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 Information Services 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.
Lance Uggla
Founder and CEO of IHS Markit
Lance Uggla is Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. He served as president from July 2016 to December 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer in October 2017. Prior to the 2016 merger of IHS and Markit that formed IHS Markit, Lance was the chief executive officer of Markit, responsible for leading the company’s strategic development and managing day-to-day operations. He founded Markit in 2003 after spotting an opportunity to bring transparency to the credit default swap market. The company launched the first daily credit default swap pricing service that year. He oversaw Markit’s growth from a startup to a global public company with more than 4,200 employees in 28 offices worldwide, serving more than 3,000 customers. Lance graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a BBA and holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, UK.
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About IHS, IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
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Stuart Miller
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybox
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About Bybox: ByBox was founded with a simple mission: to solve the problem of having to wait in for parcels.
Adil Mohammed
CEO and Founder of Virtuoso
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About Virtuoso: Virtuoso develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions.
Frank Hester OBE
Founder & CEO of The Phoenix Partnership
Frank has always been at the forefront of IT innovation. In his early career he was instrumental in building technological infrastructure in the finance industry. Frank founded TPP in 1997 and pioneered integrated care – delivering his vision of connected care across all health settings. Today, TPP provides leading software that is transforming healthcare worldwide. Frank is active in all aspects of the company’s business operations, working alongside the teams in the development of TPP’s products and representing the company in the public domain. Frank’s innovative vision is nationally recognised by the NHS, leading journals and healthcare organisations. In 2012, he was elected to the board of TechUK as a spokesperson for the healthcare IT sector. The following year, he was listed as one of the UK’s top 50 innovators in the national health publication, HSJ. In 2015, Frank was named on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List to be awarded with an OBE (Order of the British Empire), for his services to healthcare. Frank has been invited on numerous government trade missions, representing the UK health industry around the world. He has visited countries such as China, India and Brazil as part of trade missions led by British Prime Minister, David Cameron and by Kenneth Clarke, QC, MP.
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About The Phoenix Partnership: TPP is a healthcare technology company, dedicated to delivering world class healthcare software in the UK and internationally.
Craig Hollingworth
Co-Founder & Business Development Officer of Concirrus
Craig is Concirrus’ Business Development Officer and a pioneer in the Internet of Things (IoT). Craig has held senior positions with O2, France Telecom, and Masternaut. Craig is passionate about helping clients leverage the IoT to effectively manage risk, develop a competitive edge and drive profitable growth.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Ammad Ahmad
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Atheneum
Ammad has a comprehensive understanding of the key levers that drive better business performance given his experience in implementing industry specific best practices across various Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding Atheneum, he spent 13 years in the United States, with significant experience at Kaiser Associates, and the Advisory Board Company. Ammad is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and has a Masters from the WHU School of Management together with the Bucerius Law School in Germany.
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About Atheneum: Atheneum is a knowledge sharing platform that offers corporations access to up-to-date market insights for better business decisions.
John Lord
Founder & CEO of Trunarrative
Appointed in 2009, John Lord leads the Group’s growing global capability to provide fraud, risk and compliance solutions to many of the world’s largest commercial organisations, governments, as well as disruptive start-ups. Prior to GBG, John led global sales before heading up the UK business for one of the world’s largest credit rating agencies, Dun & Bradstreet, and also led a major data analytics, outsourcing and contact centre business.
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About Trunarrative: Trunarrative is a risk and financial crime management platform that offers fraud prevention, identity, and compliance solutions.
Yoram Wijngaarde
Founder & CEO of Dealroom.co
Yoram founded dealroom.co in 2013. Before that he worked for 10 years in investment banking, advising media, telco and internet companies. Worked at Lehman Brothers between 2004 and 2008 in the Media Investment Banking Group in New York and London. After Lehman’s collapse he and two Lehman colleagues created NOAH Advisors (and the NOAH Conference), an independent tech M&A boutique. Yoram worked at NOAH from 2009 to 2013. Yoram completed 21 M&A deals with over $10bn in combined value and for example led the sale of Fotolia.com to KKR ($500M), the acquisition of Bigpoint by TA/Summit ($350m) and the sale of Softonic to Partners Group (€275m).
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About Dealroom.co: Global database to identify & track promising companies
Andrew Bud
Founder and CEO of iProov
Andrew Bud is Founder and CEO of iProov, the UK-based provider of online authentication based on face verification, whose patented One Time Biometric technology delivers uniquely strong resilience to spoofs, replays and hacking. iProov has been recognised, adopted and supported by UK Government agencies and has won numerous prizes from global corporations, and its remote KYC solution has received regulatory recognition. Andrew is also Global Chair of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an international industry association serving the whole mobile value chain. He was formerly CEO and Executive Chairman of mBlox Inc., the world’s largest provider of enterprise-to-consumer text messaging services worldwide, which he founded in 2000 and on whose Board he served until its sale in 2016. Until 1998 he was SVP Marketing for Azlan, Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe. In 1994 he was member of the leadership team founding Italian mobile operator Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italia). Named in 2009 as one of the top 40 telecoms executives worldwide, he is a Fellow of the IET and has a first class degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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About iProov, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, The Media Institute: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Duncan Johnston-Watt
CEO & Co-Founder of BTP
Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Cloudsoft Corporation Limited in 2008 and serves as its the Chief Executive Officer. Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. in 2002 and served as its Principal since 2000. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. until December 2008. He is a serial entrepreneur and industry visionary with over twenty years experience in the software industry. He also has experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale systems including the global FX and Money Markets data delivery infrastructure for BNP and the Fixed Income analytics infrastructure at UBS. In April 1998, Duncan Johnston-Watt joined the Reuters Group subsidiary, Instinet Corporation where he led the development of new Fixed Income brokerage platform that was launched in March 2000 and served as Managing Director, Fixed Income Technology since May 2000. At Instinet, he pioneered the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services. He serves as a Director of Cloudsoft Corporation Limited. Duncan Johnston-Watt has been a Non Executive Director of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd., since December 2008 and previously served as its Director until December 2008. In recognition of the work, he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award in April 2000. Duncan Johnston-Watt holds MSc in Computation from Oxford University and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Leeds University.
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About BTP: Blockchain Technology Partners is an enterprise blockchain company.
Michael Cockburn
Founder of Desana
Michael Cockburn is the Founder of Desana.
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About Desana: Hybrid / future of work: B2B SAAS/Marketplace solution for managing hybrid workplace models, globally.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Rob Dobson
Chairman and Co-Founder of DevicePilot
Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company to PE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he’s not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He’s also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he’s fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.
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About 1248, Float: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Ilya Levtov
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craft.co
Ilya is the founder and CEO ofCraft providing data and analytics on thousands of companies for free to professionals researching their next career move or conducting business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, then received his MBA from Stanford. Later he joined venture capital firm Venrock in Menlo Park, and then joined Venrock’s portfolio-company Crunchyroll, as EVP. Ilya believes that access to more and better information for professionals and candidates about employers and opportunities, is a key to solving the talent challenges we face today.
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About Craft.co, Digital Supply Chain Institute: Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Tony Pearce
Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
Coming from a 25 year background in senior management in the entertainment and gaming industry Tony has an excellent track record as a successful entrepreneur and CEO. Over the past 10 years Tony has raised over £15m in VC funding, started 5 companies and had 2 successful exits. Most recently Tony founded GamesGRABR an innovative platform (web, mobile and tablet) that marries the power and usability of a contemporary ‘pinboard-style’ interface allowing the user to curate their own collections, discover, engage, play and share them with other users with similar interests Previously Tony founded a games company called TeePee Games and developed a technology that allowed users to get recommendations on games across social networks such as Facebook. Tony was the CEO and Co-Founder of Player X and spearheaded the company from a two person start-up in 2004 and developed it into Europe’s largest mobile games distributor. The company was named by Library House as the fourth fastest growing VC backed company in the UK before it was acquired by Spanish mobile content company ZED in April 2009. Tony is also the co-founder of an executive networking event called the Centurions which is aimed at the digital entertainment industry and takes place every two months in London along with events in New York, Istanbul and Munich.
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About Centurions Networking Event, gamesGRABR, Reality Gaming Group Limited, TeePee Games: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Pavlo Tanasyuk
CEO and Founder of BlockVerify
Pavlo is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of BlockVerify. Previously was the CEO and co-founder at Monexy payment system. Pavlo holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School and Certificate in General Management from Stanford University. Pavlo was Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Journal at the London School of Economics. Pavlo is active as a researcher on blockchain technology and its social implications. He presented his work at a number of major international conferences including World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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About BlockVerify, BlockVerify, Spacebit, Spacebit Technologies: BlockVerify offers a Blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Dmitriy Molokov
Founder of Absolute
Friend, partner, gentleman, entrepreneur.
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About Absolute: Absolute – the place where technologies helps self-development and connecting with the world around them.
Roy Moed
Founder & CEO of LifeBook
Roy Moed is a Founder & CEO at LifeBook.
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About LifeBook: LifeBook is a UK-based startup offering professionally written autobiographies as gifts for friends and family members.
Christian Nordqvist
Founder of Market Business News
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About Market Business News: Online publisher of business, science and technology related news.
Kresimir Budinski
Managing Director & Founder of AirTicketArena Ltd.
Kresimir Budinski is the Managing Director & Founder at AirTicketArena.
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About AirTicketArena Ltd.: Air Ticket Arena is the first fully automated platform which matches unsold seats on scheduled flights with air traveller’s bids.
Andrew Mindenhall
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Agilisys
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About Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Josh Bowyer
CEO & Co-Founder of Zint Technology
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About SalesSift, Zint Technology: Zint Technology is a specialist sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams to identify, win and grow accounts.
Matt Tyburski
Chief Scientist and Founder of Global Surface Intelligence Ltd.
Matt is an interdisciplinary geospatial data scientist. He has a PhD, LLM, MSc and BA. He has 10 years’ post-PhD experience originating data science concepts in the private sector as wells as leading on data science systems development at Johns Hopkins and within the U.S. Federal Government.
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About Global Surface Intelligence Ltd.: Global Surface Intelligence is an Edinburgh-based earth observation and artificial-intelligence-as-a-service provider
Iain Richardson
Founder of ClaimNote
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About ClaimNote, OneCodec, Vcodex: ClaimNote is an intuitive and easy-to-use online collaboration tool for patents.
Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Marjella Alma
CEO & Co-Founder of Datamaran
Marjella Alma is the CEO and co-founder of Datamaran – a technology scale-up HQed in London. Marjella believes that the application to AI to corporate sustainability is a game-changer, and partnered with former Wall Street trader and big data expert to drive her vision. As a technical expert in the field with in-depth knowledge of non-financial disclosure and responsible investing, Marjella provides the strategic direction to the team and leads the business development efforts. Datamaran is in its 4th year of growth and has gained great traction amongst both the corporate and investor community globally. They are the “Bloomberg of ESG” – and differentiate themselves by providing a data-driven approach to non-financial risk management and by providing access to their data analytics platform that allows for ongoing monitoring of (material) issues. Additionally, in recognition of Marjella’s leadership and vision for the future, Marjella is part of Telefonica’s Sustainability Stakeholder Advisory Group. Prior to founding Datamaran, Marjella was the head of the New York office of GRI (the Global Reporting Initiative) – the most widely used standard for measuring and managing Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues. She joined the GRI headquarters in Amsterdam in 2007 where she successfully set up the services department. She became the youngest female Director for the GRI at age 30. Marjella holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Groningen and has a large and impressive international network in the field of reporting and transparency. In her career to date, Marjella has worked with governments, regulators, international organisations, businesses, civil society, labour, the accountancy profession and the media – she continues to attract new audiences to this space with her diverse global team of experts in technology, risk management, finance, law and ESG.
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About Datamaran: Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.
Daniel Siden
Co-Founder and Director of Lightvert Ltd.
Daniel is a Business Director, Designer and Engineering with 18-years of professional experience, 12 of those spent as an design and technology entrepreneur in London. He builds teams, digital and physical technology products, services and businesses. As a founding director of design and engineering company Haberdashery, he lead the growth of the company from 0 to 20+ employees with a turnover of £1.6M on £2M of sales. Clients includes Nissan and CREE LEDs, Changi Airport Group and British Land, and world leading luxury interior and architecture firms. From Haberdashery Daniel spun out Lightvert Ltd., an out of home media technology company utilising proprietary patented technologies to merge the power of the spectacle of out of home media with the engagement of mobile. At Lightvert Daniel successfully raising seed funding and building an outstanding operational team and supply chain partnerships, and launched Lightvert’s core products within 6 months of closing the funding round. Originally from San Francisco, with and engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Daniel moved to the UK in 2002 for his Masters in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art.
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About Haberdasherylondon, Lightvert Ltd., ROLI: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Olly Betts
Co-Founder and CEO of OpenWrks
Fintech Founder, Investor and Advisor. Building the technology that makes Open Banking work. Advocate and pioneer in the use of open data to create experiences that enrich people’s lives. At OpenWrks our mission is to use Open Banking to help everyone understand what they can afford to save, invest, borrow and repay. Member of senior leadership team that took TDX Group from start up to a global data and technology company.
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About Bizfitech, OpenWrks: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
Steve Bradford
Co-Founder and CCO of OpenWrks
Steve has almost 20 years in sales, market development, and leadership positions for a variety of blue chip and entrepreneurial firms. He was part of the leadership team at TDX Group (acquired by Equifax), and spent five years at FICO. Steve started out in the coal industry, but with marketing information systems, not as a miner. His favorite quote is, “I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one.” His favorite soccer team is Nottingham Forest, and loves all Robin Hood movies because he was brought up eight miles from the home of Robin Hood.
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About OpenWrks, Tully: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
Mitul Sudra
Co-Founder & CTO of OpenWrks
A key figure at the very earliest stages of Open Banking’s inception, Mitul is transforming the vision for Open Banking into real value. Mitul’s team create the technology that powers everything OpenWrks does.
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About OpenWrks: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Stefan Catoiu
Co-Founder & COO of Vita Mojo
Stefan Catoiu is the Co-Founder and COO of Vita Mojo.
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About Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Cristian Parrino
CEO and Co-Founder of Greengame
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About Greengame, OpenUK: Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics
David Rai
Founder & Group CEO of Sparta Global
David is the founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sparta Global, one of the UK’s leading technology and business services firms. He is a seasoned management professional with over 25 year’s leadership experience in the UK, Europe and North America Sparta Global is headquartered in London, and has training academies across the UK and employs over 300 staff. In 2019 Sparta Global generated over £25million in revenue and is hiring over 500 graduates in the next 12 months. As Chief Executive Officer, David Rai has overall responsibility for the day to day running of Sparta Global, its strategic development, growth strategy, financial performance and creating the optimum conditions to deliver future value. Prior to founding Sparta Global, David co-founded an online gambling organisation and worked for leading fast growth gaming organisations in key sales appointments in London, UK and the USA. He received his BSc Hons Management Studies from Aston University and MSc Management from Manchester University.
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About Sparta Global: Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Stephen Murphy
Co-Founder of NOBL Group
Stephen is Managing Director & Co-Founder of Prohibition Partners, the leading source of intelligence and insights into the European cannabis industry. As a cannabis specialist focused on developing the legal European cannabis industry, Stephen is a Co-Founder of European Cannabis Holdings, Europe’s cannabis investment group and Cannabis Europa, Europe’s premier medical cannabis conference. With a background is in technology, digital media and corporate finance, Stephen works with investors, entrepreneurs and regulators to identify, qualify and maximise the opportunities in this emerging frontier.
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About European Cannabis Holdings (ECH), NOBL Group, Prohibition Partners: NOBL is an information technology services company that specializes in cannabis data, conferences and consulting.
Julian Assange
Founder of WikiLeaks
Julian Assange is the founder of [WikiLeaks](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wikileaks). He was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and computer programmer before setting up WikiLeaks. He is currently a citizen of Australia.
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About WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes classified information provided by anonymous sources.
Sacha Carton
Co-Founder & COO of Airfinity
Sacha is co-founder & COO at Airfinity – a science information and analytics company. He is a data, tech and media entrepreneur who previously co-founded ad pepper media (FRA: APM), Adbrain (sold to NSDQ: TTD), Scala Ventures and advisory firm Ogmenta and has been an investor, advisor and director in multiple media, data, adtech, PE and M&A companies in Europe and the US.
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About Airfinity, Scala Ventures: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Chris Donnachie
Co-Founder of UniZest
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About BESPOKE, UniZest: Global banking for international students
Elliot Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of Zapaygo
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About Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Peter Dolukhanov
Founder & CEO of Decoded Consulting
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About Decoded Consulting: Decoded Consulting is a technology leadership consultancy that offers CTO services.
Ross Harper
Founder and CEO of Limbic
Ross Harper is the co-founder and CEO of Limbic. Computational neuroscientist gone rogue. With degrees from Cambridge University and University College London, Ross is skilled at drawing hidden meaning from biological data.
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About Limbic: Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers.
Justin Fitzpatrick
Co-Founder & CEO of DueDil
Justin is co-founder and CEO of DueDil. Prior to DueDil he established the Asian and European operations for two other venture-backed tech companies. Justin is also a founding Non-Executive Director of Innovate Finance, a financial technology industry body.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
David Fountaine
CEO & Founder of Creation Technology
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About Creation Technology: Creation Technology is a consultancy and product development company that offers department solutions or a complete digital transformation.
Tristram Norman
Co-Founder & CTO of Simprints
Tristram Norman, CTO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Tristram is a software engineer with an MSc with high honors from the University of London and professional certifications from MIT in Big Data. His software portfolio includes a complete systems portal with energy industry leader JDR Cables Inc. Tristram is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Toby Norman
Co-Founder & CEO of Simprints
Toby Norman, CEO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Gates Scholar and PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, BA in Biology from Harvard. Toby has worked >10 years with frontline workers across Africa, Asia, and Central America on initiatives to improve global health and development through technology. Toby is a 2018 GLG Fellow, 2017 Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Vivek Madlani
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiply
Vivek Madlani is the Cofounder and CEO at multiply.ai
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About Multiply: Multiply provides independent financial advice service.
David von Dadelszen
Co-Founder of Purposeful
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About Purposeful: Purposeful is a structured communication platform that focuses on streamlining essential communications and decisions makings.
Denis Ignatovich
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imandra
Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
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About Imandra: Imandra specializes in cloud-scale automated reasoning.
Edmond Boulle
Co-Founder of Orbital Witness
Co-Founder at Orbital Witness – we’re hiring!
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About Orbital Witness: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
William Pearce
Co-Founder of Orbital Witness
Co-Founder at Orbital Witness – We’re hiring!
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About Orbital Witness: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Will Read
CEO & Founder of Sideways 6
Will Read is Founder & CEO at Sideways 6.
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About Sideways 6: Sideways 6 is a platform helping organisations including british airways and sainsbury’s to harness the innovative ideas of their employees.
Yi Xu
Founder and CEO of Human
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About Human: Human humanises technology to decipher subliminal facial expressions into emotion and characteristics, predicting human behaviour.
Wendy McDougall
CEO and Founder of Firefish Software
Wendy McDougall is the CEO and founder of Firefish Software. Prior to that, Wendy served as a regional director at TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement). She was the founder and managing director at 9-20 Recruitment.
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About Firefish Software: Firefish Software is a recruitment and marketing SaaS platform that helps recruiters reach, engage, and recruit top candidates.
Ali Adnan
Co-Founder of Authlete
Born and raised in Japan, Ali is a British citizen who comes from a multicultural background and speaks several languages. Ali has led high-tech European start-ups for over 15 years creating value by bringing people together from varied backgrounds.
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About Mytrax: Authlete provides a set of Web APIs with which developers implement servers supporting OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, etc.
Lindsay Trombley
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Wovn
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About Wovn: Wovn provides fashion brands with real-time predictive insights to better predict demand, reduces waste, and increasing sales.
Vera Grablechner
Founder & CEO of myCulture
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About myCulture: MyCulture is an art curator app that provides art enthusiasts with personalized recommendations for exhibitions based on their interests.
Piers Linney
CEO & Founder of Moblox
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About Moblox: Moblox is a tech and tool platform for owner-led businesses.
Mark Maslin
Director and Co-Founder of Rezatec
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About Rezatec: Rezatec applies data science to satellite imagery and geospatial data to deliver cloud-based analytics to its global customers.
Paris Stylianides
Co-Founder. head of Strategy and Growth of Jobcha
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About Jobcha: JOBCHA is a smarter job search using machine learning algorythms.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
David Ovadia
Founder CEO, Chairman and Non Executive Director of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd
David Ovadia is a successful Chief Executive and Chairman with a proven record of achievement in the public and private sectors. He was a Director of Blenheim Natural Resources plc, previously Coburg plc, London AIM-listed companies investing in the global natural resources sector, CEO of Avenco Ltd and Chairman of South East African Mining (SEAM) Ltd, both junior explorers for gold and other minerals in Africa. He served as a Director of Spectrum General Partner Ltd and was previously the Director of International at the British Geological Survey, from which he spun out and was the founder Managing Director, and later Chairman, of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd.
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About IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd: IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd provides geoscientific and geodata services to the global mineral exploration sector.
Anka Mandleson
Co-Founder of Advantra Wealth
Anka Mandleson is the co-founder of Advantra Wealth, a digital b2b platform that puts financial institutions in control of their profitability and their clients in control of their investments. Bringing unparalleled user experience and cutting edge technology and AI, it allows banks to digitise with minimum investment, bringing client centricity to their investment model. Anka has over 10 years experience in the banking and wealth management industry, having worked with the C-suite of over 10 global banks across UK, US, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Asia and Latina America and is a former Associate Principal at McKinsey&Company.
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About Advantra Wealth: Advantra Wealth is a financial advisory firm.
Julian M. Baladurage
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MBJ LONDON
Julian Baladurage joined MBJ LONDON as CEO & Co-founder in 2011.
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About Forbes New York Business Council, MBJ LONDON: MBJ LONDON is a web and app development company offering Website as a Service.
Warren Russell
Founder & CEO of W2 Global Data
Over 14 years’ experience in working within the Financial Service Sector. Warren has extensive expertise in AML (Anti Money Laundering), Anti-fraud, CTF (Counter Terrorism Financing), Loss Prevention, Regulation and Compliance working within companies such as HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Cheltenham & Gloucester and C6 Group.
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About W2 Global Data: W2 Global Data is a provider of international data, software and services.
David Vernon
Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Ecrebo
David is responsible for driving customer focus into all aspects of Ecrebo’s business to ensure retention, satisfaction and loyalty. David has a track record of establishing new operations, leading teams and executing major projects from inception to delivery. As Ecrebo Co-Founder, David also has significant experience with managing processes and platforms. Prior to founding Ecrebo, David had more than 10 years’ experience in management and finance for leading fund management companies including De Putron and Amiri Capital.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Simon Wheeldon
Co-Founder and COO of CloudApps
Simon is a co-founder of CloudApps and is responsible for Professional Services Delivery and Corporate Strategy. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent 4 years at Salesforce.com leading the adoption of the pioneering Force.com platform across EMEA. Under Simon’s guidance the Force.com platform in Europe grew to be a multi-million dollar business. With over 20 years experience in the software industry, Simon was responsible for the widespread sales and adoption of the Force.com platform; helping numerous Salesforce.com’s customers to build and sell their very own Software-as-a-Service applications. Prior to joining Salesforce.com Simon was responsible for the financial services business at Siebel Systems in the UK. Previously, he has held senior positions at Business Objects and Accenture. Simon has a BSc in Computer Science from Bristol University. He is married with two children and lives in Oxfordshire, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Simon Corley
Co-Founder & CFO of CloudApps
Simon is a co-founder of CloudApps and is responsible for Finance, Administration & Operations and brings over 18 years of relevant experience to this role gained whilst working at Salesforce, Siebel Systems and Informix. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent over 6 years at salesforce.com, joining in 2003 before its IPO. Simon has been a member of the European Management team since hire and initially was responsible for the company’s Finance and Administration for EMEA. In 2007 Simon was promoted to Vice President, Operations for EMEA, and in 2009 to Vice President of Strategy for International Sales. Simon’s focus was to optimise sales performance through targeted go-to-market strategies, coverage models, and evaluation of sales execution. Prior to joining Salesforce, Simon spent 6 years at Siebel and 5 years at Informix within the European Finance functions, providing infrastructure support to enable explosive growth in their sales teams. Simon is a Chartered Accountant who gained his professional qualification with Deloitte and Touche in London in 1990. He has a BSc in Geography from King’s College, London University. Simon is married with two children and lives in Hampshire, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Anthony Day
Co-Founder & Board Member of CloudApps
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Dan Cvrcek
Founder of KeyChest
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About KeyChest, Smart Architects: KeyChest is a certificate management tool that helps small to medium sized businesses to website expiration due to unmanaged encryption.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Roger England
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Spikes Cavell & Co
Co-founder of Spikes Cavell, Roger has 26 years software/information industry experience with the majority of that time spent in subscription-based data businesses. While at Spikes Cavell, in addition to spending a number of years in business development, Roger has run the customer service, operations, HR and finance functions. Roger is process-oriented, cost-conscious and has a keen, some say obsessive, eye for detail. An avid cyclist, he can often be found making the arduous trek from his home deep in the Wiltshire countryside to the office in Berkshire regardless of what the British weather throws at him.
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About Spikes Cavell & Co: Spikes Cavell is focused on data-based solutions to support decision making and programme execution in the private sector.
Andrew Wallace
Co Founder of SatSense
Andrew has a successful commercial and general management record developing and launching new technologies and services. He has worked mainly in electronics, sensors and telecoms, focusing on product management and strategic business development. He has lived in 3 continents and speaks three languages.
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About Pyreos, SatSense: SatSense is a spin-out company using software to detect the deterioration of building foundations.
Freddie McMahon
Co-Founder, Director of Strategy and Innovation of DF2020 Limited
Responsible for developing a paradigm shift in the way firms interact with regulation, which is currently unsustainable due to the diversity, volume, rate of change and complexity.
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About Augestra, DF2020 Limited: Df2020 regtech digitises regulation and procedures through a universal and unifying blend of codification, interaction and measurement.
Bruce Hellman
CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif
Bruce Hellman is the CEO and Co-Founder of uMotif.
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About uMotif: UMotif is a scalable and engaging patient-centred data capture platform for modern research.
Michael Trounce
Founder & CEO of Trounceflow
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About Trounceflow: Tech-centred professional services firm helping financial market professionals with data and insight on flows and positions in EMD/FX
Martin McCann
Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Ledger
Martin McCann is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Ledger.
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
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.
Roger Wilson
Chairman and Founder of Adept Technology Group Plc
Roger has worked in telecommunications since 1993. In addition to being the first Managing Director for Telewest’s residential consumer business in the UK he spent 3 years in Poland successfully building a business for American investors. He was Managing Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association until January 2006.
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About Adept Technology Group Plc: Adept Technology Group is one of COMMS Integrators offering best-in-class breed solutions from any UK network, customized to your needs.
Christina Richardson
Founder & chief-firestarter of Weare3Sixty
Christina Richardson is the Founder at 3sixty. She attended Durham University in 2000.
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About 3sixty, The Nurture Network, University College London (UCL), Weare3Sixty: Weare3Sixty is an impact-driven company on a mission to inspire founders to be their most effective, high-performing selves.
Olubusayo Longe
Co-Founder and Product Manager of Formplus
Olubusayo is co-founder and product manager at Form+.
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About Formplus: Formplus is a cloud-based, enterprise-focused data collection SaaS.
Romill Bettany
Co-Founder and Engineering Director of Modulous
Romill Bettany is the co-founder and engineering director at Modulous.
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About Modulous: Redefining the design & delivery of affordable, sustainable & smart homes by leveraging disruptive digital technologies
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
David Edwards
Founder and CEO of ChainThat
David Edwards is the founder and product lead for ChaintThat. ChainThat provides enterprise decentralised solutions & services based on Blockchain and smart contracts for the commercial & specialty (re)insurance sector. David has proven his industry leading experience repeatedly during his work with large enterprises and start-ups alike over the past 20 years. His wide-ranging technical skills span the provision of high-level architecture design & strategy down to detailed, low-level technical solutions. He has been working with architecting Blockchain and smart contracts solutions since 2014. Prior to Chainthat, David held the role of Enterprise Infrastructure Architect for London’s leading insurance services provider. In this role he provided cloud strategy, complex data migration planning, cyber security guidance, total cost of ownership modelling for applications / services and infrastructure / storage strategy. Previously David held architecture positions at Capita, ATOS & Siemens.
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About ChainThat: ChainThat provide services and solutions that leverage new decentralised technologies to enable a step-change in peer-to-peer processing.
Alex Craven
Co-Founder of The Data City
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About The Data City: The Data City – The alternative to SIC, map any sector, find the perfect M&A acquisition targets, build your perfect B2B prospect list
Tom Forth
Founder of The Data City
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About The Data City: The Data City – The alternative to SIC, map any sector, find the perfect M&A acquisition targets, build your perfect B2B prospect list
Tom Forth
Founder of The Data City
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About The Data City: The Data City – The alternative to SIC, map any sector, find the perfect M&A acquisition targets, build your perfect B2B prospect list
Paul Connell
Founder of The Data City
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About The Data City: The Data City – The alternative to SIC, map any sector, find the perfect M&A acquisition targets, build your perfect B2B prospect list
Adriana Nem
Founder of relak.co
Founder at Relak
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About Adriana Nem Swimwear, relak.co: Your Go-To Remote Work & Lifestyle Resource, Community & More. Join Us!
Felix Kenton
Co-Founder of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Andrew Jervis
Co-Founder and CEO of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Ben Nicholson
Founder and Sharedo Product Manager of slicedbread
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About slicedbread: slicedbread provide a single place where all work can be managed effectively.
Andrew Barnes
Managing Director and Co Founder of 6prog
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Hannah Birch
Co-Founder of 6prog
After graduating in Marketing, Hannah took a management path by delivering projects in the public sector and managed ‘return to employment’ schemes for ex-offenders. More recently Hannah managed the back office of a consultancy firm in the UK. In her spare time, she ‘enjoys’ being a general taxi service and keeping fit.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Hannah Birch
Co-Founder of 6prog
After graduating in Marketing, Hannah took a management path by delivering projects in the public sector and managed ‘return to employment’ schemes for ex-offenders. More recently Hannah managed the back office of a consultancy firm in the UK. In her spare time, she ‘enjoys’ being a general taxi service and keeping fit.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Ray Barnes
Co-Founder of 6prog
Ray began programming as a school boy on an IBM 360 and has not stopped since! He has developed software for many industries, focussing recently on data-driven sport websites. A keen orienteer, he is often an official taking responsibility for 3500 competitors at the largest UK events. Any spare time is devoted to climbing hills and ticking off trig points.
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Joshua Ratilal
Co-Founder and Director of Zentivo
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About Zentivo: Zentivo is an Insurtech startup, focusing on digitising the life insurance claims process.
