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 Product Design 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.
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
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Matt Hagger
Founder & CEO of E-Man Venture Labs
English born entrepreneur and investor in the technology space. He is widely regarded as one of the country’s most influential product directors with a focus on customer behaviour, user experience and logic, winning many awards for his work, as a founder or consultant/advisor to major global consumer brands and high paced start ups. At only 21, Matt created Net Sorcerer; the first real-time desktop news alerts platform in the UK, winning a patent & innovation award from the UK’s DTI, raising investment in excess of $500,000. The platform was later adopted by Sky News/Sports to deliver breaking content in real-time. Matt creates and incubates technology out of his startup studio e-Man labs whom he Founded after graduating from business school aged 21. The company now boasts 7 figure turnovers with a small but dedicated team of 26. E-Man is incubating AR game Snatch and doctors on demand service, Zoomdoc. Both set to launch out of beta in Early 2017. Matt is in the Co-Founding team and was an initial shareholder, in both. Matt is an investor and Co-Founder of Bizk.it a business tools platform for start ups and small business owners. He also has an investment in Redeemia, which launched in September 2012 and followed this with investments in Pocket High Street, Juxtafeed, Burn This (acquired by BodyBoard), 123 Friday and Octane Inc in 2014. In 2016 Matt invested in ANA, Wise Amigo, Zoomdoc, 123 Friday and Snatch. Matt was the Founder and CEO of Samsung Ventures funded, Zkatter, in San Francisco until 2013 and now he spends his time based London with offices in Los Angeles as he works on the launch and scale of a start up called Doppels, based in Venice Beach. Matt remains the company’s Co-Founder and CEO.
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About E-Man Venture Labs, Snatch: e-Man is a start up studio and launches 3-5 companies per year
Eugene Kouumdjieff
Co-Founder of E-Man Venture Labs
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About E-Man Venture Labs, Redeemia: e-Man is a start up studio and launches 3-5 companies per year
Nick Hynes
CEO & Founder of Somo
A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. In recognition of his contribution to the digital industry, he was recently shortlisted as one of the top 20 most influential and inspirational Britons in the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame. Nick founded Somo in 2009 with Carl Uminski to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. In his role as CEO, Nick defines the overall strategy, has recruited the team, and shaped the culture of Somo, establishing corporate-scale governance in this rapid-growth business. Nick was formerly CEO and owner of The IMW Group, comprising search marketing agency, The Search Works, and digital tech business, The Technology Works. He launched operations across Asia, with offices in Tokyo and Seoul, and established The Search Works as Europe’s largest search agency, before the group was acquired by TradeDoubler AB in 2007 for $112 million. Before that, Nick was founder, CEO and President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a start up to an established billion dollar business across 16 countries, in just 30 months. Acquiring AltaVista FAST Technology Search along the way, Overture secured exclusive, multi-year distribution deals with every premium portal and ISP in Europe. The company was sold for $1.63 billion to Yahoo! in 2003 and became Yahoo! Search Marketing. In his early career, Nick created the electronic points system for Air Miles, transforming a struggling paper voucher business into a $62 million per annum profitable business in four years. Nick developed and implemented Air Miles loyalty schemes across NatWest, BT and Vodafone (building their first customer database). He also introduced the world’s first national Smart Card programme for Shell, and the ‘Reward’ loyalty scheme for Sainsbury’s. Nick’s career began as a fast-track graduate at British Airways, where he led a number of global initiatives. Appointed as BA’s youngest senior manager at the age of 29, he was sponsored by the airline to complete an MBA at the University of Bath in 1992.
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About : Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
Carl Uminski
COO & Co- Founder of Somo
Carl is an internet industry pioneer with over 16 years’ experience creating new products, platforms and executing scalable growth strategies for businesses across the globe. Carl’s impact on the mobile industry was recently acknowledged by The Drum, who named him the most influential person in mobile.As COO & Co-Founder, Carl takes hands on leadership for the delivery of all Somo’s products and advertising businesses, splitting his time between our international offices. Carl has a unique knowledge of the mobile industry ranging from technical challenges to the commercial opportunities for brands to succeed in mobile. He has advised and executed for over 60 international brands on their mobile strategy, working with the leaders of companies including Audi, Groupon, Zynga, Fidelity Investments & BP. Prior to founding Somo, Carl was co-founder at Overture Europe, the company to pioneer the multi-billion dollar pay-per-click advertising industry into Europe. As CTO, he was integral in leading the business to success in 15 European countries, and its eventual sale to Yahoo! for $1.63 billion in 2003. A leader in search and social networking, he was headhunted to the Silicon Valley, where he created the Yahoo! One Search mobile platform, working with some of the world’s largest mobile brands. Previously, Carl was responsible for running real-time systems such as aircraft parking, flight information and security at seven British airports including London’s Heathrow Airport.
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About : Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
Richard Grogan
Founder & Executive Chairman of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Simon Sassoon
Founder of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Taymoor Atighetchi
Founder & CEO of Papier
Taymoor Atighetchi is a Founder & Managing Director at The Tab.
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About Papier: Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards.
Tom Henley
Founder and CEO of Empyrean Therapeutics
Tom Henley is the founder and CEO of Empyrean Therapeutics.
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About Empyrean Therapeutics: Empyrean Therapeutics develops next generation cell therapies to enable global and affordable cures for diseases.
Thomas Mary
Founder & CTO of Maze
Thomas Mary is the Founder & CTO at Maze.
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About Maze: Rapid, remote testing for agile teams, from idea to launch
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Kevin Helton
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Hello Love
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About Hello Love: Hello Love is a forward thinking branding and design studio that has a passion for communicating ideas and creating captivating adventures.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Murat Mutlu
Co-Founder/CEO of Marvel
Murat Mutlu, a designer based in London. I’m the co-founder of Marvel, a free prototyping tool for creative brains. I love coming up with new ideas and experimenting with tech.Some of my favourite things are hacks and pointless apps and sites. Prior to starting Marvel I was a freelancer at various startups and agencies around London.
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Jonathan Siao
Co Founder of Marvel
After graduating from Queen Mary’s University with a degree in Computer Science; Jon worked at Mfuse,Nokia and Badoo before starting his own iPhone development agency and then more recently teaming up with Carl. When not managing his team of highly skilled developers, Jon spends his spare time hacking Cat based iphone apps
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Brendan Moore
Co-Founder of Marvel
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Richard Palmer
Founder of D3O
Richard Palmer is the Founder at D3O
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About D3O: D3O is a specialist provider of impact protection solutions & materials.
Tom Harrow
Co-Founder of Shavekit
Tom discovered his love of web technology back in 1997 when he taught himself HTML and built his first website. Tom’s career grew to developer and lead developer for many top web companies and agencies. Natural progression took him onto project/product management and he delivered multi-million pound projects for companies like FT.com and Microsoft. He now works full-time on an online business he started with his wife 3 years ago www.findababysitter.com.
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About Shavekit: Shavekit restocks men’s bathrooms with razors and other high quality grooming supplies.
Soumyadip Rakshit
Co-Founder & CEO of MysteryVibe
Soumyadip is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of sex-tech company MysteryVibe . His mission is to apply Intelligence of Things to the world of Pleasure and create and immersive experience to transform bedrooms into sensual sanctuaries. The mission is gaining pace. MysteryVibe won the consumer product design category at the Design Week awards, beating the Apple Watch. Last year, it closed a funding round worth $1.5 million (£1.1 million) bringing the total raised by the company to over $4 million in three years and valuing it at $13 million. The sex-tech market, which is estimated to be worth $15 billion, has so far had very little outside investment. Rakshit says: “There’s huge potential, and that’s helped investors get over their initial reservations about the sector.” He still loves the moment at tech conferences when he starts talking about sex and pleasure and people’s expressions turn from smiles and giggles to curiosity and seriousness.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
Robert Weekly
Co-Founder & CTO of MysteryVibe
Robert Weekly Co-Founder & CTO at MysteryVibe.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
James Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of Tails.com
James Davidson is Co-Founder & CEO at Tails.com.
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Steve Webster
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Tails.com
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Ajith Govind
Co-Founder of Turing Labs
Ajith Govind is a Co-Founder of Turing Labs.
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About Turing Labs: Turing is a research and development digital platform that improves speed-to-market for consumer goods.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Isabel Lizardi
Founder & CCO of Bare Conductive
Isabel Lizardi graduated with an MA in Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art in London. With training in science, graphics, crafts and industrial design, her approach to design is multi-disciplinary, and aims to develop material and technological innovations that will provide users with intuitive and engaging interactions. Isabel Lizardi is co-founder of the Bare Conductive LTD, which developed and currently produces Bare, a non-toxic and temporary conductive ink that is applied directly onto the skin, allowing the creation of custom electronic circuitry. This material allows users to interact with electronics through gesture, movement, and touch.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Bibi Nelson
COO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Becky Pilditch
Founder of Bare Conductive
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About Bare Conductive: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniela Paredes
Co-Founder and Director of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
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.
David Stanton
Co-Founder of Reelables
David Stanton is a Co-Founder of Reelables. He is a former Solution Architect at AND Digital and CTO at Nattr. Stanton received a bachelor’s degree in Computing at The University of Buckingham and earned a Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Edinburgh.
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About Reelables: Reelables makes ultra-thin, flexible Bluetooth labels for automating logistics and supply chains.
Andrew Paterson
Founder of Peak Well Systems
Andrew Paterson is a founding director of Peak Well Systems, established in 2002 when it split from well construction services company the Peak Group which was subsequently sold to AGR in 2006. Previously, Andrew worked with Conoco, Charterhouse Petroleum, Petrofina and Enterprise Oil. Andrew lives in Edinburgh and France and is active with the Iris Initiative, a registered charity which runs the John Byrne Award in Scotland and South Africa.Andrew holds a BSc (Hons) Naval Architecture from Strathclyde University.
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About Peak Well Systems: Peak Well Systems designs and manufactures advanced downhole tools that extend well life, restore well integrity and enhance well
Gordon Angus
Founder of Peak Well Systems
Gordon Angus is a founding director of Peak Well Systems, having worked at the Peak Group with fellow Board Member Andrew Paterson before it was sold to AGR in 2006. Prior to his involvement with Peak he was with KPMG where he worked in many areas, including audit, taxation advisory services and transaction support. Subsequent to this, he moved into industry where he has had roles heavily focussed on business process re-engineering and systems improvements.Gordon is a UK national with a MA (Hons) degree in Economics and Accountancy from Aberdeen University and is a Chartered Accountant.
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About Peak Well Systems: Peak Well Systems designs and manufactures advanced downhole tools that extend well life, restore well integrity and enhance well
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.
Colin Stephens
CEO and Founder of Better Bathrooms
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About Better Bathrooms: Bathroom retailer based in the United Kingdom
Cameron Day
Founder of Together
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About Together: A full-service agency focused on helping tech companies acquire customers, attract talent and raise capital.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Kristian Tapaninaho
Founder & CEO of Ooni
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About Ooni: Ooni is the number one pizza oven brand in the world.
Ondrej Chudy
Founder of TMD STUDIO
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About TMD STUDIO, Trust List: TMD STUDIO provides creative ideas and online solutions to architectural designs.
Tony Fish
Co-Founder of Fab Lab London
Tony is a seasoned executive director with over 25 years of experience in investment, innovation and high growth. He brings digital and transformation skills to any board. His professional life has cut across a diverse range of sectors including venture capital, health, finance, digital fabrication, media, mobile, sport and education. His attention is currently focused on AI, voice, ethics, DLT and cryptocurrency Tony has founded, co-founded, sold and listed many businesses but remains passionate about highly disruptive technology which has the capability of scaling fast and is at an early stage. He brings professional working knowledge and experience of raising funding as a founder and adviser, funding growth companies as a partner and general partner of funds and representing corporates in M&A transactions. Whilst his style is based on deep involvement, clear decision making, robust financials, fast iteration, trust, transparency and strong open governance controls; he brings innovation, entrepreneurship, energy, enthusiasm and transformation skills. In addition to speaking at over 200 events and conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital trends and early stage growth, he has authored and published three books. He is a visiting Fellow at Henley Business School for entrepreneurship and innovation, Teaches at LBS and LSE and an EC expert for Big Data.
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About Fab Lab London, iNeed: Rapid Prototyping and hardware acceleration in the City of London
Charlie Jardine
Founder and CEO of EO Charging
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About EO Charging: EO Charging designs smart electric vehicle chargers and intelligent software for homes, workplaces and destinations.
John Sinclair
Co-Founder of ustwo
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About ustwo: Ustwo is a digital design studio that delivers interaction and user interface design services.
Mills Miller
Co-Founder of ustwo
A Mills is a Co-Founder at ustwo.
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About ustwo: Ustwo is a digital design studio that delivers interaction and user interface design services.
Tim Frear
Founder of Platinum Stairlifts
Tim Frear, founder at Platinum Stairlifts.
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About Platinum Stairlifts: Platinum specialise in the tailored design and manufacture of domestic curved and straight stairlifts.
Victoria Whitbread
Founder of Designed In Colour
Victoria Whitbread is a Founder of Designed In Colour.
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About Designed In Colour: A creative hub dedicated to offering the very best in shopping for contemporary & colourful design-led products.
Jackie Piper
Co-Founder of Designed In Colour
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About Designed In Colour: A creative hub dedicated to offering the very best in shopping for contemporary & colourful design-led products.
Alex Papanikolaou
Founder and Technical Director of Freedom One Life
Born with Athetoid cerebral palsy, from a young age, I have been determined that whatever physical difference I have, it isn’t going to stop me from living and experiencing life in the way that I want, and from doing the things I want to do in the way that I want to do them. My experiences and insights have led me to starting Freedom One Life, to inspire and empower people living with a physical disability. Enabling people around the world to expect and demand the same standard of living and mobility that a non-disabled person takes for granted. The first product is a game changing next generation power wheelchair. I have worked in national retail stores, driven around the country and travelled around the world with my power wheelchair. I have consulted internationally on access, equality, inclusiveness and I’ve been part of progressive change towards creating more inclusive environments.
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About Freedom One Life: Redefining mobility
David Floyd
Co Founder & Director of Bullitt Group
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About Bullitt Group: Bullitt Group offers go-to-market solutions for brands that wish to extend into mobile or audio products.
Colin Batt
Co Founder of Bullitt Group
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About Bullitt Group: Bullitt Group offers go-to-market solutions for brands that wish to extend into mobile or audio products.
Kenny Harmel
Director and Co-Founder of Galileo Watermark
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About Galileo Watermark: Galileo Watermark provides creative design and innovative products to the airline and medical industry.
Ian Linaker
Chairman & Founder of Galileo Watermark
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About Galileo Watermark, Scaramouche & Fandango: Galileo Watermark provides creative design and innovative products to the airline and medical industry.
Graeme Carr
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Paladone
Graeme Carr is Managing Director at Paladone Products Ltd
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About Paladone: Paladone is a gift designer company that creates and innovates giftware with a history of spanning 21 years.
Irina Pafomova
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Engelworks
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About Engelworks, Opporta: We help companies grow by creating desirable products & services based on human-centric design principles & actionable business strategies.
Carl Engelmarc
Co-Founder & CEO of Engelworks
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About Engelworks, Opporta: We help companies grow by creating desirable products & services based on human-centric design principles & actionable business strategies.
Antonello Benati
Founder of Manebi
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About Manebi: Manebì focuses on the production and distribution of espadrilles shoes which are handmade by expert craftsmen.
Alessia Sannazzaro
Co-Founder of Code & Wander
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About Code & Wander: Code & Wander is a digital product studio provides scalable web solutions for startups, brands and ourselves.
Yair Neuman
Founder of Wires Glasses
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About Wires Glasses: Wires Glasses is an independent eyewear brand headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Tom Chalky
Co-Founder of Inspiration Hut
Tom Chalky is Co-Founder at Inspiration Hut.
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About Inspiration Hut: Inspiration Hut provides daily inspiration from some of the world’s most creative portfolios for designers, photographers, and artists.
Abbie Davey
Co-Founder of Inspiration Hut
Abbie Davey is Co-Founder at Inspiration Hut.
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About Inspiration Hut: Inspiration Hut provides daily inspiration from some of the world’s most creative portfolios for designers, photographers, and artists.
Christo Peev
Founder and CEO of Motion Software
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About Motion Software: Motion Software assembles, trains and scales exceptional talent for the world’s leading companies.
Yanto Barker
Co-Founder of Le Col
Yanto Barker (Le Col) is a cyclist from London , United Kingdom. Join Strava to track your activities, analyze your performance, and follow friends. Strava members can plan routes, participate in motivating challenges, and join clubs. Get started by signing up for free.
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About Le Col: Le Col is driven by Yanto’s desire to bring the attitude and approach from his sport into the business
Anton Skrypnyk
Co-Founder & CEO of KindGeek
Anton Skrypnyk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Yuriy Gnatyuk
Co-Founder & COO of KindGeek
Yuriy Gnatyuk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Dominic Dumont
Founder of Keuken Ltd
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About Keuken Ltd: New take away concept opening in London in 2015
James Knight
Director, Co-Founder & Partner of Original Content London
Interested in #Cryptoassets & #Govtech | Previously @Mosaic_VC, International @Techhub | Engineer | Board Game Aficionado
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About Original Content London, Tech London Advocates: Original Content London is a Product Studio specialising in ideation around digital culture.
Sophia Webster
Founder & Creative Director of Sophia Webster
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About Sophia Webster: Sophia Webster is a British accessories designer and Flamingo enthusiast.
Peter Aron Zentai
Chief Architect and Co-Founder & CEO of JayStack Technologies
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About JayStack Technologies: JayStack Technologies is a software program development company that specializes in computer software, enterprise mobile development.
Lloyd Cooper
Founder and Chief Design Officer & Creator of Movi Medical
For the past 15 years, Lloyd has led major research and development projects for clients ranging from Medtronic to Yamaha. Specifically relating to ergonomics, comfort and safety, he has designed seating for automotive applications, office seating for work environments and ergonomically advanced equipment in operating rooms. He understands how thought leading companies constantly struggle with innovating within the constraints of market competition, tight timeframes and restricted development budgets. In addition to client projects, Lloyd has spun off companies based on the IP he has helped develop. KontrolFreek, a leading developer of innovative gaming accessories, sold at GameStop and by Microsoft, is another example of carefully designed products that solve unique needs.
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About Movi Medical, Push Product Design: Movi is a healthcare innovation company that specializes in innovation management, product design, and healthcare.
Riccardo Ferretti
Co-Founder and CTO of Momentumworks Inc
Riccardo Ferretti is the co-founder at Momentumworks.
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About Momentumworks Inc: Design x Code x Physics
Ralf Gehrig
Co-Founder and CXO of Brilliant Basics
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About Brilliant Basics: Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.
Chris Gardner
Founder, COO and Joint Managing Director of Atelier
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About Atelier: Atelier provides custom property finance solutions that are designed in collaboration with developers.
Diana Christie
Founder of Dresscode Uniforms
Fashion Designer
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About Dresscode Uniforms: Bespoke uniforms for luxury hospitality and corporate industries
Douglas Heidergren
CEO and Founder of Hyber
Founder of Hyber.
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About Hyber: Hyber is Sweden’s largest subscription rental platform for clothes and baby products for parents and children.
Paul Gill
Founder & Director of Orsto
Paul Gill is Founder & Director at Orsto.
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About Orsto: ORSTO Ltd is a British Private Ltd company backed by 84 International Investors.
Giovanni Basile Garcia
Founder of TI&SHRT
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About TI&SHRT: TI&SHRT is evolving the fashion experience , by making casual clothes a social vector with full comunicative power.
Pietro Calzini
Founder of TI&SHRT
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About TI&SHRT: TI&SHRT is evolving the fashion experience , by making casual clothes a social vector with full comunicative power.
Jonathan Fren
Founder/CEO of Rebel Minds
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About Keep Highways Safe, Rebel Minds, txttrans: We partner with ambitious entrepreneurs, startups and corporates in all industries to conceptualise, design and build digital products.
Michael Pepper
Co Founder, Chief Scientific Director of TeraView
Michael has held positions in the University of Cambridge concurrently with positions at Plessey and then GEC. Professor of Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University 1987-2009, he was invited by the Toshiba Corporation to create and head their first corporate research laboratory outside Japan. The Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, now known as the Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, opened in 1991 with Professor Pepper as Managing Director. Professor Pepper is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and the recipient of many prizes and honours for his work on semiconductors. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has extensive connections throughout the University of Cambridge, UK and EU universities, institutes and with corporations throughout the world. He received a knighthood in 2006 for his services to physics and since 2009 is Pender Professor of Nanoelectronics at University College London.
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About TeraView, University College London (UCL): TeraView develops terahertz instruments which can generate, detect and manipulate radiation to characterize a wide range of materials.
Don Arnone
Founder & CEO of TeraView
Don became CEO when TeraView was founded in 2001. He has over 16 years’ experience in the field of terahertz technology, first at the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics) at the University of Cambridge and then for nine years at the Toshiba Research Europe Laboratory in Cambridge UK where he was head of the Terahertz Technology Programme. He was responsible for liaison with Toshiba, Japan on commercialization of the technology, as well as customer relations and marketing of the technology within Toshiba. He was also responsible for all aspects of business development of Terahertz technology outside Japan, which involved liaising with potential customers in the US and EU. He brought funding into the business from the European Commission, DTI and DARPA in the US as well as various companies. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds.
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About TeraView, University of Leeds: TeraView develops terahertz instruments which can generate, detect and manipulate radiation to characterize a wide range of materials.
Leigh Garland
Co-Founder & Director of Praxis of Studio Zero
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About Studio Zero: WebVR, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development and Consulting
Shaun Dunne
Co-Founder & Director of VR of Studio Zero
Shaun Co-founded Studio Zero and is bringing WebVR to various clients, showing them the possibilities and building them interactive storytelling, products and experiences.
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About Studio Zero: WebVR, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development and Consulting
Natasha Kelly
Director, Co-Founder of Tiosk
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About Tiosk: Tiosk is a contemporary tea brand specialising in premium tea-based drinks.
Nicola Simpson
Director and Co-Founder of Tiosk
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About Tiosk: Tiosk is a contemporary tea brand specialising in premium tea-based drinks.
Nicola Simpson
Director and Co-Founder of Tiosk
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About Tiosk: Tiosk is a contemporary tea brand specialising in premium tea-based drinks.
Belle Robinson
Founder of JIGSAW
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About JIGSAW: Luxury British Fashion Clothing & Accessories.
Rod Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of Opun
Royal Navy veteran with experience of corporate and startup business. Co-founder of three startups, with two exits to corporate trade buyers (Tesco plc and John Lewis Partnership). Former Associate Consultant McKinsey & Co., ex Services Director at Tesco. Intrapreneur and entrepreneur. Spears Wealth Management Awards Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 nominee. British ex-Forces Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 nominee.
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About Opun: Why leave home improvement to chance? Opun is the smart new way to end your home improvement nightmares.
Doug Winter
Director and Founder of Isotoma
Doug Winter is a consultant, manager, engineer and architect and has over 20 years experience designing and building things on the Internet. For the last 14 years he has worked for customers from startups to global media giants with his company Isotoma, in the north of England. Doug can be heard regularly speaking at Digital North in Manchester and Leeds. Amongst other things, Doug has been a startup CTO and run the engineering team for Europe’s largest website.
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About Isotoma: Bespoke software developers specialising in getting startups started.
Andy Theyers
Director and Founder of Isotoma
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About Isotoma: Bespoke software developers specialising in getting startups started.
Elena Corchero
Founder & Director of Lost Values
Elena is a former Research Associate on wearables at MIT MLE and Alumni of the Material Futures MA at Central Saint Martins in London. Her work brings science closer to people through the development of lifestyle consumer products using smart materials. “I use every day products as a vehicle to influence and empower smart consumerism. We are surrounded by intelligent devices yet being smart must also reflect being socially and environmentally committed. Innovation should not only be measured by the quality of our means but most importantly the real meaning behind what we create and consume” She presented her research at the MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies Conference last October and became UK’s top 3 innovators of the year women in tech as well as 2n’d most disruptive business by Prince Andrew initiative Pitch@Palace. She has also recently been appointed as Director of Design Research at Room One Labs to define and explore the intersections between connected objects and virtual environments.
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About Lost Values: LOST VALUES is a Research Studio based in London.
Andy Boothman
Founder of DressCode
Andy Boothman is the founder of Dresscode. He has a bachelor’s degree in graphic design at Blackpool & the Fylde College.
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About DressCode: DressCode designs and produces high-quality shirts with tech-inspired icons and patterns.
Paul Fotheringham
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints
Paul Fotheringham is Founder & Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints UK Ltd.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Henry Pinchbeck
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints
Henry Pinchbeck is Co-Founder Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Sinead Murphy
Founder & CCO of Shnuggle
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About Shnuggle: Shnuggle is an innovative company that designs modern, clever baby products for the mid-high end of the market.
Andrew Morgan
Co-Founder of Exyo
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About Exyo: Exyo design novel, life enhancing medical devices such as posture walkers, making outdoor activities accessible.
Janet Russell
Co-Founder & Director of Design of Arran Aromatics
Janet Russell is Co-Founder & Director of Design at Arran Aromatics.
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About Arran Aromatics: Arran Aromatics produces fragranced body and bath products, and candles.
Athar Majeed
Founder of Savah App
Founder of Tyrocircle Empowering social learning in Higher Education.
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About Savah App, Tyrocircle: Design Collaboration and Prototyping Made Simple. Join the responsive revolution, Get your creative design team and clients together.
Penny Andrews
Founder, Director, and Product Strategy & Delivery of People Make
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About People Make: People Make focuses on helping companies to make digital products and services.
Javier Fábrega Guadalupe
Co-Founder & Head of Design of Cycloshield
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About Cycloshield: CycloShield has developed a gadget to improve the security for cyclists.
Chris Martin
Founder of Skunkworks Surf
Chris is the engineering mind behind it all. He started his entrepreneurial life in Glasgow making t-shirts before travelling the world and ending up in Amsterdam for three years. Now back in Northern Ireland he is fully committed to lead the world in surfboard manufacture.
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About Skunkworks Surf: Skunkworks Surf provides robust, high performance soft surfboards and stand-up paddleboards.
Alex Deruette
Founder of Kickpush
Alex Deruette is a co-founder and creative director of Kickpush, I am a product designer with 8 years experience in web and mobile. I’ve designed products for BBC, Verizon, Tesco, Chelsea FC, O2 and Vodafone but my real passion is to collaborate with entrepreneurs and shape products from the ground up. Co-Founder of a Product design studio with specialist expertise in mobile and web UX/UI. We know that people and relationships define quality. Exploring new frontiers of design in VR and AR.
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About Baby Bundle, Kickpush: Kickpush is a London-based design studio that produces digital products.
