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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Advisor operating in the Enterprise 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.
Pascal De Mul
Advisor of Lumia Capital
Pascal de Mul joined Exit Live as Chief Executive Officer in 2020.
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About Exit Live, Tribe of Noise, Tribe of Noise: Expansion-stage VC firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth.
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Richard Dean
Head of Security Advisory Services EMEAR of Cisco
Richard has over a 15 years of experience in cyber security. First taking an interest in the offensive side whilst studying for his Physics PhD, then honing his skills as Penetration Tester and Red Teamer at Portcullis before their acquisition by Cisco. He is currently working Cisco’s Customer Experience team where he advises customer on all aspects of cyber security.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Claire Bridel
Board of Advisors of Kantox
Kantox’s goal is to create a transparent and fair market place for FX transactions, bringing unprecedented value to its clients. I am very excited at the prospect of helping this young, professional and passionate team to grow their business.
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About : Kantox is a leader in Currency Management Automation software that enables businesses to automate their end-to-end FX workflow
Doug Swanson
Strategic Advisor and Board Member of Malwarebytes
Doug Swanson is the Vice President of Development at Malwarebytes. Along with CEO and founder Marcin Kleczynski, Doug got his start in online anti-malware communities, helping to keep the malware forces of darkness at bay. He joined Malwarebytes in 2008 and built most of the original technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, including the core scanning engine, kernel-level detection and removal technology, and the realtime protection module. Doug currently manages all client development at Malwarebytes and supervises the ever-growing development team. Doug holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, and an M.S. in Physics from Princeton University.
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About : Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Nick Tong
Technical Advisor of Unmind
Often referred to as a “geek that can speak” Nick is a technologist with engaging communications skills. He is an entrepreneur with specialist experience in management information systems and product innovation. With other 15 years of technical experience Nick has worked with brands such as the NHS, Courvoisier, RSPCA, Publicis, Vodafone, Fixnetix, HomeTrack and the BBC. Nick has gained an exceptional ability in interpreting technology enablers and formulating digital strategies to fulfil business objectives. His experience includes: CTO and Co-Founder of Compare and Share, the worlds 1st marketplace focussing on the Sharing Economy; and founder of Tizuni Digital a full service digital agency specialising in information systems and product development.
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About SkillSnap, Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Richard Archdeacon
Advisory CISO of Duo Security
Richard is the Advisory CISO for the EMEA region working with clients on their Zero Trust solutions. He was previously with DXC – HPE – where he was a Chief Technologist in the Security Practice working with clients across all industries and regions. Prior to that, he worked for Symantec for many years. He has also contributed to security industry organisations such as IAAC and the IISP
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About Duo Security: Duo Security provides security software products and services.
Jean-Michel Paul
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of AkinovA
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Richard Gordon
Advisor of Strevus
Richard is an MD at Deutsche Bank in London, where he is currently the Global Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Market Risk Management.Richard has been with Deutsche Bank for 12 years, the last six of which have been in the Risk Division, where he has held a number of senior leadership roles, including COO for the Deputy Chief Risk Officer, and Global Head of Risk Operations.Before his employment at Deutsche Bank, Richard worked as a senior consultant for Capco and UBS, and he also served as a British Army Officer.
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About : Compliance solutions for financial servi
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.
Chris Hewertson
Principal | CIO | CTO | Board Advisory of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
Ben Goldsmith
Member of the Board of Advisors of Votem Corp
Election Technology Consultant, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); Lead Writer – Manual on Implementing Electronic Voting and Counting Technologies; IFES
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About : Votem® is a blockchain-based mobile voting platform enabling citizens around the world to easily vote online.
Crispin Lowery
Board Advisor of Qudini – Retail Choreography
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About : Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Barry Wakelin
Board Advisor of Torsion Information Security
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About : Confident Data Access Control – Get control of who has access to what, why and when. Secure, Compliant, Efficient.
Barry Wakelin
Board Advisor of Torsion Information Security
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About : Confident Data Access Control – Get control of who has access to what, why and when. Secure, Compliant, Efficient.
Jay Pidgeon
Senior Advisor of FanFair Technologies Ltd.
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About : Enterprise-class white label music event marketing and data management web application
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
John Hobson
Advisor of Targetta
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About Targetta: Merchandise planning and sales forecasting tool for retail companies
Janet Mudge
Advisor (Business Development & Marketing) of SpumeTech
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About : A start-up currently developing LiveERP, a SaaS solution for direct to consumer businesses.
Bill Boorman
Lead Advisor of Clinch
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About : Clinch is a all-in-one recruitment marketing platform and CRM.
S Khan
Advisor of Imperium Media
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About : Helping companies to maximize their potential on new and existing technologies.
