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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 Human Resources 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.
Tony Jamous
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster®
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date. Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributed talent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
Sergiu Matei
Founder of Index
Sergiu Matei is the founder of Index, the London-based platform helping enterprises like Vodafone and Twilio find and hire world-class remote software developers, and be globally compliant from the get-go. Before launching Index, Sergiu founded Travod, the translation marketplace providing 2,000+ brands such as Amazon and Swissport with locally hired translators in 100+ countries in every continent across the globe.
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About Index, Index.dev: Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Nicholas Shekerdemian
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Headstart
Nicholas Shekerdemian is the co-founder and executive chairman at Headstart.
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About Headstart, The Venture Collective: Headstart is diversity recruiting software focused on breaking the cycle of exclusion.
Ilyas Vali
Co-Founder , Assistant Project Manager of rLoop Incorporated
Ilyas Vali is the Co-founder and APM at rLoop. The company is a SpaceX Hyperloop award winning team and globally distributed organisation with over 1300 engineers from more than 59 countries. rLoop is a decentralised crowdsourced research and development organisation, engineering solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. rLoop’s mission is to develop and launch innovative technology fuelled by a genuine desire to improve the world and humanity.
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About rLoop Incorporated: rLoop is a decentralized moonshot engineering organization with a global network of talent and resources.
Colin Cooper
Sage People Vice President & Founder of Sage Group
Colin Cooper serves as sage people vice president and founder at The Sage Group.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Hubble
Tushar is the Co-Founder of Spacious.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oli Johnson
Co-Founder of Sona
Oli Johnson is a Co-founder of Sona.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Daniel Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Elements Talent Solutions
Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Elements Talent Consultancy. He founded the business in 2009 and first piloted the concept of Embedded Talent Consultancy roughly 5 years later. He is a passionate advocate of the true value of excellent talent acquisition professionals and is on a mission to change perceptions of an industry which has traditionally been characterised by poor standards and a consequent lack of trust.
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About Elements Talent Solutions: Elements Talent Solutions is a talent acquisition agency that specialises in partnering with high-growth technology firms.
Rosemary Forsyth
Founder & General Partner of The Forsyth Group
Rosemary has been the General Partner of the Forsyth Group since she founded the company in 1981. Recognizing the potential growth of Information Technology within business, the Forsyth Group was the first Executive Search Consultancy to focus on the emerging technology market. Rosemary has developed extensive search experience across all technology sectors and conducts “C” and Board level assignments for technology companies in the UK, E& W Europe and the United States. Rosemary is is a key contributor to the investment community, and is an investor in Seedcamp. Rosemary holds a Master’s degree with honors in Psychology and an M.Litt degree in Educational Psychology, both from Aberdeen University in Scotland. Rosemary sits on the Aberdeen University Sixth Century Campaign Board, The Board of Governors of the School of Communication & Arts 2.0, Innovate Europe, Snowball and is an advisor to TalentPuzzle and BraveNewTalent.
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About Said Business School, University of Oxford, The Forsyth Group: The Forsyth group is a boutique executive search firm.
Leigh Carrick-Moore
Co Founder of PeopleHub
Leigh Carrick-Moore is Founder of e-Search, a boutique recruitment company that has been building tech teams in Silicon Roundabout for 15 years. e-Search has been responsible for helping one man business grow into post IPO game-ganging organisations. Leigh has personally hired entire Development teams for Skype, Opentable (formerly Toptable), Social.com (Salesforce), Lovefilm and Sony. Leigh believes that most recruitment agencies practices are broken. She believes in a open and honest approach to staffing in which team fit is just as important as technical ability and that a recruiter’s task is to pre-vet and not to scattergun CV’s. Paul Harrington, Director of Engineering Social.com and ex CTO for Opentable writes ‘She is technically astute and knows the recruitment industry inside out – in both the permanent & contract markets. Her help and advice have been invaluable in my recruitment efforts during that time, understanding my requirements exactly and finding numerous candidates of the absolute top quality for me to choose from – some of the best candidates I’ve ever hired have come through Leigh!’ As well as running e-Search, Leigh is now working her own startup, peoplehub, an HR solution for tech startups.
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About PeopleHub: People hub is a small, dynamic HR consultancy and Recruitment specialist.
Rob O’Donovan
Co-Founder & Chairman of Charlie
Rob O’Donovan works as Chairman and Co-founder for The Eleven.
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About Charlie, The Eleven: Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Ben Gateley
COO & Co-Founder of Charlie
Ben Gateley works as Co-founder for The Eleven.
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About Charlie, The Eleven: Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Stuart Hearn
CEO & Founder of Clear Review
Stuart has over 20 years’ HR experience and has spent the last 12 years specialising in performance management and technology. He was formerly International HR Director at Sony Music and later co-founded a specialist performance and talent management consultancy.
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About Clear Review: Clear Review is an award-winning, Continuous Performance Management and Engagement System.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Saurav Chopra
Co-Founder of Perkbox
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About Perkbox: Perkbox is a global benefits and rewards platform that helps companies care for, connect with and celebrate their employees.
Benjamin Todd
CEO, Co Founder & Executive Director of 80,000 Hours
In under three years with Ben’s leadership, 80,000 Hours has grown from a student society, to an Oxford affiliated charity, featured on TED, the Washington Post, the BBC Today Programme and more. Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics and speaks Chinese. Before 80,000 Hours, he was the first undergraduate to intern as an analyst at a top investment fund. Rather than taking the job, he persuaded the Chairman to donate £60,000 to 80,000 Hours.
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About 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours is an evidence-based advice on careers that make a difference.
Anna Rasmussen
CEO & Founder of Open Blend
Anna Rasmussen is the CEO & Founder at OpenBlend.
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About Open Blend: The People Platform for People Managers. Our software facilitates coaching led one-to-ones to support an individual’s development journey
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Gi Fernando MBE
Founder of teamtogether
Founder of Freeformers
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About New Automotive, Subak, teamtogether: teamtogether is the change management platform that humanises organisational transformation by putting people at the heart of change.
Ziad Tassabehji
Co-Founder of YapJobs
Ziad Tassabehji is the Director of Innovation and Investments at Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company; a multi-billion dollar government sponsored initiative to promote advanced energy and sustainability technologies. Ziad is on both the executive and investment committees of the Masdar Clean Tech Fund.
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About Gaia Greenenergy Holdings, YapJobs: Real Time Hiring App for Hospitality & Retail
Chris Abbass
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Phil Blaydes
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Nick Ross
Founder and CEO of Guider
Nick Ross is the Founder and CEO of Guider.
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About Guider: On a mission to create the best personal-development platform for employees worldwide, with mentoring and coaching at its core.
Vivek Doraiswamy
Co-Founder / CTO of MeVitae
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About MeVitae: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Mark O’Hagan
Founder of Acorn HR Consulting
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About Acorn HR Consulting: Acorn HR Consulting is a firm that specializes in human resources, employee relations, and employment.
Neta Meidav
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Platform
Neta Meidav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Vault.
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Jamaal Brathwaite
Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs
Barbadian-British entrepreneur residing in Manchester, UK. Passionate about: start-ups, entrepreneurship, aviation, social enterprises, cloud technology, human capital, starting and globally scaling innovate business ideas and above all…., creating a more joyful, healthy & happy world. Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs®, the “Future of Hiring”. A next generation ‘jobs & recruitment’ platform that utilises revolutionary technology to further enhance the personalization and pairing experience moving past the current access barriers for candidates seeking jobs or visa versa. My first startup was NextGen Interview Ltd. Imagine being able to see and hear from candidates before organizing face-to-face meetings. Now let me introduce you to NextGen Interview: the newest way for employers to find qualified applicants and job-seekers to find their dream jobs in the most technologically efficient manner possible. It offered a convenient way to screen candidates which assists reducing interviewing costs during the recruitment process and enhancing branding. Prior to launching Jobseekrs® & NextGen Interview, I served as a Senior Sales Manager with the Appco Group (#1 Direct Marketing Company in the world), managing sales representatives from SRJ Marketing and was awarded the Sales Leadership Excellence Award in 2012. My goal is to be a globally successful and inspirational leader, who creates vision and opportunity for myself and for those around me. I want to be someone who leads by example and strives for success. I will always work hard to ensure optimum performance of my business. I like to think of myself an open, honest and approachable leader, who shares the trials and tribulations. I believe that it’s my generosity and fair approach which makes me a strong leader, and I will ensure that my businesses benefit from good people and their commitment to excel in their roles.
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About : Jobseekrs is the world’s first, video interactive job-site that mitigates unconscious bias when matching great candidates to suitable roles.
Robert Walters
CEO and Founder of Robert Walters
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About Robert Walters: Robert Walters is a global, specialist professional recruitment consultancy.
Gary Bury
Founder of Timetastic Ltd
Founder of Timetastic Ltd. A privately held, profitable and debt free company in Manchester UK. Timetastic is a staff absence planner for small businesses, with a focus on doing one thing and doing it very well. Believer in keeping things simple, enjoying your time off work, and running your business with good ethics.
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About ep2: Timetastic is a SaaS company that offers staff holiday planner.
Richard Knight
Co Founder of Grafter
Co founder of a tech start up that represents the future of labouring. Highly experienced media professional with outstanding industry knowledge across a wide spectrum of the media sector. Exceptional experience of the media distribution and consumer electronics sector with a strong track record of launching key strategic broadcasting and IP initiatives. Professional accounting background with board level experience Property Developer
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About Grafter, RKnight Consulting Limited: The free digital service for connecting businesses with people looking for temporary work
Xenios Thrasyvoulou
Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour
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About PeoplePerHour: PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
David Wilson
Co-Founder & CTO of One Model
David Wilson is Co-Founder & CTO at OneModel.
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About One Model: One Model, a talent analytics accelerator, enables HR departments measure the productivity and efficiency of their workforce.
James Bryce
Founder and CEO of gweek
Entrepreneur in speech pathology and technology.
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About gweek: gweek is the category leader of Speech Intelligence. We help job candidates speak and communicate with natural agility.
Carlos Lagrange
Co-Founder & CPO of Sunlight
Carlos Lagrange is the Co-Founder and CPO of Sunlight.
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About Sunlight: Sunlight helps companies grow an engaging learning culture by facilitating their team’s access to any book, event, or course in the world.
Andrew Lavelle
Co-Founder & Managing Director of TalentPool
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About Alvius, TalentPool: TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates.
Seb Hall
Founder of Cloud Employee
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About Cloud Employee: Cloud Employee is an Innovative Offshore IT staffing Provider helping Startups Grow
Anna Brailsford
CEO and Co-Founder of Frisbee
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About Frisbee: Frisbee is helping enterprises transform performance management through continuous feedback.
Gregory Asmolov
Co-Founder of PitchMe
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About King’s College London, PitchMe: PitchMe is a skills-based talent marketplace introducing multilayered profiling of skills and innovative matching algorithms.
Debbie Ashton
Founder; SVP, Strategic Customer Experience of FinancialForce
With more than 16 years of experience in enterprise software development, customer experience management and product management, Debbie leads product strategy, R&D, and customer advocacy as the Vice President of Product at FinancialForce.com. Under Debbie’s leadership, the company’s Accounting and PSA products have been honored with accolades such as British Accountancy Awards’ Software of the Year and 2012 CRM WatchList’s Broad Brush Winner while customer satisfaction reliably exceeds industry average. Debbie and Jeremy Roche, while at CODA Group, realized a market gap in cloud applications for financial management and collaborated in the founding of FinancialForce.com with the backing of UNIT4. Prior to creating FinancialForce.com, Debbie served as the Head of Product Management for CODA Group and held senior research & development and product management responsibilities for CODA. Earlier in her career, Debbie held positions in client management, consultancy and presales for Science Systems and was part of the team who acquired CODA in the year 2000. Following the acquisition of CODA, Debbie led the team that designed and delivered CODA’s award-winning financial applications and was a core member of the team that conceived CODA’s SaaS accounting concept. Debbie began her career in microbiology and has a degree in Applied Biology from Sheffield Hallam University. Outside of work, Debbie is a proud mother of two boys and enjoys spending time with family and participating in triathlons.
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About FinancialForce: FinancialForce develops cloud back-office applications for salesforce CRM.
Paul Roberts
Founder & CEO of Nomify
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About Nomify: Nomify is an app that provides the entire company’s employee engagement with news, events, nominations, and staff holiday planning.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
Daniel Fellows
Founder & CEO of Get-Optimal
Daniel is founder and CEO at Get Optimal Content. Ex-Marketing Director at Indeed.com and also spent time in senior teams at Microsoft and Vodafone Group. Daniel is a highly accomplished data-driven sales, marketing and business leader. Having ran 250 client meetings in 18 months with the worlds leading HR and Talent Attraction leaders Daniel has built a contact network to win and win fast, locally and globally. He’s an accomplished data-driven marketer and commercial business leader, open, curious and committed to learning.He played a pivotal role in enabling LifeWorks to exit for $426m to Morneau Shepell in 2018. He’s built a vault of marketing expertise, a positive mindset and learning agility operating within series B, fast-paced startups and high growth startups right through to multi Billion dollar global organisations. He’s failed a few times along the way which is a great learning and helps keep his self-awareness and emotional intelligence balanced and online. He lives in London with his young family.
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About Get-Optimal: Get-Optimal is a UK based global technology company whose core product optimises Job Ads using AI and ML for diversity, inclusion and SEO.
Nick Court
Founder and CEO of The People Experience Hub
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About Cloud9 People, The People Experience Hub: Flexible employee feedback and survey platform (SaaS) provides everything you need to deliver an outstanding people experience.
Keith Jones
Co-Founder of Jobs The Word
He is passionate about leveraging my experience, expertise and networks to help Entrepreneurs build successful businesses and realise their dreams. Actively seeking Angel Investment Opportunities, providing both seed and growth capital.
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About Jobs The Word, Key Ventures Consulting (KVC): Jobs The Word is an employment service utilizing big data technologies to tap into candidate markets and promote employment brands.
Ann-Christine Roope
Founder & CEO of Ethan Partners
Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.
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About Ethan Partners: Ethan Partners is a specialized executive search firm.
Riko Muttik
Founder & CEO of PARiM
Founder of PARiM.
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About PARiM: Online Workforce Management Software. Scheduling, Absence Management, Time & Attendance, Payroll
Amanda Cai
CEO and Founder of Icontract Ventures Ltd.
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About Icontract Ventures Ltd.: iContract connects professional contractors with recruiters to match jobs
Paul De Francisci
Co-Founder of Icontract Ventures Ltd.
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About Icontract Ventures Ltd.: iContract connects professional contractors with recruiters to match jobs
Andrew Grevett
Founder of Cabot Consulting Group
Proactive and synergistic investor, with a focus on innovative technologies relating to the future of work and education. Experience in technology development, implementation, business analysis, corporate finance, capital raising and M&A.
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About : Enabling successful M&A
Tamsin Jones
Co-Founder and Executive Director of TheBoardroom Africa
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About TheBoardroom Africa: The Boardroom Africa (TBR Africa) promotes exceptional female talent to boards across the continent
Stefan Wissenbach
Founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Engagement Multiplier
A serial entrepreneur, Stefan is passionate about the transformational impact engagement has on organisations and the people that own them and work within them. His vision and focus is on helping 100 million people to become more engaged. His books, businesses and speaking engagements provide education and inspiration to enable businesses and individuals to fulfill their potential and bridge the gap between aspiration and achievement. His unique approach is to simplify the complex and provide a framework for people to take action, distilling a lifetime of learning into simple success strategies that anyone can master. For over 20 years he has been a leading adviser to successful entrepreneurs on engagement through his private consulting firm Wissenbach Private Clients. He is the founder of EngagementMultiplier.com, a digital platform that enables businesses and individuals all over the world to simply and efficiently measure and improve engagement levels every 90 days. He is a best selling author. His latest book, The Engaged Organisation, explains how business owners can build the business they dream about. His first book, Slaying Dragons & Moving Mountains focuses on simple ways for individuals to become more engaged and achieve personal success. He is also the co-author of Change Agents with Brian Tracy and Think & Grow Rich Today. He is the creator of The Magic Number® and the Founder of MagicFuture.com and the co-founder of The Magic Future Foundation, which has built four schools in Africa. His ‘uncommon’ common sense approach has enabled hundreds of companies to raise engagement levels, improve profits and reduce waste – whilst becoming happier places to work. Stefan is married with three children, and lives in Warwickshire, England.
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About Engagement Multiplier, Strategic Coach: Engagement Multiplier is an online program that gives companies the power to measure and improve employee engagement.
Tom Ladds
Founder & CEO of Hired By Startups
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About Hired By Startups: Hired By Startups provides onsite and external talent acquisition solutions to some of the UK’s fastest growing startups & scale-ups.
Paul Shilling
Co-Founder & CEO of Circle4x Ltd
Paul is an experienced and passionate business leader with a unique international experience working in multiple countries around the world. Focused on strategy, sales, and profitability through delivering great experiences. Paul started his career as a designer and engineer gathering unique experience of brand rollouts in the built environment with specialist knowledge of project management, cost, and risk management, construction, fit-out, interior furniture, signage, and graphics. Over the last 25 years, operating at the highest levels Paul has worked with many major brands across the automotive, petroleum, banking, retail, hotel and corporate sectors both domestically and globally. The diversity of these sectors and clients has given Paul extensive experience that helps support our clients with developing strategies for change, reducing its risk, maximising profits and ensuring it is ahead of the future trends.
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About Circle4x Ltd: Creative Strategy and Implementation Company on brand related human experiences
Matthew de la Hey
CEO & Co-Founder of inploi
Matthew is co-founder & CEO of inploi, a recruitment marketing platform built to connect great employers with the future of the workforce. With employer branding at its heart, inploi empowers companies to speak to candidates as consumers of workplaces, helping them to tell their stories with captivating videos, images, and written content in order to engage active and passive candidates. When actively hiring, inploi’s software is a powerful recruitment tool incorporating job post creation and distribution, applicant tracking, CV-parsing, candidate-job matching, proactive talent search, video profiles, instant messaging, video calling, file sharing, programmatic job advertising and more. For jobseekers, inploi provides a beautiful professional presence making it easy to access career-related information, apply for job opportunities, and connect and communicate with employers, and with each other. Matthew is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and a two-time Weidenfeld Scholar.
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About inploi: inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.
Joseph McElmeel
CEO / Co-Founder of SymbaSync
Joseph McElmeel is co-founder, CEO, and Head of Product at SymbaSync. Joseph McElmeel believes in creating HR software that removes bias and provides employees equal opportunity. Working in newspapers, music, entertainment, education, and software, Joseph McElmeel and his teams have achieved the following recognition to date: ●“1998 Leo Kelly Spirit Award for Outstanding Achievement,” – USA Today/Gannett ● “2000 RIAA Platinum Record,” Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986-1996 – Capitol Records ● “2001 (8x) RIAA Platinum Record,” Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-1978 – Capitol Records ● “2002 RIAA Platinum Record,” The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds – Capitol Records ● “2002 Team Leader Award: Top Corporate Fundraiser,” American Heart Association ● “2009 #1 Pop-Punk Artist-Japan,” Billboard-Japan Music Awards ● “2010-2014 (5x) Best Business Award: Advertising, Marketing and Event Practices,” Musical Artist Enterprises, Inc. – Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce ● “2014 U.K. Finalist,” – KPMG Case Study Competition ● “2015 Global Finalist,” – Argos Enterprise Software Competition ● “2016 Trelawney Burgoyne Prize for Academic Performance and School Impact,” – University of Edinburgh Business School ● “2017 #1 Recruitment Software Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd – SME News ● “2018 #1 Scottish Enterprise Most Innovative Recruitment Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – SME News ● “2019 Nominee for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Nominated by RBS Bank ● “2020 HR Software Company of the Year,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Corporate Livewire Magazine ● “2021 Top U.K. Project Management Companies,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Welp Magazine
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About SymbaSync: SymbaSync creates instant access to up-to-date employee skills and interests to source for temporary and permanent project teams.
Laura Degiovanni
CEO and Founder of TiiQu
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About TiiQu: TiiQu is a trust mechanism derived by immutable verifiable sources about one’s ID, Work, Knowledge, Performances
Jing Ouyang
COO and Co-Founder of Patchwork
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About LocumTap, Patchwork: Patchwork is a health tech start up providing software solutions in attempt to solve temporary staffing challenges.
Matt Rantell
CEO & Founder of The Square
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About The Square: The Square is an award winning workforce management platform & hiring marketplace for construction businesses.
Alex Borekull
Co Founder of Qlearsite – Organisational Science
Alex Borekull serves as a Co Founder at Qlearsite – Organisational Science.
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About Qlearsite – Organisational Science: Qlearsite provides People Analytics solutions that use machine learning techniques to analyse complex, big employee data.
Peter Clark
Co Founder of Qlearsite – Organisational Science
Peter Clark serves as a Co Founder at Qlearsite – Organisational Science.
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About Qlearsite – Organisational Science: Qlearsite provides People Analytics solutions that use machine learning techniques to analyse complex, big employee data.
Ollie Povey
Co-Founder & COO of Tempo
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About Tempo: Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
Ben Chatfield
CEO & Co-Founder of Tempo
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About Tempo: Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
Hubert Trinkunas
Co-Founder & Head of Community of Wishu
Wishu – The market network to book curated freelancers in film, music, design, and fashion, for your jaw-breaking projects.
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About Wishu: We are a creative community powered by a marketplace.
Anouk Agussol
CEO and Founder of Unleashed
Anouk Agussol is the CEO and Founder of Unleashed.
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About Unleashed: Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.
Daniel Ospina
Co-Founder and CEO of Conductal
Daniel is an Organization Designer. Through his company, Conductal, Daniel uses Social System Design to create incentives and processes that spark creativity and enable business agility at scale in startups and established organisations. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer on System Design at Oxford University, a Co-founder of Crossmodalism, an Associate Fellow of London University, and a Fellow of the RSA.
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About Conductal: Conductal help smaller organizations to scale and larger ones to manage communities and innovate.
Kelly Kehn
Founder & Principal Consultant of Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.
Kelly Kehn has been in iGaming senior management since 2012. She’s led teams and brands through regulatory changes, migrations and rebrands as well as held leadership roles in marketing, operations, management and sales. In 2016 she formed Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd., a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies grow their business and improve corporate governance through recruitment, retention, mentorship and empowerment of women. Her mission is to demonstrate to corporations the invaluable benefit of gender diversity through measurable results and revenue growth.
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About Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.: Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd. is a business consulting firm
Maurice O’Brien
Co-Founder of Flexa Careers
Maurice O’Brien is the Co-Founder at Flexa Careers
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About Flexa Careers: The flexible working platform
Molly Johnson-Jones
Co-Founder of Flexa Careers
Molly Johnson-Jones is the Co-Founder at Flexa Careers
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About Flexa Careers: The flexible working platform
Herbert Siu
CEO & Co-Founder of Quokka
Serial entrepreneur. Sharp insights with proven experience in UK PE/VC. Also a CFA & CPA.
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About Quokka: Quokka is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) employee engagement platform that develop engaged & high-performing teams
Kondwani Mwangulube
Founder of Myjobo.com
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About Myjobo.com: Myjobo.com is Malawi’s leading online site for jobs, recruitment and careers. It covers both the formal and informal employment marketplace.
Geoffrey Banda
Co-Founder & Director of Myjobo.com
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About Myjobo.com: Myjobo.com is Malawi’s leading online site for jobs, recruitment and careers. It covers both the formal and informal employment marketplace.
Roly Walter
Founder of Appraisd
Roly launched Appraisd in 2012 as an easy, intuitive and tailored employee engagement platform that HR, managers and employees would actually enjoy using. Since graduating with a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, Roly always been interested in how technology can enable people to do more of what they enjoy and less of what they find tedious. After designing global online HR tools for Goldman Sachs, he saw the need for a performance management system that puts employees and managers first.
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About Appraisd: Enterprise SaaS HR employee development and engagement tool with goals, feedback, reviews, check-ins and more
Tommaso Lucentini
Founder and Business Developer of iTalentJob
Passionate about digital marketing, technology and travelling. Have lived in London, Bangkok, Milan and Marsala.
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About Crowdville Ltd, iTalentJob: iTalentJob is an integrated career searching consultancy firm that connects employers with job seekers.
Alex Dover
Founder of Prism Digital
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About Prism Digital: Prism Digital are a DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure focused Talent Partner.
Kyle John Probert
Founder of Transparent Talent
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About Transparent Talent: Transparent Talent is a staffing agency that provides recruiting services to a variety of sectors.
Ian Harwood
Founder and CEO of h2 Recruit Ltd
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About h2 Recruit Ltd: Specialist executive sales recruiter within the technology start up space based in London and New York
Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill
Co-Founder of JOIN talent
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About JOIN talent: HR tech, Recruitment tech, HR insourcing, HR consultancy, Recruitment Insourcing
Eyal Ben Cohen
CEO/Founder of Verifile
Eyal Ben Cohen is the CEO and Founder at Verifile Ltd – Employment Screening Company. He worked for WorkPass Limited as CEO/Founder. He is a graduate of Cranfield University with an MBA in Business Administration.
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About Verifile: Verifile is a provider of global CV verification and background screening services.
Scott Erwin
Founder and CEO of HireHand
Scott Erwin is the founder and CEO at HireHand.
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About HireHand: HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
Nicholas Barton
Founder & CEO of The Barton Partnership
Nicholas founded The Barton Partnership in late 2007 and has succeeded in building a niche executive recruitment firm with an enviable reputation within the Strategy, Transformation and M&A arena. From a standing start, he has built a team of professionals renowned not only for their talent acquisition skills but also their subject matter expertise with offices in London, Europe, New York and Asia. Throughout his career he has specialised in, and successfully executed, on over 250 senior retained and contingent assignments across Commerce, Financial Services and Professional Services both in the UK and Internationally.
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About The Barton Partnership: The Barton Partnership is a niche Executive Recruitment firm providing permanent and interim solutions in strategy, transformation, and M&A.
Chathum Henegama
CEO & Co-Founder of XpressJobs
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About XpressJobs: XpressJobs is Sri Lanka’s premier Job Board. A marketplace tasked to help companies hire the best talent.
Martin Higham
Founder & Partner of Ocasta
Martin Higham serves as a co-founder and partner at Ocasta.
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About Ocasta: Ocasta develops knowledge, training & education tech for your employees or students.
Lisa Hamill
Co-Founder & Executive Director of BraveGoose
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About BraveGoose: BraveGoose develops a human resources technology solution called CleverGoose.
CJ Green
Co-Founder & Executive Director of BraveGoose
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About BraveGoose: BraveGoose develops a human resources technology solution called CleverGoose.
Ben Kaminsky
Founder & CEO of EVA.AI
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About EVA.AI: HR Tech Automation Platform
Nikolaos Lygkonis
CEO & Founder of PeopleGoal
Co founder of PeopleGoal.
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About PeopleGoal: PeopleGoal is a configurable employee performance and engagement platform.
Lionel Viet
Founder of AssessUp
Founder of AssessUp.
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About AssessUp: The first objective platform for detecting and promoting talented professionals
Craig Redmond
Founder & CEO of Zipier Payroll
Before founding Zipier in 2013, Craig worked as a developer for Microsoft. Craig tries to make life more interesting by travelling to exotic countries, and likes to think he speaks fluent Mandarin.
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About Zipier Payroll: Free cloud payroll, HR, and attendance for your business. All 50 states. Paystubs. Paychecks. Tax forms. Legal templates. All for FREE!
Guy Shelton
Founder, CEO of MAILPROFILER Technology Solutions UK
Entrepreneur & Investor. 20yrs tech & digital. Growing SaaS companies in EMEA, APAC & NA building start-ups & establishing companies overseas expansion often as their 1st man on the ground.
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About MAILPROFILER Technology Solutions UK: Consultancy
Omer Dawelbeit
Founder of OfficeMA Timesheet
A high caliber IT professional, technology Evangelist and Entrepreneur. Founder @ http://www.officema.co.uk. Founder @ http://www.myworldapp.co.uk. Developer @ http://ecarf.io
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About OfficeMA Timesheet: Provider of cost effective cloud based time tracking and reporting for individuals and teams.
Ali Hanan
Founder & CEO of Creative Equals
All Hanan is an award-winning creative director who marketing sector for the last 19 years. Along the wa lack of diversity within the industry, so in 2015, she s project, now an award-winning organisation with the VCCP, HavasLondon, Ogilvy, The Engine Group, AMV pioneered a data-driven, people-powered model for Media Equality Standards, which has become the be companies a review, rating and a roadmap for lastin has worked in the advertising and she has seen the impact of the -t up Creative Equals as a side backing of companies including 1900 and many more. Her team liversity, the Creative, Digital and chmark for the industry, giving change.
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About Creative Equals: Creative Equals is here to work with industry, agencies and recruitment to create more pathways to success for female creative talent.
Max Blumberg
Founder of Blumberg Partnership
Max Blumberg is the founder of the Global Top 50 Blumberg Partnership HR and sales force analytics consultancy whose clients include the Barclays Bank, Rentokil Initial, BBC, Novo Nordisk, Lloyds Register, Walmart, and Friends Provident. Max is also a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and a director of Valuing Your Talent, a collaboration between the CIPD, UKCES, CIMA and CMI to increase the value of organisational workforces. A regular contributor to the media, Max presents regularly on the global conference circuit and previously worked as a management consultant at Accenture after which he founded and successfully exited a technology start-up before pursuing his PhD.
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About Blumberg Partnership: The Blumberg Partnership delivers resourcing and development processes for accurately identifying the talent and job fit
James World
Co-Founder of Tungl
James World joined Imburse as Solution Architect in 2021.
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About Imburse, Tungl: Tungl is a tech assessment platform designed to streamline tech recruitment and enable data driven hiring decisions.
Dan Collier
Co-Founder, Director of Sales and Strategy & CEO of ElevateDirect.com
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About ElevateDirect.com: Productivity enhancement tool for recruitment across all workforce categories
