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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 Founder operating in the Consulting 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.
Stuart Marks
Founder and Chairman of L Marks
Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models. Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base including Sainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology. The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
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About a2om international, L Marks: L Marks is the trusted partner for global businesses, powering corporate innovation and fuelling growth
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Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Vincent Lambert
Founder & CEO of Orbit Partners
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About Bigpoint, Orbit Partners: Orbit Partners facilitates personalized and private discussions between corporate leaders.
Manish Madhvani
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound
Manish Madhvani is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Manish has executed M&A and capital raising transactions since 1997, involving some of the best known global internet, software and media companies, including: Spotify, King.com, Believe Digital, WPP, Wipro, Fjord, Hearst Corporation, Accenture, Newscorp and Experian. Manish who was selected as one of the top 40 dealmakers globally by M&A Advisor, started his career at Barclays Capital’s Private Equity team. He has advised the Treasury on Entrepreneurship and graduated from Southampton University with an LLB in Law / MA in Marketing. Manish is a regular speaker on Bloomberg and CNBC and is currently an Ambassador for London Technology Week. He was recognised as one of the leading Entrepreneurs in the UK by the Sunday Times / Maserati 100.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Hugh Campbell
Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound
Hugh Campbell is a Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Hugh is passionate about technology innovation and entrepreneurs with 15 years’ experience advising and investing in Europe’s current and future Unicorns. He has worked with all the leading growth equity funds in Europe and has sold businesses to Real Networks, Tesco, Disney, Accenture and Experian amongst others. Hugh started his career at Citibank in M&A before moving on to Goldman Sachs where he worked in Equity Research. Hugh is from an entrepreneurial publishing family who sold John Murray Publishers to Hachette in 2002 and founded an e-learning business, Pastest Limited, where Hugh is Chairman. In 2000, Hugh left Goldman Sachs and spent most of the year working and living in Beijing, China before going back to his investment banking roots by co-founding GP Bullhound. Hugh opened the Manchester office in 2013, is a Manchester Grammar School alum and graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Mark Hunter
Co-Founder and Chairman of BJSS
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About BJSS: BJSS is an award winning delivery-focused IT Consultancy.
Andrew Vincent
Co-Founder and Director of BJSS
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About BJSS: BJSS is an award winning delivery-focused IT Consultancy.
Peter F Gallagher
Founder, Managing Director of a2B Advisory Consulting
Peter is a Change Management Global Thought Leader, Expert, International Corporate Conference Speaker, Author and Leadership Alignment Coach. Ranked #1 Global Thought Leaders and Influencer on Change Management (May 2021 & 2020) by Thinkers360. Top 50 Business and Technology Books – Thinkers360: Change Management Adoption – Jul 2021 Change Management Handbook – Dec 2020 Change Management Pocket Guide – Jan 2020 Peter consults, speaks, and writes on the Leadership of Change®. For the last 30 years he has worked in over 30 countries for some of the world’s largest and most successful organisations. He has helped these organisations, their leaders and employees deliver change, improvement, and transformation. Consulting – Change Leadership Alignment: At the start of an organisation change journey, Peter asks all leaders: “Do you have a change vision? Are you aligned on your strategic objectives? Are you a high performing team? Does your team have change leadership skills to lead the change or improvement that your organisation is facing?” He then works with the leadership team to develop a solution. Keynotes – Leadership of Change®: ~ Three Key Responsibilities for Organisational Change Leaders ~ Aligning Leadership Teams to Lead Organisational Change ~ 10 Change Management Lessons Learned that Leaders SHOULD Know Change Management Gamification Workshops (Virtual or Face-to-face): ~ Leadership ~ Adoption ~ Behaviour Author: Leadership of Change – Change Management Body of Knowledge: 1 – Change Management Fables 2 – Change Management Pocket Guide 3 – Change Management Handbook 4 – Change Management Leadership 5 – Change Management Adoption A – Change Management Gamification Leadership B – Change Management Gamification Adoption Coming in 2021 6 – Change Management Behaviour 7 – Change Management Sponsorship C – Change Management Gamification Behaviour https://amzn.to/3rxIVjj Peter has an MBA (Distinction) from the Robert Gordon University. He is an American Society of Quality (ASQ) Certified Manager of Quality, and one of the ‘First 500’ globally Certified Change Management Professionals™ (CCMP™) with the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). He also holds three certifications from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Board Member: Vice President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) UK Speaker Association: VSA International E-mail: peter.gallagher@a2B.consulting Consulting: https://www.a2b.consulting/ Speaking: https://www.peterfgallagher.com/
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About a2B Advisory Consulting, a2B Advisory Consulting, Leadership Of Change: a2B Consulting offers specialised change consulting and c-suite advisory services.
Gokce Gizer
Founder of Mercury Change Group
GG is a startup advisor, investor, coach, and expert; focused on organizational strategy and leadership development for rapid-growth digital tech companies. GG is passionate about opportunities that enable her to use her creative and analytical skills to influence change for a sustainable future; socially, environmentally and economically, creating value for all stakeholders.
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About EdenBase, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Katapult, Mercury Change Group, onkaro, Sporzy, Turkish Women’s International Network, WeWork: Mercury Change Group is a organizational change consulting group that offers training, workshops, and leadership development programs.
Sebastien Blanc
Co-Founder of RESOLVE
Sebastien is the Chief Executive Officer at Skimlinks since 2018. He joined Skimlinks as Chief Revenue Officer in 2016 and brings over a decade’s experience building and growing technology start-ups in Europe, the UK and the US. Prior to joining Skimlinks, Seb led international expansion, operations and, subsequently, the US at Struq, a UK-based retargeting start-up successfully acquired by Quantcast in 2014. Sebastien is passionate about building great technology companies: he is also on the board of London HQ-ed MentionMe and Paris-based DoLead, 2 VC-backed companies in the martech space. Sebastien started his career founding a start-up in Berlin and working as an analyst for XAnge, a Paris-based VC investing in Europe and the US. Seb is an avid reader, long distance runner, gin-cocktail drinker and amateur classical piano player.
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About RESOLVE: Resolve is a huge effort that gives scientists an efficient way to put their carbon capture and storage research into practice.
Craig Hollingworth
Co-Founder & Business Development Officer of Concirrus
Craig is Concirrus’ Business Development Officer and a pioneer in the Internet of Things (IoT). Craig has held senior positions with O2, France Telecom, and Masternaut. Craig is passionate about helping clients leverage the IoT to effectively manage risk, develop a competitive edge and drive profitable growth.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Margo Polishchuk
Co-Founder & Director of proSapient
Margo Polishchuk is the Co-Founder & Director at proSapient.
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About proSapient: proSapient is a research platform that gathers networks of insights from executives and SMEs via global consultations and surveys.
Tony Weaver
Founder of MXC Capital
Tony has significant experience of sales, operations and management in the TMT sector. He co-founded the advisory subgroup of MXC Capital with Ian Smith. Tony has founded and managed a number of successful private technology companies and Tony has served on the boards of a number of publicly quoted companies, including Xploite plc and Redstone plc. Tony was a non-executive director of Redcentric plc, having previously been CEO, a role which he held since IPO.
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About MXC Capital: MXC Capital is an investment and advisory group specializing in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Founder & Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
Jeremy was a senior partner at McKinsey until April 2016, where he worked for 24 years serving some of the world’s leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy sectors. He worked extensively with multilateral development banks, the United Nations and governments in both developed and developing countries. In 2007, he set up McKinsey’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice, supporting ambitious public, philanthropic and private sector clients to put in place low-carbon, resource-efficient strategies. Prior to this, Jeremy worked at the World Bank from 1988-1993, specialising in economic transformation programmes for middle-income countries. In 2013-2014, Jeremy was programme director of the New Climate Economy project. He sits on a number of non-profit boards, including Global Action Plan (as Chair), the Woods Hole Research Center and Rare (UK). Together with Martin Stuchtey, he is a founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ.
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About SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
Andrew Barrie
Founder and Executive Director of Barrie & Hibbert
Andrew was appointed to the Board and as Chair of Cornelian in 2015. He founded and led Barrie & Hibbert, a global leader in risk management products and services for the insurance, pensions and asset management industries. By the time of its sale to Moody’s in 2012, Barrie & Hibbert employed more than 100 staff and had offices in London, Hong Kong and New York. Prior to this, Andrew led several premier-rated teams in investment management, broking and banking. He now also chairs a youth project in North Edinburgh and has founded social enterprises to encourage youth employment.
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About Barrie & Hibbert: Barrie & Hibbert helps clients understand how the uncertainty of financial markets can impact their business.
Ivo Spigel
Co-Founder and Editor of Tech.eu
Co-founder of IT solutions company Perpetuum Mobile and Croatia’s premier startup program, ZIP. Former editor at The Kernel; regularly writes columns for Forbes Croatia and is working on a book with interview of European startup founders.
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About Perpetuum-Mobile, Tech.eu, ZIP – Zagreb Entrepreneurship Incubator: Tech.eu provides tech news, data, market intelligence, and insights into startup activity.
Rodolphe de Hemptinne
Co Founder of Third Bridge Group
Rodolphe is Co-Founder of Third Bridge, and CEO of its Intelligence division. He is responsible for executing Third Bridge Intelligence’s strategy and growth plan. Before founding Third Bridge, Rodolphe’s career included consultancy work at Bain & Company in Boston, Johannesburg and London, and five years’ management experience with Shell Corporation in Belgium and the Netherlands. Rodolphe has an MBA from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. A true polyglot, he is fluent in French, Dutch, English, Spanish and German. He has four children and, quite coincidentally, a passion for climbing mountains in increasingly remote locations.
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About Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Emmanuel Tahar
Co-Founder & CEO of Third Bridge Group
Emmanuel has led Third Bridge from its inception and overseen its growth into a leading provider of research to the financial services industry. He now concentrates on defining company strategy and making the development plan a reality. Emmanuel’s past career includes several roles at Bain & Company in Europe and North America, where he led consulting projects for major technology corporations and diverse financial investors. He has an MBA with Honours from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania and speaks French and English fluently. A self-confessed boffin, he’s never happier than when taking electronic components apart. His MSc in Engineering may help explain his success rate at re-assembly stage.
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About Cognolink, Third Bridge Group: Third Bridge Group is a provider of research services to private equity and hedge funds.
Rob McCombie
Founder & CEO of Titan Capital Advisers (TCA)
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About Titan Capital Advisers (TCA): Titan Capital Advisers is a mergers and acquisition advisory services provider that helps tech and financial services businesses.
Chris Haslam
Founder of exit(0);
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About exit(0);: Digital & Open Source Consultancy
Richard Oppenheimer
Founder, owner & Managing Director of Appraisal360
Richard is the founder and owner of Appraisal360. It was during his career as a Chartered Engineer in the telecommunications industry that he had his first experience of 360 degree feedback and was an instant convert. He decided to bring together his experience of designing and operating online information systems with his interest in leadership and personal development. And so Appraisal360 was born in February 2006. Richard strives to make the world a better place – and with Appraisal360 he hopes to make people’s working lives that little bit more fulfilling and rewarding. He believes passionately that tools are there to do a job, and not the other way around, so simplicity, clarity, flexibility and robustness have been built in from day one.
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About Appraisal360: Appraisal360 is a leading provider of online 360 feedback tools, off the shelf, bespoke or branded. Training and support too.
Tim Smeaton
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner of Kubrick Group
Tim Smeaton co-founded Kubrick Group in March 2016. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy of the company and its execution. Tim was previously the CEO of a public company that he grew with his co-founders to have revenues in excess of £200 million and 10 offices around the world. Tim also has a background in the technology industry with multiple non-executive roles, with a strong focus on education and charitable organisations helping them increase diversity in the technology industry. Tim also has experience as an advisor and investor in technology start ups. Tim believes that all organisations have a responsibility to develop their people to compensate for the huge impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on the global workforce.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Simon Walker
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Kubrick Group
Simon walker co-founded Kubrick group with Tim Smeaton in March 2016. Simon is responsible for Kubrick’s client and channel partner relationships, with in depth experience as a business leader and investor. Tim and Simon have worked together for 20 years setting up and growing businesses. Simon spent 6 years in Singapore building a $25m APAC business and returned back to the UK with his family, for the opportunity to establish Kubrick.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Joshua Pennell
Founder and Chairman of IOActive
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About IOActive, ISSA-UK: IOActive is a security consultancy with a global presence and deep expertise spanning hardware, software, and wetware.
Adrian Griffiths
Founder & CEO of Recycling Technologies
Founder of RT in 2011. Previously a management consultant and engineer, Adrian has extensive commercial and technical experience in a variety of manufacturing sectors. He co-founded two successful UK businesses: OEE Consulting & Vendigital. Adrian holds a degree in engineering from Imperial College.
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About Recycling Technologies: Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste.
Joe Channer
Founder and CEO of Delta Capita
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About Delta Capita: Delta Capita is an International business & technology consultancy and managed services provider
Leigh Carrick-Moore
Co Founder of PeopleHub
Leigh Carrick-Moore is Founder of e-Search, a boutique recruitment company that has been building tech teams in Silicon Roundabout for 15 years. e-Search has been responsible for helping one man business grow into post IPO game-ganging organisations. Leigh has personally hired entire Development teams for Skype, Opentable (formerly Toptable), Social.com (Salesforce), Lovefilm and Sony. Leigh believes that most recruitment agencies practices are broken. She believes in a open and honest approach to staffing in which team fit is just as important as technical ability and that a recruiter’s task is to pre-vet and not to scattergun CV’s. Paul Harrington, Director of Engineering Social.com and ex CTO for Opentable writes ‘She is technically astute and knows the recruitment industry inside out – in both the permanent & contract markets. Her help and advice have been invaluable in my recruitment efforts during that time, understanding my requirements exactly and finding numerous candidates of the absolute top quality for me to choose from – some of the best candidates I’ve ever hired have come through Leigh!’ As well as running e-Search, Leigh is now working her own startup, peoplehub, an HR solution for tech startups.
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About PeopleHub: People hub is a small, dynamic HR consultancy and Recruitment specialist.
Manjit Rana
Founder and CEO of Ingenin
Manjit is a founder and CEO of Ingenin, a multi-award winning technology consultancy created to help insurers grow their businesses through the adoption of disruptive, emerging and more established technologies. His broad and deep understanding of the insurance industry together with his ability to generate creative solutions means he is well placed to identify innovative and new solutions for insurance companies looking to evolve their products, services and operations to better service todays digital and mobile enabled customers. “A visionary and strategic thinker with an excellent network of key industry connections, Manjit is one of those rare individuals who has innovation at the heart of everything he does. He thinks in different ways and looks at problems and opportunities through a different lens which means that he is challenging and creative. This is helped enormously by his engaging and highly energetic personality.” David Williams, Claims & Underwriting Director at AXA Insurance
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About Ingenin, InsurTech Scout, PSKinetic: Ingenin is a multi-award winning blue sky thinking / innovation consultancy focused purely on the insurance industry.
Simon Ward
Founder and CEO of Team ITG
Simon Ward ITG and Simon Ward SP Group: Simon Ward is CEO of ITG (Inspired Thinking Group) and former Commercial CEO of SP Group, a part of St Ives Group. Simon founded ITG in 2009 and has played a key role in the company’s growth, running the business and obtaining investment for expansion and acquisitions.v ITG delivers best-in-class marketing software, procurement and studio services to numerous blue-chip clients, including PUMA, M&S, KFC, Audi and Heineken. In 2015, ITG joined the London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. Prior to founding ITG, Simon Ward was commercial CEO of SP Group, based in Redditch. He joined the printers in 1999, as co-founder and head of SP Digital. This soon became the most profitable part of the business, and Simon took over the reins of SP Group in 2000. In 2004, Simon sold SP Group to St Ives, becoming the group’s commercial CEO, remaining with the company until the launch of ITG.
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About Team ITG: Team ITG is a technology-led provider of outsourced multichannel marketing services.
John Gilleran
Co-Founder of Konversational
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About Konversational: Konversational is a consultancy firm helping brands accelerate customer experience & digital transformation through the LivePerson platform.
Michael Phair
Founder, Director & CEO of REG
REG’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Phair, is a banking veteran with links to World Bank, N M Rothschild and UBS. Michael is a private equity investor with over 40 years’ experience in the financial markets.
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About REG: REG provides an intelligence, analytics, and risk management software to the global insurance and financial services market.
Prakash Pilley
Co-Founder of Innovify
Founder at Innovify
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Ruchit Jani
Co-Founder of Innovify
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About Innovify, Matangi Industries LLP: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Rob Dobson
Chairman and Co-Founder of DevicePilot
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company to PE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he’s not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He’s also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he’s fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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About 1248, Float: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Ben Starr
Founder and Managing Director of 15 Marketing
Ben Starr is an internet entrepreneur who founded and is the current managing director of 15 Marketing. With a degree from The University of Birmingham in Accounting and Finance, he spurned offers from major accounting firms and started his career in American online sports betting. He moved into UK e-gaming in 2005, focusing primarily within the online bingo vertical. Gaining experience at Herotech, Cashcade and Party Gaming, he founded marketing agency 15 Marketing in December of 2009. A keen sportsman, Ben spends his spare time keeping fit by playing football, squash and basketball. He lives in North London with his wife and at time of writing, one child. Hard working but never one for corporate life, he founded 15 Marketing with the requirement of a relaxed dress code and an open plan office. He is known for regularly working 18 hour days, treating his laptop like he would his child and appearing in the office as early as 4am. He is a fanatical basketball fan who follows the NBA avidly, making trips to the USA whenever he can to watch a live game. Founded Jumpman Gaming, October 2012.
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About 15 Marketing, Jumpman Gaming: Launched in 2009, 15 Marketing is a boutique agency 3.0 to the eGaming industry. Founded by Ben Starr, the company looks after many major
Robin Boehringer
Founder and Partner of BBox Capital
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About BBox Capital: BBox Capital focuses on innovative and valuable real estate business models that specialize in investment management.
Monty Munford
Founder of Mob76
I am the Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder at Sienna Network, which focuses on the DeFi and privacy community. I am a keynote speaker on technology after speaking at more than 200 global events… moderating panels and conducting fireside chats with names such as Kim Kardashian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak (twice), the late John McAfee, Ghostface Killah, Brian Solis and more at the world’s best tech events. I am also the Co-Founder of BlockSpeak, an Apple- and Spotify-verified podcast and. I also run my own boutique communications agency Mob76 that helps companies grow their visibility and become famous. I was previously a weekly tech columnist for Forbes in New York, the Telegraph in the UK and have contributed to the FT, MIT Tech Review, Mashable, Wired, Newsweek, TechCrunch, The Guardian, The Independent, Times of India and many more. I continue to write regularly for the BBC and The Economist and a weekly column on finance for City AM. Previously I lived in India from 2008-2010 when I consulted for Paramount Digital Entertainment in LA and Nokia in the UK. I was also an actor and Bollywood villain in two big movies… I returned in 2010. Before that I spent 20 years travelling and doing stupid things for the thrill of it, but also seeing and experiencing the Wonders of The World and how it should be seen. I also run a Google News-verified blog Mob76 Outlook, that can be viewed at www.mob76outlook.com.
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About 7BC Venture Capital, Mob76, Senius, Sienna Networks: Mob76 Outlook is a collection of daily exclusive news, satire and information on the tech and creative industries.
Matt Isaacs
Founder & Executive Chairman of Essence
As one of the founding partners, Matt helped shape Essence into the company it is today. That agency is now the world’s largest independent buyer of digital media with billings in excess of $650MM USD, is 480 people strong, and has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore and Tokyo. Current clients include Google, eBay, Financial Times and Barclays. Matt served as Global CEO of the agency until spring of this year. During his last four years in that role, both billings and headcount doubled every year. Today, as Executive Chairman, Matt oversees the Board, supports the execution of corporate strategy and helps to ensure the legacy of Essence exists well beyond the agency and the industry. Before co-founding Essence Matt was Chief Marketing Officer at Create Services & Goldfish Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group that handled all of the bank’s non LloydsTSB branded retail banking business across 15 brands and with £2B in assets. Matt’s ‘first career’ was in strategy consulting at McKinsey spin-off MMG, where he was part of the core team that built MMG Europe from 14 consultants to 400 across 13 offices. Matt lives on a small farm with his wife, 4 children, 5 hens, lots of sheep and bees in the depths of East Sussex, UK.
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About Essence: Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
Calvin Benton
Founder & CEO of Spill App
During university, Calvin took time out to learn the equivalent of a computer science degree in just a year, funded by a job-matching site and cake delivery firm he’d founded.
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About Spill App: Spill is a startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.
Tyler Christie
Founder, Independent Interim Executive and Advisor of Natural Capital Advisors
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About Hopin, Natural Capital Advisors: Natural Capital Advisors helps businesses, governments, and philanthropic organizations manage natural capital with minimal risk.
Andy Honess
Founder and Owner of JumpXL
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About JumpXL: JumpXL offers consultancy services to technology businesses to assist them in achieving growth.
Tim Stone
Partner & Co-Founder of Breed Reply
Tim is one of the founding partners of Breed Reply, who are an active operational investor dedicated to early stage businesses in the Internet of Things. He leads the bespoke support programme to develop and accelerate the commercialisation of their growing portfolio of seventeen companies. His career started in sales and rapidly moved through to Executive roles covering all aspects of creating and operating a successful business. His key roles have ranged from Business Development Director, CCO and CEO in both corporate organisations and startups, with a focus on the Telecoms industry A thread throughout his career has been creating success through partnerships. In Vodafone Tim created from scratch the wholesale strategy, then executed this taking market share from 0 to 30%+ in less than three years. This success was delivered through the strategic development of major new brands. He has also seen a significant exit to a major operator from one his startup ventures.
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About Breed Reply, Graystone Strategy: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Issac Qureshi
Founder & Director Of Client Services of Ogilvy & Haart
Based in London, Issac Qureshi is a skilled financial professional with expertise in areas including hedge funds and tax strategy. Issac’s involvement in hedge funds began during his time in Scotland, where he was working as a tax advisor. He had many clients inquire as to how they could use their tax savings more beneficially, and as interest grew, so did Issac’s desire to provide them with a solution. He created Hemingway, a wealth-focused investment firm with a global reach. They are focused on investing in unique global markets, providing clients with multiple streams of income, and producing generational wealth that will last long term. Additionally in his career, Issac Qureshi has served as a Director of Client Services and Founder of Ogilvy & Haart. He specializes in adaptation to the world of commerce: while he surely can run a company, he makes it a point to learn the language of a company that is already established, note its strengths, spot its weaknesses, and turn the whole establishment over to discover its untouched potential. After years of diligent work in his education and in the field, Issac Qureshi knows how to find and run a company built for success in an ever-changing market. Accorded with the LloydsTSB Asian Jewel Award, EMBF Rising Star Award, the Tiger Award, and Royal Mail’s title of Regional Direct Marketing Campaign of the Year, it is no surprise that NW Business Insider Magazine recognized Issac in their “Top 42 Under 42” list in 2006. Issac’s contribution to business and excellence put him at the top of this list, as well as on the radar as one of the best businessmen in the UK. The year he earned his BA and Honors in Social & Economic History from Liverpool University in the UK, Issac Qureshi hit the ground running as an Account Executive at Kaleidoscope ADM in 1995. Starting his career right out of college allowed him to get his foot in the door, and see what the business world consist of. He adjusted the way of the business world quickly, acquiring tools like advertising, design, and marketing strategy which he would later employ. Completing his formal education, Issac Qureshi obtained his diploma from Manchester University Institute of Direct Marketing in 1998, and graduated with an MA in Marketing from Canterbury University in Ontario, Canada, in 2003. He later went on to graduate first honors with his Bachelor of Laws from The London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his Master of Laws, with a focus in International and Commercial Trust Law, from UCL, also first honors. Issac always put education first, and strived to be at the top of his class. He believes those who worked hard in their education will be greatly rewarded in the future. Wasting no time, Issac Qureshi co-founded Urban Logic UK in 2004, a professional authority in property investment. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of his own company for two years, honing his skills in marketing programs, customer services, income maximization, and intracompany relationships, here he learned valuable skills that come with running your own company. A few years later, and well-versed in company management, Issac Qureshi began as the Chief executive Officer of LAKAS Investments PLC, dedicated to retail investment. With a background in strategy and management, Issac can adapt to any type of business and strengthen it for profitability. Before founding his own enterprises, he moved on to Marvel Marketing as a Non-Executive Director, and exercised his prowess in fundraising, campaign analysis, and working with shareholders and brokers. In 2014, he founded the highly successful Ogilvy & Haart, a wealth management and taxation consultancy. This was the cultivation of all Issac Qureshi’s hard work. Almost 20 years after graduating from college, he was able to create a company that embodied all the education that he had received previously. Having worked as the Ambassador for a charity Karma Nirvana and Mix-d, Issac Qureshi works best in communities. It is easy for him to see the value in an organization with which he has had no previous experience, which explains his ability to raise more than 7m in fundraising for companies he has no personal affiliation with. Issac Qureshi knows the importance of fundraising for companies after being apart of so many, he understands that funding is what makes the company successful in the long term. So, he’s able to use his expertise to help organisations as he’s helped his own companies. With experience in asset protection, stock market strategy, and marketing technique, Issac Qureshi is an unparalleled expert in his field, who continuously acquires up-to-date knowledge and readjusts his view of the market for optimal outcomes. In the kinetic and ever-changing business world, Isaac Qureshi is a prime developer. Issac prides himself on not only his mastery of the business field, but his ability to see a company’s strengths and flaws so clearly that he can create a new and fool-proof marketing plan catered to the respective enterprise’s profile. Follow Issac Qureshi’s innovative ideas on LinkedIn, and his personal website for ideas and discussion that you can bring to your own business.
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About Ogilvy & Haart: Wealth management and taxation consultancy founded by Issac Qureshi
Dan Scarfe
Founder of New Signature
Dan Scarfe is a passionate technologist and loves imagining the impact that technology can have on every aspect of people’s lives. As Founder of New Signature UK, Dan heads up the Solutions team. New Signature helps enterprise organisations harness the power of the Microsoft cloud. He helps conceive new products and services which can help organisations digitally differentiate, working closely with the sales and delivery teams. Dan is also part of the global products and GTM teams. Dan has been deeply engaged with Microsoft’s cloud since its inception in 2008. He was advising Microsoft on Azure when it was still called Red Dog and has seen the platform evolve substantially over that time. He presents on this topic around the world and sits on two Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils. Dan is also actively involved in the community, sitting on another two Microsoft Partner Association boards. Dan has been involved in many start-ups over the years, some successful, some not, and does his bit through passing on lessons learned as a mentor within Microsoft for Start-ups.
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About Cloud Hypermarket, New Signature: New Signature has built a record of leadership by delivering exceptional technology and web solutions .
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
Simon Riggs
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 2ndQuadrant
Simon Riggs is the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant. Simon has worked with enterprise-class database applications and uses his operational experience to contribute to many features of PostgreSQL’s internal design and usability. He is also co-author of the “PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook” series.
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About 2ndQuadrant: 2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission critical PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability, backup & disaster recovery, & more.
David Holden-White
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
David Holden-White is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Graham Mills
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
Graham Mills is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Simon Schnieders
Founder and CEO of Blue Array Ltd
Simon Schnieders is a search marketing expert focused on the discipline of SEO primarily. His background includes affiliate marketing, SEM, social media and monetizing sites. Schnieders is the founder of the UK’s largest pure-play SEO agency, Blue Array. Previously he was Head of SEO for Zoopla.co.uk, (0-7 years £1billion IPO) driving the websites largest traffic source into double digit million numbers. Between 2009-11 he worked at European Directories, a pan-European IYP and lead generation company & between 2008-9 is recognized for driving the growth surge in search engine traffic for the UK’s number one newspaper website, Mail Online, (dailymail.co.uk) in 2009. Other sites he’s worked on for SEO include, thisismoney.co.uk, metro.co.uk, www.localpeople.co.uk and yell.com.
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About Blue Array Ltd: Blue Array Ltd provides SEO consulgency (consultancy & agency hybrid) services
Patrick Petitti
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Catalant
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About Catalant: Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand.
Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions
Naveed Ratansi is the Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions and Founder of UX Academy.
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About Cheetah Conversions, UX Academy: Cheetah Conversions is a marketing agency focused on paid social, paid search, and paid marketing channels.
Jamie O’Connell
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Jamie O’Connell is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. He has over 13 years of edtech expertise and a skill set suitable to establishing early stage start-ups. He is currently putting his skills to use in his own firm, Life Lessons. He is deeply committed to balancing the educational competitive landscape and giving young people with the foundations they need to be successful in life. He went to Bangor University for his education.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
Nicole Rodden
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Nicole Rodden is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. She is committed to providing young people with the foundations and skills they need to fulfill their full potential and prosper, regardless of their origin, gender, or sexual orientation. They developed Life Lessons to teach young people important life skills, beginning with relationships and sex education. She received her master’s degree in education and PGCE from UCL, as well as her bachelor’s degree in theological studies from the University of Bristol.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
David Warburton-Broadhurst
Founder & Consultant of The CIO Consultancy
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About The CIO Consultancy: The CIO Consultancy provides consultation services and solutions to improve business growth.
Brandon Stephens
Founder & CEO of Anthem
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About Anthem, Mamma Roma, REVL, Thunderbird Fried Chicken, Tortilla Mexican Grill: Anthem embraces the seismic changes in work, entertainment, and wellbeing.
Simon Hill
CEO & Founder of Wazoku
Simon Hill is the CEO of Wazoku.
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About InnoCentive, INSEAD, The Future Shaping Media Company Limited, Wazoku: An Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management
Rhys Marc Photis
Founder & MD of GPi
Rhys is best known as a passionate advocate of people-driven business growth that is future proof. He is an entrepreneur and acclaimed leadership and business coach; co-founded GPi and developed the Pathfinder method to enable business leaders to unlock their business potential and find their own way. He regularly publishes articles on digitalization on LinkedIn and is a business writer for www.BusinessZone.co.uk. Coming from a dynamic entrepreneurial background he understood early on the ups and downs of successful family businesses. He was an intrapreneur within large organisations, setting up businesses in emerging markets and seen first-hand the dynamics of team growth as a result. Then went on to lead international internet-based projects that rolled out across over 50 countries, which inspired him to do an MBA International. He has been the founder and entrepreneur of his own businesses since 2004. Rhys is fascinated about technology and the possibilities which come with it. However, he believes we should use technology to better our lives. Furthermore, he believes the success of digitalization lies with getting the people and the organization ready to embrace change… for the better.
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About GPi: GPi Global Performance Improvement enable your sustainable growth from the inside out by providing a unique business diagnostic tool.
Seb Henkes
Founder of Sabio
Sebastian Henkes serves as Managing Director and Director at Sabio Limited. Sebastian Henkes has been instrumental in driving the Sabio Limited’s development over the last 15 years, and successfully delivering year-on-year organic growth for the business.
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About Sabio: Sabio is an innovative unified communications and contact center services company.
Jacomo Corbo
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of QuantumBlack
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About QuantumBlack: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Thomas Quinton
Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of REPL Group
A highly-experienced programme delivery director, Thomas has worked for some of the largest companies in the world across industries including retail, oil and gas, charity and banking. Thomas leads REPL’s point of sale, ecommerce and multichannel business areas, overseeing large programme delivery and representing their customers at board level.
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Brendan Doyle
Founder & CEO of Cash Management Solutions
Brendan founded CMS in 1991 following his MBA at Manchester Business School and a career at RBS, since then he has over 20 years’ experience of consultancy. Brendan introduced Just in Time cash deliveries into UK Retail Banking, developed cash optimisation software used by the majority of the top 100 UK retailers and also developed a specialist, unique cash management solution now used by financial institutions in over 20 countries globally. Brendan is also a regular guest speaker at conferences related to cash and payments.
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About Cash Management Solutions, CMS Payments Intelligence: Cash Management Solutions specialising in reducing supply chain costs,improving cash availability & releasing cash from balance sheets.
Paul Dowling
Founder and CEO of Mindstream-AI
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About Mindstream-AI: Mindstream AI is a provider of AI strategy, training, and consulting solutions for enterprise clients, startups, and individuals
Chris Abbass
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Phil Blaydes
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Chris Coe
Founder of DCE Partners
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About DCE Partners: South African based Private Equity firm.
Mark O’Hagan
Founder of Acorn HR Consulting
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About Acorn HR Consulting: Acorn HR Consulting is a firm that specializes in human resources, employee relations, and employment.
Roy Vella
Managing Director/Founder of Vella Ventures
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About Vella Ventures: Vella Ventures is an executive consultancy delivering strategic advice and commercial services to digital leaders.
Matt Lerner
Founder & CEO of Startup Core Strengths
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About Startup Core Strengths: Startup Core Strengths offers marketing strategy and executive coaching to startups.
Martin Bianco
Co-Founder of Edrans
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About Edrans: Edrans is an IT service management and outsourcing provider specialised on DevOps & cloud solutions helping companies.
Vlada Bell
Founder of MEplace
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About MEplace: MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education.
Robert Lynch
Co-Founder of Old.St Labs
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About CityMunch, Old.St Labs: Old.St Labs is a consultancy and development business that designs and builds digital products for start-ups and innovators.
Sara Venturini
CEO & Co-Founder of Climalia
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About Climalia: Climalia is a high-level advisory company providing specialised services on climate change adaptation, resilience.
Martin Jonik
Co-Founder and CEO of Techmodal
Martin Jonik is a co-founder and CEO at Techmodal.
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About Techmodal: Techmodal is a consultancy and technology company that offers data-driven decision support for the defense, commercial, and public sectors.
David Evans
Co-Founder of Techmodal
David Evans is a co-founder at Techmodal.
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About Techmodal: Techmodal is a consultancy and technology company that offers data-driven decision support for the defense, commercial, and public sectors.
Andrew Bontoft
Director and Founder of Foregenix
Andrew Bontoft is the director and founder of Foregenix.
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About Foregenix: Foregenix prevents, protects, investigates, and solves serious cyberthreats for large enterprises and SMEs all around the globe.
Benjamin Hosack
Co-Founder, Director and CCO of Foregenix
Benjamin Hosack is the CCO and co-founder of Foregenix.
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About Foregenix: Foregenix prevents, protects, investigates, and solves serious cyberthreats for large enterprises and SMEs all around the globe.
Daniel van Binsbergen
CEO and Co-Founder of Lexoo
Daniel van Binsbergen Before founding Lexoo, Daniel worked for over 5 years as a lawyer at an international law firm (De Brauw), first in Amsterdam, then in London. He’s always up for a game of squash, and is easily excited.
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About Lexoo: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Barbara Spurrier
Founder and CEO of CFPro Ltd
Barbara is a qualified certified accountant (FCCA) with over 30 years finance experience in numerous sectors including Healthcare, Technology, Oil & Gas and FMCG. Recently Barbara has successfully concluded 2 IPO’s, 2 RTOs and multiple fundraising on LSE/AIM. She has also secured VC funding for growth businesses and completed several M&A transactions.
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About CFPro Ltd: Providing scale-up support to high-growth businesses, CFPro delivers financial & operational support to help you grow faster & further.
Josh Thomas
Co-Founder, Head of Innovation of Karakoram
I’m Josh Thomas, an engineer, designer and innovation specialist with a career devoted to discovering and exploiting opportunities that arise when emerging technologies or business changes create new consumer and user needs. I build and lead cross-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, developers, strategists, stand-up comics, and experiential artists who focus on new approaches to creating digital and physical products, platforms and organizational design.
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About BuyLevel, Glorious Labs, Karakoram: Karakoram is an award-winning innovation consultancy that creates breakthrough solutions for the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Amar Rajani
Founder & Managing Director of Argella
Amar Rajani is Founder and Managing Director of Argella. Advising companies on product, business development and strategy; helping companies scale and execute their business goals whilst accelerating customer sales revenue. Specialising in FinTech, SaaS and online platforms; working closely with founders, CEO’s and management teams in a hands-on or advisory board capacity.
Amar has over twenty years’ experience in the financial and technology sectors, with expertise in capital markets, investment management, corporate, research and financial services.
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About Argella: Fintech specialists, advising and advancing tech companies
Jose Haro Peralta
Co-Founder of microapis.io
Full stack consultant with focus on Python, JavaScript, DevOps, and automation. I’ve worked on a variety of industries, including IoT, finance, and retail. I’m the author of “Developing Microservice APIs with Python” (Manning, http://mng.bz/nz48), editor of The Python Geek https://medium.com/python-geek, and creator of microapis.io.
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About Algorizm, microapis.io: We build tools and frameworks that help developers deliver API integrations that work.
Ramsey Faragher
Founder & CEO of Focal Point Positioning
Ramsey Faragher is the CEO and CTO at Focal Point Positioning. He is a world-leading expert in GNSS-denied positioning and is pioneering the development of game-changing new technologies to set new standards in indoor positioning and autonomous positioning systems. He holds a first class degree in Physics and a PhD in opportunistic radio positioning, both from the University of Cambridge. Ramsey is also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Bye Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he developed the first online SLAM-based indoor positioning system for smartphones. Prior to this he was a Principal Scientist at the BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre where he developed the award-winning and patented NAVSOP opportunistic positioning suite and other GNSS-denied tracking technologies.
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About Focal Point Positioning: Focal Point has developed next generation navigation and positioning software for smartphones, wearables and autonomous vehicles.
Carrie Osman
Founder & CEO of Cruxy & Company
Carrie Osman Relentless energy & fierce provocation are what Carrie is know for in the worlds of Tech & FinTech. This is the ethos that imbues CRUXY&CO, of which Carrie is founder & Chief Provocateur. Fearlessness when it comes to saying the unsayable, a razor-sharp tongue & electric spark mean Carrie makes an unforgettable contribution speaking at events. She was included in Tech World’s 2017 List of women to speak at Tech Events, was a commentator BBC Business News (http://bit.ly/2tNbIlX), & has featured on panels for ING Bank, Association of Foreign Banks & Forward Women (Guardian). Running a portfolio of £300m & 12 brands, 7 years into Mars Inc, Carrie noticed a void. The consultancies provided the quantitative rigour, the marketing agencies offered the creative flare. True growth & traction demands both. CRUXY & CO was created with a mission to bridge this chasm & forge a creative approach to growth strategy. The complex, the intricate & technical FinTech & Tech industry is where Cruxy’s agitation & market strategy is deployed. No change takes place without challenge, & results from the 40+ clients Cruxy has worked with include: A payments firm sold to Barclaycard A retail tech business that shifted win rate from 30% to 80% An Infrastructure consultancy sold 10% of the business for £15m based on their positioning & ethos Carrie actively contributes her punchy opinion and mentors whenever she can at a number of accelerators such as Cocoon networks, XN tree at Level39 and the charity Bathroom to Boardroom. She is also on the Advisory Board of a Courtside Ventures backed Silicon Valley AI platform, a gold member of Fintech Circle and has judged both firms applying for FTC funding and coached at Angel Academy. Theadvice Carrie offers is valuable & actionable which means you don’t have to deploy McKinsey: guidance that shifts results in reality, not in your head. Suzanne Chishti, CEO & Founder of FINTECH Circle, Mark Beeston Founder of Illuminate Financial & Ian Hollowbread at ING Bank all talk of Carrie as an unknown force to be reckoned with. In rebellion against the staid & numbingly dull industry networking events, Carrie founded Currency of Connections: a handpicked founder & funder only drink series injected with true vitality & establishing real business-karma. She is known as a connector who always pays it forward, you just wait.
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About Cruxy & Company: Cruxy & Company A provocative strategy consultancy. We question, dig and challenge to get to the CRUX.
Moray Martin
Co-Founder & CEO of MB Martin & Partners
Now resident in UK after spending 17 years living and working in Asia, Moray Martin has extensive leadership and top management experience acquired during a 30 year career in the international insurance and reinsurance sectors. During that period he worked in the UK, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions for a number of major global organisations including Allianz, Axa and Lloyd’s of London. Before joining the insurance industry he studied at Robert Gordon’s University, Aberdeen, and later at INSEAD in Paris. Moray is a business angel and the Founder and CEO of MB Martin & Partners Limited, an independent management consultancy focussed on supporting early stage and SME companies achieve their potential.
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About MB Martin & Partners: MB Martin & Partners Ltd (MBM) is an independent management consultancy.
Adam Maurice
Co-Founder and Director of Fusion Consulting
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About Fusion Consulting: Fusion is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that offers end-to-end solutions for private individuals and fast growth businesses.
Paul Cuatrecasas
Founder & CEO of Aquaa Partners
Paul Cuatrecasas is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aquaa Partners since July 2010. Previously, Paul was the Founder and a Partner of Alegro Capital from 2003-2010. Prior to Alegro, Paul was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of ARC Associates from 1993-2003. (ARC Associates was a leading independent London-based TMT mergers and acquisitions advisory practice with a full range of blue chip and entrepreneurial clients including Sonera, Cable & Wireless, Apax, Marconi, Equant, ICL, KKR, Permira and BT, amongst others). Paul has directly or indirectly completed over 35 M&A transactions around the world worth over $6 billion and over 40 corporate finance advisory and strategic consultancy assignments. Paul has directly or indirectly originated and structured over 15 private placements of equity capital raising over $500 million. Paul also directed the ARC investment programme and achieved a historical professional investment track record over 50% IRR since 1994. Prior to ARC Associates, Paul was a Senior Associate with Arkwright Capital (ex-Bain & Co. partners), an M&A and Corporate Finance advisory firm in London (1991-1993) and with GE Capital in their LBO and Restructuring Group in New York (1989-1991). Paul is a Non-Executive Director of Motive Television plc. Paul holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University where he was awarded the Roswell C. McCrea Scholarship and a B.A. from Wake Forest University. Paul holds dual US and UK citizenship and speaks fluent Spanish.
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About Aquaa Partners: Aquaa Partners is a London-based investment banking firm focused on the Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) industries.
Simon Holliday
Founder of H2 Gambling Capital
Simon Holliday is the Founder of H2 Gambling Capital.
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About H2 Gambling Capital: H2 Gambling Capital offers market intelligence and bespoke consultancy services on the gambling sector.
Karen Kwong
Founder and CEO of RenOC
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About RenOC: RenOC provides psychology-based insights that help individuals for their business success.
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.
Peter Dolukhanov
Founder & CEO of Decoded Consulting
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About Decoded Consulting: Decoded Consulting is a technology leadership consultancy that offers CTO services.
Paul Robertson
Co-Founder & Editorial Director of Contagious Communications
Paul Kemp Robertson is the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Contagious Communications. After graduating with a masters degree in Film and Television from Goldsmiths College in London, Paul started his career at corporate communications firm Maritz before helping launch shots magazine in 1990. After a spell in commercials production, Paul returned to shots and became editor in 1994. Subscriptions trebled under his tenure. In 1998 Paul was appointed worldwide director of creative resources at Leo Burnett in Chicago. In 2004, Paul co-founded Contagious with shots founder Gee Thomson and media entrepreneur John Gordon. Paul has written for publications including Business 2.0 and The Guardian, as well as co-editing D&AD’s The Commercials Book. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and his talk on alternative currencies has been viewed more than 438,000 times at ted.com.
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About Contagious Communications: Contagious helps brands and advertising agencies understand and adapt to shifts in marketing, consumer culture and technology.
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.
Francesco Cesarini
Founder & Technical Director of Erlang Solutions
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang.He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming,a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.
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About Erlang Solutions: We develop and build trusted, fault-tolerant systems that can scale to billions of users. Our strength is the Erlang & Elixir expertise.
Mark Croston
Founder & Managing Director of Propeasy
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About Propeasy: Propeasy provides assistance to people interested in property investments.
Anuj Khanna
Founder & Principal Consultant of Peak State Consulting
For the past two decades, Anuj Khanna has been helping businesses around the world in achieving success through his peak performance expertise and business strategies. Anuj’s career has spanned across the Technology, Telecommunications, Advertising, Hospitality and Financial Industry. In 2009, Anuj decided to exclusively focus on his passion for helping businesses in their corporate expansion, sales and marketing strategy by setting up his own consulting practice. He has helped over 50 companies and their executive teams in achieving exponential growth and reaching their Peak State. Anuj’s office is in London but he works on projects across the world, with the vast majority of his customers based out of the Silicon Valley in California and Europe. Anuj has also done work in India, China, SE Asia, Latam and Africa. Anuj completed his MBA in Marketing from The University of Sheffield and is an Economics graduate from the University of Mumbai. Anuj also holds a diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Anuj is well trained and experienced in business practice and management principles working with both blue chip corporates and start-ups. However, he is obsessed by his passion for business turnaround and leadership psychology. Anuj specialises in perfectly blending his well-honed business expertise with important psychological skills to achieve Peak Performance. Anuj Khanna was born in India in the year 1973 and is very proud of his humble beginnings. Anuj’s mother is a home-maker and his father spent over 40 years in the hospitality and hotel industry in India. From an early age the family environment was very business and customer service oriented and he grew up with the philosophy of “Customer is God”. Anuj is an open minded, high-energy problem solver who loves a challenge, hence has got the faith and respect of leading tech Founders, Venture Capitalists and Private Equity firms in helping them in investing and expanding their start up businesses. Anuj has experience of doing business in over 80 countries. Anuj speaks five languages and has business relationships with thousands of telecommunications, IT, advertising, media and financial industry executives. Anuj is highly recognised and recommended as a business visionary and peak performance expert by several global CEO’s and entrepreneurs.
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