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 Manager operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Manager 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.
Simon Johnson
General Manager – UK and Ireland of Freshworks
Simon Johnson is the UK General Manager at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Duncan Gillingwater
Strategic Solutions Manager UK&I (SC Cleared) of Dynatrace
Email: duncan.gillingwater@worksiq.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/duncangillingwater/
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About Dynatrace: Software intelligence to help DevSecOps teams across every industry tame cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation
Jafar Soltani
Senior Software Engineering Manager of Improbable
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Tim Boeckmann
Principal Business Development Manager of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Holly Ellis
Snr. Manager Solution Architects – Public Sector of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Matthew Oldham
Senior Manager, Technology Consulting & Advisory of Accenture
Matthew Oldham is the Senior Manager, Technology Consulting & Advisory at Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Mahadev Ganti
Solutions Lead – SuccessFactors & Project Manager of Infosys
Mahadev Ganti is the Solutions Lead of SuccessFactors & Project Manager at Infosys Limited since February 2014. Prior to his current role Mahadev was Lead Consultant of SAP HCM Practice at Infosys Limited. Previously, Mahadev was Senior Consultant of Human Capital Management at Sodexo, Senior Consultant of SAP Human Capital Management at Capgemini and HCL and Senior Consultant of SAP for North America at Compass Group PLC. Mahadev earned his M.Sc. degree from Osmania University at Hyderabad, India.
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About Infosys: Infosys is a provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.
Andy Steven
HCX Product Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Douglas Davis
Senior Technical Account Manager of VMware
After working in the IT industry for 12 years, working with VMware products whilst designing and building shared private cloud platforms, Doug Davis joined VMware as a Technical Account Manager in the UK in 2012. Over the past 7 years, he has worked with a number of large Enterprise customers across multiple industries including public transport, government, financial services and media and is passionate about customer success in the world of digital transformation.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nigel Venables
Technical Account Manager of VMware
Nigel Venables works in our PSO EMEA Team as a Senior Consultant covering a wide range of technologies including vRealize Operations Manager, vSphere and Site Recovery Manager .
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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
James Hallam
Senior Project Manager of VMware
James Hallam serves as senior project manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Lucas Stoops
Investment Manager of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Andrew Brown
Senior Investment Consultant & Private Equity Manager Research of Willis Towers Watson
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About Willis Towers Watson: Willis Towers Watson is a global advisory and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Dimitris Triantafyllidis
Emerging Technologies Manager of Rolls-Royce
Dimitris Triantafyllidis the Emerging Technologies Manager in the Rolls-Royce Future Technologies Group. My responsibility is to identify and develop emerging technologies with significant potential business value. I am currently focusing on advanced imaging and computer vision, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, remote operations, electrical technologies and novel materials. My remit covers all Rolls-Royce businesses, including the Civil Aerospace, Defence Aerospace, Nuclear, Marine and Power Systems markets and covers applications across the company’s operations, products and aftersales services portfolio. I have worked for Rolls-Royce for more than 10 years in various roles across Engineering and Technology, including Manufacturing and Test & Measurement. I am a Chartered Engineer (IMechE) and hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Rolls-Royce: Rolls-Royce is an industrial technology company that provides integrated power and propulsion solutions.
Marco Casassa Mont
Principal Cyber Security Consultant and Manager of BMT Group
Results-driven Senior Manager, Principal Cyber Consultant and enthusiastic technologist. Over 20 years of experience and leadership in: cyber security; cloud & enterprise solutions and architectures; consultancy and trusted advisory; strategy; research and innovation. Worked in CTO Offices as strategist & innovator. Business development and bids coordination. Team leadership. Lead & delivery of digital transformation and large projects for: cloud and enterprise security, cyber analytics & threat detection, risk analysis, security controls. Sectors: private, public, defence, financial, energy, telecommunication. (ISC)2 CISSP, (ISC)2 CCSP, MSc and BSc Computer Science, IEEE Senior member, CIISec member. • Lead and delivery of digital transformation, architectures, complex/large projects, software solutions, consulting for: enterprise and cloud security (Azure, AWS); SIEM, UEBA; cyber threat detection (advanced use of AI/ML); threat intelligence; EDR; VTM; cyber security operations; risk analysis; situational awareness; IAM; privacy. Proficient in Agile, DevOps methodologies. • Lead of technology strategies and roadmaps for: cloud and enterprise security; cyber security controls; SIEM; big data for security; IAM; Network Traffic Analysis & Management; privacy. • Lead of business development through innovation. Shaped and developed new business opportunities for next generation SIEM, security analytics for threat detection, new security controls for IAM & privacy, risk analysis. • Director of multi-party, interdisciplinary, international R&D security programmes: TSB EnCoRe; EU PRIME; IAM & Federated Identity Management. • Lead of multiple technology transfers into HP/HPE software security products. • Inventor and innovator (HP Labs, HPE CTO Office) with strong background in cyber security, cloud, big data, security analytics, SW architectures, IAM and privacy. Named inventor of 50+ patents, 31 granted patents. • Speaker and presenter at many public events, trade shows, conferences. Cited author of scientific publications. Published 60+ referred articles and papers. • Effective communicator at all levels in large organisations, including acting as trusted advisor. • Proficient in cyber security, cloud security (Azure, AWS, etc.), protective & detective security controls, cyber attacks, kill chain, APT threats, security risk management. • Proficient in cyber security standards / frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST security controls & risk guidelines, MITRE ATT&CK, NCSC CAF, CSA, OWASP, CIS. • Proficient in security operations and cyber incident response.
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About BMT Group: BMT Group Ltd is an international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy firm.
Matt Leipnik
Lead Specialist Cyber Security Sales Manager of Baker Hughes
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About Baker Hughes: Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.
Andrew Dickerson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Responsible for a team of Product Marketeers for Backup, Recovery and Archive Products and Solutions within the Storage Organization.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Charlie Pryor
Senior Manager of SITA
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About Baby Lifeline, Leidar, SITA: SITA is an air transport IT and communications specialist, providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry.
Steve Johnson
EMEA Information Security Manager of Orion Health
Steve’s career spans the technical evolution from mainframe and SCADA systems of the late 80’s through client-server systems and to today’s utility compute environments. He assisted early ‘cloud’ adopters to realise strategic advantage while maintaining and improving security and regulatory compliance. At Orion Health, Steve works with global operational teams and clients to assure and secure regional digital health care integration and emergent Precision Medicine services throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his spare time, Steve voids warranties.
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About Orion Health: Orion Health is an award winning, global healthcare software company that develops creative and modern solutions.
Oli Gibson
Lead Product Manager of Thoughtworks
Oli Gibson is a Lead Product Manager at ThoughtWorks. He has worked with companies, across all sectors, helping them build better products. He has been an entrepreneur, developer and is now a Product & Strategy Consultant at ThoughtWorks. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise where he now helps organizations transform their business strategy, take an experimental approach to product development and manage cultural transformation.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Arthur Koechlin
Business Development Manager – France of Taboola
Arthur Koechlin is the publisher sales team lead for emerging partnerships at [Taboola](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taboola), Europe, a content discovery platform that connects people with content they may like but never knew existed. Previously, he served the same company holding the position of business development manager, France.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Steve Knight
Country Manager UK of Builder
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About Builder: Builder helps people build their technology without having to become an engineer or hire a team.
Hannah Williams
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Steph Bradley
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
James Curran
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Simon Holgate
Technical Research Manager of IBM Research
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About IBM Research: IBM Research provides research and developments related to the technological industry.
Hiwot Mendahun
Technical Product Manager (Security) of Mimecast
Hiwot Mendahun is a cyber resilience expert and product manager at Mimecast. Having joined Mimecast in 2011, Hiwot works closely with all areas of the organization to bring new security products and service innovations to our customers. Hiwot has a passion for security and technology and holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. When not saving the world, Hiwot shares her enthusiasm by mentoring young people on behalf of The Princes Trust.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Darryl Hubble
Senior Insights Manager of Healthily by Your.MD
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About explorza, Healthily by Your.MD: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Dale Archer
Senior Business Development Manager of EPAM Systems
With an addiction to all things tech and social media, not to mention a background in Biz Dev within Social Media Tech at the likes of SocialBro and SocialBakers, the opportunity to take the lead on a Social iPhone app was too hard to turn down! Loves Pugs, Gadgets, Football and snapchat and hates bad shoes, bad manners and wires!
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Victoria Thompson
Product Manager of Elsevier
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About Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Richard Aston
Digital Operations Engineering Manager of Ricoh Company
Richard Aston is an advocate of digital technologies with 20 years of experience in machine automation and control. He is now challenged to drive the next phase of innovation in manufacturing, developing a new team leveraging the power of data analytics and AI in areas such as predictive maintenance and digital feedback loops.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Richard Davis
Group Product Marketing Manager of Proofpoint
Richard is a seasoned Cybersecurity professional with over 20 years’ experience and passionate about helping organisations protect their people. Richard has been at Proofpoint for the last 10 years and has held various roles including Principal Architect, EMEA Product Manager and is currently part of the Global Cybersecurity Strategy team. As part of this team Richard regularly meets Proofpoint Customers to advise on their cyber security strategy. Richard holds an Engineering degree from the University of Exeter and started his career working as a software engineer for a small security vendor, followed by a number of years working in the IT Security Channel.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Barbara Thompson
Global L&D Innovation Manager of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Dan Martines
Manager of The Boston Consulting Group
Accomplished technology executive with over 14 years of international experience in Technology Innovation, Architecture and Strategy, IT Governance, and Business Development. Large-scale delivery (25,000+ man-days; 60+ consultants) across industries – Financial Services (Retail and Payments), Health & Life Sciences, Retail, Telecom, and Products. Dan Martines applies pragmatic and results-oriented approaches to complex business problems and possesses strong verbal and written communication skills. International experience in North America, Europe, India, and Brazil.
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About BCG Platinion, The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Emily Deacon
Life Sciences Partnerships Manager of Huma Therapeutics
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Wayne Lloyd
Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation / Blockchain / AI Company Name of Publicis Sapient
Having spent the vast majority of his career providing centralised technology solutions to investment banks and large corporate companies around the world, Wayne now advocates the adoption of decentralised ways of working since discovering blockchain in early 2016. As the official UK Ambassador for EOS Nation, Wayne represents the worlds most cutting edge blockchain technology project, specifically designed for enterprise adoption. A member of the Blockchain Council and a Founder Member of The Oxford University Blockchain Foundation, Wayne believes society is approaching the era of the democratization of value through tokenisation and as the Blockchain & Crypto asset advisor for the largest Digital Marketing Agency in the world Wayne presents’ thought leadership to how this event horizon is set to disrupt multiple industries in the not too distant future.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Rosa Lenders
Marketing Manager of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
David Lyons
Manager, Solution Consulting EMEA of Saba Software
David Lyons is the Solution Consultant Team Leader at Saba Software in EMEA. He has over ten years of experience in advising C-level and HR professionals on the best technical solutions to meet their business needs across a range of industries including Financial Services, Telco, Utilities and Education.
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
Carl Hunt
Senior Manager of KPMG International Limited
Carl Hunt is the Director at KPMG
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About KPMG International Limited, KPMG UK: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Jon Cowie
Senior Manager, Customer Architecture of Progress
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About Progress: Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications.
Richard Owens
Network Optimisation Manager of O2
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Hugh Daly
General Manager, Message Automation of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Lee Martin
Business Development Manager – SonicWall of Tech Data
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About Tech Data: Tech Data is an end-to-end distributor of technology products, services, and solutions.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of “Building a DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Piyush Kumar Singh
Technical Project Manager | CSM of Capgemini
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Carrie Babcock
Investment Manager of Breed Reply
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About Breed Reply: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Matthew Robinson
Manager, Marketing Communications, UK of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Mark Kendall
Business Development Manager of NEC Corporation
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About NEC Corporation: NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
Jon Harrison
Pre-Sales Manager of Embarcadero Technologies
Jon is Technical Pre-Sales Manager at Embarcadero, and has over 20 years of software development and database experience. Previously Jon has been Product Line Manager for major development IDE products and worked at Borland as a manager and senior consultant. Current specialist interests include strategies for developing mobile and multi device apps. Jon has a BSc in Computing from the University of Northumbria.
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About Embarcadero Technologies: Embarcadero Technologies offers cross-platform solutions for database design, development and management.
Nancy O’Leary
Operations Manager & Executive Assistant of CivilGEO
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About CivilGEO: CivilGEO is a software firm focused on developing advanced engineering software for use in the civil engineering market.
Nancy O’Leary
Operations Manager & Executive Assistant of CivilGEO
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About CivilGEO: CivilGEO is a software firm focused on developing advanced engineering software for use in the civil engineering market.
David Byron
SVP Global Alliances and New Markets and General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Rupert Lane
Finance Manager of Hybrid
Rupert Lane is a finance manager at Hybrid.
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About Hybrid: Hybrid is a media company that creates content for brands across digital platforms.
Tasha Wellstead
Certified Salesforce Administrator – Customer Success Manager of Learnsmarter
Tasha Wellstead Certified Salesforce Administrator – Customer Success Manager at Learnsmarter.
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About Learnsmarter: Learnsmarter provides on-demand training administration solutions for organisations of any size.
John Galpin
Distribution Account Manager of ConnectWise
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About ConnectWise: ConnectWise is a software company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses.
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Mark Harries
Executive Vice President, MillenniumIT and General Manager, Technology Services, LSEG of MillenniumIT
Mark joined the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and has been involved in a number of the major projects and strategic initiatives since then. Following the acquisition of MillenniumIT in October 2009, he is currently responsible for the LSE Group – MillenniumIT interface and splits his time between London and Colombo. Mark is a graduate engineer and prior to joining the LSE worked as a consultant project manager in the engineering, construction and financial services sectors.
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About MillenniumIT: MillenniumIT is a leading innovative trading technology business.
Kamal Hussain
Regional Sales Manager of Segmentify
Kamal Hussain is the Regional Sales Manager of Segmentify. He is experienced in strategic business development with domestic and international organizations to establish growth and improved bottom-line results.
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About Segmentify: Segmentify is an intelligent personalization solution to increase sales, customer engagement, and provide insights into your customers.
Nick Colin
Regional Sales Manager – EMEA North of Centrify
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About Centrify, Centrify: Centrify secures enterprise identities against cyberthreats that target today’s hybrid IT environment.
Graeme Russell
Product Manager – Data Driven Advantage of Howden
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About Howden: Howden is an engineering company producing custom engineered fans, compressors and air-heaters.
Alexander Nicholson
Engagement Manager of Frog Design
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About Frog Design: Frog Design operates as a global design, innovation, and strategy firm.
Andy Orriell
Customer Relationship Manager and Head of Training of Chorus Intelligence
Andy brings 18 years of experience within law enforcement in intelligence and analysis. He has worked for Cheshire Police, the National Crime Squad and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. In 2007 he returned to Cheshire Police as a Senior Analyst with the overall responsibility for a large team delivering tactical and operational support in both the covert and overt arenas. Andy also has extensive training experience having been involved with the design and delivery of multiple projects nationally on behalf of the UK’s College of Policing, with which he maintains associate status. Andy has recently been engaged within Conflict, Security and Stabilisation funded projects, working on behalf of British Embassies in the Middle East delivering training to national law enforcement agencies.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Jonathan Wagstaff
Group Business Intelligence Manager of Exertis
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About Exertis: Exertis is a technology distribution and specialist service providers.
Andrei Sandu
Project Manager of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Nicole Willson
Communications Manager of Shopwave
Nicole holds a first class honours degree in English and American Literature in addition to a Master’s degree in Eighteenth-Century Literature. She has recently completed a PhD in American Studies, and has taken over as manager of all things comms at Shopwave. Nicole has a background in academic publishing, copywriting, and editing, and has published several articles in peer review journals.
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About Shopwave, University of Central Lancashire: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
Raphael Levy
Corporate Development Manager of Alten
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About Alten: Alten is high-technology consulting and engineering group. The group’s services are supplied to technical departments.
Rinat Nazmutdinov
Manager of Intentex
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About Intentex: Next-generation text-analysis technology that lets you understand how others are impacted by the the way you communicate.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Chris Dreyfus-Gibson
Public Safety Consulting Lead (Senior Manager) – Aerospace, Defence and Security of Sopra Steria
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About Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria Group SA is a European information technology consultancy established in September 2014.
Nathan Sansby
Strategic Partnership Manager of Sorted Group
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About Sorted Group: Sorted Group is a global SaaS company that provides data-driven software for checkouts, warehouses, and shipping.
Ian Painter
General Manager, Air Operations of Cirium
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About Cirium: Cirium brings together aviation and travel data and analytics to keep the world moving.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Katy Byrne
Business Development Manager of EssentialSkillz
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About EssentialSkillz: The Complete Compliance eLearning Suite for Large Organisations
Alexandra Nguyen
Business Operations Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Camilla van Rosendal
Communications & PR Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Emma Smith
EMEA Strategy Manager of IV.AI
Emma Smith currently works as EMEA Strategy Manager at IV.AI.
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About IV.AI: IV.AI is a technology company that uses a no-code AI platform to assist businesses to solve difficult problems.
Hamid H.
Senior Business Development Manager SaaS of hackajob
Hamid H. currently serves hackajob as senior business development manager SaaS. Prior to working with hackajob, Hamid spent six months with the IBM as management consultant BPO. He also worked with Syngenta as management consultant.
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About hackajob: Hackajob is a data-driven and engaging recruitment platform that matches top digital talent with exciting companies.
Hamid H.
Senior Business Development Manager SaaS of hackajob
Hamid H. currently serves hackajob as senior business development manager SaaS. Prior to working with hackajob, Hamid spent six months with the IBM as management consultant BPO. He also worked with Syngenta as management consultant.
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About hackajob: Hackajob is a data-driven and engaging recruitment platform that matches top digital talent with exciting companies.
Dickie Smith
Product Manager of Nimbla
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About Nimbla: Nimbla is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized UK businesses with dynamic invoice insurance.
Craig Melson
Programme Manager of techUK
Craig Melson is a programme manager cross Digital Devices, Environment and Compliance and Consumer Electronics which covers issues as diverse as modern slavery, conflict minerals, new tech, compliance and Brexit. Prior to joining techUK he worked in public affairs, communications, television and consumer electronics and he has an avid interest in new and emerging technologies. Craig has a degree in Ancient History from King’s College London and spends his time watching Watford FC.
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About techUK: techUK offers information technology services to small and medium businesses.
Sophie Sparkes
Community Manager of The Information Lab
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About The Information Lab: The Information Lab is a team of passionate Tableau software professionals.
Richard Collins
Product Marketing Manager of Jetstack
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About Jetstack: Jetstack builds modern, cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes.
Steve Cowler
Product Manager – TRG Screen of Axon Financial Systems
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About Axon Financial Systems: Axon is a technology-driven product and services business.
Patrick Shephard
Senior Client Manager of Thoughtonomy
Patrick Shephard joined Thoughtonomy at the beginning of 2018 as a Client Manager in the Public Sector team. In his role, Patrick supports public sector organisations, with a focus on the health sector, in Intelligent Automation projects. Most recently, Patrick has helped NHS Trusts, healthcare agencies and Government departments to increase efficiency and improve productivity within their organisations using automation, leading to huge time and cost savings.
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About Thoughtonomy: Thoughtonomy is a software company with multi-award winning automation technology platform.
Jorge Lesmes
Senior Manager – Global Head of Blockchain Banking Practice of Everis Group
Jorge (MSc Comp Sci) is in charge of leading and defining the group’s strategic direction and value proposition for the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology initiative for the banking sector, overseeing industry projects the group is participating in. With over 10 years’ experience in the area of Banking Consulting (Corporate & Retail), he has acquired an expert knowledge in critical banking infrastructure and regulatory transformation including CMA Open Banking, GDPR and PSD2 having led implementations for multiple Tier 1 global banks. His current focus is on how the Internet of Value will improve our ability to make payments as quickly and efficiently as data transfers, as well as inter-ledger infrastructure to improve connectivity between different DLT platforms.
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About Everis Group: Everis offers outgoing development through its highly trained and nurtured staff offering transparency, consistency and responsibility.
Kevin Restivo
Research Manager, 5G and Enterprise Mobility of IDC
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Galina Spasova
Research Manager of IDC
Galina Spasova is a research manager in IDC’s European Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions (IPDS) team. In her role, she is involved in providing market analysis and insights and business planning advice and delivering consulting projects. Galina’s experience enables her to aid the development of new products and services for customers of IDC Europe. Her recent research focuses on topics, such as the Future of Work and the return to the office post-COVID-19. Spasova is also part of the European Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact (TSSI) Practice, in which she offers strategic direction and advice to ICT players on the business value of sustainability. Prior to joining IDC, Spasova gained experience in research in a number of different areas, including service providers and platforms, electronics, media, and political and country risk. She has extensive knowledge of primary research methods and analysis techniques, having previously worked on research product development and completed large scale projects for major clients such as Samsung and the European Commission. Spasova holds a master’s in international conflict studies from King’s College London. She is fluent in English, Russian, and Bulgarian, and also speaks Italian. You can follow Spasova on Twitter @GalSpasova and on Linkedin SpasovaGalina.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Angela Salmeron
Research Manager, IT and Telecoms industries of IDC
Angela Salmeron has over 10 years of experience in the ICT industry and is currently a research manager with IDC’s EMEA Enterprise Mobility research service, based in London. In this position, she provides strategic analysis, insight, and consulting on the supply and end-user adoption of emerging technology trends in the enterprise mobile market. She also helps manage IDC’s EMEA Enterprise Mobility CIO Survey. Salmeron is a regular speaker at industry events such as seminars and conferences. Prior to this role, Salmeron was responsible for fixed business network services, where she provided research and consulting on fixed data networks initially, and later on voice and hosted unified communications. Specifically, her research focused on the evolution from legacy to emerging technologies, such as Ethernet on data services, and hosted IP Centrex and SIP trunking on voice services. Her position involved providing industry developments, competitive analysis and strategic market forecasts.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Neth Williams
Marketing Project Manager of CGI
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About CGI: CGI is a canada-based information technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing company.
Fergie Miller
Innovation Manager of EIT Digital
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About EIT Digital: EIT Digital is a European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organisation.
Iain MacLachlan
IoT Business Manager of Eurotech
Iain is a highly experienced sales and business manager with over 15 years’ experience in selling M2M, mobile workforce management and asset management solutions. As a trusted advisor on the Internet of Things; Iain’s approach to solving business issues and driving new business models and revenue streams is a holistic one, encouraging his customers and partner ecosystem to view the whole and to move away from point in time solutions. During his career Iain has delivered solutions from many of Europe’s best known brands including RSA, Royal Mail, DHL, Heidelberg Druckmaschinen, Whitbread & Walmart. Iain holds an BSc (Hons) in Psychology along with profession sales and technical qualifications from CISCO, IBM Microsoft and SAP. He lives in Southampton with his wife Kerry he is a fanatical cyclist and they are both fans of Southampton Football Club
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About Eurotech: Eurotech provides embedded boards & systems for lasting, reliable and rugged solutions.
Jerry Catallo
Sales Support Manager of Alscient
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About Alscient: Alscient specialise in IT consultancy, software development and systems integration.
Graham Ballinger
Project / Programme Manager of Alscient
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About Alscient: Alscient specialise in IT consultancy, software development and systems integration.
Phil Norton
Product Manager of Kainos
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.