Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Product operating in the Software space. If you think a Product 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.
Mark Galvin
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Infobip
Leadership | Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Product Innovation | Product Differentiation | Mergers & Acquisitions | Technical Partnerships | SaaS | MarTech | CPaaS | CCaaS | Startups | Consulting | Founder | Board Member & Advisor
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About Infobip, Venubox: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
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.
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.
Robert Epstein
Windows Product Marketing Director of Microsoft
Robert Epstein has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has run his own IT solutions business and spent time in the IT channel working with industry names including HP and Intel. He has been at Microsoft for over 15 years in various roles including Small Business Audience lead and OEM. He is currently UK Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365 including Windows 10 and is responsible for helping all partners from SMB to Enterprise understand the value of Windows 10 and Office Pro Plus He was also responsible for leading the launch of Windows 10 in the UK.
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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.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mark Orsborn
Senior Director, Product Management of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
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.
Ian Davis
Vice President Of Product Management of Oracle
Ian is the Vice President Of Product Management for Oracle’s suite of Commerce solutions, both on-premise and Cloud. His team of Product Managers, Business Analysts and UX Designers are responsible for the next-generation of Oracle’s Commerce offering. Ian has been in the eCommerce business for over 15 years, through which time he has seen the evolution from simple web tools through to today’s sophisticated Commerce applications. He has lead the transition of licensed product business to SaaS business models, and knows what that can involve for a software company.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Martin Hargreaves
Chief Product Officer of Quant Network
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About Quant Network: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Arjun Hassard
Product Lead and Network Economics Researcher of NuCypher
Arjun Hassard is a CMO at Factmata.
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About NuCypher, Talent Rank: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Daniel Liu Yin
Senior Director of Product Management of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Jim Veevaert
VP Product of ROLI
Jim Veevaert currently serves ROLI as vice president of product. For over 20 years, Jim has brought legendary gaming franchises to market including Halo 3, Half-Life, and Counter-Strike. He co-founded Jerry Bruckheimer’s games division, and was the founding GM for Zynga’s Seattle studio
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About ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Yu Kyung Lee
Senior Product Designer of ROLI
Yu kyung Lee currently serves ROLI as senior product designer. Yu holds a master’s degree in product design from Royal College of Art.
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About ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Harry Edmonds
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Chris Stutz
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
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.
Oliver Quayle
Product & GTM – Access People 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.
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.
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.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Fab de Liberali
Chief Product Officer of Digime
With extensive experience in contextual product management, business intelligence and analytics, Fab helps teams to create and execute successful new and complex business opportunities across different markets, cultures and priorities.
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About Digime: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Mike Hutchinson
Chief Product Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
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.
Brian Shorland
Senior Director of Product Management of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Laura Hutton
Fraud and Financial Markets Products of Quantexa
For over a decade Laura has helped the world’s largest retail and investment banks fight fraud through data analytics. Starting by analysing customer and transaction data within retail banks to tackle an array of fraud typologies, Laura pioneered the early unauthorised trading detection solutions and has since participated in multiple holistic surveillance global initiatives and markets AML programs. Prior to Quantexa, she was one of the founding experts within the Detica NetReveal team and then went on to lead banking fraud for SAS across EMEA/AP.
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About Quantexa, Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Alexon Bell
Compliance Products of Quantexa
Alexon is a hands-on AML practitioner with over 16 years experience helping financial institutions with AML strategies, architectures and implementations. He has a wealth of experience in helping customers deploy and crucially optimise AML, KYC and sanctions screening solutions, having held leadership roles at Actimize (Fortent), SAS as EMEA/AP head of compliance solutions and Oracle. As a thought leader, he works with banks to help them tackle the latest emerging threats, ensure coverage and prepare for new regulation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
David Histon
Head Of Product Development of Luther Systems
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
Ray Williamson
Director of Product Management of Huawei Technologies
Ray leads the Product Management team responsible for strategy and solution definition for mobile network evolution to 5G and for new technologies and businesses opportunities in the European region. He has over twenty years of experience in the wireless communications field in Engineering and Business Development roles and has held leadership positions in Product Management for 2G, 3G and 4G solutions. Ray joined Huawei in 2013 having previously worked at Motorola and NSN. He holds a BSC (Hons) in Telecommunications and a PGDBA (Finance). Ray is also Chair of the Business Principles Working Group within Small Cell Forum.
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About Huawei Technologies: Huawei Technologies provides infrastructure application software and devices with wireline, wireless, and IP technologies.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Tom Blessley
Head of Product of Rentify
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Alasdair Monk
Product designer of Heroku
Alasdair Monk is the Principal Designer at HashiCorp.
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About HashiCorp, Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
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.
Alex Barrett
Co-founder, Product of Databook
Alex Barrett is a Co-founder of Databook
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About Databook: Databook is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that drives enterprise sales productivity and performance at scale.
Stephen Crompton
Senior Director of Product Management of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Monira Rhaimi
Lead Product Strategist of Thoughtworks
Monira Rhaimi is a Lead Product Strategist at Thoughtworks. She has worked across multiple roles from software engineer to product manager, in different regions of the world. Having experienced many different environments, teams and cultures, she developed a passion for product management, lean and agile practices and culture change in organizations. Currently working for ThoughtWorks as a Product Consultant, she has the opportunity to practice her craft and deepen her learnings while helping teams start a change.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
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.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Christos Malliaros
Product Management Director, Leadership Solutions of SHL
Christos Malliaros is an Organisational Psychologist with over 20 years of HR experience. He holds a master’s degree in Organisational Psychology from London’s City University, a Diploma in Human Resource Management from London Metropolitan University and Advanced Certification in Executive Coaching from Bristol Business School. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK). Christos has a varied background of in-house HR and Recruitment roles with private and public sector organizations in the UK. Over his career, he has worked and delivered consulting services in Hong Kong, China, and Singapore, especially in the areas of Executive Assessment, and Leadership Development Centres. Since 2016, Christos has exclusively focused on developing new Leadership Solutions for SHL, with the largest and most ambitious product being SHL Leader Edge. Leader Edge is an innovative Leadership assessment and development solution based on SHL Research findings on the importance of context in leadership performance. SHL Leader Edge won the 2018 SIOP M. Scott Myers Award for Improving the Accuracy of Identifying and Developing Best-Fit Leaders.
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Christos Malliaros
Product Management Director, Leadership Solutions of SHL
Christos Malliaros is an Organisational Psychologist with over 20 years of HR experience. He holds a master’s degree in Organisational Psychology from London’s City University, a Diploma in Human Resource Management from London Metropolitan University and Advanced Certification in Executive Coaching from Bristol Business School. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK). Christos has a varied background of in-house HR and Recruitment roles with private and public sector organizations in the UK. Over his career, he has worked and delivered consulting services in Hong Kong, China, and Singapore, especially in the areas of Executive Assessment, and Leadership Development Centres. Since 2016, Christos has exclusively focused on developing new Leadership Solutions for SHL, with the largest and most ambitious product being SHL Leader Edge. Leader Edge is an innovative Leadership assessment and development solution based on SHL Research findings on the importance of context in leadership performance. SHL Leader Edge won the 2018 SIOP M. Scott Myers Award for Improving the Accuracy of Identifying and Developing Best-Fit Leaders.
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Juha Seppa
SVP, Product Delivery of Secondmind
Juha is a SW engineer with over 20 years of experience in product development. He is originally from Finland and moved to the UK with his family in 1999. He is responsible for heading up our product delivery and engineering activities. He is a keen classic rock fan and loves going to concerts with his wife. He seems to have a large collection of band t-shirts, and a somewhat questionable sense of style.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Jamie Palmer
Director Product Management of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
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.
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.
Omar Haque
SVP, Chief Product Officer, Merchant Services of Nets
Omar Haque is Nets MS’ Chief Product Officer and over 17 years of experience in managing digital and technology-driven transformation at global organizations. He has helped companies exploit and develop market and technology trends. Before joining Nets he has been with e.g. Worldpay, Vestas, Cisco.
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About Nets: Nets is a provider of payments, card, and information services with an ambition.
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.
Thomas Dunn
Product Designer of Buffer
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About Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Pieris Christofi
Product & Operations Lead of Palantir Technologies
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About Palantir Technologies: Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud.
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Ben Hall
VP of Product Interactivity of O’Reilly
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Richard Doherty
Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA of Workday
Richard Doherty is senior director product marketing at Workday with EMEA-wide responsibilities for Workday’s HCM and financial management applications. Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe. Joining Jobpartners as one of the first employees in 2000, Richard held a number of positions across professional services, sales and marketing, helping Jobpartners grow into one of the market leaders in Europe. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday. Richard holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Daniel Bryant
Product Architect of Ambassador Labs
Daniel Bryant works as a Product Architect at Ambassador Labs (formerly Datawire), and is the News Manager at InfoQ and Chair for QCon London. His current technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms and microservice implementations. Daniel is a leader within the London Java Community (LJC), contributes to several open source projects, writes for well-known technical websites such as InfoQ, O’Reilly, and DZone, and regularly presents at international conferences such as QCon, JavaOne, and Devoxx.
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About Ambassador Labs, InfoQ: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Mark Morley
Senior Director, Product Marketing of OpenText Corporation
Mark Morley is the director of strategic product marketing at [OpenText Corporation](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opentext#/entity), a provider of information management software solutions to help companies manage their unstructured business information. Previously, he was the director of industry marketing at the same company. Morley has worked with companies that expand their B2B capabilities and explore the benefits of outsourced B2B platforms by managing supply chain disruptions and integrating ERP and B2B systems. He frequently speaks and is quoted by the press on improving the efficiency of supply chains and strategies to manage offshore manufacturing operations. Morley holds master’s degrees in computer aided engineering from Cranfield University and in business from the University of Warwick’s Business School.
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
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.
David Cottingham
Director, Product Management & Partner Engineering of Citrix Systems
David runs the product management and partner engineering teams for Citrix Workspace ecosystem and the Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. He has spent a decade working with engineering teams at a whole host of companies, listening to customers large and small, and forming product strategy. David holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge, and enjoys scribbling on whiteboards.
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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.
David Cottingham
Director, Product Management & Partner Engineering of Citrix Systems
David runs the product management and partner engineering teams for Citrix Workspace ecosystem and the Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. He has spent a decade working with engineering teams at a whole host of companies, listening to customers large and small, and forming product strategy. David holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge, and enjoys scribbling on whiteboards.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Mark Winterburn
Chief Product Officer of Temenos
Mr. Mark Winterburn has been responsible for the product organization since joining in 2011. Mr. Winterburn has over 35 years’ experience in IT, 30 of them in financial services. Prior to joining Temenos, Mr. Winterburn held the position of VP Solutions Management & Product Development at Misys, and held a number of senior positions at Lloyds TSB, with a proven track record of driving large and complex IT change programmes. He has studied Leadership, Product, Cultural and Change Management at Harvard Business School, Cranfield University and Henley Management School. Mr. Winterburn studied a Software Engineering diploma at Coventry University, England.
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About Temenos: Temenos Group is a market leading provider of banking software systems.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Stuart Barr
Chief Product & Strategy Officer of HighQ
Stuart leads product strategy at HighQ and has over 12 years experience in web and e-business development, strategy and management. Stuart joined HighQ from leading social computing consultancy Headshift, where he was Head of Operations. Previously, Stuart was Online Services Manager at leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was responsible for the firm’s various online activities. Prior to that, he held a similar position at Hays plc. Stuart has a business degree from Cardiff University and a keen interest in the web and technology in general, in particular how it can be used inside the enterprise to enhance communication and collaboration.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Robyn McGirl
Product of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Dominic Strowbridge
Founder and Chief Product Officer of ctrlio
Founder at Ctrlio
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About ctrlio: ctrlio provides point of quote services to motor insurers
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.
David Larpent
Chief Product Officer of Lavanda
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
Alun Cutler
Director Product Management EMEA of Charles River Development
Alun supports sales efforts by identifying product enhancements, 3rd party solutions and marketing campaigns. Previously, Alun was a senior business consultant for Charles River, responsible for meeting EMEA client requirements and assisting implementation consultants with workflow design and integration needs. Prior to joining Charles River, Alun held a variety of sales and consultant positions at Misys and SunGard Data Systems, served as a fund administrator for Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, and was a derivatives trader at the Nippon Credit Bank.
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About Charles River Development: Charles River Development is an investment management solution provider company.
Rayan Saleh
Chief Product Officer of Dorm
Rayan Saleh is the Chief Product Officer at Dorm.
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About Dorm, RLC Ventures: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Rodolfo Picciau
Director, OMS Product Development and Engineering of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Sophie Harpur
Product Manager of Split Software
Sophie is passionate about making the complex world of experimentation accessible to everyone with core engineering, growth, design and product principles in mind. As Product Manager at Split, her goal is to help companies across a wide range of industries experiment and rollout software in the safest and most effective way. Before Split, she held several positions at Skyscanner, spending her last year as the Growth Experimentation Manager.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Ashly Harwood
Product Manager of Autologyx
Product Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx, Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Andy Charlton
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Stakester
Andy Charlton is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Adrian White
Head of Product Consultancy of Blue Prism
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Nicholas Timon
Head of Product – Decipher IDP of Blue Prism
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Jose Gomes
Head of Digital Product of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Richard Bentley
Chief Product and Engineering Officer of Calypso Technology
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About Calypso Technology: Calypso Technology provides an integrated trading, risk and processing platform for financial institutions and corporate treasuries.
Mark Loader
Director of Product Management, Marketing & Partnerships of ITRS Group
Mark joined ITRS in June 2012 as Managing Director Asia and brings more than 20 years of international experience in the field of fintech and data. Mark is responsible for all of ITRS’ product, marketing and partnership strategy covering both Geneos and Insights & Valo. He’s regularly on the road evangelizing our business and platform strategy with customers, partners and colleagues. Prior to joining ITRS, he was Global Head of Quantitative Analytics and Datafeeds at Thomson Reuters with general management responsibility for over US$230 million in annual revenue from more than 1500 clients globally, spanning traditional asset managers, sell-side research, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Ben Peters
Co-Founder and VP of Product of FiveAI
Ben Peters is a Co-Founder and VP of product at FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
Anthony Siggers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Archipelago
Anthony Siggers is the Co-Founder and CPO at Archipelago.
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About Archipelago: Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their cost of risk..
Sammy Halabi
Senior Product Manager of Homebase
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About Homebase: Homebase helps its users to track and schedule hours.
Tam Holmes
Chief Product Officer of 10xbanking
Tam heads product management, client delivery, security, business development and partnerships. He is passionate about delivering platforms that make banking an easy, safe and rewarding experience for all. Tam has close to two decades of experience in digital banking, security and technology. His career has spanned technology consulting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, co-founding a successful fintech start-up and spending ten years in digital banking at Lloyds Banking Group. He is a recognised expert in digital security, mobile security and fraud prevention and sits on the cyber leadership team of the Business Emergency Resilience Group (BERG), part of the Prince’s Responsible Business Network.
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About 10xbanking: 10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Luke Reynolds
Chief Product Officer of Featurespace
Luke is responsible for Featurespace’s fraud clients in Financial Services and Insurance, and has over twenty years’ experience in banking fraud management. Prior to joining Featurespace, Luke held a position as Callcredit’s Commercial Director of Fraud and ID for a year, and prior to this he served in a variety of roles in Lloyds Banking Group (Head of Retail Audit, Head of Fraud, and Head of Group Security and Investigation). Before joining Lloyds Banking Group,Luke held fraud prevention roles at the UK Card Association (formerly APACS) and NatWest
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Sean Neary
Senior Product Officer of Featurespace
Sean joined Featurespace as the Financial Services Subject Matter Expert at the end of 2016. His role is to use his industry expertise and knowledge to ensure that Featurespace’s ARIC platform development matches the Finance sector’s needs and expectations. Sean’s been in the Financial Fraud industry for over ten years. Starting his career in the operational environment as a Fraud Analyst at Barclaycard, where he worked his way through the operational sectors, from complex fraud to special investigations & management. He then moved from the front line and into fraud strategy and analytics,where his main role was to risk assess new trends, technologies and project that affected fraud across the bank. This role enabled him to work within all areas across the bank, gaining an understanding of the holistic aspect of the business and how fraud was linked to everything! Sean spent the last three years leading the global fraud technology team at Barclaycard, covering issuing, acquiring & commercial.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Kristian Carter
Product Marketing Specialist of Featurespace
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Anders Hakfelt
Global VP of Product & Marketing of Ultraleap
Anders has over 20 years’ experience in strategy, marketing and innovation. Over the past seven years Anders has been at the forefront of digital innovation and customer experience transformation, creating and delivering new propositions for a wide range of blue chip clients. He joined Ultrahaptics from Accenture, where he was a Director and member of the management team in their Digital Design and Innovation company, Fjord. Prior to Accenture, Anders was head of Strategic Business Development, EMEA, for frog Design. He has also worked in commercial and strategic roles in a variety of companies, from automotive and gaming to tech startups and strategy consulting. Anders has also been a business mentor for the Prince’s Trust.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Robert Blenkinsopp
VP Product of Ultraleap
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About Ultraleap, Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Richard Beckett
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Sophos
Richard Beckett is responsible for Product Marketing of Sophos public cloud and SaaS email security tech. After getting his break working with tech startups and telecom VARs, he spent the best part of his 20s and 30’s in Product Management and Product Marketing for premium IaaS hosting brands, before joining Sophos in 2016.
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About Sophos: Sophos develops network security and threat management products to protect organizations against malicious acts.
Jinden Badesha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Marc Tuckmantel
Head of Product Development of Derivitec
Marc joins us from Goldman Sachs, where he worked as a front office strategist on the equity derivatives desk in London. In his four years at the firm Marc extended tools for quoting and risk management of flow products, implemented pricing models and developed propietary algorithmic indices based on trading strategies for clients of the equity exotics desk. Before he joined Goldman Sachs, Marc worked as a doctoral researcher in CERN, conducting research into elementary particle physics and superstring theory.
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About Derivitec: Derivitec is a cloud based risk analytics applications and software.
Abel Ureta-Vidal
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Eagle Genomics
With more than 12 years bioinformatics experience and a scientific background in molecular biology and immune-virology (PhD from the Pasteur Institute, France), Abel first mastered bioinformatics tools and code in the early 90s whilst working on viral phylogenetic studies. After his PhD, he joined the effort at Genoscope (Evry, France) in ramping up the human genome project, putting in place the automatic gene annotation system for human chromosome 14. In 2001, Abel moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK) where he led the Ensembl comparative genomics team until 2007. He founded Eagle shortly before graduating from the Cambridge Judge Business School MBA program in 2008.
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
