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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 United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Biometrics 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.
John Lord
Founder & CEO of Trunarrative
Appointed in 2009, John Lord leads the Group’s growing global capability to provide fraud, risk and compliance solutions to many of the world’s largest commercial organisations, governments, as well as disruptive start-ups. Prior to GBG, John led global sales before heading up the UK business for one of the world’s largest credit rating agencies, Dun & Bradstreet, and also led a major data analytics, outsourcing and contact centre business.
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About Trunarrative: Trunarrative is a risk and financial crime management platform that offers fraud prevention, identity, and compliance solutions.
Andrew Bud
Founder and CEO of iProov
Andrew Bud is Founder and CEO of iProov, the UK-based provider of online authentication based on face verification, whose patented One Time Biometric technology delivers uniquely strong resilience to spoofs, replays and hacking. iProov has been recognised, adopted and supported by UK Government agencies and has won numerous prizes from global corporations, and its remote KYC solution has received regulatory recognition. Andrew is also Global Chair of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an international industry association serving the whole mobile value chain. He was formerly CEO and Executive Chairman of mBlox Inc., the world’s largest provider of enterprise-to-consumer text messaging services worldwide, which he founded in 2000 and on whose Board he served until its sale in 2016. Until 1998 he was SVP Marketing for Azlan, Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe. In 1994 he was member of the leadership team founding Italian mobile operator Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italia). Named in 2009 as one of the top 40 telecoms executives worldwide, he is a Fellow of the IET and has a first class degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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About iProov, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, The Media Institute: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Zia Hayat
Founder and CEO of Callsign
Zia is Chairman, CEO and founder of Callsign. With a PhD in Information Systems Security from the University of Southampton, he has served in various roles in the cybersecurity industry. From research engineer at BAE Systems to internet banking security architect at Lloyds Bank. Zia oversees the overall direction and strategy of the company while contributing to innovation and design of the service.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Nico Cary
Founder of PassEntry
Nico Cary is currently the Founder of PassEntry, COO of Stem Cell Fairy and Co-Founder of Influentially. He was the founder of Snax and the Co-Founder of Sportlobster. He was responsible for setting the overall technical direction of both companies. Cary attended Wellington College and is a keen triathlete recently completing 3 marathons back to back (79.2 miles) for MovemberUK raising over £14k for charity.
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About INFLUENTIALLY, PassEntry, Stem Cell Fairy, WNP Holdings: PassEntry is your digital access pass.
Sebastian Nijman
Founder and CSO of Scenic Biotech
Sebastian Nijman is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Scenic Biotech.
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About Haplogen Gmbh, Scenic Biotech: Scenic Biotech is a developer of a genomics and immunotherapy technologies created to unlock genetic suppressors.
André Coelho
Founder, CEO of Saffe
André Aranha Coelho is the founder of Saffe Payments.
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About Saffe: Saffe is a face recognition platform for payments and financial services.
Fabian Eberle
Co-Founder of Keyless
Fabian Eberle serves as the co-founder of Keyless.
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About Keyless: Pioneering privacy-preserving cloud-native biometric authentication to enable businesses adopt zero-trust passwordless authentication.
Andrea Carmignani
Co-Founder & CEO of Keyless
Andrea Carmignani serves as the founder and CEO of Keyless.
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About Keyless: Pioneering privacy-preserving cloud-native biometric authentication to enable businesses adopt zero-trust passwordless authentication.
Neil Norman
Founder and Chief Executive Office of MSite
Founder, Vice Chairman & Head of Innovation at Human Recognition Systems.
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About MSite: Human Recognition Systems is technology automates identity dependent business processes to deliver efficiency, safety and security.
