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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 Director operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Director 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.
Scott Boocock
Senior Director – Europe, Middle East, Africa and India of Treasure Data
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About Treasure Data: Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform that offers end-to-end, fully-managed cloud service for big data.
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Adam Joseph
Director of Customer Success of Gainsight
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About Gainsight: Gainsight is a technology company that offers a range of software for optimizing the customer experience and improving product analytics.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mark Orsborn
Senior Director, Product Management of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alex Baggallay
Strategic Account Director of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Alex Baggallay
Strategic Account Director of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Lyndon Hedderly
Director Customer Solutions of Confluent
Lyndon is a director of customer solutions at Confluent. He helps organizations model how digital and specifically how fast data can enable new business models and improve company performance. Prior to joining Confluent, Lyndon was a director of digital strategy at Acquia (2014-2017), Head of Customer Success at Centrix –a U.K. digital start-up (2009-2014)—and an IT strategist and enterprise architect at Accenture (1996-2008). Lyndon holds an MSc in Neuroscience incl. Neural Networks & AI, from Oxford University. He runs his own blog on all things digital and data here: https://lyndon.london.
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Johannes Bauer
Data Analytics Executive Director of IHS Markit
Johannes is Data Analytics Associate Director at IHS Markit, a global information and intelligence provider. He technically manages multiple data science projects across various business lines including finance, the automotive industry and the energy sector. He has a keen interest in the full data science spectrum including mathematical statistics, machine learning, databases, distributed computing, and dynamic visualizations. He holds a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Imperial College and has been active in quantitative research for more than 10 years including research positions at Harvard University and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. He has disseminated his research in more than 30 peer reviewed publications and over 50 talks.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Sam Wilkinson
Director – Clean Energy Technology of IHS Markit
Sam Wilkinson is the Director – Clean Energy Technology at IHS Markit.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Jack Kent
Research Director, TMT of IHS Markit
Jack Kent is a director in the IHS mobile team covering all forms of mobile content with a focus on mobile applications, games, music and social networks. Jack joined the company in 2008 and launched its coverage of the mobile applications business in 2009. Jack has written a number of industry reports investigating how smartphone applications and social networks are changing the mobile media landscape and is the author of IHS Screen Digest’s quarterly Mobile Games and Applications Stores Tracker reports. Jack has contributed to a number of consultancy projects on subjects ranging from the market for children’s mobile entertainment to the potential of the applications business for media companies in the Middle East. Jack’s research and analysis includes studies of media companies’ mobile strategies, how content providers can best monetise mobile media and an investigation of mobile network operators’ response to the booming smartphone and tablet apps business. Jack has a background in media intelligence and market research, having previously worked for Brad Insight, the marketing and media intelligence division of Emap where he led its research for a number of publications covering the UK advertising market. A regular speaker at industry conferences, Jack is widely quoted in coverage of mobile media by trade publications and leading news organisations including the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Reuters, The Independent and USA Today. Jack holds a degree in English Language and Literature from King’s College London and has previously worked for GfK NOP market research group.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Paul Wright
Managing Director (UK / FR / ME / TR) of AppsFlyer
Paul Wright Based in London, Paul leads AppsFlyer’s growth and expansion in the UK market. Paul has worked in the online marketing industry for over 18 years, building and shaping businesses for some of the worlds largest agencies, advertisers and technologies.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Serena Chaudhry
Associate Director of Dataminr
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About Dataminr, Dataminr, Observer Research Foundation, One Young World: Dataminr develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection.
Matt Lock
Director of Sales Engineers, UK of Varonis Systems
Matthew has 17 years’ experience in the field of Network Security, which includes extensive contracts with many global businesses, including BP and JPMorgan. Specialising in risk assessment, risk management, policy compliance, security reviews and managing network behaviour anomaly systems, Matthew now leads Varonis’ sales engineering team in the UK, Ireland and Middle East, ensuring the team is helping customers and partners from a range of sectors in data governance projects, and organizing, securing and managing their unstructured data.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Matt Lock
Director of Sales Engineers, UK of Varonis Systems
Matthew has 17 years’ experience in the field of Network Security, which includes extensive contracts with many global businesses, including BP and JPMorgan. Specialising in risk assessment, risk management, policy compliance, security reviews and managing network behaviour anomaly systems, Matthew now leads Varonis’ sales engineering team in the UK, Ireland and Middle East, ensuring the team is helping customers and partners from a range of sectors in data governance projects, and organizing, securing and managing their unstructured data.
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
Avi Corfas
VP, Latin America & Director, Central Europe of Skybox Security
Mr. Avi Corfas serves as Vice President of Sales – Asia-Pacific & Latin America at Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas served as Head of International Markets of Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas serves as Advisor of WorkLight Inc. He served as Vice President of worldwide Sales and Managing Director of Europe, Middle East & Africa of Skybox Security, Inc., since April 2004. He served as Vice President of Skybox Security, Inc. since April 2004. Mr. Corfas served as Executive
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Stephen Pusey
Member of the Board of Directors of FireEye
Stephen Pusey is a Member of the Board of Directors at FireEye since June 2015. Steve has a wealth of international experience as a senior customer facing business technology leader. Steve has over 35 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry in both the wireline and wireless sectors and in business applications and solutions. Steve served as the Group Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone Group Plc from September 2006 to August 2015 and was responsible for defining and leading their global technology strategy and operations for networks, IT and product development. Steve was also a Vodafone Group Plc Board Member from June 2009 to August 2015 and was a Vodafone representative Board Member within the Verizon Wireless partnership. As part of his former role at Vodafone, Steve also sat on or participated in a number of Telecoms and IT industry advisory panels including representing Vodafone for 3 years within the GSMA industry body. Prior to joining Vodafone Group Plc in 2006, Steve held the positions of Executive Vice President and President, Nortel EMEA, and spent several years with British Telecom. Steve is educated in communications and micro-electronics and has attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
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About : FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Roger Llewellyn
Managing Director & Founder & CEO of Kognitio
Llewellyn joined Kognitio in April 2003, having previously been Managing Director of Arelon for two and a half years – a company acquired by Cedar Software. Roger instigated the Management Buy-Out of Cedar and the formation of the Redac Group with Alchemy in May 2002. Roger has started a number of American companies in Europe, including WICAT Europe, where he was Managing Director for 6 years and Vice President USA Sales, and Macromedia, where he was Managing Director Europe for 5 years from start-up to IPO. Roger then took the helm at VINCA Europe for 4 years, until it was purchased by Legato, now EMC. He was also Vice President of Elevon Inc. He trained as an Electronic Engineer before taking his first job for Hewlett Packard. He then held senior positions in Digital Equipment and Prime Computers, before becoming Managing Director of Prime Sweden. After two years in this role Roger took the Managing Director role for Prime in Switzerland.
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About AB Electronics, Kognitio: Kognitio is an in-memory analytical software platform that supports BI, OLAP and analytical applications on large and complex data.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Alistair Jones
Director of Engineering of Neo4j
Alistair is an engineer at Neo4j, specializing in clustering and consensus algorithms. He also has a side interest in graph visualization.
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Jesús Barrasa
EMEA Sales Engineering Director of Neo4j
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Olivier de Trogoff
CEO @ Maje invest and member of the Board of Director @ ClicData of ClicData
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About : ClicData is a provider of cloud-based dashboard systems that are designed to improve business efficiency through better reporting.
John C. Drake
Director & Co-Founder of iLOOKABOUT
John C. Drake is the President and co-founder of Drake Goodwin Corporation, a London, Ontario investment firm with diverse interests in financial services, real estate development and manufacturing. Mr. Drake is the Chair of the Board of Critical Outcome Technologies Inc., a TSXV company whose business is focused on the identification, profiling and optimization of targeted small molecules potentially effective in the treatment of human diseases through a proprietary computational platform technology. Mr. Drake is also the Vice Chairman of Children’s Choice Learning Centers, a leading provider of corporate childcare in the United States. Mr. Drake was the Chairman of DGM Bank and Trust Inc., a privately-owned offshore bank located in Barbados, from 2002 to 2008, and a director of Discovery Air Inc., an aviation services company whose shares are listed on the TSX, from 2006 until 2008. Mr. Drake is the co-owner of Redtail Golf Course, an exclusive private golf course located outside of Port Stanley, Ontario. Mr. Drake was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 1st Hussars of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps. in 1999. Mr. Drake obtained his B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Western Ontario and was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1973 to 2012.
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About iLOOKABOUT: iLOOKABOUT is a data analytics and visual intelligence company that produces and delivers geo-coded images to businesses and governments.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Lisa Turner
Marketing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Amarpreet Dhiman
Director of Sales & Marketing of Excelra
Dr. Amarpreet Dhiman holds a Ph.D. in Dental Materials from the Queen Mary University of London, a Diploma in Biomedical Engineering from Unicamp, Brazil, an MSc & Diploma in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College, London, and a BSc in Biomedical Science from Kingston University, London. A researcher scholar and business leader, Dr. Dhiman carries more than a decade of sales experience brokering value up to the Executive Management Level for a range of products aligned for R&D, Medical and Commercial clients. Having worked directly with the top Pharma and Life Science companies, Dr. Dhiman also has an expertise in Market Research and Competitive Intelligence. Before Excelra, Dr. Dhiman was a Strategic Key Account Director for both Global Data and at Data monitor/Informa Plc for 11 years winning new business and having a consistent record to secure high dollar value agreements through strategic consulting. In his spare time, Dr. Dhiman is an avid traveler who loves to socialize and learn about various cultures directly. He also likes to spend his leisure time reading and painting.
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About Excelra: Excelra is a leading Informatics company providing Intelligent data and analytics solutions to clients globally.
Harpal Gill
Director of Business Development, London of PeerNova
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About PeerNova: PeerNova’s mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data.
Paul Boanas
Director of Sales (EMEA & LATAM) of Catapult
Paul Boanas as Head of Europe, responsible for driving sales and business development in the key UK and European markets. Boanas is one of the key pioneers in athlete analysis, delivering innovative ways of assessing performance during his 13-year tenure with Prozone Sports as Head of Analysis Services, UK Account Manager and, most recently, Senior Account Manager.
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About Catapult: Catapult is a developer of wearable sensors to monitor athletes’ sport demands.
Heleen Snelting
Director Data Science EMEA of TIBCO
Heleen Snelting is Director Data Science EMEA at TIBCO, where she and her team help TIBCO customers optimise business and operational processes through the use of advanced analytics. She previously held international roles at market- and shopper research company IRI. Heleen is passionate about knowledge sharing and is an active TIBCO Community contributor.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Alex Cattani
Business Development Director of Zzish
Won big global deals for Discovery Education. Now partners with Ministries of Education & publishers. Ex-lecturer, owns five guitars.
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About Zzish: Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.
Nick Walker
Director Connected Car of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Nick Mothershaw
Director of Identity and Fraud, Director of Strategy of Experian
Nick is responsible for the strategic development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Nick has been with Experian for over 15 years. Previously Nick was a director of a company providing global solutions within the broader Criminal Justice arena. Here he architected the Scottish Intelligence Database: the only cross force intelligence sharing and matching solution in the UK. He also exported best of breed UK crime management systems to Australia and the US. Nick has also worked for IBM in the healthcare and utilities sector, and began his career as a mainframe systems analyst with a large UK brewer and pub company. He has a degree in Computer Science. Nick is also Co-chair of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). OIX aims to create a market for Identity Services that adopts open identity standards and enables transactions across industry sectors Nick has three children, and is into amateur dramatics in his spare time. In the last 12 months he has played one of the title roles and Beauty and the Beast (we’ll allow you to guess which one), along with a scared embittered ex-solider in Road.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ryszard Jedrzejewski
Product Director – Affordability of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Cyril Duprat
Director of Business Development of Mux
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Henry Church
Director of Mobile and Digital First Services, EMEA of mParticle
Henry Church is the director of mobile and digital first services, EMEA at mParticle.
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About mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Simon Kirby
Senior Director, Customer Success of Qlik
Simon is the Director of Financial Services Industry Solutions at Qlik and works with customers and partners to build value driven solutions for banks, insurers and capital markets firms. Simon has over twenty five years’ experience working in the insurance and banking sectors with a focus primarily on Audit, Risk Management and Regulation at companies including RSA Insurance Group, PWC and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to joining Qlik in 2015, Simon worked for the Financial Services Authority in the UK where he headed a team of insurance regulators supervising the activities of over thirty companies in complying with regulations such as Solvency II.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Mark Finn
Account Director – UK & Ireland of ScienceLogic
A technology professional with 27 years of experience, who’s career spans from customer to vendor and from technical to sales right across the technology sector. Before entering the world of sales Mark was busy shaping the Service Assurance strategies for companies such as MCI WorldCom, Level(3) & Telewest Communications. Now he is busy helping companies to develop more agile, automated, efficient Operations and going to market with new Business Services through their partnership with ScienceLogic and its Unified Service Assurance platform.
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About ScienceLogic: ScienceLogic is a provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management.
Pip Witheridge
Founder & Director of Grove
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About Grove: Grove is unlock business success through the power of leading-edge cloud computing, custom software development, cybersecurity & analytics.
David Courtley
Member of the Board of Directors of Statpro
David, 59, has been in the IT industry for over 25 years and has held a number of senior management roles including CEO of Phoenix IT Group, CEO of Fujitsu Services and Managing Director of EDS UK.He is currently CEO of Mozaic Services, a private company specialising in IT service integration and is Senior Independent Director of AIM-listed The Science Group plc. David will become Chairman of the Group’s Remuneration Committee.
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About Mozaic, Mozaic, Science Group: StatPro is a business that helps investors combine data on performance and risk analytics together to streamline asset management.
Mark Adorian
Member of the Board of Directors of Statpro
Mark was previously Managing Director of Standard & Poor’s Fund Services. Mark co-founded Micropal, the global fund performance analysis company in 1986, becoming their Sales & Marketing Director in 1987. In 1992 he became Managing Director of Micropal, and subsequently in 1997 negotiated the sale of Micropal to Standard & Poor´s, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Between 1999 and 2001, Mark was Managing Director of Standard & Poor’s Fund Services. Mark chairs the Group’s Nominations Committee. Mark’s career in the asset management industry and experience in business growth adds value to the StatPro Board. His understanding of market data in this industry supports the business and strategy.
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About : StatPro is a business that helps investors combine data on performance and risk analytics together to streamline asset management.
Rory Curran
Member of the Board of Directors of Statpro
Rory, 57, been in the IT industry for many years. Rory co-founded 1st Software, one of the first companies to use technology as a financial planning tool for building long-term client relationships in financial services companies. The business was sold in 2006. Rory left in 2008 and has since been a director and investor in a number of technology companies.He is currently a non-executive director of Andromeda Enterprises (trading as Ecodesk) and Sammedia Limited, both cloud-based technology businesses.
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About : StatPro is a business that helps investors combine data on performance and risk analytics together to streamline asset management.
Peter McConnell
Commercial Director of Socital
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About Socital: Socital is a SaaS platform specialized in personalization and lead generation for ecommerce.
Martin Willcox
Director, Big Data (International) of Teradata
Martin Willcox leads Teradata’s International Big Data CoE, a team of Data Scientists and Technology Consultants charged with assisting customers to realise value from their Analytic data assets – and with articulating Teradata’s Big Data strategy and the nature, value and differentiation of Teradata technology and solution offerings to prospective customers, analysts and media organisations across the International region. Martin holds a BSc (Hons) in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Sheffield and a Postgraduate Certificate in Computing for Commerce and Industry from the Open University. He is married with three children, is a trainee glider pilot – and a terrible guitarist.
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About Teradata, Teradata, Teradata, Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Andy Slater
VP & Managing Director EMEA of Actifio
Having joined Actifio in 2011, Andy leads the EMEA sales execution. Prior to this role, Andy was pivotal in heading up the services and installation customers in the region. Prior to Actifio, Andy lead sales and operations at TecTrade, a data protection and storage partner based in the UK. His 15+ years in roles as Chief Operating Officer and Sales Director allowed him to build strategic customer and regional relationships.
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About Actifio: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
JP Cunningham
Director, Order and Execution Management Strategy (OEMS) at FactSet of FactSet
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About CYMBA Technologies, FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Rodolfo Picciau
Director, OMS Product Development and Engineering of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
James Buckley
Director of Business Development of Attest
James Buckley is the Director of Business Development at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Dario Simonetti
Technology Director of Attest
Dario Simonetti is the Head of Core Engineering at Attest.
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Monica Hyerim Lee
Founder & CEO / Managing Director of FrontRow Global
Monica Hyerim Lee is the founder and CEO at FrontRow Global.
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About FrontRow Global, Royal College of Art: Music Data Intelligence for Music Industry
Lauren Bigland
Global Marketing & Communications Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Holly Sutton
Enterprise Sales Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
David Wayne
Senior Director of Talent and HR of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Simon Stone
Commercial Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Simon Stone
Commercial Director of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
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.
Charles Bell
Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA of Sitecore
Charles Bell is a Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Sitecore.
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About Sitecore: Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides multichannel marketing automation software and web content management.
Eve Cross
EMEA Marketing Director of MiQ
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Matt Saunders
Director UA of N3TWORK
Matt Saunders is the director of user acquisition at N3TWORK.
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Richard Aldridge
Director, Business Development of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Richard Aldridge is the Director of Business Development EMEA at BounceX.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Joshua Pierson
Director of Business Development of Ometria
Joshua Pierson is Business Development Director at Ometria.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Catherine Mandungu
Director of Sales Operations of Ometria
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Hannah Stacey
Brand and Product Marketing Director of Ometria
I’m a marketing professional with seven years’ experience in comms, content and demand generation for fast growth tech companies, agency-side and in-house. I’m currently responsible for overseeing inbound and product marketing at Ometria – a customer insight and cross-channel marketing platform for retailers. Interests: lead nurturing, content strategy, sales and marketing alignment and demand generation.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Tim Spring
Sales Director of Contentsquare
Tim Spring is the Sales Director at ContentSquare.
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About Contentsquare: Contentsquare develops a digital experience analytics platform that enables businesses to track online customer behavior.
Christian Jacob
Managing Director, Qualco UK of QUALCO
Christian Jacob joined us in 2012 as Managing Director of Qualco UK – He oversees the overall operations of Qualco UK and is responsible for establishing new business opportunities and developing strategic marketing & sales plans to boost profits and efficiency. Before joining Qualco, Christian was employed internationally in a wide variety of industries (Marketing, IT, Air product, Homecare design and Financial Systems, Debt Management) holding executive positions. Christian holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Environmental Sciences from Brighton University.
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About QUALCO: QUALCO offers its customers with debt portfolio management systems and technology-enabled services to manage their debt collections.
Shah J. Rahman
Regional Director – Middle East, Africa & APAC of Silobreaker
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
Andy Walker
Marketing & Operations Director & Founding Member of Yumpingo
Andy Walker is a Marketing Director at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Mark Wilkinson
Managing Director, EMEA & APAC of Profitero
Mark leads Profitero’s EMEA sales team, partnering with consumer brands and retailers to improve their eCommerce performance. Mark joins Profitero following his 18-year tenure at IRI. Most recently, he was Sales Director in the Technology Solutions group where he helped major FMCG organizations get the most from a diverse range of data to improve their key business processes. Mark has worked with Kellogg’s, Danone, Nestle, Mars and Heineken, helping these companies improve global business performance, in store execution, on shelf availability and multi-channel retailing (including eCommerce). Mark studied business at the University of Sheffield and is based in London.
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About Profitero: Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands around the world.
Christopher Hogg
Global Head of Platform Sales at Lotame
Chris Hogg leads Lotame’s EMEA operations where he is responsible for maintaining and increasing existing business and overseeing new customer acquisition. Chris has more than 17 years of experience in digital ad technology and operations for Independent News and Media, France Telecom – Wanadoo / Orange UK and Unanimis. Chris has held senior management roles for the last 9 years, successfully recruiting, training and leading large teams to deliver commercial results.
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
Rich Garrett
Director Pre-Sales and Solutions – EMEA of [24]7.ai
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About [24]7.ai: [24]7.ai is a customer acquisition and engagement software and services provider.
Rich Garrett
Director Pre-Sales and Solutions – EMEA of [24]7.ai
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About [24]7.ai: [24]7.ai is a customer acquisition and engagement software and services provider.
Justin Mullen
Co-founder, Director of Datalytyx
Justin has built a career on enterprise data management, data analytics, business process management and governance and performance management. He is skilled in understanding organisations, their data operations, and, most importantly, the challenges facing senior management and board level, across industries.
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About Datalytyx: Datalytyx is a leading provider of big data engineering, data analytics and cloud solutions.
John Webb
Co-Founder, Director of Datalytyx
John has a background in building, managing and advising on IT businesses and has advised on rapid growth models in the IT sector. With extensive expertise in sales, strategy and finance, he has built his career on demonstrable growth acceleration and value to clients.
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About Datalytyx: Datalytyx is a leading provider of big data engineering, data analytics and cloud solutions.
Paul Headey
Director and Business Consultant Data Management and Analytics of Datalytyx
Paul has worked in the digital sphere for over 20 years. He focuses on the financial and insurance sectors, advising organisations on how to achieve competitive advantage through better decision making.
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About Datalytyx: Datalytyx is a leading provider of big data engineering, data analytics and cloud solutions.
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member of ActiveViam
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
Jed Mole
European Marketing Director of Acxiom
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About Acxiom, Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Philip Agnew
Director of Product Marketing of Brandwatch
Phillip Agnew is the Director of Product Marketing at Brandwatch.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Andy Hume
Director of Engineering, Application Infrastructure of Brandwatch
Andy Hume is Director of Engineering at Brandwatch, where he leads the Application Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for application hosting strategy and manages infrastructure and tooling across multiple public clouds and on-premise (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Serverless). Prior to this, Andy has held a range of software engineering and management positions at companies like Microsoft, Twitter, The Guardian, and Clearleft.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Martin Sutton
Partnership Director of Peak
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About Peak: Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
Peter Fell
Technical Director, International of Anonos
Peter Fell is the international technical director at Anonos.
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About Anonos: Transform your data into a state-of-the-art asset, making secure, borderless innovation lawful.
Doug Trafelet
Managing Director of PitchBook
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About PitchBook: PitchBook provides comprehensive M&A, private equity, and venture capital data, as well as daily industry news and analysis.
Simon Harris
Commercial Director of WiForia
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About WiForia: WiForia’s SaaS platform turns Public Wi-Fi into a marketing communications channel.
Simon Harris
Commercial Director of WiForia
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About WiForia: WiForia’s SaaS platform turns Public Wi-Fi into a marketing communications channel.
Steve Barlow
Finance Director of WiForia
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About WiForia: WiForia’s SaaS platform turns Public Wi-Fi into a marketing communications channel.
Emma Cotton
Marketing Director of WiForia
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About WiForia: WiForia’s SaaS platform turns Public Wi-Fi into a marketing communications channel.
Shawn Cabral
Global Marketing Director of Cint
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About Cint: The technology backbone of the world’s most successful insights companies.
Matt Campion
Founder & Creative Director of Spirit Digital Media
Matt is Founder & Creative Director of Spirit. Matt is a leading Content Producer for Television, Digital and Social platforms. He has extensive experience producing and directing highly successful interactive TV and multi-platform formats as well as managing a portfolio of successful Social Campaigns in the TV, Film and Gaming Industries. Previous to Spirit, Matt was an Executive Producer for Endemol where he launched and ran Gala TV, a 24/7 interactive Sky Channel for the largest national bingo brand, Gala Bingo. Matt oversees all creative output for Spirit, recently being responsible for a series of live spin-offs for C4 & E4 including: #WT4 (Channel4 News), Live in Chelsea (Made in Chelsea), GleasonFinale (Glee – Live from LA), Skins Live, T4 All-Stars and Home For The Holidays ‘Extra Stuffing’.
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About Spirit Digital Media: Multi award-winning, dynamic content creation, social media & analytics company.
Julian Miall
Managing Director of Gravity4
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About Gravity4: Gravity4 is the world’s first high-frequency machine-learning marketing OS, built to enhance the advertising and SaaS industries.
James Collier
Director Corporate & Business Development of Outra
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About 41st Parameter, Outra: Outra is a customer data science business.
Ollie Jerome
Co-Founder and Director of BestX
Ollie Jerome was most recently European Head of FX at Morgan Stanley in London, responsible for Sales, Trading & Structuring. Oliver joined Morgan Stanley in 2010, performing a number of roles including Head of FX & Emerging Markets Sales for EMEA & the US, and Head of FX & EM in Europe. He was a member of the MS Global FID Management Committee. Oliver began his career in FX Sales at Chase Manhattan in 1998, and was promoted to Managing Director in 2007. He remained at the institution through the merger with JPMorgan until 2009, when he left to work for Standard Chartered. Oliver has a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester.
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About BestX: BestX is provide independent trade technology and analytics that enable clients to define, achieve & demonstrate Best Execution.
Simon Deeny
Director & Co-Founder of Conjura
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About Conjura, Eagle Point Partners: Conjura is a company that draws on expertise in consultancy, software engineering, data science and analytics.
Dan Foreman
Chair Of The Board Of Directors of Zappi
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About Borderless Access, Course5i, Dalia Research, ESOMAR, MindProber, Veylinx, Zappi: Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth.
Dave Birch
Director and Innovator of Zappi
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About Zappi: Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth.
Howard Sherman
Executive Director of MSCI
Howard Sherman is the Executive Director at MSCI.
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About MSCI: MSCI is a provider of investment decision support tools to investment institutions worldwide.
Andrew Brown
Non-Exec Director of Coats Digital
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About Coats Digital: Coats Digital specializes in providing technology-based solutions and industry best practice expertise.
Bill Atkinson
Business Development Director of Concentra
Bill is responsible for driving Concentra’s Analytics Solutions business through the development of Value Propositions and associated products and repeatable solutions. Bill has over 20 years of experience in PE (LDC, Easynet), Consulting (A.T. Kearney) and industry (BOC Gases; Eli Lily) where he has led teams across several operational functions (sales, delivery, project management, service management and support)
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About Concentra, TrueCue: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Maxine Holt
Research Director of Ovum
Maxine leads Ovum’s security proposition, developing a comprehensive research program within Informa Tech to support vendor, service provider, and enterprise clients. Having worked with enterprises across multiple industries in the world of information security, Maxine has a strong understanding of the challenges faced and how organizations can look to overcome these challenges.
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
Mark Maydon
Director of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Ian Cadman
Director Of Engineering of Sidetrade
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About Sidetrade: Sidetrade’s AI-powered Order-to-Cash Platform helps companies improve revenue, grow profitability and optimize working capital
Joshua Jian
Director of Corporate Development of Credit Benchmark
Josh is responsible for corporate development and strategic initiatives, and has experience in both banking and tech sectors: Josh led strategy and business development for startups in areas such as data analytics and fintech. Prior to that, Josh spent 5 years at J.P. Morgan managing credit risk and providing corporate finance for activities such as M&A, across EMEA and APAC regions. Josh holds a First Class degree from Durham, MPhil in Finance from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD as a Louis Franck Scholar.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
Oliver Smith
Product Director of Credit Benchmark
Oliver Smith is responsible for managing Product and Content within Credit Benchmark. Before joining Credit Benchmark, Olly was co-head for Markit Securities Finance Europe, also managing product Development. He previously held roles at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters within sales and business development.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
