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 Video 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.
Gareth Capon
CEO of Grabyo
Gareth Capon is the CEO at Grabyo.
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About Grabyo, ShowCaster: Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
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Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Efe Cakarel
Founder & CEO of MUBI
Efe Cakarel is a Turkish entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of MUBI, an online film service. Previously, Cakarel worked with Goldman Sachs in London and New York, where he worked on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. Cakarel obtained his bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1998, and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005. Cakarel was a contributor to The Huffington Post. He also has two patents involving the monetization of web applications.
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About MUBI: MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor.
Frank Sagnier
CEO of Codemasters
Frank has been in the games industry for over 20 years. He started at Acclaim Entertainment as Head of European Marketing. He then moved to Electronic Arts Limited where he successfully managed the European marketing and Third-Party Publishing teams. Frank was also part of the global leadership team that drove the company into the online and mobile era. After many years in the corporate world Frank spent several years running a number of game development studios backed by venture capital firms and focused solely on digital free-to-play business models. Frank joined Codemasters in 2014, when he was recruited as Chief Executive Officer to implement the Group’s strategy. Frank is also an Ambassador for BAFTA Games and a Vice President of ‘SpecialEffect’, a UK based charity which uses video games and technology to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities.
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About Codemasters: Codemasters is a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for a global audience across multiple gaming platforms.
Niccolo Maisto
Co-Founder & CEO of FaceIT
Niccolo is the co-founder and CEO at FACEIT. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as he assures that the future and the present of the product come together. Under Niccolo’s leadership, FACEIT has expanded to over 5,000,000 users and 12,000,000 game sessions per month on 7 different games, becoming the most active competitive gaming platform in the world. He has a NYU Stern MBA degree and worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity before co-founding FACEIT.
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About FaceIT: FaceIT is the gaming platform for professional competitions within online multiplayer video games.
Wil Stephens
Founder, CEO of Fusebox Games
Wil is a Welsh entrepreneur with extensive experience of building transformational businesses in media and interactive entertainment. Wil is currently CEO of Fusebox Games, an interactive entertainment company he co-founded in 2016 that develops and publishes mobile games based on hit TV shows. Wil founded his first business aged 23 and as CEO of Cube TV, led the company to win BAFTAs and Broadcast Digital Awards for their ground-breaking interactive and TV formats. After growing Cube TV to offices in Cardiff and London, he joined the leadership team at New York based video streaming company Boxee to build out their international business, later acquired by Samsung. Wil is an investor in the media and interactive entertainment industry through his holding company, Closs Holdings.
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About Cube Interactive, Fusebox Games: Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.
Johnny Boufarhat
Founder and CEO of Hopin
Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder and CEO at Hopin.
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About Hopin: Hopin is an event platform provider that connects communities through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events.
Norm Johnston
CEO of Unruly
Norm Johnston is Chief Digital Officer at MindShare.
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About MindShare, Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Ivan Gazidis
CEO of Arsenal Football Club
Ivan Gazidis was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Arsenal Football Club in January 2009. He was previously deputy commissioner of Major League Soccer in the United States. Ivan, an Oxford-educated lawyer, was a member of the founding management team of MLS and central to developing the stature and reputation of the league. Ivan has developed Arsenal Football Club within the football community and international commercial markets. He sits on the European Club Association (ECA) Executive Board, which represents the interests of Europe’s leading 207 teams. He is chairman of the Legal Advisory Panel for the ECA, and is a member of FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber. Ivan contributes to the domestic game’s development as a member of the Professional Game Board (PGB), FA Council and the Premier League Working Group for Elite Player Performance. He also serves as the Chairman of the FA’s International Committee.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Nick Sabine
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Resident Advisor
Nick Sabine is the co-founder of Resident Advisor (RA). Established in 2001, RA enables the discovery of new music and events through a unique combination of original content and listings. By providing a platform for artists, promoters and fans RA connects the global dance music community and plays an indispensable role in supporting the electronic music industry worldwide.
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About Resident Advisor: RA is an online music magazine and community platform that’s dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
Jonathan Curley
Founder & CEO of FurShows
Velivian Fesothe is my artist/furry name, a persona I developed through Second Life to express aspects of who I am.
I started my Tech journey slightly before the Commodore 64 days and surfed the internet back when dial up modems were released just before 56k kbit/s, one of my memories is sitting with my now deceased father where he tried
to teach me to code on the Commodore to animate a hot air balloon or just a balloon to move across the screen.
When I was ready to leave school I was asked what I wanted to do for work at my first school careers interview, I asked if I could work with satellites or in the semiconductor industries, manufacturing microchips/CPUs etc as I’d been intrigued, impressed, and inspired by watching Intel Technicians on TV working in clean rooms. Alas such opportunities we’re out of reach in my town but I’ve never forgotten what I dreamed of and it will always motivate me to learn more.
This is likely why I joke I have a tech/laboratory trolley addiction as I enjoy daily surfing products to see what cool looking items come up.
Around 2002 or so I started an ISIT Course and I’ve been moving in multiple directions over the years picking up skills but not certifications, I’m actively looking to finalise my skillset and collect certifications to prove I’m capable which I hope will lead to the opening up of further opportunities to learn and work in the Tech/3D industries, or will help me with my own projects or opportunities I create myself through my own businesses.
My journey into 3D started when I joined Second Life in 2006 where I started modelling using primitives and became a registered mentor, I then went on to design sims/virtual environment’s for DAZ3D in an effort to develop/transition them into a high-end University, Shopping mall, and Welcome Hub when mesh was added to the service, I then moved away to Open simulator to develop DAZLife.
Around 2016 I was trained as a teacher/trainer, part of a 3d printed motorsport program (The Blair Project) after which I started 3d printing on the Ultimaker 2+ for a none profit social enterprise 3d teaching company I founded in 2016 called FossaLab Technologies, where I helped children get started with 3D using Tinker cad and trained adults in Fusion 360 and Hexagon.
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About FurShows, Glow Raiser, Snack Ferret Studio, The Furry Party: FurShows is a cultural archive and video hosting site for the furry fandom and anthropomorphic fans that aspires to be a streaming service.
Oliver Reason
CEO of Giggl
Oliver Reason is the CEO of Giggl, revolutionizing online interaction. Oliver started programming at a very young age, and earning money at 11. He is now building on his own company as well as consulting others.
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About Giggl: Watch and browse together with your friends and teams. Your new portal into the internet.
Sam Mathews
Founder & CEO of Fnatic
Sam Mathews is an entrepreneur most known for his exploits in the gaming community. Best known for founding Fnatic, the worlds number 1 professional gaming team, managing over 25 professional video gamers with big name sponsors such as title sponsor MSI. He founded UGAME in 2008, a focused social network providing a complete gamer profile, as well as linking niche gaming content sites together through one user base and offering a platform to share user content around gaming.
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About Fnatic: Leading esports performance.
Nick Jeffery
CEO and President of Frontier Communications
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About Frontier Communications: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
James Draper
Founder and CEO of Bidstack
From Bidstack.com: James founded Bidstack in 2015 utilising more than 15 years of commercial experience to launch his own business. Since the initial launch he has seen the company grow from a one man operation to an international business which trades on the London Stock Exchange. Under his stewardship, Bidstack became the first ever Crowdcube funded company to go public and he pivoted the business into gaming in 2017. James leads the business as a whole and is responsible for the company’s direction, growth, development, and vision.
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About Bidstack: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
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.
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Dominic Wheatley
CEO of Catalis
Co-Founder & CEO at Bright Things .
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About Bright Things, Catalis: Catalis provides high-end technical services relating to the creation of digital content for the digital media & entertainment industries.
Victor Riparbelli
CEO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Founders, Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Suhail Rizvi
Co-Founder & CEO of PixelPoint Group
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About PixelPoint Group: PixelPoint Group is a Digital Agency that specialises in Video Production and Social Media Management.
Thomas Fairey
Founder & CEO of Stakester
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Henrique Olifiers
Co-Founder, Gamer-In-Chief (CEO) of Bossa Studios
Henrique Olifiers Co-founded and leads Bossa Studios, a multiple award-winning games company in London, makers of the BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, amongst several other titles across all digital platforms. Bossa is also a leading Virtual Reality studio in Europe, hosting VR Meetups for the past three years. As a hobbyist, Henrique is a Maker passionate about 3D printing materials, robotics and human-machine interfaces.
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About Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Kevin Brown
CEO & Founder of FanCircles
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About Brandaisy, FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
David Bainbridge
Founder & CEO of boclips
David has deep experience in marketing and sales within corporates and bringing new media products to market. Prior to Knowledgemotion, David was the CEO of Elvis Communications, the Launch CMO for Intel’s IPTV offering in the US and was responsible for bringing the BBC iPlayer to market in the UK. He has sat on the Executive Boards of Freeview and Digital UK and was part of the original Channel 5 launch team. Knowledgemotion is his second start-up after successfully launching and exiting an interactive TV business in 2005. David has a BA in American Studies from Manchester University.
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About boclips: boclips is an online platform that enables its users to find, watch, and learn through educational video clips.
Blaise Bellville
Founder & CEO of Boiler Room
Boiler Room founder Blaise Bellville created a new underground music network quite literally from a utility room. Blaise left school at 18 and founded many businesses before starting the worldwide phenomenon that is Boiler Room, which reaches over 72 million music fans every month worldwide. Beginning as a club promoter and DJ, Blaise’s first business to gain national recognition was All Age Concerts. Founded when he was 25, it kicked off an under-age gig movement across the country, even creating a festival for 10,000 in Victoria Park at the movement’s peak in 2010. In the same era, he created online magazine Read Platform, which was written by and run for teenagers. It was while running his, surrounded by other London music obsessives that Boiler Room was born. Bellville enlisted Thristian Richards, who worked for Soul Jazz and Gilles Peterson and Femi Adeyemi, founder of online radio station NTS and organised a weekly hang out/ session – broadcast from a webcam and Ustream to the world from the utility room in the warehouse it was run out of. The session run by the electronic music scene, for the electronic scene quickly drew big name guests. Jamie XX, SBKRT and Hudson Mohawke all turned up for early session to DJ and hang out. Though Read Platform was drawing 300,000 unique users, Boiler Room soon mushroomed passed it in popularity. Since 2010 it has gone global, with a growing and significant fan base in Latin America, partnership with Japan’s biggest streaming provider, key broadcast hubs in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and the dedication of the most hard core, committed music fans on the planet.
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About Boiler Room: Boiler Room is an online platform that enables its users to live stream and archive musical shows.
Tre Azam
Founder & CEO of MyndPlay
Tre Azam is founder and CEO of MyndPlay, a UK based brainwave technology and media company and creators of the MyndPlayer mind controlled video and movie platform which allows viewers to control, direct or influence the narrative and outcome of a video using nothing but their mind and emotions. The technology and platform have been used to create interactive movie trailers, mind controlled sporting games, field based neuromarketing research, automated mental health and prisoner rehabilitation amongst other things. Prior to MyndPlay Tre spent 4 years with his production company Treite Labs which allowed him to travel around the world making documentaries and working with charities to help develop his ground experience as a mental health therapist. In his previous work experience Tre has also worked within TV, Radio and as a speaker on a number of topics from innovation to the mind.
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About MyndPlay: MyndPlay is a revolution in Movie and Video Technology, bringing science to the art of film.
Oren Yogev
Co-Founder & CEO of Replay Technologies
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About Blink Technologies, Replay Technologies: Replay Technologies Inc. develops video 3D reconstruction technologies.
Franz-Josef Schrepf
Co-Founder & CEO of Tick. Done.
Co-founder & CEO of Tick. Done. Experienced entrepreneur, growth hacker, and TEDx speaker on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. Awarded Tech London Advocates 25 under 25 for his contribution to the London Tech Community. After dark, he is a talk show host, public speaker, and stand up comedian.
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About Tick. Done.: Tick. Done. is a micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills.
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.
Chris Adams
Chief Executive Officer of OTHERWORLD
Chris Adams is the Chief Executive Officer at The Dream Corporation.
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About OTHERWORLD: The brick-and-mortar metaverse. An island paradise in the cloud reached through a growing network of multi-sensory immersion pods.
Sam Speaight
CEO of VRJAM
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About Invisceral, VRJAM: VRJAM is a content platform that empowers rightsholders to create and share digital content and virtual events with global audiences
Leon Mueller
Co-Founder & CEO of PLAYBOOK
Leon Mueller is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bloom.
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About PLAYBOOK: Mobile Video Micro-Learning for professional education
Joe Taylor
Co-founder & CEO of Nemo
CEO and co-founder of Nemo. I’ve been building sync/async collaboration tools for distributed teams since 2013, with particular focus on audio/video. I’ve managed remote teams across multiple timezones and countries. Formerly manager of Cisco’s collaboration innovation labs in San Francisco and New York. Before that, head of UX and Mobile at Assemblage Inc in London/Copenhagen (acquired by Cisco in June 2014).
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About Nemo: Get more out of your virtual meetings – automatically
Charles Black
Founder & CEO of Sen
Charles Black is an entrepreneur and the founder of Sen. It has been Charles’ dream since the age of 18 to build a space television network that films in space. Charles’s interest in space began as a child. In 1990 aged 18 Charles discovered his original instinct and vision to create a business that would be capable of existing and expanding forever in space and time, and that meant a business that gathered news and information about space, essentially filming the Universe for ever more. The vision for Sen had been born. With a belief that law would be a useful education for a life in business, Charles studied law at London University and graduated with a law degree in 1995. During his time at university the internet emerged in to the commercial world and Charles saw this as a means to start a business with just a computer and internet connection. He studied the internet and saw the potential for using it as a television medium and wrote a research paper entitled A Human Right to Broadcast ‘Television Speech’? This paper was published in 1996 by Tolley’s Communications Law. The paper argued that the internet meant anyone could technically broadcast by distributing video and therefore the law should be used to protect content rather than requiring a government license to broadcast. Charles’s vision of starting a space television channel using the Internet without the need for a government license was the motivation behind the paper. Charles’s interest in law continues and he is currently researching space law because of its relevance to the future regulation of space exploration. Having completed his legal training, qualifying as a barrister in 1997, Charles set up Space Internet Ltd. The original idea was to market businesses with videos on the internet which would provide the experience for making programmes about space. The business became focussed on web sites and web hosting as customers in the late 1990s were happy just to have a web site without the cost of video. Space Internet Ltd therefore developed in to a pure hosting company and re-branded as Nasstar. In 2004 Nasstar launched hosted desktop and hosted email services, becoming one of the pioneers of hosted desktop cloud computing. Nasstar was admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 under the symbol NASA. During his time as CEO of Nasstar Charles raised over £15m from investors, growing Nasstar both organically and through acquisitions. Nasstar plc now has a market cap of £30m and is a profitable and growing business. Charles stepped down as CEO in January 2014 to focus on developing his space business, Sen. Sen is Charles’s lifelong ambition has been to create a global space television network that promotes interest and education in space exploration, launching a network of video cameras into space and filming the Universe. In pursuit of his dream Charles is a committed Future Astronaut with Virgin Galactic and is doing a research degree in space law.
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About Sen: Streaming real-time videos from space for the benefit of humanity.
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.
Eli Katz
Founder & CEO of XConnect Global Networks
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About ITSPA, XConnect Global Networks: XConnect provides interconnection services driving the adoption of IP-based multimedia communications.
Gareth Edwards
CEO of Cubic Motion
Gareth Edwards is the CEO of Cubic Motion He is Winner of the 2015 IEEE Test of Time Award for “one of the most influential papers in the field; inspired many (if not all) subsequent works on deformable models for face analysis.” Also awarded Olympus Science for Life and Sullivan Prizes. Creating novel technologies for 20 years.
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About Cubic Motion: Cubic Motion is the world leader in real-time model-based computer vision and digital animation technology.
Carl Wong
Co-founder & CEO of LivingLens
Carl Wong With 17 years in marketing and customer insight roles, both client and agency side, Carl has a passion and enthusiasm for LivingLens that you’ll find infectious.Carl’s drives the vision for LivingLens and engages customers in the big idea. He likes the sound of his own voice, which is good, because he talks….A LOT! An avid Liverpool FC fan, full member of the Market Research Society, and holding the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Postgraduate Diploma, Carl lives a little while from the beach not far from Liverpool with his patient wife Cath, Daisy (4), Thomas (1), and crazy dog Stan (42 dog years).
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About LivingLens: LivingLens offers video-based insight tools that enable companies to turn consumer insight films into market research.
Jon Rissik
Chief Executive Officer of Dovetail Games
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About Dovetail Games: Dovetail Games creates digital hobbies enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of passionate enthusiasts across the globe.
Bobby Thandi
Founder & CEO of XR Games
Bobby Thandi joined XR Games as Founder and CEO in 2017.
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About XR Games: XR Games is an award-winning game development studio specialising in immersive AR and VR games. We make fun games people love to play and talk about.
Mark Fletcher
CEO of Pitchero
Mark is a successful serial entrepreneur, software developer and investor, with over 20 years experience in software development and high tech. Mark’s career in high tech begin in the early 1980s. Since then, he has worked in several areas of computer science, including graphics, visualization and medical systems. Mark has been on the Internet since the late 1980s and is an expert on email systems and scalable Internet services. In 2007, Mark started Startupping. Startupping is a one-of-a-kind community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs. It is a place to share information, ask questions, and tap into the experience of others who have built and are building web businesses. In addition to running Startupping, Mark is currently an early stage angel investor. His investments include One True Media, Wesabe and Techdirt. He currently sits on the board of Techdirt. In 2003, Mark started Bloglines, a free web-based news aggregation service. Using Bloglines, users can search, subscribe to, share and publish blogs and RSS feeds. With the goal of becoming the Universal Inbox for average Internet users, Bloglines is the most popular news aggregator on the Internet. Bloglines was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Web Sites for 2004, and was named the Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005. In February, 2005, Bloglines was acquired by Ask Jeeves, where Mark served as VP & General Manager of Bloglines until May, 2006. In 1997, Mark started ONElist, a free Internet email list service. To that point, email lists had been difficult to set up and administer. Through ONElist, Mark set out to make email lists available to even novice users. As CEO, Mark raised money from CMGI and Bertelsmann Ventures in 1998. The service was the category leader from the beginning and in November 1999, ONElist acquired eGroups, its main competition. Yahoo acquired the resulting company, renamed eGroups, in June 2000 and the service is now called Yahoo Groups. At acquisition, eGroups served twenty million active users, one million email lists, and sent out over two billion email messages a month, making it one of the largest services on the Internet. Mark served as CEO of ONElist from inception until October 1999 and was CTO until the acquisition by Yahoo. Prior to ONElist, Mark was a Senior Software Engineer for Sun Microsystems, where he worked on web enabled set top boxes. He came to Sun through the acquisition of Diba, a Menlo Park, CA startup working to develop an embedded web surfing software and hardware system. At Diba, Mark developed key embedded web browser technologies. Mark was awarded the 2005 Wired Magazine Tech Innovator Rave Award. He has appeared on ZDTV and has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The San Jose Mercury News, Time Magazine, Red Herring Magazine, Upside Magazine, the Industry Standard, Salon, PC World, the New York Times, and Business Week. Mark has presented at several conferences and has lectured at the University of San Francisco. Mark had a private pilot’s license and was thinking about learning to fly acrobatics, but has since given that up. He has two cats, but he only blogs about them when he’s about to make a big announcement.
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About Pitchero: Pitchero is software for club managers to use to enhance and track aspects of their business.
David Peto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Aframe
David founded Aframe with a vision to create a video platform that is powerful enough to handle the huge volumes and myriad formats of video production, but is simple enough that anyone could use it. He’s taken this idea from a one-room office covered in post it notes, to a global business with offices across the UK and US, raising significant Venture Capital funding along the way.
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About Aframe: Aframe Media is a SaaS-based company that provides cloud video production storage and workflow.
Noor Alkhadra
Founder & CEO of WeGeek
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About WeGeek: We are passionate geeks who take great pleasure in bringing gamers together by creating AWESOME gaming events.
Ilya Spitalnik
Founder & CEO of Powtoon
Founder at Powtoon
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About GreenWave, Powtoon: Powtoon is a creative platform that lets users make awesome videos and animated presentations.
Adam Smith
Founder & CEO of Simplestream
Adam Smith is a Founder & CEO at Simplestream.
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About Simplestream: Simplestream is a leading London based provider of live streaming and live-to-VOD services to broadcast and media companies.
Jamal Edwards
Founder & CEO of SBTV
Jamal Edwards founded SB.TV which he still runs as CEO. What started as a UK online urban music channel has quickly grown into an innovative and exciting music and lifestyle media platform with global reach. SB.TV now has over 200 million youtube views and has featured interviews with a varied list of guests from politicians such as David Cameron and Ed Milliband to globally recognized artists such as Nicki Minaj and Jessie J as well as urban stars like Giggs & Drake. In 2011 Edwards was the face of the Google Chrome ad which was the second most popular YouTube ad that year. In 2012 he was named one of Richard Branson’s ‘Young Pioneers’ and has since been described as ‘The Branson of the Urban Scene’. Later that year Edwards was named on the Sunday Times Rich List and gave a talk at a TEDx Talk hosted at the houses of parliament where he put forward a case for why the next Prime Minister could be found on YouTube. 2013 saw the release of Edwards’ groundbreaking innovative business book Self Belief: The Vision which was a number 1 bestseller in its first week! Edwards is a patron for The Prince’s Trust and Access to Music and committed to using his success to shine light on other young entrepreneurs and help spread Self Belief amongst all people.
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About SBTV: SBTV is an online platform that provides its users with news on media.
Paul Robert Cary
CEO of Automagical Video Stuff of Kamua
Classically trained pianist & composer, 20 years working in strategy, sales, marketing & startups. History degree, speaks 6 languages. Born in Africa, educated in the US. NCAA Division 1 Athlete. Award winner at Columbia Business School.
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About Findie, Kamua: SaaS Video Editing Automation Tools
Rob Bishop
Founder & CEO of Magic Pony Technology
Rob Bishop is the founder and CEO at Magic Pony Technology, which is now part of Twitter Cortex.
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About Magic Pony Technology: Magic Pony Technology is a technology company that develops machine-learning based approach for visual processing on web and mobile.
Paul Sulyok
Founder & CEO of Green Man Gaming
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Green Man Gaming, an award-winning global eCommerce technology company in the video games industry. His disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship has driven the company’s fast growth success from a team of three working with just 26 publishers in 2010 to a multi-million pound company today with over 100 staff and over 700 publisher partners. From its headquarters in Kings Cross, London, the company offers gamers in 195 countries a wide catalogue of digital games on its store, a social platform for the community and a games publishing business. Through Paul’s leadership, Green Man Gaming has also been able to leverage its technology and build strong partnerships with leading hardware manufacturers such as Intel®, Lenovo and HP. As an already distinguished business leader, Paul is passionate about raising the profile of British businesses and technology internationally. He believes in the truly immersive and engaging power of video games as an unrivalled form of entertainment and strives to promote the benefits of the industry at every opportunity. Before Green Man Gaming, Paul founded Prizefight, a video games and betting hybrid, and built customised algorithmic trading engines for the cash equity markets. He was also a management consultant, a banker and an Officer in HM Forces.
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Jesse Shemen
Co-founder and CEO of Papercup
Jesse Shemen is CEO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Steve Cottam
CEO of AntStream Arcade
Steve Cottam – CEO – Steve, a self confessed technophile and lifelong gamer foresaw the streaming revolution long before most others in the industry had released its potential. Steve envisaged Antstream as the destination for gamers and IP owners alike, creating the ultimate platform for the preservation and enjoyment of classic gaming content that would otherwise have been lost for the vast majority of people. Steve’s vision, determination and passion have allowed him to build an equally committed and talented team that are literally preserving tens of thousands of games from decades past.
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About AntStream Arcade: The de facto retro games platform. With 1000 games ready to play, you can enjoy old console, arcade and computer classics on most devices
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Chris Whittle
Founder and CEO of Q Doctor
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About High Street Huddle, Q Doctor: Q doctor is a group of like-minded professionals providing easy to use video consultations.
Glen Dormieux
Founder & CEO of Playrcart
Glen Dormieux is the Founder at Playrcart.
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About Playrcart: Playrcart lets you browse and watch video content.
Daniel Berg
CEO & Co-Founder of NextUp
Daniel Berg joined NextUp Comedy as CEO & Co-Founder in 2016.
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About ComComedy, NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Holly Stephens
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Subly
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About Subly: Subly makes content simple, by automatically transcribing, translating, and adding subtitles.
Jeff Kofman
CEO & Founder of Trint
Jeff Kofman is the CEO and founder at Trint. Jeff is a 32-year veteran journalist, Jeff Kofman is an Emmy-winning foreign and war correspondent with ABC News, CBS News and CBC News. His experience shapes the vision and later on founded Trint. He knows manual transcription too well: he has transcribed thousands of hours of interviews. He bears a degree in political science and government.
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About Trint: Trint reinvents transcription extending automated-speech-to text so that users can trust the output. Recorded content becomes searchable.
John Earner
Co-Founder & CEO of Space Ape
John Earner brings extensive expertise in online gaming to his role as vice president of product management at Playfish, where he oversees the daily service operation of the company’s growing portfolio of live popular social games. Prior to Playfish, John was with Sony Computer Entertainment America where he designed the micro-transaction business model for PlayStation Home, Sony’s free-to-play virtual community, which he also helped launch. John also was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading strategy consulting firm, where his role focused on online gaming. Before BCG, John was an officer in the United States Navy. John earned a MBA from University of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University.
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About Playfish, Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Chris Tudor
Founder & CEO of MASSOLIT
Chris Tudor is a Founder & CEO at MASSOLIT.
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About MASSOLIT: MASSOLIT is an online educational platform that hosts short video lectures aimed at secondary/high school students.
Steve Callanan
CEO and Founder of WIREWAX
Steve was once the youngest TV producer in the UK, creating his first six-part series with record-breaking audience share while still at university. He established his first production company in 2001 and was also producing over 400 hours of branded, short-form content for the four biggest UK lifestyle publishers. During this time, he proposed that online video content should be as “connected” as the rest of the web; linking pixels to people, products and information was the goal. He engineered the world’s first “shoppable” video tool, which led to the most powerful interactive video platform to help hundreds of global brands realise their connected-video potential.
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About WIREWAX: WIREWAX is the leading interactive video technology company.
Rich Jacobs
CEO of Player+ (PlayerPlus Limited)
Rich Jacobs is Co-Founder & Chief Executive of PlayerPlus (Player+). He is an experienced media, entertainment and sports rights executive, working with broadcasters, publishers, digital media companies and brands. Rich began his broadcasting career as an award winning producer with LBC and talkSPORT. Successfully founding NetFM, the UK’s first independent online radio station, Rich has spent more than 15 years developing business, leading sales, account management and marketing activities for service and solution providers addressing the media, entertainment and sports rights marketplace, including: WRN Broadcast; the US-based interactive television specialist Ensequence, the leading pay-TV specialists Paywizard (formerly MGt), FTSE 100 company Babcock International and SoCloudMedia, a media technology supply chain management company and managed services partner of Microsoft. In 2019, Rich co-founded PlayerPlus (Player+) – a unique, co-operative streaming aggregator bringing together premium content from multiple providers into single genres. Delivered in stand-alone products, direct to consumers. NewsPlayer+ (newsplayerplus.com) beta launched in January 2021. StagePlayer+ (stageplayerplus.com) is coming soon. Follow StagePlayer+ on Twitter @stageplayerplus for updates.
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About : OTT, SVOD, PayTV, Content Aggregators, Direct To Consumer
Neil Martin
Chief Executive Officer of RugbyPass
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About RugbyPass: RugbyPass is a rugby media business that focuses on OTT broadcasting, video, social, audio, and editorial.
Annil Chandel
CEO & Co-Founder of Wurkr
Annil Chandel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wurkr.
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About KnownFour, Wurkr: Wurkr is a video platform that allows teams to collaborate from anywhere within an immersive virtual workspace.
Emily Forbes
Founder and CEO of Seenit
Emily Forbes is the Founder and CEO of Seenit.
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About Seenit: Industry-leading video crowdsourcing solution
Marisol Grandon
Founder & CEO of Unfold Stories
Marisol Grandon is CEO of Unfold Stories, a British startup specializing in digital storytelling for international development and purpose led brands. Marisol spent 10 years in UK government including 8 years at Department for International Development as Head of Creative Content where she pioneered innovative content, immersive films and engaging social media campaigns on global issues.
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About Unfold Stories: Unfold Stories specialise in digital storytelling for people in international development and global issues.
Mark Hain
Founder and CEO of DingIt.tv
Mark Hain is the founder and CEO of DingIt.tv.
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About DingIt.tv: DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content
Mitchell Smallman
Co-Founder & CEO of Pocket Burger Games
Mitchell Smallman is the Co-Founder and CEO at Pocket Burger Games.
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About Pocket Burger Games: Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.
Callum Brighting
CEO of Netspeak Games
Running Netspeak Games. Diversity, Inclusion and Creativity are our pillars. Always looking to talk about games, technology and people. Previous: Improbable, Bloomberg, Kuju, Traveller’s Tales
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About Netspeak Games: Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games.
Alex Durrant
Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw
Alex Durrant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Joel Silverman
CEO / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
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About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Dave Carruthers
CEO & Founder of Voxpopme
Dave has been involved in technology businesses for the last 10 years and has been behind a number of successful startups. An entrepreneur with a passion for mobile technology he leads the VoxPopMe team.
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About One Result, Voxpopme: Voxpopme is the world’s #1 video insight solution. We build great brands, products, and experiences with agile video feedback.
Paul Bojarski
CEO & Co-Founder of Sceenic
Building the ultimate co-viewing experience for OTT and TV #WatchTogether. Born in Poland, raised in London, lived in Israel, Spain, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Chile. Don’t drink coffee – don’t need it to “wake up”. Product guy. Innovator by observing human behaviour. Building startups since 1998 age 17. Top 20 entrepreneur in VOOM Richard Branson competition 2016 and Winner of the Hype Foundation & TEAM SKY UK Finals Aug 2016. Started Skipworth, first startup in London in 1998, age 17. Secured distribution deals in the US, Europe, UK and in Japan (JV). Most recently CEO of SayYeah, an award winning company of the HYPE Foundation and TEAM SKY UK Competition 2016, Winner of the Wolves Summit ‘Pitch’ Competition, Semi-finalists in the Telefonica “Global Innovation Awards” 2015 and Semi-finalist Top 20 in the Virgin Media #VOOM Pitch to Richard Branson 2016 UK Competition. Previously the Head of MTV LATAM Digital Ad Sales based in Argentina, responsible for double digit % year on year growth and hitting multi million dollar budget, previously MTV London. Also an expert in Ad Ops and Product from AOL UK back in 2004.
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About Sceenic: Watch Together”” software technology for media companies
Abhi Arora
CEO of Verchable
Entrepreneur
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About Verchable: Artificial Intelligence for Contextual Video Understanding
Sophia Hayes
Founder & CEO of Gamer Guides
Sophia Hayes is Founder & CEO at Gamer Guides.
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About Gamer Guides: Gamer Guides is a comprehensive game database and publisher of interactive digital strategy guides for video games.
Andrew Hall
CEO of Sumdog
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About Sumdog: Online site making learning fun for k-12 students while allowing teachers and parents to track progress and create activities.
Harvey Elliott
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of PlayStack
Harvey is an industry leader whose 20 year career spans EA, Acclaim Entertainment and Marmalade, where he led two successful capital raises. He recently finished his 4 year tenure as Chair of the BAFTA games committee. Now CEO and Founder at PlayStack, a new and exciting games publisher. Leveraging the team’s experience in games, entertainment and finance to redefine the way in which games are funded, developed, enjoyed and shared. The objective is to actively work with the team to select the games that can be published; tailoring the funding model to support each game and identifying the creative and technical innovations that will drive game adoption, build community and deliver success.
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About PlayStack: PlayStack is a company that helps developers in end-to-end funding, publishing expertise, and technology to develop the next big game.
Ger O’Meara
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Spirable
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About Spirable: Building a future where video is always contextual, reactive, and inspires action.
Paola Marinone
Founder & CEO of BuzzMyVideos
Founder & CEO at BuzzMyVideos.
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About Blackbox, BuzzMyVideos, TechItalia:Lab: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Andrew Wafer
CEO of PixelToys
Andy loves games. He’s been playing them for over thirty years and notched up credits on more than 30 in the last decade and a half, most recently for companies like Codemasters and Activision. He’s worked in diverse roles including Chief Game Designer, Global Brand Manager, Head of Digital Platforms and many other senior roles across game development and publishing, always as a champion for innovation and quality.
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About PixelToys: Pixel Toys is a developer and publisher of digital games and entertainment.
Charlie Horrell
CEO of Imagen Ltd
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About Imagen Ltd: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
Jack Rivlin
CEO of Tab Media
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About Tab Media: Tab Media is a global youth media startup for people under 25. It publishes The Tab and babe.
Olga Egorsheva
CEO & Co-Founder of Lobster
Entrepreneur at Lobster. Building a bridge between every individual online and creative professionals. Inspired by independent creativity. Inspiring by breaking the rules. The world is my home country to learn, work and start companies.
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About Lobster: Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Founder / CEO of Serious DAtum
Yasmine Boudiaf makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a tool to address subtle forms of behaviour and biases which can effect the way another person feels. Her main topics of interest are implicit biases, cross- cultural understanding and innovation. With a background in biomedical science and documentary film, she enjoys inter-disciplinary collaboration as a way to solve problems. She produces experiences and consults via her company Serious Datum Ltd.
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About Serious DAtum: Serious DAtum makes behaviour changing virtual reality experiences.
Viktor Nyics
CEO of VixT
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About VixT: VixT – turns your texts into a video mashup! It’s better than GIF. Best friend of the creative content marketer. iOS / Android + chatbots
Guido Meardi
CEO & Co-founder of V-Nova
Former senior Partner at McKinsey, where he was head of the Organization and Operations Practices of the Mediterranean Complex, Guido has a breadth of business experience and access to senior executives in a variety of industries and geographies, with well-established experience in telecoms, technology, healthcare, insurance, aerospace and defence. He led transformational projects in all continents, and was instrumental in setting up some of McKinsey’s own innovation-related business building activities. Guido is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, with many previous business ventures and half a dozen exits. Having retained his engineering expertise, he contributed to the foundational development work for PERSEUS of his co-founder Luca Rossato and is joint inventor of a number of essential aspects of the technology as well as of several of its latest developments, with over 200 patents co-authored and filed. Guido holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Siebel scholar, and a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he was an Intel scholar, and University of Texas at Austin.
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Chris Seavor
CEO of Gory Detail Limited
Chris Seavor (born 1968) is a British video game designer and voice actor, known for creating the Conker franchise.
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About Gory Detail Limited: Video Game Company
Paul Gardiner
CEO & Founder of Eoovi
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About Eoovi: Eoovi is a Global Video Platform that allows small to large video providers access to our unique compression software.
Dimitri Frixou
CEO of Frix Media
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About Frix Media: Frix Media is a fully bespoke digital media & marketing agency based in Derby.
David de Min
CEO & Founder for Velapp of Velapp
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About Velapp: Velapp is a worlds first live video editing application. Edit as you shoot with patent pending technology.
Douglas Lloyd
CEO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Rob Gay
CEO and Co-founder of Venatus
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About Venatus: Venatus is a global advertising technology platform, focused on gaming and entertainment.
Drew Thomson
CEO of Live For Football
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About Live For Football: Live For Football is a vertical social network co-owned by the people that make the content that matters most to fans
Mark Richer
CEO and Founder of StarLeaf
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About StarLeaf: StarLeaf is the cleanest business tool for teams to effortlessly connect using messaging, meeting and calling.
Toby Heelis
CEO (Co-Founder) of virtuall
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About : Transforming industries by creating innovative products that connect the world more sustainably and profitably.
Jonathan Marsden
Co-Founder and CEO of The Technology Group
Jonathan Marsden is the co-founder and CEO of The Technology Group. Prior to joining The Technology Group, Jonathan served as a director at Admiral.
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About The Technology Group: The Technology Group is a managed communications provider that specializes in voice over IP, video, chat, and collaboration technologies.
Neil Hadfield
Director, CEO of Ricall Ltd
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About Ricall Ltd: Crowdsourced exchange for (1) licensing music for use in videos and (2) selling and distributing digital downloads.
Antonio Roldao
CEO & Co-Founder of muse.ai
Antonio Roldao is Founder & CEO at WebCanvas.
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About muse.ai, WebCanvas: muse.ai is an ad-free platform designed for simplicity, with the most advanced tools, and AI powered in-video search.
Sarah Mintey
Founder & CEO of Developing Experts
Sarah is the founder and CEO of Developing Experts.and has 20 years experience in education and the third sector. Previously she was CEO of the OPEN Youth Trust and most recently worked for Inspiration Trust as their curriculum designer.
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About Developing Experts: Bridging the gap between education and industry through our online curriculum.