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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Personal Health space. If you think a Founder 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.
Valentina Milanova
Founder and CEO of Daye
Valentina previously worked with Techstars as a Business Development Associate. She is currently looking after the AI portfolio at Founders Factory – launching 200 businesses in the next five years! Before entering the startup and VC worlds, Valentina studied law and worked as a technology correspondent for large international publications.
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About Daye: Daye creates category-defining products and services that set a new standard for medical research and scientific innovation.
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George Goldsmith
Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways
George is a serial entrepreneur with significant experience in pharmaceutical regulation. George’s early training and experience was a multi-disciplinary blending of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology and computer science.His first company, The Human Interface Group, was a pioneer in collaborative software and acquired by Lotus Development. George led the Lotus Institute and developed software and services to support high-performance, distributed teamwork. George then created TomorrowLab, which provided strategic guidance to internet businesses in the late 1990s. At the same time, he became a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company’s leadership, and eventually joined McKinsey as CEO of TomorrowLab@McKinsey. Subsequently, as a member of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) and its International Board of Directors, George founded YPO Networks. In 2002, George founded Tapestry Networks, an organisation committed to improving leadership performance and governance effectiveness in regulated sectors. He still serves as Tapestry Networks’ Non-Executive Chairman. George also serves on the board of directors for AnaBios, a company redefining drug discovery. He and his wife, Ekaterina Malievskaia MD, live in London.
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About COMPASS Pathways: Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Ekaterina Malievskaia
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways
Ekaterina received her medical degree from St Petersburg Medical Academy in St Petersburg, Russia. After her Internal Medicine residency training, she completed an Environmental Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and received her MSc in Public Health from New York University Medical School. She worked in private practice, academic medicine and public health for more than 15 years in the greater New York area. She was a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as a Research Professor at City University of New York. After moving to London in 2011, Ekaterina worked in global health and medical philanthropy, focusing on improving outcomes in maternal and child health. She founded COMPASS Pathways with her husband George Goldsmith in 2016, having experienced at first hand the challenges in accessing evidence-based and effective mental health care for a family member.
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About COMPASS Pathways: Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Peter Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of Humanity
Peter Ward is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Humanity.
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About Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Matt McCambridge
Co-Founder and CEO of Eden Health
Matt McCambridge is the Co-Founder and CEO at Eden Health.
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About Eden Health: Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers seeking to elevate the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Oleg Fomenko
Co-Founder of Sweatcoin
Oleg Fomenko is an entrepreneur and advisor with experience in consumer tech, mobile music, telecoms and consumer goods. He is known for his ability to generate and polish a consumer business idea into an attractive proposition and to lead its implementation through securing funding, building teams and boards as well as negotiating groundbreaking commercial deals and partnerships. Oleg is the co-founder of Sweatcoin, a free smartphone app that enables users to turn movement into currency. It does so by monitoring the steps you take when you walk in order to reward you with ‘coins’ that you can then spend on real life goods, service and experiences, available through the Sweatcoin platform. Oleg was also the CEO and Founder of Bloom.fm from 2008-2014. Bloom.fm was an award-winning mobile music streaming service that attracted 1.2m registered users in the UK by offering the world’s’ first £1 per month subscription and outstanding user experience. Oleg built it from an initial idea to £16M funding raise, selected an amazing team, attracted a high-profile advisory board, and negotiated ground-breaking music licensing deals within conservative and creative budget.
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About mflow, Sweatcoin: Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Anton Derlyatka
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Sweatcoin
Anton is an entrepreneur and investor in Fitness, Wearable and Talent technology verticals
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About Entelo, Good&Co, RolePoint, SmartUp.io, Sweatcoin, Talent Equity Ventures (TEqV): Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Matteo Berlucchi
CEO & Co-Founder of Healthily by Your.MD
Matteo’s digital career spans 20 years, during which he has conceived, built and launched several successful companies and services both online and on mobile. Most recently, Matteo was Chief Digital Officer at Northern & Shell, the largest independent media company in the UK,where he grew traffic and revenues 4-fold in just 12 months. Matteo was also the founder and CEO of aNobii, the ebook platform funded by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins which was acquired by Sainsbury’s in 2012. Matteo founded Livestation, the leading service for live TV news online and the first company in the world to stream live TV on iPhones. Livestation is also the winner of the Guardian Digital Innovation Award 2008. Prior to this, Matteo was CEO and co-founder of Skinkers, a software company, which defined the market for desktop widgets and the winner of several international innovation awards in the digital space. Matteo started his career by launching the first online property system in Europe in 1995.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Vini Italiani: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Bunny Ghatrora
Co-Founder of Blume
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About Blume: Blume is the first direct to consumer brand focused on puberty, from trustworthy education, to safe & effective self care products.
Lorena Puica
CEO & Founder of SYD
Born in Romania to father quantum physicist and mother entrepreneur, Lorena has achieved 5 degrees in mathematics, economics and finance, published a book on Microfinance as a tool for empowering individuals towards Sustainable Growth, created a decade-long career in strategy and investment management with global institutions working with portfolios of over £200billion while also being a extreme athlete with 2 world record events. Following 7 years of personal health challenges Lorena founded iamYiam.com as a Preventive Precision Health platform poised to leverage research, ML technology and creativity to empower 1bn people to take charge of their health everyday and lifelong. Speaker at World Government Summit ( https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org ) , Global Wellness Forum ( https://www.globalwellnesssummit.com ) , UK Government Missions Globally , etc .
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About SYD: Predictive population analytics for enterprise & AI virtual companion for employees
Charles Wells
Founder & CEO of HelloSelf
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About Braintech, HelloSelf: HelloSelf is a health and wellness platform that provides its users with digital access to therapists.
Soumyadip Rakshit
Co-Founder & CEO of MysteryVibe
Soumyadip is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of sex-tech company MysteryVibe . His mission is to apply Intelligence of Things to the world of Pleasure and create and immersive experience to transform bedrooms into sensual sanctuaries. The mission is gaining pace. MysteryVibe won the consumer product design category at the Design Week awards, beating the Apple Watch. Last year, it closed a funding round worth $1.5 million (£1.1 million) bringing the total raised by the company to over $4 million in three years and valuing it at $13 million. The sex-tech market, which is estimated to be worth $15 billion, has so far had very little outside investment. Rakshit says: “There’s huge potential, and that’s helped investors get over their initial reservations about the sector.” He still loves the moment at tech conferences when he starts talking about sex and pleasure and people’s expressions turn from smiles and giggles to curiosity and seriousness.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
Robert Weekly
Co-Founder & CTO of MysteryVibe
Robert Weekly Co-Founder & CTO at MysteryVibe.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
Hamish Grierson
CEO & Co-Founder of Thriva
Hamish Grierson is the CEO and co-founder of Thriva.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Tom Livesey
Co-Founder & CTO of Thriva
Tom Livesey is the CTO and co-founder of Thriva. Prior to co-founding Thriva, Tom served as a contract software engineer at Newspaper Club and as a CTO at Droplet Online Limited.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Eliot Brooks
Co-Founder & COO of Thriva
Eliot Brooks is Co-founder and COO at Thriva. Prior to this, he perforemed various roles at Tandem Bank and was once a manager at Travelex. He bears a degree in economics from University of Oxford.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Adam Bataineh
Co-Founder of Span
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About Span: Span is a fitness and health tracker app that offers data-driven support for health and fitness.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Rachael Corson
Co-Founder and CEO of Afrocenchix
Rachael Corson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Afrocenchix.
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About Afrocenchix, Afrocenchix: Afrocenchix formulates, manufactures and sells safe, effective products for Afro & curly hair.
Karen Harwood
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Victoria Tydeman
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Luke Harries
Co-Founder of Fella
Previously a software engineer at leading HealthTech startups and an AI engineer at Microsoft Research. Studied Medicine at Cambridge University and Computer Science at UCL.
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About Fella: Fella operates as a telemedicine clinic for men with obesity.
Nicholas Begley
Co-Founder of PSYT
Nick read physics at University College London, then qualified as an actuary and worked in the City of London for 8 years before retraining in psychology. He specialised in the neuroscience of mindfulness at UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry, and helped start up mindfulness company Headspace as Head of Research before founding PSYT.
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About PSYT: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Alex Hooi
Chief Medical Officer / Founder of Callaly
Inventor of the Tampliner®, and a co-founder at Callaly.He is also an NHS Gynaecologist, Consultant Specialist and Clinical Director of the Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
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About Callaly: Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
Thang Vo-Ta
CEO & Co-Founder of Callaly
Co-founder & CEO at Callaly.Thang is a graduate of MIT and started his career in Goldman Sachs in NYC & London.
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About Callaly: Callaly is a period care company that develops and manufactures innovative feminine care products.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Eve Tamraz Najjar
Co Founder and Chief Scientist of Sensio Air
Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where she wrote a thesis on the neuronal interactions during the development of the cranial circuits, Eve also has a scientific background in Toxicology, Health and Environment. Her interest in cutting edge technology led her to specialize in Synthetic Biology, an emerging research area at the convergence of advances in chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering. She is now an Allergy UK ambassador and focuses all of her time on bringing high-end laboratory equipment to the end users in order to simplify allergy and asthma prevention.
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About Sensio Air: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Samantha Payne
Co Founder & COO of Open Bionics
Samantha Payne is the co founder of Open Bionics; a robotics company developing assistive devices that enhance the human body. The company has won multiple awards for Engineering and Innovation including two British Engineering Excellence Awards and the James Dyson award for innovative design. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney to children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. They were the first company to bring affordable multi-grip bionic hands to the National Health Service in the UK.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Clare Cooper
Founder and Vice President of Storm3
Clare Cooper is the Founder and Vice President at Storm3.
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About Storm3: Storm3 are a global HealthTech talent marketplace, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
Tim Joslyn
Co-Founder of Zryse
He has created and delivered the initial implementation of technology strategies for WorldPay in the UK, Nets in Scandinavia, ICBPI in Italy and Concardis in Germany. Prior to this, Tim founded, built and exited a multi-million pound technology advisory company, held key strategic technology roles in banking and finance, including VocaLink and Old Mutual, and worked as part of Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory practice.
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About Jump Twenty Four, Pollinate, The Development Cloud, Zryse: Zryse assists organizations in prioritizing employee well-being through actionable insights.
Ross Arnott
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Asensei
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About Asensei: The easiest way to add technique coaching and correction to sport and fitness products.
Markus Ahlberg
Founder of Feelmo
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About Feelmo: Take control of your emotional wellbeing. Feelmo provides you with the guidance and tools you need to manage your mental health.
Pete Petrondas
Founder and CEO of Keia Ltd
Pete Petrondas is the founder and chief executive officer at Keia.
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About Keia Ltd: Keia Ltd is a new destination for wellbeing; from hair & beauty to holistic therapies.
Neel Patel
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ZiO Health
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About ZiO Health: ZiO Health has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, bringing lab testing to the point of use.
Nicholas Lory
Co-Founder of Many
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About Many: Modern healthcare for men. On hand.
Anita Lee
Founder of IVF Insight
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About IVF Insight: IVF Insight creates a platform of trusted in-vitro fertilization locations.
Frank Beechinor
Co-Founder of Cadence Performance
Frank Beechinor is the CEO at SmartSpace Software Plc.
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About Cadence Performance, SmartSpace Software: Cadence Performance London’s Hub for your Cycling needs – Bike Fits, Coaching, Fitness Testing, Wattbike.
Josif Grace
Founder & CEO of Legado
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About Legado: Securely and easily organise, store and share your most important documents, files, wishes and memories.
Neil Atherton
Co-Founder & COO of Nudjed
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About Nudjed: Health Challenges and Motivation
Jo Halliday
Founder, CEO of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Elizabeth Fairley
Founder, COO of Talking Medicines
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About EFB Services, Mironid, Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Scott Crae
Founder of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Adam Barker
CEO + Co-Founder of MagnaPass
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About MagnaPass: MagnaPass is a fitness eco-system, allowing Partners (studios/freelancers) ways to gain new clients & manage their business.
Sean Downey
COO + Co-Founder of MagnaPass
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About MagnaPass: MagnaPass is a fitness eco-system, allowing Partners (studios/freelancers) ways to gain new clients & manage their business.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
Sebastien Vanderlinden
Co-Founder & CEO of Yumi
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About Yumi: Yumi creates and produces chewable vitamins and supplements.
David Suter
Co Founder of Proof Work
David is a Digital Product Innovator creating the most usable and elegant tech for enterprise clients, agencies and funded startups. Coining the term “the creative technologist”. David for the past 15 years has been deploying digital tech and creative search marketing aimed at specifically increasing conversions and streamlining a business process. Using teams of mobile and web developers, expert digital marketers, technologies and superior brand strategist he has won many award and judged some of the worlds biggest brand campaigns. Facts: 1. 6 week tech and campaign resulted in 1 billion page views as verified by Red Hat Tech for LedZeppelin. 750,000 emails signed up and enjoyed by Universal and Harvey Goldsmith. 2. Official Harley Davidson, Official XFactor, Official Olympics London2012 shop 3. Judge for DMA (Direct Marketing Association) 4. 7 times Interactive Media Award winner
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About Proof Work: Proof Work decentralizes healthcare data on the blockchain.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Christopher Stanley
Co-Founder of Circular1 Health
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About Circular1 Health: Circular1 Health provides data testing services to operational and close contact companies.
Shiti Rastogi Manghani
Co-Founder of Breathe Happy
Shiti Rastogi Manghani is the Co-Founder at Breathe Happy.
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About Breathe Happy: Breathe Happy is a health, wellness, and fitness company that specializes in providing online yoga classes.
Cebuan Rochette
Founder of BrainPowerSphere
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About BrainPowerSphere, EH&Sensibility: BrainPowerSphere provides neuroscience topics and an e-comm affiliate marketing hub.
Mitra Najafi
CEO & Founder of Pplus Skin Care
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About Pplus Skin Care: Innovative and disruptive skin-care products based on biotech.
Lara Solomon
Co-Founder of Hoopsy
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About Hoopsy: Hoopsy operates an online platform that shares stories and advice on pregnancy.
Farah Kabir
Co-Founder of HANX
Farah Kabir is the Co-Founder of HANX.
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About HANX: Serving female-founded intimate wellness products in our own inimitable way.
Sarah Welsh
Co-Founder of HANX
Sarah Welsh is the Co-Founder of HANX.
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About HANX: Serving female-founded intimate wellness products in our own inimitable way.
Martin Schoel
Founder of ChooseHelp
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About ChooseHelp: ChooseHelp provides private addiction treatment through a network of treatment centers and drug rehabilitation centers.
Matt Lo
Founder of The Outrivals Group
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About The Outrivals Group: The Outrivals Group is a fitness studio that offers personal and small-group training, as well as fitness classes.
Tim Aston
Founder and Director of emoquo
Tim Aston is Founder & Product Director at emoquo.
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About emoquo: Emoquo is an award winning digital coaching app and real-time people analytics platform for everyone at work.
Sean Pollock
Founder & COO of Opus Medical
Doctor Sean Pollock researched and developed the Breathe Well technology over 5 years for his Masters and PhD in medical physics, transitioning into a full time role in the company after the completion of his PhD.
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About Opus Medical: Opus Medical designs and manufactures medical devices for use in motion management during cancer treatment.
Mikko Petäjä
Founder and CEO of Yogaia
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About Yogaia: Yogaia is the first live, interactive online yoga studio in the world. With Yogaia, the studio is where you are.
Serena Oppenheim
Founder of Good Zing
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About Good Zing: Good Zing Works the simple free way to find the best health tips.
Deborah Wake
Founder/CEO of My Diabetes My Way
Dr. Deborah Wake (DW) (CEO/Co-Founder MyWay Digital Health, Senior Clinical Lecturer (University of Dundee), NHS Diabetes Consultant, (MBChB, BSc, Ph.D., Clin Ed Dip)) has a unique mix of business, clinical, educational and academic skills. She has a national clinical/ academic reputation for technology, informatics and automated support for diabetes care. She is a national clinical lead for internationally award-winning and cost-saving MyDiabetesMyWay offering online data access and education to all patients in Scotland with diabetes (>30,000 registrants). In 2017, she co-founded the MyWay Digital Health company to commercialize MyDiabetesMyWay outwith Scotland. She has won several business/entrepreneurship awards including; Scottish EDGE, Bio Dundee, Venture and was a top 3 finalist in AccelerateHER, and Women Ahead. Dr. Wake graduated MBChB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and subsequently gained a Ph.D. and Diploma in Medical Education. She is passionate about technology and education delivery. She has been a Principle Investigator for multiple research projects (>£2million funding, >40 publications)). 2010-2017, she was program director/ clinical lead for Kuwait Scotland e-Health Innovation Network, delivering formal postgraduate education to over 300 Kuwait diabetes health care professions. Dr. Wake has also developed and delivered a number of free Diabetes MOOCs (massive online courses) educating over 20,000 participants to date, and online structured education for patients. Dr. Wake was a Diabetes UK clinical champion (2015-17) and has an active role in public health communication. She contributes regularly to the radio, was a resident on-screen doctor for STVs flagship show ‘The Hour’ and Health Columnist for The Scotsman newspaper for many years. She developed the first medical podcast series in the UK (Dr. Pods Healthcast) in 2005. Her focus now is on driving MyWay Digital Health company to international success, transforming diabetes care.
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About My Diabetes My Way, MyWay Digital Health: My Diabetes My Way is an NHS Scotland interactive diabetes website to help support people who have diabetes and their family and friends.
Jay Li
Co-Founder & CTO of Lysa Health
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About Lysa Health: Smart and human, Lysa offers a new approach to diet management and nutrition.
