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 Enterprise 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Wil Lynch
SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy of Thunderhead
Wil Lynch is the SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Mario Clarence Simon
Head – Product Engineering Group of Intense Technologies Limited
Mr. Mario Clarence Simon is an M.S. in Information Technology and has also undergone advanced technical training in Singapore. Starting his IT Career at Intense as early as 1999, he presently heads a team of 168 professionals, dedicated to ‘Creating Value Through Innovation’. He plays the lead role in the areas of Development, Quality Assurance and Testing, Project Management, User Experience (GUI), Documentation, R&D, and Architecture Review.
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About Intense Technologies Limited: Intense Technologies provides software products, solutions, and related services.
James Brown
Head of Product and Platforms of Ondat
James Brown is the Head of Product and Platforms at Ondat.
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About Ondat: Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Rich Clark
VP Product Management of Artesian Solutions
At Artesian we’re building something amazing. Simple, but amazing. Our mission is to make B2B Sales Professionals – our users – Awesome. Deriving actionable insights from thousands of data sources every minute of the day, we’re helping our users create shortcuts in their day to make them better, more effective Social Sellers. I’m highly experienced in all aspects of the delivery of effective, usable and profitable software products. I’m passionate about creating great experiences with technology, and using it intelligently to change the world, one inefficient task at a time.
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About Artesian Solutions: Artesian is the company intelligence service which is changing the way B2B sales people work.
Chris Barrett
Chief Product Officer of Concentra
Chris is the CTO and architect behind OrgVue with over 18 years of experience in software product design and development. He is responsible for the design and delivery of OrgVue, as well as leading the architecture and development teams. He provides technology and practice leadership to product development at Concentra with expertise in AWS, cloud security, scalable architecture, data visualisation and analytics. Alongside supporting and enabling continuous improvement of Concentra’s products, Chris maintains an external focus on the opportunities and threats presented by trends in the industry.
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Alex Myers
Director, Product Strategy of Exact
Alex Myers serves as director of product strategy at Exact.
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About Exact, RIMES Technologies: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Andrew Hollister
Chief Architect & Product Manager of LogRhythm
Andrew Hollister, Sr. Technical Director EMEA oversees LogRhythm’s regional technical resources in order to advance LogRhythm’s vision of providing an unrivalled platform for Unified Threat Lifecycle Management. Andrew studies the threat landscape to understand how customers can leverage analytics to detect and respond to cyber threats. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked in a variety of IT consulting roles, in both the private and public sector, including SIEM, DLP and application level firewall design and implementation.
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About LogRhythm: LogRhythm is a NextGen SIEM Platform combining advanced security analytics, UEBA, NDR, and SOAR in a single end-to-end solution.
Susan Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of onkho
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About KWSR & Co, onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Ollie Cadman
Chief Product Officer of Vela
Ollie Cadman is Head of Business Operations responsible for providing leadership support and guidance to the European teams. His broad remit includes spearheading integration efforts from the OptionsCity and Object Trading acquisitions in Europe. Prior to his current role, Ollie was Head of Product and Strategy, EMEA, responsible for driving product development, strategy, and roadmap priorities at Vela. His role also included identifying new market, partnership, and product opportunities through ongoing engagements with the firm’s global client base. Ollie joined Vela from Intercontinental Exchange (previously Interactive Data) and has a proven track record in global rollout and development of a wide range of products and services. He has an extensive background in electronic trading, exchange connectivity, and real-time data. Combined with his strong analytical skills, he has an ability to adapt to market challenges and optimize new business opportunities. Ollie has held senior roles at Citihub Consulting, JP Morgan, and the London Stock Exchange. Ollie holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire.
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About Vela: Vela is a leading provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading.
Riccardo Chiarelli
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mela Works
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About Mela Works: Mela is a conversational platform for collaboration and cost control in construction and beyond.
Jay Krall
Chief Product Officer of Socialgist
Jay Krall is a Chief Product Officer at Socialgist
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About Socialgist: Socialgist is social media data provider.
Froso Ellina
Product Design Manager of Pivotal Labs
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About Pivotal Labs: Pivotal Labs develops web and mobile products that develops enterprise infrastructures for business platforms.
Richard Churchill
Founding Director & Chief Product Officer of SessionCam
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About SessionCam: SessionCam is an exciting UK company developing uniquely innovative and intelligent solutions for website optimization.
Ludre Stevens
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of iNBOTiQA
Ludre Stevens is the co-founder and chief product officer at iNBOTiQA.
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About iNBOTiQA: Intelligent Business Email solution
Bjorn Goosen
Product Manager of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Ashley Burton
Head of Product of Eckoh
Ashley joined Eckoh’s contact centre in 1999 and over the last 18 years has worked in a variety of roles including project management, business analysis, data warehousing and mobile application development before becoming Head of Product. Ashley is passionate about identifying emerging technology and applying it to contact centres to improve customer experiences and deliver outstanding engagement and trust.
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About Eckoh: Eckoh is the UK’s leading provider of speech recognition and associated payment solutions across voice, web and mobile channels.
Miles Daffin
Product Manager of RepreZen
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About RepreZen: Innovative API design tools that promote interoperability and optimize integration ROI.
