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 SaaS space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tony Jamous
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster®
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date. Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributed talent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
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Dan Rogers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon
Dan Rogers is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon.
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About Peakon: Peakon is an employee success platform that improves employee engagement, inclusion, and growth.
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..
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.
Julien Renard
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Renard is the Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
Julien Poublon
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Poublon is a Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
Peter Fedchenkov
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Serial Founder (Soveren and Instamart). Harvard Business School graduate
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About Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
Andrew Zhulin
Founder & Co-CEO of Soveren
Andrew Zhulin is founder and Co-CEO at Soveren. Previously, he founded Instamart. He is a tech entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building successful companies. Before starting the entrepreneurial career, he worked in venture capital and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Andrew holds a PgD in Finance from the University of London and a Master’s degree in Engineering (honors) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
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About Soveren: Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR.
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.
Cem Savas
CEO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Cem Savas is the chief executive officer & co-founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Riya Grover
Co-Founder and CEO of Feedr
Riya Grover is the founder and CEO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Chris Bruce
Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits
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About Thomsons Online Benefits: Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company.
James Swanston
Founder & CEO of Voyage Control
James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making freight deliveries. James is an advisor to Lord Mawson OBE for the St Paul’s Way Transformation Project, one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects based in East London, with a focus on encouraging students to look at science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and enterprise. James is the chair of the Transport Working Group of the Energy Managers Association, founded by Lord Redesdale to help major UK businesses to help address the challenges of energy scarcity and climate change. He was recently listed in the Tech City Almanac as one of the 100 key figures helping to redefine digital business in London. He is a director of Green and Tonic, a fast growing networking group for sustainability leaders in London and has previously assisted the Sustainable Development Commission on smart mobility and was awarded the Greenbang award for smart transport in 2011. James regularly speaks at events on sustainability and entrepreneurship topics. He has been granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, one of the City of London’s oldest livery companies and has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He has served as an officer in the Australian and British Armies, including tours of duty in Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq, Falkland Islands and Afghanistan; he currently commands the City of London Fusiliers Company of the London Regiment. He spent several years in Australian military intelligence, where he established a multi-discipline team working on the fusion of intelligence collection and analysis across different technical intelligence sources, for which he was awarded the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation’s Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Australian Joint Operations Command Commendation for service in Iraq. James completed three bachelor degrees concurrently from Griffith University in Law, International Business and Modern Asian Studies, a Diploma in Export Management and a Masters in International Relations and Asian Politics (University of Queensland). James is a qualified Justice of the Peace.
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About Voyage Control: Voyage Control is a cutting-edge ‘Air Traffic Control’ for inbound logistics management. Powerful, efficient, and easy to use.
Amit Gudka
Founder of Field Nation
Amit Gudka is the Founder of Field.
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About Field Nation: Field Nation is an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and manage their contingent workforce.
Will Wells
Founder & President of Hummingbird Technologies
Will founded Hummingbird Technologies in January 2016, where the business spent its first year developing Machine Learning algorithms at the Imperial College technology incubator. Prior to this, Will spent 10 years in the Finance and Investment sector. This included M&A and other special advisory roles at Citigroup and Lincoln International, as well as investment management at the successful multi-billion dollar Highclere global equity fund, where he was also a Partner. Will grew up on a farm and is a keen sportsman. He holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a First Class MA Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Will sits on the Board of a Royal Marsden cancer charity and Math Engine plc, a UK public investment fund.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Harrison Rose
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer of Paddle
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer at Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
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.
Paolo Malaguti
Founder & CEO of Credit-Vision
Paolo is the driving force behind Credit-Vision. Under his leadership the Company has rapidly grown into an award-winning FinTech start-up partnering with major technology and financial firms, as well as receiving the backing of the UK Government’s digital innovation department (InnovateUK). Paolo founded Credit-Vision following a decade working in leveraged finance at various leading banks where he appreciated the fundamental role of data accessibility and accuracy in the private credit markets as well as the potential for financial data platforms to substantially improve market efficiency. Paolo studied finance at the University of Bologna, where he is also a regular guest speaker, and the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton. He holds Chartered Accountant and Auditor qualifications and he often features in various specialist financial and technology media outlets.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Vaibhav Khullar
Founder of Bx
Former investment banker. Passionate Engineer. Angel Investor. Cryptography enthusiast and prolific Bitcoin miner. Founder of OSREC Financial (https://osrec.co.uk), Bx (https://usebx.com).
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About Bx, OSREC Financial, PersonalRx: Bx is a fully-featured business management SaaS, covering invoicing, payments, expenses, and more.
Margo Polishchuk
Co-Founder & Director of proSapient
Margo Polishchuk is the Co-Founder & Director at proSapient.
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About proSapient: proSapient is a research platform that gathers networks of insights from executives and SMEs via global consultations and surveys.
Nick Gatfield
Co-Founder of Synchronized
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About Synchronized: Synchronized transforms linear videos into Smart-Video, making them fully interactive and as powerful as hypertext!
Mads Jensen
Founder & Managing Partner of SuperSeed Ventures
Mads is an avid technologist, experienced SaaS entrepreneur and skilled business operator with more than 20 years track record in building and growing technology businesses. His passion is to build great tech companies, and today he does this as investor in and mentor of great founding teams. Mads is technically hands-on, and his expertise includes disruptive innovation using AI and data. He is the author of multiple US patents.
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About SuperSeed Ventures: SuperSeed invests in seed stage B2B SaaS/AI companies and help them reach their first £1m in revenue
Ricky Thomas
Founder & CEO of Avora
Ricky Thomas As founder and CEO of superfast, cloud-based data intelligence platform AVORA, Ricky Thomas is a key disruptor in his space. Ricky has decades of experience building global, scalable high-speed database and transaction systems & now with AVORA, he has built a platform that aggregates any number of data sources, delivering meaningful insight with the power of machine learning. Ricky believes that “to drive growth, businesses need to drastically reduce data blindspots & the time it takes to access critical information, transforming your business’ time to action.” He is a regular speaker at the London Analytics Forum and industry panels on the challenges of traditional data systems and how to overcome them. Previously CTO at IG Group before building a number of business across Europe, most notably PetMeds which he sold in 2013.
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About Avora, MedicAnimal.com, Socialite: Avora provides a complete augmented analytics solution powered by AI that makes in-depth data analysis as easy as a web search.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Fahd Rachidy
Founder and CEO of ABAKA Holdings
Fahd is a serial entrepreneur passionate about helping the industry creates secure financial futures for everyone, and re-inventing the way the financial industry works using Artificial Intelligence. Fahd was previously co-founder of Scientificbeta.com, the leading index retirement digital platform recently acquired by SGX for $205m. Ecole Centrale, Sorbonne University, Lycée Louis Le Grand Paris.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Tom Mundy
Co-Founder and COO of Goodlord
Tom co-founded Goodlord as a renter in 2014 after becoming frustrated with the inefficiencies in the tenancy process and discovering letting agents were fed up with it, too. Now Goodlord is a leading player in the UK Proptech community and with over £18m of funding they are on mission to make renting simple and transparent for all.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Richard White
Co-Founder and President of Goodlord
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About Goodlord, Pickles: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
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
Ben Stephenson
CEO and Founder of Impala
Founder at Impala
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About Impala: Impala’s API connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell.
Roy Tuvey
Co-Founder and President of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Eldar Tuvey
Co-Founder & CEO of Wandera
Eldar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wandera where is responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction and growth. Prior to co-founding Wandera, Eldar co-founded and served as CEO of ScanSafe. Eldar started his career at Goldman Sachs and completed his MBA at INSEAD.
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About Snappli, Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Jim Walker
CIO & VP of Global Operations – Technical Co-Founder of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Hubble
Tushar is the Co-Founder of Spacious.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
Aron Alexander
CEO & Founder of WeGift
Serial entrepreneur with a background in retail, technology and payments. Incorrigibly curious. Continually learning. Driven by solving problems, building value and getting stuff done.
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About WeGift: WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally.
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.
Nick Timms
Co-Founder of Drag
Nick Timms is the Co-Founder @ DragApp. He is also the Founder of Whoisvisiting.com, BEAF.com, ReplyUp.com.
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About Drag, Whoisvisiting: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Tomas Gogar
Co-Founder of Rossum
Tomas Gogar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Rossum. He loves transforming scientific results into easy-to-use products. In his research, he proposed a unique way of employing visual information in the field of text mining. He finished his study at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
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About Rossum: Rossum is an AI-based cloud document gateway for automated business communication.
Ditlev Bredahl
Co-Founder & CEO of OnApp
Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev’s commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months. Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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About Kickass Capital, OnApp, PlatoScience: OnApp is a company that develops cloud management, CDN and storage software for service providers and enterprises.
Ohad Folman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Practi
Founder & CEO at Practi.
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About Just Eat, Practi: Practi develops cloud based software solutions to manage retail businesses.
Kevin Beales
Founder & CEO of Refract
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About Altitude Angel, Refract: Coachable insight on every rep on every call, using AI to highlight what aligns with success & your top performers, & coach decisive moments
Guy Westlake
Founder of Lavanda
Guy is an entrepreneur and investor who’s experienced online/technology businesses at pretty much every level – from 1-man startup to global multinational. He is Co-founder & CEO at Lavanda in London. Guy knows what it means to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, whilst understanding the need to establish scalable processes that can support rapid growth. He is passionate about culture and working with exceptional people to build innovative businesses that create meaningful value. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Studied at the ESCP Europe and University of Bristol. His interests are UX, e-commerce, web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, analytics, ECM, Business process management, web content management, software, business solutions, strategic marketing, consultancy, innovations, cinema, music, literature, current affairs, entrepreneurship, start-ups.
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
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.
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.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Al Gerrie
Co-Founder & CEO of ZigZag Global
Al Gerrie is Co-Founder & CEO at ZigZag Global.
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About We Are Pentagon, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Uzair Bawany
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Traydstream
Founder of a boutique search firm, Fairway Search Partners which predominantly focuses on retained mandates in the front office within three distinct areas. They are Global Transaction Banking, Private Wealth / Asset Management and Equities Capital Markets – Sales & Sales Trading. Chairman of the Contact Recruitment Group. In Jan 2003, he initiated an MBO and acquired the company and then sold this business in November 2011. He was Vice Chair of an industry trade body which is the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). APSCo provides a powerful unified voice for the Professional Recruitment market and is proud to represent, promote and support such vibrant and innovative sectors of the recruitment industry. Board Director of the National Advisory Board and Chair the London Regional Group of Mosaic which is a Prince’s trust Charity. It focuses on mentoring and developing under privileged school children.
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About Traydstream: Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.
Domantas Bakutis
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiorders
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About Cvsite.io, Multiorders: Saas, E-commerce, Order Management, Inventory Management, Shipping 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.
Amrit Dhangal
Co-Founder and COO of Tagove
Amrit Dhangal is COO & co-founder at Tagove.
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About Acquire, Clutch, RudderStack, Tagove, The Bricks: Tagove is a live chat software for website and mobile apps with Video chat, Remote co browsing, Chatbots, and Profile management tools.
Manoj Ganapathy
Founder & CEO of SalesTrip
Proven entrepreneur solving real world business problems using technology. Previously built and sold Invoice IT to Salesforce.
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About SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Richard Goodall
Founder of SalesTrip
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About PhiX Technologies, Precursive, SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Sofia Fominova
Co-Founder & President of Truligent
Sofia is a successful technology entrepreneur with experience in both B2B and B2C software. As a Co-Founder of Truligent, Sofia’s responsibilities span from marketing to sales to general management and venture development strategy. For her business activities and outstanding research in Artificial Intelligence, Sofia has been awarded a prestigious award from the Worshipful Company of Marketors and recognised as one of the “10 Most Influential Businesswomen” by Insights Success Magazine. Amongst other ventures, Sofia founded Mealz.com – one of the most prominent food technology platforms, educating millions of people about the art of healthy eating and living. Prior to Mealz, Sofia worked at a boutique hedge fund in London and built a business in the hospitality industry. Sofia received her bachelors from the London School of Economics (LSE) and completed two master degrees at University of Westminster.
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About Mealz, Truligent: Truligent builds and operates great software companies.
Diego Fanara
Co-Founder and CEO of Unibuddy
Diego Fanara is the co-founder and CEO of Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder and CTO of Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo is CTO & Co-Founder at Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
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.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Dave Hendricks
CEO and Co-Founder of Vertalo
Dave is the CEO and Founder of SeriesX.net, the operating platform for the startup ecosystem. Dave has extensive real-world experience founding and scaling technology companies – and living with the problems solved by SeriesX – as a former startup CFO, COO and President and has raised $80 million and managed the marketing, corporate governance, due diligence/legal, and auditing functions of startups for more than 20 years.
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About SeriesX, Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
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.
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo
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About Zeelo: Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
Rob O’Donovan
Co-Founder & Chairman of Charlie
Rob O’Donovan works as Chairman and Co-founder for The Eleven.
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About Charlie, The Eleven: Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Ben Gateley
COO & Co-Founder of Charlie
Ben Gateley works as Co-founder for The Eleven.
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About Charlie, The Eleven: Charlie is the HR software for small teams with big ideas.
Tim Hardcastle
CEO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Tim is a highly experienced Board level CIO/COO in FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. His experience managing and leading technology-enabled business change and his determination to consistently exceed outcome expectations led him to lead the development of the entirely new business and service model that is INSTANDA.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Derek Hill
COO and Co-Founder of Instanda
Derek Hill have experience spanning several eras of technology advancement, Derek’s insights into provisioning and global deployment of online solutions and leveraging the latest ecosystem of solutions is second to none. An industry thought leader in MS Azure and architect of INSTANDA’s rapid scaling capabilities in multiple countries, Derek has worked extensively with Boards to unravel the complexity of technology-enabled change. As COO of INSTANDA, he has a simple mission: unparalleled customer service combined with unrivalled platform value and quality.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Richard Valtr
Founder of Mews
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About Mews: Mews is an innovative hospitality management cloud platform that empowers the modern hotelier to provide remarkable guest experiences.
Jens Munch
Co-Founder & CEO of Pace Revenue
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About Pace Revenue: Pace is revolutionising revenue management with a suite of tools to deliver science, real-time and automation.
Zara Riahi
CEO & Founder of Contilio
CEO and Founder of Contilio, a cutting-edge deeptech startup that uses 3D vision, deep learning and BIM to turn construction site data into real-time, intelligent insights on project progress, performance KPIs and risks. 12 yrs global management, commercial, entrepreneurial and engineering experience driving growth and productivity for multi-nationals and startups in North America, Europe and Australia. Prior to Contilio, executed infrastructure (PE) and tech investments (VC/M&A deals) at UBS, London and Westpac, Australia and was lead engineer and project manager for billion dollar construction projects in North America. I sit on the board of an early-stage VC, have advised many CEOs and boards on growth, digital transformation and operations initiatives and was head of business development for a round-A Silicon Valley startup. MBA from London Business School, MASc in Earthquake Engineering (minored in advanced computational methods) from the University of British Columbia, Founder of LBS Construction & Infrastructure Club.
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About Contilio: 3D AI construction analytics platform that provides actionable intelligence in real-time, unlocking $Bn savings & automated payments.
Fadl Al Tarzi
Founder & CEO of Nexford University
+15 years of experience in media & technology-related businesses. Hands-on experience building successful strategies, growing companies, raising VC funds, building & managing teams. Founded and played pivotal role in growing several successful businesses,
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Alan Carson
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloudsmith
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About Cloudsmith: Cloudsmith is a cloud-native DevOps warehouse built on Package Management, that secures, controls and accelerates software delivery.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Matthew Scullion
Co-Founder and CEO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Ed Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
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
Adrian Melrose
Co Founder & CEO of Inn Style Ltd
Adrian is a South African born Chartered Accountant who qualified at Deloitte. He is currently the co-founder, seed-investor and executive chairman of Inn Style Ltd, a startup that provides a cloud based admin and booking solution to owner managed accommodation owners.
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About Inn Style Ltd: Inn Style is an intelligent, easy-to-use property management system for hotels, inns, B&Bs and self-catering properties.
Evgeny Likhoded
Founder & CEO of ClauseMatch
Evgeny is the founder and CEO of ClauseMatch. He used to be the vice president of Morgan Stanley, a financial services platform. Evgeny attended University of Exeter and studied Law. He also attended University of Rennes 1 for his master’s degree in European Law.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
Andrey Dokuchaev
Founder & COO of ClauseMatch
Andrey is the COO of ClauseMatch. He has been with the company since March 2014. He also works as director for StickerRide. Earlier in life, he worked for Financial Advisory as audit manager. He has been with KPMG Moscow as senior auditor. Andrey attended The University of Texas at Dallas and studied bachelor of science and master of science in accounting.
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About ClauseMatch: ClauseMatch is a financial technology company that provides software-as-a-service platform for smart document management.
Marc Trup
Founder, CEO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Enrico Faccioli
CEO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Enrico Faccioli is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seedata.
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About Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
Matt Holland
CTO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Matt Holland is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seedata.
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About EF Education First, Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Michael Maximilian Moss
Co-Founder & CEO of PromoMii
Co-Founder & CEO at PromoMii.
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About Gazoom, PromoMii: A.I. powered video content creation SaaS platform used by the likes of Disney, NENT, VRT and more
Paul Walsh
CEO & Founder of Infinity
Paul founded Infinity in 2010, and has a 20 year history of successfully launching tech-based companies.
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About Infinity: Infinity is a call tracking and hosted PBX service provider.
Greg Toner
CFO and Co-Founder of SalesRight
A CPA based out of London, Ontario, Greg has been working as a startup CFO for the past several years. He specializes in working with early to growth stage startups and has been critical to the success of many SaaS companies throughout Canada. Greg straps on his skis and hits the slopes often, but always saves time to spend with his two children.
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About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Mohamed Elmasry
CEO & Co-Founder of Tactful
Mohamed Elmasry is a person with “think, plan, act & accomplish” mentality who has a proven experience in motivating people to work towards challenging goals. I have been in the business world for several years running and growing businesses. I excelled in the fields of project management, business development, engineering management, and building strategic business relationships. My passion goes to distributive innovation, managing products development, defining processes and methodologies, also sustaining engineering and business activities.
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About Arm Holdings, Tactful: Unified Cognitive Customer Experience Platform
Hugo Amos
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Black Swan Data
Black Swan Data is one of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies counting PepsiCo, Unilever, McDonald’s and Google amongst its clients. It combines cutting edge data science with publicly available social data to accurately predict trends in consumer behaviour. Hugo Amos works closely with clients to help them transform their insight, innovation and marketing programs through the application of Social Prediction technology. Prior to setting up Black Swan, Hugo spent 10 years in consumer and digital marketing for PepsiCo in both the UK and North America.
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About Black Swan Data: Black Swan’s SaaS solution uses data analytics to allow brands to more accurately predict future consumer trends
Jacob Waern
Founder & CEO of EduMe
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About EduMe: eduMe is a mobile-based training platform for the deskless workforce. Companies see increased productivity, retention and workforce safety.
Flavius Plesu
CEO & Founder of OutThink
A cyber security leader with almost 20 years industry experience, Flavius is the Founder and CEO of OutThink. As a former CISO, he has led complex cyber security transformation programmes across large, global organisations. It is his passion for security that motivated Flavius to challenge the status quo and start OutThink, to solve the People challenge. Flavius holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London. Strategic thinker, strong decision-making abilities, result oriented and collaborative leadership style. His primary focus is enabling organisations understand their cyber security risk exposure to make well informed business decisions. Having a strong technical background and a good understanding of business processes, he is naturally proficient at explaining the technical concepts surrounding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and supporting IT systems to all levels of management. Extensive expertise across a wide range of information security disciplines – Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), information security policies, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISF Standard of Good Practice, Data Privacy, legal and regulatory compliance – SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, NHS IGTA, computer security, network security, web application security, secure business architectures and security technologies, with a strong emphasis on information risk management. CISSP, CRISC, CISM, SABSA SCF, SCP, QSA, ISO 27001 LI/LA
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About OutThink: Cybersecurity human risk management platform (SaaS)
Patrick Petitti
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Catalant
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About Catalant: Catalant is a software company that provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand.
John Buni
CEO and Co-Founder of CleanCloud
John Buni is the CEO and Co-Founder of CleanCloud, a software-as-a-service provider for small, independent dry cleaners. With 5,000 users in over 70 countries worldwide, CleanCloud is disrupting an already disrupted industry. A serial entrepreneur, he is also the CEO and founder of Tailor Made London, a cutting edge bespoke tailoring business that has used 3D body scanning technology to allow the modern man to create a unique look, tailored to his exact measurements and customised to his exact personality. Back in 2010, he sought investment for the business on BBC Dragons’ Den.
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About CleanCloud, Tailor Made London: The leading cloud-based SaaS solution for independent dry cleaners, with 5,000 clients in 55 countries worldwide.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
