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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 E-Commerce 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.
Oliver Sloane
Director, Amazon Global Communities of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Alex Green
Managing Director, Amazon Video of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Neil Lawrence
Director of Amazon
Neil Lawrence is a Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield, currently on leave of absence at Amazon, Cambridge. His main technical research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models. He focuses on both the algorithmic side of these models and their application. He has a particular interest on applications in personalized health and applications in the developing world. Neil is well known for his work with Gaussian processes, and has proposed Gaussian process variants of many of the successful deep learning architectures. He is also an advocate of of the ideas behind “Open Data Science” and active in public awareness (see https://www.theguardian.com/profile/neil-lawrence) and community organization. He has been both program chair and general chair of the NIPS Conference.
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About Amazon, University of Sheffield: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Michael Muskat
Director of REEF
Michael Muskat is the Director of Reef Technology.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Lawrence Hall
Group Communications Director of Cazoo
Lawrence Hall is the Group Communications Director at Cazoo.
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About Cazoo: Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars.
Federico Pienovi
Regional Managing Director – Head of EMEA of Globant
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About Globant: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Orhan Hasanov
Director of SwiftGift
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About GiftMagic, SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Tom Seymour
Global Sr Creative Director of Nike
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About Nike: Nike designs, develops, and markets footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products.
Galahad Clark
Founder & Managing Director of Vivobarefoot
Galahad Clark is the Founder and Managing Director of Vivobarefoot.
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About Terra Plana, Vivobarefoot: UK-based shoe brand and Crowdcube alum
James Pochin
Legal Director of THG
Joined The Hut Group in July 2010 as Group Legal Director and Company Secretary. Prior to joining The Hut Group James was a corporate partner in a national law firm advising on mergers and acquisitions, takeover offers and schemes of arrangement, disposals, IPOs and equity fundraisings.
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Paul Rawlings
Director of Engineering of THG
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About THG: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Arun Anand
Director of AX Paris
Arun Anand is the founder of AX Paris.
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About AX Paris: AX Paris is a women’s online fashion website that offers clothes, dresses, tops, trousers, skirts, coats, knitwear, shoes and accessories.
Glen Walker
Co-Founder & Director of Trouva
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Lucy Ward
Creative Brand Director of Trouva
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Stuart Hennell
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Watchfinder
Stuart Hennell is a Co-Founder & Managing Director at Watchfinder • Stuart spent 6 years working on various Major UK and European Projects in the Civil Engineering Industry • He has lots of experience negotiating and developing supplier/client relationships both inside and outside of the UK as well as strong leadership skills and have used them to build a strong and successful team at Watchfinder • Stuart goal is to build Watchfinder into a worldwide brand and a byword for quality products delivered with the highest standards of customer service • Stuart studied Engineering Geology & Geotechnics at University of Portsmouth
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About Watchfinder: Watchfinder is the world’s leading retailer of pre-owned watches
Alex Buttle
Co-Founder, Marketing Director of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
George Livingston
Director of Data Infrastructure of Farfetch
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Henry Graham
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
Henry Graham is Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Wolf & Badger.
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About Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Bridget Mills-Powell
Content Director of Lyst
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Stéphane Moracchini
Director of Engineering Retail Checkout / Engineering Manager of Lyst
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
James Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Director of MyTutor
James is a driven, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, with experience in sales, leadership, strategy, product, digital marketing and fundraising. He started a fledgling events business at 15, which grew to a team of 30, catering for over 1,200 weekly guests. After completing a Philosophy degree at University of Birmingham, James worked for Barclays Wealth, in the Chief of Staff Team, within the Office of the Chief Executive, helping to set the Division’s strategic agenda and taking responsibility for the implementation of sponsored projects. James is a co-founder of MyTutor, creating a new world of one-to-one tuition. The team are unwaveringly focused on their mission to give every student access to 1-1 support. The platform provides live, online one-to-one lessons, delivered by bright, inspiring undergraduates studying at the UK’s leading universities – their secondary aim is to become the leading provider of work to these students. MyTutor uses AI-driven matching algorithms to ensure perfect student-tutor matches and every lesson is taught in an interactive online learning space, which facilitates live video and audio chat, document editing, file sharing and lesson recording. The company’s proudest achievement has been helping 92% of their pupils in 2016 hit or exceed their grade targets. James enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of education and business events. His other interests include sport (football, rugby, athletics), music (blues & hip hop), travelling, reading and all things startup. He has won a number of awards over the past few years, including Unltd’s ‘Do it’, Mercia’s ‘The Pitch’, O2 ‘Think Bigger’ and Santander’s ‘Spark’.
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Robert Grabiner
Founder and Executive Director of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Magnus Jakobson
Corporate Finance Director of Kinnevik AB
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About Kinnevik AB: Kinnevik is an entrepreneurial investment group focused on building digital consumer businesses.
Jan Farrarons
Founder & Director of Judopay
Jan Farrarons is the founder of Dojo, Capital On Tap, and Judopay.
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About Capital on Tap, Dojo, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Samantha Tyrer
Managing Director of Co-op
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About Co-op: Co-op, home to Food, Insurance, Funeralcare, Legal Services and Electrical
Simon Burke
Board of Directors of Co-op
Simon Burke is an experienced retail and consumer executive and has managed some of the best-known retail names in the UK. He trained as a chartered accountant before joining Virgin, where he held various positions, including CEO of Virgin Retail, Virgin Cinemas, and Virgin Entertainment Group. In 1999 Simon was drafted in as Chairman & Chief Executive of Hamleys PLC. He has also been chairman of Majestic Wine, Irish supermarket chain Superquinn, and Mitchells & Butlers, the FTSE 250 pub and restaurant business. Currently Simon is chairman of Hobbycraft, Bathstore.com, and Eagle Eye, the mobile voucher specialist.
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About The Light Cinema Company: Co-op, home to Food, Insurance, Funeralcare, Legal Services and Electrical
Steve McEvoy
Alliance Director of Metapack
Steve rejoined MetaPack in 2007. He is responsible for all client facing team members inc Account Management, Service Management and Client Support. Since joining MetaPack in August 2002 Steve has held a number of positions that have grown with the company from Business Development to Partnership management. Steve has over twenty years experience providing IT solutions to the Retail market, the last fifteen of those have been eCommerce focused. Prior to MetaPack Steve has held a number of senior roles in Fujitsu, Post Software International.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Derek Weaver
Director of Logistics of Metapack
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Charlie Vernon
Director of UK Partnerships of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Dom Goodrum
Director of Product of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
James Carter
Finance Director of Thread
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Shaunie Brett
Style Director of Thread
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Sam James
Managing Director of Hassle.com
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About Hassle.com: Hassle.com is an online marketplace that matches busy people with local, trusted cleaners.
Zoe Wong
Finance Director of Depop
Zoe is a finance and operations specialist within high-growth digital platforms. She is currently Director at Depop, an international ‘social shopping’ app that is hugely popular with Generation Z, with over 8 million users.
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About Depop: Depop provides a mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, discover, and explore various things.
Pierre Sapin
Managing Director of BORN
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Damien Byrne
Business Development Director of Boku
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About Boku: Boku is a global mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.
Sally Heath Minto
Digital Director of REVOLUTION BEAUTY
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About REVOLUTION BEAUTY: REVOLUTION BEAUTY provides beauty products.
Nadine Neatrour
Ecommerce Director of REVOLUTION BEAUTY
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About REVOLUTION BEAUTY: REVOLUTION BEAUTY provides beauty products.
Andrew Flint
Technical Service Director EMEA of Anixter International
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About Anixter International: Anixter is an online distributor of network & security solutions, electrical & electronic solutions and utility power solutions.
Michael Kraftman
Non Executive Director of My 1st Years
Michael Kraftman is an Executive Director at My 1st Years.
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About My 1st Years: My 1st Years offers personalised gifts for babies and children.
Jonny Sitton
Co-founder / Director of My 1st Years
Jonny Sitton is a Co-Founder and Director at My 1st Years.
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About My 1st Years: My 1st Years offers personalised gifts for babies and children.
Scott Worger
Retail Operations Director of Jessops
Scott Worger is Retail Operations Director @ Jessops.
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About Jessops: Jessops offers compact cameras, mirrorless cameras, SLR cameras, lenses, camcorders, optics, memory cards, and camera accessories.
Jane Gibbon
Group HR Director of Just Eat
Jane Gibbon is the HR Director for Just Eat. She has a strong track record of delivering business- focused employee reward, performance management, recognition, mobility, and diversity and inclusion programs internationally. Cross-culturally agile with a global mind-set, Jane has worked in over 50 geographies including her native US, Europe and Asia. Jane’s experience began in the US working for internet pioneers such as AOL, Netscape and Yahoo! With the merger of AOL and Time Warner she started to work extensively in Europe, fuelling her passion for working cross-culturally to optimize outcomes for all parties. She then moved to McDonald’s, where she was the first Reward Director in Europe, building the function from the ground up. During her eight years there, she participated in a highly-selective global leadership program, was the Chairman of the Women’s Leadership Network, and founded the Diversity and Inclusion function in Europe. Skilled at envisioning what is possible and articulating the vision to inspire others to action, she has subsequently served in a variety of HRD roles at Tesco, Starbucks and now at Just Eat, always keeping Inclusion in her remits as they grew. Last year she co-founded ”Lift As You Climb,” a non-profit group designed to create a unique networking space for women across generations to share lessons learned and pass wisdom down on a variety of topics, including mentoring, resilience and career planning.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Kim Ludlow
Managing Director of mySupermarket
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Norman Butler
Managing Director – Visa Payments Limited of Visa Europe
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Anthony Craufurd
Director, Venture and Startup Engagement of Visa Europe
Anthony joined Visa 6 years ago as an Visa 6 years ago as an apprentice, and has worked all over the apprentice, and has worked he business, from plugging in cables the business, from plugging in cables in the data centers to developing new propositions. • He now leads Vis’s venture and startup programme in Europe as part of Visa’s Innovation & Strategic Partnership division, connecting Visa with entrepreneurs to enable the next generation of innovation. • Anthony also leads Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Europe, a global platform to promote and support early stage companies.
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
Paul Randle
Director of Digital & Media of Visa Europe
Paul Randle is a digital specialist with 20 years experience across organisations such as Microsoft, Philips, Omnicom and AkzoNobel. His passion for technology saw him lead marketing at numerous tech start-ups during the first .com boom, prior to joining Microsoft where he spent seven years. Initially managing the Windows Server business in the UK he moved to the Windows XP team and Australia where he launched Windows Vista. A key company spokesperson he was on call when the Blaster Virus hit, a period that lead to Paul becoming the second most quoted Microsoft person after Bill Gates. Landing back in the UK, he took up the challenge of integrating digital marketing into Philips and the Omnicom agency network, prior to becoming the first Director of Digital for AkzoNobel. Inheriting over 750 websites, Paul drove the implementation of a strategy that turned digital into a strategic asset for the business. Championing the use of new ways of working and hybrid multi-function teams, Paul is passionate about the new capabilities and behaviours demanded of the marketing function, and the broader organisation, in the digital world. A passion that brought him to Brand Learning.
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About Visa Europe: Visa Europe is a payment technology business that enables European consumers, businesses, and governments to make electronic payments.
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.
Will Wynne
Managing Director, Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Arena Online Ltd
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About Arena Online Ltd, Smart Pension: Flowers & gifts, London, UK & Europe
Paula Bacariza
Director, Business Development, Northern Europe of AppNexus
Paula Bacariza is a director of business development for Northern Europe at AppNexus.
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About AppNexus: AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.
Alexandra Hoffnung
Creative Director, Social Commerce of Net-a-porter.com
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About Net-a-porter.com: Net-a-porter.com is an online luxury fashion retailer.
Lawrence Melville
Director of ZigZag Global
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About ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Colin Roughan
Managing Director, Asia Pacific of SquareTrade
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About SquareTrade, The Natural Edition: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Kevin Gillan
Managing Director Europe of SquareTrade
As SquareTrade’s Managing Director for Europe, Kevin is responsible for driving the company’s growth and international expansion.
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About SquareTrade: SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances.
Filipa Neto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chic by Choice
Filipa Neto is co-founder and CEO of Chic by Choice, Europe’s leading luxury rental marketplace allowing women to rent the world’s best items sourced from brands and e-commerce platforms at a fraction of the retail price. Chic by Choice provides retailers a yield management solution that can help manage excessive stock in a clever way, providing an alternative that can generate up to 5 times more revenue than discounting or outlets. Filipa was able to raise €520k investment for the venture at the age of 23. The success of Chic by Choice later led to another €1.5m of investment to continue to grow the company in the UK and Germany. In July 2015, the company acquired Laremia, a German dress rental competitor, which already represents 20% of the company’s revenue. In little more than a year, Chic by Choice is established as the leading dress rental platform shipping to more than 15 countries in Europe and with outstanding month on month growth. Filipa currently manages a team of 16 with offices in London and Lisbon and she is also part of the Global Shapers community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum a network developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.
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About Chic by Choice, Farfetch, The World Economic Forum: Hire designer dresses curated by boutiques and department stores.
David Mirvish
Director of AudienceView
David Mirvish serves as a Director at AudienceView.
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About AudienceView: AudienceView offers the entertainment industry with tools that enables intelligent ticketing and e-commerce solutions.
Don Green
Director of AudienceView
Don Green serves as a Director at AudienceView.
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About AudienceView: AudienceView offers the entertainment industry with tools that enables intelligent ticketing and e-commerce solutions.
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.
Lilian Lin
Director of FP&A of dealmoon.com
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About dealmoon.com: Dealmoon is the largest Chinese shopping and lifestyle advisory site in the U.S. with offices in U.K., Australia, France and China.
Nigel Phan
Founder and Managing Director of Whirli
I am the Founder of Whirli – the ever-changing toy box, a start-up venture based in the UK. Prior to founding Whirli, I was an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s London Office. I worked with retailers, CPG companies, and other consumer businesses on topics including strategy, marketing & sales, and operations. More broadly, I also worked with organisations in other sectors on strategic topics such as Corporate / Portfolio Strategy and Growth Strategy.
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About Whirli: Whirli is a provider of toy sharing subscription service for kids.
Tom Singh
Founder & Non-Executive Director of New Look
Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969. In addition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.
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About New Look: New Look is a retail seller of mens and womens clothing.
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.
Sam Tierney
Co-Founder & Managing Director of SimplyCook
Sam Tierney is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at SimplyCook.
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About SimplyCook: SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.
Konstantin Zaripov
Managing Director of Dynapay
Konstantin Zaripov is the Managing Director of DynaPay Ltd.
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About Dynapay: DynaPay UK is accredited by the FCA as Authorised E-Money Institution.
Nick Whitehurst
Co-Founder and Director of Watneys
Nick Whitehurst is the co-founder and director Watneys.
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About Figura Analytics Limited, Watneys: Watneys and Home Ales brands and they are hell-bent on returning them to their former glory.
Olivier Stapylton-Smith
Sales & Marketing Director, Co-founder of Moteefe
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About Moteefe: Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media.
Andrius Skerla
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Oliver Holmes
Group Financial Director of Brightpearl
Oliver heads up the Finance team, with particular focus on fundraising, business planning and our SaaS performance metrics. Oliver began his career in the audit practice at PwC, before specialising in VC-backed SaaS businesses. He guided clean-tech startup Sefaira to a successful exit and developed Dojo Media’s monetisation strategy before joining Brightpearl in 2017. Since joining, Oliver has overseen two growth investment rounds, restructured Brightpearl’s systems and processes and established a robust forecasting and reporting framework.
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About Brightpearl: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
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.
Pradeep Menon
Director of dealgobbler
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About dealgobbler: dealgobbler.com is a social e-commerce site providing users with a one-stop-shop to fantastic deals
Neil Old
Managing Director of Signet Jewelers
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About Signet Jewelers: Signet Jewelers engages in the retail sale of jewelry and watches in the United States, the United Kingdom.
Karen Harwood
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Victoria Tydeman
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Steve Webster
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Tails.com
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Paul Smith
New Business Director Partnerships of JustPremium
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About JustPremium: The World’s most innovative Rich Media Marketplace – We bring creativity to digital advertising
William McMullan
Director of Sales – eCommerce of Trustly
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About The Carlyle Group, Trustly: Pay directly from your online bank
Kevan Michael Bishonden
Director of Sales of Selazar
Kevan has an in-depth knowledge of the eCommerce market, possibly from buying too many trainers online.
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About Selazar: Selazar provide an cloud based supply chain and logistics platform for eCommerce retailers.
Trevor Nicholson
Financial Director of SaleCycle
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About SaleCycle: Behavioral marketing company SaleCycle helps brands create better customer journeys online.
Gary Rohloff
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Laybuy
Gary Rohloff is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Laybuy. He attended Massey University.
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About Laybuy: Laybuy is a technology-driven payments business that makes desirable and affordable payments.
Shane Lake
Co-Founder and Managing Director of hungryhouse
Shane Lake is co-founder and managing director at Hungryhouse.
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About hungryhouse: hungryhouse is a U.K.-based online platform for takeaway and food delivery that provides a wide range of cuisines and dishes.
Lorenzo Franzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Zipjet
Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JP Morgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.
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About Zipjet: Zipjet is an online laundry and dry cleaning service that enables its users to order laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery services.
Frank Bertele
Managing Director of Der Merklinger
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About Der Merklinger: Der Merklinger is an online shop that offers different kinds of baking and grilling materials.
Faisal Galaria
Board Member & Non Executive Director of Green Man Gaming
Faisal Galaria is the CEO of Blippar the Augmented Reality company. He previously served as Global Head of Business Development at Spotify Limited, as Managing Director of Europe and Asia at Kayak and was early member of the Skype team. At Skype as Director of Europe, he was responsible for key partnerships across the US, Europe the Middle East, with companies such as Sony, Bebo, British Telecom, Dixons and HP. Prior to joining Skype, he was a member of the Policy Executive of the UK’s telecom and media regulator Ofcom. At Ofcom, he played a senior role in the high-profile negotiation and valuation of distribution rights for Premier League Football and co-authored the Telecoms Strategy Review. He started his career in wireless and Internet consulting and was a senior member of Cluster Consulting, which was acquired by Diamond Technology Partners (NASDAQ: DTPI) for $930 million in 2000. He has been educated across Europe and graduated with honors from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) with a Bachelor’s in Management Sciences in the UK. He also holds an MBA from IESE in Spain.
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About Blippar, Gocompare.com, Green Man Gaming, Superdry: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Ian Benn
Managing Director, Northern Europe of Ingenico Group
Ian Benn is Managing Director at Ingenico Northern Europe where he is responsible for operations in the Nordics, UK and Ireland. Formerly COO of FIS in Europe, Middle East and Africa and previously CMO at Misys, Ian has spent his career in the join between financial services and technology. Author or “Strategic Outsourcing: exploiting the Skills of Third Parties” and, most recently, “Write to Win”, Ian is also an advisor to the Pennies Foundation and tech start-up, Obsidian Solutions.
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About Ingenico Group: Ingenico provides smart payment solutions to empower commerce across all channels, in-store, online, and mobile.
Lee Buchanan
Co-founder & Operations Director of Miappi
Lee Buchanan joined Miappi as Co-founder and Operations Director in 2012.
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About Appismo, Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Ian Monaghan
Development Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Neil Hutchinson
Technical Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Mr. Sufi Miah
Director of ChefOnline
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About : Order Takeaway Food Online or make reservation at your nearest Restaurant via ChefOnline.
Paul Morris
Acquisition Marketing Director of Visualsoft
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About Visualsoft: Visualsoft eCommerce Based in the North East of England, Visualsoft is one of the UK’s leading web development companies.
Marco Contadin
Director Business Development of Coras
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About Coras: The world’s tickets through one API.
Maria Salichou
Director of insitu
A scientist by trade and a beauty buff at heart, Dr. Salichou founded insitU on the belief that men and women should be treated as individuals. As a trained chemist, Maria was frustrated with brands’ poor science and the assertion that there are only a few different skin types and set about building products, unique to each customer, with her knowledge of active ingredients and their properties. Prior to launching insitU, Maria gained a P.hD in Chemistry in Nuclear Medicine from the University of Oxford and is an expert in Biotechnology and DNA sequencing.
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About insitu: World’s No1 personalised skincare brand with a comprehensive range of fully customised products.
David O’Neil
Director of insitu
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About : World’s No1 personalised skincare brand with a comprehensive range of fully customised products.
Ben Thoy
Non-Executive Director of Whey Box
Ben Thoy is the Sales Manager at Trustpilot.
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About Trustpilot, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Des McManus
Co-Founder – Director of Operations of Friction Free Shaving
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About Friction Free Shaving: UK razor delivery service designed exclusively for women.
Cheryl Coucher
Buying Director of navabi
Cheryl Coucher is Buying Director at navabi.
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About navabi: navabi is the premier destination for plus size fashion worldwide.
Dom Hodgson
Director of Kaboodle
Dom Hodgson is a Director at Kaboodle.
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About Kaboodle, Kerboo, Little Warden: Kaboodle is a shopping site that lets users list their preferred products on the web while automatically downloading the details of them.
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.
Anna Szanto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Goodness Project
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About The Goodness Project: The Goodness Project is a highly regarded e-commerce platform offering quality free from gifts, subscription boxes.
Alastair Thornton
General Manager & Country (UK) Director of Web.com
Alastair is the General Manager & Country (UK) Director at Web.com. Web.com provides a full range of Internet services to small businesses to help them compete and succeed online. Web.com meets the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle with affordable, subscription-based solutions including domains, hosting, website design and management, search engine optimisation, online marketing campaigns, local sales leads, social media, mobile products, and eCommerce solutions. With offices in Leeds, London, Cardiff then a head office in Stockton, we serve approximately 3.4 million customers.
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About Web.com: Web.com provides internet services and online marketing solutions for small and medium businesses.
