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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 Software 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.
Richard Whitehead
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Derrick McCourt
General Manager, Customer Success Unit of Microsoft
Derrick McCourt is leading a team responsible for supporting customers to deliver cutting-edge services and drive real business impact through Microsoft cloud technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Derrick has held multiple leadership roles, including General Manager for Microsoft’s Public Sector Business, and is a member of the Microsoft UK Senior Leadership Team. In July 2017 Derrick took on the role as executive sponsor for Microsoft UK’s Diversity and Inclusion plan to ensure that all current and future employees feel encouraged to contribute their unique insight and skills that help solve some of the most complex technology challenges for our customers. Derrick is a strong supporter of accessibility in tech, digital skills, girls in STEM and Women in Technology initiatives. He has played a leading role in Microsoft’s strategic partnership with the Institute of Technology at Bletchley Park as well as UA92; empowering people of all ages, skills and abilities in a technology driven world.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Diego González-Zúñiga
Program Manager of Microsoft
Zúñiga is a computer engineer from Costa Rica. He holds a doctorate in Informatics and a master degree in Multimedia from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a master degree in Information Systems from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. These studies served as a starting point for his 3D journey, studying stereoscopic Graphical User Interfaces, and more recently VR, where he focused on WebVR and is interested in defining the “semantics of depth”. He currently works for Samsung Research UK, as a Senior Engineer/Web Advocate for the Samsung Internet browser. You can find more information about his projects at diekus.net.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marianne Roling
General Manager Global System Integrators for TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL of Microsoft
Marianne joined Microsoft in 2005 to lead the EMEA business for the Mobile Communications Business, managing the growth of Windows Mobile, working closely with mobile device makers, mobile operators, resellers and software developers. In 2007, she then took on global responsibility for the strategy development of the global expansion program of Microsoft’s Mobile Business and subsequently was asked to lead the Global Sales of Windows Phone. In 2011, Marianne moved to the Central and Eastern Europe team to become the Managing Director for the Operator Channels working on joint partnerships of Microsoft Devices and Services. In the summer of 2014, she became Partner and GM in CEE for the division that leads the Partner network, Corporate Account Sales, and SMB sales, covering a large majority of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for the 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Marianne brings with her a wealth of relevant industry experience, in both the fixed line and mobile space across Europe, USA and Latin America.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Hugh Milward
General Manager, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Manuela Pichler
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Ryan
Senior Customer Success Account Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stuart McCarthy
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Customer Program Manager in Microsoft Teams Engineering, working with strategic customers to help them deliver value on Microsoft Teams and gain insights into how we can further improve the product.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rakhi Sachdeva
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Rakhi Sachdeva is a Customer Success Manager for Modern Workplace Solutions working with Public Sector customers in the UK. Rakhi has worked in global customer success & partner management roles across Dynamics 365 & Modern Workplace solutions both in India and UK. She comes to Microsoft with over 11 years of work experience in Business Development, Customer Service and Project Management positions. Rakhi is an active member of Women at Microsoft Community and is a vivid supporter of events like Microsoft YouthSpark Program for middle and high school girls, TechHer (A learning Event for women) to help bring more women in the technology world. Rakhi is super enthusiastic about working with customers around their Diversity & Inclusion efforts. She also loves working with UK charities to promote Microsoft’s Tech for Good initiative which provides non-profit organisations an opportunity to understand how technology can solve their business problems.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
George Adams
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
George Adams is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and is the recently appointed chair of the Working Group Steering Committee at Adoptium. He has been leading the community outreach efforts at AdoptOpenJDK for the last year and is heavily involved in the Java ecosystem. George also contributes to both the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation where he is a core collaborator and plays an active role in several of the work groups.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Joel Bloomfield
Business Manager of Microsoft
Joel has been at Microsoft for 3 years and is the Industry lead for Higher Education in the UK. In his role Joel is responsible for working with Microsoft’s Global Education team to bring best practise and learnings to Universities in the UK, he is also responsible for setting the strategy in the UK and working with customers to deliver their vision around Digital Transformation. Joel also manages 25 customers relationships across the South of the UK and has a particular interest in driving Microsoft’s position in the Academic Research space as well as leading on how Artificial Intelligence can enhance the learning experience.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rebecca Jones
Program Manager – Mixed Reality Studios of Microsoft
Becky is a developer and specialist in emerging technologies. Her company builds mixed reality prototypes and solutions for clients using Microsoft HoloLens, with a keen focus on elucidating best practices for user experience in this new paradigm. Becky also organises the meetup group Mixed Reality London.
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About Bektio, Microsoft, Portal Entertainment: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Gary Pretty
Senior Program Manager, Conversational AI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ken Liu
Talent Acquisition Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Chris Webb
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Elena Cordova Russ
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Elena Cordova Russ has been a Customer Success Manager in the technology industry for the past 7 years. She is currently working on the Financial Sector at Microsoft helping customers maximise the value of their O365 investment. Her focus is to identify and align her customer’s business objectives to the Modern workplace solutions and increase their productivity and collaboration. Elena has also been an accessibility champion at Microsoft where she discovered how much technology can help everyone.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Thomson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about using Git, and the co-host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
James Marshall
Senior Customer Program Manager | Azure of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Paul Collinge
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Paul Collinge is Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Office 365 product team, primarily looking after network connectivity and performance to the service. Working directly with customers to plan and optimise their enterprise connectivity to the cloud whilst also driving engineering changes to help improve the service in this area has enabled him to gain a wide experience of the challenges and solutions to enterprise Office 365 connectivity. Paul has worked at Microsoft since 2004, previous roles include, Senior Support Escalation Engineer within the Windows Core and Networking teams and also as a Principle Premier Field Engineer concentrating on network problem isolation, specifically within the Cloud/Office 365 space.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Theo van Kraay
Sr. Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stuart Kent
Group Program Manager of Microsoft
Stuart is a Group Program Manager at Microsoft working on services and tools to help developers be more productive. Current areas of focus include approaches to identify and remove technical debt from code, and a new feature in Visual Studio Online to search code and components across an enterprise. He has also worked on, and remains responsible for, Code Map and CodeLens features in Visual Studio. He lives in the UK, working with teams in Cambridge, Redmond and Hyderabad. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Stuart was an academic and consultant. He worked with IBM and others on the UML and MOF standards, and was active in software modeling and visualization research.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Graham Fox
Schools Business Manager of Microsoft
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About European Electronique, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Graham Fox
Schools Business Manager of Microsoft
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About European Electronique, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Andy Gordon
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft
Andy Gordon is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Gordon’s main project is Calc Intelligence, which brings intelligence to end-user programming, especially spreadsheets. Gordon also holds the Chair in Computer Security and is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science and the Security and Privacy group in the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh. Gordon convenes the University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics, and participates in both the Data Science PhD program and the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Network. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gordon was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Gordon has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gordon’s research is on programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases. Gordon has published and lectured on: input/output in pure functional programming, hardware description languages, mobile computation, security protocols, web services security, distributed authorization, configuration management, and database programming languages. He has also worked on probabilistic programming for machine learning.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Frankie Lynn
Business Development Manager of Rocket Internet
Frankie Lynn is the senior business development manager at [CaterWings](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/caterwings), an internet startup that serves the corporate catering industry. Prior to this position, she was employed as a business development manager at Rocket Internet. Lynn holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Nottingham.
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About Rocket Internet: Rocket Internet incubates and invests in internet and technology companies globally.
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.
Jonathan Zetlaoui
Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, Emerging Markets of Cimpress
Jonathan Zetlaoui is the Product Strategy & Operations Manager at Google
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About Cimpress, Google: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
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
Nick Roberts
Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Jonathon Illet
Senior Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Dan Weingartner
Customer Support Manager of ROLI
After 15 years touring the world as Keyboard Technician for artists such as Britney Spears, Lionel Richie and Leonard Cohen, Dan now leads ROLI customer support team. He still tinkers with modular synthesisers and loves physics and cosmology.
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About ROLI, ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Ollie Parsley
Senior Engineering Manager of Meltwater
Ollie started off as a web developer and has founded numerous websites on very low or non-existent budget and next to no marketing. This has not stopped his websites from picking up large numbers of users and press. He then went on to found Hootware Limited and is currently the CEO. Hootware Limited has since moved from Twitter and Social Media focused apps (such FootyTweets and H1Debate) to the Android mobile security market.
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About FeedMorf, FootyTweets, Hootware Ltd, Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
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.
Hugo Grimmett
Staff Product Manager, Level 5, Autonomous Vehicles division of Woven Planet Holdings
Hugo has a Ph.D. in robotics from the Oxford Robotics Institute where he worked on self-driving cars and computer vision.He built maps for self-driving cars and devised machine learning methods for how they should behave in uncertain environments.
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About Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Imogen Rowe
Product Manager of Canva
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About Canva: Canva is an online design and publishing platform that provides user friendly design tools for non-designers.
Mike Nayler
District Manager, Government & Defence of Dell EMC
Mike Nayler is a District Manager, Government & Defence at EMC.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
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.
Chris Massey
Product Manager of The Access Group
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Jerome Bugnet
Senior Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Mark Rushton
SOLIDWORKS Product Portfolio Manager, Design & Engineering Products, 3DEXPERIENCE Works of Dassault Systemes
Mark Rushton is a Product Portfolio Manager for SOLIDWORKS, in the Desktop products team, focused on Additive Manufacturing. Mark has been involved with 3D CAD and 3D Printing for over 15 years in several capacities from research to consulting for the likes of Rolls Royce, GE, JCB and Dyson.
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About Dassault Systemes: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
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.
Rachael Young
Office Manager of Wayve
Rachael Young is an office manager at Wayve at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Elisabeth Modin
Product Manager of Thomson Reuters
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Samer Ragheb
Product Marketing Manager of Quantcast
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Rafi Zelikowsky
Senior Manager & Business Performance EMEA of Tableau
Rafi leads a team of Sales Operations Analysts at Tableau Software, the world’s leading visual analytics and business intelligence software. Prior to this role, she spent 5 years building out the European-wide Product Consulting team at Tableau from 6 to 34 individuals. Now, her passion is to bring Tableau’s mission of helping people see and understand their data to the company’s internal analytics and business practices. Originally from Los Angeles, Rafi moved to London to complete her one-year Masters at the London School of Economics over seven years ago.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Lucy Kennard
Operations Manager of Concentric
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Jiri Jerabek
Design Manager of Intuit
Jiri Jerabek is the Design Manager at Intuit.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Clare Truscott
Operations and Compliance Manager of Notion Capital
My life with the Notion founders started in a small meeting room in Gloucester in 2005, allegedly being interviewed by Chris Tottman for a company called Star Technology but it ended up being a convoluted discussion about ‘Crossroads’. I should have realised then that the following years would be interesting to say the least … I came to Star from a background of Operations/Project Management and EA – I have always loved working at the rock face, giving my opinion (always appreciated?), influencing key decision making and making cost savings and efficiencies along the way. My role of Project Manager/EA started with me working at C-level with the team at both Star Technology and MessageLabs, assisting Chris to run the Global HR team at ML and ended up with being locked away spending a busy (but fascinating) few months as part of the small deal team working alongside Ian Milbourn and Stephen Chandler on the MessageLabs exit to Symantec in 2008! I then jumped ship with the ML founders and became Employee No. 1 at Notion, working from our very first offices in Cheltenham as the Ops Manager, a great opportunity to set things up properly from the beginning. It’s been fabulous to see Notion develop over the last 8 years into our busy team in Marylebone with the portfolio that we have. My current role encompasses all back office work, central administration and systems and has recently expanded to include Compliance; my natural ability to question, query and drive through process and data help to make sure our investment processes are robust and accurate.
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About Notion Capital: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
James McClung
Account Manager – Higher Education of DataDirect Networks
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About DataDirect Networks: DDN is the leading provider of data management and storage solutions for AI and analytics.
Michel Tong
Solution Architect Manager of Huawei Technologies
Huawei West Europe CTO office, rich experience in Network Transformation and 5G Transport projects.
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About Huawei Technologies: Huawei Technologies provides infrastructure application software and devices with wireline, wireless, and IP technologies.
Chris Roberts
Partner & Alliances Manager, Europe of Megaport
With more than 20 years of experience, Chris fosters an extensive range of expertise in selling directly to the corporate marketplace and through the partner channel.Chris has held senior positions at a number of global solutions and service providers in the past, including Pulsant where he was responsible for building a channel proposition, recruiting partners, and launching the new programme to the market. He also worked at MTI, an international provider of managed services and storage solutions, where he headed up the New Business and Channel sales teams for the Managed Services division.Prior to that, Roberts worked for iomart and Datapipe where he was tasked with building, promoting and delivering indirect programmes and revenues for the channel community, accomplishing several key wins across multiple verticals. At iomart, Chris added significant value in delivering millions of pounds in new annualised revenue for the company and assisted the team in gaining accreditation as an approved Dell managed services provider.
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About Megaport: Megaport is a software defined networking company that directly connects enterprises, networks, and services.
Andrew Crail
EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering & Enterprise Solutions of Akamai Technologies
Andy Crail is the EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering, Enterprise Solutions at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Paul Jackson
Senior Manager of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
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.
Kevin Lott
Sales Manager of Garmin
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About Garmin: Garmin manufactures marine, aviation, and consumer technologies suitable to run on global positioning systems.
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.
Jordan Fish
Project Manager of Enki
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About Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
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.
Martin Lee
Manager, Talos Outreach EMEA of Cisco
Martin is technical lead of security research, and manager of the Outreach EMEA group within Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence and research organization. As a researcher he seeks to improve the resilience of the Internet and awareness of current threats through researching system vulnerabilities and changes in the threat landscape. Martin started his career researching the genetics of human viruses, but soon switched paths to follow a career in IT. With 15 years of experience within the security industry, he is CISSP certified, a Chartered Engineer, and holds degrees from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Paris and Oxford.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Steve McKee
Account Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Rishi Tank
Regional Sales Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Matt Cooling
UKI Business Development Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Jonathan Stevenson
Manager, EMEAR Customer Success, Cisco Security of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Tom Davies
Senior Manager of Cisco
Tom Davies has over 17 years experience as a Senior Manager & Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Developer & Technology Evangelist, working across the Enterprise and Service Provider sectors. He has been part of start-ups, scale-outs, and worked for a number of world leading technology companies. At Cisco, he is part of DevNet, leading DevNet Sandbox and it’s mission to provide free, fast, frictionless access to Cisco, third party, and open source technologies for everyone.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Neil MacDougall
Technical Software Development Manager of SUSE
Neil MacDougall. Senior Software Engineering Manager, SUSE.
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About SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
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.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Chisara Nwabara
R&D Technical Program Manager of Pivotal
Chisa is a Service & Product Specialist experienced in helping enterprises across diverse industries and stages of development improve their operational performance and capabilities through the application of evidence-based programme management methodologies. As Pivotal’s Research & Development Technical Program Manager in London, she works across various product teams to make feedback loops and communication more effective through the use of experimentation, process engineering and service design. As Pivotal’s EMEA Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead, Chisa supports the EMEA region in continuously improving Pivotal’s organisational culture to be more psychologically safe and equally opportunistic for Pivots. This work also entails building bridges between Pivotal and local communities, as well as being a representative face in public spaces where Chisa works to be visible to peers and those looking for role models that she found where lacking in the earlier stages of her tech career.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Der Hans
Engineering Manager of Canonical
der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, chairman for the Phoenix Linux Users Group and a repeat speaker at SCaLE. He is an engineering manager at Canonical and former community college instructor. In his free time he likes to camp, learn about sustainable culture and annually not set himself on fire.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Isaac Kamga
Manager, Google Developer Group Buea of Google Developers Group
Isaac Kamga is the founder and manager of the Google Developer Group Buea www.gdgbuea.org, a community nonprofit funded by Google and ActivSpaces Cameroon. (The group GitHub can be found here.) Through the group, Isaac develops programs that have introduced over 300 youths to computer programming. The group currently hosts the largest number of female open source contributors and has produced over 30 Google Summer of Code participants from Cameroonian Universities. For the past two years, Isaac has served as country mentor for the 14 Google Developer Groups in Cameroon, where he pushes for more collaboration on common open source projects. Isaac has made research contributions in graphics, which he started when he was a Google Summer of Code Student under BRL-CAD. He is a co-organizer of the annual Silicon Mountain Conference, which brings together over 700 developers, creatives, and tech enthusiasts to the mountain area of Cameroon for a day of code labs, inspiration, and fun.
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About Google Developers Group: Google Developer Groups (GDG’s) are for developers who are interested in Google’s developer technology.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Harini Marivannan
Operations Manager of Provenance
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About Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Dan Chester
Unstructured Data Solutions Manager – UK Enterprise & Public Sector of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
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.
Sonny Bardhan
Senior Manager, Intellectual Capital of Omidyar Network
As a senior manager on the intellectual capital team, Sonny advances Omidyar Network’s strategy, research, impact and learning agendas across regions and initiatives. Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2014, Sonny served as an investment manager at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where he developed strategy, built the investment pipeline, and originated and developed high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sonny previously served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both the financial institutions group and the social sector office. He began his career at Capital One, and has also worked with Innovations for Poverty Action and UnLtd. Sonny received an MPA in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Reynolds Fellow in social entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford and a first class MA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
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.
Hellen Beveridge
Snr Manager, Data Sustainability, & Privacy Delivery of Cognizant
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About Cognizant: Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
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.
Enzo Raso
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Enzo Raso is a senior product manager for Citrix XenServer in the Citrix Core Infrastructure Group. He has overseen delivery of every Citrix XenServer release since 6.2, and is responsible for customer outreach, product strategy and roadmap formulation. Prior to joining Citrix, Enzo spent five years as head of R&D with Betfair, the world’s biggest betting exchange. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Hannah Robbins
Office Manager of Nauta Capital
Hannah is the Office Manager for the London office of Nauta Capital. Hannah joined Nauta in early 2016 where she manages the daily running of the office by working closely with Nauta’s London General Partner as well as supporting the operations team with finance and HR. Prior to Nauta, Hannah worked in a China-focussed business consulting firm, as well as spending several years based across China studying Mandarin and working as an English Teacher. Hannah holds a BA in Geography from University College London and HSK 6 Mandarin after studying in both Zhejiang University and Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Hannah is currently studying for her CIMA qualifications part-time.
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About Nauta Capital: Nauta Capital is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies.
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
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.
Martin Percival
Pre-sales Manager UK&I Commercial vertical of Red Hat
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About Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
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.
Avril Murphy
General Manager International of Owlet Baby Care
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About Owlet Baby Care: Owlet Baby Care offers a health monitor that allows parents to view their child’s vital signs in real-time.
