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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Partner operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Partner 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.
Matt Blanks
VP MasterCard Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Carlos Menendez
President, Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Dominic Perks
Partner, Co-Founder of Hambro Perks Ltd.
Dominic Perks graduated from Oxford University and went on to work as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, and then as a Strategy Consultant at McKinsey. Dominic is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a growing portfolio of fast growth UK tech businesses. Founded by Dominic Perks and Rupert Hambro in 2014, Hambro Perks backs and builds fast-growth start-ups using SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) and EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) structures.
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About Hambro Perks Ltd., Takumi, Tootle: Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.
Robin Lincoln
Portfolio Operating Partner of Hambro Perks Ltd.
Robin works in the growth capital team with responsibility for portfolio management. He has over 15 years of private equity and venture capital experience across the spectrum of new investments, working with portfolio companies and leading exit processes. Previously Robin worked at HgCapital, where he founded and led the Business Services investment practice, and latterly at Lloyds Bank where he was responsible for portfolio managing and exiting their equity portfolio of over 300 companies. He spent his early career at ISIS Equity Partners and qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen. Robin gained a first class degree in Economics and Accounting at Bristol University. Outside of work, he enjoys all outdoor sports and is a keen rock climber.
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About Hambro Perks Ltd., Mercia Asset Management PLC, Oxford Capital Partners: Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.
Rupert Hambro
Partner, Co-Founder of Hambro Perks Ltd.
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About Hambro Perks Ltd., ThePresent.Co: Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.
Robert Furnivall
Head of SAP on AWS Partners with Amazon Web Services of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services, Edenhouse Solutions, Edenhouse Solutions: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Victoria Reddington
Director of Partner Strategy, EMEA of VMware
Victoria Reddington is a Director of Partner Strategy, EMEA at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Pal Erik Sjatil
Global Managing Partner and CEO of Lightrock
Pal Erik Sjatil is the Global Managing Partner and CEO at Lightrock, a global private equity partnership that seeks to achieve financial as well as societal and environmental returns. Lightrock invests in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs committed to innovation for systemic change at scale. The company has one of the largest impact-focused growth portfolios in Europe, Latin America and India. More recently, Lightrock has also started building out a portfolio of investments across Sub-Saharan Africa. It invests in companies that pursue scalable and technology-driven business models around the themes people, planet and productivity/tech for good. Specific investment sectors within these themes include education, healthcare, access to finance, mobility, transportation, renewables and circular-economy transition. Lightrock investments demonstrably contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Lightrock’s portfolio currently encompasses more than 70 high-growth companies, including Infarm, one of the world’s fastest growing urban farming networks with more than 1200 farms installed; PharmEasy, one of the largest omni-channel healthcare platforms in India; DrConsulta, one of the largest healthcare chains in Latin America; and M-Kopa, a global pioneer for pay-as-you-go solar energy services for off-grid customers in rural East Africa. In 2019, CMR Surgical, a developer of surgical robots that will broaden access to keyhole surgery, was the first of Lightrock’s portfolio companies to become a unicorn – followed by several others, such as Lilium, the sustainable aviation company. As an active owner, Lightrock supports its portfolio companies from a board position in their dynamic growth and expansion phase. Prior to joining Lightrock, Pal Erik Sjatil was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, a member of the firm’s Shareholders Council, and the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in Europe. Before assuming that role, he led McKinsey’s office in Norway, was part of the leadership of the Scandinavian offices, led the office complex in Eastern Europe, and was the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in EEMA (Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa). Pal Erik also held leadership roles in the firm’s Telecommunications, High Tech, and Strategy & Corporate Finance practices. At McKinsey, he served clients in the telecom, high tech, financial services, and oil and gas industries and focused on corporate strategy, operations, and organizational transformations.
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About Lightrock: Lightrock is a global private equity platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges.
Pete Wilson
Partner of 3i Group
Pete focuses on originating, executing and representing 3i on the boards of private equity investments. Since joining 3i in 2006, he has had a particular focus on the Business Services sector. His most recent deals include 3i’s buyout of Aspen Pumps, the global leader in design, manufacture and distribution of condensate removal pumps to the air conditioning industry. He also supported his US colleagues on 3i’s recent buyout of Q Holdings. In 2013, he led the sale of Civica, an international provider of specialist IT systems and business process services, generating a 2.1x return. Other deals and portfolio companies that he has been involved in include Inspicio and the sale of Inspectorate to Bureau Veritas, SLR Consulting, Bestinvest and BVG India. He is currently a Director on the boards of Aspen Pumps, ESG (formerly Inspicio) and SLR Consulting. Previously he was a Director of Civica and Bestinvest. Prior to joining 3i, Pete worked in the Strategy Group at Accenture, where he advised clients on transactions as well as corporate and market entry strategy projects across a range of end markets. Pete has a First Class honours degree in Management Science from the University of Warwick.
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About 3i Group, Audley Travel: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Nigel Middleton
Partner of 3i Group
Nigel is a Partner in 3i’s Infrastructure team in London and joined 3i in November 2013, following 3i’s acquisition of Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management Limited. He joined BIFM in 2002, previously having been head of PFI/PPP Advisory Services at PwC. Nigel led BIFM’s involvement in the formation and management of Infrastructure Investors (I2), a pioneering secondary market infrastructure fund, in which BIFM had a joint venture interest alongside Societe Generale and 3i. He was also instrumental in establishing, and continues to manage, BIIF, a long-term ‘buy and hold’ PPP fund which acquired I2 in 2009. He has an honours degree in Chemistry from Oxford University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Jennifer Dunstan
Partner & Head of Fund Investor Relations of 3i Group
Jennifer is a Partner in the Fund Investor Relations team. Prior to this, Jennifer was a Partner in the UK Buyouts team and Head of Consumer in the UK. Since joining 3i in June 2005 she has co-led 3i’s investment in Mayborn and co-led the take privates of Telecity Group and Redbus to create TelecityRedbus. In November 2007 she was responsible for 3i’s investment in Agent Provocateur. Prior to joining 3i, Jennifer spent nine years at Terra Firma Capital Partners and Nomura’s Principal Finance Group (PFG), where she was Managing Director. In addition to numerous portfolio responsibilities, major deals that she led there include the privatisation of Angel Train Contracts and the acquisition of Inn Partnership. Jennifer started her career as a solicitor for Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney and London. She holds a BA degree and LLB from the University of Sydney.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Matt Barker
Partner of 3i Group
Matt joined 3i in May 2010 and is primarily responsible for the origination, execution and asset management of deals in the infrastructure sector. He had responsibility for 3i Infrastructure plc’s investment in the Eversholt Rail Group, including during the acquisition in 2010, as a director of the company during the fund’s ownership and for the sale to CKI that was completed in April 2015. Matt was involved in 3i Infrastructure plc’s investment in the Dalmore Capital Fund and played a leading role in 3i Group’s acquisition of Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management. Matt also has asset management responsibility for Anglian Water Group. Prior to joining 3i, Matt worked in the infrastructure funds business of Macquarie, with a focus on airport investments. Matt holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Scott Moseley
Partner of 3i Group
Scott joined 3i in 2007 and is a Partner in the Infrastructure team, with co-management responsibility for the team’s new investment origination and execution platform. He has 14 years experience in European Infrastructure, spanning utilities, transportation and social infrastructure. Whilst at 3i, Scott has been responsible for the investments in Esvagt, Elenia and Thameslink, as well as being a senior deal team member on Eversholt. He was also responsible for the successfully exited junior debt investments in Arqiva, Associated British Ports, Telediffusion de France, Thames Water and Viridian.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Ian Lobley
Managing Partner – Asset Management of 3i Group
Ian is Managing Partner (Asset Management Group) at 3i – a leading international investment manager focused on mid-market private equity and infrastructure. Ian has been an investor with 3i for 30 years where, in addition to a number of board roles, he is a member of the Group Investment Committee and on the board of 3i Infrastructure plc (the FTSE 250 listed infrastructure fund). Ian has been an active board member on a wide variety of companies across 3 continents and numerous sectors. Those boards have included both private and public companies with a number of ownership dynamics including institutionally-owned, founder-owned and startups.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Philip White
Managing Partner, Head of Infrastructure of 3i Group
Phil joined 3i in 2007 and is Managing Partner and Head of 3i’s Infrastructure business and a member of 3i’s Executive Committee, Investment Committee and Group Risk Committee. Prior to joining 3i, he was Division Director in Macquarie’s Infrastructure Funds business, where he managed investments in the transport sector. Phil has over 20 years of infrastructure investment, advisory and finance experience from earlier roles at Barclays and WestLB. Phil has an MBA from London Business School.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Jonathan Crane
Partner of 3i Group
Jonathan is a Director based in London focused on originating, executing and managing investments in the Industrial and Industrial Services sectors. Recent deals include Aspen Pumps, JMJ Associates and Element Materials Technology. Jonathan sits on the board of Element Materials Technology, Aspen Pumps and MKM Building Supplies. Jonathan brings 11 years’ experience from Bain in London and San Francisco where he managed the Private Equity team as well as worked on strategy, performance improvement and turnaround assignments for a wide variety of public and privately owned companies. Jonathan holds a masters degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and Management Studies.
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About 3i Group, Aspen Pumps: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Anil Kohli
Banking Partner of 3i Group
Anil joined 3i in 2007 and is the Partner responsible for 3i’s Banking Team within the Private Equity division. This team has a broad international remit and is responsible for the firm’s relationships with its financing institutions and provides specialist banking advice spanning all key financing stages associated with new and existing portfolio assets across 3i Private Equity. This includes raising primary acquisition finance, advising on the management of leveraged capital structures and preparing exit financing. Financing products cover the full debt capital markets spectrum. Anil has worked on transactions across 3i’s international platform including Scandlines, Mayborn, Norma, Xellia, Civica, Refresco, OneMed and Amor. Anil has over 18 years of banking experience, having started at Lloyds Bank Corporate Banking in 1995. He subsequently worked for Dresdner Kleinwort from 1999, where he held various positions in Credit Risk Management, Structured Finance and Corporate Finance & Advisory, completing landmark transactions across a wide range of geographies, sectors and financing structures. Anil studied at Sussex University and holds a BA in Economics and is an Associate Member of Corporate Treasurers.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
John Cavill
Partner of 3i Group
John is a Director in 3i’s Infrastructure team in London and joined 3i in November 2013, following 3i’s acquisition of Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management Limited. He joined BIFM in 2009. He leads the portfolio management activity for PFI/PPP and energy sector projects. He works closely with portfolio board directors and Infrastructure Managers Limited, the business’s main SPV management services provider. John also leads a number of value enhancement and yield management strategies. Previously John was a Director at Land Securities Trillium and Vinci Investments where he led PPP/PFI bidding activity. John has a Geography Degree from the University of Liverpool, an MSc in Transport Planning & Economics from the University of Cardiff and an MBA from Cass Business School.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Sanjay Kohli
Partner of 3i Group
Sanjay is a Director for 3i Debt Management with responsibility for Business Development / Investor Relations. He joined the Company in 2011 following the acquisition of Mizuho Investment Management (MIM) from Mizuho Corporate Bank. At Mizuho, which he joined in early 2000, Sanjay was responsible for investors and new business opportunities, mainly in India, the Middle East and SE Asia. Prior to this, he was Head of India, Middle East & Africa for Mizuho International Acquisition Finance Dept and head of CEE and Russia for International Finance. Before joining Mizuho, Sanjay worked for Credit Lyonnais (now Calyon) and was responsible for Origination of Corporate Finance for non-bank Financial Institutions and for Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi UJF) as a credit officer. Sanjay has worked for over 16 years in international banking. He is a former scholar of Harrow School and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Business Economics from the University of Reading. Sanjay is approved to perform the FSA controlled function 30.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Joanna Thomson
Active Partnership Practice Director of 3i Group
Jo Thomson is the Active Partnership Practice Director. Prior to joining 3i, Jo spent over 14 years with Ernst & Young, initially in their Transaction Advisory Services group and most recently as Operations Director for their Global Private Equity team. Jo is responsible for the core parts of Active Partnership which are not led by the deal teams: e.g. the delivery of key events such as the CEO and CFO Forums, organising Active Partnership related training and creating visibility of advisor performance on Active Partnership initiatives. She is also responsible for the marketing and internal communications for the Private Equity business.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Anna Dellis
Partner of 3i Group
Anna joined 3i’s Infrastructure Team in 2006 and has 12 years’ infrastructure experience across a wide range of sectors including airports, regulated utilities, energy, telecommunications infrastructure, train rolling stock and social infrastructure. Prior to joining 3i, Anna advised on infrastructure transactions in the corporate finance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anna focuses on origination and deal execution. She had a leading role on all of the large investments made by 3i Infrastructure plc, including the acquisitions of Vattenfall’s Finnish electricity distribution and district heating businesses, Eversholt Rail from HSBC, Elgin Infrastructure and Oystercatcher. Anna sits on the boards of the Elgin and Oystercatcher investments. Anna has a BA Joint Honours in French and German from the University of Nottingham and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Tim Short
Partner of 3i Group
Timothy joined 3i in 2007, where his primary focus is on the origination, execution and debt financing of infrastructure investments. He has worked on a number of 3i Infrastructure plc’s largest investments including the acquisition of Vattenfall AB’s Finish electricity distribution and district heating business; Elgin Infrastructure, its infrastructure junior debt portfolio; and Oystercatcher. Timothy currently serves on the boards of Elenia Oy, Oiltanking Malta Limited and Oiltanking Singapore Limited. Prior to joining 3i, he was an Associate at RBC Capital Markets, having started his career in the European financial restructuring group at Houlihan Lokey. Timothy has an MA and an MPhil in Economics from St John’s College, Cambridge.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Bernardo Sottomayor
Partner of 3i Group
Bernardo joined 3i in 2015 as a Partner with responsibility for origination and execution of new investments across Europe, principally economic infrastructure businesses. Bernardo has 18 years of infrastructure investment experience and was most recently a Partner at Antin Infrastructure which manages funds investing in infrastructure opportunities across Europe. Prior to Antin, Bernardo was Managing Director, Head of Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank’s European infrastructure fund. His prior experience was in utilities, as Head of M&A at Energias de Portugal, and in infrastructure advisory with UBS and Citigroup. Bernardo holds an economics degree from the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Jonathan Gane
Business Development and Partnerships of ABAKA Holdings
Jonathan Gane, Business Development & Partnerships Director, was previously Managing Director at TP ICAP Institutional Services division covering strategy, acquisitions and origination. Prior to this he was CEO and co-CIO of the fund of hedge funds, Fort Rock Asset Management, investing in quantitatively driven hedge funds that included systematic trading, AI and machine learning strategies. He spent 15 years with Societe Generale in London and New York where he was Managing Director, Global Head of Origination & Structuring for the Newedge Alternatives division covering hedge funds and institutional investors.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Gareth Jefferies
Partner of RTP Global
Gareth is a Partner at RTP Global, a Series A stage venture capital fund.
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About RTP Global: RTP Global is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments.
Srinivas Krishna
Partner, UK & EMEA of Avasant
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About Avasant, The Institute for Robotic Process Automation, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Management Consulting & Digital and Sourcing Advisory Firm
Alessio Treglia
Head of EMEA Partnership of Tendermint
Alessio Treglia is the head of EMEA Partnerships at Tendermint.
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About Tendermint: Tendermint brings simplicity, security, and speed to the world’s blockchains.
Luke Ferris
Associate Partner ADAPT of Bain & Company
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About Bain & Company: Bain & Company is a management consulting firm that provides solutions on change in management, strategies, and technology.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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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.
Antoon Schneider
Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group
Antoon is a Managing Director and Senior Partner in the Principal Investor and Private Equity practice at Boston Consulting Group. Antoon has advised most of the 50 largest private-equity firms globally on topics that include deal sourcing, due diligence and firm strategy, as well as working with their portfolio companies on 100-day plans and operational-improvement. He also has extensive experience in corporate M&A. Before joining BCG in 2011, Antoon spent nearly 14 years with McKinsey&Co, where he led the private-equity practice in the UK. Prior to that he worked in M&A at Hambros Bank and as a Chartered Accountant.
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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.
Iain Jawad
Director Strategic Partnerships of Frost & Sullivan
Iain Jawad Director of Strategic Partnerships at Frost & Sullivan, a global growth partnership company.
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
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.
Adam Jones
Talent Partner – Technology and Product of Huma Therapeutics
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Michael Siwek
Founding Partner of DMALINK
In 2013, Michael founded 7Hedge, a London-based FX Brokerage – underpinned by Deutsche Bank clearing and settlement. He later sold the business to a former Hotspot (CBOE Global Markets) executive. In 2015, Michael established DMALINK, offering order execution services, market data, and analytics used by banks, asset managers, and funds globally. In 2020, Michael co-founded DeFinity Markets, co-owned by DMALINK, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for foreign exchange, cryptographic assets, and CBDC. Michael comes from a Financial Services background with senior positions at Gain Capital and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). His specialty is Regulatory Technology, Market Data, and multi-asset class execution venues. Michael has a particular affinity for building, operating and distributing electronic trading venues from the ground up.
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About DeFinity Markets, DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Spyro Korsanos
Founder & Managing Partner of Fuse Venture Partners
An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker, Spyro Korsanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Global Venture Partners. Global Venture Partners invests in the consumer internet sector and provides strategic advice and corporate finance for technology ventures. Since 2014, Spyro has led over 40 e-commerce transactions, valued at $2bn, which have created more than €1bn in capital gain. As a global development advisor, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of Delivery Hero, foodpanda and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. Global Venture Partners has recently invested in Kurly, the Korean online grocer, and pet tech platform Felcana, based in the UK. Spyro was awarded TMT Rising Star in 2017. Previously, he held corporate strategy and investment roles with Sky, Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless. Spyro started his career as a corporate lawyer at Gilbert & Tobin and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Fuse Venture Partners: FUSE VENTURE PARTNERS Investors in, and advisors to, investors and ventures in the high-growth internet space
Cliff Hinrichs
Venture Partner of Fuse Venture Partners
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About Fuse Venture Partners, Steele Ventures: FUSE VENTURE PARTNERS Investors in, and advisors to, investors and ventures in the high-growth internet space
Denise Kelly
Venture Partner of Seventure Partners
Denise joined Seventure Partners in September 2015 as a Consultant in the Life Sciences team for the microbiome field. Denise is currently based in Aberdeen, Scotland. As specialist in research on the human microbiome, she is responsible for relationships within the scientific and academic communities on behalf of Seventure Partners, identifying new investment opportunities in the field specific to the microbiome. Prior to joining Seventure, Denise led her own research team at the University of Aberdeen at the world renowned Rowett Institute. Denise has acquired more than 20 years of experience in intestinal microbiology and immunology. She was Founding President, General Manager, and Sales Director of GT Biologics, one of the first translational research spinouts developing innovative therapies from the microbiome.Her research is the source of many European and American patent applications. During her career, Denise worked with pharmaceutical and healthcare companies on several translational research projects. Denise received a BSc and a PhD from Queen’s University in Belfast. She is Professor Emeritus of the University of Aberdeen.
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About Seventure Partners: Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies.
Iain Wilcock
Venture Partner of Seventure Partners
Iain established and ran the healthcare investment business of Quester Capital, an early-stage venture capital business, for over 10 years. n 2000, Iain founded Vela Venture Partners to advise early-stage investors in the UK. He is now working at NESTA as an Investment Director; and at Seventure, a French venture capital company, as its UK healthcare investment advisor. He is an experienced non-executive director, having served on the boards of biotechnology and med-tech companies, including Vivacta, Avidex, Oxxon, Lectus, and Xention. He is a member of the British Venture Capital Association, the BioIndustry Association and UNICO. Iain was recently appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board for IP Policy to advise the UK-IPO (UK Intellectual Property Office).
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About Seventure Partners: Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies.
Robert Dobson
Vice President, Technology Partners, and Product Marketing 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.
Tim Smeaton
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner of Kubrick Group
Tim Smeaton co-founded Kubrick Group in March 2016. Tim is responsible for the overall strategy of the company and its execution. Tim was previously the CEO of a public company that he grew with his co-founders to have revenues in excess of £200 million and 10 offices around the world. Tim also has a background in the technology industry with multiple non-executive roles, with a strong focus on education and charitable organisations helping them increase diversity in the technology industry. Tim also has experience as an advisor and investor in technology start ups. Tim believes that all organisations have a responsibility to develop their people to compensate for the huge impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on the global workforce.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Simon Walker
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Kubrick Group
Simon walker co-founded Kubrick group with Tim Smeaton in March 2016. Simon is responsible for Kubrick’s client and channel partner relationships, with in depth experience as a business leader and investor. Tim and Simon have worked together for 20 years setting up and growing businesses. Simon spent 6 years in Singapore building a $25m APAC business and returned back to the UK with his family, for the opportunity to establish Kubrick.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Nick Allen
Partner of Kubrick Group
Nick is responsible for Kubrick’s client development and has overseen the onboarding of some of the biggest and best brands in the world, with a background in technology consulting and FX trading.
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About Kubrick Group: Kubrick Group is a new force in technology consulting, providing fully trained and accredited junior consultants to organisations.
Kerry Baldwin
Managing Partner, co-founder of IQ Capital
Co-founder/Managing Partner of IQ Capital, a Cambridge based, deep tech focused, early stage venture capital investor, which invests in Machine Learning, AI, Data Science and Data-based propositions and IP based on disruptive algorithms. IQ Capital invests £1-5m in the first round and subsequently adds further capital through follow-on investments, IQ Capital is actively seeking Series A with rich deep tech IP at the core. Kerry has 20 years in early stage Venture Capital both in the UK and Europe starting with VTL in 1997 (the first investor in Autonomy), KVS amongst other deep tech investments and had numerous successful exits including to Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and other secondary sales. In 2006 she co-founded IQ Capital raising a £25m fund, followed by a £50m fund in 2015 with British Business Bank as a key investor. The fund has enjoyed exits to Google, Huwaei and Becton Dickinson. She specialises in Competitive Intelligence, Product, Strategic Marketing and team dynamics.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, CybSafe, IQ Capital, The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association: IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London -based VC firm investing in early-stage deeptech companies.
Ed Stacey
Managing Partner of IQ Capital
Co-founder and Managing Partner of IQ Capital, a Cambridge based, deep tech focused, early stage venture capital investor, which invests in Machine Learning, AI, Data Science and Data-based propositions and IP based on disruptive algorithms. IQ Capital invests £1-5m in the first round and subsequently adds further capital through follow-on investments, IQ Capital is actively seeking Series A with rich deep tech IP at the core. In 1997 Ed co-founded Venture Technologies, a predecessor of IQ Capital. Having invested £31m in 22 investments, the fund achieved a number of highly successful exits and delivered over 30% net IRR to its investors. Successful exits included three flotations, (including Autonomy plc, the first technology company on EASDAQ), a secondary purchase, and a number of trade sales to companies including Sun Microsystems, Veritas and Yahoo. Post 2002, when Venture Technologies portfolio was fully realised, Ed advised a private UHNWI syndicate on the execution of over 15 investments and advising on sustainable growth strategies and maximising shareholder returns. During his time with IQ Capital, Ed has been responsible for the technology side of portfolio companies, investment strategy and, as a member of the Investment Committee, general investment activity. Ed is currently in on the board of Speechmatics and serves as board observer in Privitar, Biobeats, Oxford Space Systems, SenseEye and CPS. His IQCF1 exits include Imsense (Apple, 2010) and Rosslyn (AIM, 2014). He holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BSC in Physics.
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About IQ Capital, The ID Co.: IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London -based VC firm investing in early-stage deeptech companies.
Max Bautin
Managing Partner of IQ Capital
Max has worked in venture capital since 2001, first building seed stage investment business at NW Brown and then co-founding IQ Capital in 2007. He has led investments in over two dozen high-technology companies – including Phonetic Arts (Google), Sirigen (BD), Neul (Huawei), DanioLabs (Summit), Quotient (EKF), Reevoo, Novacta and Transversal – and currently represents IQCP on the boards of Grapeshot and Stillfront. Max started his career in Millicom, a corporate investor into mobile telecom companies in developing countries. He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.
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About IQ Capital: IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London -based VC firm investing in early-stage deeptech companies.
Alpesh Doshi
Managing Partner, CEO of Fintricity
Alpesh is an entrepreneur and innovator in how enterprises can transform and future-proof their business using disruptive technologies and business models, particularly around digital, big data & analytics and blockchain. He is focused on innovative thinking and practical strategies to add value for his clients fast and often, introducing the agile approach of working to digital transformation.
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About Fintricity, Redcliffe Capital: Fintricity have been at the forefront of technology and digital transformation for over 15 years.
Ashley Steel
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Ashley Steel is a former Vice Chairman at KPMG and was Global Chair for its transport, leisure and logistics practice until her retirement from the firm in September 2014. Ashley Steel has significant international experience and has advised numerous FTSE and Fortune 500 boards. Her other sector experience includes professional services, technology, media, business services and healthcare. Ashley Steel is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Civil Aviation Authority and serves on the International Business Advisory Board at British Airways. She is also Special Adviser to a global aviation technology company owned by Warburg Pincus and an Independent Non-Executive Director to global law firm, Ince & Co. Ashley has a PhD in Management from Henley Business School.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Joe Cassidy
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Joe Cassidy is the Partner at KPMG
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Murray Raisbeck
Partner of KPMG International Limited
Murray is a Partner within KPMG’s FS practice. He has extensive FS audit and advisory experience. An auditor by background, Murray joined KPMG in 1999 and became a partner in 2011. Murray works with global financial services clients in the insurance, asset management and wealth management industries. As a result of all of the change underway in the sector Murray has been involved in working with clients that are dealing with evolving financial regulation (Solvency II and RDR being examples), changing technology (move to cloud based solutions and telematics being examples), societal changes (demands of an ageing population being an example), and more recently the impact of political risk on firms within the sector (recent pension reforms being an example). One current area of focus for Murray is the UK Motor insurance market. Murray is the audit partner for three of the UK’s market leading motor insurers and leading ‘usage based insurance’ (UBI) businesses. He is also frequently involved in discussions with industry bodies and a variety of firms developing their UBI strategy. He frequently comments on UBI developments in the press. Murray’s advisory experience includes finance change and regulatory programmes, Sarbanes Oxley implementation projects, accounting advice on group reconstructions, Part VII transfers, and a variety of transactions. His transaction experience includes ‘buy-side’ deal evaluation, due diligence, transaction regulatory and accounting support, IPO readiness services and synergies work.
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About KPMG International Limited: KPMG is a network of independent member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services.
Nick Collins
Partner of Baker Botts
Nick Collins is a partner in the Global Projects department at Baker Botts and specializes in the project development and project financing of energy and natural resources projects. Nick has extensive experience advising borrowers, sponsors, export credit agencies, commercial banks, multilateral lending agencies and Islamic finance institutions on complex, large-scale energy and natural resources projects around the world (including LNG projects) – principally in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Russian Federation. In addition to his project development and project finance experience, Nick also advises clients on banking and finance, debt capital markets and Islamic finance transactions.
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About Baker Botts: Baker Botts is a full-service international law firm in the energy, technology, and life sciences sectors.
Nick Collins
Partner of Baker Botts
Nick Collins is a partner in the Global Projects department at Baker Botts and specializes in the project development and project financing of energy and natural resources projects. Nick has extensive experience advising borrowers, sponsors, export credit agencies, commercial banks, multilateral lending agencies and Islamic finance institutions on complex, large-scale energy and natural resources projects around the world (including LNG projects) – principally in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Russian Federation. In addition to his project development and project finance experience, Nick also advises clients on banking and finance, debt capital markets and Islamic finance transactions.
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About Baker Botts: Baker Botts is a full-service international law firm in the energy, technology, and life sciences sectors.
Tim Stone
Partner & Co-Founder of Breed Reply
Tim is one of the founding partners of Breed Reply, who are an active operational investor dedicated to early stage businesses in the Internet of Things. He leads the bespoke support programme to develop and accelerate the commercialisation of their growing portfolio of seventeen companies. His career started in sales and rapidly moved through to Executive roles covering all aspects of creating and operating a successful business. His key roles have ranged from Business Development Director, CCO and CEO in both corporate organisations and startups, with a focus on the Telecoms industry A thread throughout his career has been creating success through partnerships. In Vodafone Tim created from scratch the wholesale strategy, then executed this taking market share from 0 to 30%+ in less than three years. This success was delivered through the strategic development of major new brands. He has also seen a significant exit to a major operator from one his startup ventures.
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About Breed Reply, Graystone Strategy: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Gabriele Dini
Associate Partner of Breed Reply
Investment and corporate finance professional with track record in life sciences and technology, specializing in bridging innovation and finance. Solid technical expertise, with a MSc in engineering and experience in multinational academic and industrial environments, complemented by an MBA with focus on strategy and finance and a Masters in Finance. Strong knowledge of research, product development, and operations, enriched by a continuous interaction with corporate-level functions; extensive venture capital experience, from origination, to due diligence, deal structuring and strategic support to the entrepreneurs as in-house consultant and board member.
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About Breed Reply, Breed Reply: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Richard Hadden
Investment Director at Breed Reply and Partner 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.
Matt Cowey
Head Of Partnerships of spaceOS
Matt Cowey is the Head Of Partnerships at spaceOS. He is also the Commercial Manager at Flooring International UK.
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About spaceOS: SpaceOS is the most beautiful and easy to use tenant experience and management software on the market.
David Orman
Founding Partner of Hatch House
David has a unique and varied background across the worlds of venture capital, start-ups, marketing, digital media, entertainment and sport. David spent the early part of his career at Eurosport Television where he was Sales Director across the UK, US and Scandinavia. David has worked directly for some of the world’s most successful and high profile entrepreneurs at companies including 19 Entertainment, Joost, Queens Park Rangers FC, Templewood Merchant Bank and Outer Capital. David is currently: – VP at Kwamecorp Ventures (investing in start-ups), – Strategic Advisor at Streamhub (real time audience analytics for the media industry) – Non-Executive Director at Carabiner Partners (design agency) – Non-Executive Director at Odyssey Mobile Interaction (mobile advertising agency)
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Alex Gowar
Founding Partner of Hatch House
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About Hatch House: HATCH: Turning start-ups into businesses
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
Michael McFadgen
Partner of Element Ventures
Michael McFadgen is a Partner at Element Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of NEX Opportunities and Euclid Opportunities and the Opportunities Director of Strategic Investments at the Barclays Capital.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
Spencer Lake
Partner of Element Ventures
Spencer Lake was appointed Global Head of Capital Financing with effect from 12 August 2013. He is a Partner for Element Ventures. Capital Financing houses the primary products of Global Banking and Markets, such as Debt Capital Markets and Equity Capital Markets. Spencer was previously Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011. Global Markets housed the bank’s fixed income, commodities, and equity activities across sales, trading, origination, and research. Spencer joined HSBC in 2006 as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets and Acquisition Finance. He was also jointly responsible for HSBC’s government sector. Prior to joining HSBC, Spencer had a 17-year career with Merrill Lynch in New York, Hong Kong, and London across a number of areas including real estate finance, investment banking, and debt capital markets. During his career at Merrill, Spencer ran Asian debt origination, started and managed European public sector origination, managed European emerging markets asset and liability origination, European financing and risk management and, prior to his departure, ran liability origination in the Pacific Rim (Japan, Asia-Pacific and Australasia). Before Merrill Lynch, Spencer worked for two years at JP Morgan in real estate investment banking. Spencer holds a BA degree in International Finance and Marketing from Suffolk University, Massachusetts, and an MBA degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
Steve Gibson
Partner of Element Ventures
Steve is a Partner at Element Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Euclid Opportunities and the Head of Business Development of Ipreo.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>David Leftley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bloc Ventures
David has more than 30 years global technology industry experience in start-ups and multi-nationals as an engineer, manager, director and investor. From 1983 he worked as a design engineer in the defence industry, specialising in radar and airborne electronic countermeasures, first at Cossor Electronics and then at Racal Defence. In 1987 he moved into the TV and film industry, working for Abacus Cox and then Vistek on the design of the world’s first digital TV production technology. In this time he progressed to become R&D Manager and later became General Manager. In 1996, as CTO he founded Digital Vision UK for DV AB of Sweden, a world leader in video compression, transmission and post production technology, securing contracts with the BBC, several Hollywood studios and customers as far afield as China. In 1999 DV AB successfully went to an IPO. In 2009 he joined Vodafone’s corporate venture team as head of its European activity, closing numerous investments in Mobile Health, Clean Tech, Infrastructure and Financial Tech services. In this time the fund ranked in the top 5 CVCs, achieved an IRR of 27% and in 2012 received an industry award for its exit of portfolio company Amobee for $321M. In 2010 David was ranked in Wired Magazine’s top 100 innovators’ list. He represented Vodafone on the boards of nine portfolio companies. In April 2013 David departed Vodafone to establish Bloc Ventures with Bruce. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Aston Birmingham, and is a Chartered Engineer.
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About Bloc Ventures: Bloc Ventures is an early-stage Deep Tech investment company. Pitch to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/
Sulabh Sharma
Managing Partner of Sush Labs
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About Sush Labs: Sush Labs is in designing, developing mobile and webs cloud-backed digital solutions.
David Champeaux
Affiliate Partner, Global Cognitive Health Solutions of IPsoft
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About Cherish Health, IPsoft: IPsoft automates IT and business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries.
Ralph Bragg
Senior Partner of RAiDiAM
Ralph Bragg Senior Partner RAiDiAM Ralph’s career began at the London Stock Exchange, delivering cutting edge, ultra-low latency trading platforms before he was lured into investment banking. As Technical Architect at Societie General, Ralph crafted a globally distributed, mission critical pricing and execution platform for Retail and Professional Finance Clients supporting multiple Asset classes including FX, Fixed Income, Precious Metals and Semi Structured Products. Moving to the Royal Bank of Scotland in a senior role, Ralph led the IAM Architecture team. The team delivered a modern platform for RBS which ensured the business is able to quickly adapt and embrace transformative changes like PSD2 and the Open Banking initiatives. Ralph holds a Bachelor’s of IT degree from the Queensland University of Technology, (Australia) and is currently completing an MBA (Banking) at the University of London.
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About RAiDiAM: RAiDiAM consultants helps clients to create and execute IAM strategies that underpin digital transformation initiatives.
Chris Love
Managing Partner Workforce Transformation of REPL Group
One of REPL’s original two founders, Chris is a renowned expert in workforce management with two decades of retail and supply chain experience. He’s worked with many of the world’s largest retailers, helping to deliver transformational technology and change projects. Chris has gained broad experience across all retail functions and disciplines. He is often called upon to share his expertise and best practice insights with his peers.
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About REPL Group, REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Will Shepherd
Managing Partner of REPL Group
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Ali Beklen
Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner
After working for several financial institutions and IBM, Ali Beklen co-founded HotelRunner with Arden Agopyan, with the ambition of converting the long-tail accommodation sales and distribution management from offline to online at global scale. For the last 10 years, he has been advising many organizations and initiatives focusing on digital transformation of the travel industry globally. He has publications in international refereed journals and conferences about service and cloud computing. He is Advisory Chair for Software Service Computation at the International Academy, Research and Industry Association. Beklen holds an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Economics. He is also a PhD candidate in computer engineering.
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About HotelRunner: SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Arden Agopyan
Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner
Arden Agopyan is an experienced entrepreneur and business development executive with a proven track record. Prior to founding HotelRunner, he led IBM’s Cloud Computing Software technical sales and market creation activities across Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. His areas of expertise also include international team management, business execution, strategic marketing and financial management. As a talented hacker coming from software development background, along twenty years of business experience in technology, Arden is a Ph.D. candidate in Finance, holds a BSc in Computer Engineering degree and an MBA. Arden speaks five languages and is also Advisory Chair for Cloud Computing at International Academy, Research and Industry Association and co-author of a book, academic journals and articles.
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About HotelRunner: SaaS enabled B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online.
Lars Dittrich
Partner of Gauly Advisors
Lars Dittrich is responsible for the “Investments & Investments Management” unit and head of the Berlin office. He has extensive business experience as a founder and investor of successful start-up businesses. In 1997 Lars Dittrich founded dug telecom AG (today part of freenet AG) and served as its Chairman & CEO. In 2007 the company was sold to Permira, which merged it with debitel AG. Lars Dittrich was chairman of the Sales division of debitel AG until 2010. In 2008 Lars Dittrich became Chairman and Business Angel of tape.tv, besides pursuing other investments in various industries.
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About Gauly Advisors: Gauly Advisors operates as an independent consulting and investment company.
Marion Feldhofer
SVP Corporate Partnerships of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Katy Turner
Co-founder & Managing Partner of Multiple London
Katy is Managing Partner and co-founder at Multiple. Multiple supercharges the progress of high growth companies and funds through brand and culture. They support European tech founders and funds building the capabilities, culture and communications that will enable them to take out the competition, take a big exit or take over the world. At Multiple, Katy has worked alongside the founders of companies such as Pipedrive, WeTransfer, Unbabel, Kalo, Aire, Beryl (formerly Blaze), Verve, Drover, Favro and Trouva, and funds such as Kindred, Connect, Whitestar and Albion; to clarify purpose, shape vision, define positioning, refine strategy, develop culture, build brand, acquire customers and drive growth. Katy began her career in publishing before choosing a bright future at Orange (in a time when it was actually cool to work for a mobile operator), where she launched products nationally and internationally. Roles in tech include VC at Eden Ventures, VP of Marketing at Videoplaza (acquired by Ooyala) and CMO at Tech City UK (now Tech Nation), as well as mentoring for Seedcamp and Techstars. She sits on the Investment Committee for the University of Bristol’s Enterprise Fund.
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About Multiple London: Their drive growth through purpose, platforms and people for organisations with customers at their heart and tech at their fingertips.
Matthew Falla
Founding Partner of Parallel
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About Parallel: Parallel is a product development firm that helps companies develop proposals based on simulations and synthetic environments.
Christian Thümer
Founding Partner of Parallel
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About Parallel: Parallel is a product development firm that helps companies develop proposals based on simulations and synthetic environments.
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.
Edward Sweigart
Vice President Global Partners & Ecosystem of Finastra
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About Finastra: Finastra provides the broadest portfolio of financial services software.
Andrew MCGEE
EcoSystem Venture Builder; Arrow ECS Partner of Vivolution
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About Innovation Centre Scotland Limited, Vivolution: Vivolution empowers the growth of emerging technology businesses with an emphasis on digital health, AI, ML and IoT solutions.
Colin Berthoud
Founding Partner of TIM Group
Founder of two financial technology companies, establishing market leadership in multiple nascent markets. Specialties:Transformation of financial markets using emerging techology and processes.
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About TIM Group: TIM Group is a provider of alpha-generating information technologies for the financial services industry.
Ron Martin
Managing Partner of Enapps
Over the years Ron has held various roles in product management, project management and technical positions in companies such as Toshiba, Dr Solomon’s Software, Nvidia, ATI and AMD.
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About Enapps: Enapps is an unique Business Management Software Solution Company.
Chris Connell
Partner / Chief Operating Officer of Conjure
Chris Connell, is co-founder and CEO of Mixer. He is also a partner at Conjure a smartphone digital agency based in London, that specialise in native application development for high profile brands and clients.
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About Conjure, Mixer: Conjure is a London based digital experience company developing daring, original applications for emerging technology platforms.
Bruno Bertrand-Delfau
Partner of Proskauer Rose
Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in the Private Investment Funds Group. He has extensive experience in private equity secondaries, and has worked on many of the landmark transactions in this area, both in Europe and in the U.S. He also advises institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds in their primary investments in private equity funds and other private equity transactions.
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About Baker & McKenzie, Proskauer Rose: Proskauer is a global law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients worldwide.
Ben Davis
Partner of Proskauer Rose
Ben Davis is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit and Finance Groups. Ben’s practice focuses on advising on acquisition and leveraged finance facilities, corporate facilities and debt restructurings in the middle market and upper market. He represents a variety of clients including private credit funds, alternative lenders, private equity sponsors and corporates on unitranche loans, second-lien financings, first out / last out structures, holdco PIK and other subordinated facilities, preferred equity investments, investment grade facilities, high yield bonds, real estate financings, litigation funding and distressed situations among other innovative, first-in-kind transactions involving private sources of capital. In Legal 500 UK, Ben has been noted as “understanding the requirements of alternative lenders” and “having significant traction with alternative capital providers.” Ben is a member of the LMA working party developing the new precedent unitranche intercreditor agreement.
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About Proskauer Rose: Proskauer is a global law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients worldwide.
Steven Davis
Partner of Proskauer Rose
Steven Davis is a partner in the Corporate Department and co-head of our global Private Equity and M&A Group. Steven’s practice focuses on buyouts, buy-ins, and strategic mergers & acquisitions. He has considerable industry knowledge in the consumer, retail, financial, business services and healthcare sectors, and has advised a broad range of clients, including private equity sponsors, management teams, financial institutions and public and private companies. Steven is consistently recognized by Chambers UK and Legal 500.
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About Proskauer Rose: Proskauer is a global law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients worldwide.
Leith Moghli
Partner of Proskauer Rose
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About Proskauer Rose: Proskauer is a global law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients worldwide.
Kirsten Lapham
Partner of Proskauer Rose
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About Proskauer Rose: Proskauer is a global law firm providing a broad range of legal services to clients worldwide.
Alan Williamson
Associate Director, Channel Partners of Baltic Exchange
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About Baltic Exchange: The Baltic Exchange is the provider of information on maritime transportation markets.
Richard Rosenberg
Partner & Co-Founder of SRLV
Richard Rosenberg is a qualified chartered accountant and a partner in SRLV, a London-based multidisciplinary accountancy and consultancy firm which he co-founded in 1988. Richard Rosenberg is the Non-Executive Chairman of Livermore Investments Group Limited, an AIM quoted investment.
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About SRLV: London Chartered Accountants and Business Consultants
Jeremy Mobbs
Founding Partner of Wilton & Bain
Jeremy Co-founded Wilton & Bain in 2001. He created the business with the ambition of becoming the number one human capital advisory business dedicated to the technology and professional services industries. During his time as Co-CEO he grew the business from a two person start up to the independently rated number one human capital advisory business in its dedicated sectors, with global offices and frequent appearances in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 of fastest growing UK Private firms. In 2017 the company secured a private equity investment and the associated MBO, Jeremy moved from Co- CEO to leadership of the new board. Jeremy still operates as a partner and advises clients within the technology and professional services segment on the full range of human capital and leadership advisory services.
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About Wilton & Bain: Wilton and Bain is providing an exceptional level of service to all clients offering both pace & coherence in delivery across capabilities.
Rob Denham
CEO & Partner of C3 Post Trade
Rob Denham has led C3 since its inception. He brings more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry, working for organisations including: Salomon Brothers, Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse, ING, Abbey Financial Markets and Deutsche Bank. As a seasoned practitioner with significant experience in the post trade space Rob is a strategic thought-leader operating across trading and operations in both line management and strategic change capacities. He has a deep understand of strategy, business architecture and process improvement; has successfully transformed operation areas he has led through a focus on service, control, efficiency, change and people.
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About C3 Post Trade: C3 post trade platform is a web-based solution that easily wraps around both legacy and new systems to deliver efficiency and transparency.
James Fleet
Executive Director & Consulting Partner of Four Eyes Insight
James is a clinical workforce efficiency specialist. James has significant experience in clinical workforce productivity and transformation within Health and works closely with Hospitals to secure sustainable efficiency improvements, optimum productivity and high levels of performance. James has previously worked within the NHS as an Executive Director and also led PwC’s health workforce consulting team, which involved him working with a large range of FT’s and Trust’s, as well as the Department of Health and NHS regulators – Monitor, NTDA and the CQC. James has led the delivery of major efficiency and productivity programmes, with huge success.
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About Four Eyes Insight: Four Eyes Insight is a medical productivity and clinical service consultancy, founded in 2013.
Pavel Dolezal
Partner of Keboola
Pavel has been building companies since 1999, starting with the largest portal network, CEE, under the group name Atlas Portal. After the group was sold, he built Ataxo, one of the EU’s largest digital agencies in the performing media space. Ataxo serviced 15,000 customers and had almost 200 agents in Customer Support. In addition, Pavel actively invests in early-stage tech companies in the EU, Brazil and the USA. In 2014, Pavel became a partner at Keboola.com and is responsible for its international expansion and business development, currently focusing on UK and Singapore operations.
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About Keboola: Keboola is a cloud platform helping clients combine, enhance & publish crucial information for internal analytics & data products.
Dr Rana Ghosh-Roy
IBM Partner, Business Analytics of illumr
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About : illumr helps organizations to better understand and predict patterns of behavior that affect them.
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>Tony Morris
Managing Partner of Red LeeMor LLC
Tony Morris brings strategy, mobile, sales, and PR experience to the digital industry. He received his start in PR/marketing and media at the Federal Reserve Bank, serving as the Los Angeles media spokesperson supporting the release of the new $100 bills. Tony holds a B.A. from Yale University. He lives in Los Angeles. His specialties include Digital Media, Online Video, Mobile Advertising, Mobile UX/UI Design, Social Media, Brand Strategy: CPG, Gaming, Entertainment, Travel; Contract Negotiation, Direct Response, Advertising Sales; Presentations and Public Speaking; Business Development; Marketing.
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About Red LeeMor LLC: Red LeeMor LLC is a technology platform of mobile applications geared toward contractors and architects.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Graham Breen
Business Development and Partnerships of Innoactive
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About Innoactive: Innoactive empower global teams with collaborative VR/AR enterprise software.
Usman Haque
Founding Partner of Umbrellium
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About Thingful, Umbrellium, Xively: Umbrellium designs and builds technological tools to support citizen empowerment and high-impact engagement in cities.
Caroline Reason
Brand Partnerships Executive of Countrywide Accident Assistance
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About Countrywide Accident Assistance: Countrywide Accident Assistance is a claims experts. with the best people. best systems. best solutions.
Simon Turner
Managing Director & Founding Partner of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Jennifer Antcliff
Partner of Carpmaels & Ransford
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About Carpmaels & Ransford: Carpmaels & Ransford is a full-service European intellectual property firm at the forefront of a rapidly changing IP landscape.
Jermaine Trotman
Managing Partner of Nimble AppGenie
Jermaine Trotman is a Founder of Nimble Appgenie, a company that provides mobile app development services in iOS and Android platforms for global clients. He loves to write on mobile technologies, app development, startups, entrepreneurship, and mobile app marketing.
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About Nimble AppGenie: Nimble AppGenie is leading Mobile App development company in the USA. Also, we provides you highly customized, cost-efficient apps.
