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 Marketing 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.
Marc Lore
Founder & CEO of Jet
Marc Lore is the Founder and CEO of Jet. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Wizkids, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Topps Company, Inc. (NASD: TOPP) and a leading game manufacturer. Prior to joining Wizkids, Marc was the co-founder and CEO of The Pit, Inc., an Internet market-making collectible company constructed as an alternative to eBay. The Pit, Inc. was successfully sold to the then publicly traded Topps Company in 2001. Prior to ThePit, Marc held various investment banking positions, including as Executive Vice President of Sanwa International Bank in London where he was head of the bank’s Risk Management Division. Before Sanwa, he was Vice President and Global Head of Emerging Markets Risk Department at Credit Suisse First Boston in London. In 2000, he was named by The Sunday Times Magazine of London as one of Britain’s top ten “new high-tech entrepreneurs and whiz kids.” Marc graduated from Bucknell University, where he received a B.A. in Business Management/Economics, cum laude, and is currently on leave from the Wharton University School of Business MBA program. He is also a C.F.A. (Chartered Financial Analyst). Marc has two young daughters, Sierra and Sophia, with his wife, Carolyn.
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About Jet, Walmart: Jet operates an e-commerce platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers.
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Richard Fearn
Director & Founder of The Friday Club London
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a ‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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About Kindred Capital, Line-Up, Polywork, The Friday Club London: Friday Club London setup to help boost the success rates of London’s start-ups by getting them better access to top marketing professionals.
Joseph Ashford Ellis
Owner and Founder of K4 Global
Joseph Ashford Ellis is an established entrepreneur and a global investor, having held interests in Europe, Asia and South America and is based in Bournemouth, UK. Over a 20 year period, Joseph has successfully identified and nurtured numerous businesses, with a particular focus on the UK service sector. Through these endeavours Joseph has amassed a considerable personal wealth and continues to invest across many asset types, including other businesses and properties. Joseph has been instrumental in the initial seeding and ongoing development of a number of enterprises. Joseph worked in a range of industries during his early career, providing him extensive experience in marketing and business development at all organisational levels. His primary expertise is in implementing scalable solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, allowing them to achieve consistent growth and realise their enterprise value. Surrounding himself with highly talented and experienced professionals, Joseph continues to provide growth capital to new and existing UK ventures, whilst branching out into select international markets, to the ultimate benefit of all its stakeholders. Maintaining client focus and business integrity is essential to Joseph’s commercial ethos and this philosophy ensures that Joseph’s businesses are always looking at how to go above and beyond for clients, which often means creating a bespoke strategy for them. Joseph encourages his Bournemouth-based team members to always do their best to exceed client expectations and ensure this client-focused mindset remains a priority at each level of his companies and is a skill he demonstrates himself on an ongoing basis. Joseph is also an avid philanthropist and he and his businesses support numerous charities. With a wealth of expertise under his belt, Joseph Ashford is a multi-faceted entrepreneur where his primary wealth accumulation has been grown through various industries such as real estate investment, capital support for new and existing companies, investment in marketable securities, trading in luxury and rare motor vehicles and direct management of property development.
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About K4 Global, K4 Media: K4 is a contemporary and aspiring global movement, with worldwide connections and an extensive network platform.
James Henry Blake (Entrepreneur)
CEO and Founder of Vindicta Digital Marketing Agency
James Henry Blake (Born 1993) is a Northern-Irish entrepreneur, award winning businessman/ notable digital marketer and Internet personality. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vindicta Digital – One of the UK’s leading digital marketing companies. James also is the managing director of Black Holdings Group and is an official council member of Forbes Agency Council.
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About Black Holdings Group, Vindicta Digital Marketing Agency: Vindicta Digital provides web design, SEO and digital marketing services.
Dhruv Ghulati
Co-Founder and CEO of Factmata
Dhruv holds a Distinction in Computer Science and Machine Learning from University College London, and a 1st Class BSc in Economics from the LSE. He was a product manager and co-founder of two London based machine intelligence startups, and is an Entrepreneur First alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in Technology. He wrote his thesis in cost-sensitive classification and distant supervision for statistical claim detection.
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About Factmata: Factmata is an artificial intelligence company for automated content understanding..
Philip Beahon
Co-Founder of Castore
Co-founder at Castore.
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About Castore: Castore is a premium sportswear brand.
Thomas Beahon
Co-Founder of Castore
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About Castore: Castore is a premium sportswear brand.
Michael Raven
Founder of Blazon Agency
Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon Agency. Michael has had Two Startup exits, and has ran 70 Agency Campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and direct launches, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+ for his extensive list of clients.
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About Blazon Agency: The Brand Launch Agency
Hew Leith
Founder & CEO of Atomley
Founder and CEO of Atomley, an automated lead generation platform for B2B webinars. We qualify webinar attendees in real-time with Atomley’s mobile surveys, which achieve over 70% response rates. https://atomley.com Also founder of 10x, an award-winning innovation consultancy. A few of our remarkable products include: 1) AI beer: https://bloom.bg/3bZr8cg 2) Platform to cure loneliness: https://bit.ly/35oTpq0 3) App for pregnant commuters: https://bbc.in/2KQNeBQ 4) AI bar: https://fxn.ws/2KPR4Lp 5) IoT bank: https://bbc.in/2xu3O7A 6) 1st emoji passcode: https://cnb.cx/3aW1XGj
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About 10x, Atomley, Intelligent Layer, IntelligentX: Atomley is an automated lead generation platform for B2B webinars.
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Archie Campbell
Co Founder of Vidsy
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Alex Morris
Founder of Vidsy
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Josh Rathour
CEO & Founder of UNiDAYS
Josh Rathour is the founder and CEO of UNiDAYS. Before starting UNiDAYS in 2011, Josh worked as a commercial real estate agent, while learning everything he could about online verification and shopping apps. Under his leadership and vision, UNiDAYS has grown into the world’s leading Student Affinity Network, connecting the most recognizable brands and services to millions of students worldwide. In 2018, UNiDAYS was named the fastest-growing tech company in the UK by the Sunday Times, after winning a host of awards including the Lloyds Bank Digital Business of the Year and the coveted Digital Innovation of the Year Award. Josh looks forward to building even more products and technology to help Gen Z college students prepare for their futures, and empowering them to make every experience more valuable and rewarding. A sought-after speaker in the UK and the US, Josh is highly regarded for his strategic leadership and innovation. In 2017, Josh was named Rising Star at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in real estate management.
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About UNiDAYS: UNiDAYS is the world’s leading Student Affinity Network that connects a verified global student audience with relevant brands and services.
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.
Laura Kornelija Inamedinova
Founder and CEO of LKI Consulting
Laura K. Inamedinova is communications and branding expert that has her own PR agency. Laura helps companies understand what are their marketing goals and what kind of communication they seek and later on, if needed, implement it. Her primary focus is technology, fin tech and IT industries. Among her client list there are million dollar valuation companies. Miss Inamedinova also shares her expertise about startups in her columns at Forbes and Huffington Post. Besides that, she frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like, advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc. Laura has also been actively involved in various NGOs – she is a member of World Economic Forum Global Shapers Vilnius hub and Lithuanian Marketing Association. Laura holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university she was a member of Physics faculty student association.
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About LKI Consulting: International marketing, PR and communications agency focusing on fintech, crypto and ICOs.
Charles Mindenhall
Co-Founder of Fospha Marketing
Charles Mindenhall is Co-Founder of Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s leading digital venture builder. Blenheim Chalcot traces its roots back to netdecisions which Charles and his business partner Manoj Badale founded back in 1998. Charles is a Trustee of the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. He chairs OnSide London and the Technology Trust and is a Trustee of OnSide, iCould and the Bridges Charitable Trust. Charles has an MA in Philosophy and Psychology from Christ Church, Oxford University, and was formerly at Monitor Company.
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About Agilisys, Blenheim Chalcot, Fospha Marketing, Hive Learning, Liberis: The Direct to Consumer Growth Platform
Manoj Badale
Co-Founder of Fospha Marketing
Manoj Badale is Co-Founder of Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s leading digital venture builder. Blenheim Chalcot traces its roots back to netdecisions which Manoj and his business partner Charles Mindenhall founded back in 1998. Manoj is the Chairman of HRH The Prince of Wales’ British Asian Trust. He was also Chairman of Operation Smile UK for over ten years, and a founding Trustee of the Technology Trust. Manoj has an MA in economics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and was formerly a partner at Monitor Company where he spent time in the UK, Germany and India.
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About Blenheim Chalcot, Fospha Marketing: The Direct to Consumer Growth Platform
Edward Hollands
Managing Director and Founder of DrivenMedia
Ed Hollands is the 23-year- old entrepreneur behind DrivenMedia, the Derby-based advertising agency which creates mobile billboards on commercial trailers for brands, organisations and businesses. Originally from Hertfordshire, Ed graduated from the University of Derby in 2016 with a first-class honours degree in Business Studies and was always ambitious to create his own company. Today DrivenMedia offers companies, brands and organisations the opportunity to advertise on the sides and backs of lorries, trucks and vans as they travel the world delivering goods and services. Ed got the idea of mobile billboards on an early morning walk when he saw traffic – including several large, plain lorries – queuing at a busy roundabout as rush hour traffic began to build. He realised the scope for offering companies a different type of marketing opportunity was huge. Ed grew up in a village called Pitstone near Tring in Hertfordshire with his parents Angela & Graham and his younger brother Will. His mum works for local hospice charity and Graham works for HP. Will is currently studying music at university. It was in primary school (Brookmead Primary School) that the seeds of entrepreneurship were sown when Ed declared he wanted to run a pub called The Happy Inn. He also saw his father being away from his family due to working overseas and felt that he wanted to have some choices around work when he got older. Later when at secondary school in Tring he earned money by carrying bags for small change to the form room. His determination to run his own business became stronger just before selecting his GCSE choices as he already knew he wanted to be the master of his own fate financially. This dictated the subjects he chose at both GCSE and A level. Ed chose to study for his degree at the University of Derby as he felt the campus and the teaching staff had the right ethos around business. Once there he also joined the Business and Entrepreneurship Society and began to be inspired by those who had already walked the walk in business. It was during this time he met Graham Mulholland, a leading local entrepreneur who became his mentor alongside lecturer and friend Bev Crighton Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader BA HRM As part of his studies, he did explore the idea of creating digital billboards on A38 right next to the university. He also set up his own business in the summer of his first year at university but the idea didn’t work mainly because he had not appreciated the important role played by marketing and advertising. It was an early lesson learned. At home, Ed lives with his fiancé Tara and they are childhood sweethearts who met at Scout Camp more than five years ago. Tara is a teaching assistant at a school in Nottingham and also is also an Ofsted-registered nanny currently studying for her level 3 NVQ in childcare. Ed is also a keen dodgeball player and qualified referee. While at university he played for the university team, The Derby Seahawks, and now plays for the Nottingham Sheriffs alongside being an referee. He plays twice a month during the season and referees weekly.
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About DrivenMedia, DrivenMedia: The UK’s major road network is one of the most densely populated highways in the world.
Raj Anand
Founder & CEO of Goodman Lantern
Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by BusinessWeek, Digital Future 50 by Revolution Magazine (alongside Twitter and Spotify), Courvoisier/The Observer Future 500 (2008) and Finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur 2008. He graduated from Sussex University with a Bachelors in Engineering (1.1)/Masters in Research, at 23 he setup Anderstand Limited and developed the majority of the software. Raj worked for the European Union, Sussex University research laboratory and Shell STEP internships developing software projects for several start-ups. Raj won many national awards for projects in computer science, leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
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About Goodman Lantern: Goodman Lantern provides content that helps you increase subscriptions and grow faster.
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Stuart Hennell
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Watchfinder
Stuart Hennell is a Co-Founder & Managing Director at Watchfinder • Stuart spent 6 years working on various Major UK and European Projects in the Civil Engineering Industry • He has lots of experience negotiating and developing supplier/client relationships both inside and outside of the UK as well as strong leadership skills and have used them to build a strong and successful team at Watchfinder • Stuart goal is to build Watchfinder into a worldwide brand and a byword for quality products delivered with the highest standards of customer service • Stuart studied Engineering Geology & Geotechnics at University of Portsmouth
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About Watchfinder: Watchfinder is the world’s leading retailer of pre-owned watches
Lloyd Amsdon
Co-Founder of Watchfinder
Lloyd Amsdon is the Founder and Brand Director of Watchfinder.
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About Watchfinder: Watchfinder is the world’s leading retailer of pre-owned watches
Callum Negus-Fancey
CEO & Founder of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Liam Negus-Fancey
Founder & President of Pollen
Pollen is a members-only community that curates and shares experiences for you and your friends to discover. As a marketplace of the best experiences in the world, our mission is to elevate lives by bringing people closer to the people and the things they love. From festivals, events, dining experiences, island escapes, and beyond, we want to help create unforgettable memories shared between friends old and new by allowing members to unlock a range of experiential rewards.
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Calum Smeaton
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of TVSquared
For the past two decades, Calum has dedicated his professional life to starting and growing innovative software and e-commerce startups. After being entrenched in the world of data analytics for years and seeing firsthand how data can transform an industry, Calum founded TVSquared in 2012 to bring state-of-the-art analytical capabilities to TV advertising. Calum is recognized for building outstanding global teams; in fact, many of his employees have been with him for more than 10 years. He thrives on taking a company from idea to exit and is regularly tapped by journalists, analysts and event organizers to discuss his unique management strategies and his fervent belief that data-driven decisions need to be at the cornerstone of every business. Before TVSquared, Calum was the CEO of Sumerian, a provider of big data analytics for retail and investment banks. He was also the co-founder and CTO of Orbital Software, which was listed on the London Stock Exchange and merged with Sopheon PLC in 2001. Outside of work, Calum is an avid outdoorsman, who can frequently be found all over the world kite-surfing, snowboarding and sailing.
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About AdNews, TVSquared: TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution.
Projjol Banerjea
Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member of Zeotap
Projjol has 10+ years of experience in product management, marketing and business development. He’s the founder and Chief Product Officer of zeotap, a premium data collective that aims to democratise enterprise data for better decision-making across industries. Projjol’s prior roles include those as Chief Product Officer at premium network Moboqo, acquired by mobile advertising company Applovin, as well as VP Marketing & Business Development at mobile supply side platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay), acquired by RNTS Media for $190 million. Projjol was awarded an MBA by Oxford’s Saïd Business School in 2009. At Oxford, he was a member of the university’s lightweight rowing team. He also holds an MS in HCI from Indiana University’s School of Informatics and a BA in Computer Science (highest honours, Phi Beta Kappa) from DePauw University. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Projjol was selected as a Fellow by StartingBloc, an international fellowship of young leaders who share a keen interest in corporate responsibility, cross-sector partnerships and sustainability. In addition to physical activity, he enjoys reading (mostly non-fiction), music and travel; weaknesses include wine and dark chocolate. Projjol has extensive experience speaking at events, including CES, ad:tech, TM Forum, Game Connection and Mediabistro conferences, and has also been published in and/or interviewed by Wired, TechCrunch, Economic Times, Business Standard, Tech in Asia, MediaPost, AdExchanger, PocketGamer and KillerStartups, among others.
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About Nua, Zeotap: Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors.
Muayyad Shehadeh
Co-Founder and CEO of Uhive
Over 25 years of experience, CEO of Genie9, BigMIND and UHIVE A long and broad experience in machine learning algorithms and A.I. systems.Created BigMIND cloud which was the first cloud solution to utilise cold and hot storage, and integrate A.I, Muayyad has a degree in Architecture. He is well known as a Windows C++/WIN API Guru with deep conceptual thinking; which is an ability he developed and enhanced through his Architecture degree Spent last 5 years working on UHive Social Network Idea
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About Uhive, Zoolz: Uhive is a social network that lets users socialize, interact, and find people across the world while earning its own digital currency.
Scott Button
Co-Founder & CSO of Unruly
Scott Button is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Unruly. Scott has 15 years’ experience in madtech. Before founding Unruly in 2006, Scott was a Chief Executive Officer of Connextra, a venture-backed UK ad serving firm, which he led to trade sale in 2005. Scott holds an M.A. from Cambridge and a B.Phil. from Oxford, both in Philosophy, and was named an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012.
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About Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Joe Bachle-Morris
Co-Founder and COO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Caspar Lee
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of Influencer
Lee started his YouTube channel ‘dicasp’ in 2011, and later renamed it to simply ‘Caspar’. As of November 2017, Lee’s main YouTube channel has over 7.5 million subscribers and over 850 million video views, and is the 243rd most subscribed channel on the website; his second channel “morecaspar” has nearly 2 million subscribers and over 116 million video views. Lee was part of the ‘YouTube Boyband’ that raised money in 2014 for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian. He was named by Yahoo! News as one of “12 Web-savvy entrepreneurs to watch” in December 2013. In 2014 he starred, along with a number of other YouTubers, in the Style Haul series The Crew, described by teen website Sugarscape.com as “the male version of Loose Women, but a bit less pervy”. He featured in a 2014 episode of the American television series Web Therapy. Lee has over 6.1 million followers on Twitter and over 3.6 million on Instagram, as of April 2018. Lee played a character named Garlic in the comedy movie Spud 3: Learning to Fly, alongside fellow YouTuber Troye Sivan. In the UK version of the 2015 movie The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, he played the voice of a seagull. Lee and Joe Sugg are featured in a 2015 travel documentary, Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, and its sequel Joe and Caspar Hit The Road: USA, produced for BBC Worldwide. Also in 2016, Lee starred in Laid in America alongside YouTube comedian KSI (Olajide Olatunji). Lee appeared in the music video for Charli XCX’s 2017 single, Boys. In August 2017, it was announced that Lee would become Chief Innovation Officer of Influencer Ltd, a British influencer marketing agency. He has a series of videos where he comically interviews celebrities such as One Direction’s Liam Payne, actor Zac Efron, Channing Tatum, and a few others.
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About Banquist, Dash Water, FaceIT, Fy, Influencer, JustWears, Margravine, Proper Living, Streamloots, theUp.co, Wild, YouTube: We build meaningful relationships between brands and creators.
Steve Bartlett
Founder and CEO of Social Chain
Steven Bartlett, is the 25-year-old CEO of The Social Chain Group. Having founded the groups two flagship companies, Social Chain and Media Chain, the group delivered annual revenues in excess of 100m, consisting of over 20 companies within Marketing, Media, Commerce and Technology. From a bedroom in Moss Side (Manchester), this university dropout went on to build a revolutionary social media marketing agency, which now employs more than 150 staff with offices in Manchester, London, New York and Berlin. Steven’s Social Chain is currently nominated for the Sunday Times ‘Disruptors to Watch’ and considers Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Superdry, Disney, Thomas Cook and the BBC amongst its client list, with the list going on. Since its onset, Social Chain grew into two companies, adding a digital publishing house Media Chain which now owns some of the largest media assets online, reaching over 3 million people a month through a series of online brands.
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About Social Chain: Social Chain a social media marketing agency.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Teresa Potocka
CEO & Founder of Potocki Communications Company
Teresa Potocka is the CEO and Founder of The Potocki Communications Company, a content positioning, production and marketing communications business. Potocki took part in the UK Trade Mission to MIPTV in April 2017. Potocka has ten years’ of senior management experience and deep operational expertise from developing organisational structures, brands and businesses in EMEA and also the Gulf, from scratch. She has significant experience of working collaboratively for success within and alongside Boards, Business and Government Leaders and Managers for past and present Fortune 500 companies, leading brands, SMEs, corporates and start-ups. Previously, she was part of the founding team at First Connex, the directory service, and helped develop the business model that secured the first license in the world (outside of Finland). Before starting her company, she held a number of positions across industry. It was at JPMorgan Chase in Treasury Services she began her career in the culture change business. She made regular appearances in the media and across TV channels internationally and recently moderated the panel at TVConnect on Big Opportunities for Data in Creating Business Value, previously she chaired a panel on Rules of Audience Engagement, has spoken of The New Millennial TV habits, discussed storytelling at the first Annual UK Web Series Festival (UK WEB FEST), and stressed the importance of the need for authorities to tackle piracy to afford greater protection to content creators in the creative industries during a panel discussion on trade in 2016. She’s been featured in The Economist and Television. Previously, she was a regular guest on Radio Orla’s London Bridge as a futurologist and has also given speeches in the presence of business and political leaders and audiences of 150+ and the Iron Lady herself. In 2011, she was awarded the Pro Memorial Medal.
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About Potocki Communications Company: The Potocki Communications Company is an international content positioning, production and marketing communications company.
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Michael Craddock
Co-Founder and CEO of Kairos Media
Mike Craddock, is the co-founder of the Kairos Group which consists of an influencer marketing agency, esports organisation and an owned media agency. Mike has a wealth of knowledge and expertise across all sectors but in particular, gaming which derives from his ex-professional CoD player background, where his YouTube channel ‘FearCrads’ peaked at 300,000 subscribers. Mike acted as an influencer and secured brand partnerships with Nissan, Xbox and Activision before setting up an influencer agency. Mike is also the owner of the ‘Lightning Pandas’, a professional esports team who play and compete in tournaments all over the world. Currently, the organisation fields competitive rosters in FIFA, Call of Duty and Fortnite.
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About Kairos Media: Kairos Media is an full-service social media agency with capabilities across paid, earned and owned media.
Jamie Harwood
Founder and NED of Comparison Technologies
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About Comparison Technologies, Placed App: Comparison Technologies is a multi-channel price comparison enabler in home services.
Thibault Launay
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exclusible
Thibault Launay is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Exclusible.
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About Exclusible: Exclusible is creating an NFT marketplace for luxury brands.
Amy Wilson
Marketing Consultant & Agency Founder of w digital
Amy Wilson is the Marketing Consultant and Agency Founder at w digital.
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About w digital: A privately owned Digital Marketing Agency based in Peckham, South East London.
Sivan Baram
CEO & Co-Founder at radd.
Sivan Baram is the Co-Founder & CEO at radd.
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About radd.: radd. is an Intelligence eCommerce platform for boosting UGC via measurable and LIVE story reviews.
Theofilos Vasileiadis
CEO/Founder/Lead Investor of Socital
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About Socital: Socital is a SaaS platform specialized in personalization and lead generation for ecommerce.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Rory Miller-Cheevers
Founder & Managing Director of Hyphen
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About Hyphen: Data Intelligence and Performance Marketing
Evren Kacar
Founder, CEO of DAN Global
15 years of experience in digital marketing and agency business. Established Synergy, one of the first generation of digital marketing agencies in 2002. In line with the rising trends, Co-founded Boomerang Social Media Agency in 2010. Managed both agencies and supported the development of digital marketing industry in Turkey with DijitalAjanslar.com which began as a local network for digital agencies in 2013. Witnessed the rise of the digital age. Gained deep experience in all areas of digital marketing, working with global brands and Turkey’s most respectable brands since 2002, as the definiton of web agencies became interactive agencies with web 2.0, and digital agencies as of today. Established DAN Global in Turkey to provide online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital marketing agencies and global community of marketers. Expanded his business to the UK in 2017, and established DAN Global (UK) Ltd. in London which owns and operates the Digital Agency Network (DAN), an all-in-one platform to discover the best digital marketing agencies in the world.
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About DAN Global, Digital Agency Network: DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Tony Hunter
Co-Founder of Attest
Tony Hunter is the COO & Co-Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Suhail Rizvi
Co-Founder & CEO of PixelPoint Group
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About PixelPoint Group: PixelPoint Group is a Digital Agency that specialises in Video Production and Social Media Management.
Carl Holmquist
Founder, Chief Strategy Officer of Freespee
Carl has over 10 years of entrepreneurial telco & software leadership experience. He launched cloud services for the Nordic Next Gen telco, IP-Only.se. As a senior consultant at Ascade.com, he spent a couple of months at each of the telco Giants as Swisscom, Belgacom, Telenor, Allstream, One, Telecom New Zealand. Carl holds a MSc from the Institute of Technology at Linköping and Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble. He is also the proud father of three beautiful daughters.
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About Freespee: Freespee is the most comprehensive conversation cloud in the market.
Paul Goad
Founder of Crimtan
Paul started in print media at VNU Business Communications and joined DoubleClick as one of its founder employees in 1997. After five years with the company Paul moved on to work at 365 Media Group as Commercial Director where he built their media network. Paul joined Tacoda in August 2006 as UK MD and set up their first international office. Just prior to the takeover of Tacoda by AOL, Paul moved to join NebuAd as UK MD in November 2008 before founding Crimtan in September 2009.
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About Crimtan: Crimtan is the dynamic marketing company that makes brands distinctive and compelling to consumers across all digital media platforms.
Simon Ward
Founder and CEO of Team ITG
Simon Ward ITG and Simon Ward SP Group: Simon Ward is CEO of ITG (Inspired Thinking Group) and former Commercial CEO of SP Group, a part of St Ives Group. Simon founded ITG in 2009 and has played a key role in the company’s growth, running the business and obtaining investment for expansion and acquisitions.v ITG delivers best-in-class marketing software, procurement and studio services to numerous blue-chip clients, including PUMA, M&S, KFC, Audi and Heineken. In 2015, ITG joined the London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain. Prior to founding ITG, Simon Ward was commercial CEO of SP Group, based in Redditch. He joined the printers in 1999, as co-founder and head of SP Digital. This soon became the most profitable part of the business, and Simon took over the reins of SP Group in 2000. In 2004, Simon sold SP Group to St Ives, becoming the group’s commercial CEO, remaining with the company until the launch of ITG.
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About Team ITG: Team ITG is a technology-led provider of outsourced multichannel marketing services.
Askar Bulegenov
Founder & CEO of Grocemania
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About Grocemania: On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!
Gurman Hundal
Co-Founder and CEO of MiQ
Gurman has always been a creator, and has had an interest in setting up business units since the start of his career. Prior to launching Media iQ, Gurman set-up the online ad network, A&NY Media, for the large publishing group Associated Northcliffe Media. From when he joined in 2007 till present, the A&NY Media network was a major catalyst in positioning associated as the most advanced online UK publisher, boasting a robust technology infrastructure and a highly impressive client retention rate. Prior to A&NY Media, Gurman worked for Pan Euro Ad network Adlink Internet Media, setting up a new performance division just 6 months after joining.
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Greg Williams
Co-Founder, SVP, Strategic Business Development of MediaMath
Greg leads MediaMath’s business development efforts globally. In this role, Greg creates business and technology relationships with partners and oversees MediaMath’s OPEN Partnership program. Having focused his career at the intersection of marketing and technology, Greg is an expert in automation and large-scale technology offerings. Leveraging his unique blend of business and technical skills, Greg works with clients and with data and inventory partners across media channels to help them build their businesses on MediaMath’s TerminalOne platform. Prior to his move to London, Greg managed all internal and external reporting and analyses from MediaMath’s New York headquarters. In this role, Greg spearheaded the design, development, and management of MediaMath’s analytics platform. Before co-founding MediaMath, Greg led advertiser media strategy at [x+1], working with global brands on website and media optimisation. In that role, Greg also worked with a team to establish a new media division that quickly outpaced its established parent company. Before [x+1], Greg’s background was in econometric data modeling, marketing strategy, and integration of marketing platforms for Fortune 500 companies at Nielsen and Accenture. Greg holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Fordham University with concentrations in accounting and finance.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Blaise Bellville
Founder & CEO of Boiler Room
Boiler Room founder Blaise Bellville created a new underground music network quite literally from a utility room. Blaise left school at 18 and founded many businesses before starting the worldwide phenomenon that is Boiler Room, which reaches over 72 million music fans every month worldwide. Beginning as a club promoter and DJ, Blaise’s first business to gain national recognition was All Age Concerts. Founded when he was 25, it kicked off an under-age gig movement across the country, even creating a festival for 10,000 in Victoria Park at the movement’s peak in 2010. In the same era, he created online magazine Read Platform, which was written by and run for teenagers. It was while running his, surrounded by other London music obsessives that Boiler Room was born. Bellville enlisted Thristian Richards, who worked for Soul Jazz and Gilles Peterson and Femi Adeyemi, founder of online radio station NTS and organised a weekly hang out/ session – broadcast from a webcam and Ustream to the world from the utility room in the warehouse it was run out of. The session run by the electronic music scene, for the electronic scene quickly drew big name guests. Jamie XX, SBKRT and Hudson Mohawke all turned up for early session to DJ and hang out. Though Read Platform was drawing 300,000 unique users, Boiler Room soon mushroomed passed it in popularity. Since 2010 it has gone global, with a growing and significant fan base in Latin America, partnership with Japan’s biggest streaming provider, key broadcast hubs in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and the dedication of the most hard core, committed music fans on the planet.
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About Boiler Room: Boiler Room is an online platform that enables its users to live stream and archive musical shows.
Ben Starr
Founder and Managing Director of 15 Marketing
Ben Starr is an internet entrepreneur who founded and is the current managing director of 15 Marketing. With a degree from The University of Birmingham in Accounting and Finance, he spurned offers from major accounting firms and started his career in American online sports betting. He moved into UK e-gaming in 2005, focusing primarily within the online bingo vertical. Gaining experience at Herotech, Cashcade and Party Gaming, he founded marketing agency 15 Marketing in December of 2009. A keen sportsman, Ben spends his spare time keeping fit by playing football, squash and basketball. He lives in North London with his wife and at time of writing, one child. Hard working but never one for corporate life, he founded 15 Marketing with the requirement of a relaxed dress code and an open plan office. He is known for regularly working 18 hour days, treating his laptop like he would his child and appearing in the office as early as 4am. He is a fanatical basketball fan who follows the NBA avidly, making trips to the USA whenever he can to watch a live game. Founded Jumpman Gaming, October 2012.
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About 15 Marketing, Jumpman Gaming: Launched in 2009, 15 Marketing is a boutique agency 3.0 to the eGaming industry. Founded by Ben Starr, the company looks after many major
Ivan Mazour
Co-Founder & CEO of Ometria
Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria – a predictive analytics and marketing platform built specifically for retailers, letting them use data to increase revenues and provide an improved customer experience. Ometria is his seventh company, in a career spanning various industries from property to education – http://www.ometria.com Alongside this main role, he is also the Founding Partner of Innova Kapital – an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups, including companies like YPlan and organisations like Entrepreneur First – http://www.innovakapital.com As well as holding multiple degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, Ivan Mazour is the author of a number of books including “Russian Convoys – Memories of the Heart”. His translations of Russian literature have been staged professionally in various cities, and he has been presented with a UNESCO medal for his literary achievements. He regularly speaks at conferences around the world on topics of ecommerce, technology, and investment, and also writes a popular blog called “A Young Entrepreneur in London” – http://www.ivanmazour.com
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Djalal Lougouev
Co-Founder & CSO of Ometria
Djalal Lougouev is a technology entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in management, technology and user-centered design. He is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Ometria, a predictive ecommerce marketing platform helping online retailers leverage data to drive profitability. Djalal is also the founding partner of Innova Kapital, an early stage VC firm specialising in UK based technology start-ups.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Mat Atkinson
Founder and CEO of Ziflow
Ziflow is led by Mat Atkinson, founder and CEO. Prior to co-founding Ziflow, Mat was the founder and CEO of ProofHQ, the industry’s leading online proofing solution. Under Mat’s leadership, ProofHQ defined the SaaS market for online review and approval and guided the company to its successful acquisition by Workfront. Prior to ProofHQ, Mat was the CEO of Mtivity which was a pioneer in the marketing workflow space, providing marketing automation for agencies and brands worldwide.
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About Ziflow, Ziflow: Ziflow is a SaaS company that builds smart tools for creative production teams.
Anthony Welgemoed
Founder and CTO of Ziflow
Anthony Welgemoed is Founder and CTO at Ziflow Prior to co-founding Ziflow, Anthony was co-founder and CTO of ProofHQ, the industry’s leading online proofing solution. At ProofHQ, Anthony built a world-class development team responsible for the market’s most scalable, resilient and secure online review and approval solution. At the time of ProofHQ’s acquisition by Workfront, ProofHQ was used by thousands of companies across the world every day, producing tens of millions of proofs per year. Prior to ProofHQ, Anthony was Director of Product Management at Mtivity, where he helped develop a sophisticated marketing process automation platform for agencies and brands.
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About Ziflow, Ziflow: Ziflow is a SaaS company that builds smart tools for creative production teams.
Paramjit Uppal
Founder & Pacesetter of AND Digital
Paramjit Uppal is the Founder and Pacesetter of AND Digital. He is a graduate of The University of Manchester.
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About AND Digital: AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery. We work with top clients to build remarkable digital products and teams.
Nick Whitehurst
Co-Founder and Director of Watneys
Nick Whitehurst is the co-founder and director Watneys.
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About Figura Analytics Limited, Watneys: Watneys and Home Ales brands and they are hell-bent on returning them to their former glory.
Jude Ower
Founder & CEO of PlayMob
Jude Ower is changing the world through game play. She has spent 10 years working within games, creating educational, training and awareness games across a range of organisations from corporate, government and education. Jude is now concentrating on social and mobile games, and how engaging mass audience of game players can make a world changing difference.
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About Department for International Trade, PlayMob: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Ian Griffiths
Co-Founder of Who Can Fix My Car
Ian is at the rudder of Who Can Fix My Car. A car fanatic and self confessed “petrol-head” since birth, Ian headed back to the North East after 8 years in London and set up the business in early 2011.
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About Gliff.ai, Handbag Clinic, Who Can Fix My Car: Who Can Fix My Car is an online car repair and servicing marketplace enabling users to obtain quotations from garages.
Alistair Preston
Co-Founder of Who Can Fix My Car
Alistair Preston is Co-Founder at Who Can Fix My Car.
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About Who Can Fix My Car: Who Can Fix My Car is an online car repair and servicing marketplace enabling users to obtain quotations from garages.
Martin Macmillan
CEO & Founder of Pollen VC
Martin has 20 years’ experience in launching and building technology businesses in FinTech, music and media sectors, and a prior career in Investment banking as a bond trader. Having experienced first-hand the growth challenges facing tech start-ups and the lack of financing options open to developers, he saw the to marry his traditional financial markets and technology experience to create a disruptive new business model for the digital industry. Prior to Pollen, Martin was CEO at Soniqplay, CEO at Level Four (acquired by clear2pay) and a Director of UBS in London, where he ran the short term credit trading group and conceived and delivered UBS’ first client-facing electronic debt trading platform.
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About Pollen VC, Soniqplay: Pollen VC provides credit facilities to app and game developers
Mats Stigzelius
Founder of Takumi
Having started his career at McKinsey & Company, Mats Stigzelius has spent the last dozen years working in Strategy Consulting and Private Equity. His experience includes developing brand strategies, implementing business plans and arranging financing for companies across a number of industries in Europe and North America, including Retail, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Media and Telecoms sectors. Before joining Rainmaking in January 2010, Mats spent five years in Private Equity with a focus on the Retail sector, completing 15 acquisitions, refinancings and exits in that period, in addition to sitting on the board of a number of companies as a Non-Executive Director. Mats holds a 1st Class Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Manchester University and over the years he has lived in Finland, Holland, USA and the UK. Mats currently lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two young sons.
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About Rainmaking, Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Gummi Eggertsson
Co-Founder,COO & CFO of Takumi
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About Sidekick Health, Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Ted Nash
CEO & Co-Founder of Tapdaq
Ted Nash built his first business aged 12 and eventually became the first teenager in the world to achieve 1 million app installs. He’s slightly crazy. FUN FACTS Ted is a talker, but he doesn’t get everything his own way. Ted currently holds the record for the fastest fail in a UK motorbike test – 3 seconds (he crashed into the starting gate).
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About Liquid5, Liquid5, Tapdaq: Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users.
Nick Reffitt
Co-Founder & CTO of Tapdaq
Nick has been coding since a young age. He picked up programming aged 12, and started consulting a year later. He met Ted at a similar time, and they both hacked on various projects over the years. Nick is in charge of all the technical aspects to Tapdaq. CS grad from University of Kent.
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About Tapdaq: Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Mike Charalambous
Founder / CEO of Threedium
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About Frenzi Media, Threedium: We create memorable brand experiences, drive product considerations and deliver conversions through 3D/AR Technology.
Xose Lois Fernandez Cañizares
Founder / Head of Sales of Threedium
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About Threedium: We create memorable brand experiences, drive product considerations and deliver conversions through 3D/AR Technology.
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
David Kershaw
Co-Founder ,CEO & Exec Director of M&C Saatchi
David Kershaw is a founding director of M&C Saatchi. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1982 after obtaining an MBA at London Business School. He became managing director in 1990 and was made chairman and chief executive of the UK agency in 1994.
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About M&C Saatchi: M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data and technology.
Giles Palmer
Founder & CEO of Brandwatch
Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company. Formerly of BSkyB, Giles started Brandwatch and since its launch in August 2007, it has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media analytics and listening companies. Giles’ goal for Brandwatch is to help organisations find and engage with online conversations that matter. This motivation has turned Brandwatch into a platform that gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them. This empowers brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven business decisions. Brandwatch has developed a social listening and analytics offering, Brandwatch Analytics, and a social command center platform Brandwatch Vizia, which showcases real-time visualizations across enterprises. Currently, Brandwatch has over 1,000 customers including 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, and serves businesses across the globe, from FTSE100 companies to SMEs. Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
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About Brandwatch, Futrli: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Nan Williams
Founder & Group Chief Executive of Four Communications
Nan Williams is one of the UK’s most senior corporate communications consultants, specialising in corporate reputation, crisis and issues management, CSR, employee communication and strategic consulting. Nan was UK chief executive of Charles Barker / BSMG Worldwide from 1997 to 2001 and also a director of the BSMG Worldwide European and global boards. Nan was one of the founders of Four in 2001. Nan has run programmes at Four for, among others, 2011 Census, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Grant Thornton International, Barclaycard and UK Payments. She got her MBA from the Cranfield School of Management. Nan has been listed in the PR Week Power Book since 2007.As well as her work in communications, Nan has also been a director of the London Print Studio and Centrepoint Trading.
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About Four Communications, Global Welsh: Four is a leading independent, integrated communications agency with offices in London and the Gulf.
Nan Williams
Founder & Group Chief Executive of Four Communications
Nan Williams is one of the UK’s most senior corporate communications consultants, specialising in corporate reputation, crisis and issues management, CSR, employee communication and strategic consulting. Nan was UK chief executive of Charles Barker / BSMG Worldwide from 1997 to 2001 and also a director of the BSMG Worldwide European and global boards. Nan was one of the founders of Four in 2001. Nan has run programmes at Four for, among others, 2011 Census, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Grant Thornton International, Barclaycard and UK Payments. She got her MBA from the Cranfield School of Management. Nan has been listed in the PR Week Power Book since 2007.As well as her work in communications, Nan has also been a director of the London Print Studio and Centrepoint Trading.
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About Four Communications, Global Welsh: Four is a leading independent, integrated communications agency with offices in London and the Gulf.
Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions
Naveed Ratansi is the Co-Founder of Cheetah Conversions and Founder of UX Academy.
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About Cheetah Conversions, UX Academy: Cheetah Conversions is a marketing agency focused on paid social, paid search, and paid marketing channels.
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.
Karin Cabili
Founder & CEO of Dropit Shopping
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About Dropit Shopping: Dropit provides a digital handsfree shopping solution for malls and central shopping districts, delivering bags from store to door.
Patryk Pawlikowski
Founder and CEO of Shoplo
Patryk Pawlikowski is VP e-commerce at SumUp.
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About Shoplo, SumUp: Shoplo is an e-commerce platform that helps small businesses sell throughout the globe.
Sean Riley
Founder & CEO of Ad Dynamo
Sean Riley is founder and CEO at Ad Dynamo. Prior to this, he was managing director at Entelligence Ltd. and had worked one at E-Data Solutions and Credit Suisse.
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About Ad Dynamo: Ad Dynamo is Africa’s largest digital media sales house. Ad Dynamo manages sales in Africa for Twitter, Oath, Snapchat & Spotify.
Dominic Edmunds
Founder of SaleCycle
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About PlanetWatchers, SaleCycle: Behavioral marketing company SaleCycle helps brands create better customer journeys online.
Paul Warshaw
Founder and CEO of Greenrush
Founder at GreenRush Group.
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About Greenrush: Greenrush facilitates an online marketplace that enables consumers to connect with cannabis dispensary retailers.
Adam Ludwin
Chief Visionary Officer/Co Founder of Captify
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About Captify, Inflecto Media, Influencer: Captify offers a search retargeting service that enables advertisers to focus on users to match their desired audience with inventory.
Anh Pham Vu
Co-Founder of UENI
Anh Pham Vu is the Co-founder at UENI.
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About Astorg, UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Christine Telyan
Co-Founder of UENI
Christine Telyan is the Co-founder at UENI.
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About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Pete Campbell
CEO & Founder of Kaizen
Pete Reis-Campbell is the CEO & Founder of UK-based digital marketing agency, Kaizen. Kaizen works with brands like Symantec, MusixMatch, and TravelSupermarket to create award-winning content and boost SEO performance, through earned links from top-tier media publications such as the Daily Mail, Marie Claire, Lonely Planet and Business Insider. The company is the fastest growing independent agency for gross profit, as recognized by The Drum, and was featured in the top 50 startups of 2017 by Startups.co.uk. Pete is a regular public speaker at industry-leading SEO conferences such as BrightonSEO, SMX London and SAScon, a published writer on StateofDigital and SearchEngineWatch, and has won awards himself such as the ‘Rising Star’ category at the Travolution Awards for his work with Thomas Cook. Feel free to write to Pete about content marketing, link building, PR, SEO, voice search, entrepreneurship, business growth and more.
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About Kaizen: Kaizen is a content marketing agency in London, based in Moorgate.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Lisa Myers
Founder & CEO of Verve Search
Lisa Myers is the founder and CEO of Verve Search. She has been working in Marketing since 2001 and got “bit” by the “SEOl” bug in 2005, when she was tasked with setting up the Search department at a Integrated Marketing Agency. In 2009 she decided to start her own agency and Verve Search was born. Lisa is a prolific part of the SEO community worldwide and contributes regularly to publications on and offline as well as best practice guides and round tables. She is the founder of Women in Search, SEO-Chicks.com and co-founder of StateofSearch.com. Lisa also speaks frequently at conferences in the search and general digital marketing industry worldwide and is often hired to train internal teams, agency and universities on SEO, Content Marketing and Social.
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About Verve Search: Verve Search operates as a SEO and content marketing agency.
Rachel Davis
Co-Founder & COO of Hurree
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About Hurree: Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform.
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Andrew Foyle
Co-Founder & CEO of Miappi
Andrew Foyle joined Miappi as Co-Founder and Chief Executive in 2012.
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About Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Stefania Barbaglio
Director & Founder of Cassiopeia Services
Stefania Barbaglio is the Founder and Director of Cassiopeia Services. She is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist, and well-recognized PR and Investor Relations expert.
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About Cassiopeia Services: Cassiopeia Services is a public and investor relation consultancy firm.
Elnar Hajiyev
Co-Founder & CTO of Realeyes
Elnar stands at the heart of Realeyes’ core technology and IT architecture, driving the company’s emotions tracking vision. Elnar started coding at the age of 10 and built some of the first online shops in Azerbaijan. At 18, he created Azerbaijan’s first online beauty pageant, which got hundreds of thousands of hits, millions of TV viewers and extensive nationwide press coverage. He has also co-authored numerous academic publications, as well as been the recipient of several awards and prestigious scholarships. He went on to study for a fully-funded PhD in Computer Science at Oxford focused on database structures, which now form the essential foundation of our technology platform. During his PhD Elnar co-founded Semmle – working on big data analytics technology to provide business intelligence – and managed the company during its first few years before a fateful meeting with Mihkel led him to becoming one of the co-founders of Realeyes. He has built and now leads our Research & Development offices in Eastern Europe, and has been granted a US patent, with 6 more EU patents currently pending.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Daniel Martinho Corbishley
Co-Founder & CEO of Aura Vision
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About Aura Vision: Aura Vision enables brick-and-mortar retailers to positively influence shopper journeys with cutting-edge computer vision.
