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 Advisor operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Zack Feather
Non Executive Advisor of RwHealth
Zack has worked in the healthcare sector for over 15 years. He was the founder of Asclepius Global.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Lindsey Armstrong
Advisor of XANT.ai
Lindsey Armstrong joined InsideSales.com in March 2015, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in global technology sales leadership and management. Lindsey is guiding the company into its next phase of growth and global expansion, starting with Europe. She is responsible for establishing operations abroad and hiring an executive team. Before joining InsideSales.com, Lindsey spent more than four years with Salesforce, where she built growth engines in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), as well as Latin America and Asia-Pacific. She previously held numerous executive positions with Oracle, Veritas and Symantec, driving substantial growth in international revenues and scaling capabilities across multiple countries. Lindsey is a proven, world-class executive with a track record of excellence. During her time with Veritas, which was acquired by Symantec in 2005, EMEA revenues skyrocketed from $20 million to more than $2 billion. Lindsey serves on the board of directors for SalesHood and Bluewolf.
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About : XANT.ai provides solutions that accelerate revenue by enabling sales teams to build a better pipeline and close more deals.
Ian Hamilton
Advisor of Tessian
A serial entrepreneur, NED, mentor and Angel Investor, with experience across a wide range of international business sectors, having started businesses in the US and Australia. Ian has strong general management, corporate finance and strategy skills, which he brings to a portfolio of current NED roles.
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About : Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Miguel Suarez
Strategic Advisor of BigML
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About : BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Miguel Suarez
Strategic Advisor of BigML
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About : BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Stephen Roberts
Co-founder & Chief Scientific Advisor of Mind Foundry
Stephen Roberts is the Royal Academy of Engineering / Man Group Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Physics and the Alan Turing Institute. Stephen is Director of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and founding-Director of the Oxford Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS). He has published widely, having some 350 publications which have accrued over 20,000 citations. Stephen’s interests lie in methods for machine learning, data analysis & AI in complex problems, especially those in which noise and uncertainty abound. His major research works include the application of machine learning to huge astrophysical data sets (for discovering exoplanets, pulsars and cosmological models), biodiversity monitoring (for detecting changes in ecology and spread of disease), smart networks (for reducing energy consumption and impact), industrial sensor networks (to better acquire and model complex events & to monitor the condition of equipment) and finance (to provide better insight into time-series, risk and trading actions and to fuse knowledge from large numbers of unstructured information streams).
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About Mind Foundry: Mind Foundry is an Oxford University company that has developed an AI platform to solve the world’s most important problems.
Michael Osborne
Co-founder & Chief Scientific Advisor of Mind Foundry
Mike Osborne is the Dyson Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. Back in 2013, he co-authored a highly-cited paper (with economist Carl Frey) that used machine learning to estimate that 47% of US jobs are at risk of being automatable through advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. This work was born of Mike’s interests in the practical use of machine learning to enable automation, while ensuring that such advances are made in sympathy with societal needs. Mike’s technical expertise in Bayesian optimisation and probabilistic numerics underpins recent advances in automated and interpretable machine learning pipelines. His algorithms have been deployed in industrial and scientific applications ranging from battery monitoring, pigeon navigation and self-driving cars. As co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, his research on the future of work has resulted in both sustained coverage in almost all major media venues (e.g. his being interviewed on BBC Newsnight, a cover feature in the Economist) and policy impact (including presenting oral evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee).
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About Mind Foundry: Mind Foundry is an Oxford University company that has developed an AI platform to solve the world’s most important problems.
Rob Haslam
Strategic Advisor – T5-Digital ID of Tech5.ai
Rob Haslam is an expert with 30 years of experience in the secure identity industry. Rob is responsible for TECH5 strategy and customer-focused business plan for T5-MobileID – latest company’s innovation. His industry experience includes leading companies in the secure ID document and biometrics space, including HID Global, where he was responsible for the world’s first mobile National ID, in Argentina.
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About Tech5.ai: TECH5 is an international technology company which focuses on developing disruptive biometric and digital ID solutions.
Vince Molinaro
Executive Advisor of B-Yond
Vince Molinaro brings more than 25 years of professional experience in engineering, product management, marketing, sales and operations to his role as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper in 2009, and led the strategy and go-to-market execution for the company’s global service provider business. Prior to joining Juniper, Molinaro held senior leadership positions at a number of technology companies including Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent and Internap Network Services. He has extensive domestic and international experience having lived and managed large organizations throughout Europe and the U.S.
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About B-Yond: B-Yond is an AI-based startup that develops network automation solutions.
Mark Call
Advisor of Pointr
Following an MBA at INSEAD, Mark joined McKinsey to work on strategy and business development issues globally. He worked in over 40 countries in aviation and infrastructure, including over 20 years experience advising airports on privatisation, commercialisation, and business development. Mark is an experienced NED and senior adviser and loves sailing in his spare time.
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About : Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Simon Yun-Farmbrough
Member of Advisory Board of Creamfinance
Simon has a proven track record of envisioning, leading and delivering growth initiatives in a number of financial companies. In addition to leading the IPO of Egg, the first digital bank in United Kingdom, Simon has more than 20 years of consultancy experience within financial services. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of the world’s oldest scientific society, The Royal Society. Simon joined the Advisory Board of Creamfinance to facilitate the growth of the company.
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About : Creamfinance is a financial services company based on cutting edge financial technology instruments.
Keith Saxton
Advisor of ForwardLane
Keith Saxton Independent Director and Advisor An experienced executive leader Keith has a deep understanding of the Financial Services industry, and the role that technology plays in developing and executing business strategy. He is an expert in how business risk can be changed and managed by technology, and understands the risk of technology – a combination providing a unique perspective and executive capability.
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About : ForwardLane is the essential insights platform used by financial professionals for personalized conversations
Costis Kompis
Advisory Board Member of DMR
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About : DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Nick Moro
Music Advisor of Jellynote
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About : Jellynote is an EdTech startup offering an innovative way to learn music through its proprietary AI-technology
Chris Cullinane
Board Advisor of Data Quarks Limited
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About : Online platform for facts & information neutrality. Wikipedia/Pinterest for infographics. AI curated and tamper proofed by Blockchain.
David Bamford
Advisor of OAG Analytics
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About : OAG Analytics is a developer of a predictive analytics platform focusing on providing advanced analytics to upstream energy operators.
Thanos Mitrelias
KinTrans Advisor of KinTrans
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About KinTrans: Collaborative machine learning platform offering access to 3D human movement datasets, and license KinTrans recognition APIs
Prof Fergus Gleeson FRCP FRCR
Chair, Medical Advisory Board of Optellum
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About : Optellum develops an imaging biomarker for smart lung cancer detection.
Prof Andrew Zisserman FRS
Scientific Advisory Board Member of Optellum
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About : Optellum develops an imaging biomarker for smart lung cancer detection.
Ali Bernat
Advisor of Ernest
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About : Ernest is a personal Banker for All powered by Artificial Intelligence: a chatbot that answers questions, gives insights & forecasts issues.
Sean Colson
Advisor of Beepal
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About : Beepal is a next generation social shopping site, connecting people with products and brands through A.I. recommendation system.
