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 United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Apps 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.
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
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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.
Tania Boler
Founder and CEO of Elvie
Tania is an internationally recognized women’s health expert and has held leadership positions for various global NGOs and the United Nations. Passionate about challenging taboo women’s issues, Tania founded Elvie in 2013, partnering with Alexander Asseily to create a global hub of connected health and lifestyle products for women.
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About Elvie: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Michael Skelly
CEO of Stacker
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About Stacker: Stacker is a no-code software creation platform that develops an application to help developers build software.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Shahzad Younas
Founder & CEO of Muzz
Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz.
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About Muzz: Muzz is the worlds biggest dating app for Muslims looking for their life partner. Backed by Y Combinator S17.
Alex Algard
CEO & Co-Founder of Hiya
Alex advises Ekata on strategy and product development in his role as Chairman. He is currently the CEO of Hiya and Chairman of Whitepages, which he founded in 1997. He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Engineering, both from Stanford University. He was selected as Software Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
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About Hiya: Hiya is a developer of a caller identification application designed to offer a better phone experience to mobile users worldwide.
Lior Shiff
Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios
Lior Shiff is a co-founder and the CEO of Tripledot Studios, co-founder and Chairman of On The Spot Development. and co-founder of Luna Labs. Until December 2015, he was Managing Director/CEO of Product Madness, which he co-founded in 2007. Lior spearheaded the successful sale of Product Madness to Aristocrat at the end of 2012. Product Madness is a leader in the Social Casino segment with revenues of $400m/year. Lior is an active advisor, speaker, and investor in the mobile games space. Previously, Lior worked at McKinsey & Co. and in The Israeli NSA, where he managed an R&D department of 40 engineers. Lior holds a BA degree in Computer Science, Accounting and an additional BA degree in Psychology all from the Tel Aviv University. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About On The Spot, Tripledot Studios: Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio that develops casual mobile games such as solitaire app and several puzzle games.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Dom Santry
Co-Founder & CEO of Daisie
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About Daisie: Daisie is where creators learn together.
Anton Chirkunov
Founder & CEO of Wheely
Anton Chirkunov is the Founder and CEO at Wheely.
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
Ido Erlichman
Group CEO of Kape Technologies
Group CEO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Julio Bruno
CEO of Time Out Group plc
Julio Bruno is a global leader with a track record in starting, scaling, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of companies. Julio currently serves Time Out Group plc as CEO.
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About Time Out Group plc: Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
Faisal Khalid
CEO & Founder of Bits
Faisal is the Founder and CEO of Renters Union, a popular chatbot ‘lawyer’ that provides free, instant, personalised legal advice to Londoners. It has been covered in TechCrunch, TimeOut, EveningStandard and numerous legal blogs, and been hailed by users as ‘something the Mayor should have built’, ‘BRILLIANT’ and ‘totally rubbish.’ Faisal previously built and sold a fintech venture, and spent several years in banking and private equity, before learning to code and moving to tech. Faisal holds a BA from Harvard University, and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and lives in London.
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About Bits, RentersUnion: Bits helps people build their credit score by providing them with a digital credit card that they pay off every month.
Eduard Panteleev
Co-Founder & CEO of ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
Co-Founder and CEO at Anna.
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About ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin: Business Banking and Admin service
Shachar Bialick
Founder & CEO of Curve
Shachar Bialick is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curve -a fintech startup. Hefounded Curve to give people a simpler, smarter way to manage their financial life. It allows people to spend from all their bank accounts and cards through one smart Curve card, connected to an even smarter app. Cardholders can see all their business and personal spend in one place, cut out bank fees on business trips, make their existing cards more secure, manage cash flow with ‘financial time travel’, and never worry about doing their expenses again.
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About Curve: Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Geri Cupi
Founder & CEO of Twig
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About Twig: Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Nicolas Shulman
Founder and CEO of BlockDox
Nic Shulman is the award winning founder and CEO of BlockDox. He is a lawyer, author and a recognised expert in the field of building management appearing on national tv, radio and in newspapers.
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About BlockDox, FPRA, News on the Block: BlockDox is a software platform and mobile application.
Itamar Lesuisse
Co-founder & CEO of Argent
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016. Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston Consulting Group, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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About Argent, Imperial College London: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Ales Spetic
Co-founder & CEO of Klevio
Aleš Špetič is a co-founder and CEO of Klevio, a startups working on platform for managing access. Previously he ran a hardware startup that built and shipped its first product to over 50 countries worldwide from Ljubljana, Slovenia without traditional or crowd funding. Previously he cofounded and ran Zemanta, one of the first successful East European startups. Even though he holds an MBA and has extensive managerial experience in IT companies of different sizes, he started his career with a computer science degree and an O’Reilly book on SQL programing. He’s also Slovenia’s Digital Champion, a father, food and wine enthusiast, and a certified pastry chef.
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About Klevio, Koto Labs: Klevio lets users open doors and share their virtual keys using a smartphone.
Anton Derlyatka
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Sweatcoin
Anton is an entrepreneur and investor in Fitness, Wearable and Talent technology verticals
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About Entelo, Good&Co, RolePoint, SmartUp.io, Sweatcoin, Talent Equity Ventures (TEqV): Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Robyn Exton
Founder and CEO of Her
Robyn is the CEO & Founder of HER the world’s largest brand for LGBTQ womxn & queer people. HER builds products and experiences that connect womxn in the way that works best for them. Their app is home to 4 million people across the world, with dating and community connections, and their events run in 15 cities, hosting 50,000 people per year. With content, events and communities, HER is opening up opportunities for LGBTQ womxn that never existed before.
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About Her: Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.
Anthony Eskinazi
Founder & CEO of JustPark
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Arnaud Vinciguerra
Founder/CEO of Domos FS
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About Domos FS, Memnon Archiving Services: Domos FS offers a suite of apps for alternative investment funds including private equity, real estate, debt, and infrastructure.
Charles Wiles
Chief Executive Officer of Zzish
Charles is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zzish, one of Europe’s leading new education technology ventures. Zzish is currently raising a new funding round. Zzish was selected as one of the “Future 30” at the Bett show and “EdTech 20” at EdTech Europe. Our own Quizalize app was ranked as the No.1 new app for schools by preeminent US EdTech site, EdSurge, last year. 15,000 teachers from more than 100 countries have signed up to use it so far! Our mission at Zzish is to enable almost anyone to create state-of-the-art education applications that have a real impact on student achievement. We help them do this far faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Our Zzish APIs let developers add important data driven features to their education applications in hours that would take them many months to implement themselves. Our templated app builder lets teachers create rich applications without writing any code at all. More broadly, Charles is an internet and mobile technology entrepreneur and angel investor with a passion for creating and investing in deep technology businesses that have a strong social impact. As part of this Charles is a Venture Partner at Emerge Venture Lab, Europe’s leading accelerator for education technology companies and runs the monthly London based EdTech Developers meetup. As Google’s first Product Manager hired outside the United States, Charles co-led the mobile browser team in London that built the HTML5 APIs for the Android browser. Then as Managing Director at VisualDNA he reinvented the company to focus it on personalised advertising taking revenues from zero to $3m annual in just two years and helping to grow staff from 25 to 100. He’s an expert in mobile platforms, personalisation, big data and edtech. With a PhD in Computer Science and Robotics from Oxford and and an MBA from London Business School, he’s equally at home working on big data algorithms for deep learning or financial spreadsheets and strategy.
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About Zzish: Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.
Jeremy Nicholds
CEO of Judopay
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About Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Del Titus Bawuah
Chief Executive Officer of lili
Del Titus Bawuah is a London based entrepreneur with a background in real estate management and alternative investments.
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About lili: Outdoor City pods offering flexible stay which can be accessed via smartphone or unique code on the move by the hour.
Neil Saada
CEO of Teech App Ltd.
Neil Saada is the Co-Founder at Dropdaze .
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About Dropdaze, NASASEASONS, Teech App Ltd.: Teech is an app that connects students to vetted mentors as soon as they have a question.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Lyric Jain
Founder & CEO of Logically
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About Logically: Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.
Owen Hall
CEO of Heliocor
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About Heliocor, Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Mike Jordan
CEO of Bink
Over 20 years’ experience in the payment card industry at American Express, HSBC and AlphaCard. Mike has worked across diverse cultures and multiple geographies including Europe and the Middle East. Mike has experience in joint venture business management at board level and as CEO of AlphaCard and is highly active in the European FinTech community.
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About Bink, JAGARS LLP: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Kristof Van Beveren
Co-Founder & CEO of Weezy
Kristof Van Beveren is a Co-Founder and CEO at Weezy. Prior to founding Weezy, he is part of Showpad as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales Development.
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About Weezy: Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping.
Reda Bennis
Co-Founder and CEO of Zebra Fuel
Reda Bennis (@reda_zebra) is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Zebra Fuel
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About Inside Capital, Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Mustafa Khanwala
Founder and CEO of MishiPay
Mustafa is a Mechatronic Engineer who has previously worked in and led projects with companies like Porsche, National Instruments, Barclays and TATA and has proven track record in successful innovation. He has sales experience through working in his family business and starting a food delivery venture in Manchester in 2011. Towards the end of his MSc Engineering with Finance degree at UCL, he thought of the idea for MishiPay after having waited too long in a queue to buy 1 just item. He then started MishiPay as a side project and designed and built the first functional prototype by himself. Having worked on MishiPay for several months and after seeing the technology working in real life, he rejected offers from Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Barclays to work full-time on MishiPay. He also called up Tanvi then, a brilliant computer systems engineer, his friend since 5 years and someone he’s worked with previously. He convinced her to join MishiPay as CoFounder and CTO and they haven’t looked back since. As proof of their teamwork, just look at their accomplishments since Nov 2015; live public trials in London, Cisco global partnership, seed investment, major retailer projects in India, Europe and the Middle East, awards from Mayor of London, Government of India, Anita Borg Institute, University of Manchester, UCL and others.
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Chris Edson
Co-founder & CEO of Second Nature
Christopher Edson CEO & Founder of EU Top 50 Startup, Forbes 30 Under 30
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About Second Nature: Second Nature is a digital programme that helps people lead healthier lives
Hans-Holger Albrecht
CEO of Deezer
Hans-Holger Albrecht is the chief executive officer of Deezer, a global on-demand audio provider that offers a digital music streaming service in more than 180 countries. Prior to Deezer, he served Modern Times Group for 12 years as the president and chief executive officer of the company. Previously, he served the same company holding different positions such as head of pay-TV operations, business area manager, and chief operating officer. Albrecht holds a PhD in law from Ruhr Universitaet Bochum and a Master of Law degree from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
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About Deezer, Veon: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Laurent Cordonnier
Chief Financial, Legal & Human Capital Officer & Deputy CEO of Deezer
Laurent Cordonnier is the deputy CEO/chief financial, legal and human capital officer at Deezer.
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About Deezer: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Nate Macleitch
CEO of QuickBlox
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About QuickBlox, Techstars: QuickBlox is a cloud communication backend that allows to add Chat, Video calling, Push Notifications, Cloud Sync into mobile and web apps.
Aidan Cooney
Chief Executive Officer of InCrowd Sports
Aidan Cooney is a Chief Executive Officer at InCrowd Sports.
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About Ellipse Data, InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
Mutaz Qubbaj
Chief Executive Officer of Squirrel
Mutaz graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science in 2000 and spent several years working at MIT’s Media Lab and an internet strategy consulting start-up (ZEFER). Subsequently, Mutaz has had a financial career that spans more than a decade at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and PIMCO as a trader, strategist and marketer. With an LBS Masters in Finance degree in hand, Mutaz has co-founded Squirrel, a financial wellbeing platform that directly plugs into an employers’ payroll designed to empower low-income employees to regain control of their financial lives. Mutaz was nominated by WIRED & Talent International as one of the ’15 To Look Out For in 2015.’ Mutaz recently won the WIRED Startup Pitch Competition presenting Squirrel to HRH the Duke of York and audience of 400+ WIRED2014 attendees.
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About Citi, Squirrel: Squirrel is an award-winning smart banking app that empowers people to take control of their money.
Andrea De Gottardo
Co-founder and CEO of Kroo
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About Kroo: Kroo is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.
Murat Mutlu
Co-Founder/CEO of Marvel
Murat Mutlu, a designer based in London. I’m the co-founder of Marvel, a free prototyping tool for creative brains. I love coming up with new ideas and experimenting with tech.Some of my favourite things are hacks and pointless apps and sites. Prior to starting Marvel I was a freelancer at various startups and agencies around London.
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Dana Dunne
CEO of eDreams ODIGEO
Dana Dunne is the CEO of eDreams ODIEGO. Prior to eDreams, Dana Dunne served as CCO at EasyJet Plc., and was in charge of sales (especially online sales), marketing, productivity management and of the customer service center. Before that, he was the CEO of AOl Europe Sarl, a division of AOC LLC. He has a deep experience in high-profile international telecommunication companies, as he has been the president of the main business units at Belgacom and US West, two of the most outstanding telecommunication companies in Europe and in the US.Dana holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a degree in Economics from Weslevan University. He has a double nationality: American and British. On March 31st 2017, Dunne owned 713. 112 shares in eDreams ODIEGO. Dana Dunne was appointed CEO of eDreams during a shareholder meeting held on the 22nd of July 2015.
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About eDreams ODIGEO: eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world’s largest online travel companies and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses.
Dan Ziv
Chief Executive Officer of TouchNote
Dan Ziv has been Managing Director of TouchNote since May 2017. He joined TouchNote as Chief Product Officer in 2016. Prior to this, Dan co-founded Uncover, the award-winning premium restaurant reservation app, which was acquired in 2015. He was previously an M&A lawyer in the technology sector, in addition to roles at PayPal Europe in Paris and VC fund Index Ventures in London. Dan is an advisor and board member in several early and late stage startups, mentors at Techstars London and is a founding member of Founders of the Future. Dan completed his MBA at London Business School.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Avin Rabheru
Founder & CEO of Housekeep
Avin Rabheru joined Smedvig Capital in 2008 and is a Senior Associate. He joined from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where he worked with senior management teams on corporate strategy projects, operational improvement initiatives and commercial due diligence across a range of sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to that, Avin worked in M&A at Citigroup and Rothschild. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. He is currently a board advisor to The Smart Cube, myhomemove, PPC and Exchange Group, and previously worked with the teams at Streetcar and Clearvision.
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About Housekeep: Housework that works – brilliant local cleaners & tradespeople
Mike Raitsyn
CEO of Bullboard
Mike Raitsyn is the Founder at Kwork.
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About Kwork: The company is building unique mobile financial instruments that helps traders increase their performance on the markets.
Peter Dabrowa
CEO of Wonde
CEO at Wonde.
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About Bay Tree PR, Koala, Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Ian Broom
CEO & Founder of Fliplet
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About Fliplet: Enterprise app platform to create, manage and securely distribute apps without writing code or creating designs.
Ranbir Arora
Co-Founder, CEO of Dorm
Ranbir Arora is the CEO and Co-Founder at Dorm.
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About Dorm: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Sanford Dickert
Founder / CEO of OWLR Technologies
Sanford Dickert is a product technologist focusing on bring new technology-based products to market. In his varied career, Sanford has held numerous senior positions in Product Development, Marketing, and Technology. When describing Sanford, descriptions include Product Expeditor, a transformative CTO and/or Market-sensitive Technologist — primarily working with promising start-up, leading venture funds and Fortune 500 firms to take on high-beta projects or accelerate positive change within their organizations through the effective use of technology, performance metrics and product development/marketing techniques.
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About OWLR Technologies: User-friendly software which makes complex home security cameras easy-to-use, more intelligent and safer for all.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Nick D’Aloisio
Co-founder and CEO of Sphere (Acquired by Twitter)
Nick D’Aloisio is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is a summarization and artificial intelligence technology developed with SRI International. D’Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology from a Billionaire, at just 15 years of age. As of March 2013, Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires ever. D’Aloisio was awarded “Innovator of the Year” in New York City by the Wall Street Journal for his work on Summly and at Yahoo. D’Aloisio was also included in TIME Magazine’s ‘Time 100’ as one of the world’s most influential teenagers, as well as being profiled in their “Secrets of Genius” Publication. D’Aloisio currently leads the critically acclaimed Yahoo News Digest, which launched at CES 2014 and won the 2014 Apple Design Award at WWDC for its technological and product excellence. He is also an undergraduate student at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is studying Computer Science and Philosophy, and is the “Entrepreneur in Residence” at Airbnb.
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About Sphere (Acquired by Twitter): Now part of Twitter! Sphere is a community chat app turns groups into close, vibrant, purposeful and productive communities, instantly!
Thanos Kokkiniotis
CEO of SMARTIFY
Thanos Kokkiniotis has 7 years experience managing Royal Dutch Shell’s mobile strategy, including a portfolio of 3 apps used by over 4 million customers across 31 countries. Thanos will hold a workshop about “make meaningful connections with art” at the Communicating the Museum conference in Berlin.
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About Shell Oil Company, SMARTIFY: SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Phil McGriskin
CEO & Founder of Vitesse PSP
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Daneh Westropp
Founder & CEO of Pickle
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About Pickle: Find different friends for different things!
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Pip Wilson
Co-Founder and CEO of amicable
A successful entrepreneur, director, angel investor and start-up mentor, Pip is passionate about empowering women in tech and disrupting traditional business models. Pip Wilson is co-founder and CEO of amicable apps: the faster, fairer, fixed-price way to an amicable divorce. In 2002 Pip co-founded Bluefin Solutions, a SAP consultancy and a full SAP Services Partner, which she exited last year to Mindtree. Pip is also a trustee and board member of The Girls’ Network, a foundation that matches girls from low socio-economic backgrounds with inspirational female mentors. She believes in the power of teams, the importance of diversity, and that the best businesses help employees balance life with work. In her view, successful start-ups of the future will combine a sustainable business model with a clear social purpose and diverse teams. This view drives her investment decisions.
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About amicable: Amicable offers a divorce service that works with couples to help them reach fairer agreements.
Govind Balakrishnan
Co-Founder & CEO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Ian Chambers
CEO of Mind Candy
Ian’s wealth of entertainment experience comes from his time at Ubisoft and EA which in turn led to his role as Managing Director, International at IGN where he was responsible for its global expansion and making IGN the #1 video games media network in the world. Before joining Mind Candy Ian was Chief Digital Officer at GAME Digital Plc.
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About Mind Candy: Moshi provides a sleep and mindfulness app for kids featuring melodic stories created to help kids drift off to sleep quickly.
Kwame Ferreira
Founder & CEO of Impossible
Kwame is founder and CEO of impossible.com which helps develop businesses through a planet centric design approach, aligning business goals with planetary needs. Kwame has, among many other things, created record labels (enchufada.com), emotional wearables (bond-touch.com), bot engines (nikabot.com) and kind insurance companies (kinsu.co.uk).
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
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
Nimeshh Patel
CEO of Wrisk
Former AOL COO with experience building and operating international businesses. Adept at assembling high performance teams. Strong passion for innovation and entrepreneurship with an affinity for product evangelism.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Jens Lauritzson
CEO of Flexion
JI founded Flexion in 2007 with a mission to help mobile game and app developers monetize their products more effectively. Having experienced how difficult it was to monetise and find distribution for apps with the traditional Pay-Per-Download model as a developer gave me the idea to help others in the same situation. The company has since become the leading enabling solution and covers a range of monetization and discovery features. Flexion works with most of the top tier game developers and some of the best service providers in areas such as carrier billing, advertising, app discovery and search. Prior to Flexion I worked with mobile game developers and aggregators and I have had the opportunity to grow a global network of contacts within the mobile content industry for 13 years.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Roger Beadle
CEO & Co founder of Limitless
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About Limitless: The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Lex Deak
Co-founder and CEO of Basket
Lex Deak is the Co-founder and CEO at Basket.
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About Basket: Basket aims to revolutionize the online shopping experience by informing customers of price drops or any discounts available on their items.
Sylvester Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO of SUPPA Networking
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About SUPPA Networking: Build your social and professional network by making meaningful in-person connections at some of the best restaurants and bars in London.
Adam Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Airtime Rewards
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Airtime Rewards Ltd.
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About Airtime Rewards: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Jude Ower
Founder & CEO of PlayMob
Jude Ower is changing the world through game play. She has spent 10 years working within games, creating educational, training and awareness games across a range of organisations from corporate, government and education. Jude is now concentrating on social and mobile games, and how engaging mass audience of game players can make a world changing difference.
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About Department for International Trade, PlayMob: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Sharmadean Reid
Chief Executive Officer of The Stack World
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About The Stack World, The Stack World: The Stack World is a news, events and connections company.
George Rawlings
Co-founder and CEO of Thursday
George Rawlings is Co-founder and CEO at Thursday.
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About Thursday: Thursday is a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps.
Thomas Mann
CEO, Founder of Raycast
Thomas Paul Mann is the CEO and Founder at Raycast.
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About Raycast: Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.
Martin Macmillan
CEO & Founder of Pollen VC
Martin has 20 years’ experience in launching and building technology businesses in FinTech, music and media sectors, and a prior career in Investment banking as a bond trader. Having experienced first-hand the growth challenges facing tech start-ups and the lack of financing options open to developers, he saw the to marry his traditional financial markets and technology experience to create a disruptive new business model for the digital industry. Prior to Pollen, Martin was CEO at Soniqplay, CEO at Level Four (acquired by clear2pay) and a Director of UBS in London, where he ran the short term credit trading group and conceived and delivered UBS’ first client-facing electronic debt trading platform.
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About Pollen VC, Soniqplay: Pollen VC provides credit facilities to app and game developers
Phil Carr
Founder & CEO of My PT Hub
Phil Carr is the founder of My PT Hub.
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About My PT Hub: My PT Hub is an online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.
Raluca Diana Papuc
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anvex
Raluca Diana Papuc is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Anvex App – Technology Startup.
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About Anvex: The new easy way to get connected with top freelancers for everyday help and inspiration.
Jason jefferys
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fetch
Jason Jefferys is a Chief Executive Officer at Fetchmyorder.
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About Fetch, The Takeaway App Company: FETCH is the app where you can order and pay for food and drink in bars and restaurants.
Tejen Barbezat
Founder & CEO of Gignify
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About FIT.live, Gignify: Gignify aims to become the largest centralised talent marketplace in the world
Toby Mather
Co-founder,CEO of Lingumi
Toby is an English teacher and education technologist. He studied languages at Oxford before becoming an English teacher for children abroad.
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About Lingumi: Lingumi is an edtech startup that teaches English to kids aged 2 to 6 using an app and a range of physical products.
Azmat Yusuf
Founder / CEO of Citymapper
Mr. Azmat Yusuf is a Founder at Citymapper Limited.Yusuf previously worked at Google, as well as in the venture capital and equities fields for international banks. He started the app in 2011 as a guide for Londoners to navigate the city’s bus network. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in both Electrical Engineering and Economics and received his MBA from INSEAD in 2009.
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About Citymapper: Citymapper is a transport app for cities.
CEO & Co-Founder of Trafi
Martynas Gudonavičius is CEO and co-founder of Trafi. Joining the company at an early stage, Martynas has since then spearheaded global expansion and focused on the commercial side of the business. Before joining Trafi, Martynas was Head of Emerging Markets at InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network and tech platform. Previous to that, Martynas acted as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe for Adform.
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About Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Lauren Riley
Founder & CEO of The Link App
Lauren Riley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at The Link App.
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About The Link App: The Link App is an easy-to-use platform that reinvents a law firm’s client experience.
Everest Troost-Ekong
Co-Founder & CEO of Food Drop
Everest Troost-Ekong is the Co-Founder and CEO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
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.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Karl Gilbert
CEO of Raylo
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About Raylo, Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Harry Howe
Co-Founder & CEO of Dronestream
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About Apian, Dronestream: Dronestream is a platform that allows drone pilots to collaborate with their organisation remotely, from anywhere in the world.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO of Urban
A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Jay Johnston
CEO of Poq
Jay Johnston is the CEO at Poq.
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About Poq: Poq offers a SAAS platform to help large retailers join app commerce.
Sheenu Chawla
CEO and Co-Founder of Sush Labs
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About Sush Labs: Sush Labs is in designing, developing mobile and webs cloud-backed digital solutions.
Julian Bourne
CEO & Co-Founder of Sellar
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About Sellar, Waffle: Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
Jon Hook
CEO of BoomHits
Jon Hook is a mobile marketing executive and entrepreneur experienced in building, launching and running mobile technology and media businesses. He was a co-founder of Odyssey Mobile Interaction, which was acquired by Phunware in December 2014. Jon is currently General Manager of Advertising at Phunware. He is also a board advisor at Avanatta, Kaizen App and BPA EMEA. Hook’s agency experience includes time as Head of the Mobile Practice at MediaCom and Client Services Director at Carat. He was named in Media Week’s 30 Under 30, is a member of the IAB Mobile Council and recently became one of The Drum’s Mobile Top 50. He also speaks regularly at industry events including Cannes Lions, Mobile Media Summit New York and London, AdWeek New York and London, Digital Shoreditch, MMA Forum London, Mobile Venture Summit (Chicago) and TUNE Postback.
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About BoomHits: BoomHits is a publisher of the next generation of free-to-play mobile games.
Jake Schofield
Founder and CEO of Labstep
Jake Schofield is the CEO and Founder at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
James Fabricant
CEO & Founder of Emoticast
James is CEO at Emoticast where we are on a mission to bring the universe of popular culture (music, sounds, interactive content, you name it) into your chat stream making the communication more engaging and emotive. Formerly James was the Founder of IdeaPlane and served as its CEO. Prior to founding IdeaPlane, he was one of four founders of MySpace International and played an integral part in its global expansion, which included launching MySpace sites in 17 languages across 30 countries. He qualified as a corporate finance and private equity attorney at leading international law firm Linklaters which included a secondment at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Fabricant holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Law from Cambridge University.
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About Emoticast: Emoticast is a platform to share music GIFs with sound across all platforms.
Dmitri Lipnitsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Gismart
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About GeoZilla, Gismart, Intellectsoft, SE Ranking: A leading developer and publisher of entertainment-focused apps and games.
