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 Mobile 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.
James Gibson
Head of Product of Revolut
James Gibson, Head of Product for Revolut for Business oversees the team that is changing the way British and other European businesses manage their day to day business finances. An Oxford graduate with a background in consulting, James Gibson joined Revolut back in 2017. He spent a year in business development in the retail side of Revolut and his second year building the Revolut for Business product from the ground up. Today he oversees multiple product teams, business development and marketing.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Joshua Fernandes
Senior Product Owner of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Si Jia Wen
Product Operations Manager of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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.
Kim Gasson
FFA & FFAvr Product Owner and CTO, Supply Chain of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Chloé Hajnal-Corob
Head of Product of Trouva
Chloé Hajnal-Corob serves as the Head of Product at Trouva.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
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.
Paul Chapple
Director of Mobile Products and Services of Vodafone
Paul Chapple is Vodafone’s Mobile Products & Services Director. Paul is responsible for the strategic relationships with key suppliers as well as all aspects of hardware and services customization and development. Paul joined Vodafone from T-Mobile U.S. where he was Vice President of Supplier and Product Management. His primary focus was developing T-Mobile’s 5G and IoT road maps and then successfully bringing those products to market. His team managed the day-to-day relationships with established suppliers like Samsung, Apple and Google as well as finding new suppliers capable of meeting the evolving needs of the wireless ecosystem. Prior to T-Mobile, Paul held executive roles with both Samsung Electronics and Nokia Inc.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Nuno Costa
One Net Cloud Products Leader of Vodafone
Telecoms professional with over 14 year’s experience working across the telecommunications industry, with the main European telco companies. Developed market-leading solutions for both SoHo & SME segments, including Vodafone Unified Communications flagship product, One Net. Technology savvy interested in business intelligence and eager to learn new technologies and trends. Goal-oriented strategic business thinker. Enthusiastic traveler with a passion for exploring very corner of the globe.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Gemma Alvarez
Global Product Manager of Vodafone
Gemma Alvarez is the Global Commercial Product Owner for TOBi, Vodafones customer service chatbot, who is a trusted, helpful and easy concierge, here to support Vodafones customers. She helps carve out the future strategy of TOBi improving customer experience and pushing the boundaries of chatbots. Helping Vodafone Markets launch, accelerate the volume, improve the quality and innovate through TOBi. Previous to this, Gemma headed up Mobile Cloud Enterprise (Apps, Chatbots and Customer Experience Analytics), IoT and API Platform for Oracle UK in Business Development for almost 3 years. She was pivotal in launching the Intelligent Bot Cloud Service for Oracle helping many customers align chatbots to their core business, automating repetitive tasks. She has almost 7 years’ experience at Microsoft where she started off in the Sales Graduate Program, and then moved to a technical evangelist role where she worked on mobile apps, helping build up the app store and presenting to developers, business and UX around designing apps on the windows store.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Justin Gruss
Product Designer of Argent
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About Argent: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Colin Hemmings
Product Manager of Bitrise
Colin has been designing and developing large scale online services for over 9 years. His last role was developing DevOps tools in Alfresco’s Cloud Operations Team. Colin looks after the overall architecture for the Outlyer product to ensure we can scale to billions of metrics every minute.
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About Bitrise, Outlyer: Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform built to adress mobile’s challenges, empowering mobile teams to deliver their best work.
Marius Lobontiu
Head of Product of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Mike Walters
Chief Product Officer of Form3
Mike joined Form3 from Barclaycard Payment Acceptance (card acquiring) where, as Product Director, he was a member of the Executive Committee and responsible for P&L, product management, strategy development, vendor selection and management, digital transformation and M&A. Prior to this, as Head of UK Corporate Payments for Barclays Corporate Bank, Mike held product management responsibility for all payment, receipting and reporting products and services delivered to Barclays corporate clients – this included defining the Barclays Corporate Bank mobile payments strategy and initiating, building and scaling the multi-award winning ‘Pingit for Corporates’ mobile payment solutions. Earlier in his career he managed client relationship teams responsible globally for the North American Financial Institutions and FTSE 250 sectors. With his significant experience across the payment and client landscape, Mike and his team is responsible for designing, scaling and managing the Solutions delivered by Form3.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Tony Wu
Head of Product of Fliplet
Head of Product at Fliplet
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About Fliplet: Enterprise app platform to create, manage and securely distribute apps without writing code or creating designs.
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.
Darius Kumana
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wrisk
Darius has worked in varied environments, holding executive/leadership roles in firms ranging from large corporates to small avant-garde firms, consultancies and green-field startups. He is an expert UX practitioner and led the Experience Design Practice for ThoughtWorks Europe (a top technical consultancy) for several years. During his time there he led several successful digital programmes, including large scale transformations for Thomson Reuters and launching TimeOut’s award-winning iPhone app.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Iain Davidson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Wireless Logic
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About Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Rosario Garcia de Zuniga
Product Manager of Wave Mobile Money
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About Wave Mobile Money: Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
Harry Williams
Co-founder, Chief Brand & Product Officer of Pluto
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About Pluto: Pluto helps travel lovers discover inspiration, plan their trips and connect with like-minded people. It’s like Pinterest, but for travel.
Stephanie Fujarczuk
Chief Product Officer of Made by Fire
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About Fiternity, Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Vanessa Wachtmeister
Global Launch & Product Marketing Manager of Hotels
Vanessa Menchaca-Wachtmeister is a B2B Global Launch Manager at Hotels.com and an accomplished travel writer behind the blog: wanderonwards.co. Originally from Los Angeles, Vanessa has spent the last decade bouncing between Beijing, Boston, and London pursuing a career in tech whilst exploring over 40 countries. She has a BA from Boston College, a Masters in International Development from SOAS (University of London), and her real passion is teaching people how to travel farther, longer and for less. When she’s not on a plane, she enjoys learning languages, developing her skills, and cooking with her husband and cat.
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About Hotels: Hotels provides online hotel booking and reservation services intended to ease the travelling process.
Birju Ravaliya
Head of Product Design & User Experience of Camera IQ
Birju Ravaliya currently works as Head of Product Design & User Experience at Camera IQ.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Nick Eales
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Aforza
Nick Eales serves as a Chief Product Officer and one of the founders of Aforza.
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About Aforza: Aforza develops cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies.
Jarek Feith
Product Manager of Kleek
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About Kleek: Kleek offers access to high-end venues, clubs and events.
James Harris
Product Manager of ZyXEL
James Harris is a product director at Zyxel Communications responsible for the service provider division of the business. He has worked in the industry for the past 16 years specialising in internet access and wireless technologies and their respective markets. In his personal time James enjoys mountain biking and spending time with his wife and three children.
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About ZyXEL: ZyXEL Communications Corp., founded in 1989, is the world-class networking company providing innovative and reliable Internet solutions.
Braham Djidjelli
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Hugo Save
Braham Djidjelli is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Hugo Save.
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About Hugo Save: Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
Wolfgang Hauptfleisch
Head of Product of ScoopLoop
Wolfgang grew up in Germany and has worked as a software developer and system administrator for more than 25 years. He studied musicology and logic at the University of Münster. He has worked in R&D on autonomous embedded systems and has a long experience in development and deployment of large web services. He oversees the development of our online services and leads our technical team.
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About ScoopLoop: ScoopLoop is a mobile application that enables its users to discover practical advice and share resources with their neighbors.
Mehram Sumray-Roots
Product Director of Expede IT Solutions Limited
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About Expede IT Solutions Limited: Expede is proud to be the home of ‘yada’ – the next generation of mobile event app allowing a true 360-degree view of all your events
Charles Paumelle
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Microshare
Currently heading Global Alliances and International operations for Point.io (www.Point.io), a leading Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform and application programming interface (API) – designed to help enterprises access and share even their most sensitive information with absolute security. You can reach me at cpaumelle@point.io I also head up the International expansion for Savana, a FIS partner with CRM solutions for banks. With experience both on the corporate and vendor side in selling and implementing Enterprise innovation in the European market for the last two decades I founded EroundIT in 2013. EroundIT is a European distributor for emerging technology such as Point.io and Savana. Prior to that, I started the European arm of Knowledge Rules Inc., a boutique consulting practice specialised on BPMS leader Pegasystems. We established a presence in the UK, France, Spain and Bulgaria. Knowledge Rules was acquired by Accenture in Nov 2010. Specialties: European Business Development, Entreprise Content Management, Marketing Technology products, Financial Services industry, Oil & Gas industry, Computer Hardware industry, Business Process Management (BPM), Pegasystems PRPC
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About Microshare: Microshare® provides Smart Facilities data solutions at scale that bring safety, cost savings and sustainability to the Built World.
Neil Stevens
VP, GM Products & Marketing of Skype
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About Skype: Skype provides a telecommunications platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices.
Jack Rimington
Product Manager of Helipaddy
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About Coposition, Earlymarket, Helipaddy: Helipaddy is a global helicopter landing site database.
Chris Holton
Head of Product of Zappar
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Royyuru Avinash
VP Products of tenCube
Royyuru Avinash is a VP Products at tenCube.
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About tenCube: tenCube enables its users to remotely lock and track down a lost device, retrieve a copy of the data securely, and remotely wipe off data.
Alex Burns
Founder and Head of Product of LuckyTrip
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About LuckyTrip: LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Clement Boutignon
Head of Product of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Ed Rochfort
Chief Product Officer of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Mitzi Lagerweij
Lead Product Owner of The App Business
Mitzi is a Lead Product Owner at TAB. Her work has encompassed the development of new propositions for Visa and TfL and accelerating product delivery for clients including Unilever, Shell and Tesco. Outside of project work, Mitzi initiated Women on the Rise to support the women of TAB as well as the business as a whole to truly embrace inclusivity and diversity as it continues to grow. Starting as a support network facilitating open discussion, it has grown into a company-wide initiative that continues to deliver positive change towards a more diverse TAB.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Richard Klee
Chief Product Officer of MusicQubed
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About MusicQubed: Founded in 2010 in London, MusicQubed is a pioneering digital music business.
Richard Klee
Chief Product Officer of MusicQubed
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About MusicQubed: Founded in 2010 in London, MusicQubed is a pioneering digital music business.
Fehed Said
Product Release Manager of Ekos Global
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About Ekos Global: Ekos Global is the fastest way for retail to go global: any language, any currency, on all devices and in one day.
Dennis Nemerov
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Rizq
Dennis Nemerov is the Co-Founder and Head of Product of Rizq.
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About Rizq: Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
John Oliver
Chief Product Officer of Purple
Director of Product Development of Purple WiFi.
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About Purple: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Kamran Yazdanjoo
CTO and Head of Global Products Development of Spire Payments
Kamran has over 25 years international experience in executive leadership positions within card payments. Before joining Spire, Kamran served on the Board of Directors of Cubic Transportation Systems Limited as Director of Open Payments. Prior to this, Kamran was the Vice President of Global R&D at VeriFone Inc. with responsibility for products and services. In this role he led a global organization across Asia, Europe and North America. He also served on the Board of Directors at VFI Pvt Ltd from 2003 to 2009 and had a lead role in a number of key business transformations at VeriFone. Kamran holds a BSC Honours degree in Mathematics and a post graduate Master of Science degree in Optimization and Computing.w
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About Spire Payments: Spire Payments is one of the fastest growing European POS solutions 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.
Neal Michie
Product Manager of Inside Secure
Neal Michie is Product Manager at Inside Secure for Code Protection; where he oversees Inside Secure’s foundational security products for protecting and hardening software applications. These are used by the largest players across industries that put security front-and-center, including IoT, content streaming, finance and health care. With a background in software engineering, Neal has spent the last decade building secure software solutions. These include the first to be fully certified by both Mastercard and Visa. This experience has led to Neal being an active participant in influential industry forums.
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About Inside Secure: Meontrust provides banking grade security for online identities and payments.
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.
Manish Kumar
Head of Product Management & Delivery of Tyl by NatWest
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About Tyl by NatWest: Tyl by NatWest is payment dealer that collects card bills from the customer.
Matthew Webb
Co-Founder & Product Manager of Olifun
Matthew Webb is Co-Founder & Product Manager at Olifun.
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About Olifun: Olifun is about spreading happiness. The joy of finding the pint of beer or that glass of wine.
Jalpesh Sachania
Character Physics Product Owner of Frostbite
Jalpesh Sachania is currently the Product Owner of Character Physics at Frostbite, dealing with character motion and ragdolls, and working on the close bond between physics and animation. He completed a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics before moving out of academia and into the games industry by joining Electronic Arts in the central technology group, EATech Physics. As part of the physics team, he’s primarily been working on physically animating and controlling characters with ragdolls (character physics), and has been part of the team that brought character physics into FIFA 12 and then Madden 13. Character physics now featured in all of EA Sports’ titles. In 2014, EATech Physics merged with the Frostbite Engine group, which led him to his current role as Product Owner for Character Physics.
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About Frostbite: Frostbite is a game engine that offers developers with software development5 toolsets to build games of any size, genre, or platform.
Andy Buckingham
SVP Product Innovation of Aiir
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About Aiir: The complete platform for audio content creators.
Kate Jachimowicz
Co-founder, Head of Product of Motion Stride
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About Motion Stride: Game studio that creates meaningful mobile games to raise awareness and encourage to participate in a good social movement.
Marc Irvin
Head of Product of Secco
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About Secco: UK based startup creating a mobile social economic network
Jack Symons
Director (Product) of Gamban
Jack Symons is Co-Founder & Director at Gamban.
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About Gamban: RegTech, Mobile, Healthcare
Louise Curtis
Product Manager of Telegraph
Louise Curtis is the product manager at The Telegraph.
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About Telegraph: Telegraph is a social network mobile app.
Henry Taylor
Chief Product Officer of DoshDash
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About DoshDash: DoshDash is a money transfer service provider.
