Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Electronics 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.
Sara Murray
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Buddi
Sara Murray (M.A. Oxon) is a serial entrepreneur. She founded Ninah Consulting, which uses proprietary software to advise clients, including GSK and Coca-Cola, on marketing effectiveness, and sold it to Publicis Groupe. In 1999, Sara founded Inspop, which owns the brand Confused.com. She built and sold the online company to the Admiral Group. She was a non-executive Director of Schering Health Care and a founding board member of Seedcamp. Sara won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2009 and sits on the Technology Strategy Board Governing Board. Sara was awarded an OBE for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2012 and is a qualified helicopter pilot.
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About Buddi, Confused.com: Buddi is an innovative, high-growth and british technology company that develops location and health monitoring technologies.
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Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Paul Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
John Finney
Founder and CEO of Isotropic Systems
John Finney is a satellite and telecoms industry veteran with over $2 billion in new revenue creation directly attributed to his leadership, he pioneered significant success for start-ups Huawei (founded Huawei in Europe) and O3b (founding employee and Chief Commercial Officer) along with other major leadership roles such as global business unit leader for Alcatel-Lucent. John has been identified as a Top 40 Executive by Global Telecoms Business three years in succession.
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About Isotropic Systems: Isotropic Systems, the leading multi-link satellite ground terminal provider, have created the world’s only antenna able to simultaneously connect with satellites in all orbits after demonstrating its multi-link terminal can connect to satellites in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, simultaneously.
Alexander Gerko
Founder of XTX Markets
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About XTX Markets: XTX Markets is a leading electronic trading firm partnering with exchanges and e-trading venues globally.
Richard Grogan
Founder & Executive Chairman of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Simon Sassoon
Founder of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Sumanta Talukdar
Co-Founder of WaveOptics
Sumanta is WaveOptics’ co-founder and CEO. Immersed in computer science, optics and photonics since university, Sumanta has worked across displays, medical systems sensors and HUD for the likes of Oxsensis, BAE Systems, Sharp and Honeywell Analytics.
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About Gardin, WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
David Grey
Co-Founder of WaveOptics
David founded WaveOptics with Sumanta and is its Chief Technology Officer. Optical design, imaging and illumination have been David’s specialism for over 25 years. Previously, at Carclo Optics, he led the design of Passive Infrared lenses for high volume, high quality security and lighting control, and as head of Optics at BAE Systems, David led the development of head-up its displays.
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About WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
Martin Arumemi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of EE
Arumemi-Ikhide is the MD and Founder of EE. He also serves as the MD of Hansworth Ltd and General Manager of Engineering for Rockson Engineering. In both Hansworth and Rockson Engineering he is responsible for the leadership, execution and construction of the 4 NIPP power plants in FGN. He has lead the firm to the successful commissioning of the first phase of the 1074MW Alaoji CCGT plant. He is also progressing the completion of the 225MW Omoku, 225MW Gbarain and 338MW Egbema OCGT also based in FGN. Prior to joining Hansworth, Dr Arumemi-Ikhide worked for GE Power and Water for more than seven years as a Senior Project Manager, overseeing the execution of several landmark projects. At GE he was the Project Manager for two combined cycle plants that were using GE 9FB based in Spain and Turkey notably. Whilst at GE, he was on the fast track of the firm’s world renowned leadership programme. Dr Arumemi-Ikhide holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Warwick University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Birmingham. He possesses and is attending a number of business management executive courses including leadership programme from Boston University and is currently completing a leadership programme at Oxford University Business School.
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About EE, Rockson Engineering: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
Mark Oleynik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Moley Robotics
An accomplished Ph.D. mathematician, computer scientist and proven trailblazer. Results focused, his career to date is characterized by delivering demanding major projects to time and to budget. Prior to founding Moley Robotics, Mark was a co-founder and a major shareholder of a number of companies working in a healthcare sector in Russia and internationally. Earlier in his career, Mark exercised his passion for building successful products at Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University and smaller companies. Mark Oleynik is a driven leader and passionate robotics and healthcare expert.
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About Moley Robotics: Moley Robotics develops robotic kitchen with oven, hob, sink, and two dexterous robotic arms that allow it to cook.
Nick Rogers
COO & Co-Founder of Sky-Futures
Nick is Chief Regulatory and Training Officer (CRTO) and co-founder at Sky-Futures. He oversees the Training and Regulatory framework including the UK CAA National Qualified Entity (NQE) Status, ensuring that the Remote Pilot training is robust and fit for purpose. As a qualified civilian airline Captain who continues to fly Airbus A320 passenger jets, Nick’s aviation experience and understanding of the manned aviation environment have been instrumental in establishing a culture of safety and outstanding operational procedures that help enhance Sky-Futures position as a leading drone technology company.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
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Founder and CEO of Archdesk
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About Archdesk, One Billion: Archdesk is a cloud-based software, specifically designed & developed for the construction industry in mind.
Angie Ma
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder of Faculty Science
Angie is cofounder and COO of ASI Data Science, a London-based AI tech startup that offers data science as a service. ASI, since founding in 2014, has completed more than 200 commercial data science projects in multiple industries and sectors and regarded as EMEA-based leader in data science. She is passionate about applying machine learning to solving real world applications that generate business value for companies and organisations. She has experience delivery complex projects from prototyping to implementation. Prior to founding ASI, Angie, a physicist by training, was a researcher in nanotechnology working on developing optical detection for medical diagnostics.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Harish Bhaskaran
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Bodle Technologies
Harish is the academic founder of Bodle Technologies (with Peiman) and serves as its Director and Chief Scientific Officer, acting also as its founding executive until Jan 2016. He is an Associate Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group. A former researcher at IBM Research, Harish has worked in both industry and academia over the past 15 years, including in product development under joint development agreements. His research has most recently focused on novel applications of phase change materials and on the manufacturing of nanoscale components.
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About Bodle Technologies, University of Oxford: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
David Fyfe
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Bodle Technologies
David is a founder and Executive Chairman of Bodle Technologies. His career spans several top management positions in both Europe and the United States, and he has held board positions in several firms over the years. As Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Display Technologies (CDT), he took a laboratory-based spin-off to a NASDAQ flotation and a subsequent $285m trade sale. David is also the Executive Chairman of Oxford Photovoltaics. As a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, David also serves on the board of Cambridge in America foundation.
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About Bodle Technologies: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
Peiman Hosseini
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Bodle Technologies
Peiman is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bodle. As a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, he demonstrated the use of ultrathin functional materials in electro-optical applications, setting up Bodle Technologies with Harish to commercialize this invention. He was a member of the RAEng Enterprise Hub in 2014 and has won numerous awards for this technology including the Printed Electronics R&D Academic Award. Pei leads the technology development and with the other management team members helps define business and development strategy.
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About Bodle Technologies, Bodle Technologies: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
Dan Conlon
Co-Founder of Cocoon
Founder of successful technology businesses Donhost & Humyo. After Humyo was acquired by Internet Security company Trend Micro in 2010, Dan directed the roll-out of its storage technology in Japan where the technology was sold as a hardware device.
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About Cocoon, humyo: Cocoon is a home security device to protect one’s home.
Judd Gaddie
Co-Founder of TransFICC
Judd Gaddie is the Co-Founder of TransFICC. He was the Software Developer and Team Lead of LMAX Exchange.
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About TransFICC: TransFICC is an e-trading technology company for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets.
Tom McKee
Co-Founder of TransFICC
Tom Mckee is the Co-Founder of TransFICC. He was previously a software developer at LMAX Exchange, where he worked on system tuning, real-time risk analysis, and improving system throughput. Prior to this he worked at Standard Bank on their algorithmic FX pricing system, Murex and Fidessa support and integration, and portfolio analysis on the base metals trading desk. He has experience with advanced automated testing pipelines and is an advocate of extreme programming.
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About TransFICC: TransFICC is an e-trading technology company for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets.
Steve Toland
Co-Founder of TransFICC
Steve Toland is a Co-Founder of TransFICC. He has over 25 years experience working in the global capital markets. In a previous role he was Head of LMAX Interbank, where he met his technology colleagues. He has also led global sales for MarketFactory, and held the positions of Head of FX Sales for EMEA and America at ICAP, and Head of Sales for Americas at Thomson Reuters.
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About TransFICC: TransFICC is an e-trading technology company for banks and asset managers trading in Fixed Income and Derivatives markets.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Isabel Lizardi
Founder & CCO of Bare Conductive
Isabel Lizardi graduated with an MA in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art in London. With training in science, graphics, crafts and industrial design, her approach to design is multi-disciplinary, and aims to develop material and technological innovations that will provide users with intuitive and engaging interactions. Isabel Lizardi is co-founder of the Bare Conductive LTD, which developed and currently produces Bare, a non-toxic and temporary conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin, allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This material allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Bibi Nelson
COO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Becky Pilditch
Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Tom Carter
CTO and Co-Founder of Ultraleap
Tom started exploring ultrasound technology during a study in the final year of his Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He further developed the initial concept to form the basis of his PhD studies, during which time he published numerous papers and filed various patents. Recognising the technology’s commercial viability, Tom founded Ultrahaptics in November 2013. Ultrahaptics has developed a unique technology that enables users to receive tactile feedback without needing to wear or touch anything. The technology uses ultrasound to project sensations through the air and directly onto the user. Users can ‘feel’ touch-less buttons get feedback for mid-air gestures, or interact with virtual objects.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Abesh Thakur
Co-Founder and CEO of Two Big Ears Ltd
Abesh spent two years in a Fortune 500 company as a Mainframe developer, before deciding to quit and pursue a Masters degree in Acoustics and Music Technology from the prestigious University of Edinburgh. Post completion of his degree, he co-founded Two Big Ears, with the goal of creating easy to use and effective audio toolkits, which would help developers create more immersive experience without having to worry about the Maths behind all the audio magic. He takes a deep interest in all things tech and progressive deathcore bands, and utilises his spare time in teaching Maths to Primary and Secondary school kids.
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About Two Big Ears Ltd: Two Big Ears is a Scottish company specialising in creating efficient audio toolkits for game and virtual reality developers.
Jolyon Tidmarsh
Co-Founder and Technology Director of Keit
Jolyon has significant experience in establishing technology based start-up businesses and managing technical projects, with previous successes in the fields of online drinks quality measurement, and bio-fuels. With a degree in Applied Physics, Jolyon has a technical background in designing optical systems in the infra-red with particular applications in spectroscopy, telecommunications and optical fibre sensing.
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About Keit: Keit’s microFTS® design is a Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer that is smaller, lighter and more rugged than any current system.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Eliott Wertheimer
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Albert Nassar
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Jimmy Kyriacou
Founder & Director of Unbox
Jimmy Kyriacou is the creator of #BehindTheFace and UNBOX, which is a collective of like minded entrepreneurs, creatives, scientists, artists and film makers with a shared vision of the future. UNBOX merges art, music & cutting edge technology with a specific focus on Augmented Reality. Enquiries & INFO : hello@unboxlondon.com
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About Unbox: Unbox is a blog site about electronics and the way they work and operate.
Sergey Ogorodnov
Founder and CEO of Voltaware
A co-founder of Voltaware and responsible for business development. Sergey has 20+ years working experience with focus on telecoms and was CEO of the largest provider of fibre optics and mobile connectivity solutions to major Russian operators, but has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. His hobbies include tennis, running, and chess.
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About Voltaware: Voltaware is a start-up electricity monitoring company based in London.
Peter Hopton
Founder & Various Roles of Iceotope
I’m an Entrepreneur, with skills in market strategy, ideas, innovation and technology. I’m an ideas persons and I’m one for spotting inefficiencies within systems, which has led me into the realms of “GreenIT” I invented Iceotope, a server cooling technology that has had millions of pounds of investment and I believe will change the data center and server industry forever. I’m now the CEO of this promising technology company that encapsulated electronics inside of liquid filled blades. I’m the founder and now a non-exec at Very Innovative Group, a group of multi-award winning companies: VeryPC – manufacturing energy efficient desktops for education BothRealities – providing all-inclusive IT services Serverous.net – providing bespoke server and storage products to cloud and hosting I regularly speak about sustainability and technology at regional, national and international conferences. (Global Forum, UKCEED, BETT, NAACE, Digital 2020 Yorkshire, etc.) I was also part of the foreign office Green IT mission to Tokyo. I’m on the Green IT and Data Centre Strategy committees at the BCS (British Computer Society – the Chartered Institute for IT) and reasonably regularly speak about Green IT on behalf of the society. For my work I’ve been made a Freeman of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire and received several awards for the companies that I’ve started. Specialties: Computer system design, energy consumption reduction, Green IT, Network design, negotiation, ideas and innovation, problem solving, crisis management, leadership, Green Computing, energy efficiency
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About Iceotope, VeryPC: Engineered to cool the whole IT stack, in every use case, from Hyperscale to the Extreme Edge
Allan Gray
CEO & Co Founder of Cosmient
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About Cosmient: E-COMMERCE FROM THE FUTURE!
James Roberts
CEO/Founder of mOm Incubators
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About mOm Incubators, Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): mOm is an inexpensive, electronically controlled, inflatable incubator constructed to decrease the number of premature child deaths.
Leon Doyle
CEO & Co-Founder of WIFIPLUG
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About myma.io, WIFIPLUG: myma.io – the IoT cloud that powers WIFIPLUG
Oluyemi Jegede
CEO and Co-Founder of Big Pot
Oluyemi is a whole energy systems specialist. His interests cut across the multiple energy vectors and the interactions between energy supply, demand and the wider economy. More importantly, he is an ardent believer in the promise of a thriving Nigeria and his passion has seen him birth the Bigpot initiative.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Temi Jegede
Co-Founder of Big Pot
Temi has extensive software development experience (JAVA, XML, C++/ C, Python, Swift, PHP, Solidity (Blockchain development) stemming from a host of industry and University-based projects that have seen him contribute to the initiative’s growth in terms of power systems and software development.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Hayley Bishop
Founder & Technical Director of Swytch
Hayley came onto this project right at the beginning – practically for the first heartbeat of the product after joining the team during the Shanghai Bike Fair in 2016. With 12 years’ experience in Software Development and Design she is responsible for the management and delivery of all of our online content, branding, and marketing material. She has worked on a number of large high profile internal software development projects whilst running her own Design and Development company for the past 5 years which makes project managing such an exciting project, a necessary skill for us to take full advantage of. In almost exactly the same way as our customers, business aquaintences, friends and family members, Hayley reacted to electric bikes and in particular the Swytch bike; she wanted to be part of this movement and to get her hands on a Swytch bike as soon as possible. And what better way to do that then join the team!
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Philip McAleese
Co Founder & CEO of See.Sense
Philip is a commuter cyclist with over 20 years experience in electronic and software engineering. After designing air traffic control simulators for National Air Traffic Services, he went on to design, build and maintain trading systems for several multinational investment banks. After inventing See.Sense to help make his cycle commuting journey safer, Philip left his corporate career to focus exclusively on See.Sense.
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About See.Sense: See.Sense creates award-winning products to improve rider safety, and technology that generates data needed by cities to improve mobility.
Duncan Summers
Founder of Syncbox
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About Syncbox: Syncbox is the Worlds’ only universally adaptable, invisible wiring & hidden socket system.
Steve Noyes
Founder & Managing Director of Syncbox
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About Syncbox: Syncbox is the Worlds’ only universally adaptable, invisible wiring & hidden socket system.
Tom Carr
Co-Founder of Verto Homes
Proactive, motivated and entrepreneurial, Tom is an expert in residential property development and brokerage. With over a decade’s experience in the industry, he knows the domestic and overseas markets well and understands the complexities of working in multiple jurisdictions. With several high quality developments under his belt, Tom has developed a wide range of residential property development skills. These include site acquisition, design, development, sales and marketing strategy and implementation. At Verto Homes, Tom’s focus is on sales and marketing. He’s also involved at the design and planning stages of every Verto Homes project.
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About Verto Homes: Experienced developers, building 20 Zero Carbon Smart homes that generate their own energy.
Richard Pearce
Co-Founder of Verto Homes
Richard Pearce is Co-Founder at Verto Homes.
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About Verto Homes: Experienced developers, building 20 Zero Carbon Smart homes that generate their own energy.
Josh Hutchinson
CEO & Co-Founder of ARX Defence
Joshua Hutchinson is the CEO at ARX Defence.
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About ARX Defence: We design, manufacture and deploy effective and sustainable security.
David Floyd
Co Founder & Director of Bullitt Group
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About Bullitt Group: Bullitt Group offers go-to-market solutions for brands that wish to extend into mobile or audio products.
Colin Batt
Co Founder of Bullitt Group
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About Bullitt Group: Bullitt Group offers go-to-market solutions for brands that wish to extend into mobile or audio products.
Dominic Vergine
CEO and Co-Founder of Monumo
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About Monumo: Monumo is an electronic and mechanical engineering company that develops optimal electric motors.
Jordan McRae
Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs
Jordan McRae is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs where they’re developing a wearable hands free / ear free voice platform using cutting edge innovations in bone conduction technology, voice recognition, and digital signal processing.
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About Mobilus Labs: Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications.
Philip Campbell
Founder of K Wearables | My K Ring
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About K Wearables | My K Ring: K Wearables is an award winning fintech focussed on wearables, combining payments, mass transit, loyalty, access control and ticketing.
Carl Bennett
Founder & CEO of Trade Skills 4U
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About Trade Skills 4U: Trade Skills 4U offer electrical courses including Part P and City & Guilds 17th Edition.
Andrew Nowell
Founder & CEO of PitPat
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About PitPat: PitPat is dedicated to improving animal health and wellbeing through the application of wearables, technology & data.
Charles Duffy
Founder, Head of Design and Engineering of Digital Kinematics
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About Digital Kinematics: Digital Kinematics makes Plexus, high performance VR gloves for the masses
Phil Stevens
Co-Founder & COO of Wayv Technologies Ltd
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About Heat Wayv, Wayv Technologies Ltd: WAYV products provide up to 30 minutes of instant and constant heat, whenever and wherever you may need it.
Paul Atherton
CEO & Co-Founder of Wayv Technologies Ltd
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About Wayv Technologies Ltd: WAYV products provide up to 30 minutes of instant and constant heat, whenever and wherever you may need it.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Tolulope Ogunsina
Co-Founder of Playbrush
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About Playbrush: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Conall Laverty
Founder & CEO of Wia
CTO and Co-Founder at Roll TV
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About Wia: Wia unifies the IoT to help businesses better understand occupancy, air quality and energy to create smarter, safer and greener environments
Kirill Shilov
Founder & CEO of Sky-Drones
Kirill Shilov – Founder / CEO Sky-Drones, holds his MSc degree with honours in Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Flight Dynamics and Control and BSc degree with honours in Applied Math and Physics. Kirill has extensive scientific, engineering and business experience. Before starting Sky-Drones full time Kirill was engineer at Autonomous Control Systems Lab in Tokyo, Japan and Perspective Robotics GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland.
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About Sky-Drones: We accelerate the development and adoption of commercial drones for enterprise by building connected hardware and software products.
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Bettina Rubek Slater
COO & Co-Founder of Pycom
Strategist Marketeer Tech and innovation seeker Telco, consumer electronics and IoT specialist
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
David Crudden
Co-Founder and Senior Alloy Design Engineer of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
Fauzan Adziman
Founder and Director of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
Enrique Alabort Martinez
Co-Founder and Programme Director of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
David Lomas
Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of Uniphy Ltd
David has over 30 years of experience of Research and Development in Integrated Circuit design. He began his career working for Plessey Semiconductors as an R&D Engineer in the late 80’s. After which he returned to academia to complete his post graduate studies. David holds a BEng(Hons) in Electronics Engineering from Leeds University, an MSc in VLSI Systems Design, and a PhD in “High Resolution X-Ray Photon Imaging ICs” from UMIST. He then continued to work, for several more years, for the Department of Electronic Engineering at UMIST, as a Research Associate focussing on the area of Integrated Sensor Design. David then went on to work for Cadence Design Services as a Principal Design Engineer, after which he moved to Panasonic Design Europe as RF IC Design Group Technical Lead, working primarily in the areas of state of the art RF, High-Speed Datacomms and Telecomms IC design, during which time he gained extensive design experience working in numerous processes including SiGe, Bipolar, SOI and CMOS. After this David joined Wolfson Microelectronics’ as part of their Advanced Technology Group, working on cutting edge audio and power management integrated circuits. He then went on to jointly set up a Swindon Design Centre for Silicon Valley based Micrel Semiconductors, working on extending their range of both RF IC and Advanced Power Management IC products, before going on to jointly found Uniphy Ltd.
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About Uniphy Ltd: Uniphy is an electronic company that enables intuitive free-form Touch Interfaces that are beautiful, robust and economic.
Dave Dearn
Engineering Manager and Co-Founder of Uniphy Ltd
David has over 30 years of experience of electronics and semi-conductor design and technical management, spanning market sectors from automotive to mobile communications. David’s early career started in the detailed analogue and digital design of automotive electronics and integrated circuits at Lucas TRW, where he became IC design manager of the UK group. From there David, joined Dialog semiconductor, as Design Lead, working on the latest mixed signal IC’s for Siemens Mobile Phones projects. Progressing from there, David became site manager for Wolfson Microelectronics’ design centre in Swindon, building the design team to work on state of the art audio and power management integrated circuits, for leading OEMs both in the US and Europe. Later, he built upon this experience by jointly setting up a Swindon design centre for Silicon Valley based Micrel Semiconductors, before leaving to jointly found Uniphy Ltd. David’s extensive experience is based on decades of hands on analogue and digital IC design, and includes significant technical management roles.
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About Uniphy Ltd: Uniphy is an electronic company that enables intuitive free-form Touch Interfaces that are beautiful, robust and economic.
Leigh Nigel Purnell
Founder of Petalite
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About Petalite: Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Charging Platform
Daniel Counsell
Director/Founder of Realmac Software
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About Realmac Software, Realmac Software: Realmac is a software platform that develops applications for Mac and iOS operating systems.
Thomas Arundel
Co-Founder & Director of Precision Microdrives
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About Introversion Software, Precision Microdrives: Precision Microdrives is a manufacturer of miniature electric motors.
Jonathan Williamson
Director & Co-Founder of Pimoroni
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About Pimoroni: Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators.
Mark Pedley
Founder of SmartLife
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About SmartLife: SmartLife is a specialist in smart garment technology.
Brian Sheard
Co-Founder of CGON
Brian Sheard is Co-Founder at CGON.
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About CGON: CGON is a technology developer responsible for creating the ezero1 hydrogen fuel additive system.
Nigel Gifford
Founder and Chairman of Windhorse Aerospace
Nigel Gifford OBE CP Eng.(Aero) Chairman / Founder Windhorse Aerospace Nigel is best described as an eclectic solutions architect ~ drawing on skills, practical experience, and research acquired at different times of his life. It is from his aeronautical, skydiving and catering background he conceived the Pouncer(tm) food carrying AV that is also made of edible components. Presently, using his specialist knowledge in feeding in non-human environments, Nigel is working to get Pouncer(tm) into service with his team, and is working in the critical food technology area to ensure that the food cargo and edible structure are fit for purpose on deployment as first response into disaster areas Biography Brought up in a busy restaurant, and then trained as a chef at the Army School of Catering, Nigel has extensive knowledge of differing styles of cuisine. This includes feeding explorers and adventurers in remote and hostile environments, as well as cooking at 26,000ft on Mt Everest in 1976. He wrote the present Royal Geographical Society catering manual and his advice is still sought for extreme expeditions. As an aerospace solutions architect Nigel has designed equipment for UK Special Forces, and built protective equipment housings for the RAF Tornado. In 1991 he designed a special camera platform for the first ever hot air balloon flight at 33,000ft over Mt Everest and worked on Sir Richard Branson’s round the world balloon project advising on the small capsule’s internal ergonomic layout, feeding, and the living routines for the crew confined inside. Prior to Windhorse, he was Managing Director of the Ascenta™ – The high-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle acquired by Facebook in 2014 to provide Internet access into the developing world. The aircraft has since been renamed Aquila by Facebook.
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About Windhorse Aerospace: Windhorse Aerospace has created the world’s first purpose-built UAV/Drone intended for humanitarian aid delivery – POUNCER.
Julian Sproule
Co-Founder of Hydraredox
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About Hydraredox: Hydraredox develops and manufacturers electrochemical energy storage based on proprietary vanadium redox technology.
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Yusuf Muhammad
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Plumis
Yusuf is a co-inventor of Automist. He has an Honours Masters degree in Engineering and a double Masters in Innovation Design Engineering. He has won numerous design awards for a host of innovations across a number of industries including the James Dyson Award, the Toyota IQ Design Challenge & Transport Design of the Year by the Design Museum to name a few. He also starred in the BBC 2 Show ‘The Big Life Fix’.
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Paul Gill
Founder & Director of Orsto
Paul Gill is Founder & Director at Orsto.
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About Orsto: ORSTO Ltd is a British Private Ltd company backed by 84 International Investors.
Adam Blair
Founder of PUMP Audio
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About PUMP Audio: PUMP Audio is to Dance Music what Beats were to Hip Hop. We make some *seriously* good headphones.
Mark Buchanan
Founder & CEO of ELe-Extreme Low Energy
With over 20 years of experience in technology professional services, Mark founded ELe® in 2014 with an ambition to eliminate energy wasted through the AC/DC conversion process. Having developed a unique approach to distributing power and data through Ethernet cabling, Mark now works with our in house team and specialist manufacturing partners to further develop our disruptive technology portfolio and design customer focused solutions. Mark says “being so passionate about what we do means I get to play all day developing technologies for a cause I truly believe in, I’m incredibly lucky”
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About ELe-Extreme Low Energy: Extreme Low Energy ELe® is a specialist manufacturer of patent-pending power infrastructures.
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
Ed Rogers
Founder & Managing Director of Bristol Braille Technology
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About Bristol Braille Technology: Bristol Braille Technology is building Canute, an affordable full-page Braille eBook reader.
Peter O’Connor
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Verdel Instruments
Peter O’Connor has a PhD in 1995 from Cornell University under the mentorship of Prof. Fred W. McLafferty. 2-Year postdoc at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. 2-year scientist position at IonSpec, a small FTICR mass spectrometry start-up company in Irvine, CA. 10 years developing his academic career at the Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts. 10 years as a full professor of mass spectrometry at the University of Warwick. PBO has spent 28 years of his career working on instrumentation research in FTICR mass spectrometry.
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About Verdel Instruments: Verdel Instruments has developed new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology.
Chris Wootton
Founder and R&D Manager of Verdel Instruments
Chris is the leader of the hardware and software development team, with over 6 years MS experience. Chris was involved in designing and building the prototype. He is the company’s electronics & software specialist.
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About Verdel Instruments: Verdel Instruments has developed new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology.
Geoff Thomas
Founder of The Keyboard Company
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About The Keyboard Company: The Keyboard Company are perfectly placed to meet virtually every keyboard and mouse requirement.
Paul Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Laser Wire Solutions
Paul Taylor is a Founder & Managing Director at Laser Wire Solutions.
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About Laser Wire Solutions: Laser Wire Solutions is the expert manufacturer of Laser Wire Strippers for the removal of insulation from high performance wire and cable.
James Andrews
Founder of Felcana
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About Felcana: Felcana is a Digital Pet Health Platform of intelligent pet care products. Helping you track, monitor & understand your dog or cat’s needs.
Ashley moore
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Power
Ashley moore is a Founder at Sustainable Power.
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About Sustainable Power: Sustainable Power is specialising in the development and production of high efficiency mCHP co-generating appliances.
Mark Miles
Founder and Managing Creative Director of Rendermedia
Mark Miles began his career using 3D Studio for the DOS platform 1994, where the idea of a 3D environment in which to play and explore was fascinating. His career has spanned educational computer software and television, with contributions on projects in the educational arena earning BAFTA nominations and a BAFTA Award. The idea of taking higher-end CGI (more traditionally used in Film, TV and Games) was a genesis for launching a studio that focused on B2B in bringing businesses to life. Today, with 18 years heritage in CGI, Mark and his business partner Nadine head up Rendermedia, a Virtual & Augmented Reality Studio serving UK FT100 and FT250 with global operations bringing their business to life across AR, VR and Real-time applications. Made up of CG Artists, filmmakers, sound designers, animators and developers, Rendermedia supports global businesses in developing tools that are used across the entire operational structure of the client’s business. Mark’s team works in both commercial applications and R&D, keeping them ahead of the curve and allowing them to provide cutting-edge solutions that utilise emerging technology.
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About Rendermedia: Rendermedia is a leading, creative virtual reality agency.
James Gourlay
Founder & Technical Director of Design LED Products
James Gourlay is a Founder & Technical Director at Design LED Products.
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About Design LED Products: Design LED Products specializes in the design of thin printed lightguide products.
David Heath
Founder & CEO of Cutitronics
David Heath is Founder & CEO of Cutitronics and is the very reason we are all here. He provides leadership, guidance and inspiration on a daily basis. David’s extensive academic career led him to qualify as a medical devices researcher with degrees in physics and engineering, working in a multidisciplinary clinical, commercial and engineering team. Throughout his PhD and post-doctoral research, he focussed on transdermal medical technology. But it was while presenting at a skincare conference that David had his “light bulb moment”, realising that the expertise he developed working on transdermal medical technology could be reapplied to solve some of the major challenges of the cosmetic skincare industry. And from here Cutitronics was born! David secured funding to develop technology for the cosmetic skincare industry and validate his innovation both technically and commercially. During this time, the company was spun out of the University of Strathclyde, receiving recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and ERA Foundation for both his entrepreneurial approach and outstanding technology innovation. In 2015 David began to recruit the Cutitronics team, bringing together the experience and expertise essential to launching such disruptive technology into the skincare market.
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About Cutitronics: Cutitronics is skincare start-up
David Martin
Founder of Martin Audio
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About Martin Audio: Martin Audio manufactures and supplies professional loudspeaker systems for touring, theatre, and installation applications.
Paul Ash
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Basalt Global
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About Basalt Global: Basalt Global is a power generation business supplying heat and power to its clients in the UK agricultural and horticultural sectors.
