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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Virtual Reality space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Clemens Wangerin
Chief Executive Officer of vTime Limited
Clemens Wangerin is co-founder and Managing Director of vTime Limited.
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About Baltic Creative, Starship, vTime Limited: vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.
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Martin Higginson
Co-founder & CEO of Immotion Group plc
Martin is recognised as a seasoned Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) entrepreneur, and was awarded North West Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. He has started, sold, and listed numerous businesses. His first business was sold to IPC Magazines in 1982. Following three years with IPC he left to set up his own publishing and telecoms business, this was subsequently sold to Scottish Power plc. During his time with Scottish Power he joined their subsidiary Scottish Telecom, as Managing Director of their Internet and Interactive division, including Internet ISP Demon Internet. Following the flotation of Thus plc (formerly Scottish Telecom) he left to start Monstermob, a company he went on to list on AIM in 2003; growing it to a Top 50 AIM listed business. Monstermob Group plc was sold to Zed Worldwide in 2006. Martin has subsequently founded Cityblock plc, a luxury student accommodation business, and NetPlayTV plc, an interactive TV gaming business where he formed exclusive partnerships with Virgin Media, Channel Five, and ITV. Martin has held Non-Executive Director positions with Legend plc, Cupid plc and CMG Media. Martin is the Founding Partner at M Capital Investment Partners. Formed in 2010, M Capital Investment Partners manages multiple real estate investments across the UK, with a focus on delivering above average returns for investment cash with minimal risk. He also holds the position of Non Executive Director at Digitalbox Group – which was listed in The Sunday Times HISCOX Tech Track 100 in 2015 and 2016, placing it amongst Britain’s top 100 fastest growing private tech companies, and is Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Immotion Group Plc – an award-winning animation and multi-directional motion platforms to deliver mind-blowing immersive VR experiences.
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About Crash Media Group, Digitalbox: Immotion combine award-winning content & multi-directional motion platforms to deliver immersive VR solutions for high-traffic destinations.
Graeme Cox
CEO/CTO of Emteq
Graeme Cox has a degree in artificial intelligence, over 20 years experience in scaling product development teams, and has a track record of building profitable, high-growth technology businesses. He has founded and managed four technology businesses and has served as board member and advisor on several more across the range of software, hardware and services. A project and person manager with 20 years of continuous experience in the management of teams and individuals with project ownership, management and delivery of individual budgets up to $100 million.
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About Emteq: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
Gary Bracey
Co-Founder & CEO of Terra Virtua
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About Terra Virtua: Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive, blockchain-driven VR entertainment Platform.
Sergei Nossoff
CEO & Co-founder of Teslasuit
An international hands-on senior executive, private equity and investment banking professional with over 20 years of experience. Creative, with clear strategic vision, excellent interpersonal, negotiation and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to manage and build winning teams. Committed to the highest levels of professional and personal excellence and credibility. Currently focused on New Technologies (VR/AR/MR) and MedTech sectors.
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About Teslasuit: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
David Hayes
Chief Executive Officer of WaveOptics
David Hayes is the CEO at WaveOptics, a company that designs and manufactures waveguides for AR wearables.
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About WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Chris Adams
Chief Executive Officer of OTHERWORLD
Chris Adams is the Chief Executive Officer at The Dream Corporation.
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About OTHERWORLD: The brick-and-mortar metaverse. An island paradise in the cloud reached through a growing network of multi-sensory immersion pods.
Sam Speaight
CEO of VRJAM
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About Invisceral, VRJAM: VRJAM is a content platform that empowers rightsholders to create and share digital content and virtual events with global audiences
Richard Vincent
CEO & Co-Founder of FundamentalVR
Richard has 20+ years’ experience of building international businesses and has throughout his career sought opportunities for positive market disruption through technological application. It was this desire that led him to co-found FundamentalVR to help address an age-old problem for the medical market; how to create safe, realistic, measurable spaces to learn and develop skills. In his role as CEO Richard is responsible for building a world class team of medical, learning and technologist who together can realise the company’s ambition of creating the world’s first global, haptically enabled, low cost ‘flight simulator for surgeons’.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Steve Cliffe
CEO & President of Ultraleap
Steve has 30 years of experience in the technology industry encompassing significant exposure to global markets, senior management positions and commercial roles. He joined Ultrahaptics from Plessey Semiconductor, where he was Business Development Director. Prior to that role, he was CEO at Provision and Xintronix. He also brings extensive commercial experience to the role from previous appointments. He was VP of Sales and Marketing at eoSemi and Sales Director at Dialog Semiconductor.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Darran Milne
Co-Founder & CEO of VividQ
Dr Darran Milne – Chief Executive Officer, PhD (University of St Andrews & Max Plank Institute) Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist by training, with a PhD in quantum information theory from the University of St Andrews and the Max Plank Institute in Erlangen. Having started his career as a quantitative analyst at a large financial software house, he soon began to direct product development initiatives, and manage client implementation projects as a Scrum Master. As one of the co-founders of VividQ and its CTO, he directed the original research and development efforts of the team that evolved into the currently offered products. In his role as a CEO, he has been responsible for leading and execution of the company’s technology and commercial strategies.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Abesh Thakur
Co-Founder and CEO of Two Big Ears Ltd
Abesh spent two years in a Fortune 500 company as a Mainframe developer, before deciding to quit and pursue a Masters degree in Acoustics and Music Technology from the prestigious University of Edinburgh. Post completion of his degree, he co-founded Two Big Ears, with the goal of creating easy to use and effective audio toolkits, which would help developers create more immersive experience without having to worry about the Maths behind all the audio magic. He takes a deep interest in all things tech and progressive deathcore bands, and utilises his spare time in teaching Maths to Primary and Secondary school kids.
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About Two Big Ears Ltd: Two Big Ears is a Scottish company specialising in creating efficient audio toolkits for game and virtual reality developers.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Bobby Thandi
Founder & CEO of XR Games
Bobby Thandi joined XR Games as Founder and CEO in 2017.
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About XR Games: XR Games is an award-winning game development studio specialising in immersive AR and VR games. We make fun games people love to play and talk about.
Shashank Sripada
Founder and CEO of Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.)
Shashank Sripada is the Founder and CEO of Bubblo and is currently associated with Marcena Capital Ltd as the company’s Vice President. He is also a former Associate at Oak Investment Management Group. He earned hos Bachelor’s Degree in Science (BSc), Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science and had his Master’s Degree in Science, Management at the same school.
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About Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.), Marcena Capital Ltd: Bubblo is an artificial Intelligence based virtual reality discovery app and marketing platform.
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Solomon Rogers
Co-Founder & CEO of REWIND
Founder and CEO of REWIND, the VR content studio behind international award winning work such as the BBC’s Home: A VR Spacewalk, Björk’s NotGet VR, Red Bull Air Race VR and the acclaimed launch title Project Falcon for the FOVE eye-tracking VR headset. Sol is a BAFTA VR Advisory Group Executive, advisor and board member to globally recognised conferences including Autodesk University, FMX.de, Develop:VR, MIPCOM and MIPTV. He is co-founder of the nonprofit VR Together platform, creating VR for Good, and founder and organiser of the UK’s most popular VR meetup, VRLO. Sol was awarded the first “VR Technology & Innovation” award from UK Government Trade & Investment in 2015 and recognised as one of the digital industry’s brightest stars in the BIMA HOT 100 in 2016. Sol was a University Hertfordshire Senior Lecturer for 15 years in Digital Animation, VFX & Emerging Technology, writing four Degrees, two Masters and supervising PHDs. He is a VR evangelist and prominent international keynote speaker, often quoted in press and appearing on TV. www.REWIND.co
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About REWIND: REWIND is an award winning content production agency, working with bleeding edge technology to create unforgettable brand experiences.
Michael Truong
Co-founder and CEO of Memento
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About Memento: Virtual Reality Event Reconstruction
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Oluyemi Jegede
CEO and Co-Founder of Big Pot
Oluyemi is a whole energy systems specialist. His interests cut across the multiple energy vectors and the interactions between energy supply, demand and the wider economy. More importantly, he is an ardent believer in the promise of a thriving Nigeria and his passion has seen him birth the Bigpot initiative.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Duncan McWilliam
Founder & CEO of VitaeVR
Duncan McWilliam is the founder and CEO of VitaeVR and Outpost VFX.
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About VitaeVR: Medical devices for early diagnosis of cognitive disease
Andrew Hawken
Co-Founder and CEO of Mesmerise
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About Mesmerise: Virtual Reality content, gaming and technology
Anna Stoilova
Co-founder & CEO of Dual Good Health
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About Dual Good Health, TIKI: Using virtual reality to train more people how to save lives
Caspar Thykier
Co-Founder, CEO of Zappar
Caspar Thykier is Co-Founder & CEO at Zappar.
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About Veemee, Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Agnis Stelingis
CEO and Founder of EF EVE
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About EF EVE: EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.
Darren Jobling
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of ZeroLight
With over 25 years as a leader in the technology industry, Darren has built two pioneering organisations directly from the North East of England, establishing ZeroLight in 2014. The company has secured landmark deals with Audi, Pagani, JLR and Toyota, providing premium visualisation solutions both in dealership and online. Rated as one of the region’s Most Influential People for 5 years running, Darren is a committed entrepreneur, innovator and curator of technological talent.
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About ZeroLight: ZeroLight is a creator of the world’s most advanced car configurator solution.
Rutger Bruining
Founder & CEO of StoryTerrace
Rutger Bruining is the founder and CEO of Story Terrace. Prior to founding Story Terrace in 2014, Rutger worked as an investment director at Arle Capital Partners for five years. Rutger starterd his career as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2014. In 2003, Rutger graduated from University of Amsterdam where he completed master’s degree in Business & Economics (Finance). He also graduated with honors at Columbia University – Columbia Business School for his MBA in 2008.
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About StoryTerrace: StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.
Alfredo Belfiori
Founder & CEO of Flicktek Ltd
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About BetterSpace, Flicktek Ltd: Gesture control for smartwatches, IoT and VR
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Nicholas Minter-Green
CEO & Founder of Parable Works
An expert in content creation, public relations and integrated marketing, Nicholas was president of Economist Films, steering the team responsible for creating content that reflected the newspaper’s heritage as a world leader in reporting, analysis and investigation. Before that he was managing director at TVC group, building the agency into a leading brand content-communications business and top-10 UK PR agency.
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About Parable Works: A Virtual Reality and Television Studio & Agency.
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
Bilal Itani
CEO of Modular Customer Engagement Technologies
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About Modular Customer Engagement Technologies: Modular Customer Engagement Technologies is a 3D Customer Experience Platform, Create your 3D Online Shop & 3D Product Configurator
Mark Knowles Lee
CEO of Fracture Reality
Mark Knowles Lee the co-founder of Fracture, a digital creative company focused on Mixed Reality. Our goal is to push the boundaries of what is possible on the new Mixed AR platforms. Previously I have setup and run commercially successful games teams and studios, run digital incubation teams and going back further had a successful career in Technical Art and Creative direction. My interests are wide – I’m passionate about Technology, Computer Vision, Real time CGI, AR, VR, Mixed Reality, UX and how they all come together to change our world. I get a kick out of using data to improve design, experience and revenue, from qualitative data, (user experience and testing), through to analysing quantitative data of millions of player interactions. Coordinating between Tech – Creative – Acquisition – Marketing teams has been recent step up for me which I have relished. Solving creative problems, optimising pipelines for both collaborative design and efficient 3d content creation and working in tight sync with the best creatives and engineers is how I like to spend my time when I’m hands on. When its hands off time I love to present, attend talks (on as wide a topic range as I can manage) and meet interesting folk from as many different spheres as possible. London & Brighton are amazing places to do all this right now.
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About Fracture Reality, Origami Blue: Mixed Reality specialists, offering design, production and installation of high quality, innovative experiences on Microsoft Hololens.
Christian Rouffaert
Founder & CEO of Teragence
Christian is the founder of Teragence, a competitive network analytics vendor. Christian has 20 years of telco industry experience acorss Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has worked across fixed and mobile operators such as Vodafone, Virgin Media and Etisalat, as well as equipment vendors such as Ericsson and Huawei. Christian founded Teragence with the objective of elevating carriers’ insight into their own and their competitors’ end-to-end network performance.
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About Teragence: Teragence delivers competitive network analytics as a service. We benchmark any mobile network, anywhere, any time – in real time
Rob Eastham
Founder and CEO of Reality Zero One
Rob Eastham serves as Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Reality Zero One.
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About Reality Zero One: Reality Zero One’s mission is to design and create a world class end-to-end reality capture and digital reality delivery platform.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Founder / CEO of Serious DAtum
Yasmine Boudiaf makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a tool to address subtle forms of behaviour and biases which can effect the way another person feels. Her main topics of interest are implicit biases, cross- cultural understanding and innovation. With a background in biomedical science and documentary film, she enjoys inter-disciplinary collaboration as a way to solve problems. She produces experiences and consults via her company Serious Datum Ltd.
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About Serious DAtum: Serious DAtum makes behaviour changing virtual reality experiences.
Guido Meardi
CEO & Co-founder of V-Nova
Former senior Partner at McKinsey, where he was head of the Organization and Operations Practices of the Mediterranean Complex, Guido has a breadth of business experience and access to senior executives in a variety of industries and geographies, with well-established experience in telecoms, technology, healthcare, insurance, aerospace and defence. He led transformational projects in all continents, and was instrumental in setting up some of McKinsey’s own innovation-related business building activities. Guido is also a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, with many previous business ventures and half a dozen exits. Having retained his engineering expertise, he contributed to the foundational development work for PERSEUS of his co-founder Luca Rossato and is joint inventor of a number of essential aspects of the technology as well as of several of its latest developments, with over 200 patents co-authored and filed. Guido holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Siebel scholar, and a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he was an Intel scholar, and University of Texas at Austin.
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Nick Walter
CEO of Vortic
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About Vortic: Vortic develops digital solutions to showcase art pieces through virtual and augmented reality.
Sarah Ticho
Founder and CEO of Hatsumi
Sarah has spent her career working across the interdisciplinary arts, academia, healthcare and technology as a producer, curator, artist and researcher. Sarah has worked with organisations including the NHS, Immerse UK, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, YouTube VR Creators Lab, Lighthouse Arts, The School of Life, TEDxSydney and The Big Anxiety Festival. She has undertaken academic research with The University of New South Wales, Australia and Stanford University, California before founding Hatsumi in February 2018.
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About Hatsumi: Hatsumi develop and curate immersive experiences across arts, health and virtual reality technology.
Revannth N Murugesan
CEO of Antonym
A visionary mobility entrepreneur, investor, speaker, engineer, former motorsport racer, and an ardent environmentalist. Currently heading an award-winning automotive tech company that is developing electric self-driving vehicles.
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About Antonym: Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.
Mark Towner
Founder and CEO of Feel Three
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About Feel Three: Affordable, modular motion simulator for Virtual Reality
Günter Dahm
CEO of Virtalis
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About Virtalis: Virtalis is a Virtual Reality (VR), simulation technology and advanced visualisation company.
Scott Marshall
Founder & CEO of Bamsound VR
Scott Marshall is CEO / Founder and Sound Lead at Bamsound, an immersive audio agency specialising in sound for virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 360 productions. With over 12 years experience, their clients include Universal, Nikon, NME, BBC, Channel 4, Sky, UKTV, Saatchi & Saatchi and many others. Having worked for various facilities and freelanced in many post houses and production companies, Scott spent his career working across many genres including broadcast, factual, comedy, drama, and commercials, but has now found himself pushing audio boundaries in these new and exciting mediums. To quote Scott “With the rise in ‘new’ immersive formats, such as VR and AR, we are seeing (and hearing) how much more important it is to create a truly ‘3D’ audio landscape for productions and how critical this is in making these experiences feel real and believable.
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About Bamsound VR: Bamsound VR Immersive Audio Agency for Virtual Reality Audio 360 ExP.
Benjamin Woolf
Chief Executive Officer of Gameway
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About Gameway: Gameway is the mobile gaming experience of the future.
Conrad Wolfram
Chief Executive Officer of Wolfram Research
Conrad Wolfram is a mathematician, technologist, and entrepreneur. He founded the European [Wolfram Research](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wolfram-research) in 1991 and works as its CEO. He launched computerbasedmath.org in 2010. Since 1997, Wolfram has also been a strategic director of the worldwide group, where he initiates and directs the business, marketing, design, and a variety of strategic technical projects, including the CDF Player concept to webMathematica, which underlies Wolfram|Alpha to conceptualizing wolfram.com. Conrad Wolfram has an MA from Cambridge University, U.K., where he read physics and mathematics.
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About ComputerBasedMath.org, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research, Wolfram Research: Wolfram Research is a computer, web, and cloud software company that offers solutions for sectors such as education, R&D, and sciences.
Sarat Pediredla
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of hedgehog lab
Sarat Pediredla is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Hedgehog lab.
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About hedgehog lab: hedgehog lab is a consultancy firm that designs and builds business software.
Ed Mason
Founder, CEO of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Paul Putman
Chief Executive Officer of Talkout
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About Talkout: Talkout provides cutting-edge software, a virtual reality platform, and training to promote workplace wellness.
Mark Cundle
Founder and CEO of Tammeka
Mark has 15 years experience of defining and launching disruptive software in the technology sector. A seasoned marketing professional, Mark founded Tammeka to realise a life long dream of combining lead edge tech with gaming.
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About Tammeka: VR games development studio based in Ascot, UK
Samantha Kingston
Co-Founder & CEO of Virtual Umbrella
Samantha Kingston is the award-winning Client Director of Virtual Umbrella – a marketing and PR specialist working only in the Virtual Reality industry. Virtual Umbrella has been active in the industry for the past two years working with companies such as Leo Burnett, Nokia, AT&T, Bam Nuttall, Uber, Lipton Ice Tea, as well as a variety of agencies and game companies. Samantha is a proactive voice within the VR community and an advocate for Women in Tech. She is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace.
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About Virtual Umbrella: Virtual Umbrella The world’s first marketing agency for VR companies and brands. We also run awesome VR events in UK.
Samantha Kingston
Co-Founder & CEO of Virtual Umbrella
Samantha Kingston is the award-winning Client Director of Virtual Umbrella – a marketing and PR specialist working only in the Virtual Reality industry. Virtual Umbrella has been active in the industry for the past two years working with companies such as Leo Burnett, Nokia, AT&T, Bam Nuttall, Uber, Lipton Ice Tea, as well as a variety of agencies and game companies. Samantha is a proactive voice within the VR community and an advocate for Women in Tech. She is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace.
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About Virtual Umbrella: Virtual Umbrella The world’s first marketing agency for VR companies and brands. We also run awesome VR events in UK.
Jonathan Barrowman
Founder & CEO of Gorilla In The Room
Jonathan runs two companies which specialise in virtual, mixed and augmented reality. Gorilla In The Room applies cognitive science to transform consumer research and healthcare, whilst Bigman applies its heritage in CGI and 3D technology to brands in advertising and entertainment. 18 years ago, Jonathan was curious about the dark art of marketing and began his career as a media planner buyer in London. He was Campaign magazine’s Top 10 Media Buyer three years in a row and subsequently held roles on both the agency and tech side as Head of Mobile, Global Head of Digital Strategy, Head of Client Services and Commercial Director. Jonathan has worked at a UK and international level with Nestlé, P&G, Telefonica, PepsiCo, Department of Health, General Motors, Unilever and France Telecom as well as spoken at events including Ad:Tech, Wearable Technology Show and World Federation of Advertisers.
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About Gorilla In The Room: Unlock Knowledge with Visual Technology.
Jonathan Lloyd
Co-founder & CEO of CGHero
My mission and passion for the past decade has been to help talented CG artists market and sell their amazing work to companies around the world.
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Vin Sumner
CEO of Clicks and Links
Vin founded and is the CEO of Clicks and Links Ltd. Vin is responsible for the company’s development into socially-aware virtual world/serious games business that it is today. Vin recently led work with many European Cities, through Eurocities and the European Commission, on how the innovative use of ICT can help reduce a City’s carbon footprint. This has resulted in more than 40 European Cities adopting the Green Digital Charter. Vin’s other areas of interest include Green ICT, innovation and social technologies. In the context of the current Future Cities agenda, he is exploring how games technology might be applied to help solve city challenges and how to bring SME talent together through new means of networking across national boundaries.
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About Clicks and Links: Clicks and Links specialises in immersive technology.
Nizar Romdan
CEO & Co-founder of Virtual Arts Ltd.
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About Virtual Arts Ltd.: We are building a leading state of the art Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Technology and interactive content company.
Ryan Genz
CEO of CuteCircuit
Ryan Genz is a CEO at CuteCircuit.
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About CuteCircuit: A pioneer in the field of wearable technology, design and manufacture of 3D audio products, sensor enhanced apparel, illumination, haptics.
Adam Vahed
Owner / CEO of Apache
Adam Vahed is a Founder at Apache.
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About Apache: We craft compelling interactive experiences. You get meaningful brand engagement.
Corrina McCann
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Infinite Mixed Reality
Corrina McCann is the creative director of Infinite Mixed Reality.
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About Infinite Mixed Reality, Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Roderick Kennedy
CEO of Simul
Entrepreneur, technical founder of Simul, inventor of SimulCaster. DPhil in Plasma Physics (University of Oxford).
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About Simul: Simul is dedicated to applying the principles of physics to the virtual world.
Joe Ryan
CEO and Founder of VRGO
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About VRGO: VRGO is a connected chair that provides hands free movement within VR.
Seth Jackson
CEO of Landmrk
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About Landmrk, Strange Thoughts: Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.
Bartek Wlodarczyk
Chief Executive Officer & President of SKY ENGINE
Bartek Włodarczyk is the Chief Executive Officer & President at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
Stephen Walsh
CEO and Co-Founder of Geekzonia
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About Geekzonia: A social, entertainment and retail space, built to be experienced entirely in virtual reality.
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO of Visualise
Henry Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Visualise, an award-winning virtual reality production studio founded in 2012. A pioneer in the VR industry since 2006, Henry is regularly invited to speak at international events and is a regular contributor for national newspapers, TV, advertising, marketing and trade journals. Over the past 4 years Visualise has produced over 60 VR experiences for clients including Thomas Cook, BBC, Financial Times, Audi, Oakley, Samsung, Wimbledon, Doctors without Borders, The Economist, O2 and many more.
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About Visualise: VISUALISE are a full service Virtual Reality production agency, creating world class VR experiences and films.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Riley Riley
Chief Executive Officer of Glorious Labs
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About Glorious Labs: Glorious Labs increases consumer access to 360° media through the world’s first SocialVR cameras.
