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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Wellness 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.
Yusuf Sherwani
Co-Founder & CEO of Quit Genius
Yusuf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius. He is a Y Combinator alumni and was featured by Fast Company’s as one of their Most Creative People of 2019 as well as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List of 2018.
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About Quit Genius: Quit Genius is pioneering digital therapeutics for multiple addictions.
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Eric Min
Co-Founder and CEO of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zwift. He was the Vice President at JP Morgan before co-founding and working as Chief Executive Officer at Sakonnet Technology, a commodities trading and risk management platform.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Peter Hames
Co-Founder & CEO of Big Health
Peter Hames is CEO of Big Health, a digital medicine company he co-founded with clinical psychologist Prof Colin Espie (University of Oxford). Big Health creates automated behavioral medicine programs fuelled by tracked data, and was inspired by Peter’s difficulty in getting access to evidence-based non-drug solutions to his own insomnia. Big Health’s first product, Sleepio, is a digital sleep improvement program featuring personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, delivered by virtual animated sleep expert The Prof and his narcoleptic dog Pavlov. In the world’s first placebo-controlled randomised trial for an intervention of its kind, Sleepio was shown to be comparable in effectiveness to face-to-face therapy.
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About Big Health, Lucky Voice, NHS England, Sleepio: Big Health is a digital therapeutics company operating a healthcare portal to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Colin Espie
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Big Health
Colin Espie is Founder at Big Health.
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About Big Health, Sleepio, University of Glasgow, University of Oxford: Big Health is a digital therapeutics company operating a healthcare portal to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Daniel Murray
Co-Founder of Heights
Dan is Co Founder at Grabble & Mobula, a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, & the UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 as well as being part of the Drapers 30 under 30 for fashion and on the advisory board of Retail Week Live. He runs an international community of entrepreneurs called Foundrs comprising 250 founders between London, LA and San Francisco. He also started Funconference, a 65 person weekend away for founders and CEOs where all content is curated and attended by fellow participants. He is also about to launch a podcast called “The Secret Lives of Leaders” in which he interviews the key people in the UK entrepreneurship sector, featuring founders of Just Eat, Photobox, Moonpig, Made.com, BBH, & even HRH Prince Andrew. The mobile commerce enthusiast is a keen public speaker on all things mobile and fashion, tweets @murraymuzz and writes a popular blog (www.startupmumblr.tumblr.com) about the lessons he learns growing a team and daily struggles of running a consumer start-up.
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About Heights, Heights: Heights provide the daily nutrients, knowledge, and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health.
Joel Freeman
Co-Founder of Heights
Joel Freeman is the Co-Founder at Heights.
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About Heights: Heights provide the daily nutrients, knowledge, and network you need to elevate your cognitive potential and brain health.
George Goldsmith
Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways
George is a serial entrepreneur with significant experience in pharmaceutical regulation. George’s early training and experience was a multi-disciplinary blending of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology and computer science.His first company, The Human Interface Group, was a pioneer in collaborative software and acquired by Lotus Development. George led the Lotus Institute and developed software and services to support high-performance, distributed teamwork. George then created TomorrowLab, which provided strategic guidance to internet businesses in the late 1990s. At the same time, he became a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company’s leadership, and eventually joined McKinsey as CEO of TomorrowLab@McKinsey. Subsequently, as a member of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) and its International Board of Directors, George founded YPO Networks. In 2002, George founded Tapestry Networks, an organisation committed to improving leadership performance and governance effectiveness in regulated sectors. He still serves as Tapestry Networks’ Non-Executive Chairman. George also serves on the board of directors for AnaBios, a company redefining drug discovery. He and his wife, Ekaterina Malievskaia MD, live in London.
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About COMPASS Pathways: Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Ekaterina Malievskaia
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways
Ekaterina received her medical degree from St Petersburg Medical Academy in St Petersburg, Russia. After her Internal Medicine residency training, she completed an Environmental Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and received her MSc in Public Health from New York University Medical School. She worked in private practice, academic medicine and public health for more than 15 years in the greater New York area. She was a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as a Research Professor at City University of New York. After moving to London in 2011, Ekaterina worked in global health and medical philanthropy, focusing on improving outcomes in maternal and child health. She founded COMPASS Pathways with her husband George Goldsmith in 2016, having experienced at first hand the challenges in accessing evidence-based and effective mental health care for a family member.
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About COMPASS Pathways: Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
George Pallis
Co-Founder & CEO of Manual
George Pallis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manual.
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About Manual: Manual provides diagnostic tools and testing to help patients make health-related decisions.
Michalis Gkontas
Co-Founder of Manual
Michalis Gkontas is the Co-Founder and Advisor of Manual.
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About Manual: Manual provides diagnostic tools and testing to help patients make health-related decisions.
Peter Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of Humanity
Peter Ward is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Humanity.
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About Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Luke Heron
Co-Founder of TestCard Ltd
Luke Heron co-founded TestCard.com, a UK domiciled startup revolutionising the direct to consumer healthcare diagnostics market.
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Dr Andrew Botham
Co-Founder and CSO of TestCard Ltd
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Matt McCambridge
Co-Founder and CEO of Eden Health
Matt McCambridge is the Co-Founder and CEO at Eden Health.
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About Eden Health: Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers seeking to elevate the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Ian McCaig
CMO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Sammi Adhami
CCO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
David Plans
CEO and Co-Founder of BioBeats
David Plans is a member of the University of Surrey’s Center for Digital Economy and Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, and is working towards machine learning solutions to foster human wellbeing. His primary research focus is adaptive media and affective modelling. Having worked on early mHealth projects in the NHS, he is now leading smartphone and wearable research projects at BUPA, AXA/PPP, and Microsoft Health with his startup, BioBeats, where they are helping actuarial and care provision teams think differently about preventative health.
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Nicolai Thomson
Founder of Jukes
Nicolai is an entrepreneur and investor, founder of Jukes, Adlocate.io, VirtualMeet and TaxiClub. Investor in Stashbee, Pynk and Quin. Worked at Workbooks, Spark New Zealand, LendYour, NZ Inland Revenue and Daisy. Founder of 5 businesses with one exit.
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About Adlocate.io, Jukes: Wireless headsets for coaches to communicate with athletes in real-time during a training session
Kash Amini
Founder of MasLife
Kash Amini is a British serial entrepreneur from an age of 13, Founder and CEO of Maslife; the world’s first banking and wellbeing platform that revolutionises the way people manage their finances. By employing a fusion of A.I., nudge theory, and gamification, the app guides users towards a healthier, wealthier, and happier lifestyle. Kash has a background in launching and investing in various start-ups within Blockchain and security industry and is an early Bitcoin investor from 2015 with a net worth of 100Mil.
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About MasLife: Financial services, Well-being, AI
Nader Alaghband
Co-Founder & CEO of Ampersand Health
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About Ampersand Health: Ampersand creates innovative digital medicines for complex long term conditions, using behavioural and data-science.
Melinda Nicci
Founder and CEO of Baby2Body
Melinda is founder and CEO of Body Collective (Baby2body) the award- winning, wellness company for women.
She is a Sports and Exercise Psychologist, author of two bestselling books, is a regular contributor on the BBC, and sits on numerous boards as a NED, including The ICE List and Team GB (Olympic and Para-olympics snow-sport teams).
Melinda was named the UKBAA High Growth Founder of the year 2019/20, and has won numerous accolades and awards for entrepreneurship, including being named in the UK list of the Most Influential Women in Tech for 4 years running.
A serial entrepreneur, she founded and sold her first business at the age of 25 in South Africa, and held the position of Senior Director for Consumer health Innovation at Philips in Amsterdam. Melinda brings her passion for sport, performance and wellness to the numerous companies she advises and has created a global business with Body Collective, helping millions of women all over the world to live healthier and happier lives.
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About Baby2Body, GB Snowsport, ICE List: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Thorsten Hagemann
Co-Founder of AliveBiome Ltd
Thorsten Hagemann is an accomplished medical professional and entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience within the healthcare industry. An innovative, investigative forward thinker, Hagemann is passionate about identifying and creating new opportunities that aim to improve general health and prevent illnesses. Hagemann is the Founder of MedAdvise Ltd., a consultancy company focused on the education of the general public and prevention of illness through functional medicine. With an understanding that very few of doctors contribute to preventative medicine, Hagemann was motivated to learn more about the prevention of illness and use this information to educate others so they can live more prosperous lives. Through a deep understanding of the microbiome, Thorsten Hagemann has become a leading research expert and advocate for the health of this community of bacteria living inside our bodies. Not only does he find the subject fascinating, Thorsten understands the importance of treating it just like any other major medical area of study as it has an enormous impact on the health of our bodies. Thorsten is also an advocate for education when it comes to the microbiome, having a passion for showing people how keeping your microbiome healthy can increase overall health and wellness. Through his research, Thorsten Hagemann has found that having an unbalanced microbiome can lead to insomnia, anxiety, depression, loss of focus, obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. With preventive care and a balanced microbiome, the human body can experience better digestion, a drop in mood swings, and a healthier immune system. Hagemann hopes to teach as many people as possible about the benefits of a balanced microbiome through his work and research. Thorsten Hagemann was also recently given the opportunity to co-found another company surrounding microbiome research, called AliveBiome. This company’s focus is to give people direct access to nutrients and supplements that can improve the health of their microbiome. By taking care of the microbiome and supplementing it with the proper diet and exercise, AliveBiome and Thorsten Hagemann believe that one’s health can dramatically improve and even prevent further disease and illness. Thorsten Hagemann is also an avid cyclist. Seeing the happiness that the sport brought to other members of his family, Thorsten began biking himself. He has trained for several major cycling events, including the Paris-Roubaix in Northern France; one of the world’s oldest cycling races. The combination of a full body work-out, the joy of riding, and the chance to see the world has kept Thorsten attached to the sport.
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About AliveBiome Ltd, MedAdvise Ltd.: Food as Medicine
Brian Crowther
Co-Founder of AliveBiome Ltd
Brian Crowther is the Co-Founder at AliveBiome Ltd.
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About AliveBiome Ltd: Food as Medicine
Charles Wells
Founder & CEO of HelloSelf
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About Braintech, HelloSelf: HelloSelf is a health and wellness platform that provides its users with digital access to therapists.
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.
Hamish Grierson
CEO & Co-Founder of Thriva
Hamish Grierson is the CEO and co-founder of Thriva.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Tom Livesey
Co-Founder & CTO of Thriva
Tom Livesey is the CTO and co-founder of Thriva. Prior to co-founding Thriva, Tom served as a contract software engineer at Newspaper Club and as a CTO at Droplet Online Limited.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Eliot Brooks
Co-Founder & COO of Thriva
Eliot Brooks is Co-founder and COO at Thriva. Prior to this, he perforemed various roles at Tandem Bank and was once a manager at Travelex. He bears a degree in economics from University of Oxford.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Adam Bataineh
Co-Founder of Span
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About Span: Span is a fitness and health tracker app that offers data-driven support for health and fitness.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Tess Cosad
Co-Founder & CEO of Bea Fertility
Tess Isabelle Cosad is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Bea Fertility.
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About Bea Fertility: Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
David O’Rourke
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) & Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of Bea Fertility
David O’Rourke is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Bea Fertility.
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About Bea Fertility, Vitrolife: Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
Calvin Benton
Founder & CEO of Spill App
During university, Calvin took time out to learn the equivalent of a computer science degree in just a year, funded by a job-matching site and cake delivery firm he’d founded.
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About Spill App: Spill is a startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.
Boris Hodakel
Founder of Feel
Boris Hodakel is the Founder of Feel.
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About Feel: Feel is a pure nutritional supplements startup.
Jennifer Hersch
Co-Founder & Director of Ethos
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About Ethos: ETHOS is the ultimate yoga fitness hybrid experience with all one needs.
Phil Carr
Founder & CEO of My PT Hub
Phil Carr is the founder of My PT Hub.
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About My PT Hub: My PT Hub is an online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.
Dmitriy Molokov
Founder of Absolute
Friend, partner, gentleman, entrepreneur.
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About Absolute: Absolute – the place where technologies helps self-development and connecting with the world around them.
Karen Harwood
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Victoria Tydeman
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Luke Harries
Co-Founder of Fella
Previously a software engineer at leading HealthTech startups and an AI engineer at Microsoft Research. Studied Medicine at Cambridge University and Computer Science at UCL.
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About Fella: Fella operates as a telemedicine clinic for men with obesity.
Alex Hind
CEO & Co-Founder of Heka
Alex Hind, CEO & Co-Founder of GoSweat.
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About Heka: The personalised health platform to make your employees feel valued.
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO of Urban
A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Nikunj Sondagar
Co-Founder & Non Executive Director of Brushlink
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About AUXO, Brushlink, Healthcare Angels Network, Medicalsupply, Tooth Wise, Wise360: Brushlink is a health and wellness company that specializes in the fields of oral care and dental insurance markets.
Jay Conlon
Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate
Jay Conlon is the Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate Growth.
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About Lumenate: Lumenate is on a mission to make impactful subconscious exploration experiences more accessible than ever
Tom Galea
Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate
Tom Galea is the Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate Growth.
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About Lumenate: Lumenate is on a mission to make impactful subconscious exploration experiences more accessible than ever
Nicholas Begley
Co-Founder of PSYT
Nick read physics at University College London, then qualified as an actuary and worked in the City of London for 8 years before retraining in psychology. He specialised in the neuroscience of mindfulness at UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry, and helped start up mindfulness company Headspace as Head of Research before founding PSYT.
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About PSYT: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Alex Hooi
Chief Medical Officer / Founder of Callaly
Inventor of the Tampliner®, and a co-founder at Callaly.He is also an NHS Gynaecologist, Consultant Specialist and Clinical Director of the Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
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About Callaly: Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
Thang Vo-Ta
CEO & Co-Founder of Callaly
Co-founder & CEO at Callaly.Thang is a graduate of MIT and started his career in Goldman Sachs in NYC & London.
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About Callaly: Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
Jaco Oosthuizen
Co-Founder & Chief Insurance Officer of YuLife
Jaco Oosthuizen is the co-founder of YuLife. Jaco began his career in the MMI group as an actuarial student and swiftly moved on to head up an actuarial valuations team within Momentum. Jaco then headed up the team that created and developed Momentum’s Multiply Wellness Programme which has grown to be the second largest wellness rewards programme in South Africa. Success of the Multiply programme depended a lot on collaborating effectively across business units within the group. With Jaco at the helm, Multiply graduated to the primary engagement platform used by MMI to connect with clients locally and internationally. Jaco’s passion goes beyond crunching numbers; he is most interested in addressing the trust deficit in the insurance industry through client engagement and uncovering meaningful insights.
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
Josh Hart
Co-Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer of YuLife
An experienced executive and entrepreneur, creating value in a digital world, helping big businesses adapt leveraging the power of web, mobile and data. Inspiring and enthusing teams to push the boundaries of what has been done before, creating award winning digital and mobile strategy, managing through to execution both within the UK and Internationally.
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
Jonathan Roomer
Co-Founder & Head of Client Success of YuLife
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
Sammy Rubin
Founder & CEO of YuLife
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
Napala Pratini
Co-Founder of Habitual
Napala Pratini is the Founder at Habitual.
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About Habitual: Digital therapeutics & nutritional treatment for type 2 diabetes reversal.
Ian Braithwaite
CEO & Co-Founder of Habitual
Ian Braithwaite is the CEO and Co-Founder at Habitual.
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About Habitual: Digital therapeutics & nutritional treatment for type 2 diabetes reversal.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Harte
Surgeon & Founder of myrecovery
Tom Harte is a Surgeon, a patient and a founder of myrecovery. Tom was an orthopaedic trainee in central London with a keen interest in sports and soft tissue knee injuries when he fell ill and underwent a series of operations. Inspired by his experiences as a patient, Tom set up myrecovery with fellow surgeon Axel to challenge the current system, empower patients and transform the experience of having surgery. Tom and Axel ran large events and fundraisers while at medical school and currently organise the annual Digital Orthopaedics conference at The Royal Society of Medicine. Tom is also a previous faculty member at the North West Medical Leadership School, which aims to inspire and develop leadership and management skills in medical trainees.
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About myrecovery: myrecovery Empowering patients through every step of their journey to recovery.
Nik Naidoo
Co-Founder & Head of Brand of Grndhouse
Nik Naidoo Co-Founder & Head of Brand at Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Louis Rennocks
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grndhouse
Louis Rennocks is the Co-founder and managing director of Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Alister Rollins
CEO & Founder of MoveGB
Alister Rollins is the founder and CEO of MoveGB, a free online platform that enables fitness operators to offer their services to a network of thousands of active people in the UK. Think ‘Netflix’ for physical fitness outlets. Prior to MoveGB Alister ran The Retention People, the fitness industry’s leading loyalty solutions business, where he used data from over 15 million member records to make predictions about their behaviour and recommend intervention strategies so that clubs could improve member experience and retention. Alister answers the following questions on where he believes the market is going wrong and what clubs could do to enhance their retention rates.
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About MoveGB: MoveGB allows you to exercise how, when, and where you want.
Michael Rose
Co-Founder of Tahora
Michael Rose is the Co-Founder at Tahora.
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About Tahora: Tahora is a workplace connectedness technology that transforms people’s favorite things into real-world connections.
Lanre Olaitan
Co-Founder of MedCircuit
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About MedCircuit, NHS England, NHS England: MedCircuit is a groundbreaking AI triage software assisting doctors and nurses in the clinical setting
Pamela Scarborough
Co-Founder & Clinical Director of Pactster
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About Pactster: Pactster is a social exercise platform for people with specific health conditions.
Simon Woodroffe
Founder of Yotel
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About Yotel: Yotel offers affordable hotels with elements of luxury in smart spaces.
Dexter Grima
CO-Founder of Everly Wellness
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About Everly Wellness: Everly Wellness is a technology healthcare company focused on providing honest, expertly researched and personalised nutritional products.
Tim Joslyn
Co-Founder of Zryse
He has created and delivered the initial implementation of technology strategies for WorldPay in the UK, Nets in Scandinavia, ICBPI in Italy and Concardis in Germany. Prior to this, Tim founded, built and exited a multi-million pound technology advisory company, held key strategic technology roles in banking and finance, including VocaLink and Old Mutual, and worked as part of Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory practice.
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About Jump Twenty Four, Pollinate, The Development Cloud, Zryse: Zryse assists organizations in prioritizing employee well-being through actionable insights.
Celine Ivari
Co-Founder & CEO of WholyMe
Celine Ivari is the co-founder and CEO of WholyMe. She is also the co-founder of Meshkati. Celine earned her master’s degree in Genetics at UCL.
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About WholyMe: WholyMe offers the healthiest, effective relief remedies. Our products are all-natural and 100% organic certified.
Quitterie de Rivoyre
Co-Founder & COO of WholyMe
Quitterie de Rivoyre is the co-founder and COO of WholyMe.
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About WholyMe: WholyMe offers the healthiest, effective relief remedies. Our products are all-natural and 100% organic certified.
Ross Arnott
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Asensei
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About Asensei: The easiest way to add technique coaching and correction to sport and fitness products.
Jamie Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Hussle
Jamie Ward grew up in Northern Ireland and then went to Nottingham University to study Chemical Engineering (MEng). Prior to becoming an Entrepreneur Jamie most recently working for Ernst & Young, running large scale M&A projects focusing on pre-deal due diligence and post-deal merger integration. Whilst training for a sporting event Jamie and his colleague at the time became frustrated at the lack of flexibility in the health club market. The pair saw a gap the market to make it easier and more flexible for people to go to the gym whilst providing an additional revenue to gyms. Hussle (formerly PayAsUGym) was launched in February 2011and has grown to the largest online gym marketplace in the UK with over 2,500 gyms on board servicing the need of thousands of those of us with lifestyles that demand flexibility. Hussle has developed into mainstream tech enabled fitness brand and a sophisticated pricing and insight tool for operators to acquire new customers and maximize club yields.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Neil Harmsworth
Co-Founder & COO of Hussle
Co-Founder and Business Development Director at payasUgym.com. Focused on business innovation, finding new and better ways to do things and challenging ‘business as usual’. Constantly questioning why things are done the way they are and pushing people to think differently. The ‘ideas’ guy.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Liz Ashall Payne
Founder & CEO of ORCHA
Liz Ashall-Payne Founder & CEO Passionate about the opportunities that technology and particularly apps offer to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, Liz founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application in 2015, determined to present a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve public, patient and organisational outcomes. Initially a Speech and Language Therapist, Liz has almost 20 years NHS experience. She has successfully led innovative change and service transformation in complex health economies. She has led regional, national and European change programmes and networks to deliver transformational shift and has experience of working collaboratively with Public Sector, Industry and Academia. Identifying the opportunities that new technology present to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, and passionate about the potential apps have to shape the future of health and care, Liz was determined to find a way to offer much needed guidance to app developers to help improve app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could really help their needs, while navigating round those that present less obvious risks or carry dubious levels of validity or value. Interested in digital innovations in Health and Care she is motivated to continuously transform care, utilising resources most effectively with the opportunities these innovations offer. Examples from others Beatriz San Martin, Partner, Intellectual Property, Fieldfisher Beatriz is an intellectual property specialist with a focus on the life sciences and her work centres on dispute resolution. She also advises on intellectual property and policy making in regenerative medicine and gene editing in connection with how current laws should be applied or changed. She is a member of the UK BioIndustry Association Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Advisory Committee. Beatriz joined Fieldfisher in 2004 and became a partner in 2013. She was a scientist prior to pursuing a legal career, with a degree and a Wellcome Trust PhD and post doc from the University of Cambridge specialising in developmental biology. Jo leads the UK Pharma consulting business for PwC and assists clients across the lifesciences industry in developing strategies that embrace future trends and deliver improved health outcomes. She is a leading author on PwC’s pharma 2020 thought leadership series – a forward view on global issues in the sector and is a regular commentator on key industry issues such as digital, emerging markets and biosimilars. As an advisory board member for MedCity she influences the development of UK lifesciences. She has 13 years of industry experience in pharmaceuticals and energy with BP and GSK. Jo is a chartered engineer.
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About ORCHA: ORCHA is the leader in assessing and activating digital health and supports healthcare professionals to prescribe high quality apps.
Sergio Quezada
Founder of Achilles Therapeutics
Sergio Quezada is a Professorial Research Fellow and a Group Leader of the Immune Regulation and Tumour Immunotherapy Laboratory at University College London Cancer Institute. He is an expert in basic and translational research relating to cancer immunology with a focus on T cell immunobiology, immune-regulation, and the interplay between cancerous and immune cells within the tumour microenvironment. He has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the in vivo activity of checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs), particularly on the mechanisms of action of anti-CTLA-4 antibodies. Sergio has been the recipient of Dartmouth’s John W. Strohbern Medal for excellence in biomedical research, a CRUK Career Development Fellowship and the Cancer Research Institute investigator Award. Most recently he was awarded with a Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellowship. Sergio holds a Ph.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. From 2004 to 2010 he held a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Dr. James Allison at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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About Achilles Therapeutics, Achilles Therapeutics, UCL Cancer Institute: Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer.
Karl Peggs
Founder of Achilles Therapeutics
Karl Peggs is a Professor of Transplant Science and Cancer Immunotherapy, Scientific Director NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit for Stem Cells and Immunotherapies, Scientific Co-Chair and Board Member of the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and Honorary Consultant in Haematology/Stem Cell Transplantation at UCLH; he is also an Honorary Consultant (non-clinical) at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. After taking the position of Senior Lecturer at UCL in 2003 and Head of Adult Stem Cell Transplantation Services, UCLH, he spent over 2 years at MSKCC, NYC, USA in the laboratory of Professor James Allison studying murine models of regulatory checkpoint blockade. He runs a joint Research Laboratory with Dr Sergio Quezada in the UCL Cancer Institute and his research interests include viral infections, immune reconstitution, adoptive cellular therapies, and regulatory checkpoint-directed immune-therapeutics. More recently he has established the clinical translational side of the academic CAR T cell programme at UCLH. Karl was trained at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and UCH, London.
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About Achilles Therapeutics: Achilles Therapeutics is a developer of immunotherapies intended to offer next-generation, patient-specific therapies to treat cancer.
Peter Blencowe
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Peter Blencowe is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Alex Higman
Operations Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Alex Higman is the operations director and co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Nick Paulson-Ellis
Founder & CEO of The Sports Edit
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About The Sports Edit: The Sports Edit is a multi-channel retailer.
Rider Latham
CEO & Co-Founder of Secret Spa
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About Secret Spa: Luxury beauty treatments…any time and any place.
Emily Ewart-Perks
Chief Ecosystem Officer & Co-Founder of Secret Spa
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About Secret Spa: Luxury beauty treatments…any time and any place.
Jenny Tillotson
Founder & Creative Director of eScent
Jenny Tillotson is the creator and driving force behind eScent, an enabling platform technology and delivery device that emits precise doses of fragrances at the right time, in the right place, depending on context. This is highly scalable technology for sensing and dispensing scent and liquids, providing a new sensory awareness with wide‐ranging applications in fashion, fragrances for luxury brands, wellbeing, digital health, AR/VR, retail, sports, entertainment, learning and adult industry. Jenny spent 14 years at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London developing her award-winning eScent research and was made a Reader in Sensory Fashion in 2013. More recently Jenny has moved to commercialise her research. She formed a company that works at the intersection of fashion, fragrance, smell and wearable technology, co-founded with Professor Andreas Manz, a pioneer of lab-on-a-chip and winner of the EU ‘lifetime achievement’ inventor award for patents on microchip technology for chemical applications. Jenny’s involvement over the past year has specifically been in the area of fine fragrance for the fashion industry and digital health for stress and sleep disorders with a particular focus on leveraging disparate data sources to discover more accurate health-related correlations. The company holds 4 granted patents and 1 pending patent that creates an exclusive market position on wearable sensory data collection related to the sense of smell, pharma and insect control. Jenny has a degree in Fashion Communication from Central Saint Martins and a PhD in interactive olfactory surfaces (Printed Textiles) from the Royal College of Art. She has been a Fellow of the of the Royal Society of Arts since 2009, a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust since 2013 and an Associate of the British Society of Perfumers since 2005. Jenny is also a Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge and a STEM Ambassador. Prior to her academic work she was a fashion stylist in the media and worked as a Sensory Designer for Charmed Technology (MIT Media Lab spin-off). She has exhibited internationally, published in science and design journals, consulted for NIKE, Unilever, INTEL, Qualcomm, Toyota and worked with Philips, Cambridge Consultants, The North Face, Adeline André and International Flavours & Fragrances.
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About eScent, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Wearable technology and sensory data collection for preventative healthcare.
Edem Vormawah
Founder of WorkOn
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Dale Goulding
Co-Founder of WorkOn
Co-Founder at WorkOn.
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Henrique Zago
Founder of WorkOn
Co-Founder at WorkOn
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About WorkOn: Software platform and marketplace for fitness professionals to sell fitness programs online.
Markus Ahlberg
Founder of Feelmo
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About Feelmo: Take control of your emotional wellbeing. Feelmo provides you with the guidance and tools you need to manage your mental health.
Silja Litvin
Founder & CEO of PsycApps
I am a London based Psychologist, CEO and Founder of the Mental Health platform PsycApps. The mental health platform is also part of my PhD thesis in clinical psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich with help of Oxford University College. • In 2013 I finished my Masters in Psychology from LMU majoring in Family and Clinical Psychology. • As aforementioned I am currently completing my postgraduate education as a PhD student of the LMU with help of University College, Oxford. To help raise awareness for both mental well-being in general and our products, I speak at conferences and mental health panels. Being half German, half American, I speak fluent English and German. My French is decent and I understand Italian quite well. Because of my modelling career I am well-traveled, culturally diverse and I am by nature an extroverted people person. Media (1)This position has 1 media
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About PsycApps, PsycApps, UCL, Wonder Women Tech: Digital Mental Health Games
Iglika B. Ghouse
Founder, CEO of USPAAH – Your Spa At Home
Perfectionist at heart with over 10 years spent working in investment banking both in UK and US, Iglika knows what it takes to drive change. In 2015 she made a bold turn in her career and launched USPAAH – Your Spa At Home. Iglika is responsible for setting the vision for the company, as well as managing operations and the team of Sparistas. When not tackling business challenges, she can be found in the park with her pooch Tiger, or spending quality time with her family and friends.
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About USPAAH – Your Spa At Home: USPAAH delivers Massage, Nail and Beauty treatments to client’s home, hotel or office in as little as an hour.
Pete Petrondas
Founder and CEO of Keia Ltd
Pete Petrondas is the founder and chief executive officer at Keia.
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About Keia Ltd: Keia Ltd is a new destination for wellbeing; from hair & beauty to holistic therapies.
Nishal Desai
Founder of Imin
Founder at imin
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About Imin, London Sport: Imin is a technology firm that makes physical activity searchable & bookable by using open data in the health and fitness sector.
Dominic Fennell
Founder of Imin
Founder at imin
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About Imin: Imin is a technology firm that makes physical activity searchable & bookable by using open data in the health and fitness sector.
Neel Patel
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ZiO Health
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About ZiO Health: ZiO Health has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, bringing lab testing to the point of use.
Max Landry
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Peppy Health
Max Landry is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Peppy.
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About Peppy Health: Peppy is leading digital platform that helps employers give their people expert support for under-served areas of healthcare.
Evan Harris
Co-Founder of Peppy Health
Evan Harris is the Co-Founder at Peppy.
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About Peppy Health: Peppy is leading digital platform that helps employers give their people expert support for under-served areas of healthcare.
Mark Locke
Co-Founder and CEO of Genius Sports
Mark Locke is the Co-Founder and CEO of Genius Sports.
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About Betgenius, Genius Sports: Genius Sports is the official data, technology and commercial partner that powers the global ecosystem connecting sports, betting and media.
Andrew Stamp
Founder of Brain in Hand
Andrew Stamp is Founder at Brain in Hand.
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About Brain in Hand: Brain-in-Hand develops a technology for independent living.
Xavier Bernal
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Findoc
Xavier Bernal is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Sylvain Vuillen
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Findoc
Sylvain Vuillen is serves as a Chief Operating Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Rebecca Terrell
Founder and Managing Director of Tribeca Studios
Rebecca Terrell is the founder and managing director of Tribeca Studios.
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About Tribeca Studios: Tribeca Studios is a boutique fitness club that operates as a pay-as-you train studio.
Dr Vincent Forte
Founder of Forte Medical
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About Forte Medical: Forte Medical is a diagnostic center in London, England.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
