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 COO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Gloria Baeuerlein
Chief Operating Officer of Back
Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at Morgan Stanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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About Back: Back Technologies is a software company that organizes and automates employee requests on one intuitive platform.
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Kate Toumazi
Chief Operating Officer of Privitar
As Chief Operating Officer, Kate is responsible for driving an execution focus across the organisation and ensuring day-to-day operation of the business is efficient. Prior to joining Privitar, Kate held several global leadership positions in businesses geared for transformation or growth at Thomson Reuters, and has extensive experience in pricing and commercial strategy. She balances operational excellence with practical delivery and is passionate that the customer perspective is core to all initiatives. Kate started her career qualifying as a UK Chartered Accountant in professional practice at Andersen. Kate has a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
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.
Mark McDonald
COO of Concentric
Mark M. McDonald is the Financial Director of TLcom and joined the firm in January 2002. Prior to TLcom, Mark was the Finance Director at Digital Networks Global Ventures Limited, an early stage Pan-European technology venture capital firm based in London. Before joining Digital Networks, Mark was a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers for six years, in the London and Toronto offices, where he served as a statutory and regulatory (FSA) consultant specialising in private equity. Mark qualified with Ernst & Young, Montreal, Canada. Mark is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accountancy from McGill University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Finance from the University of Western Ontario.
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Imam Hoque
COO, CPO & Co-founder of Quantexa
Imam has spent 28 years in the IT services and software industry and now specialises in large data driven solutions with a focus on financial crime. He worked as a developer, project manager and technical architect before becoming the CTO of an internet solutions start-up and then founding Detica NetReveal. He grew Detica NetReveal to a team of more than 300 specialists and then as a managing board director went on to acquire and integrate Norkom AML. Prior to Quantexa, Imam led the SAS Financial Crime practice for EMEA/AP.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
COO of Flown
Cat Navarro is the COO at Flown.
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About Flown: Flown offers ideal mental and physical spaces for individuals and teams to think and work more creatively and productively.
COO of Flown
Cat Navarro is the COO at Flown.
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About Flown: Flown offers ideal mental and physical spaces for individuals and teams to think and work more creatively and productively.
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Daniel Sagi
COO of Kape Technologies
COO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Carl Uminski
COO & Co- Founder of Somo
Carl is an internet industry pioneer with over 16 years’ experience creating new products, platforms and executing scalable growth strategies for businesses across the globe. Carl’s impact on the mobile industry was recently acknowledged by The Drum, who named him the most influential person in mobile.As COO & Co-Founder, Carl takes hands on leadership for the delivery of all Somo’s products and advertising businesses, splitting his time between our international offices. Carl has a unique knowledge of the mobile industry ranging from technical challenges to the commercial opportunities for brands to succeed in mobile. He has advised and executed for over 60 international brands on their mobile strategy, working with the leaders of companies including Audi, Groupon, Zynga, Fidelity Investments & BP. Prior to founding Somo, Carl was co-founder at Overture Europe, the company to pioneer the multi-billion dollar pay-per-click advertising industry into Europe. As CTO, he was integral in leading the business to success in 15 European countries, and its eventual sale to Yahoo! for $1.63 billion in 2003. A leader in search and social networking, he was headhunted to the Silicon Valley, where he created the Yahoo! One Search mobile platform, working with some of the world’s largest mobile brands. Previously, Carl was responsible for running real-time systems such as aircraft parking, flight information and security at seven British airports including London’s Heathrow Airport.
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About : Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
Eliza Eddison
Chief Operating Officer of Rentify
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About FabricNano, Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
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.
Neil French
COO of Canonical
Neil French is the COO at Canonical.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Lee Hudson
Chief Operating Officer of AppyWay
Lee has spent 20 years bringing cutting edge technology and services to consumers in retail, online and app sectors, leading operational strategy for turnaround and growth. At AppyWay, Lee is responsible for developing strategic IOT and Connected City partnerships and scaling operations for global expansion.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Novo Abakare
Co-Founder & COO of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Tom Mundy
Co-Founder and COO of Goodlord
Tom co-founded Goodlord as a renter in 2014 after becoming frustrated with the inefficiencies in the tenancy process and discovering letting agents were fed up with it, too. Now Goodlord is a leading player in the UK Proptech community and with over £18m of funding they are on mission to make renting simple and transparent for all.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Georgios Psonis
COO of Loal
George heads the operational and back office functions at Oakam. He ensures the execution of the Oakam customer journey throughout the credit lifecycle and manages continuous process improvements to better the customer experience and reduce wastage. He has been with Oakam since its inception in 2006 and has previously held roles in Product, Risk, and IT.
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About Akrod Limited, Loal: Loal equips those poorly served by mainstream providers to build their credit profiles and live life on another level
Lee Perkins
Chief Operating Officer of Sage Group
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Graeme Walker
COO of TAINA Technology
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About TAINA Technology: TAINA Technology is a regulatory technology provider that helps financial institutions comply with FATCA&CRS.
Theo Margolius
Co-founder & COO of Otta
After graduating from University College London with a degree in Economics, Theo started his career at Moelis & Company as an investment banker. He then joined Nested to work in corporate finance. He worked on their £100m asset-backed debt funding.
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About Otta: Otta is the recruitment platform that recruits man power in technology sector.
Adrian Toner
Chief Operating Officer of First Derivatives
Adrian initially joined the Board of First Derivatives plc in September 2005 as a Non-Executive Director. In July 2010 he joined the Executive Team as Chief Operations Officer and has responsibility for the Group’s Human Resources, Facilities Management and Corporate IT functions. Prior to joining First Derivatives plc, Adrian spent eighteen years with Allianz in London and Ireland where he became of Head of Allianz in Northern Ireland and Associate Commercial Director-Allianz Ireland plc. During his career he has developed expertise in directing and controlling organisational operations in accordance with the company’s strategy and growth objectives.
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About First Derivatives: First Derivatives is a provider of products and consulting services to the largest finance, technology and energy institutions.
Mark Sahal
Chief Operating Officer of Unily
Mark Sahal is the Chief Operating Officer at Unily. He is an experienced COO with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.
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About Unily: Unily is the full digital workplace solution uniting the very best of Microsoft Enterprise Technology.
Kunal Sharma
Cofounder & COO of AppsPicket
Kunal is a serial entrepreneur having cofounded iRunway- an intellectual property firm that helped clients drive successful outcomes in excess of $1.5 billion. Also part of founding team at Pangea3 and Evalueserve. He has studied entrepreneurship from London Business School, and has done his Masters and Bachelors from IIT Delhi.
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About AppsPicket: Frictionless secure two factor authentication based on innovative cryptographic protocol.
Taras Polischuk
Co-Founder & COO of Dorm
Taras Polischuk is the Co-Founder and COO at Dorm.
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About Dorm, Forbes, PomaBrush: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Antoine Grisay
Co-Founder and COO of Shipfix
Antoine Grisay is a co-founder and COO at Shipfix.
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About Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
Jamie Powell-Tuck
Chief Operating Officer of ZigZag Global
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About Dolphin Finance Corporation, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Uzair Bawany
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Traydstream
Founder of a boutique search firm, Fairway Search Partners which predominantly focuses on retained mandates in the front office within three distinct areas. They are Global Transaction Banking, Private Wealth / Asset Management and Equities Capital Markets – Sales & Sales Trading. Chairman of the Contact Recruitment Group. In Jan 2003, he initiated an MBO and acquired the company and then sold this business in November 2011. He was Vice Chair of an industry trade body which is the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). APSCo provides a powerful unified voice for the Professional Recruitment market and is proud to represent, promote and support such vibrant and innovative sectors of the recruitment industry. Board Director of the National Advisory Board and Chair the London Regional Group of Mosaic which is a Prince’s trust Charity. It focuses on mentoring and developing under privileged school children.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
Rony Seamons
Chief Operating Officer & Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI
Rony Seamons is the Chief Operating Officer and Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI.
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About AMPLYFI: AMPLYFI is a privately held company that provides software platform capable of intelligently harvesting open source data from the internet.
Amrit Dhangal
Co-Founder and COO of Tagove
Amrit Dhangal is COO & co-founder at Tagove.
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About Acquire, Clutch, RudderStack, Tagove, The Bricks: Tagove is a live chat software for website and mobile apps with Video chat, Remote co browsing, Chatbots, and Profile management tools.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Jennifer Coyle Byrne
COO of G-Research
Jennifer Coyle Byrne is the Chief Operating Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Nick Rogers
COO & Co-Founder of Sky-Futures
Nick is Chief Regulatory and Training Officer (CRTO) and co-founder at Sky-Futures. He oversees the Training and Regulatory framework including the UK CAA National Qualified Entity (NQE) Status, ensuring that the Remote Pilot training is robust and fit for purpose. As a qualified civilian airline Captain who continues to fly Airbus A320 passenger jets, Nick’s aviation experience and understanding of the manned aviation environment have been instrumental in establishing a culture of safety and outstanding operational procedures that help enhance Sky-Futures position as a leading drone technology company.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
Ben Cranham
Chief Operating Officer of MTI
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About MTI: A leading multi-national provider of professional services and comprehensive data storage solutions
Per Lauritzson
Chief Operating Officer of Flexion
Per Lauritzson is a Co-Founder & COO at Flexion.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Marina Leadbetter
COO of Imployable
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About Imployable: Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career
Ben Gateley
COO & Co-Founder of Charlie
Ben Gateley works as Co-founder for The Eleven.
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About Charlie, The Eleven: Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Gordon Samson
Chief Operating Officer of CPA Global
As COO, Gordon is responsible for ensuring that operational delivery and efficiency is maximised across our company. He is also responsible for customer experience, to ensure that every part of our organisation is aligned to deliver a seamless customer journey. Gordon brings years of senior management and operational experience from a variety of international businesses including, most recently, international marketing services company Williams Lea.
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About CPA Global: CPA Global provides intellectual property services.
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.
Derek Hill
COO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Derek Hill have experience spanning several eras of technology advancement, Derek’s insights into provisioning and global deployment of online solutions and leveraging the latest ecosystem of solutions is second to none. An industry thought leader in MS Azure and architect of INSTANDA’s rapid scaling capabilities in multiple countries, Derek has worked extensively with Boards to unravel the complexity of technology-enabled change. As COO of INSTANDA, he has a simple mission: unparalleled customer service combined with unrivalled platform value and quality.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Stephen Murdoch
Chief Operating Officer of Micro Focus
As COO, Stephen is responsible for the day to day execution of Micro Focus operations. Stephen has a 25 year track record of success in the IT industry.Most recently, Stephen was the General Manager of EMEA for Dell’s Public Sector and Large Commercial Enterprise business unit. Stephen joined Micro Focus in November 2012 as General Manager of Products and Marketing Strategy.
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About Micro Focus, Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Oliver Breach
Founder & COO of Pupil
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
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.
Martin Threakall
COO of Yapily
Martin Threakall is the Chief Operating Officer of Yapily.
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About Yapily: Yapily offers API-based software to enable innovative products to connect to banks.
Andrey Dokuchaev
Founder & COO of ClauseMatch
Andrey is the COO of ClauseMatch. He has been with the company since March 2014. He also works as director for StickerRide. Earlier in life, he worked for Financial Advisory as audit manager. He has been with KPMG Moscow as senior auditor. Andrey attended The University of Texas at Dallas and studied bachelor of science and master of science in accounting.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
Rohit Makol
Founder & COO of HeyHub
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About HeyHub: The community experience and tenant engagement platform driving operational efficiency across your spaces.
Neil Ambler
COO & Co-Founder of Banked
Neil leads our fundraising and continually fine-tunes our business strategy, while keeping the day-to-day finances healthy.
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About Banked: Banked is a fintech company that provides an account-to-account payment software platform offering an alternative to card schemes.
Angie Ma
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder of Faculty Science
Angie is cofounder and COO of ASI Data Science, a London-based AI tech startup that offers data science as a service. ASI, since founding in 2014, has completed more than 200 commercial data science projects in multiple industries and sectors and regarded as EMEA-based leader in data science. She is passionate about applying machine learning to solving real world applications that generate business value for companies and organisations. She has experience delivery complex projects from prototyping to implementation. Prior to founding ASI, Angie, a physicist by training, was a researcher in nanotechnology working on developing optical detection for medical diagnostics.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Richard Sargeant
Chief Operating Officer of Faculty Science
In 2016, Richard joined ASI Data Science as a Director to grow the consulting team of expert data scientists. ASI are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to everyone. We solve practical business problems using statistical and symbolic AI; provide modern software tools for analysts and data scientists; and deliver to equip and empower data scientists, executives, and analysts to take advantage of AI. Previously, he worked in the Government as Director of Transformation in the Home Office. Before this he was one of the founding directors of the Government Digital Service. He was Head of Energy Market Design at the Department of Energy & Climate Change, leading the Electricity Market Reform programme to secure an additional £200bn of capital investment into the UK Power Generation market. Before that he was at Google as their UK Head of Public Policy. Richard was a senior policy advisor in HM Treasury. His first role in Government was in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, writing papers on innovation in the public sector and happiness, as well as unpublished work on education and healthcare. He co-founded Engineers Without Borders UK in 2001 while studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Benjamin Cambier
COO & Co-Founder of Mansa
Benjamin Cambier is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & COO of Mansa. Mansa’s mission is to make it easy for freelancers to access credit offers.
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About Mansa: Mansa allows freelancers and gig workers borrow money with fair pricing and a genuine user experience.
Miranda Khamis
Co-Founder & COO of Food Drop
Miranda Khamis is the Co-Founder and COO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
Bibi Nelson
COO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Neil Hargreaves
Chief Operating Officer of Rusada
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About Rusada: Rusada provides Maintenance & Engineering Technology Solutions for the Aviation Sector.
Veronique Merriam Barbosa
Co-Founder, COO of Flux Systems
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Pravina Pindoria
COO & Co-Founder of Tallyfy
Pravina Pindoria is the Co-founder & COO at Tallyfy
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About Tallyfy: Tallyfy is beautiful workflow software that lets you document, track and improve all your repeatable processes
Chris Morgan
COO of Kamma
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About Kamma: Kamma provides data-driven technology solutions to simplify the complexity of Property Licensing in the Private Rented Sector
Chris Morgan
COO of Kamma
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About Kamma: Kamma provides data-driven technology solutions to simplify the complexity of Property Licensing in the Private Rented Sector
Aleksandra Pedraszewska
Co-Founder and COO of VividQ
Aleksandra M. Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and COO at VividQ. She received a bachelor of arts in Land Economy (Law, Economics, Environment) at the University of Cambridge and earned a master of philosophy in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
James Guest
Chief Operating Officer of Simpleweb
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About Simpleweb: Investor and Product and Software development.
Simon Arnell
Chief Operating Officer of Configured Things
Simon Arnell is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder at Configured Things.
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About Configured Things: Creating richer possibilities for Connected Places with real-time policy-bound federated sharing of systems and data between organisations
Helen Mayhew
COO Europe of QuantumBlack
Helen is Chief Operating Officer for Europe at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company. She has guided global organisations on their analytics journeys, advising top executives and leaders on the potential for insight and innovation through advanced analytics. As COO, she is scaling the company and its impact around the world as she helps clients do the same. Examples of her work include: Implementing advanced geospatial analytics to model the impact of consumer changes on the footprint and property portfolio of a retailer, which helped the client understand the drivers of revenue performance, giving a new view of their business Leading an advanced analytics approach to bring new techniques to a retail bank, improving performance of its mortgage sales teams; also embedding tools and mindsets of data driven decision making across frontline staff Leading a project to predict and reduce government exposure to private sector insolvency, delivering both on-the-ground training and an interactive seminar series to build capabilities of the analytics team Helen is also the founder of McKinsey’s Analytics Academy and a thought-leader in progressing ethical and sustainable AI standards. Before joining McKinsey, she was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and spent time on secondment at both Tesco and the Bank of England. She also worked at the European Commission, supporting the Directorate-General for External Relations. Passionate about sailing, Helen is a former world champion and was a training partner to team Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics.
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About QuantumBlack: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Ravinath Dasika
Co-founder, COO of Clockwork
Ravinath Dasika is the co-founder of Clockwork. He previously founded Tavaga. He has held various positions at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Headstrong. Ravinath holds an MBA degree in finance and bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
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About Clockwork: Clockwork is a virtual assistant for your team, helping you run efficient meetings, track actions and automate workflows.
Catherine Wainwright
Chief Operating Officer of RWE
Catherine is Chief Operating Officer of RWE Supply & Trading’s Principal Investments fund. RWEST Principal Investments runs a broad based portfolio of asset and equity investments across the commodity trading spectrum. Catherine has 30 years’ experience in commodity trading and related asset, M&A and Principal Investment activities. She has led a number of major commercial transactions and acquisitions for RWE and was previously head of UK Structured Origination for RWE Supply & Trading. Catherine led RWEST’s successful acquisition, biomass project development and the eventual sale of Lynemouth Power Station, including the award and EU state aid approval for a UK government contract. She acted as Chair of the Board of Directors of Lynemouth Power Limited for 3 years. Catherine holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from Durham University and a Masters in Business Administration from Birmingham University.
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About RWE: RWE is pan-European energy company.
Jon Clarke
Chief Operating Officer of Onvi
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About Onvi, Viage UK: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Neil Woodcock
Chief Operating Officer of Tarmin, Inc.
Neil Woodcock Chief Operating Officer Leveraging 28 years of leadership experience and a wealth of business and technology expertise, Neil Woodcock joins Tarmin as the Chief Operating Officer where he will be responsible for global operations. Neil will be directing all Tarmin corporate strategy, including overseeing infrastructure, streamlining processes and building a global organizational culture aligned with Tarmin’s aggressive growth projections. Prior to joining Tarmin, Neil spent 28 years at IBM serving in various capacities. Neil holds a degree in Engineering from the University of Leicester and management certifications from Henley College of Management.
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About Tarmin, Inc.: Tarmin delivers GridBank Data Management Platform the premier Data Defined Storage solution.
James Doyle
Co-Founder and COO of Orka Technology Group
James Doyle is the Co-Founder and COO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Deepti Atrish
CEO & Chief Operating Officer of PCL Health
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About PCL Health: B2B SaaS Connected care platform with IoTs, mobile Apps and Online Clinician Dashboard.
Rachel Davis
Co-Founder & COO of Hurree
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About Hurree: Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform.
Iain Johnston
COO of Juralio Ltd
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About Juralio Ltd: Juralio Ltd is the creator of Juralio: software to help lawyers and their clients organize and carry out legal work more effectively.
Jon Treadway
Chief Operating Officer of Digital Science
Jon is Chief Operating Officer at Digital Science. Prior to this, he spent five years across the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group companies in a variety of roles and previously worked for the Arts Council and KPMG. Jon is unashamedly Transpontine, a folkie at heart and re-reads Hogfather at least once a year.
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About Digital Science: Digital Science is a scientific research software technology company.
David Duckworth
Co-founder & COO of Ben
David Duckworth is the co-founder and COO of Ben.
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About Ben: Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Gareth Cadwallader
Interim COO of Akkroo
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About Akkroo: A universal, customisable lead capture solution that helps businesses maximise their return on exhibiting at events.
Laura Malcolm
COO of Avanade
Laura is an experienced business and technology leader, driving industry change, diversity and inclusion with innovative and pioneering approaches. She has performed roles including COO, CTIO, Digital and Sales leadership roles, working in leading technology and consulting organisations, including Avanade, Oracle, Capgemini and IBM. She has a track record of delivering technical, operational and sales excellence, but people leadership and organisational change motivate her the most. She attributes her record of strong business results not only to a passion for technology and innovation, but mostly to her ability to get the best out of people through humility, creativity and authentic leadership.
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About Avanade: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Paul Zimmerman
COO of Invotra Ltd
An accomplished executive in the technology sector for nearly 20 years, having joined Amazon.com in 1999. Communications & Technology Currently COO of Invotra, an enterprise Intranet-as-a-Service, used by 200,000 end users in the UK and the US. Customers include the UK’s Home Office, Department for Works & Pensions (DWP), Department for Transport (DfT) and HMRC. In America, the venerable environmental organisation Sierra Club became a customer in 2017. I’m a public speaker and guest lecturer on diverse subjects ranging from entrepreneurship to the future of communications in the workplace to accessibility to Brexit’s impact on the UK. Ecommerce CEO for online gift and gadget site Firebox.com from 2010 to 2012, and COO of Stanley Gibbons’ ecommerce operations in Jersey from 2013 to 2014. Prior to this, I served Play.com as Marketplace Director in 2010 and Head of Business Development from 2005-2010. Previously I was a senior manager at both Amazon.com’s UK division, Amazon.co.uk (4 years), and Woolworths Group (2 years), where I led the business units responsible for driving e-commerce retail sales for both physical and digital music products. Specialties digital communications strategies, ecommerce, consulting and stakeholder engagement, p&l management, general management, product management, marketplace strategies, vendor management, purchasing, user experience & web design, SEO, search technologies, content management systems, digital distribution technologies, competitive analysis and research, market analysis and research, international experience
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Chris Hornung
Chief Operating Officer of TotalMobile
Chris Hornung is a Chief Operating Officer at TotalMobile. He was responsible for Achilles’ operating strategy and performance. Since being appointed in 2010, he has established a network of operational hubs in Asia, Eastern Europe, America, India, and South America. Additionally, he has developed standard processes across these locations allowing Achilles to offer a unified service to suppliers and buyers globally. He has 12 years’ experience of working at a senior level to improve business processes and performance within the global telecommunications industry. After 8 years in the British Armed Forces, he joined the mobile operator Orange in 1999 completing a number of roles before being appointed as the Director of Strategy Implementation. He joined Cable and Wireless in 2006, becoming the Director of Customer Service Transformation in 2007 before taking up the role of Director of Operational Performance in 2009. Chris is married with two children and has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biology and Biological Sciences from The University of Birmingham.
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About TotalMobile: TotalMobile is an enterprise mobile application platform designed to provide complete mobile working solutions.
Kevin Galliers
COO of AlphaDesk
Kevin has over 30 years in finance and financial technology, holding a variety of leadership positions within the vendor community, including SunGard/FIS, ACT/Misys, Iris Financial Engineering and Infinity Financial Technology. He also has an extensive background in database management and systems analysis and design, working for Standard Chartered Bank in London and Asia.
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About AlphaDesk: AlphaDesk provides real-time order, portfolio, and operations management tools to fund managers.
Tomás Sabat
Chief Operating Officer of Vaticle
Tomás is the Chief Operating Officer at Vaticle. He works closely with Vaticle’s open source and enterprise users who use TypeDB to build applications in a wide number of industries including financial services, life sciences, cyber security and supply chain management. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Tomás has spent the last seven years founding and building businesses in the technology industry.
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About Vaticle: Empowering engineers to solve complex problems – creators of TypeDB and TypeQL
Jonathan Hughes
Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pollinate
Jonathan Hughes is the Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer at Pollinate International.
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About Pollinate: Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
George Thomas
Chief Operating Officer of Xeneta
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About Xeneta: Xeneta is the leading ocean freight rate benchmarking and market intelligence platform and index.
Kean Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Dion Global Solutions
Kean is the Chief Operating Officer at Dion Global Solutions and is responsible for all day to day operations within the business including Product Strategy, Product Development, Support, Project Delivery and Technology spearheading our Solution Strategy to create a truly global solution suite for financial institutions. Kean is based in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of experience in Financial services, which includes 18 years in Dion and their acquired businesses. Kean brings a wealth of relevant domain experience to the role and has already overseen the significant growth in both the Wealth and Post Trade businesses in Dion. He has rich experience in strategic planning and implementation of key processes, systems and delivery excellence across the company , guiding and directing an enterprise through substantial change management utilizing strong and effective leadership. Kean has driven a number of products and operational initiatives within Dion and has good relationships across the client base. Prior to joining Dion, Kean worked at the London Stock Exchange for nearly 10 years being part of their renowned Graduate Placement scheme and went on to run the all participant rollout of the then ground breaking T+10 and T+5 settlement changes in the early 1990s before helping with the transition to CREST in 1996.
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About Dion Global Solutions: Dion Global Solutions is a technology solution provider company.
Kean Williams
Chief Operating Officer of Dion Global Solutions
Kean is the Chief Operating Officer at Dion Global Solutions and is responsible for all day to day operations within the business including Product Strategy, Product Development, Support, Project Delivery and Technology spearheading our Solution Strategy to create a truly global solution suite for financial institutions. Kean is based in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of experience in Financial services, which includes 18 years in Dion and their acquired businesses. Kean brings a wealth of relevant domain experience to the role and has already overseen the significant growth in both the Wealth and Post Trade businesses in Dion. He has rich experience in strategic planning and implementation of key processes, systems and delivery excellence across the company , guiding and directing an enterprise through substantial change management utilizing strong and effective leadership. Kean has driven a number of products and operational initiatives within Dion and has good relationships across the client base. Prior to joining Dion, Kean worked at the London Stock Exchange for nearly 10 years being part of their renowned Graduate Placement scheme and went on to run the all participant rollout of the then ground breaking T+10 and T+5 settlement changes in the early 1990s before helping with the transition to CREST in 1996.
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About Dion Global Solutions: Dion Global Solutions is a technology solution provider company.
George Georgiou
Chief Operating Officer of TiG Data Intelligence
George Georgiou is the COO of TIG. He is passionate about driving customer service operations to deliver a consistent first class service as well as innovation.
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About ThirdSpace, TiG Data Intelligence: TIG is a provider of cloud services, unified communications, and infrastructure solutions.
John Rudin
Founder, CTO, and COO of Folium Optics
John studied Engineering at Durham University, and Optics at Reading University. After working as a product design engineer he joined Hewlett Packard and helped found their UK based displays research group. In 2013 he and Steve Kitson set up Folium Optics to further the commercialisation of colourful, low power plastic displays.
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About Folium Optics: Folium Optics was founded in November 2013 by Steve Kitson and John Rudin.
Steve Denner
Founder and COO of Adestra
Steve is highly experienced in developing and delivering email solutions, having led teams responsible for bringing five email applications to market. Since co-founding Adestra, Steve is focused on ensuring Adestra’s platform continues to be today’s best email marketing system and that Adestra’s clients receive the best support.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Mate Knezovic
Chief Operating Officer of AGRIVI
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About AGRIVI: AGRIVI is a global agritech company with the market leading farm management software
Neil Larkins
Co-Founder & COO of Egress Software
Neil Larkins co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic direction of the business, with particular emphasis on product and service development. Neil possesses a thorough understanding of the information security market and has helped Egress build a reputation on technological excellence. Working with both corporate and public organisations, he has helped deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet specific requirements for secure data exchange and collaboration, as well as compliance. Prior to Egress, he held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies. Neil serves as Chief Technology Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic technical direction of the business, through product and service development. A regular speaker at information security and technology events, Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Manchester.
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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.
Rama Eltohamy
CDO/COO of MoneyFellows
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About MoneyFellows: MoneyFellows is a collaborative money management and lending platform digitizing ROSCAs offering users competitive financial solutions.
Stephen Joseph
COO of Ocean Outdoor
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About Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Ole Fjelberg
Co-Founder & COO of Brandbassador
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About Brandbassador: Ambassadors – engage with brands to earn money, freebies and other rewards. Brands – harness the power of passionate customers and fans.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Nikolai Ueker
COO of REalyse
Photo Nikolai UekerA German growing up in Jamaica with a love for the ocean and anything outdoors.
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About REalyse: REalyse is a technology company that helps UK residential property professionals understand the market.
Pablo Vergara
COO of HUBX
Pablo Vergara is the COO at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
Graham Blaney
Founder & COO of RightIndem
Co-founder and CEO at Buying Butler Prior to Buying Butler a background in competitive sport (canoe slalom) at an international level developed the foundations for a career that included global sales and business development in IT and outsourcing organisations such as Atos, Capita, Intel. An adaptable customer service fanatic who loves new tech and a challenge led to multiple over achievement awards and accolades.
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About Buying Butler, RightIndem: RightIndem is a white-label insurance claims platform, that works with insurers to enhance claimant’s customer experiences.
Guy Ballantine
Chief Operating Officer of Thomas International
As Chief Operating Officer, Guy is responsible for helping both shape the strategy at Thomas and ensure it’s executed successfully. Guy brings with him extensive experience of helping international businesses grow both organically and through acquisition. He has worked with businesses in multiple sectors, including technology, media, telecoms, business services and education. He enjoys working with businesses going through periods of extensive change, particularly where a technology transformation is required. Guy was previously a Director in corporate finance at DC Advisory, a Partner at advisory business RSM and most recently Managing Director of the Arts Division and Group Head of Corporate Development at the private equity backed Cambridge Education Group. Guy lives in London, enjoying eating out regularly with his restaurant critic wife and trying to keep up with his two young children.
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About Thomas International: Thomas International is a provider of psychometric assessment solutions with a focus on small to medium-sized businesses.
Brad van Leeuwen
Co-Founder and COO of Cledara
Brad van Leeuwen is the Co-Founder and COO at Cledara.
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About Cledara, Cledara, Railsbank: Cledara helps teams understand, manage and control the SaaS they use so they can scale operations, comply with regulations and save money.
Paul Fellows
COO of Partnerize
Paul brings more than 10 years of top-level product management experience to Performance Horizon Group and is driven by client success. He was one of the co-founders of the buy.at Affiliate Network in 2002 and helped lead the company through the sale to AOL, while focusing on the platform’s technical development and customized client solutions. Paul also previously served as Global Product Director for AOL, where he formed part of its Global Leadership Team.
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Peter Mildon
COO & Co Founder of Vivacity Labs
Peter is responsible for the commercial delivery of Vivacity. After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter joined a leading systems engineering consultancy, leading projects across the oil, civil nuclear, and renewables industries. With substantial process-driven experience under his belt, Peter leads operations at Vivacity, ensuring we deliver on time and to specification, every time.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Maxime Jeanniard
COO of OpenGamma
Maxime is Chief Operating Officer at OpenGamma. He is responsible for designing and implementing business operations, from Product and Marketing to Onboarding and Support. Previous to his role at OpenGamma, Maxime worked at HSBC in Derivatives Clearing Technology and, prior to that, spent 5 years at Calypso Technology. His roles have included Market Specialist in the Clearing and Collateral areas, and also Analyst positions at Calyon and Accenture.
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
Adrian King
Founder, CTO & COO of Q9 Elements
Adrian King is the Founder and CTO at Q9 Elements.
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About Q9 Elements: Q9 Elements is a document hub that helps in cleaning up, document, and drive adoption of Salesforce.
