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 CEO’ operating in the Media and Entertainment 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.
Nico Perez
Co-founder & CEO of Mixcloud
Nico Perez is a co-founder of Mixcloud.com He graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters in Engineering and has worked for multinational companies in both the green tech and travel sectors before setting up Mixcloud in the summer of 2008. With a background in freelance webdesign, he has a wide range of client experience working with various small and medium size organisations. He has a passion for great design and a strong understanding of information architecture and user experience.
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About Mixcloud: Mixcloud is an online long-form audio platform providing content such as radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes.
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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.
Tony Hall
Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of BBC
Tony Hall is the 16th Director-General of the BBC. The Director-General is the Chief Executive Officer of the BBC, its Editor-in-Chief and chairs the BBC’s Executive and Management Boards. The Director-General is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC, with responsibility for a significant global workforce and the Corporation’s services across television, radio and online. Tony Hall – Lord Hall of Birkenhead – was appointed Director-General of the BBC on 22 November 2012. He is the 16th Director-General of the BBC. Prior to this, Tony was Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House from April 2001 until April 2013. He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1973 and during a 28 year career at the Corporation he held roles including Senior Producer at World at One, Assistant Editor of the Nine O’Clock News, Output Editor for Newsnight, culminating as Chief Executive of BBC News from 1996 to 2001. While at the BBC he launched Radio 5 live, BBC News 24, BBC News Online and BBC Parliament. He was Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 Television and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. He is passionate about education and skills within the cultural industries. He was the founder Chair of Creative & Cultural Skills and Chairman of the Musical and Dance Scheme.He spearheaded the development of the new High House Production Park in Thurrock, Essex. He has been Chair of Stratford East Theatre, and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Journalism at City University, a member of the Regeneration Through Heritage Steering Group, a board member of Race for Opportunity, a former non-executive director of HM Customs and Excise and was a member of the Council for Brunel University. In 2009 he was asked by the Government and the Mayor of London to set up and chair a board to direct the Cultural Olympiad and also joined the board of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. He was appointed a CBE in 2005 and in 2010 was created a life peer with the title Baron Hall of Birkenhead. He sits on the Crossbenches in the House of Lords.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Tim Davie
CEO & Director-General of BBC
Before he took up the role of CEO BBC Worldwide and Director, Global, Tim Davie was made Acting Director-General following the resignation of George Entwistle on 10 November 2012. Prior to this Tim was Director of BBC Audio & Music (now known as Radio). He had overall responsibility for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and the BBC digital-only stations 6 Music, 1Xtra, Radio 4 Extra (formerly Radio 7) and the Asian Network. He also oversaw the three BBC orchestras in England, the BBC Singers and the BBC Proms. Classical Music & Performance Television, Television Music Entertainment, Factual Radio and Radio Drama production are all within his remit, under the A&M Production department. Tim was appointed to the role of Director, Audio & Music on 1 September 2008. Previously he was Director of the BBC’s Marketing, Communications & Audiences division from April 2005 and before that Vice President, Marketing and Franchise, PepsiCo Europe. He read English at Cambridge University and from there joined Procter and Gamble’s marketing department, becoming a Brand Manager in 1991. He is a trustee of BBC Children in Need, Board member of RAJAR and Board member of DRUK. Tim is married with three young sons.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Julio Bruno
CEO of Time Out Group plc
Julio Bruno is a global leader with a track record in starting, scaling, and improving the profitability, performance, and value of companies. Julio currently serves Time Out Group plc as CEO.
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About Time Out Group plc: Time Out is a leading global media and entertainment business
Wil Stephens
Founder, CEO of Fusebox Games
Wil is a Welsh entrepreneur with extensive experience of building transformational businesses in media and interactive entertainment. Wil is currently CEO of Fusebox Games, an interactive entertainment company he co-founded in 2016 that develops and publishes mobile games based on hit TV shows. Wil founded his first business aged 23 and as CEO of Cube TV, led the company to win BAFTAs and Broadcast Digital Awards for their ground-breaking interactive and TV formats. After growing Cube TV to offices in Cardiff and London, he joined the leadership team at New York based video streaming company Boxee to build out their international business, later acquired by Samsung. Wil is an investor in the media and interactive entertainment industry through his holding company, Closs Holdings.
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About Cube Interactive, Fusebox Games: Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.
Nick Varney
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Merlin Entertainments
Nick has over 24 years’ experience in the visitor attractions industry and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Merlin Entertainments in 1999. He was appointed a Director of the Company on 20 October 2013. Nick started his career in fmcg marketing, first with Rowntree and then with Reckitt Colman. He went on to hold senior positions within The Tussauds Group (Pearson PLC), including Marketing Director of Alton Towers and Head of Group Marketing, before becoming Managing Director of Vardon Attractions and a main board director of Vardon plc. In 1999 Nick led the management buyout of Vardon Attractions to form Merlin Entertainments and, in 2005, initiated the process which led to its acquisition by Blackstone.
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About Merlin Entertainments: Merlin Entertainments is the largest European entertainments company operating in Europe.
Jonathan Curley
Founder & CEO of FurShows
Velivian Fesothe is my artist/furry name, a persona I developed through Second Life to express aspects of who I am.
I started my Tech journey slightly before the Commodore 64 days and surfed the internet back when dial up modems were released just before 56k kbit/s, one of my memories is sitting with my now deceased father where he tried
to teach me to code on the Commodore to animate a hot air balloon or just a balloon to move across the screen.
When I was ready to leave school I was asked what I wanted to do for work at my first school careers interview, I asked if I could work with satellites or in the semiconductor industries, manufacturing microchips/CPUs etc as I’d been intrigued, impressed, and inspired by watching Intel Technicians on TV working in clean rooms. Alas such opportunities we’re out of reach in my town but I’ve never forgotten what I dreamed of and it will always motivate me to learn more.
This is likely why I joke I have a tech/laboratory trolley addiction as I enjoy daily surfing products to see what cool looking items come up.
Around 2002 or so I started an ISIT Course and I’ve been moving in multiple directions over the years picking up skills but not certifications, I’m actively looking to finalise my skillset and collect certifications to prove I’m capable which I hope will lead to the opening up of further opportunities to learn and work in the Tech/3D industries, or will help me with my own projects or opportunities I create myself through my own businesses.
My journey into 3D started when I joined Second Life in 2006 where I started modelling using primitives and became a registered mentor, I then went on to design sims/virtual environment’s for DAZ3D in an effort to develop/transition them into a high-end University, Shopping mall, and Welcome Hub when mesh was added to the service, I then moved away to Open simulator to develop DAZLife.
Around 2016 I was trained as a teacher/trainer, part of a 3d printed motorsport program (The Blair Project) after which I started 3d printing on the Ultimaker 2+ for a none profit social enterprise 3d teaching company I founded in 2016 called FossaLab Technologies, where I helped children get started with 3D using Tinker cad and trained adults in Fusion 360 and Hexagon.
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About FurShows, Glow Raiser, Snack Ferret Studio, The Furry Party: FurShows is a cultural archive and video hosting site for the furry fandom and anthropomorphic fans that aspires to be a streaming service.
Oliver Reason
CEO of Giggl
Oliver Reason is the CEO of Giggl, revolutionizing online interaction. Oliver started programming at a very young age, and earning money at 11. He is now building on his own company as well as consulting others.
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About Giggl: Watch and browse together with your friends and teams. Your new portal into the internet.
Sekip Can Gokalp
CEO & Co-Founder of Coda Platform
Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp’s previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.
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About Coda Platform: Coda Platform is a publishing platform to enable free-to-play and casual mobile games to go to market.
Vashi Dominguez
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Vashi
Visionary entrepreneur with strong background on branding and e-commerce. Vashi Dominguez founded Vashi in 2007 with the goal of making fine jewellery accessible for all. Previously he ran an International diamond wholesale company with clients in 4 continents.
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About Vashi: Vashi is a fine jewellery brand that offers a genuinely unique, disruptive, and omni-channel retail experience.
Jonny Caplan
CEO, Co-founder & Executive Producer of Tech Talk Media
Jonny Caplan is a CEO, Co-founder & Executive Producer at Tech Talk Media.
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About Tech Talk Media: Media and Entertainment
Florian Stronk
Co-Founder & CEO of Magmatic Games
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About Koyoki, Magmatic Games: Magmatic Games provides expertise in developing online games for entertainment.
Rene Rechtman
CEO of Moonbug
René Rechtman has been a successful part of the media, entertainment and tech environment since 1998 both as an entrepreneur and investor. René has completed three significant exits. Most recently, selling Maker Studios to The Walt Disney Company, prior Goviral to AOL and in 2005 leading Tradedoubler to IPO. René has been listed in Wired Europe’s Top 100 most influential list several times.
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About Moonbug, The Walt Disney Company: Moonbug is a global digital-first entertainment company for kids.
Ignacio Bachiller
CEO of Fever
Ignacio studied Mechanical Engineering at MIT, with a minor in Energy, and a year abroad at Cambridge University. After graduating, Ignacio worked at McKinsey for a year, where he was involved in insurance, banking and energy projects. Soon after, he joined Fever as Head of Expansion, and after spending some time in NYC and then launching London, took on the responsibility of COO, and finally CEO.
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About Fever: Fever is a global live-entertainment discovery platform, helping people discover experiences in their cities
Duncan Painter
Chief Executive Officer of Ascential Plc
Duncan joined the company in October 2011 as Chief Executive Officer. In March 2012, he led a significant restructure of the group, which saw the creation of Top Right Group and its separate business units operating at the heart of the customer communities they serve. In December 2015, following a successful three-year turnaround, Duncan formed the new Group Company Brand – Ascential. As CEO, Duncan has a relentless focus on improving our products and services to ensure this drives greater customer retention. Ensuring our customers get improved value every year from our products; seeking constant feedback; adapting what our brands focus on and empowering our experts to have the confidence to be champions of insight or access to the markets we serve; have been the core ingredients to the strong results of the Group over the last few years. Before joining the Group, Duncan was an Executive at BskyB, where he supported their growth objectives to ten million customers. Prior to that, he was Global Product Leader at Experian plc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of consumer intelligence company ClarityBlue, which was acquired by Experian in 2006, and European Systems Integration Director for Hitachi Data Systems.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Natasha Christie-Miller
CEO / President of Ascential Plc
Natasha Christie-Miller is CEO of Plexus, the digital intelligence and live events business that formed by the coming together of EMAP, 4C and Planet Retail. Natasha started her career in sales and led the commercial teams on consumer brands such as Elle, Red, and the Emap parenting portfolio before taking on the role of Publishing Director of Drapers, the fashion industry bible at Emap B2B in 2005. She then became Managing Director for the Retail portfolio in 2007 and was appointed CEO of EMAP in 2010. As chief executive of Plexus, Natasha manages 19 product lines that include market leading brands HSJ, Planet Retail, Glenigan, Retail Week, and Groundsure.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Anthony Catterson
President and CEO of Decluttr
Anthony Catterson is a CEO at Expansys.
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About Decluttr, Expansys, Sprint: Decluttr buys and sells consumer technology, CDs, DVDs, books and games.
Zillah Byng-Thorne
CEO of Future
Zillah serves as a CEO at Future plc.
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About Flutter Entertainment, Future, Gocompare.com: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
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.
Phil Hutcheon
Founder & CEO of DICE
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About DICE: DICE is a curated platform that connects fans to live shows.
Tom Thirlwall
CEO of Copa90
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About Copa90: Copa90 The voice of football fans around the world.
Ant Ganjou
Founder & CEO of CÜR Media
Ant Ganjou a creative entrepreneur with a proven track record of building businesses and generating long term value for clients across a wide range of industry vertices. Currently in my role as CEO at CURB we have helped over 300 clients win hundreds of awards and generate hundreds of millions of pounds in exposure as well as direct business.
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About Airhead, Brand Advance, CÜR Media, DOOH, Gravity Industries, Handi, Hydra, Lifesaver, move.ai: CUR Media is a mobile application that enables its users to create online profiles to share music with their photos and videos.
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Mohammed SHK
Chief Executive Officer of Bazaar Daily UK
Mohammed Abdul Abidiz Sultan Haleem Wali Khane II (b 31 Jan 1995) is a British-American newspaper publisher; blogger, columnist, digital developer, and influencer quietly regarded as a prolific name in European blogging. Having never spoken to the mainstream press, Mohammed is world-renowned for his staunch privacy and elusiveness of the media. He is a mainstay fixture at Hollywood events; Silicon Valley forums, and fashion week. He rose to prominence in the blogging and tech community in 2002 with the launch of Fashion Bzaar (the original Bazaar Daily) and what would become of it today. He has been nominated for numerous accolades as a blogger although has refused to ever appear at any such ceremony. At 25 years old, Mohammed is one of New York ‘s most prominent bloggers given his status and estimated 101M website subscribers. He is best known for having joined the ranks of Wallis & Holdings when he was 7 years old. The partnership led to the creation of a joint agency between Taylor Wallis & Mohammed that would later become Khane Enterprise. When Wallis died at the age of 18, Mohammed became the sole heir to each of their estates.
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About Bazaar Daily UK, Bazaar Daily UK, Daily Chronicle, Gladeon Entertainment, Khane’s Landing: Bazaar Daily (UK) is the British counterpart to Bazaar Daily News, a massive online news agency founded by Sultan H. Khane II.
Matt Heiman
Founder & CEO of The Game Day
Matt Heiman is the Founder and CEO at The Game Day.
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About Cocoon, The Game Day: The Game Day is an operator of a multi-channel platform for sports content.
Col Needham
Founder and CEO of IMDB
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About IMDB: IMDb, the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
Asaf Peled
Founder and CEO of Minute Media
Asaf is the Chief Executive Officer of Minute Media, parent company of 90min. Asaf founded 90min in 2011as FTBpro. Since then, 90min has grown to be the world’s largest football media platform, driven by a contributor-driven model, and has expanded the brand throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. Asaf is involved in all aspects of Minute Media’s growth and operations, from product development to marketing and content. Prior to 90min, Asaf was the founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Top 7 International and also spent four years at Cisco Systems Israel where he was responsible for business development in the Israeli market. Asaf has a M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a bachelors of arts from Tel Aviv University. He resides in London and his favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs.
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About 90min, Minute Media: Minute Media is a media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content.
Jamal Edwards
Founder & CEO of SBTV
Jamal Edwards founded SB.TV which he still runs as CEO. What started as a UK online urban music channel has quickly grown into an innovative and exciting music and lifestyle media platform with global reach. SB.TV now has over 200 million youtube views and has featured interviews with a varied list of guests from politicians such as David Cameron and Ed Milliband to globally recognized artists such as Nicki Minaj and Jessie J as well as urban stars like Giggs & Drake. In 2011 Edwards was the face of the Google Chrome ad which was the second most popular YouTube ad that year. In 2012 he was named one of Richard Branson’s ‘Young Pioneers’ and has since been described as ‘The Branson of the Urban Scene’. Later that year Edwards was named on the Sunday Times Rich List and gave a talk at a TEDx Talk hosted at the houses of parliament where he put forward a case for why the next Prime Minister could be found on YouTube. 2013 saw the release of Edwards’ groundbreaking innovative business book Self Belief: The Vision which was a number 1 bestseller in its first week! Edwards is a patron for The Prince’s Trust and Access to Music and committed to using his success to shine light on other young entrepreneurs and help spread Self Belief amongst all people.
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About SBTV: SBTV is an online platform that provides its users with news on media.
Jack Cohen
CEO of Massless
Jack Cohen is the CEO of Massless
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About Massless: Massless is your NFT launch partner: Artwork, Minting, and Smart Contracts
Ross Westgate
CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Creative Media
Ross has over 22 years in the global broadcast business, helping to launch the European TV operations of Dow Jones and CNBC. He developed the world’s first tri-anchored, transcontinental daily live newscast programme Worldwide Exchange, a show he hosted from inception in 2006 until leaving to help build Infinity, where he is also Executive Producer across the IFTV series. Whilst at CNBC Ross additionally became the face of the channel’s media coverage, presenting ‘Media Talk’ as well as hosting panels and broadcasting from MIPCOM, the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival and Mobile World Congress. Ross is a regular business commentator and has been a frequent moderator at the annual meetings of The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Ambrosetti Forum in Lake Como, the CBI and many one off events including The Future of Digital Media at BAFTA.
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About Infinity Creative Media: Infinity Creative Media creates quality media content designed for global commercial exploitation across multi-platform outlets.
Jesse Shemen
Co-founder and CEO of Papercup
Jesse Shemen is CEO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
James McAulay
Co-Founder & CEO of Encore Technologies
Our resident Cellist and CEO, James dreams of a future where live music is everywhere.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
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.
Sam Jones
Chief Executive Officer of OverTier of Bruin Sports Capital
Sam Jones is the CEO of Overtier, a venture formed by Bruin Sports Capital to build and operate next-generation multiplatform streaming services globally.
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About Bruin Sports Capital: Bruin Sports Capital seeks to invest in companies that operates in the media, sports, marketing, and branded lifestyle sectors.
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
Joshua Nino De Guzman
CEO, Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
Joshua Nino De Guzman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Daniel Berg
CEO & Co-Founder of NextUp
Daniel Berg joined NextUp Comedy as CEO & Co-Founder in 2016.
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About ComComedy, NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Jake Cossington
Founder & CEO of Terrabyte Studios Limited
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About Terrabyte Studios Limited: Terrabyte Studios Limited is a Media Company powering online services.
Chris Elrin
CEO and Founder of Attachment London
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About Attachment London: Attachment London is a start-up works directly with the biggest talent to help brands unlock opportunities “that would never be possible”.
Douglas McCabe
CEO of Enders Analysis
Douglas is an opinion leader on print and online media, reports on media substitution, and consults on commercial strategies for the internet age. He is a former director of Fish4, the online advertising portal, and was responsible for market research and sales development at the HMV Group.Douglas holds a degree from Stirling University.
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About Enders Analysis: Enders Analysis is a TMT analysis firm providing senior corporate managers with an alternative perspective on 3G and the internet.
Jose Luis Vazquez
CEO of Mirada
CEO at Mirada.
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About Mirada: Mirada offers a multi-screen approach to digital TV platforms with a complete suite of end-to-end modular products.
Jodie Ginsberg
Chief Executive Officer of Internews Network
Jodie Ginsberg is CEO @ Index on Censorship.
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About Internews Network: Internews Network is a non-profit news providing organization.
David Ripert
CEO of Poplar Studio
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About Poplar Studio: Poplar is a creative platform that enables brands and retailers to produce 3D and AR experiences on-demand, powered by a talent cloud.
Mark Hain
Founder and CEO of DingIt.tv
Mark Hain is the founder and CEO of DingIt.tv.
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About DingIt.tv: DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content
Joel Silverman
CEO / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
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About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Len Dunne
Chief Executive Officer of The Fitzwilliam Museum
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About Elivar, The Fitzwilliam Museum: The Fitzwilliam Museum operates a place to store and exhibit various artworks and artefacts.
Brendan McCourt
CEO of Cloud Rupture
Has over 20 years experience as an award winning TV producer, director and journalist. Brendan McCourt is a multi-award winning former BBC journalist and filmmaker based in Belfast. His background and interest is in factual and current affairs investigation, crime, politics, human interest and drama. His investigative and undercover journalistic work has taken him to countries as far and wide as the United States, South Africa, across Europe, the Philippines and Thailand. A film which exposed the activities of a secret unit of the British Army in Belfast in 1970s who were killing innocent civilians, is now the subject of a police investigation ordered by the Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland.
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About Cloud Rupture: Cloud Rupture is a Virtual and Augmented Reality company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Anna Frankowska
CEO & Co-Founder of Nightset
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About Nightset: Nightset is a nightlife marketplace that connects people, venues, and brands on one platform globally.
George Ioannidis
CEO of IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited
George Ioannidis (Dr.-Ing., MBA) is the director of IN2 search interfaces development Ltd, a software company he founded in 2005 with the mission to simplify media management and publishing. IN2’s core product is MyMeedia, a cloud-based software as a service, to collect, enrich, discover and publish social media, web feeds and multimedia content for brands, events and destinations.
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About IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited: IN2 Search Interfaces Development Limited collects, organizes, discovers, enriches and presents photos, documents and audiovisual files.
Neale Foster
CEO of Access
Dr Neale Foster is the CEO of ACCESS Europe. In this capacity, he ensures that the company develops software solutions that enable broadcasters, operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and car manufacturers to connect the connected entertainment, automotive and smart home worlds to successfully launch new business models and consumer services that cater to all screens, including connected cars and IoT enabled devices. An experienced public speaker, Neale has spoken at a variety of events dedicated to connected entertainment. Most recently, he was a judge at the CES innovation awards 2019. Neale holds a PhD in helicopter digital control systems.
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About Access, Indra Renewable Technologies: ACCESS provides of software to the mobile and beyond-PC markets.
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.
Tomas Vohradnik
CEO of NEARBER
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About NEARBER: App which tracks your position via Google Maps API and shows you everything that’s happening nearby.
Pierre Figeat
CEO and Co-Founder of Admo.tv
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About Admo.tv: Admo.tv is the best TV analytics platform that helps TV & radio advertisers to measure and optimise the online impact.
Jack Rivlin
CEO of Tab Media
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About Tab Media: Tab Media is a global youth media startup for people under 25. It publishes The Tab and babe.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
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
Jim Liddle
CEO of Storage Made Easy
Prior to Storage Made Easy, Jim Liddle was responsible for sales and operations for GigaSpaces in the UK Europe after joining the company in 2006 to help expand European operations. Jim was previously the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata, a business process and rules management company. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim filled in technical, product management, and product marketing roles. Jim has extensive experience in Big Data, Middleware and Cloud technologies and has successfully built teams and grown sales for high growth technology companies for the last 20 years. Jim holds a BA (honors) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science and studied for an MSc. in Data Communications at Kingston University.
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About Storage Made Easy: SME provides software, the Enterprise File Fabric, which unifies a company’s File & Object Storage accessible through a global file system.
Nick Walter
CEO of Vortic
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About Vortic: Vortic develops digital solutions to showcase art pieces through virtual and augmented reality.
Charles Thiede
CEO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Mantas Malukas
Founder & CEO of Dapp Life
Mantas Malukas is an entrepreneur, journalist & blogger. As an entrepreneur his main focus is in the development of high level concepts mainly in the editorial news projects and journalism.
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About Dapp Life: Dapp Life is an online platform that features cryptocurrency news, crypto app reviews and incisive commentary on blockchain and dApps.
Claire McArdle
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Collective Media Group
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About Collective Media Group, Comedy Central: Collective Media Group works collaboratively with on and off-screen talent to develop, produce and distribute compelling, premium content.
Kathryn Jacob
CEO of Pearl & Dean
Kathryn’s pre-cinema life she worked in national newspapers, magazines and radio. Following the sale of Ginger Media Group to Scottish Media, her new role encompassed television, posters, radio and cinema. The lure of the big screen was impossible to resist and so she joined Pearl & Dean as CEO. Building on the reputation of Pearl & Dean, the team have grown their activities outside of the usual venues into pop up cinema, cinemas on luxurious ships, film partnerships and product placement. In 2016 Kathryn co-wrote ‘The Glass Wall’ with Sue Unerman, aiming to use their experiences and research to help women and businesses thrive. In the same year Kathryn was honoured with an OBE for services to the promotion of equality and diversity. Outside of work Kathryn sits on the board of Women’s Aid, the Development Board at RADA, the Executive Council of Screen Advertising World Association, the board of the Association of Colleges and the Council and board of the Advertising Association. Kathryn’s also a part of the Government Expert Group on Body Confidence.
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About Pearl & Dean: Pearl & Dean Limited provides cinema advertising services.
Kathryn Jacob
CEO of Pearl & Dean
Kathryn’s pre-cinema life she worked in national newspapers, magazines and radio. Following the sale of Ginger Media Group to Scottish Media, her new role encompassed television, posters, radio and cinema. The lure of the big screen was impossible to resist and so she joined Pearl & Dean as CEO. Building on the reputation of Pearl & Dean, the team have grown their activities outside of the usual venues into pop up cinema, cinemas on luxurious ships, film partnerships and product placement. In 2016 Kathryn co-wrote ‘The Glass Wall’ with Sue Unerman, aiming to use their experiences and research to help women and businesses thrive. In the same year Kathryn was honoured with an OBE for services to the promotion of equality and diversity. Outside of work Kathryn sits on the board of Women’s Aid, the Development Board at RADA, the Executive Council of Screen Advertising World Association, the board of the Association of Colleges and the Council and board of the Advertising Association. Kathryn’s also a part of the Government Expert Group on Body Confidence.
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About Pearl & Dean: Pearl & Dean Limited provides cinema advertising services.
Mark Nagurski
CEO and Co-Founder of Makematic
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About Makematic, Really Practical: Connecting brands with education through exceptional content and distribution
George Rockett
Co-Founder & CEO of DatacenterDynamics
George is a co-founder of the global DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo Series and is the Publisher of ZeroDowntime Magazine. He and his team are responsible for the content direction of all DCD events. Having been involved in IT and Business publishing for over a decade, he cut his teeth on the data centre market in 1998 with the launch of ‘Colocation Network Europe’ and has been involved in a multitude of publishing initiatives within this market sector since that time, including the award-winning ‘Building Datacentres Europe’ Directory. George’s ability to view things continually from a fresh perspective and to join the dots between the various disciplines that converge on the data centre market are hallmarks of DCDs success as an organisation. DatacenterDynamics considers itself much more than just a B2B media provider which is highlighted by the number of long-term relationships that have been forged internationally with end-users, vendors and consultants alike.
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Sven Herold
CEO & Founder of LiveTube
Sven is a Media Executive with more than 15 years’ experience in Television, Communications and Reputation Management. He is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked as a Senior Investigative Correspondent, Feature Writer and News & Entertainment Correspondent at major broadcasters across Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was a global VP and member of the Communication & Marketing leadership team at Shell International. He built and led both Shell’s and SAP’s global Television divisions. In 2015, Sven founded LiveTube, a global media-house specialising in original live content-creation and distribution via mobile devices.
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About LiveTube: The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
Albin Serviant
CEO of I/O Media
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About I/O Media: I/O Media encourages media brands to embrace digitalization and diversify their channels.
Mark Burgess
Founder and CEO of Big Button Media
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About Big Button Media: Big Button Media produces films, videos, motion graphics, and animations.
Steve Boulton
Co Founder & CEO of Golden Egg Innovation
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About Golden Egg Innovation: Golden Egg Innovation offers strategy, video content, promotion, campaign, web and app design services.
Rob Beynon
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of DMA Media
DMA’s founder Rob Beynon is an experienced TV executive who has overseen dozens of news and factual channel start-ups. He is an expert at broadcast and digital strategy, building and managing teams, and has an unrivalled knowledge of international markets. Rob has managed news channels and programmes for the BBC, ITN, Sky, Star TV, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and CNBC. As DMA’s chief executive he has been personally involved in all the company’s major launches. He oversaw the team behind Rudaw TV, the news and multimedia service in Iraqi Kurdistan, where DMA has been the media partner after five years. He sourced and managed a 30-strong team to launch and produce news output for Arise TV, owned by a Nigerian company and with offices in New York, London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. He also ran a recent project with Thomson Reuters to launch an English language news channel for the state broadcaster TRT.
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About DMA Media: DMA Media is a global media services company, launching, making and managing digital content for broadcast and corporate clients.
Sammy Andrews
Founder & CEO of Deviate Digital
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About Deviate Digital: Deviate Digital is a digital advisory agency for the entertainment industry.
Pete Francomb
CEO & Founder of Cahootify
I am a serial entrepreneur and UX specialist dedicated to creating truly sustainable businesses where commercial return and human flourishing go hand in hand. I see that business is always personal (whether or not it’s social) and I strive for authentic working relationships where people are free to make and learn from mistakes as well as celebrate successes, and where “professionalism” doesn’t mean attempting to project a mask of competence that’s divorced from who you really are. My experience has included; launching and running companies that create web-based social, community, website or membership management software, UX design and testing for a number of startups, launching a nationally recognised fused glass company and running an agency providing graphics operators to the broadcast TV industry.
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About Cahootify: Just make it. Cahootify is the project portfolio and team-forming platform for filmmakers, producers and actors.
Mark Moriarty
CEO and Founder of Awesound
Mark Moriarty is Founder and CEO at Awesound. Previously, he was consultant at McKinsey and Company. He also used to work at UC Berkeley as an open educational resources researcher, and at Claritics as predictive analytics software developer.
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About Awesound: Awesound is a platform for personalized and interactive audio.
Eugene Shestopal
CEO and Co-Founder of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform
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About Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform: Poptop helps event planners find and book entertainment professionals quickly, easily and safely.
Andrey Kalinchuk
CEO and Founder of QuestHunter
Andrey Kalinchuk is the CEO and founder of Quest Hunter.
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About QuestHunter: QuestHunter is a marketplace for discovery and booking of escape rooms
Marlon Gruss
CEO of Showzee
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About Showzee: Showzee allows people to create & share mini stories around their interests & experiences
David Kennett
CEO of ThinkLiberté
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About Elevate2, ThinkLiberté: ThinkLiberté is a social news service – always be informed
Erica Melargo
Founder, CEO of Britalians TV
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Marco Biagioli
Founder and CEO of Britalians TV
Founder of Joboundu.
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Marco Biagioli
Founder and CEO of Britalians TV
Founder of Joboundu.
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Bonnie Lister Parsons
Founder and CEO of Seen On Screen
Bonnie Lister Parsons is the founder and CEO of Seen on Screen.
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About Seen On Screen: Seen On Screen Digital makes Seen On Screen’s super successful dance
Bonnie Lister Parsons
Founder and CEO of Seen On Screen
Bonnie Lister Parsons is the founder and CEO of Seen on Screen.
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About Seen On Screen: Seen On Screen Digital makes Seen On Screen’s super successful dance
William Soulier
CEO of Talent Village
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About Talent Village: Influencer Marketing Platform Dedicated To Agency Signed Talent On Instagram.
