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 Director operating in the Art 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.
Jonathan Draper
Product Director, Onboarding and Monitoring of ComplyAdvantage
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About ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
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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
Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Ben Chisell
Director of Product of OakNorth
Ben Chisell is Product Director at Starling Bank, a modern mobile-only bank built to help customers gain better insight into their financial lives, and give them access to all of their financial products in one place through the Starling Marketplace. Ben wants to build a bank that truly puts the customer first, and solves meaningful problems that can have a positive impact on their lives.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Adam Agius
Director, Debt Finance of OakNorth
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
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.
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.
Enrique Munoz de Cote
Director of MAS Science of Secondmind
Enrique is an associate professor of computer science with more than 50 academic papers published in top-tier journals and conferences in AI, including a book on multi agent learning. His interests lie in the intersection between machine learning, AI and economic theory. He has studied in Mexico, the USA, Italy and the UK and speaks three languages. He is responsible for heading the multi-agent team. He is a mélomane and terrible guitar player who grew up listening to rock. He is not wholly convinced that combing his curly hair is the way to go.
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About Geckomatics, Geckomatics, Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
James Hensman
Director of Research of Secondmind
James is a senior machine learning scientist with more than fifty peer-reviewed publications. Having worked at multiple universities he now lives in Ely with his family. He leads the company’s research in the area of probabilistic models. James loves the great British summer, and will happily barbecue in the rain. He is a terrible beer snob.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Erkko Uusitalo
Director, AI for Finance of Secondmind
Erkko is a financial markets expert with 20 years experience in trading & fund management. He is from Finland and that is where he mostly works from. He brings practical knowledge to the financial domain. He claims to remember pi to the 1.000th decimal – he just does not know what to do with that information!
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Philip Avery
Non-Executive Director of Oxbotica
Philip Avery is a non-executive director at Oxbotica. In 1999, Philip co-founded NavTech Radar and currently serving as the managing director of the company. He has been involved in the development of several millimeter wave radar systems and various other autonomous vehicle projects. He has also been involved with research projects at Oxford and Sydney University. As the MD of Navtech Radar, Philip has been one of the key strategists behind the company’s introduction of this technology into different industries including Security surveillance, Industrial automation and Highways monitoring and incident detection. He is also a strong proponent of UK industry, particularly high tech design and manufacturing.
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About Navtech Radar, Oxbotica: Oxbotica powers the navigation, perception, user interface, fleet management, and other features needed to run self-driving vehicles.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Fredrik Cornell
Director Commercial Operations of Healthily by Your.MD
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About Healthily by Your.MD: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Michael Brennan
Co Founder & Non-Executive Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Michael Brennan co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and serves as its Head of Corporate Development. Mr. Brennan co-founded Novum Securities in 2006 and served as it Chief Executive Officer. In 2009, Mr. Brennan joined Proximagen Group plc, as Head of Corporate Development, where he was focused on fund raising, corporate transactions and business development. Mr. Brennan has over 14 years of equity capital markets experience in the City focusing on the small and mid cap market. He is a Senior corporate finance executive with over 15 years City based capital markets experience. The majority of his time was spent with Evolution Securities where he served as a Director in their corporate finance department and has significant transactional experience including M&A and takeover work. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Litebulb Group Limited since September 13, 2013.
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About BenevolentAI, SimplyPayMe: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ken Mulvany
Founder & Board Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Ken Mulvany is a serial entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of business leadership experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $2bn machine intelligence company with end-to-end drug development capabilities. Mr. Mulvany was previously Founder and CEO of Proximagen, a leading biotech company developing medicines for central nervous system disorders, which he sold in 2012. Mulvany sits on several advisory boards including the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, and formerly, the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Mr. Mulvany is a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America’s Cup.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Tom Holgate
Finance Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Tom Holgate is Group Finance Director of BenevolentAI Ltd. He is responsible for all financial aspects of the Group including operational, reporting, strategy, planning and forecasting, transaction support and investor relations. Prior to joining BenevolentAI, he held senior positions at American Express), FP & A (Amlin Plc) and EY.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
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.
James Fricker
Managing Director of Sensat
James is a forward thinking Managing Director with a strong revenue focus, looking to push the boundaries of teams and innovation in order to drive value. Having graduated from the university of Lincoln with a Bsc in Psychology with Clinical Psychology, James started his career in the world of media with one of the UK leading publishing companies. With a strong affection to technologies, he transitioned into SaaS, leading the UK proposition of Mag+ in the digital publishing space, earning accreditation at the PPA awards with winning ‘Sales Team of the year’, he soon moved onto Fliplet to become the first commercial hire at a rapidly growing start up company, successfully commercialising the platform to its now global client base and growing revenue over 100% year on year in the 2 years he had there prior to joining SenSat.
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About Pavilion, Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Guy Roberts
Non-Executive Director of Sensat
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About : SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
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.
Richard Smith
Client Director of Elutions, Inc.
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About Elutions, Inc.: Energy and operational efficiency global market leader with AI solutions.
Rory Miller-Cheevers
Founder & Managing Director of Hyphen
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About Hyphen: Data Intelligence and Performance Marketing
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.
Anna Lowe
Director of Partnerships & Co-Founder of SMARTIFY
Anna is CoFounder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify a global platform for art described by the New Scientist as “the Shazam and Spotify of art”. A firm believer that culture needs stewardship not disruption, Anna works closely with museums to embrace new technologies that support their growth and resilience. Anna is a Trustee of Tate, the youngest ever trustee of a national museum. Anna also sits on the UK5G Creative Industries working group and is an Industry Champion for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).
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About SMARTIFY, Tate: SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Dr. Martin Spollen
Co-Founder & Director of Yedup Limited
Martin M. Spollen joined Yedup AI Labs as Co-Founder & Director in 2015.
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About Strategic Investment Board, Yedup Limited: Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications.
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.
Ken Lever
Non-Executive Director of Blue Prism
Ken is an ex-partner of Arthur Andersen and has held senior executive director roles in many listed, companies including Alfred McAlpine plc, Albright & Wilson plc and Tomkins plc. Ken was Chief Financial Officer of Numonyx in Switzerland from April 2008 to September 2010, and was Chief Executive Officer of Xchanging plc between 2011 and 2015. Ken currently is a Non-Executive Director of Vertu Motors plc, Gresham House Strategic plc, DAC Beachcroft and F.M. Insurance Company Limited. From 2007 to 2013 Ken was a member of the Accounting Council (formally the UK Accounting Standards Board) of the Financial Reporting Council. Ken is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Nicola Bergstrom
Director of Human Resources of Blue Prism
Nicola Bergstrom brings over 10 years experience in Human Resources management, having held a number of HR roles across BAE Systems Group. Nicola has a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (CIPD) alongside a degree in Business Management and French from the University of Manchester.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Chris Batterham
Non-Executive Director of Blue Prism
Chris Batterham qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and has significant experience in the technology based business environment, including the flotation of Unipalm on the London Stock Exchange. Currently working on the boards of a number of companies including SDL plc Toumaz Ltd, Office 2 Office plc, Iomart plc and Eckoh plc as Chairman, Chris brings a wealth of experience in the strategic development of companies within the IT sector.
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About Arthur Andersen LLP, Blue Prism, Eckoh: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Steve Brooks
EMEA Alliance Director for Accenture & Avanade of Blue Prism
Steve Brooks is the director strategic alliances – EMEA at Blue Prism.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Ian West
Director – Advisory Services of Blue Prism
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About Blue Prism, Consulting Insights: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Martin Flood
Director of Sales of Blue Prism
Martin Flood brings Sales & Sales Management expertise and experience, gained in the IT Industry over two decades in a variety of enterprise software and hardware businesses. Martin’s roles have ranged from large international organizations such as Sybase and Sun Microsystems through to early stage software companies such as Whitelight Systems and Searchspace. Martin recently headed the new products division of Progress Software EMEA which comprised SOA Integration, Business Activity Monitoring and Business Process Management offerings.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Alex Bentley
Director of Corporate Development of Blue Prism
Alex is responsible for leading and delivering the corporate and strategic initiatives that underpin the Blue Prism growth strategy. Prior to joining Blue Prism in 2013, Alex was a management consultant at Deloitte with a background in operational excellence and business architecture. Alex spent the majority of his consulting career delivering Target Operating Model design, process improvement and business transformation programs for Financial Services clients. He has a BA (Hons) in Management from Leeds University
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Charles Cooper-Driver
Chairman, Investor & Director of Limitless
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About : The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
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.
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.
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.
Shefali Sharma
Co-Founder & Director of Oxford Dynamics
I’m a creator & a dreamer. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been passionate about creating ‘something of value’. With a Masters Degree in Engineering, I have spent the last 7+ years working with technical start-ups to gain a better understanding of how successful businesses are built. In a nutshell, what I have learnt can be best summarised by Ed Catmull; “If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better”. I am a big believer in following your instincts and taking unique approaches to life. So, I’ve now embarked upon my own entrepreneurial journey by co-founding not one but two companies, a Healthtech start-up called OXLABS; as well as a Space start-up called Oxford Dynamics (OD). At both these companies, we’re developing inspiring & accessible technologies by working with those that share our values and passion for making the world a better place. Though still in a fledgling state, its an absolute joy & honour to be working with people / friends who are equally passionate & committed to the OXLABS & OD journey as I am. We dream big, work hard and believe anything is possible. We’re currently in stealth mode for both our businesses but please do follow our pages as we’ll be breaking cover soon – your support really matters to us 🙂 Last but not the least, I’m really proud to be selected as a Global Young Innovator by Innovate UK as one of the few entrepreneurs (under 30) across the UK & South Africa who are solving global challenges with their ground-breaking ideas.
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About Oxford Dynamics: We’re developing a new range of cutting-edge AI-based tools that enable machines to think like humans.
Mike Lawton
Co-Founder & Director of Oxford Dynamics
I’m a serial entrepreneur, which is code for the fact I bear a few scars from getting things wrong slightly less often than I get things right… I enjoy building early-stage high technology businesses in demanding commercial environments: taking an idea from concept stage, raising external investment & building motivated teams that focus on delivery. I’m currently excited about commercial opportunities in so-called ‘new space’ – a sector in which my latest venture Oxford Space Systems is making great progress. I’m firm believer in actively promoting STEM subjects and regularly present in schools, colleges and universities with the aim of inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurial engineers and scientists. I also frequently present at events in the UK and overseas on my entrepreneurial experiences and the process of raising equity finance for technology focused businesses. I (or more correctly the smart guys in my team) have won numerous business and technical awards both in the UK and overseas. I consider myself a pragmatic and enthusiastic leader with a hands-on approach who believes in direct reward for achievement. I have a pathological hatred for bureaucracy, preferring tangible progress in preference over shuffling paper.
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About Oxford Dynamics, Oxford Space Systems: We’re developing a new range of cutting-edge AI-based tools that enable machines to think like humans.
Dr Edward Jackson
Co-Founder & Director of Oxford Dynamics
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About Oxford Dynamics: We’re developing a new range of cutting-edge AI-based tools that enable machines to think like humans.
Ilya Feige
Director of Artificial Intelligence of Faculty Science
Ilya Feige is the head of data science and the head of research at Faculty. He ensures that cutting-edge machine learning is used across all Faculty’s commercial data science projects. Previously, Ilya worked at McKinsey & Company, helping to deploy artificial intelligence for some of the world’s largest brands. He’s also an honorary senior research fellow in artificial intelligence at UCL. Ilya was awarded the Goldhaber prize for the best PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and the Governor General’s award for the single highest ranked undergraduate student at McGill University.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
David Holden-White
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
David Holden-White is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Graham Mills
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
Graham Mills is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Daniel Cowell
Director of techspert.io
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About : techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Kevin Keegan
Board of Directors of CarLabs
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About : CarLabs is a new startup developing conversational “bots” to guide users through car shopping.
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.
Barry Sage
Global Service Operations Director of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Rob West
Delivery and Operations Director of CUBE
Rob has led several business streams within The Content Group. Over many years, he has built deep experience in working with highly complex global customers, managing delivery and operations. Rob is focused on leading his experienced team of regulatory experts and technical specialists to meet ever-changing customer challenges. Building upon his knowledge of technology and operations, Rob’s teams support customers, enabling them to deliver on their regulatory transformation goals.
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
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.
Kamelia Dimova
Co-Founder, Research Director of Mindtrace
Kamelia has 10+ years of research experience in computational neuroscience and machine learning. She has MSc degrees in Physics and Cognitive Science, and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Plymouth.
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About Mindtrace: Mindtrace builds intelligent systems which exploit the synergy of brain-inspired algorithms and neuromorphic hardware.
Ciaran O’Callaghan
Director of Sales, EMEA of Brightflag
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About Brightflag: Brightflag is the AI-powered legal spend management and matter management platform for corporate legal teams.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Ahmed Nuaman
Managing Director of Firemind
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures, Scout Solutions, Upcoming: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Colin Pye
Creative Director of Realeyes
Colin’s role is twofold: to develop the user experience of the Realeyes platform and to shape the Realeyes brand. With strategic rigour and creative excellence, he brings nearly two decades of creative agency experience, across brand, digital, advertising and film. He’s worked with many FTSE100 brands, help create new digital service propositions and created many innovative and strategic concepts to help inform senior management decisions. Colin was honored with the freedom of the City of London for industry recognition, has judged for D&AD, awarded with distinction for a mini MBA and having been part of a start-up E-commerce agency, means he’s not shy at being hands on.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
James Collier
Director Corporate & Business Development of Outra
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About 41st Parameter, Outra: Outra is a customer data science business.
Romano Oliveri
Co Founder – Art Director of Feral Horses
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About Feral Horses: Feral Horses is an online platform that makes it easy to discover, experience, and care for art.
Jonathan Shine
Global Business Development Director of Spark EV Technology
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About Spark EV Technology: Spark develops and supplies personalised journey prediction and map display software products for electric vehicles.
Tomo Ohno
Managing Director of Kudan
Tomo OHNO founded Kudan back in 2011. A cross-border business developer and entrepreneur. After nearly a decade as a management consultant at Accenture Tokyo, Bangkok, Amsterdam, and London, he led the turnaround of a small UK based software company into a global player, and directed successful exit of a game licensing company. The company was successfully sold to a Japanese game console manufacturer. He also successfully set up computer game publisher Zen United. Zen United created a new industry finding game content abroad and localising and deploying into local markets. Tomo’s passion is to create business value across boundaries, adapting organisations and their business models to sell across multiple countries and deliver technical value across markets.
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About Kudan: Kudan is accelerating evolution of AR/MR/VR and automobile/drone/robot by developing computer software algorithms as Artificial Perception. Kudan went public at Tokyo stock exchange in December 2018
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.
Tom Griffin
Director and Co-Founder of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Rob Biggs
Director of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Charlie Henderson
Managing Directors & Founder of FeedStock Ltd
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About FeedStock Ltd: FeedStock leverages AI and NLP technologies to enable financial services companies to satisfy both their compliance and commercial goals.
Christian Mastrodonato
Director Of Engineering of Digital Catapult
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About Digital Catapult: Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
Marc Mapes
Executive Director of HiringSolved
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About HiringSolved: HiringSolved makes hiring faster and easier through smart software tools. Automating inbound and outbound recruiting with AI based tech.
Andrew Preston
Technology Director of Symphony Ventures
Andrew is an experienced software developer and architect, having worked in the software industry for much of his career. He also has extensive experience using automation tools, and developing digital operations programs across a variety of sectors including healthcare, insurance, recruitment, HR and payroll. At Symphony, he is responsible for system infrastructure, network operations, and for leading a global delivery excellence organization charged with ensuring world-class design, configuration and support across the entire Symphony client portfolio.
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About SYKES Digital Services, Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Jonathan Knight
Managing Director of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
Emma Priestley
Executive Director, Customer of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
Mario Bodini
Director of Firedrop
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About Firedrop: The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence website builder – uniquely designed sites in 60 seconds
Emma Blaylock
Director, Board Member of Optalysys
Emma is an experienced business strategist. She specialises in corporate strategy, corporate development, business development, M&A, media, high tech, consumer electronics, consulting and project management
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About Optalysys: Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing.
Ian Foley
Client Director of Movvo
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About Movvo: Movvo is a global technology company strategically positioned at the intersection of the retail industry, artificial intelligence and custom
Nigel Hilditch
Director, Head Of Content, Europe & Asia of Sotheby’s
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About Sotheby’s: Sotheby’s conducts auctions and private sales of fine art, antiques, and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles.
Jat Sahi
Director of illumr
Jat’s background is in Sales and Marketing. Jat helped launch the 3D visualisation software for Fujitsu. He went on to design and deliver the customer facing element of their customer innovation programme for global clients. Prior to this, he helped found a venture in Human Capital Management Software which is now part of Oracle. Jat holds a BSc (Hons) from Brunel University.
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About illumr: illumr helps organizations to better understand and predict patterns of behavior that affect them.
Nara Kaveripatnam
Director of Nara Iyer Research
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About Crossing35: Nara Iyer Research is a Scotland based boutique consulting company specializing in Artificial intelligence.
Freddie McMahon
Co-Founder, Director of Strategy and Innovation of DF2020 Limited
Responsible for developing a paradigm shift in the way firms interact with regulation, which is currently unsustainable due to the diversity, volume, rate of change and complexity.
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About Augestra, DF2020 Limited: Df2020 regtech digitises regulation and procedures through a universal and unifying blend of codification, interaction and measurement.
Pawan Lokwani
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Pawan is a young, successful, and award-winning entrepreneur based in the UK . He has experience in the talent market globally in Europe, Americas and Asia for more than 15 years and has successfully built teams globally and sold enterprise solutions to global clients.
His passion to channel growth and economic opportunities make him stand out from the crowd. Pawan began his career with one of the world’s largest consultancy firms in India. In recognition of his outstanding performance, Pawan was moved up the ladder and transferred to the firm’s London headquarters where he, once again, outshined his peer group. He has led projects for few of the world’s largest institutions like Warner Brothers, Ofcom, Universal Pictures, Cadbury etc.
While he achieved unprecedented success in his career, Pawan was quick to pay heed to the entrepreneurial spirit within him to set up his own Technology consultancy firm in the UK. By the time he was 35, Pawan had already expanded businesses to five countries employing over 80 people.
At an early stage of his entrepreneurial journey, Pawan had a clear-sighted vision to steer opportunities in the disruptive technologies and thus started building AI business to get 10X returns on the efforts deployed.
With a background in Sales, Technology and team development, Pawan is successfully scaling up the Talent AI B2B saas venture – Recruitment Smart Technologies to achieve global heights
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Yusuf Jazakallah
Director of Recruitment Smart Technologies
Yusuf Jazakallah is a Director at Recruitment Smart Technologies.
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About Recruitment Smart Technologies: SAAS, B2B, DeepTech, Talent Supply chain automation, HR, Recruitment
Mike Fish
CEO and co-found of E-Numeracy and Director of BigData4Analytics
Mike Fish is founder and CEO of award-winning education software start-up E-Numeracy. E-Numeracy uses AI to help those who struggle with numeracy – one third of the population – to rebuild their confidence with numbers and to improve their employability. In addition Mike is director of AI & Analytics consultancy BigData4Analytics, whose clients include EY, Investec, Grant Thornton and Zurich Insurance.
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Jackie Down
Director of BigData4Analytics
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Rafael Libardi
Founder & Executive Director of NoLeak Defence
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About NoLeak Defence: Noleak Behavior Recognition is an AI-based system to identify suspicious actions and behaviors from cameras
Liam Mcquillan
Director of Liopa
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About Catalyst, Liopa: Liopa’s LipRead deciphers speech from lip movements. It uses AI and deep learning for automated lip reading.
Byrnece Turner
Director of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Bryony Worthington
Co Director of Quadrature Capital
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About Quadrature Capital, Sandbag, Weinberg Foundation: Quadrature Capital is a small tech business run by programmers.
Charlotte Bearn
Managing Director of Art Republic
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About Art Republic: Art Republic is an online store that provides artworks, gifts and magazines including art advice services.
Rollo Carpenter
Managing Director of Existor
Rollo Carpenter is Managing Director at Existor.
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About Existor: Existor is a London-based company, creating conversational Artificial Intelligence software for business, education, and entertainment.
Sue Curd
Director of Commercial Operations of Royal Academy of Arts
Sue Yeend-Curd is Director of Commercial Operations at Royal Academy of Arts.
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About Royal Academy of Arts: The Royal Academy of Arts promotes the creation, enjoyment, and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education, and debate.
Chris Fieldsend
Managing Director of Achieve Intelligence
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About Achieve Intelligence, Office of Rail Regulation: Achieve Intelligence
Jack Wrangham
Founder and Director of Drone Ag
Jack Wrangham is the founder and director of Drone AG.
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About Drone Ag: Practical, hassle-free drone automation and AI for Agriculture
Sean Schwarz
Founder and Managing Director of RAFT Recruitment
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About RAFT Recruitment: RAFT Recruitment is a recruiting firm that places executives, software, machine learning, and robotics engineers.
Diwakar Thakore
Cofounder and Director of Dhiyantra Limited
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About Dhiyantra Limited, Musemantik: Dhiyantra a conversational & commerce company developing products & services intersection messenger apps, chatbots, artficial intelligence.
Sharry Stowell
Director of Molinto
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About Molinto: Design & development services
Mostafa Hashem
Managing Director and Lead Consultant of Smartlytics Consultancy
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About Smartlytics Consultancy: B2B Saas , AI/ML Solutions
Natalie Bell
Sales Director of Akari
Natalie Bell has a unique approach to customers, having worked in Public and Third Sector for the last 15 years; she is genuinely driven by the business outcomes that technology can bring, and has seen the detrimental impact this can have when executed incorrectly. Her work with vulnerable groups and marginalised communities has also given her great insight into the importance of inclusion and accessibility. Consequently, Natalie has the drive to embed these values into all things Akari! She is enabling digital inclusion using tools, like AVA Achieve, in further education and also supporting organisations across all sectors who require translation services to improve their customer service and HR processes.
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About Akari: Akari, they strive to inspire change with inventive and creative technologies to further enable people’s experiences.
Caroline Tonkin
Sales Director of Opsmatix
Caroline specializes in complex and sophisticated high value consultancy and technology solutions for the Financial Services industry (banks, hedge funds, asset managers, insurers…) – organizations both global and niche throughout Europe and on occasion beyond, frequently in challenging jurisdictions.
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About Opsmatix: Opsmatix develops software and online tools using artificial intelligence to assist with customer services.
Paul Bourne
Artistic Director of Menagerie Theatre Company
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Menagerie Theatre Company: Menagerie Theatre Company is an independent new writing theatre company.
