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 Information Services 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.
Raf Keustermans
CEO of Sportlight Technology
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About Sportlight Technology: Sportlight Technology is a sports analytics startup that renders relevant and accurate information to professional sports organisations.
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Omer Khushnood
CEO of VIVID Technologies
Omer Khushnood, CEO Vivid Technologies
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About VIVID Technologies: VIVID Technologies are transforming the traditional customer service experience.
Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Stuart Miller
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybox
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About Bybox: ByBox was founded with a simple mission: to solve the problem of having to wait in for parcels.
Adil Mohammed
CEO and Founder of Virtuoso
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About Virtuoso: Virtuoso develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions.
John Owen
CEO of Mastek
John Owen was appointed Group CEO of Mastek Ltd in 2016 to reposition the Mastek as a leader in Digital Transformation and return the Company to growth. John has over 30 years’ experience in the global technology market, having worked in the US, EMEA and Asia as well as running global accounts. John has held senior leadership roles in global blue-chips such as HP, Nortel and Serco, as well as successful venture capital backed start-ups such as Sycamore Networks. Prior to Mastek, John was the Sales and Marketing Director for Serco Europe where his responsibilities included handling Serco’s largest customer, the UK Government with annual revenues of £2.6Bn.
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About Mastek: Mastek in building, maintaining and managing bespoke digital solutions for clients in Government, Health, Retail, and, Financial Services.
Frank Hester OBE
Founder & CEO of The Phoenix Partnership
Frank has always been at the forefront of IT innovation. In his early career he was instrumental in building technological infrastructure in the finance industry. Frank founded TPP in 1997 and pioneered integrated care – delivering his vision of connected care across all health settings. Today, TPP provides leading software that is transforming healthcare worldwide. Frank is active in all aspects of the company’s business operations, working alongside the teams in the development of TPP’s products and representing the company in the public domain. Frank’s innovative vision is nationally recognised by the NHS, leading journals and healthcare organisations. In 2012, he was elected to the board of TechUK as a spokesperson for the healthcare IT sector. The following year, he was listed as one of the UK’s top 50 innovators in the national health publication, HSJ. In 2015, Frank was named on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List to be awarded with an OBE (Order of the British Empire), for his services to healthcare. Frank has been invited on numerous government trade missions, representing the UK health industry around the world. He has visited countries such as China, India and Brazil as part of trade missions led by British Prime Minister, David Cameron and by Kenneth Clarke, QC, MP.
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About The Phoenix Partnership: TPP is a healthcare technology company, dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software in the UK and internationally.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Paul Zwillenberg
CEO of Daily Mail and General Trust
Paul Zwillenberg has over 25 years’ experience as an operator and advisor across the media, technology and telco sectors. He has a breadth of experience across the B2B and media sectors of DMGT’s portfolio and a broad knowledge of the Group, having set up the digital division of dmg media (formerly Associated Newspapers digital) in 1996. Prior to joining DMGT, Paul was the Global Leader Media Sector at The Boston Consulting Group and before that founded an early interactive media company and launched a European technology services firm.
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About Daily Mail and General Trust: DMGT provides businesses and consumers with compelling information, analysis, insight, events, news, and entertainment.
Neil Bradford
CEO of General Index
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About General Index: The new alternative to traditional Price Reporting Agencies. Founded in response to industry demand for more transparency within the market.
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.
David Mills
Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
David Mills is Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe. David is responsible for the strategic direction of the company as well as the operations of Ricoh’s 20 operating companies across EMEA, marketing operations and the supply chain. He joined the Ricoh Group in 2008, having already held several senior roles in our industry including President of European operations at IKON. He then became the Managing Director of Ricoh UK, before joining the Ricoh Europe Board as Executive Vice President, and then COO. He became CEO of Ricoh Europe in April 2014.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Jerre Stead
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clarivate Analytics
Jerre L. Stead joined the PCN Technology, Inc. Board of Directors in October of 2008. From 1996 until his June 1, 2000 retirement, Mr. Stead was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Micro Inc., a leading distributor of computers and peripherals. Mr. Stead has also held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Square D Co., which was acquired by Schneider Electric, S.A. He also served as CEO of AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR Corporation) and Legent Corporation. Since 2006, Mr. Stead has served as Chairman of the Board and CEO for IHS, one of the leading global providers of critical technical information, decision-support tools, and related services to customers in the energy, defense, aerospace, construction, electronics, and automotive industries. Mr. Stead is currently also a Director of Armstrong Holdings, Inc., Conexant Systems, Mobility Electronics, Inc., Brightpoint, Inc. and TBG Group. He has also held numerous positions during a 21-year career at Honeywell. He is a well-known Author of Executive books including Flight of the Buffalo and is the Chairman of the Board for the Center of Ethics and Values at Garret Seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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About Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics.
Yoram Wijngaarde
Founder & CEO of Dealroom.co
Yoram founded dealroom.co in 2013. Before that he worked for 10 years in investment banking, advising media, telco and internet companies. Worked at Lehman Brothers between 2004 and 2008 in the Media Investment Banking Group in New York and London. After Lehman’s collapse he and two Lehman colleagues created NOAH Advisors (and the NOAH Conference), an independent tech M&A boutique. Yoram worked at NOAH from 2009 to 2013. Yoram completed 21 M&A deals with over $10bn in combined value and for example led the sale of Fotolia.com to KKR ($500M), the acquisition of Bigpoint by TA/Summit ($350m) and the sale of Softonic to Partners Group (€275m).
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About Dealroom.co: Global database to identify & track promising companies
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.
James Spalding
Chief Executive Officer of OLR
James is a highly motivated business leader with a focus on using technology to provide businesses with a competitive advantage. A natural innovator, he has over 25 years experience successfully leading teams to deliver challenging, large scale, business critical IT projects.
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About e2x Limited, e2x Limited, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
Duncan Johnston-Watt
CEO & Co-Founder of BTP
Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Cloudsoft Corporation Limited in 2008 and serves as its the Chief Executive Officer. Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. in 2002 and served as its Principal since 2000. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. until December 2008. He is a serial entrepreneur and industry visionary with over twenty years experience in the software industry. He also has experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale systems including the global FX and Money Markets data delivery infrastructure for BNP and the Fixed Income analytics infrastructure at UBS. In April 1998, Duncan Johnston-Watt joined the Reuters Group subsidiary, Instinet Corporation where he led the development of new Fixed Income brokerage platform that was launched in March 2000 and served as Managing Director, Fixed Income Technology since May 2000. At Instinet, he pioneered the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services. He serves as a Director of Cloudsoft Corporation Limited. Duncan Johnston-Watt has been a Non Executive Director of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd., since December 2008 and previously served as its Director until December 2008. In recognition of the work, he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award in April 2000. Duncan Johnston-Watt holds MSc in Computation from Oxford University and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Leeds University.
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About BTP: Blockchain Technology Partners is an enterprise blockchain company.
Aba Schubert
CEO of Dorae
Aba is an American entrepreneur and investor in the financial, technology and mining sectors. She co-founded Dorae, the blockchain-enabled global supply chain accountability system, and co-founded Aethel Partners, a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm headquartered in London. Aba received a math degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
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About Aethel Partners, Dorae: Dorae is the physical trade cloud.
Akin Coker
CEO of List Bloc
Akin Coker is a Founder & CEO of “List Bloc, Inc. He previously worked as a Consultant developing & implementing successful Data Science / Marketing analytics & Digital Strategy solutions for various organisations across the Financial, FinTech, InsurTech, Advertising & Publishing sectors.
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About List Bloc: List Bloc is a Q&A platform that is connecting the world to find answers!
Duncan Painter
Chief Executive Officer of Ascential Plc
Duncan joined the company in October 2011 as Chief Executive Officer. In March 2012, he led a significant restructure of the group, which saw the creation of Top Right Group and its separate business units operating at the heart of the customer communities they serve. In December 2015, following a successful three-year turnaround, Duncan formed the new Group Company Brand – Ascential. As CEO, Duncan has a relentless focus on improving our products and services to ensure this drives greater customer retention. Ensuring our customers get improved value every year from our products; seeking constant feedback; adapting what our brands focus on and empowering our experts to have the confidence to be champions of insight or access to the markets we serve; have been the core ingredients to the strong results of the Group over the last few years. Before joining the Group, Duncan was an Executive at BskyB, where he supported their growth objectives to ten million customers. Prior to that, he was Global Product Leader at Experian plc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of consumer intelligence company ClarityBlue, which was acquired by Experian in 2006, and European Systems Integration Director for Hitachi Data Systems.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Natasha Christie-Miller
CEO / President of Ascential Plc
Natasha Christie-Miller is CEO of Plexus, the digital intelligence and live events business that formed by the coming together of EMAP, 4C and Planet Retail. Natasha started her career in sales and led the commercial teams on consumer brands such as Elle, Red, and the Emap parenting portfolio before taking on the role of Publishing Director of Drapers, the fashion industry bible at Emap B2B in 2005. She then became Managing Director for the Retail portfolio in 2007 and was appointed CEO of EMAP in 2010. As chief executive of Plexus, Natasha manages 19 product lines that include market leading brands HSJ, Planet Retail, Glenigan, Retail Week, and Groundsure.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Ilya Levtov
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craft.co
Ilya is the founder and CEO ofCraft providing data and analytics on thousands of companies for free to professionals researching their next career move or conducting business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, then received his MBA from Stanford. Later he joined venture capital firm Venrock in Menlo Park, and then joined Venrock’s portfolio-company Crunchyroll, as EVP. Ilya believes that access to more and better information for professionals and candidates about employers and opportunities, is a key to solving the talent challenges we face today.
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About Craft.co, Digital Supply Chain Institute: Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Jack Thorogood
CEO of Knowlocker
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About Knowlocker, NOVP, Saasuma: Knowlocker is a platform for knowledge management
Pavlo Tanasyuk
CEO and Founder of BlockVerify
Pavlo is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of BlockVerify. Previously was the CEO and co-founder at Monexy payment system. Pavlo holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School and Certificate in General Management from Stanford University. Pavlo was Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Journal at the London School of Economics. Pavlo is active as a researcher on blockchain technology and its social implications. He presented his work at a number of major international conferences including World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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About BlockVerify, BlockVerify, Spacebit, Spacebit Technologies: BlockVerify offers a Blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution.
Roy Moed
Founder & CEO of LifeBook
Roy Moed is a Founder & CEO at LifeBook.
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About LifeBook: LifeBook is a UK-based startup offering professionally written autobiographies as gifts for friends and family members.
Tim Cobbold
CEO & Executive Director of UBM Plc
Tim is the CEO & Executive Director of UBM, an event services platform.
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About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Neil Patel
CEO/ Publisher/ Co-founder of The Daily Caller
Neil Patel is the IT Director at Apax Partners based in the London office. Neil joined Apax Partners in 2005. He is responsible for developing and maintaining the Information Technology strategy to meet business requirements. Neil started his career at Apax Partners as a Network Analyst and was promoted through various roles within IT to become IT Director. Neil holds a BSc degree in Business Studies from Cass Business School.
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About Apax Partners, The Daily Caller: The Daily Caller is a 24-hour news publication site providing reporting on politics, world, sports, business, breaking news and more.
Jonathan Pope
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Corax
Former army Captain and Sandhurst graduate, Jonathan is an insurance industry thought leader and speaker, and has acted as a board level cyber risk advisor.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
Simon Haighton-Williams
CEO of Adaptavist
Simon Haighton-Williams is the CEO of Adaptavist.
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About Adaptavist: Adaptavist provides professional services, managed services, and add-on products for the Atlassian suite.
Richard Conway
Chief Executive Officer of Elastacloud
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About Elastacloud: Elastacloud are a Cloud Architecture and Data Science Consultancy who specialise in bringing intelligence to your data.
Andrew Mindenhall
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Agilisys
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About Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Josh Bowyer
CEO & Co-Founder of Zint Technology
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About SalesSift, Zint Technology: Zint Technology is a specialist sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams to identify, win and grow accounts.
Adrian Blair
CEO of Dext
Adrian Blair is the group CEO at Receipt Bank.
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About Dext: Empowering accountants and bookkeepers with the smart and forward-thinking solutions needed to make businesses better.
Marjella Alma
CEO & Co-Founder of Datamaran
Marjella Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran – a technology scale-up HQed in London. Marjella believes that the application to AI to corporate sustainability is a game-changer, and partnered with former Wall Street trader and big data expert to drive her vision. As a technical expert in the field with in-depth knowledge of non-financial disclosure and responsible investing, Marjella provides the strategic direction to the team and leads the business development efforts. Datamaran is in its 4th year of growth and has gained great traction amongst both the corporate and investor community globally. They are the “Bloomberg of ESG” – and differentiate themselves by providing a data-driven approach to non-financial risk management and by providing access to their data analytics platform that allows for ongoing monitoring of (material) issues. Additionally, in recognition of Marjella’s leadership and vision for the future, Marjella is part of Telefonica’s Sustainability Stakeholder Advisory Group. Prior to founding Datamaran, Marjella was the head of the New York office of GRI (the Global Reporting Initiative) – the most widely used standard for measuring and managing Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues. She joined the GRI headquarters in Amsterdam in 2007 where she successfully set up the services department. She became the youngest female Director for the GRI at age 30. Marjella holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Groningen and has a large and impressive international network in the field of reporting and transparency. In her career to date, Marjella has worked with governments, regulators, international organisations, businesses, civil society, labour, the accountancy profession and the media – she continues to attract new audiences to this space with her diverse global team of experts in technology, risk management, finance, law and ESG.
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About Datamaran: Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.
Olly Betts
Co-Founder and CEO of OpenWrks
Fintech Founder, Investor and Advisor. Building the technology that makes Open Banking work. Advocate and pioneer in the use of open data to create experiences that enrich people’s lives. At OpenWrks our mission is to use Open Banking to help everyone understand what they can afford to save, invest, borrow and repay. Member of senior leadership team that took TDX Group from start up to a global data and technology company.
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About Bizfitech, OpenWrks: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
Cristian Parrino
CEO and Co-Founder of Greengame
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About Greengame, OpenUK: Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics
David Rai
Founder & Group CEO of Sparta Global
David is the founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sparta Global, one of the UK’s leading technology and business services firms. He is a seasoned management professional with over 25 year’s leadership experience in the UK, Europe and North America Sparta Global is headquartered in London, and has training academies across the UK and employs over 300 staff. In 2019 Sparta Global generated over £25million in revenue and is hiring over 500 graduates in the next 12 months. As Chief Executive Officer, David Rai has overall responsibility for the day to day running of Sparta Global, its strategic development, growth strategy, financial performance and creating the optimum conditions to deliver future value. Prior to founding Sparta Global, David co-founded an online gambling organisation and worked for leading fast growth gaming organisations in key sales appointments in London, UK and the USA. He received his BSc Hons Management Studies from Aston University and MSc Management from Manchester University.
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About Sparta Global: Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
James Brown
CEO of Smart Communications
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About Smart Communications: Smart Communications is a privately held company that provides cloud-enabled customer communications management services.
Rasmus Hansen
Co-founder & CEO of Airfinity
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About Airfinity: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Elliot Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of Zapaygo
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About Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Flemming Bengtsen
CEO of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Peter Dolukhanov
Founder & CEO of Decoded Consulting
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About Decoded Consulting: Decoded Consulting is a technology leadership consultancy that offers CTO services.
Ross Harper
Founder and CEO of Limbic
Ross Harper is the co-founder and CEO of Limbic. Computational neuroscientist gone rogue. With degrees from Cambridge University and University College London, Ross is skilled at drawing hidden meaning from biological data.
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About Limbic: Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers.
Justin Fitzpatrick
Co-Founder & CEO of DueDil
Justin is co-founder and CEO of DueDil. Prior to DueDil he established the Asian and European operations for two other venture-backed tech companies. Justin is also a founding Non-Executive Director of Innovate Finance, a financial technology industry body.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
David Fountaine
CEO & Founder of Creation Technology
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About Creation Technology: Creation Technology is a consultancy and product development company that offers department solutions or a complete digital transformation.
Toby Norman
Co-Founder & CEO of Simprints
Toby Norman, CEO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Gates Scholar and PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, BA in Biology from Harvard. Toby has worked >10 years with frontline workers across Africa, Asia, and Central America on initiatives to improve global health and development through technology. Toby is a 2018 GLG Fellow, 2017 Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Vivek Madlani
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply
Vivek Madlani is the Cofounder and CEO at multiply.ai
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About Multiply: Multiply provides independent financial advice service.
Rob Fagg
CEO of H4
Rob Fagg is the CEO at H4.
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About H4: H4 is a digital platform transforming the documentation that underpins global financial markets and legal contracts.
Denis Ignatovich
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imandra
Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
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About Imandra: Imandra specializes in cloud-scale automated reasoning.
Neil Murphy
Chief Executive Officer of Bytes
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About Bytes: Bytes is a company that incorporates specialist divisions, providing customers across software licensing and security services.
Will Read
CEO & Founder of Sideways 6
Will Read is Founder & CEO at Sideways 6.
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About Sideways 6: Sideways 6 is a platform helping organisations including british airways and sainsbury’s to harness the innovative ideas of their employees.
Yi Xu
Founder and CEO of Human
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About Human: Human humanises technology to decipher subliminal facial expressions into emotion and characteristics, predicting human behaviour.
Wendy McDougall
CEO and Founder of Firefish Software
Wendy McDougall is the CEO and founder of Firefish Software. Prior to that, Wendy served as a regional director at TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement). She was the founder and managing director at 9-20 Recruitment.
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About Firefish Software: Firefish Software is a recruitment and marketing SaaS platform that helps recruiters reach, engage, and recruit top candidates.
Lindsay Trombley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Wovn
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About Wovn: Wovn provides fashion brands with real-time predictive insights to better predict demand, reduces waste, and increasing sales.
Vera Grablechner
Founder & CEO of myCulture
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About myCulture: MyCulture is an art curator app that provides art enthusiasts with personalized recommendations for exhibitions based on their interests.
Piers Linney
CEO & Founder of Moblox
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About Moblox: Moblox is a tech and tool platform for owner-led businesses.
Patrick Newton
Chief Executive Officer of Rezatec
Patrick was previously CEO of Helveta which he grew from start-up to ranking 11th in the 2010 Deloitte Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Prior to Helveta, Patrick was CEO of DACG Inc, a provider of professional services and software, which he took to a NASDAQ float in 1998 with revenues of $80mn and a 5 year CAGR of 80%.
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About Rezatec: Rezatec applies data science to satellite imagery and geospatial data to deliver cloud-based analytics to its global customers.
Jordan Fantaay
CEO of Fantoo
An innovator and lead in product design and development. Has been responsible for setting up manufacturing operations across Singapore, China, and Taiwan. Also responsible for bringing to market software and hardware patent pending products, in particular in some cases for fortune 500 companies. Has several Patents granted in his name and is continuing to seek opportunities in the consumer technology space. Is launching a disruptive consumer messaging software venture in 2012
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About Fantoo: Fantoo is a people centric, mobile and desktop, application for web apps, messengers, and notifications.
David Ovadia
Founder CEO, Chairman and Non Executive Director of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd
David Ovadia is a successful Chief Executive and Chairman with a proven record of achievement in the public and private sectors. He was a Director of Blenheim Natural Resources plc, previously Coburg plc, London AIM-listed companies investing in the global natural resources sector, CEO of Avenco Ltd and Chairman of South East African Mining (SEAM) Ltd, both junior explorers for gold and other minerals in Africa. He served as a Director of Spectrum General Partner Ltd and was previously the Director of International at the British Geological Survey, from which he spun out and was the founder Managing Director, and later Chairman, of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd.
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About IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd: IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd provides geoscientific and geodata services to the global mineral exploration sector.
Julian M. Baladurage
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MBJ LONDON
Julian Baladurage joined MBJ LONDON as CEO & Co-founder in 2011.
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About Forbes New York Business Council, MBJ LONDON: MBJ LONDON is a web and app development company offering Website as a Service.
Warren Russell
Founder & CEO of W2 Global Data
Over 14 years’ experience in working within the Financial Service Sector. Warren has extensive expertise in AML (Anti Money Laundering), Anti-fraud, CTF (Counter Terrorism Financing), Loss Prevention, Regulation and Compliance working within companies such as HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Cheltenham & Gloucester and C6 Group.
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About W2 Global Data: W2 Global Data is a provider of international data, software and services.
David Buckingham
CEO of Ecrebo
David Buckingham joined Ecrebo as CEO in March 2017 where he oversees the company’s global presence, international growth strategy and technology offering. With over 25 years’ experience within the retail and CPG insights and analytics space, David has held senior leadership positions at leading retail insights and analytics providers including Kantar Retail, IRI, Loyalty Management Group and i2c. Prior to joining Ecrebo, David was President of Aimia Shopper Insights in New York, where he headed up its North America division.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Gary Nugent
CEO of Informa Tech
Gary Nugent is CEO of the new Informa Tech division, created in January 2019. He joined the Group in 2014 as Commercial Director for the Business Intelligence division and was latterly Group President of its Agribusiness, Financial and Infrastructure Intelligence verticals, where he was responsible for driving their profitable and sustainable growth while ensuring the company remained a trusted partner to its customers across the globe. Gary has over 20 years of International Sales and Marketing experience having lived and worked in Dubai, Geneva, London, and Paris. He joined Informa from Alcatel-Lucent, where he was most recently Head of the Managed Services Business. Prior to that, Gary held the position of Head of Marketing. Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, Gary worked for leading global Information Technology brands such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems and IBM.
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About Informa Tech: Informa Tech is a provider of integrated research, media, training and events to the global technology community.
Bruce Hellman
CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif
Bruce Hellman is the CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif.
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About uMotif: UMotif is a scalable and engaging patient-centred data capture platform for modern research.
Michael Trounce
Founder & CEO of Trounceflow
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About Trounceflow: Tech-centred professional services firm helping financial market professionals with data and insight on flows and positions in EMD/FX
Edward Hall
CEO of Qualification Check
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About Qualification Check: Qualification Check is an online, automated, and professional qualification checking solution.
Martin McCann
Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Ledger
Martin McCann is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Ledger.
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
Raghu Das
CEO of IDTechEx
Raghu Das MA (Cantab) is CEO of IDTechEx. He has a Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge, where he studied physics. He has been closely involved with this subject for over nine years, carrying out consultancy in Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East. He has lectured on these topics at over 300 events around the world and is author of several IDTechEx publications. r.das@idtechex.com
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About IDTechEx: IDTechEx is a consultancy that provides market research, business intelligence, and events on emerging technology to its clients.
Neil Roberts
Chief Executive Officer of Concorde Technology Group
Neil Roberts is the chief executive officer at Concorde Technology Group.
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About Concorde Technology Group: Concorde Technology Group delivers cost-effective and innovative IT solutions to businesses across the United Kingdom.
David Edwards
Founder and CEO of ChainThat
David Edwards is the founder and product lead for ChaintThat. ChainThat provides enterprise decentralised solutions & services based on Blockchain and smart contracts for the commercial & specialty (re)insurance sector. David has proven his industry leading experience repeatedly during his work with large enterprises and start-ups alike over the past 20 years. His wide-ranging technical skills span the provision of high-level architecture design & strategy down to detailed, low-level technical solutions. He has been working with architecting Blockchain and smart contracts solutions since 2014. Prior to Chainthat, David held the role of Enterprise Infrastructure Architect for London’s leading insurance services provider. In this role he provided cloud strategy, complex data migration planning, cyber security guidance, total cost of ownership modelling for applications / services and infrastructure / storage strategy. Previously David held architecture positions at Capita, ATOS & Siemens.
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About ChainThat: ChainThat provide services and solutions that leverage new decentralised technologies to enable a step-change in peer-to-peer processing.
Andrew Jervis
Co-Founder and CEO of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Peter Bance
Chief Executive Officer of Origami
Peter started working with Octopus in early 2012 as ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’. In this consulting role, he supports the management teams of a number of Octopus’ portfolio companies in the delivery of their growth plans, in particular when dealing with large corporations. Peter also helps to identify and assess prospective new deals for Octopus, specialising in businesses with intellectual property based technology and products. Outside of Octopus, Peter sits on a number of Boards of high growth businesses as a non-executive director, including Goodwolfe Energy, and is a member of a number of public-private organisations informing UK government policy on innovation and investment, including The Energy Technologies Institute. Prior to Octopus, Peter was CEO of Ceres Power, an AIM listed cleantech business, following an earlier career in corporate venturing and technology consulting at Generics Group and PA Technology.
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About Origami: Intelligent trading and automation software for short term power trading. SaaS.
Terry Donegan
CEO of Elumini
Terry Donegan is the CEO of Elumini. He used to be the chairman of ChatCloud. He earned his bachelor’s degree at The University of Stirling.
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About Elumini: Elumini analyses emotional intensity in near real-time to provide unprecedented access to hearts and minds.
Stephen Pomfret
CEO of Cygnetise
Steve founded the award-winning Cygnetise in 2016 after identifying the considerable risks and inefficiencies that traditional manual and paper-based signatory registers posed to financial institutions and other companies.
Previously, he worked in operational change within large banks and brokers, including Credit Suisse, UBS, Instinet and Deutsche Bank. Acting as an internal consultant, Steve would troubleshoot to improve efficiency and minimise risk in areas including emerging markets, investment banking, custody, fund administration, wealth management, trade finance and corporate banking.
As well as the UK, he has spent time working in the US, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Russia. As CEO of Cygnetise, he has delivered a fast-growing commercial Blockchain application which is used across multiple industry sectors around the world and was one of the first uses of Blockchain outside of cryptocurrencies. He has a BEng (honours) in Civil Engineering.
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About Covolution, Cygnetise: Authorised Signatory Management on the Blockchain
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
James Butler
CEO of Cloud Business
James has always loved Business and IT. Combining the two came in 2009 when he founded Cloud Business to seize the opportunity to specialise in a newly forming technology wave, namely, Cloud Computing. Having spent 5 years previously with Microsoft, he was well placed to see the change in buying and delivery of IT to leading UK customers. Now that the business is established, James concentrates on managing the company and meeting with customers and partners which he loves. When not behind the desk or wheel, James enjoys cycling, cars and spending time with his young family.
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About Cloud Business: Cloud Business are cloud specialists, enabling organisations to make the most of a new wave of services and products.
Phil Spratt
CEO & co-founder of Deltabase
Phil Spratt is the CEO and founder of Deltabase.
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About Deltabase: Deltabase provides a digital scoring intelligence platform for private equity, corporate mergers and acquisitions teams, and their advisors.
Eyal Ben Cohen
CEO/Founder of Verifile
Eyal Ben Cohen is the CEO and Founder at Verifile Ltd – Employment Screening Company. He worked for WorkPass Limited as CEO/Founder. He is a graduate of Cranfield University with an MBA in Business Administration.
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About Verifile: Verifile is a provider of global CV verification and background screening services.
Marc Nohr
Group CEO, Agencies of Miroma Group
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About Miroma Group: Miroma Group is an end-to-end marketing and communications collective offering ideation, creation and distribution services.
James Clarkson
CEO of Adventoris
James is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of commercial experience in Manufacturing, Distribution, FMCG, Healthcare and Financial Services. Following his time with KPMG, James had senior and board appointments at Marshalls Plc, Matthews Foods Plc, Ultralase, and CP Group. James has a first class degree in Economics from the University of York.
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About Adventoris: Adventoris specializes in the development of ground-breaking mobile business software.
Robin Miller
CEO of EMAP Publishing (UK)
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About EMAP Publishing (UK): EMAP is a business-to-business multiplatform media group, whose brands inform, inspire and connect within the sectors they operate in.
Joao Bocas
CEO & Digital Health Influencer of Digital Salutem
João is a Digital Health Entrepreneur and International speaker. His passion lies in helping others, sharing experiences, transferring knowledge, working collaboratively and passing on the latest innovation trends from the digital health world.
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About Digital Salutem, The SelfCare People: Digital Salutem is a consultancy supporting scale-ups to grow and corporates to innovate effectively.
Suzi Godson
Co-CEO and Founder of MeeTwo Education
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About MeeTwo Education: MeeTwo Education is a safe, fully moderated app, which delivers peer support and expert help to teenagers.
Laurent Louvrier
CEO of SuccessData
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About SuccessData: SuccessData is an AI data extraction start-up
Gemma Blezard
Co-CEO and Chief Architect of The Architech Club
Founder and CEO of The Architech Club, 18 x certified Salesforce Architect MVP, on her path to obtaining the CTA, and having 400+ badges as Trailhead ranger, Gemma gained her experience as a Salesforce expert by working in smaller firms. She then landed positions at Bluewolf (an IBM Company), Capgemini and FinancialForce. At FinancialForce, Gemma worked on two award-winning implementations, and throughout her career has delivered consultancy services for CRM and Professional Services Automation to over 60 clients. She has hosted lots of presentations, and has talked at numerous Salesforce and community-led conferences, including various user groups, Dreamforce, Salesforce World Tour London, the Salesforce Partner Forum, French Touch Dreamin’, InspireEast, YeurDreamin and Connected Non-Profit. Her awards include: the Salesforce’s Golden Hoodie award (May 2018), WeAreTheCity’s TechWoman100 award (2018), Salesforce MVP, BIMA100, Digital Champion for Change & Computing’s ENT Role Model of the Year. Gemma established lots of community-based projects. One of them is Ladies Be Architects (which she also founded), a community interest company that encourages the growth of top, diverse talent in the Salesforce architect space.
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About The Architech Club: The Architech Club is a management consulting company.
Bill Alley
Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director of Target Group
He has extensive C-level experience and has a strong strategic, operational and consulting background at major corporates delivering significant financial and service performance. He has a successful track record in leading technology driven organisations at Xchanging, Dun and Bradstreet, ING Barings and KPMG. Bill’s focus is firmly on continuous improvement of our technology solutions and operational excellence, whilst supporting and developing engagement with our clients.
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About Target Group: Target Group is a provider of business process outsourcing and software solutions.
Daniel Gipple
Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPoints
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About BetterPoints: BetterPoints is a platform – a ‘Software as a Service’ (SAAS) – for motivating positive behaviour change through smartphones.
Phil Barry
Founder and CEO of Blokur
Phil Barry joined Blokur as Founder in 2016.
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About Blokur: Blokur is a tech company that empowers Internet of Creators using blockchain technology.
Galia Jordanova
CEO of Gaida.ai
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About Gaida.ai: Gaida.ai is a care of all your digital enquiries (leads) across their full journey all the way until deal.
Parth Desai
Founder & CEO of Pelican
Parth Desai graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and was quickly hired to work with one of the most celebrated global pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , Roger Schank. Parth rapidly built a deep expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has driven his own ability to innovate over the past two decades. During that time, Parth built a global team and nurtured their collective AI expertise. Working collaboratively within the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain for Banks and Corporates, Parth has built a thorough understanding of the Payments, Securities, Anti Money Laundering and Risk Management from both the business and technology viewpoints. As Founder &CEO, Parth works closely with his global team to deliver consistent innovation and client value that continues to underpin their long-term client relationships.
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About Pelican: Pelican provides banks and corporates with solutions that enhance, streamline and secure the payments life-cycle.
Matt O’Donovan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of WiFi SPARK
Matt is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of WiFi SPARK Ltd. With over 30 years IT experience Matt founded WiFi SPARK in 2003 to become the leading supplier of internet access control systems. He believes passionately in his business, citing customer service and quality as the highest criteria.
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About WiFi SPARK: WiFi SPARK is a specialist wireless network solutions provider.
Julia Manning
Chief Executive Officer of Relationships Foundation
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About 2020health, Relationships Foundation, University College London (UCL): Relationships Foundation develops relational thinking and engage with policymakers.
Craig Lemmon
CEO of Miigen
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About 2e-volve, GlobalScot, Miigen: Miigen is a online social platform for older adults.
John Squire
Founder & CEO of Locus Software
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About Locus Software: Locus Software Limited is an Information Technology Solution and Service Provider with a specific focus on the Shipping industry.
David Webber
Chief Executive Officer of Whistlebrook
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About Whistlebrook: Whistlebrook is a trusted supplier of innovative, back office, software systems to the financial services sector.
Alexandra Eavis
CEO of Dovetail Lab
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About Dovetail Lab: Dovetail Lab, an early stage UK technology business specializing in blockchain software for the healthcare market.
Chris Roche
Co-Founder , Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Celerity
Chris Roche is the chief executive officer at Celerity.
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About Celerity: Celerity designs and builds systems to support servers and data storage.
Greg Barnett
Founder & CEO of Logical Equity
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About Logical Equity: Logical Equity specializes in providing digital solutions for pre-seed and pre-series A startups.
Amandeep Singh
Founder & CEO of Comparism
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About Comparism, Comparism, EquiTipz: Comparism is an online portal to help you with personal finance and money saving tips.
