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 CFO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Paul Smolinski
Chief Financial Officer of Forterro
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About Forterro: Forterro is a federation of ERP product companies serving mid-market companies with local software around the globe.
Joanne Barnes
Chief Financial Officer of vTime Limited
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About vTime Limited: vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.
Roger Goscomb
CFO and COO of Digime
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About DAD Technology Limited, Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Roger Goscomb
CFO and COO of Digime
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About DAD Technology Limited, Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Sacha Jacobs
CFO of Fabacus
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About Fabacus, Reporo: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Stephen Farry
Chief Financial Officer of VANSO
Mr. Stephen Farry holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce (majoring in Accounting) from University of Otago, New Zealand and is a Chartered Accountant. Stephen has a proven track record within several large organisations, that include Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas, amongst others. Stephen has been in Nigeria for two years and has overseen the migration to IAS reporting standards. He has also been instrumental in the engagement of KPMG as company auditors for the period of 2013 and 2014.
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About VANSO: VANSO is a software and telecoms company that delivers solutions throughout the financial services industry.
Arvi Chana
CFO of Quantexa
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Ian Milbourn
Chief Financial Officer of Notion Capital
Ian is a partner at Notion; he co-founded the firm in 2009 and is the Chief Financial Officer. Ian sits on the board of Zattikka and eSeller within Notion’s portfolio and focuses on the Consumer Services sector. Ian has a wealth of experience in corporate finance having led a number of transactions during his career. He is a qualified accountant and started his career at Ernst & Young in their entrepreneurial services division where he worked with a wide range of early to mid-stage growth businesses. Ian joined MessageLabs in 2003 where he led transactions for both MessageLabs and Star covering financing and M&A in both the UK and US markets. Additionally, Ian managed all aspects of tax, equity incentives and financing for the company. Ian holds an honours degree in Business Management from University of Leeds.
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About Notion Capital, SeedCloud: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Moran Laufer
CFO of Kape Technologies
CFO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Graeme Wilson
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Orion Health
Working across Espion’s London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Newcastle offices, Graeme is responsible for the firm’s large portfolio of UK technology resellers. Graeme oversees the delivery of Espion’s complete and comprehensive programme which supports resellers at every stage of the sales lifecycle. Foremost in his remit is ensuring each reseller receives a tailored solution that fits the needs of their client. With a technical background in telecommunications and electrical / electronic engineering, Graeme can understand and address the increasingly complex challenges that technology needs to solve. Graeme’s career spans 20 years in senior sales and management roles at blue-chip companies BT Plc, Compaq, HP and Telindus / Belgacom ICT and has vast experience in executing strategic partnerships with resellers, managed services providers and telcos deploying transformational projects.
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About Orion Health: Orion Health is an award winning, global healthcare software company that develops creative and modern solutions.
Erin Cummins
Chief Financial Officer of Thoughtworks
She is the Chief Financial Officer at Thoughtworks.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Paul Greensmith
Chief Financial Officer of SHL
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Hugo Grimston
CFO of Paddle
Hugo Grimston is CFO at Paddle, a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps,games and other digital products.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Milan Patel
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary of dotmailer Group
Milan joined dotmailer in 2007 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in 2009. Milan is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and holds a B.A (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance. Milan was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of the reverse acquisition of West End Ventures PLC, acquisition of Netcallidus, admission to Plus and the recent introduction to AIM. He is also responsible for the Group’s functions in financial management & reporting, regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Courtney Grant
CFO of Kalo
Courtney became Kalo’s first angel investor in 2014 before joining the team as CFO in 2016. Before diving into the startup world, he spent his career in finance with a variety of corporate finance roles at leading North American and European investment banks.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Jamie Thomas
Chief Financial Officer of Qubit
Jamie Thomas has been serving as Chief Financial Officer at Qubit.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Amit Patel
Chief Financial Officer of HighQ
Amit leads financial strategy at HighQ. Prior to joining the business,Amit founded and built a prepaid credit card and e-money business, Blue Sky Card Solutions, which he successfully sold to the company’s largest UK competitor in 2012. Before setting up Blue Sky, Amit built a career within banking and private equity where he was involved in several multi-billion leveraged buy-outs, principal investments and other high profile real estate transactions with Bank of Scotland. Amit has a bachelor’s degree in Banking & International Finance from Cass Business School, London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Paula Wada
CFO of Baby2Body
Coming from New York to London in 2013, Paula has many years of experience in investment consulting – and her prowess in financials, spreadsheets and keeping us on point is her specialty. Paula is a passionate fan of dynamic Pilates, spinning, Kobe Bryant, and she is possibly the most unusual Millwall supporter.
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About Baby2Body: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Edvar Heylen
CFO of HeyJobs
After spending almost a decade in investment banking covering the media and technology space both at Citigroup and Allen & Company, Edvar now leads ROLI’s finance and business analytics team. While he is not studying business models, new innovative technologies or history, he can be found on his bicycle exploring new roads.
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About HeyJobs: HeyJobs is a talent platform matching the world’s talent to opportunities.
Iain MacLaren
Chief Financial Officer of ZigZag Global
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About ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Patrick Imbach
CFO of Callsign
As CFO at Callsign, Patrick is in charge of the Callsign’s financial strategy, financial operations, and financial and management reporting. Previously, Patrick built and led KPMG’s practice for fast growing technology businesses and innovative startups. He was a member of KPMG’s global Steering Committee for Innovative Startups and a member of KPMG’s TMT leadership team in the UK. Prior to this, Patrick has worked in multiple audit and finance roles in Germany, Japan and France with businesses across industries with a focus on Media, Telecommunications, and Technology companies.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Ryan E Gralia
CFO of FIDEL API
Ryan E Gralia is the CFO at FIDEL API.
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About FIDEL API, Zeno Vision Ltd: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
Ijoma Maluza
CFO of Blue Prism
Ijoma Maluza is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has over 10 years of experience in the Technology sector and joined Blue Prism from ip.access Limited where he was Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining ip.access Limited he served as Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development Director of Xchanging plc. Ijoma read Economics at Cambridge University.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Tom Sawyer
Chief Financial Officer of Cognetivity Neurosciences
Tom Sawyer is the Chief Financial Officer at Cognetivity Neurosciences.
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About Cognetivity Neurosciences: Cognetivity Neurosciences is a Platform technology for early, rapid and easy detection of dementia.
Iveta Cabajova
Group CFO of ITRS Group
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Steve Turner
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer of ITRS Group
Steve joined ITRS in November 2016 as the CFO & COO, bringing more than 30 years’ management and leadership experience from across all industries. Steve had been previously running his own company coaching leaders and executive teams on the benefits of Organisational Health. Prior to this he has led the Services division at Misys Banking, a leader in the core banking market, and several other software companies through significant growth programmes (Ariba, BroadVision and SAP). Steve is a double Olympian in the sport of rowing, entrepreneur and has passion about sport, technology and performance.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Andrew Hicks
CFO of Advanced
Andrew Hicks is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Advanced, having joined the company in December 2015. He is responsible for leading the Group’s strategic and operational finance, legal and HR departments. He also drives strategic organic and inorganic initiatives across the group. Andrew brings 15 years’ experience in the software sector, serving in senior finance roles in public and private equity backed firms both in the UK and USA. Most recently, he was CFO of Kewill, a global leader in multi-modal transportation software solutions, which he helped transition from a public company to private ownership. Prior to that, he worked for a number of Vista portfolio companies including Advanced’s sister company, financial services software provider Misys, and as CFO of Vista’s P2 Energy Solutions.
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About Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Andrew Hicks
CFO of Advanced
Andrew Hicks is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Advanced, having joined the company in December 2015. He is responsible for leading the Group’s strategic and operational finance, legal and HR departments. He also drives strategic organic and inorganic initiatives across the group. Andrew brings 15 years’ experience in the software sector, serving in senior finance roles in public and private equity backed firms both in the UK and USA. Most recently, he was CFO of Kewill, a global leader in multi-modal transportation software solutions, which he helped transition from a public company to private ownership. Prior to that, he worked for a number of Vista portfolio companies including Advanced’s sister company, financial services software provider Misys, and as CFO of Vista’s P2 Energy Solutions.
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About Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Ian Konrath
Interim CFO of Instanda
Ian Konrath is an Experienced CFO with significant operations, systems and Business Information experience gained with high-tech, software, silicon, health information and consulting companies. Track record of achievement supporting project/product/programme/business unit operations and reporting for both traditional and matrixed organisations.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Matthew Ashley
Chief Financial Officer of Micro Focus
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About Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Sam Samra
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of OneOcean Group
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About OneOcean Group: OneOcean is a single provider of digital solutions to the maritime industry.
Mark Mitchell
CFO of Firestartr
Mark qualified with PwC before moving on to hold Group Financial Controller positions in Merck, Getty Images and Ready 2, an internet start-up with Trinny and Susannah. After that, he joined Alain Falys at OB10 and built a global finance function from scratch, leading up to the £160m IPO and sale to Tungsten Network in 2013. As well as CFO of Firestartr, Mark is currently Financial Controller of Yoyo, a Firestartr portfolio company. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has a BSc in Banking & International Finance from City University Business School, London.
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About Crypta Labs, Firestartr, Mitch Consulting Ltd: Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Prakash Shah
CFO of Trafi
CFO – An entrepreneurial ACA/CFA trained management professional, with strong analytical and strategic planning capability. I am experienced in financial management, strategy and fundraising. I am currently the owner and CEO of Fully Financial Ltd (www.fullyfinancial.com), co-owner and CFO/COO of Fun-Keys4Kids (www.fun-keys4kids.com), and CFO of Trafi (www.trafi.com)
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About Pivigo, Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Dirk Bernhardt
CFO of spaceOS
Dirk Bernhardt is the Chief Financial Officer at spaceOS.
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About spaceOS: SpaceOS is the most beautiful and easy to use tenant experience and management software on the market.
Greg Toner
CFO and Co-Founder of SalesRight
A CPA based out of London, Ontario, Greg has been working as a startup CFO for the past several years. He specializes in working with early to growth stage startups and has been critical to the success of many SaaS companies throughout Canada. Greg straps on his skis and hits the slopes often, but always saves time to spend with his two children.
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About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Haywood Chapman
Chief Financial Officer of Iqgeo
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About Iqgeo: IQGeo is a company having end-to-end geospatial software that improves productivity and collaboration across various industrial processes.
Gavin Horn
Chief Financial Officer of Eagle Genomics
Gavin is a Chartered Accountant with 15 years’ experience managing the varied financial operations of rapidly growing technology businesses. Gavin qualified with PwC in London before moving into the high technology sector and has worked extensively both in the UK and overseas. He has been involved with many companies during intense periods of both organic and acquisitive expansion. His most recent appointment was at AIM listed Brady plc during a time when the group went through a period of rapid revenue growth and geographic expansion including the integration of multiple significant acquisitions. The group also secured a substantial and significantly oversubscribed share placing. He has a BSc in Software Engineering from Durham University.
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Carolyn Clark
Chief Financial Officer of Teneo
Working across the Teneo group, Carolyn ardently leads the finance, administration and logistics team to deliver accurate, effective and very timely services to the business in a fast-paced environment.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Nick Rose
CFO of Enable
Nick Rose serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Enable.
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About Enable: Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.
Sean Watherston
CFO of UENI
Sean Watherston is the Chief Financial Officer at UENI.
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About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Tom Barrett
CFO of JUST DEVELOP iT
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About JUST DEVELOP iT: Just Develop It (JDi) is a Hampshire based investment company that specialises in early stage and growth capital across.
David Kenyon
CFO of Kambi
David qualified at KPMG and joined Unibet in 2002 as Group FC where he worked on the Unibet NASDAQ OMX Stockholm listing. He then spent two years at the Capital Pub Company plc as CFO, where he floated the Company on AIM, before moving to Kambi. David has a MA from Oxford University. David Kenyon holds 42,330 shares and 60,000 options in the Company.
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About Kambi: Kambi’s service has the power to quickly transform the financial performance of your business.
Tom Coward
CFO of Cytora
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
John Dougal
Chief Financial Officer of Bede Gaming
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About Bede Gaming: Bede Gaming is the first choice supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries.
Ian Cargill
Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of Replify
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About Replify: Replify offers a 100% virtualized software solution for WAN optimization and application acceleration.
Peter Wallace
Chief Financial Officer of Kadence
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Anand Phanse
CFO of Billon Group
Anand has been a board member and advisor to several fast growing companies. Recently he was a Partner and the Investment Director at Fjord Capital, a venture investment firm and where, among the many other investments, he successfully led the last pre-IPO round of Tesla Motors. Anand was previously selected a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. He is a business innovation coach for the European Commissions Horizon 2020 SME program.
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About Billon Group: Billon Group is a fintech company that provides an enterprise DLT system for accounts and transactions and targets at bank accounts.
Adrian Smith
Group Chief Financial Officer of Ecometrica
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About Ecometrica: Ecometrica is an end-to-end environmental software-as-a-service that helps businesses and governments identify risks and opportunities.
Malcolm Locke
Chief Financial Officer of Egress Software
Malcolm joined Egress in 2014 as Chief Financial Officer, and works widely across the business to support delivery of the company’s impressive growth and international expansion.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Daniel Hogan
CFO & Co-Founder of Ember
A Deloitte-trained, fully qualified Chartered Accountant, Daniel has been working in the finance systems space for the last 3 years where he has become increasingly frustrated with the industry’s lack of synergy, automation and ease of use.
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Benedikt Einarsson
Chief Financial Officer of Meniga
Benedikt Einarsson is Chief Financial Officer at Meniga.
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About Meniga: Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
Carl Plucknett
Chief Financial Officer of Zonal Retail Data Systems
Responsible for Finance and Human Resources, Carl is a Chartered Accountant and has held senior posts at Unipart International, RedSky IT and Micros Retail UK. He was Chief Financial Officer at ZBD Displays from 2008 to 2012 and subsequently at Intrinsic Technology, has been in his current post since January 2014. Married with three children, Carl enjoys swimming, cycling and supporting Tigers and Foxes, that’s Leicester’s rugby union and Leicester City FC.
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About Zonal Retail Data Systems: Zone Retail Data Systems provides technology solutions to the bar, restaurant, retail, hotel, and leisure industry.
William Harris
CFO of Senseye
William Harris is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience of working in publicly quoted and private companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sector. He has been working with Senseye since its formation.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
Sam Toulson
CFO of BigHand
Sam joined BigHand as CFO in November 2014. Sam, a chartered accountant, has significant experience in the professional services sector, including advising law firms and property consultants. Prior to joining BigHand, he was working in corporate finance at PwC where he supported management teams, companies and private equity houses on acquisitions, disposals, re-financings and strategic option reviews. Other roles have included Corporate Development Director for PwC UK and interim Finance Director at Croner Consulting, part of Wolters Kluwer. At BigHand, Sam is responsible for managing the Global Finance team whilst also sitting on our Executive board. Sam brings a wealth of commercial and transaction knowledge to the management team, and has a degree in Economics from Bristol University.
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About BigHand: BigHand develops voice productivity software solutions for legal, healthcare, property, and financial companies.
Andrew Taylor
CFO of Musoni System
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About Musoni System: The award winning banking software for microfinance organisations
Nick Taylor
Chief Financial Officer of Bizagi
An experienced finance professional with a wide range of experience in leadership roles across many industries including software, technology, banking, professional services and more. Nick has a proven track record of partnering with the leadership teams of high growth businesses to build finance functions that have the capabilities to enable the organization to achieve its goals. Most recently Nick was the CFO for the International Business Unit at Blackbaud, a large publicly listed software company, partnering with the business to deliver the strongest period of revenue growth and margin improvement in the business unit to date. Previously Nick has also worked at Eversheds, BT, Lloyds TSB, American Express, Travelport and Accenture.
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About Bizagi: Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
Anna Fraser-Harris
CFO of Didimo
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About Blow, Didimo: Didimo is the world’s leading platform for the automated generation of high-fidelity, user-based digital human avatars.
Alan Murray
CFO of Speech Graphics
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About Speech Graphics: Speech Graphics delivers pioneering facial animation technology to the entertainment industry.
Peter Fosh
CFO EMEA of Optoma USA
Peter Fosh is CFO EMEA at Optoma. He once with Samsung Semiconductor as finance director.
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About Optoma USA: Optoma is a designer and manufacturer of projection and audio products for business, professional audio/video, and home entertainment.
Lisa Davis
CFO of CensorNet
Most recently Lisa was finance director at SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor until it was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013. Prior to SaaSID, she has held a number of senior finance roles with companies whose turnover ranged from £1m to in excess of £100m including Pitney Bowes Ltd, Autoglass Ltd, Belron International Ltd and Audatex (UK) Ltd
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About CensorNet: CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS) is a new-generation comprehensive cloud-based cyber security solution.
Lisa Davis
CFO of CensorNet
Most recently Lisa was finance director at SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor until it was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013. Prior to SaaSID, she has held a number of senior finance roles with companies whose turnover ranged from £1m to in excess of £100m including Pitney Bowes Ltd, Autoglass Ltd, Belron International Ltd and Audatex (UK) Ltd
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About CensorNet: CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS) is a new-generation comprehensive cloud-based cyber security solution.
Phil Parkin
Chief Financial Officer of Symplectic
Philip Parkin is the Chief Financial Officer at Symplectic Limited.
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About Symplectic: Symplectic produces software for Higher Educational Institutions in the UK.
Phil Parkin
Chief Financial Officer of Symplectic
Philip Parkin is the Chief Financial Officer at Symplectic Limited.
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About Symplectic: Symplectic produces software for Higher Educational Institutions in the UK.
Jake Jenner
Co-Founder & CFO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Richard McCann
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Kainos
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Kevin Deeley
CFO & Co-Founder of Fenestra
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About Fenestra: Fenestra is a computer software company that specializes in booking, billing, payments, and audit transactions.
Brian Southward
CFO of Symphony Ventures
Brian is a chartered accountant with a history in commercial leadership with British Airways and American Express amongst others. Brian spent the last 10 years working with SMEs at Board level within high growth, turnaround and disruptive business models and gaining significant experience of building international businesses from the ground up – including his own successful data analytics start-up. Recently the focus has been commercial innovation, fundraising and M&A including ‘buy and builds’ and exits – both trade and IPOs. During this period, Brian has spent several years working with companies looking to drive digital transformation in their own verticals.
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About Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Bill Fleming
CFO of Ultromics
Bill’s career spans over 25 years in a broad range of finance positions. Holding a law degree from Cambridge University and as a qualified ACMA, Bill has accumulated international FD/CFO experience in small venture-backed companies, large blue chips and the bio-tech arena. Bill served as European Finance Director for Visible Genetics, a pioneering company in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics, subsequently holding senior finance positions for Bayer Healthcare in Europe and the USA. Bill played a leading role in securing investment for Oxford University spinout Oxitec and in its successful acquisition by Intrexon Corporation. Joining Ultromics in February 2018, Bill brings with him extensive experience in life sciences and technology sectors and holds a non-executive directorship at the leading life sciences network, OBN.
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About Ultromics: Ultromics clinicians and engineers working together to set new standards for world-class cardiovascular diagnostic tools.
Ben Walmsley
CFO of Skurio
Ben Walmsley serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Andrew Fabian
Chief Financial Officer of 1Spatial
Andrew has significant experience in the financial services sector and is a chartered accountant and qualified corporate treasurer.
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About 1Spatial, Association of Corporate Treasurers, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Nigel Drakeford Lewis
CFO of Logicalis
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Hannah Lowry
Chief Financial Officer of Ecrebo
Hannah joined Ecrebo in July 2017 and brings proven experience in driving business performance and robust financial management for multinational companies in Europe and the Middle East. In her role as CFO, Hannah is responsible for all financial matters for Ecrebo and as part of the senior leadership team, will help set and implement the strategic direction of the company. Hannah previously served as finance director for the data and analytics business at Aimia, as well as tenures with GE Capital in Dubai, and Barclays in London.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Simon Corley
Co-Founder & CFO of CloudApps
Simon is a co-founder of CloudApps and is responsible for Finance, Administration & Operations and brings over 18 years of relevant experience to this role gained whilst working at Salesforce, Siebel Systems and Informix. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent over 6 years at salesforce.com, joining in 2003 before its IPO. Simon has been a member of the European Management team since hire and initially was responsible for the company’s Finance and Administration for EMEA. In 2007 Simon was promoted to Vice President, Operations for EMEA, and in 2009 to Vice President of Strategy for International Sales. Simon’s focus was to optimise sales performance through targeted go-to-market strategies, coverage models, and evaluation of sales execution. Prior to joining Salesforce, Simon spent 6 years at Siebel and 5 years at Informix within the European Finance functions, providing infrastructure support to enable explosive growth in their sales teams. Simon is a Chartered Accountant who gained his professional qualification with Deloitte and Touche in London in 1990. He has a BSc in Geography from King’s College, London University. Simon is married with two children and lives in Hampshire, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Stuart Kerr
Chief Financial Officer of Incremental Group
Stuart Kerr is the chief financial officer at Incremental Group.
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About Incremental Group: Incremental Group provides software consultancy and analytics services to clients in oil and gas, financial services, and the public sector.
Roger England
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Spikes Cavell & Co
Co-founder of Spikes Cavell, Roger has 26 years software/information industry experience with the majority of that time spent in subscription-based data businesses. While at Spikes Cavell, in addition to spending a number of years in business development, Roger has run the customer service, operations, HR and finance functions. Roger is process-oriented, cost-conscious and has a keen, some say obsessive, eye for detail. An avid cyclist, he can often be found making the arduous trek from his home deep in the Wiltshire countryside to the office in Berkshire regardless of what the British weather throws at him.
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About Spikes Cavell & Co: Spikes Cavell is focused on data-based solutions to support decision making and programme execution in the private sector.
Steve Robertson
Chief Financial Officer of Asset Control
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About Asset Control: Asset Control provides financial data management solutions to banks, insurers, investment managers and market infrastructure firms
Cinthia Danove
CFO of Akoni Hub
Cinthia started her career in financial services and feels passionate about start-ups and SMEs. She has significant experience working with businesses in the mid-market space – from analysing opportunities at a VC fund, to the role of Head of Finance for regional SMEs, as well as hands-on mentoring of entrepreneurs at Endeavor. Cinthia has been involved from different perspectives and at various stages of high-growth firms, and feels strongly about providing value-added services to businesses that are the bedrock of the economy. Cinthia is an Economist, and holds a CFA and MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
James Serjeant
COO & CFO of ContactEngine
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About ContactEngine: ContactEngine is a proactive Conversational AI technology that automates conversations between corporates and their customers
Robert Brent
CFO / COO of MSite
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About MSite: Human Recognition Systems is technology automates identity dependent business processes to deliver efficiency, safety and security.
Steve Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer of Digiterre
Steve has over 20 years experience as a senior commercial finance professional across a range of industry sectors, including IT, leisure, motor racing, professional services, and property development in the UK, USA and Australia. Steve has significant practical and advisory experience with early stage private equity backed IT businesses, achieving trade sales to US corporations with three of them.
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About Digiterre: Digiterre is a company which provides Financial Investment Management CRM and Trading Solutions software development services.
Fahim Kabani
Founder/CFO of Ugenie
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About Ugenie: Private membership mobile hub for businesses to efficiently manage, engage and monetise their existing most valuable asset – their clients!
Kim Clarke
Chief Financial Officer of Peach
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About Peach: Peach simplifies the end-to-end process of a video advertisement.
Archana Gupta
CFO of TestingXperts
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About TestingXperts: Next Gen QA & Software Testing Company
Archana Gupta
CFO of TestingXperts
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About TestingXperts: Next Gen QA & Software Testing Company
Richard Varney
CFO of Documobi
Richard is a commercially minded and pragmatic Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience of operating at a senior level in a variety of different business sectors both in the UK and overseas. During his career, Richard spent over 20 years working as a commercially biased FD for several large groups in the print industry including St Ives plc and RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions.
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About Documobi: Documobi is a mobile solution that enables businesses to conduct personalized advertising campaigns.
Richard Varney
CFO of Documobi
Richard is a commercially minded and pragmatic Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience of operating at a senior level in a variety of different business sectors both in the UK and overseas. During his career, Richard spent over 20 years working as a commercially biased FD for several large groups in the print industry including St Ives plc and RR Donnelley Global Document Solutions.
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About Documobi: Documobi is a mobile solution that enables businesses to conduct personalized advertising campaigns.
Paula Downey Jones
Chief Financial Officer of Smartdebit
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About Smartdebit: Streamline payment handling, improve your cashflow and increase customer retention with SmartDebit.
Andrew Galloway
CFO of Guestline
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About Guestline: A Shrewsbury, UK-based provider of software for the hospitality sector.
Phil Wright
CFO, Treasurer and Company Secretary of PrismTech
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About PrismTech: PrismTech provides software platforms and tools for the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet and advanced wireless communications.
Ryan Styles
CFO of Napier AI
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About Napier AI: Napier AI develops an intelligent compliance platform for AML and trade compliance.
Tom Hadfield
Chief Financial Officer of Oxehealth
Tom Hadfield is the Chief Financial Officer at Oxehealth.
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About Oxehealth: SaaS workflow solution gives carers and custodians more time for hands on care where and when it’s needed most.
Dan Gray
Founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget
Dan Gray is the founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget. He previously worked as managing director – property Services at E.ON UK.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
Manar Hussain
CFO of Sensible Object
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About Sensible Object: Sensible Object Makes games that combine beautiful things, custom hardware and digital apps into new kinds of play.
David Linsley
CFO of eCommonSense
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About eCommonSense: eCommonSense is an eCommerce and product data management solution (PIM) with full back-office integration for merchants and their suppliers.
Adrian Palmer
Chief Financial Officer of Plianz
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About Plianz: Plianz utilizes compliance intelligence to assist clients in eliminating inefficiencies from the need to adhere to key industry rules.
Nick Treston
CFO of Mobysoft
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About Mobysoft: Mobysoft is a Manchester-based company that engages providing in predictive software for social housing providers.
Steve Whant
Chief Financial Officer and Director of NiQ Health
Founding Director of PMSI, London based strategy consulting entity est. 1989. Support for new market development opportunities and particular focus on BI development. Multiple Healthcare transactions & ongoing client base in Healthcare sector.
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About AlignAlytics, NiQ Health, PMSI Strategy LLP: One of the leading care management systems for hospitals and aged care applications in January 2010.
Andrew Finn
Chief Financial Officer of Virtalis
Andrew Finn is the chief financial officer of Virtalis.
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About Virtalis: Virtalis is a Virtual Reality (VR), simulation technology and advanced visualisation company.
Shane McCourt
CFO & Co-founder of Sensum
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About Sensum: Empathic AI for smart mobility, places and people
