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 Founder operating in the B2B space. If you think a Founder 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.
Peter Fedchenkov
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Serial Founder (Soveren and Instamart). Harvard Business School graduate
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About Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
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Andrew Zhulin
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Andrew Zhulin is founder and Co-CEO at Soveren. Previously, he founded Instamart. He is a tech entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building successful companies. Before starting the entrepreneurial career, he worked in venture capital and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Andrew holds a PgD in Finance from the University of London and a Master’s degree in Engineering (honors) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
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About Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
Mark Beeston
Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial
Mark Beeston founded Illuminate after a 25+ year career in capital markets where he had been both the consumer of capital markets technologies as well as the entrepreneur, operator, and funder of capital markets businesses. Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was the CEO for the Post Trade Risk and Information business at ICAP (now Nex) where he oversaw the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. Prior to ICAP Mark launched T-Zero (now ICELink) during his time at Creditex before the company was acquired by ICE in 2008. He started his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank in derivatives trading and management, including periods as COO for both the Global Rates and Global Credit businesses. Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Mark was listed on the Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 35 and top 40 Lists, Financial News Fintech 40 Power List, Institutional Investor Trade Technology Top 30 and Top 40 Lists, and Derivatives Intelligence/Derivatives Week Rising Stars.
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Flavio Molendini
Co-Founder of B2C2
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About B2C2: B2C2 is the trading firm of choice in the institutional crypto markets.
Max Boonen
Director & Founder of B2C2
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About B2C2: B2C2 is the trading firm of choice in the institutional crypto markets.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Harrison Rose
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer of Paddle
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer at Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Indiana Gregg
Founder /CEO of Wedo
Indiana Gregg born in Terre Haute, Indiana[1] is a singer-songwriter and tech entrepreneur living in Lenzie near Glasgow, Scotland.[2][3] Her music contains elements of pop, soul and folk. Releases include featured artist on Kool & the Gang’s “The Hits Reloaded” where she performed their hit titled “Tonight” and a 2007 debut release of her album “Woman At Work” with singles “Sweet Things”, “Love Is Blind” and “One of Us” released from the album in April, June and October 2007 respectively. Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today In 2005 two of her songs, “Sweet Things” and “For Life”, made it to the top finalists in the Pop category (56 finalists out of the 4000 songs entered) of The UK Songwriting Contest. These two songs were later also released on her 2007 album titled Woman at Work.[12] In 2005, Indiana also did a supporting tour with Wet Wet Wet. Five additional songs by Gregg made the semi-finalist category in the same year: “Something like me”, “Crazy”, “How Many Tears”, “Love is Blind”, and “Oh Me Oh My” all of which were also included on her debut album “Woman At Work”. In 2005, the demo album “Something like me” had a limited release on the independent label Onestone Music.[13] Later that year, Onestone Music did a deal with Scottish label Gr8pop Ltd. In 2006, Gr8pop ltd. did a deal with Ingenious VCT with a view to release Gregg’s debut album in 2007. Career as an Executive Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today. Other roles: Global managing director of Cosmetic Laboratory of Europe. CMO of Digitzs a Fintech company in the payments space. [16] She is a keynote speaker MIDEM on digital marketing and effective content delivery. Tippit Festival on the topic of Socially Conscious Creativity and Entrepreneurship.[16] Indiana has served executive and non-exec roles and has founded several companies including Kerchoonz, GRUV, Gr8pop, Digital-Unicorns and Eventous. Tours and “Home Concerts” Indiana received media attention in early summer of 2007 surrounding her “home concert” competitions where fans entered from all over the world to win a chance at having her play in their home for their friends. The competitions were covered in articles appearing in the Evening Times, Daily Record, Daily Mirror and various regional newspapers in the UK. Videos of her home gigs were posted to YouTube, Myspace, MSN and various other websites with a message about the free competition details. Winners for the series were announced on Myspace and subsequently, UKgigs TV began filming the new series in May 2007. Subsequently, videos of the home gigs were streamed on the front pages of Bebo and over the UK gigs and theatre networks. The Home concerts first appeared in the press when the Express wrote about a surprise concert she performed for a fan’s fiancée home in 2005 after he saw her live in Exeter supporting Wet Wet Wet. Indiana Gregg announced home concerts in the fall of 2005 which took place primarily in October. In December 2005, she embarked on Starbucks coffee house tour in every major UK city playing intimate acoustic sets in the coffee houses throughout 2006 whilst recording her debut album in the same year.[17] In February and March 2007, she played a UK support[1] tour with Lemar. Indiana, 35[18] married Ian Morrow, 50[18] during a 22-date[1] arena and theatre tour with Lemar on March 22, 2007, in Gretna Green’s Famous Blacksmith’s following her concert at the SECC in Glasgow. Immediately following the Lemar tour, in April 2007 she began a third “House Gigs” tour which led to UKgigs.tv taking interest in filming the home concerts. The first filmed home concert took place in her own Glasgow home on May 21. On May 23, she played a concert in Finchley North London for the Ovarian Cancer Support group. On May 25, she played a home concert for young fashion designer Hannah Marshall in Colchester. Subsequent gigs were scheduled and filmed across the UK in Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh the week beginning June 10. Scotland’s Daily Record featured the Indiana Gregg Home gigs on June 12 along with a contest for Father’s Day where contestants could win a home concert for their father by texting or phoning The Daily Record in Scotland. On Wednesday, June 13, The Daily Mirror ran a feature on the front page of the “Your Life” section about Indiana Gregg’s house gigs featuring a home concert she did in Clare O’Hagan’s front room in support of Ovarian Cancer.[19] The general awareness at this early stage of her career led to performances in festivals in the UK in summer 2007.[20][21] Legal threats against The Pirate Bay On July 22, 2008, Indiana Gregg, instigated a series of e-mails with ThePirateBay.org concerning a perceived copyright violation. Indiana then wrote a lengthy article on the subject of respecting artists’ copyrights internationally.[22] Discography Sweet Things (March 26, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Woman at Work (April 2, 2007, Gr8pop) (Album) One of Us (October 8, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Sweet Things (November 6, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Woman at Work (November 12, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Tonight Kool & The Gang(August 2004)[23]
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About Wedo: The world’s first live streaming social platform & neobank for people to monetize their skills!
Steven Novick
CEO & Founder of Farmstand
Previously built 2 billion-dollar businesses and climbed the 7 Summits including Everest. Beating cancer made him passionate about health + the environment and growing up working class has made him appreciate affordability + convenience.
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About Farmstand: Farmstand is the Earth’s first meal delivery service focused on the Future of Work. We feed your team in the office and at home.
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.
Vytautas Karalevicius
CEO & Co-Founder of SpectroCoin
Serial fintech enterpreneur, founder of SpectroCoin (all in one solution for cryptocurrency) and Bankera (banking for the blockchain era) companies.
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About Bankera, SpectroCoin, UAB Pervesk: All in one solution for cryptocurrencies
Mads Jensen
Founder & Managing Partner of SuperSeed Ventures
Mads is an avid technologist, experienced SaaS entrepreneur and skilled business operator with more than 20 years track record in building and growing technology businesses. His passion is to build great tech companies, and today he does this as investor in and mentor of great founding teams. Mads is technically hands-on, and his expertise includes disruptive innovation using AI and data. He is the author of multiple US patents.
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About SuperSeed Ventures: SuperSeed invests in seed stage B2B SaaS/AI companies and help them reach their first £1m in revenue
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Hubble
Tushar is the Co-Founder of Spacious.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Aneeqa Khan
Founder & CEO of eporta
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About eporta: Europe’s leading B2B commerce platform for the furnishings industry.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
Evren Kacar
Founder, CEO of DAN Global
15 years of experience in digital marketing and agency business. Established Synergy, one of the first generation of digital marketing agencies in 2002. In line with the rising trends, Co-founded Boomerang Social Media Agency in 2010. Managed both agencies and supported the development of digital marketing industry in Turkey with DijitalAjanslar.com which began as a local network for digital agencies in 2013. Witnessed the rise of the digital age. Gained deep experience in all areas of digital marketing, working with global brands and Turkey’s most respectable brands since 2002, as the definiton of web agencies became interactive agencies with web 2.0, and digital agencies as of today. Established DAN Global in Turkey to provide online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital marketing agencies and global community of marketers. Expanded his business to the UK in 2017, and established DAN Global (UK) Ltd. in London which owns and operates the Digital Agency Network (DAN), an all-in-one platform to discover the best digital marketing agencies in the world.
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About DAN Global, Digital Agency Network: DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Al Gerrie
Co-Founder & CEO of ZigZag Global
Al Gerrie is Co-Founder & CEO at ZigZag Global.
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About We Are Pentagon, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Anders la Cour
Co-Founder & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Laust Bertelsen
Founders & CEO of Banking Circle
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About Banking Circle: Banking Circle offers its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost.
Anton Isaykin
Co-Founder of Fundraise Up
Anton Isaykin is the Co-Founder at Fundraise Up.
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About Campus On Fire, Fundraise Up: The new standard in online giving.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Steve Peralta
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer of Unmind
As a wellbeing consultant and facilitator, Steve has spent the past ten years helping people and organisations take proactive, effective steps to improve their wellbeing and performance. He has supported brands such as BBraun, Barclays, Absa, First National Bank and Discovery Health, focusing on evidence-based, positive behaviour change solutions. Steve designed and led the wellbeing programme for BSG, a South African business and tech consultancy which won the ‘Healthiest Company’ and ‘Healthiest Employees’ titles for small companies in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. Steve co-founded Unmind in 2016 and now works with leading academics and clinicians in creating engaging, evidence-based tools and training to help people understand and proactively support their mental health.
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Daumantas Dvilinskas
CEO & Co-Founder of TransferGo
At the age of 28 Dvilinskas has already founded several companies and is currently heading TransferGo, a high-growth purely-digital global money transfer service. He is a well-known advisor in the fintech scene and was part of the Innovative Finance delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Edvinas Sersniovas
Co-Founder of TransferGo
Edvinas Sersniovas Co-founder of TransferGo
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Mikela Druckman
Founder and CEO of Greyparrot
Mikela is the Founder & CEO of Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI based computer vision to power next generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was CCO at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products and partnering with global brands to deliver award-winning projects. She is a Global Future Council member at the World Economic Forum, providing thought leadership on emerging technologies including AI for the private and public sector. In 2018, Mikela was listed as “TopWomen50” in tech by WeAreTheCity. She is passionate about using new technologies to solve key challenges in our society.
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About Greyparrot: AI-based computer vision solutions to power next generation robotics and smart systems for the waste management industry
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Emilian Siemsia
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of FriendlyScore
Emilian Siemsia is the founder and CTO of FriendlyScore, a platform which combines Machine Learning (AI) techniques, Web Application development and Mobile solutions to process alternative credit-scoring data. Emilian is a dynamic and driven technologist with a rare combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise. He is passionate about start-ups and understands group dynamics and team building. Artificial intelligence, particularly semantic analysis are of special interest to him. For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles. Prior to FriendlyScore he ran a software development house. Emilian was educated at Wroclaw University of Technology, he holds a Master of Science in Automation and Robotics.
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About FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
Greg Toner
CFO and Co-Founder of SalesRight
A CPA based out of London, Ontario, Greg has been working as a startup CFO for the past several years. He specializes in working with early to growth stage startups and has been critical to the success of many SaaS companies throughout Canada. Greg straps on his skis and hits the slopes often, but always saves time to spend with his two children.
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About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO of Urban
A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Pravina Pindoria
COO & Co-Founder of Tallyfy
Pravina Pindoria is the Co-founder & COO at Tallyfy
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About Tallyfy: Tallyfy is beautiful workflow software that lets you document, track and improve all your repeatable processes
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Tim Linssen
Co-Founder & Director of Product of Quiqup
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Federico Ferraro
Co-Founder & Designer of Quiqup
Federico Ferraro is the Co-Founder and Designer of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Danny Hawkins
CTO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Danny Hawkins is the CTO and Co-Founder of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Jaime Jorge
Co Founder & CEO of Codacy
Co Founder and CEO at Codacy.
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
Joao Caxaria
Co-Founder and CTO of Codacy
Over 15 years of experience in Software development. Specialities: Scala, Java, .NET, Objective-C
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
Darren Lester
Founder & CEO of SpecifiedBy
Founder at SpecifiedBy
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About SpecifiedBy: SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Joan Figuerola Hurtado
Co-Founder & CTO of SpecifiedBy
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About SpecifiedBy: SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Vivi Friedgut
Founder & CEO of Blackbullion
Vivi Friedgut is a financial management expert who spent almost a decade managing the wealth of high net worth families and individuals. In 2012 she established Blackbullion, an education technology company committed to helping young people up-skill for the 21st century through better money management, employability and enterprise skills. It is her ambition to ensure that through Blackbullion Online students develop the confidence, knowledge and skill to take control of their financial destiny and create an epic future. Vivi is an author and regular commentator of matters of personal finance and employability. She holds an economics degree from the University of New South Wales in Sydney in her native Australia.
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About Blackbullion: Award winning fintech platform reimagining the student financial stack
Johannes Solzbach
CEO & Co-Founder of Clustermarket
Johannes Solzbach has been Chief Executive Officer and Director at Clustermarket LTD.
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About Clustermarket: One lab management platform that brings people, equipment and data together – no matter where they are.
Tim Perkins
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Jeremy Beament
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Michael Rose
Co-Founder of Tahora
Michael Rose is the Co-Founder at Tahora.
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About Tahora: Tahora is a workplace connectedness technology that transforms people’s favorite things into real-world connections.
Co-Founder & CEO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Hassan Ahmadzadeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Matija Zulj
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AGRIVI
Matija is the founder and CEO of Agrivi. Matija believes that if we provide knowledge and technology to all food producers, we can provide enough food for everyone and keep agriculture sustainable. He holds an MSc in computer science and an MBA. Agrivi is an agri-tech startup that is creating the global agricultural eco-system with vision to change the way food is produced. With an intelligent cloud farm management solution, we help farmers to increase their productivity and find buyers for produced food. Agrivi is the winner of World Startup Competition 2014
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About AGRIVI: AGRIVI is a global agritech company with the market leading farm management software
Seb Robert
CEO & Founder of Gophr
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Kristian Tapaninaho
Founder & CEO of Ooni
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About Ooni: Ooni is the number one pizza oven brand in the world.
James Sinclair
Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs Network
Along the way to his £10M turnover business James has produced a set of practical rules that apply to any aspiring entrepreneur from start up to multi-million pound operation, and he shares these willingly with his audience in a way that grips the audience from start to finish. Unlock the perils of employing staff, work out what it is you need to be doing each day in the running of your business, how Jimbo”s failed limo business provided the biggest lessons in life. He is genuinely the only entrepreneur in Britain to have invested £500,000 in fluff! Learn about the sheep, the ox and the eagles of business and learn which animal you are. One double-digit millions turnover CEO, on listening to Jimbo, commented, “Who the bloody hell was that?? I`m talking of course about James Sinclair, he was absolutely brilliant and very entertaining…….. it was brilliant, informative and enjoyable, Great job!” Or Dan Priestley, author and entrepreneur `James speaks from a place of passion and experience. He`s built a fast- growth, profitable bricks-and-mortar business and a dynamic team culture. His talks are fast paced, funny, irreverent and packed with value.` Jimbo is the real deal with the enthusiasm and delivery that has people clapping, laughing and up on their feet whist learning a great deal about how to succeed in business.
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About Entrepreneurs Network, The Partyman Company: The Entrepreneurs Network was created by James Sinclair and Mark Creaser to help UK Business Owners soar to success.
Damon Chapple
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sonovate
After spending almost two decades in recruitment, Damon wanted to do something uniquely different. Having encountered all the barriers involved with financing and running contractors first hand, Damon set-up Sonovate to challenge the stagnant finance on offer and provide a new solution tailored specifically to the needs of the contract recruitment sector. Damon is using his experience of building businesses all over the world as a group director of a global recruitment band, to drive Sonovate into the market transforming solution it is today.
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About Sonovate: Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions
Richard Prime
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sonovate
Richard has nearly two decades’ experience within the recruitment industry and in that time there isn’t much he hasn’t seen. Before setting up Sonovate, he was a board member of one of the largest recruitment companies in the world and was responsible for a number of brands across key territories. Building on his encounters with traditional finance providers, Richard has built Sonovate to cater exclusively for the contract market.
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About Sonovate: Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions
Mini De Silva
Founder & MD of Interim Assistance Ltd
Mini De Silva, founder of Interim Assistance Ltd. Mini brings more than 20 years experience of working for leading technology companies, including the senior positions of Regional Financial Controller for Computer Associates & International Financial Controller for StorageNetworks. An MBA and a qualified Chartered Management Accountant, she left corporate life and set up Interim Assistance 9 years ago to support entrepreneurial start up businesses as she felt that these types of companies need guidance and proactive help at a much higher level than provided by typical accountancy firms. Her experience and qualifications cover all aspects of managing Finance, HR and administration in organisations from small scale operations to International companies that need help with understanding cross border rules and implications of expansion into the UK and Europe. She has had significant exposure to the benefits and associated problems with implementing and managing employee share schemes and can offer help with compliance or assistance in setting up tax efficient schemes. Having personally worked in the Enterprise environment in addition to setting up her own business from scratch she understands the issues and challenges faced by both types of organisations in adhering to statutory compliance whilst trying to run a business. Mini brings all of this experience to Interim Assistance and continues to grow and develop the service offerings that the Company provides . She is also Chairman of Clark Howes Group.
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About Interim Assistance Ltd: Interim Assistance provides accounting and back office services to UK start ups, small businesses and Enterprise clients.
Greg Griffiths
Founder of UCROWDME
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About UCROWDME: Global ideas marketplace leveraging blockchain, AI and best-of-breed technology.
Manuela Seve
CEO & Founder of Alpha’a
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About Alpha’a: B2B Marketplace, connecting companies to the visual arts, we license artwork and dropship limited edition prints
Leo Scott Smith
Founder & CEO of Tended
Leo Scott Smith is Tended’s CEO and founder, having started the business in 2017 to create transformative tech solutions that can put an end to occupational fatalities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, the Midlands Startup Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and sits as the Lead Digital Advisor and Vice Chair for Lincoln City’s £20m economic regeneration plan. As a serial entrepreneur with eight years’ experience in AI and IoT, Leo has grown Tended into an award-winning safety technology company that has raised over £4.5m of private investment to date.
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About Tended: Tended combines wearable technology with behavioural psychology to transform safety in high-risk working environments. With five years’ 5 years’ experience developing safety wearables, Tended has deployed over 10,000 wearables in safety-critical environments. The company counts industry-leading organisations, including Network Rail, Siemens, and Unilever, as its clients, helping them solve complex safety challenges.
The company develops its solutions alongside behavioural science and psychology experts and has developed a first-of-its kind safety culture change solution, which is now part of HS2’s main safety strategy.
Flora Davidson
Co-Founder & Head of Product of SupplyCompass
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Gus Bartholomew
Co-Founder & CEO of SupplyCompass
Gus Bartholomew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Supplycompass.
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Sukhi Jutla
Co-Founder & COO of MarketOrders
Sukhi Jutla is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of 3 books. She is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. She is a leading international speaker, influencer and thought leader in tech and a qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer. She is recognized by a number of industry awards including the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, Management Todays ’35 Women Under 35? and named a Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. In April 2018 Sukhi made global headlines when she became the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author.
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About Department for International Trade, Haymarket, MarketOrders, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University of West London: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Ram Krishnna Rao
Founder & CEO of MarketOrders
Founder & CEO Market Orders. 20 years + experience trading FX & Commodities within capital markets
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About MarketOrders: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Michael Riedler
MD & Founder of Telleroo
Effortlessly send bulk payments to 000’s of recipients – Building the modern finance interface for businesses – telleroo.com – Backed by Seedcamp, Pioneers Ventures & Global Founders Capital. Contact me to find out more on 0203 6334 810.
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About Telleroo: Telleroo is one unified way for accountants & bookkeepers to make payments on behalf of clients
Miguel Castro
CTO & Co-Founder of Telleroo
CTO & Co-Founder at Telleroo.
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About Telleroo: Telleroo is one unified way for accountants & bookkeepers to make payments on behalf of clients
Benji Vaughan
Founder / CEO of Disciple Media
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About Disciple Media: Disciple helps you host, engage and monetise your community on your terms. Create your own community app and gather your customers.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Melissa Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of Bookalook
Co Founder and CEO of Bookalook.
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About Bookalook, Vibia: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Juan Andrade
Founder & CEO of Rebank
Juan Andrade is the founder of Rebank. He previously worked at Secret Escapes as the head of payments. Juan holds an MBA from London Business School.
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About Rebank: The single source of truth for startup finances
Catherine Downes
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder at usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Ollie Fegan
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder of usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Erik De Kroon
CEO and Co-Founder of Yordex
Erik has a long background in building new businesses, both within larger companies and in startups. In his last job Erik was responsible for launching World pay Online Payments which he and the team took from idea to fast-growing business. Erik has an MSc in Computer Science an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Yordex: Smart Spend Management Software, SaaS, B2B Payment Service
Hardeep Nagi
CTO and Co-Founder of Yordex
Hardeep is an experienced hands on architect, specialising in designing and implementing highly transactional and secure applications. Hardeep has delivered several multimillion production software working as an architect that codes whenever needed.
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About Yordex: Smart Spend Management Software, SaaS, B2B Payment Service
Robert Baugh
Founder & CEO of Keepabl Ltd
Founder & CEO of Keepabl Ltd. TMT Lawyer, international City law firm and in-house experience. GC and EVP of LoopUp 2004 to 2016. Director and GC of Drayson Technologies 2016 to 2017. Founded Keepabl 2017. Oxford University Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management.
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About Keepabl Ltd: Keepabl’s Privacy-as-a-Service solution solves GDPR headaches for organisations, public and private.
Sumit Pasupalak
CEO & Founder of Ubiq
Sumit Pasupalak is CEO at Ubiq.
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About Inovia Capital, Ubiq: Ubiq enables individuals and organizations to give wireless presentations.
Uday Nimmakayala
Founder & CEO of WealthObjects
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About WealthObjects: WealthObjects helps firms launch a bespoke fully automated robo-advisor or hybrid advisory digital wealth platform.
Imogen Wethered
CEO & Co-Founder of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Imogen Wethered is Founder & CEO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Marius Bausys
Founder & Chairman of the Board of ArcaPay
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About ArcaPay: Cross-border payment, foreign exchange and currency risk management solutions for business.
Karen Barrett
Founder & CEO of Unbiased.co.uk
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About Unbiased.co.uk: Platform connecting consumers to professional advisers
Johnny Vowles
CEO (Founder) of Expend
Founder and CEO of Expend. Tech and product guy. Innovating in the FinTech sector.
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Vedan Choolun
Founder and Chairman of UiTV Connect
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About UiTV Connect: A Global Internet Television Network
Bob Jones
Founder and CEO of OriginalityB2B
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About OriginalityB2B: OriginalityB2B is a marketing agency that focuses on the global electronic engineering community and technical sectors.
Douglas Lloyd
CEO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Estelle Lloyd
COO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Dmitry Gorkov
Founder of CASHOFF
Founder of CASHOFF (Top 10 Fintech by Deloitte). Strong business background, MBA, excellent experience and knowledges in e-banking.
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About CASHOFF: Provides profit-generating open banking API solutions for banks and unique digital experience for their consumers
Charlie Pool
Founder & CEO of Stowga
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About Stowga: Stowga is the on-demand marketplace for buying and selling warehousing and logistics services.
Joey Scully
Co-Founder/Head of Design & Product of Stowga
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About London data unit, Stowga: Stowga is the on-demand marketplace for buying and selling warehousing and logistics services.
Simon Launay
Founder of Arlians
Founder of Arlians.
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About Arlians: Arlians is a Free B2B marketplace for small and medium businesses of any industries across the world. Find suppliers, customers and partners
Andrew Pickett
Co-Founder and CTO of ShareIn
Andrew has been pioneering web technology at startups since 2000. He benefits from combining his software development expertise with an excellent business background.
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About ShareIn: ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels.
Jude Cook
CEO, Co-Founder, Investment Based Crowdfunding Platforms of ShareIn
Jude has been hooked on crowdfunding since 2011. She’s a chartered accountant who loves hearing about exciting new companies and passionate about fuelling their growth.
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About ShareIn: ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels.
Simon Kelton
Co-Founder & Director of pepperhq
Simon is a relentlessly determined, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, writer, film producer and angel investor with twenty-five years of broad-ranging creative and business experience. With an exceptional international network of friends, colleagues, investors and commercial contacts, Simon is able to combine his visionary creativity and communication skills as a professional writer to guide and sell his companies strategic goals and products. He has founded, financed and managed eight companies in entertainment, technology, publishing, event management and the snowsports industry. He has Master’s Degrees from Oxford, Stanford and UCLA and is a member of the British Academy of Film and TV. As a professional writer, Simon has published two books, written more than thirty screenplays for Hollywood including the British hit comedy EDDIE THE EAGLE starring Hugh Jackman and produced by Matthew Vaughn, and penned numerous articles for the likes of TIME, the Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Harpers and Queen, and Worth.com. An avid and competitive sportsman, Simon represented Oxford University at golf, is a member of the Royal & Ancient G.C. and the Queen’s Club, has ski guided for the Ski Club of Great Britain, and taken part in the British and World Extreme Snowboarding Championships.
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About pepperhq: The Pepper platform supports white label apps for mobile payment, discovery, digital loyalty, social media marketing, and actionable data.
Rose Ross
Chief Storytelling Officer and Founder of Omarketing
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About Omarketing, South West London Tech Cluster, Tech Britannia, Tech Britannia, Tech London Advocates, Tech Trailblazers: Omarketing is a marketing and firm that provides consulting, PR services to B2B industries.
Tristan Rushworth
COO & Co-Founder of Class-ify
Tristan is COO and Co-Founder of Class-ify. He has 15 years experience working with some of Europe’s largest businesses helping them with the strategies and funding to scale. Tristan started Class-ify after seeing the challenges his wife faced in building her own online coaching business and the various roles a solopreneur is required to master in order to build a successful business.
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About Class-ify: Class-ify’s mission is to create wealth for personal trainers. We provide all the software, sales & marketing tools and playbooks for personal trainers to build successful businesses – all in one place.
Martin Fuggle
Founder & President of Adaxa
Martin’s career has spanned more than forty years in the Information & Communications Technology industry. He has held board and senior management positions with major ICT service providers in the United Kingdom and Australia. He spent seven years as a board member of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Information Industries Association, focusing on the development of ICT policy for small to medium business.
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About Adaxa: Adaxa is an Open Source ERP Software.
Ali Hanan
Founder & CEO of Creative Equals
All Hanan is an award-winning creative director who marketing sector for the last 19 years. Along the wa lack of diversity within the industry, so in 2015, she s project, now an award-winning organisation with the VCCP, HavasLondon, Ogilvy, The Engine Group, AMV pioneered a data-driven, people-powered model for Media Equality Standards, which has become the be companies a review, rating and a roadmap for lastin has worked in the advertising and she has seen the impact of the -t up Creative Equals as a side backing of companies including 1900 and many more. Her team liversity, the Creative, Digital and chmark for the industry, giving change.
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About Creative Equals: Creative Equals is here to work with industry, agencies and recruitment to create more pathways to success for female creative talent.
George Rockett
Co-Founder & CEO of DatacenterDynamics
George is a co-founder of the global DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo Series and is the Publisher of ZeroDowntime Magazine. He and his team are responsible for the content direction of all DCD events. Having been involved in IT and Business publishing for over a decade, he cut his teeth on the data centre market in 1998 with the launch of ‘Colocation Network Europe’ and has been involved in a multitude of publishing initiatives within this market sector since that time, including the award-winning ‘Building Datacentres Europe’ Directory. George’s ability to view things continually from a fresh perspective and to join the dots between the various disciplines that converge on the data centre market are hallmarks of DCDs success as an organisation. DatacenterDynamics considers itself much more than just a B2B media provider which is highlighted by the number of long-term relationships that have been forged internationally with end-users, vendors and consultants alike.
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Paul Wickers
Founder of Huggg
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About Huggg: Impactful gifts for your people, sorted in seconds
Iskren Kulev
CEO, Founder of KindLink
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About KindLink: Online platform for businesses to manage and engage with employees through their social responsibility
Pierre Coombes
Founder / UK Managing Director of Big Wolf Marketing
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About Big Wolf Marketing, Big Wolf Marketing, Callgro: B2B Telemarketing Agency