in their own journey of self-discovery.
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About City University London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lab of Misfits, New York University, Ripple, Traces: Traces lets you share digital messages anywhere in the world. To get messages, you have to be in the right place at the right time.
Andrew Dent
Founder of Family Traveller
Andrew Dent is the Founder at Family Traveller
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About Family Traveller: Family Traveller is a multi-platform brand operating across familytraveller.com, social media and email.
Daniel Siden
Co-Founder and Director of Lightvert Ltd.
Daniel is a Business Director, Designer and Engineering with 18-years of professional experience, 12 of those spent as an design and technology entrepreneur in London. He builds teams, digital and physical technology products, services and businesses. As a founding director of design and engineering company Haberdashery, he lead the growth of the company from 0 to 20+ employees with a turnover of £1.6M on £2M of sales. Clients includes Nissan and CREE LEDs, Changi Airport Group and British Land, and world leading luxury interior and architecture firms. From Haberdashery Daniel spun out Lightvert Ltd., an out of home media technology company utilising proprietary patented technologies to merge the power of the spectacle of out of home media with the engagement of mobile. At Lightvert Daniel successfully raising seed funding and building an outstanding operational team and supply chain partnerships, and launched Lightvert’s core products within 6 months of closing the funding round. Originally from San Francisco, with and engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Daniel moved to the UK in 2002 for his Masters in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art.
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About Haberdasherylondon, Lightvert Ltd., ROLI: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Richard Knight
Co Founder of Grafter
Co founder of a tech start up that represents the future of labouring. Highly experienced media professional with outstanding industry knowledge across a wide spectrum of the media sector. Exceptional experience of the media distribution and consumer electronics sector with a strong track record of launching key strategic broadcasting and IP initiatives. Professional accounting background with board level experience Property Developer
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About Grafter, RKnight Consulting Limited: The free digital service for connecting businesses with people looking for temporary work
Daniel Berg
CEO & Co-Founder of NextUp
Daniel Berg joined NextUp Comedy as CEO & Co-Founder in 2016.
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About ComComedy, NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Stuart Snaith
Co-Founder of NextUp
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About NextUp, NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Sarah Henley
Co-Founder of NextUp
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About NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Kenny Cavey
Co-Founder of NextUp
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About NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Jake Cossington
Founder & CEO of Terrabyte Studios Limited
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About Terrabyte Studios Limited: Terrabyte Studios Limited is a Media Company powering online services.
Steve Thompson
Founder of BigHand
Steve is the founder of BigHand Ltd and worked over 11 years to build the company into a global leader in developing and delivering dictation, mobile and speech technologies to the professional services sector. He exited the business through a successful MBO in 2006 and since then has inspired, invested in and consulted for many young entrepreneurial UK businesses.
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About BigHand: BigHand develops voice productivity software solutions for legal, healthcare, property, and financial companies.
Steve Callanan
CEO and Founder of WIREWAX
Steve was once the youngest TV producer in the UK, creating his first six-part series with record-breaking audience share while still at university. He established his first production company in 2001 and was also producing over 400 hours of branded, short-form content for the four biggest UK lifestyle publishers. During this time, he proposed that online video content should be as “connected” as the rest of the web; linking pixels to people, products and information was the goal. He engineered the world’s first “shoppable” video tool, which led to the most powerful interactive video platform to help hundreds of global brands realise their connected-video potential.
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About WIREWAX: WIREWAX is the leading interactive video technology company.
Kevin Spacey
Founder of Trigger Street Productions
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, and comedian. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television.
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About Trigger Street Productions: Trigger Street Productions is an entertainment production company that develops and produces movies.
Toby Abel
Co-Founder of Krzana
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About Krzana: Krzana is a digital newsgathering engine for journalists.
Kim Thesiger
Co Founder and Group Director for Asia Pacific of TVT
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About TVT: Building digital tools for the Entertainment industry
Rory Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AgriBriefing
Rory co-founded Briefing Media in 2010. Prior to that, Rory has spent over 20 years in senior positions across a wide range of international business media companies.Rory began his career in marketing at commodities and financial information specialist Metal Bulletin before joining Emap to help develop a digital subscription business for the Middle East. After marketing director positions at Risk Waters Group and Incisive Media. Rory became a divisional managing director for Incisive Media in 2005 leading an acquired division in North America. Rory currently serves as the company’s CMO with specific responsibility for agribusiness content, price discovery, subscription development and the event portfolio. He is a former director of the Specialised Information Publishers Association.
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About AgriBriefing, SIPA, The Media Briefing: AgriBriefing is a business media company that specializes in pricing, data, marketing solutions, news, market intelligence, and insight.
Rob Lough
Chief Strategy Officer / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
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About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Joel Silverman
CEO / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
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About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Adam Benzecrit
Co-Founder of inflo.Ai
Co-Founder @infloAi.
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About avvoka, inflo.Ai: inflo.Ai empowers marketers and content creators to publish high-quality content that supercharges organic website traffic, qualified leads and attributed revenue.
Combining AI to analyse search trends with human-written content, inflo.Ai is the world’s first “hybrid” content platform.
The platform utilises the strengths of AI without losing sight of the irreplaceable human touch needed to authentically connect with an audience.
Toby Cockayne
Co-Founder of inflo.Ai
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About inflo.Ai, SportsFix: inflo.Ai is a London-based software company building proprietary AI technology to make content creation simple, fast and affordable.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Melissa Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of Bookalook
Co Founder and CEO of Bookalook.
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About Bookalook, Vibia: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Lee Cassingham
CEO and Founder of Viewex
Founder at Viewex
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About Viewex: Find hidden ad revenue on your website
Paola Marinone
Founder & CEO of BuzzMyVideos
Founder & CEO at BuzzMyVideos.
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About Blackbox, BuzzMyVideos, TechItalia:Lab: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Bengu Atamer
Co-Founder & Director of BuzzMyVideos
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About BuzzMyVideos: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Rupesh Lakhani
Founder & MD of Ask Rupert Digital Media
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About Ask Rupert Digital Media: Ask Rupert Digital Media is a digital product innovation and consultancy firm that builds a digital business.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Thomas Smilowicz
Co-Founder of iine Card
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About iine Card: iine Card is an online-shopping application that plugs the internet directly into the pages of lifestyle and fashion magazines.
Thomas Smilowicz
Co-Founder of iine Card
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About iine Card: iine Card is an online-shopping application that plugs the internet directly into the pages of lifestyle and fashion magazines.
Anna Pivovarchuk
Co-Founder, Deputy Managing Editor and Culture Editor of Fair Observer
Anna Pivovarchuk is the Co-Founder, Deputy Managing Editor and Culture Editor of Fair Observer, having previously held the position of Europe Editor. As a freelance writer and editor, she has contributed to various organizations such as the BBC, United Nations, NBC, Arise TV, Foreign Policy Association and The Moscow Times.
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About Fair Observer: Fair Observer is a nonprofit media organization in the US that educates global citizens both through its journal and its teaching programs.
Tom Marchant
Owner and Co-Founder of Black Tomato
Tom Marchant is an entrepreneurial traveler and co-founder of The Black Tomato Group, parent company of the award-winning bespoke luxury travel operator Black Tomato, strategic creative agency Studio Black Tomato and incentive travel group Black Tomato Agency. Black Tomato, a Virtuoso member, has been recognized as the leading innovative authority in global luxury travel by revered industry voices including Bloomberg, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Vogue. Tom Marchant and Black Tomato were awarded Conde Nast Traveler’s 2019 World’s Best Travel Specialists and Tom lauded as ‘one of the 50 people in the world changing the way we travel’. Marchant is a member Travel + Leisure’s A List contributor to Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar and Inc.
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About Black Tomato: Black Tomato is a bespoke luxury travel company that delivers imaginative and travel experiences around the world.
Matt Smith
Co-Founder and Director of Black Tomato
Matt Smith set up Black Tomato Ltd with Tom Marchant and James Merrett in 2005 and to date have had a broad strategic and operational remit across all areas of Black Tomato. Central to Matt’s role is the responsibility for both driving forward the day to day business operations and Business Development / Sales processes that have underpinned the Group’s commercial success and significant growth. I also oversees a number of critical areas of the business including, Office Infrastructure, Company /Staff Culture, IT, Security, Data Protection/GDPR, HR, H&S / F&S, Insurance, Legal Contracting , Procurement, Staff / Business expenses, Staff Reward / Engagement, Staff Training and Staff Meetings and Events. Alongside this, he leads critical strategic projects including those that increase profitability and productivity across the business in line with the constant reinforcement of BT’s ‘purpose’ and company culture both internally and externally.
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About Black Tomato: Black Tomato is a bespoke luxury travel company that delivers imaginative and travel experiences around the world.
Pierre Figeat
CEO and Co-Founder of Admo.tv
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About Admo.tv: Admo.tv is the best TV analytics platform that helps TV & radio advertisers to measure and optimise the online impact.
Max Roebuck
Founder & MD of Crowder
Max is the founder of Crowder, a London based tech start up that provides consumers with an unparalleled level of insight into their local bars & restaurants and provides venues with an online marketing and anlaytics dashboard to help streamline their operations and increase revenue.
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About Crowder: Brick and mortar venues get critical performance insight. Consumers are shown how busy the venues are. The two are linked with advertising.
Olga Egorsheva
CEO & Co-Founder of Lobster
Entrepreneur at Lobster. Building a bridge between every individual online and creative professionals. Inspired by independent creativity. Inspiring by breaking the rules. The world is my home country to learn, work and start companies.
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About Lobster: Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users.
Maria Iontseva
Co-Founder of Lobster
Usability addict at Lobster. Lovingly creates this company’s designs, interfaces, investor pitches and social media campaigns. Designed PC Mag awarded consumer IT products (in previous life). Londoner, photographer, sailor, jazz guitar.
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About Lobster, UX Loft: Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users.
Tim Whitehouse
Co-Founder of Risk Leadership Network
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About Risk Leadership Network: The Risk Leadership Network is an independent, collaborative network of risk management leaders.
Michal Marcinik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AdTonos
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About AdTonos, E2E: Creating innovative technologies for voice commerce, enabling voice transactions. Bringing the power like Adwords has to audio advertising.
David Creuzot
Founder and CEO of Konbini
David Creuzot is a Founder at Konbini.
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About Konbini: Konbini is a media company and an advertising agency focused on delivering creative content over the internet.
Lucie Beudet
Co-Founder of Konbini
Lucie Beudet is a Founder at Konbini.
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About Konbini: Konbini is a media company and an advertising agency focused on delivering creative content over the internet.
Martin Kelly
CEO & Co-Founder of Infectious Media
Martin Kelly started as a press planner and buyer at Zenith Media before becoming a founding member of Zenith Interactive Solutions, and then a Board Media Director of Agency Republic. In 2008, he co-founded Infectious Media, a multi-award winning international programmatic agency that partners with global brands to deliver effective and efficient media campaigns. With this business Martin has developed a new model for the agency. One that has specialist teams and technology that exclusively focus on making data-driven advertising work for brands.
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About Infectious Media: Infectious Media is an international programmatic agency that partners with global brands to deliver effective & efficient media campaigns.
Leanne Kemp
Founder & CEO of Everledger
Leanne Kemp is the Founder & CEO of Everledger, a leading emerging technology enterprise that tracks the provenance of high-value assets on a global digital ledger in an authenticated immutable manner. Using her extensive background in emerging technology, business, jewellery and insurance, Leanne is pushing boundaries with Everledger in building a global verification system that asserts transparency along the entire supply chain process. This enables the tracking and protection of high-value assets, consequently mitigating risk and fraud in global marketplaces. Her leadership role in technology has been recognised, winning awards including Innovator of the Year 2018 at the Women in IT Awards (London) as well as being named in UK Business Insider’s 26 Coolest Women in UK Tech 2016 and Brummell Magazine’s Top 30 Female Innovators 2016 in Brummell Magazine. She has also been named an IBM Champion for 2018. Leanne is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Blockchain Council and a Co-Chair for the World Trade Board’s Sustainable Trade Action Group. She is also on the IBM Blockchain Platform Board of Advisors.
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About Everledger: Everledger provides an immutable ledger for diamond and other asset ownership and related supply chain history.
Alex Dover
Founder of Prism Digital
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About Prism Digital: Prism Digital are a DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure focused Talent Partner.
Garth Shephard
Founder & Partner of 72 Capital Limited
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About 72 Capital Limited: Boutique M&A, fundraising and strategic adviser to the small and mid-cap technology, digital media and sport sectors.
Shannon Edwards
Founder of FromAtoSHE
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About FromAtoSHE: FromAtoSHE is a platform to discover women-owned businesses.
Hina Zaman
Founder of WellVine
Founder of WellVine.
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About WellVine: WellVine is an on-demand children’s healthcare platform for parents to connect with experienced pediatricians via online video calls.
Jon Fidler
Co-Founder of Naturebytes
Modla is owned by Jon Fidler, one of the most highly regarded specialist 3D Printing designers in the UK. Jon has been working within the area of 3D Printing and Rapid Manufacturing for over 10 years. His experience in the technology began while studying a Bsc in Design Engineering at Bournemouth University, before completing a Msc in Rapid Prototyping at De Montfort University, Leicester. Through these courses, Jon was invited to work on projects for the likes of Formula 1, Pepsico, Sunseeker and JCB, integrating 3D Printing to improve various elements of the design workflows. Jon moved onto play a key role in introducing the use of 3D Printing, 3D software and digital fabrication at Ravensbourne college in London, earning a place as lecturer and technical tutor in Product Design. During this post, Jon worked within a number of industries to gain a thorough understanding of how 3D Printing is being used within workflows, from fashion, architecture, graphics and product design. Since launching Modla, his work has ranged from creating shoe designs displayed at London Fashion Week, to being featured on the front cover of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) quarterly journal, and in the past has featured in the Telegraph, Independent, BBC Newsround and BBC Click, amongst others. His ever growing list of clients has produced work for the likes of The Science Museum, Nike and Saint-Gobain, much of which can be seen in Modla’s portfolio.
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About Naturebytes: Naturebytes aims to combine hackable technology with a mission to spark kids’ curiosity in the great outdoors.
Stephen Mowat
Co-Founder of Naturebytes
Stephen is a conservation ecologist with experience leading programmes of research, conservation and public engagement at government agencies, the Zoological Society of London and now Naturebytes. Stephen’s work has focused on using new technology and novel methodologies to better understand the behaviour and ecology of animals, such as seals, eels and puffins, and communicating the findings with a wide audience.
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About Naturebytes: Naturebytes aims to combine hackable technology with a mission to spark kids’ curiosity in the great outdoors.
Peter Fossick
Founder of Factotum Design
Peter Fossick is a seasoned design director specialising in service design, UX design and disruptive innovation using a range of approaches and playbook to deliver branded omni-channel customer-centric business offerings within the service-product continuum for the Outcome Economy. With a rich range of project experience, Peter has worked across diverse sectors with top tier global corporations and start-ups in the USA, Europe, MENA, China and Australia. His project and client experience includes: AMP, Chic-Fil-A, GM, Fairfax Media, IBM, Nissan, Renault, The Saudi Ministry of Health, Standard Chartered Bank, VTech Holdings, WilliamHill Online and many more. With a proven track record in successful boot-strapping and scaling start-ups at speed, Peter is an angel investor in several companies in the USA and UK where he established Argo as a boutique investment company. As an academic Peter developed the first BFA & MFA in Service Design in the USA in 2008/9 as well as ground breaking undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in Design Thinking, HCD, Product Design, UX Design, Interaction Design as well as in Innovation and Design Management in the UK, USA and SE Asia.
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About Factotum Design: Factotum helps companies to develops new digital products and services.
Ben Aldred
Chief Design Officer & Co-Founder of This Place Ltd.
Ben has a huge amount of experience in running design studios. As the founder of Mylo Design and This Place, Ben built up a client roster of international brands including Luxury hotel group, the Mandarin Oriental and infrastructure conglomerate, the YTL Corporation. Ben’s deep understanding of consumer behaviour and user experience (UX) design in the digital sphere combined with many years of running digital agencies means he has been able effectively build and scale This Place’s service proposition and team from inception to the thriving consultancy it is today.
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About This Place Ltd.: This Place is a digital studio with the desire to design the future.
Mads Holmen
Founder of Bibblio
Digital entrepreneur based in London, UK
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Rich Simmonds
Co Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Bibblio
Rich has 20 years experience in interface and graphic design. He holds a BSc in interactive media and has worked internationally as the principal UX designer and creative lead for businesses across communications and media. Most recently he was the senior strategic designer for AOL’s video products across Europe and Asia, where he met co-founder Mads. Rich is responsible for the Bibblio brand, its design principles and the UX across our platforms and modules.
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About Bibblio: A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences.
Nick Hayward
Co-Founder of The Companion
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About The Companion, The Narrative Digital Studios: The Companion operates an online platform for news and updates about films and television shows.
Graham Lee
Founder of Imparture
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About Imparture: We impart digital knowledge for the future.
Fivos Pantazis
Founder of Aphetor
Fivos Pantazis is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Carsten Thode
Founder of Aphetor
Carsten Thode is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Tim Dickinson
Founder of Descrier
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About Descrier: Independent news and culture magazine
Greg Ferro
Co Founder of Packet Pushers Podcast
Greg Ferro is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer working in the UK. Over the last 25 years or so he has worked across the industry for FTSE 250 companies, and previously across Australia and Asia Pacific. Today, Greg specialises in the design,security and deployment of Data Centres including Network Fabrics, Data Security, Cloud and Internet. He has worked as a consultant for well known companies throughout Asia and Europe and now lives in the UK. Widely known for his weekly “Packet Pushers Podcast” at PacketPushers.net where he interviews network engineers, vendors and industry figures on a range of highly technical topics where the motto is “Too Much Networking Would Never Be Enough”. Greg writes for NetworkComputing.com, is widely known for his blog at EtherealMind.com where he writes regularly about many aspects of Data Networking.
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About Packet Pushers Podcast: The Packet Pushers Podcast is a Media Company covering Enterprise IT and Cloud
Greg Ferro
Co Founder of Packet Pushers Podcast
Greg Ferro is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer working in the UK. Over the last 25 years or so he has worked across the industry for FTSE 250 companies, and previously across Australia and Asia Pacific. Today, Greg specialises in the design,security and deployment of Data Centres including Network Fabrics, Data Security, Cloud and Internet. He has worked as a consultant for well known companies throughout Asia and Europe and now lives in the UK. Widely known for his weekly “Packet Pushers Podcast” at PacketPushers.net where he interviews network engineers, vendors and industry figures on a range of highly technical topics where the motto is “Too Much Networking Would Never Be Enough”. Greg writes for NetworkComputing.com, is widely known for his blog at EtherealMind.com where he writes regularly about many aspects of Data Networking.
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About Packet Pushers Podcast: The Packet Pushers Podcast is a Media Company covering Enterprise IT and Cloud
Deidre MacNair
Co Founder of The Village Communications
I have a dual role here at The Village. Firstly, ensuring we deliver outstanding work for our amazing clients. The rest of my time is spent helping make The Village the best place to work for our fabulous people!
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About The Village Communications: Small and independent, with a talented, passionate, multi-disciplinary team, we allow great ideas to flourish
Richard Cox
Co Founder of The Village Communications
Since Launching the Village Communications with Dee and Kat , the pride in watching the agency grow and producing such fantastic work has being second to none. Allowing not only myself, but the team, to explore the creative side of media is also a thrill, but always keeping an eye out for that extra value alongside any deal is still my number one priority.
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About The Village Communications: Small and independent, with a talented, passionate, multi-disciplinary team, we allow great ideas to flourish
Ade Bamgbala
Founder of Blacticulate
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About Blacticulate, Upskill Digital: Blacticulate is a platform that amplifies black stories and positive actions, through podcast productions and workshops.
Sven Herold
CEO & Founder of LiveTube
Sven is a Media Executive with more than 15 years’ experience in Television, Communications and Reputation Management. He is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked as a Senior Investigative Correspondent, Feature Writer and News & Entertainment Correspondent at major broadcasters across Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was a global VP and member of the Communication & Marketing leadership team at Shell International. He built and led both Shell’s and SAP’s global Television divisions. In 2015, Sven founded LiveTube, a global media-house specialising in original live content-creation and distribution via mobile devices.
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About LiveTube: The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
Gino Martini
Founder of Snip And Share
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About Snip And Share: Improving the sharing experience in a unique way through a chrome extension.
Mukhtar Sanders
Creative Director and Founder of Inspiral Design
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About Inspiral Design, Nuqta: Inspiral Design is an agency that combines contemporary craft-based British design, language, and culture.
Bob Haynes
Founder & CEO of Ad Venture
Bob has acquired 15 years’ experience working with the world’s leading content owners, advertisers and technology providers [names]. In 2010 Bob worked with Nat West & Mediacom on the UK’s first addressable TV advertising campaign, winning the Thinkbox “Most Innovative Use of TV” award.
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About Ad Venture: Ad Venture is a firm that provide web influenced ad services to television.
Sam Hartnell
CEO / Founder of Xzero Entertainment
Sam Hartnell – YouTube Network Entrepreneur, Founder of Xzero Entertainment Xzero Entertainment Network (XEN) is a media & technology company that brings together content owners, network operators and advertisers to create economically sustainable online and mobile video business models. XEN specializes in the aggregation, optimization, protection and monetization of video content. We create compelling distribution opportunities for its content partners and income generation opportunities for its network and advertising partners.
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About Xzero Entertainment, YouTube: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Anne Oesemann
CEO & Founder of Stellar Media – Global Media Experts
Anne has sound knowledge in all levels of advertising and marketing. She is passionate about marketing strategies, social media and the international media landscape and has a strong grasp of new technologies and market trends and is able to formulate strategies using these skills. Previously, she has worked for the leading media owners The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) and Gruner & Jahr International Media Sales, where she worked on cross media campaigns for brands like Prada, Versace, Michael Kors, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Carmignac and different tourism boards amongst others. Earlier in her career, Anne worked in the Marketing and PR departments of Marc O’Polo, Philipp Plein and several Fashion Startups.
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About Stellar Media – Global Media Experts: International Media Consultancy Firm
Christopher Baugh
President & Founder of Northern Sky Research
Christopher Baugh serves as the President and Founder of Northern Sky Research (NSR), which he created in 2000 to provide independent, actionable market research and consulting services to the satellite industry. Christopher Baugh directs all NSR multi-client research reports and single-client consulting projects, and manages a global team of analysts that stand at the forefront of satellite industry expertise. Before forming NSR, Christopher Baugh served as Senior Analyst for Pioneer Consulting where he covered all aspects of the satellite market. Prior to Pioneer, Christopher Baugh was an International Trade Specialist and Economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC. While at the Department of Commerce, Christopher Baugh was a recipient of the Charles F. Meissner Memorial Award for his work on trade negotiations in the International Trade Administration. Christopher Baugh also has extensive legislative and analytical experience from his work for the Committee on International Relations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, both in the U.S. House of Representatives. Christopher Baugh holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Westminster College and a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University.
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About Northern Sky Research: NSR is a global leader in providing satellite industry Market Research and Consulting Services to clients around the world.
Kyle Ledermann
CEO/Founder of Grip The Edge
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About Grip The Edge: Creative Agency in London Ontario. Web Design and Development, Graphic Design, Photography and Video Production
Ruud Wassen
Founder of thewonk.eu
Founder of thewonk.eu.
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About thewonk.eu: thewonk.eu is an online platform that offers the latest news and policies from political analysts.
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
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About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
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About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
Be Kaler
Founder and Director of Futureheads
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About Futureheads: We are Futureheads, a recruitment business that is all about digital media and all about being specialist
Joseph Carter
Founder of Golden Child
Founder at Golden Child
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About Golden Child: Music & Fashion Go Hand n Hand””
Bing Tang
Founder of SoulMade
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About SoulMade: SoulMade is creating a personal way to communicate digitally while empowering artists and designers worldwide.
Waqas Iqbal
CEO & Founder of Vix Solutions
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About Vix Solutions: IT & Digital Marketing company based in London
Taimoor Khan
Founder of Cardory
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About Cardory: Cardory is revolutionary new age digital business card solution, register your interest today.
