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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 Fitness space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Roberts
Founder of Pure Gym
Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. Earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which sold in 1995 for an IRR of 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group, sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England. Peter is now involved with helping young entrepreneurs to develop their businesses.
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About Pure Gym: PureGym is a gym operator that provides affordable and convenient access to fitness facilities in the U.K.
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Eric Min
Co-Founder and CEO of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zwift. He was the Vice President at JP Morgan before co-founding and working as Chief Executive Officer at Sakonnet Technology, a commodities trading and risk management platform.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Ben Francis
Founder and Owner of Gymshark
Ben Francis is the owner and founder of Gymshark.
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About Gymshark: Gymshark is an online retailer and technology company of fitness apparel and accessories brands.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Ian McCaig
CMO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Sammi Adhami
CCO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
David Plans
CEO and Co-Founder of BioBeats
David Plans is a member of the University of Surrey’s Center for Digital Economy and Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, and is working towards machine learning solutions to foster human wellbeing. His primary research focus is adaptive media and affective modelling. Having worked on early mHealth projects in the NHS, he is now leading smartphone and wearable research projects at BUPA, AXA/PPP, and Microsoft Health with his startup, BioBeats, where they are helping actuarial and care provision teams think differently about preventative health.
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Jonathan Relph
Founder & CEO of VITL
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About VITL: On a mission to make healthy living more achievable, providing beautifully designed, expertly researched nutritional products and content.
Sameer Baroova
Co Founder & Chief Product Officer of FitXR
A lifelong fan of emerging technologies, Sameer found his flow in the video game industry working on mobile games from their onset, including titles such as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejewelled. Now Sameer uses his design, development, and management skills while building the best workout product on the market. At FitXR, Sameer loves combining immersive technology and AI to create unique personalised experiences that put the fun into fitness.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Melinda Nicci
Founder and CEO of Baby2Body
Melinda is founder and CEO of Body Collective (Baby2body) the award- winning, wellness company for women.
She is a Sports and Exercise Psychologist, author of two bestselling books, is a regular contributor on the BBC, and sits on numerous boards as a NED, including The ICE List and Team GB (Olympic and Para-olympics snow-sport teams).
Melinda was named the UKBAA High Growth Founder of the year 2019/20, and has won numerous accolades and awards for entrepreneurship, including being named in the UK list of the Most Influential Women in Tech for 4 years running.
A serial entrepreneur, she founded and sold her first business at the age of 25 in South Africa, and held the position of Senior Director for Consumer health Innovation at Philips in Amsterdam. Melinda brings her passion for sport, performance and wellness to the numerous companies she advises and has created a global business with Body Collective, helping millions of women all over the world to live healthier and happier lives.
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About Baby2Body, GB Snowsport, ICE List: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Charles Wells
Founder & CEO of HelloSelf
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About Braintech, HelloSelf: HelloSelf is a health and wellness platform that provides its users with digital access to therapists.
Adam Bataineh
Co-Founder of Span
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About Span: Span is a fitness and health tracker app that offers data-driven support for health and fitness.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Jennifer Hersch
Co-Founder & Director of Ethos
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About Ethos: ETHOS is the ultimate yoga fitness hybrid experience with all one needs.
Phil Carr
Founder & CEO of My PT Hub
Phil Carr is the founder of My PT Hub.
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About My PT Hub: My PT Hub is an online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.
Alex Hind
CEO & Co-Founder of Heka
Alex Hind, CEO & Co-Founder of GoSweat.
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About Heka: The personalised health platform to make your employees feel valued.
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO of Urban
A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Nikunj Sondagar
Co-Founder & Non Executive Director of Brushlink
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About AUXO, Brushlink, Healthcare Angels Network, Medicalsupply, Tooth Wise, Wise360: Brushlink is a health and wellness company that specializes in the fields of oral care and dental insurance markets.
Raj Vora
Founder & Managing Director of Revital
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About Revital: Revital is an independent company with a mission to care for the wellbeing and health of our customers.
Nicholas Begley
Co-Founder of PSYT
Nick read physics at University College London, then qualified as an actuary and worked in the City of London for 8 years before retraining in psychology. He specialised in the neuroscience of mindfulness at UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry, and helped start up mindfulness company Headspace as Head of Research before founding PSYT.
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About PSYT: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Nik Naidoo
Co-Founder & Head of Brand of Grndhouse
Nik Naidoo Co-Founder & Head of Brand at Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Louis Rennocks
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grndhouse
Louis Rennocks is the Co-founder and managing director of Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Chris Billingham
Founder of MuscleSquad
Chris Billingham is the Owner and Founder of MuscleSquad.
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About MuscleSquad: MuscleSquad provides fitness equipment with expert training plans and strategies essential in building a perfect physique.
Paresh Thakkar
Founder of O-Teas
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About O-Teas: Oteas is a specialist British tea company.
Alister Rollins
CEO & Founder of MoveGB
Alister Rollins is the founder and CEO of MoveGB, a free online platform that enables fitness operators to offer their services to a network of thousands of active people in the UK. Think ‘Netflix’ for physical fitness outlets. Prior to MoveGB Alister ran The Retention People, the fitness industry’s leading loyalty solutions business, where he used data from over 15 million member records to make predictions about their behaviour and recommend intervention strategies so that clubs could improve member experience and retention. Alister answers the following questions on where he believes the market is going wrong and what clubs could do to enhance their retention rates.
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About MoveGB: MoveGB allows you to exercise how, when, and where you want.
Jack Latus
Co-Founder of Whey Box
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About LATUS Health, LATUS Training, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Josip Balažević
Co-Founder of Racefully
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About Racefully: Enabling businesses to increase employee engagement and lower health costs through a compelling virtual team-based fitness solution.
Lanre Olaitan
Co-Founder of MedCircuit
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About MedCircuit, NHS England, NHS England: MedCircuit is a groundbreaking AI triage software assisting doctors and nurses in the clinical setting
Pamela Scarborough
Co-Founder & Clinical Director of Pactster
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About Pactster: Pactster is a social exercise platform for people with specific health conditions.
Jorge Armanet
CEO & Co Founder of HealthUnlocked
Technology and Media Entrepreneur In 2000 he founded Plataforma Publico, an open source media lab that promotes cultural creativity and ideas; in 2002 he founded the popular network and magazine Hecho en Chile – a Chilean ‘Big Issue’ and support network for low-income students; in 2007 he founded DO TANK, a technology lab building functional prototypes for the private sector to test and scale new web business models; and in 2009 he co-founded HealthUnlocked, the social health platform. He holds degrees in Engineering, Economics, Arts and Business from the Catholic University of Chile, Goldsmiths College, and Cambridge University. He held academic scholarships from the British Chevening, the Shell Centenary Fund, the Cambridge Overseas Trust and the Jesus College Foundation. Based in London, UK, he is now full time and permanently dedicated to HealthUnlocked.
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About HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is a social network for health.
Giles Dean
Co-Founder of 1Rebel
Giles Dean is the Co-Founder of 1Rebel and entrepreneur regularly tweeting about design architecture #style and #fitness
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About 1Rebel: 1Rebel is a new fitness venture.
Alistair Trow
Founder of CarersDirect
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About CarersDirect: Matching platform for self-funder care seekers to link with experienced care assistants (domiciliary care, live-in & overnight care).
Ross Arnott
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Asensei
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About Asensei: The easiest way to add technique coaching and correction to sport and fitness products.
Jamie Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Hussle
Jamie Ward grew up in Northern Ireland and then went to Nottingham University to study Chemical Engineering (MEng). Prior to becoming an Entrepreneur Jamie most recently working for Ernst & Young, running large scale M&A projects focusing on pre-deal due diligence and post-deal merger integration. Whilst training for a sporting event Jamie and his colleague at the time became frustrated at the lack of flexibility in the health club market. The pair saw a gap the market to make it easier and more flexible for people to go to the gym whilst providing an additional revenue to gyms. Hussle (formerly PayAsUGym) was launched in February 2011and has grown to the largest online gym marketplace in the UK with over 2,500 gyms on board servicing the need of thousands of those of us with lifestyles that demand flexibility. Hussle has developed into mainstream tech enabled fitness brand and a sophisticated pricing and insight tool for operators to acquire new customers and maximize club yields.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Neil Harmsworth
Co-Founder & COO of Hussle
Co-Founder and Business Development Director at payasUgym.com. Focused on business innovation, finding new and better ways to do things and challenging ‘business as usual’. Constantly questioning why things are done the way they are and pushing people to think differently. The ‘ideas’ guy.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Liz Ashall Payne
Founder & CEO of ORCHA
Liz Ashall-Payne Founder & CEO Passionate about the opportunities that technology and particularly apps offer to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, Liz founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application in 2015, determined to present a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve public, patient and organisational outcomes. Initially a Speech and Language Therapist, Liz has almost 20 years NHS experience. She has successfully led innovative change and service transformation in complex health economies. She has led regional, national and European change programmes and networks to deliver transformational shift and has experience of working collaboratively with Public Sector, Industry and Academia. Identifying the opportunities that new technology present to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, and passionate about the potential apps have to shape the future of health and care, Liz was determined to find a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help improve app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could really help their needs, while navigating round those that present less obvious risks or carry dubious levels of validity or value. Interested in digital innovations in Health and Care she is motivated to continuously transform care, utilising resources most effectively with the opportunities these innovations offer. Examples from others Beatriz San Martin, Partner, Intellectual Property, Fieldfisher Beatriz is an intellectual property specialist with a focus on the life sciences and her work centres on dispute resolution. She also advises on intellectual property and policy making in regenerative medicine and gene editing in connection with how current laws should be applied or changed. She is a member of the UK BioIndustry Association Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Advisory Committee. Beatriz joined Fieldfisher in 2004 and became a partner in 2013. She was a scientist prior to pursuing a legal career, with a degree and a Wellcome Trust PhD and post doc from the University of Cambridge specialising in developmental biology. Jo leads the UK Pharma consulting business for PwC and assists clients across the lifesciences industry in developing strategies that embrace future trends and deliver improved health outcomes. She is a leading author on PwC’s pharma 2020 thought leadership series – a forward view on global issues in the sector and is a regular commentator on key industry issues such as digital, emerging markets and biosimilars. As an advisory board member for MedCity she influences the development of UK lifesciences. She has 13 years of industry experience in pharmaceuticals and energy with BP and GSK. Jo is a chartered engineer.
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About ORCHA: ORCHA is the leader in assessing and activating digital health and supports healthcare professionals to prescribe high quality apps.
Julian Gough
Co-Founder and Director of Genetrainer
Julian is a biotech entrepreneur and world expert in bioinformatics. He graduated his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and was a research fellow at Stanford University. He is now a Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Bristol. He has successfully started a number of biotech companies.
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About Genetrainer, Mogrify: Genetrainer is a website that provides a personalized fitness plan for users based on their genes.
Peter Blencowe
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Peter Blencowe is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Alex Higman
Operations Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Alex Higman is the operations director and co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Max Bridger
Co-Owner and Founder of LDN Muscle
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About LDN Muscle: LDN Muscle is an online platform that post fitness information and answer the questions.
Tim Worboys
Founder and Director of WallJAM
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About WallJAM: WallJAM is a shaped, interactive rebound wall and sports activity zone.
Nick Paulson-Ellis
Founder & CEO of The Sports Edit
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About The Sports Edit: The Sports Edit is a multi-channel retailer.
Joseph Welstead
Co Founder & CEO of Motion Nutrition
Former international swimmer, Joe is a performance expert and cofounder of Motion Nutrition. ‘Smart drugs’ are what Joe and his team of neuroscientists develop helping to improve decision making, memory recall and mental performance under stress.
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About Motion Nutrition: Motion Nutrition help people stress less, sleep deeper and do better with our organic supplements.
Edem Vormawah
Founder of WorkOn
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Dale Goulding
Co-Founder of WorkOn
Co-Founder at WorkOn.
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Henrique Zago
Founder of WorkOn
Co-Founder at WorkOn
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Pete Petrondas
Founder and CEO of Keia Ltd
Pete Petrondas is the founder and chief executive officer at Keia.
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About Keia Ltd: Keia Ltd is a new destination for wellbeing; from hair & beauty to holistic therapies.
Mark Locke
Co-Founder and CEO of Genius Sports
Mark Locke is the Co-Founder and CEO of Genius Sports.
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About Betgenius, Genius Sports: Genius Sports is the official data, technology and commercial partner that powers the global ecosystem connecting sports, betting and media.
Andrew Stamp
Founder of Brain in Hand
Andrew Stamp is Founder at Brain in Hand.
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About Brain in Hand: Brain-in-Hand develops a technology for independent living.
Cheryl Anne Slater
Founder of Soul Seed Media
Founder at Soul Seed Media
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About Soul Seed Media: The best recommended retreats from around the world.
Xavier Bernal
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Findoc
Xavier Bernal is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Sylvain Vuillen
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Findoc
Sylvain Vuillen is serves as a Chief Operating Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Megha Prakash
CEO & Founder of Earthmiles
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About Earthmiles: Track and be rewarded for your healthy and fit activities. Get exclusive deals on the widest range of fitness products.
Rebecca Terrell
Founder and Managing Director of Tribeca Studios
Rebecca Terrell is the founder and managing director of Tribeca Studios.
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About Tribeca Studios: Tribeca Studios is a boutique fitness club that operates as a pay-as-you train studio.
Ivo Gormley
Founder of Good Gym
Ivo Gormley is the founder and Chief Executive of GoodGym – a social enterprise that combines exercise with social good. Previously Ivo led projects increasing public participation for Local Authorities and NHS Trusts. He has advised on user participation for technology startups in UK and the US. In 2008 he directed the film “Us Now”, a documentary about participatory culture which was broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, translated into 24 languages and his film The Runners was watched by millions online. He has presented his work to governments worldwide including the French National Assembly, The Hague, the European Union, The Houses of Parliament (UK) and Washington DC. Ivo is a Fellow of the Clore Social Leadership Programme and was a founding Trustee of the Charity Art Against Knives.
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About Good Gym: GoodGym helps you get fit by doing good.
Philip Kasumu
CEO Founder of Lyle
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About Lyle, Scanbite: AI Nutritional Weight Loss Coach for Men
Stuart Grice
Co-Founder and CSO of FitnessGenes
Stuart is a co-founder of FitnessGenes, and also a published scientist who adds current and cutting edge expertise to the science team. After a short plunge into the world of finance, he decided scientific enlightenment was where it’s at. Having studied subjects as diverse as neuromuscular disorders and autism, he continues to work on understanding how the variations in both genetics and metabolism impact on human health.
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About FitnessGenes: FitnessGenes is pioneering the field of genetic data analysis to produce personalized fitness and diet recommendations.
Samantha Decombel
Co-Founder & CEO of FitnessGenes
A co-founder of FitnessGenes, with a PhD in genetics and a passion for science communication, Sam is responsible for product development and management of the science team. Fascinated by genetics from an early age, she studied the subject for her PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she has also lectured on Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics. Sam is an enthusiastic sportswoman, and particularly enjoys playing football and running when she is not in the gym trying to improve on her squat PB of 165lb.
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About FitnessGenes, InnovationXchange, Play DNA: FitnessGenes is pioneering the field of genetic data analysis to produce personalized fitness and diet recommendations.
Andrew Orrock
Co-Founder of Zeffr
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About IOTICS, Zeffr: Zeffr is a platform that supports workplace wellbeing through measurement and understanding.
Sean Radford
Founder & CEO of TrainAsONE
Our founder Sean Radford is a medical doctor, an international multi-day mountain marathon podium finisher and an IT expert – he designed the first internet- enabled primary care system for UK GP’s. Additionally he has worked on many varied health & social wellbeing projects for numerous organisations, including charities such as The Amy Winehouse Foundation.
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About TrainAsONE: The award-winning AI running coach for runners of all abilities and goals.
Frank Beechinor
Co-Founder of Cadence Performance
Frank Beechinor is the CEO at SmartSpace Software Plc.
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About Cadence Performance, SmartSpace Software: Cadence Performance London’s Hub for your Cycling needs – Bike Fits, Coaching, Fitness Testing, Wattbike.
Serge Didenko
Founder of BLOCKS
Serge Didenko is the Founder at BLOCKS.
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About BLOCKS: BLOCKS is a sensor platform for industrial data collection.
Fares Alaboud
CEO & Founder of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Daniel Pike
Co-Founder of SuperCarers
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About SuperCarers: SuperCarers is an online platform helping families to find trusted carers living in their local area.
Adam Pike
Co-Founder & CEO of SuperCarers
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About SuperCarers: SuperCarers is an online platform helping families to find trusted carers living in their local area.
Ben Barker
Founder & CEO of Run An Empire
Founder of Run An Empire.
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About Hello Lamp Post, PAN Studio, Run An Empire: A real world strategy running game
Sam Hill
Co-Founder of Run An Empire
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About PAN Studio, Run An Empire: A real world strategy running game
Daniel Williams
Owner, Founder, and CEO of WIT Fitness
Daniel Williams is the Owner, Founder, and CEO at WIT Fitness Ltd
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About WIT Fitness: Itself as a unique, multi-brand fitness concept store.
Dauren Toleukhanov
Co-Founder and Chairman of BrainPatch
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About BrainPatch: BrainPatch is a Neurotechnology startup disrupting the industry of non-invasive brain stimulation.
Jamie Wilson
Founder and CEO of hometouch
Jamie Wilson is a UK doctor and founder of HomeTouch. His company offers an online marketplace for finding experienced care professionals locally for elderly and personal care. The carers have an app that allows them to respond to job enquiries, monitors their care activities and manages their contracts. HomeTouch is supported by organisations like the Nominet Trust and Technology Strategy Board.
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About hometouch: hometouch is a home-care marketplace connecting families looking for home care to professional carers.
Emeka Ogbonnaya
Founder and CEO of Zoique
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About Zoique: A marketplace to discover and book wellness-themed team-building activities, connecting corporate teams to a variety of fitness experiences.
Maria Ferrer Iori
CEO & Founder of FitSprint
After seven years experience as a fitness instructor, Maria realised many of her colleagues were being left in the cold of the digital revolution with limited software at their disposal. To address this major market gap, she founded FitSprint – a self-service tool to digitally empower instructors. Prior to founding FitSprint, Maria founded London Fitness and Health (LF&H), and successfully implemented a variety of dance, fitness and yoga programmes throughout the UK. She holds a BA from the University of Miami and a Master’s degree from Kings College London. Maria keeps fit by teaching Zumba, Power Yoga RYT200HR, Barre, AntiGravity Yoga, and Step classes throughout Greater London.
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About FitSprint: FitSprint provides custom designed websites for fitness instructors.
Mark Pedley
Founder of SmartLife
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About SmartLife: SmartLife is a specialist in smart garment technology.
Antimo Farid Mir
CEO and Founder of AREEA
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About AREEA: Pioneering urban health
Venetia Archer
CEO & Founder of Ruuby
One of the Forbes 30 under 30, Venetia is Founder and CEO of Ruuby. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Archer launched Ruuby in 2015, and the company has since been voted best on-demand app by Vogue, Harpers’ Bazaar and others. Ruuby is a luxury on-demand beauty services platform operating in London, delivering beauty and wellness services to private clients, hotel groups and other corporates.
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About Ruuby: London’s On Demand Beauty Services Marketplace
Jan Machacek
Founder of Muvr
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About Muvr: Muvr is a fitness tracking, motivation, and personal training application.
Caoimhe Bamber
Founder of Digme Fitness
Caoimhe Bamber is the founder of Digme Fitness.
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About Digme Fitness: Digme is a boutique fitness studio fitness operator that offers pay-as-you-go indoor cycling, HIIT, and yoga classes.
Neil Atherton
Co-Founder & COO of Nudjed
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About Nudjed: Health Challenges and Motivation
Andy Etches
Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil
Andy Etches is the Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience ,performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Adam Dickinson
Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil
Adam Dickinson is the Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Alex Wyke
Founder & CEO of PatientView
Alex Wyke is CEO and founder of PatientView, a UK-based research, publishing and consultancy group. PatientView has worked to build bridges worldwide with the health NGOs that comprise the patient movement, to help define and support one of the most important phenomenon changing healthcare in the 21st Century.
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About PatientView: PatientView is an independent organisation that works closely with patients and with health and social campaigning groups worldwide.
Shaun Lancaster
CEO/Founder of Mbition
Sports marketing expert, brand specialist, ex retail chain owner, lover of tech, triathlete, muddy runner, surfer.
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About Mbition: Mbition is a training app for runners that creates a CUSTOM training plan 100% built around you.
Adam Barker
CEO + Co-Founder of MagnaPass
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About MagnaPass: MagnaPass is a fitness eco-system, allowing Partners (studios/freelancers) ways to gain new clients & manage their business.
Sean Downey
COO + Co-Founder of MagnaPass
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About MagnaPass: MagnaPass is a fitness eco-system, allowing Partners (studios/freelancers) ways to gain new clients & manage their business.
Ilyanna Kerr
Co-Founder & CEO of See What I Mean
Ilyanna studied Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the SWiM app originated from a final year project focused on how linking speech to images can strengthen understanding and aid communication. Ilyanna’s work as a designer focuses on interaction and visual communication. She has worked at leading design agency Pentagram, where her clients included Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres, the Science Museum, Saks Fifth Avenue, and the Royal Academy of Arts.
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About See What I Mean: See What I Mean is a speech to image communication tool that translates words into pictures.
Peter Rogers
Co-Founder & CTO of See What I Mean
Peter is a senior computing tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the lead developer of the SWiM app. Peter also works as a designer and programmer. His recent projects have included social and speculative design in the sphere of citizen participation and mobile location aware services.
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About Goldsmiths, University of London, See What I Mean: See What I Mean is a speech to image communication tool that translates words into pictures.
Michael Harrison
Co-Founder & COO of Gravity Fitness
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About Gravity Fitness: GraVity, a trampoline park company
Koen van den Heuvel
Co-Founder and CEO of Fitu App
Koen van den Heuvel is the co-founder and CEO of Fitu App. Prior to this, Koen spent more than one year as a self-employed online retailer at Amazon.
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About Fitu App: Fitu App offer group fitness classes from freelance trainers for the price of a pint, at any desired time and location.
Daria Kantor
CEO & Founder of TruBe
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About TruBe: Available in London initially, TruBe instantly connects you with all relevant trainers, ready to help you meet your goals.
Tristan Rushworth
COO & Co-Founder of Class-ify
Tristan is COO and Co-Founder of Class-ify. He has 15 years experience working with some of Europe’s largest businesses helping them with the strategies and funding to scale. Tristan started Class-ify after seeing the challenges his wife faced in building her own online coaching business and the various roles a solopreneur is required to master in order to build a successful business.
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About Class-ify: Class-ify’s mission is to create wealth for personal trainers. We provide all the software, sales & marketing tools and playbooks for personal trainers to build successful businesses – all in one place.
David Stidolph
Founder of Fit Gurus
Founder of Fit Gurus.
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About Fit Gurus: The Fitness App & Trainer Marketplace.
Paul Slater
Founder, CEO of Fit Gurus
Founder at Fit Gurus.
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About Fit Gurus: The Fitness App & Trainer Marketplace.
Jack Malin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Membr
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About Membr: Membr’s innovative fitness platform connects the fitness industry with its members.
Dave Rushton
Founder and Chief Product Officer of Membr
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About Membr: Membr’s innovative fitness platform connects the fitness industry with its members.
Chakabars Clarke
Founder of Spartanfam
Chakabars Clarke is the founder of Spartanfam.
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About Spartanfam: Spartanfam is a nonprofit organization that provides bodyweight training sessions to everyone.
Rafael Michaeli
CoFounder of SAVA
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About SAVA: The first effortless continuous molecular tracker unlocking human perfomance
Shiti Rastogi Manghani
Co-Founder of Breathe Happy
Shiti Rastogi Manghani is the Co-Founder at Breathe Happy.
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About Breathe Happy: Breathe Happy is a health, wellness, and fitness company that specializes in providing online yoga classes.
Alexandros Tanti
Co-Founder of Racecheck
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About Racecheck: Community Platform and Race Discovery tool for Athletes
James Mason
Founder of Massif Central
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About Massif Central: Massif Central creates gallery-quality, bespoke info-graphic artworks celebrating great achievements.
Andraz Ogorevc
Founder, CEO & Director of iHELP World
Andraz Ogorevc is Founder & CEO at iHELP World.
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About iHELP World: An online platform that provides immediate assistance by connecting users in any type of emergency.
