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 Internet of Things 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.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
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Matthew O’Riordan
CEO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned developer with over 15 years of hands-on development experience. Matthew co-founded Econsultancy (http://econsultancy.com), a global digital marketing publishing, training and research business, with Ashley Friedlein and exited via a £25m trade sale to Centaur Media plc in 2012. Matthew was Co-founder and Technical Director of Aqueduct (http://aqueduct.co.uk), a leading digital agency in London and Founder of easyBacklog (http://easybacklog.com), a SaaS agile backlog management tool. Matthew was also founder of Lemon Studios http://lemonstudioslondon.com/ in 2016, a serviced office for digital marketing and technology companies in London.
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About Ably Realtime, easyBacklog, Open API Initiative: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Alexandros Marinos
Founder & CEO of Balena
Alexandros Marinos is the Founder & CEO at resin.io
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About Balena: Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
Ali Alauoubiy
Co-founder & CEO of ProdX.ai
Ali shapes the strategies that harness big data to solve daily problems. His focus is firmly on technology, platform capabilities and business growth. He has 18 years of experience in leading technology, delivery functions and business transformation across a range of sectors including financial service, travel, private equity and professional service. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. And is currently completing the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. A transformational leader experienced in managing large scale transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, complexity reduction/simplification, globally distributed diverse teams, strategic business growth, turnaround, restructuring, and operation management. With a broad International career experience across the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa and North America. – Cross-functional leadership, management and coaching multi-cultural, and distributed (including remote) teams, including setting clear and measurable goals aligned to strategy and fostering collaboration across diverse teams – Leading complex enterprise and digital transformations (including Agile Delivery and DevOps, Change Management, Culture Change, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud Migration). – Delivering multi-million-dollar budget software integration and transformation projects in a broad range of sectors (Private Equity, eTrading, wealth & asset management, aviation and, professional services). – Effective internal and external stakeholder management experience across business units. – Previous work experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (2004-2008), financial.com (2008-2010), Mubasher Financial Group (2010-2012), National Net Ventures (2012-2014), Credit Suisse (2014-2015), Emirates Airline (2015-2017) and ESW Capital (2017-2019).
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About ProdX.ai: Bring transparency and objectivity to the workplace by empowering individuals to achieve more, powered by A.I. insights and coaching.
Ales Spetic
Co-founder & CEO of Klevio
Aleš Špetič is a co-founder and CEO of Klevio, a startups working on platform for managing access. Previously he ran a hardware startup that built and shipped its first product to over 50 countries worldwide from Ljubljana, Slovenia without traditional or crowd funding. Previously he cofounded and ran Zemanta, one of the first successful East European startups. Even though he holds an MBA and has extensive managerial experience in IT companies of different sizes, he started his career with a computer science degree and an O’Reilly book on SQL programing. He’s also Slovenia’s Digital Champion, a father, food and wine enthusiast, and a certified pastry chef.
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About Klevio, Koto Labs: Klevio lets users open doors and share their virtual keys using a smartphone.
Martin Blinder
Founder and CEO of Tictrac
Martin is an Internet and Digital Health entrepreneur with a focus on consumer web. He is co-founder and CEO of Tictrac, a leading Connected Health platform that engages people in their health, through their data. Tictrac is at the forefront of the consumerization of healthcare, centralizing an otherwise fragmented sector around the consumer, under the credo: consumer engagement is the key to better health outcomes. Tictrac won Best New Company at Health 2.0 in 2012. Martin was named among the 15 most influential in Digital Health, and has been featured in Wired, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, among others. He is also an active member of YPO, London chapter. Prior to Tictrac, Martin cofounded one of the first online financial services sites in Europe and has advised Prime Ministers and other state officials on innovation, foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship.
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
William Rice
CEO of Groupladder
William Rice is a Co-founder & CEO of Generation Home.
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About Generation Home, Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
Nigel Chadwick
Founder and CEO of Stream Technologies
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About Stream Technologies: Stream Technologies is a pioneer in machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.
Khoa Phan
CEO & Co-Founder of Backbone Labs, Inc.
Khoa’s entrepreneurial spirit and engineering experience drives the strategic vision of Backbone Labs, as well as the development of its products. Before he launched Backbone Labs, Khoa founded a successful marketing agency specializing in search, content and social media ad campaigns for acquiring customers and users. He has also co-founded an indie mobile game studio. When he’s not building companies, Khoa is an avid collector of rare sneakers.
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About Backbone Labs, Inc.: Identify at-risk behavior in the workplace and recommend actions to promote and maintain overall back-related wellness.
Mark Read
CEO of WPP
Mark Read is the CEO at WPP Digital. Mark was appointed a director in March 2005. He is chief executive of WPP Digital, and was previously WPP’s Director of Strategy.Mark is a director of CHI&Partners. Mark worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles.Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, Mark was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK. Mark is a trustee of the Natural History Museum Development Trust.
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About WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Ralph Steffens
Chief Executive Officer of Truphone
Ralph Steffens is CEO at TruPhone. Steffens has held senior positions at some of the world’s leading telecoms companies, including NBN Co Limited, BT, Colt Telecom and most recently, Reliance Jio Infocom, heading up operations in various regions including Europe, India and Australia.
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About Truphone: A global leader in digital connectivity software
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Steve Miller
CEO of KoolZone
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About KoolZone: KoolZone offers real-time remote monitoring solutions for the hospitality and healthcare industry.
Daniel P Dykes
CEO of Aeotec
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About Aeotec: Creators of home automation products and specialists in Z-Wave, Aeon Labs offers a broad range of IoT accessories under its Aeotec brand.
Sean Grundy
Co-Founder, CEO of Bevi
Redesigning the beverage supply chain @Bevi. Previously, 3 years experience managing environmental projects.MIT Sloan MBA, Princeton undergrad.
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About Bevi, Hydration Labs: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Oliver Tucker
Co-Founder & CEO of Wireless Logic
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About CVC Capital Partners, Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Paul Drayson
Chairman and CEO of Drayson Technologies Group
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About Drayson Technologies Group, Sensyne Health: Drayson Technologies is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that uses wireless charging technology and machine learning software.
Stuart Waplington
Chief Executive Officer of theprintspace
Stuart founded theprintspace in 2007 to make premium art printing accessible to everyone. He drives the vision and keeps us all striving for ever greater things.
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About theprintspace: theprintspace also have a central London gallery which hosts regular exhibitions with partners and organisations ranging.
Gary Cottle
CEO of Metrikus
Gary has been involved in real estate for the last 20 years both professionally and personally. Professionally, he has been responsible for originating, structuring, arranging, financing, and risk managing multi billion-pound Real Estate backed portfolios over the last decade. Gary was previously EMEA Head of Global Markets at Nomura with a $120bn investment portfolio, and more than 1,000 front office professionals across Trading, Structuring, Origination and Sales.
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About Metrikus: Metrikus is a smart building platform that integrates sensors to create more sustainable, healthy, and productive places to live and work.
William B.
Co-founder & CEO of Doordeck
Co-Founder & CEO at Doordeck
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About Doordeck: Doordeck replaces traditional proximity cards with your smartphone.
Paul Sheedy
CEO & Founder of Unifi.id
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About Reward Technology, Unifi.id: Unifi.id is digital engagement through our Smart card long-range card detection, data interrogation and communication protocols.
Jalal Bagherli
CEO of Dialog Semiconductor
Jalal joined Dialog as CEO and an Executive Board Director in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to that Jalal was the CEO of Alphamosaic, a venture-funded silicon start-up company in Cambridge, focusing on video processing chips for mobile applications. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Sony Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, managing semiconductor product businesses and working with customers in the Far East, Europe and North America. Jalal is a non-executive Director of Lime Microsystems Ltd since 2005 and was the Chairman of Global Semiconductor Association Europe from 2011 to 2013. He has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from Essex University, and holds a PhD in Electronics from Kent University, UK.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Cyrille Najjar
CEO of Sensio Air
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About HIAGO Inc., Sensio Air, White sur White: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Fintan Galvin
CEO of Invotra Ltd
Fintan is the founder / owner of Invotra. He has a passion for delivery and keeping things focussed and connected. With over 25 years in enterprise technology he has a vast array of knowledge in getting large scales systems developed and deployed out to the people that count.
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Jozef Wallis
Group Chief Executive Officer of Terraprima Group
17 years of Digital Adtech, Business Development, Start-up and Executive Management experience.
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About Terraprima Group: Terraprima Group specializes in design, development, marketing, and distribution of IoT solutions.
Miloš Milisavljević
CEO of Strawberry energy
Miloš Milisavljević is a Founder & CEO at Strawberry energy.
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About Serbian Association of Managers, Strawberry energy: Strawberry energy develops smart green urban devices in order to improve our everyday lives in cities.
Yodit Stanton
Founder and CEO of OpenSensors
Software and Data engineer working to helping people understand their physical space. Currently growing OpenSensors. OpenSensors aggregates data from a variety of sensors for the next generation of smart Building Management Systems. Our dashboards help you make the most effective use of your office space. With experience in helping more than 100 companies to combine data from new workplace sensors seamlessly, interoperating it with existing and familiar mobile and desktop systems, we aim to give you a fully comprehensive overview.
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About OpenSensors: OpenSensors is an internet of things company that builds a connected world that puts people first.
Tim Horlick
Chief Executive Officer of Sensify
Tim qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in London and then spent 14 years in investment banking as a Director of Kleinwort Benson Limited and Chief Operating Officer of European Investment Banking for Salomon Brothers International. He holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Over the last 15 years Tim has played an important role in technology venture capital, having set up and managed a venture capital business focused on enabling technologies for the mobile internet including 802.11 technologies, telco mediation software and RFID software and hardware solutions. The move to Bitcoin and Blockchain technology was a natural progression into Fintech, the next frontier of innovation. He was an early believer in the potential of Bitcoins to both appreciate in value, and to shake up the financial and technology sector.
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About Bitcoin Global Capital™, Sensify: Sensify provides IoT solutions designed to remotely track, monitor, trace, control, manage, verify, and secure fixed and mobile assets.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Patrick Beraud
Founder & CEO of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Eric Masaba
Founder, CEO of Texxi Global
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About Texxi Global: Largescale Dynamic Real-Time Ridesharing + Computational-CryptoCurrency + Predicitive Analytics (AI)
Leon Doyle
CEO & Co-Founder of WIFIPLUG
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About myma.io, WIFIPLUG: myma.io – the IoT cloud that powers WIFIPLUG
Graeme Dixon
Founder & CEO of Octopus Intelligence
Graeme Dixon is the Founder and CEO at Octopus Intelligence.
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About Octopus Intelligence: Octopus Intelligence Answering questions when you just need to know. Creating certainty, insight, & growth with Competitive Intelligence
Sharon Costi
CEO of Decology
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About Decology: Decology is an interior design platform that helps anyone design & furnish their perfect home.
Richard Parker
Founder & CEO of Altitude Angel
Richard is the Founder & CEO of Altitude Angel. He created the company in December 2014, with a singular vision: integrate drones into the airspace, safely, using cloud technology. An experienced software engineer, Richard has a deep technical background with both software and electrical engineering expertise and is currently training to become a private pilot, too.
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About Altitude Angel: Altitude Angel makes drones safer by providing the data and cloud services needed to safely unlock their potential.
Daniel Ng
CEO of CyberOwl
Dan was Associate Director at KPMG, where he focused on the Defence, Security, and Industrial sectors. During that time, he worked extensively developing propositions, market entry and commercial strategies for global security, defense, technology and engineering companies such as Northrop Grumman, Atos, and BP. Dan is also Chair of a Working Group at the IoT Security Foundation, a non-profit working towards establishing principles and improving capability globally for IoT security.
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About CyberOwl: CyberOwl offers an early warning system for cyber attacks through real-time monitoring of high value targets for malicious behavior.
Michael Brockman
CEO of ThingCo
Mike Brockman is the founder and chief executive of Insure The Box, a UK telematics insurer whose majority shareholding was acquired by Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Europe in 2015. A self-confessed rebel, he started the venture in 2009 in the midst of the recession, against the advice of others. But with an extensive career in motor insurance and prior experience of setting up companies, if anyone could make it happen, he could.
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Mark Nicholson
Co-founder & CEO of Vivacity Labs
Mark has overall responsibility for the strategic direction of Vivacity. Mark co-founded Vivacity Labs with Yang Lu & Peter Mildon, who met while designing, manufacturing and racing a road-legal solar-powered car. Subsequently, Mark worked at a top-tier strategy consultancy, supporting board-level decisions at a range of household brands, including Pizza Express and Hertz. Now, Mark combines his technical and commercial experience with a passion for bringing artificial intelligence to the transport systems we all use every day.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Hellen Bowey
CEO & Co-founder of Alcove
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About Alcove: Alcove is an internet-of-things powered care technology ecosystem pioneering independent living for older and disabled adults.
Scott White
CEO of PragmatIC Semiconductor
Scott is an experienced serial entrepreneur, now leading his sixth technology venture as CEO of PragmatIC. He is also a board director at mobile visual search company Cortexica Vision Systems. Past successes include Azea Networks, which he grew from concept to eight figure sales levels before the business was acquired. He has lived and worked across the globe including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US and the UK.
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About PragmatIC Semiconductor: PragmatIC is a ultra-low-cost flexible electronics enabling novel solutions not practical with conventional electronics
Alison Wedgwood
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of eWATERservices
Alison Wedgwood is CEO and co-founder of eWATERservices, a tech start-up which is revolutionising the delivery of water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Under Alison’s leadership, a growing global team has developed and deployed a technology and service enabling 265,000 people to access affordable, reliable and clean water near their homes. 660,000,000 litres of water have been dispensed- increasing by the second.
eWATER harnesses the ‘Internet of Things’ to monitor the water systems it installs, and manages the revenue which is generated from users paying affordable fees. The team of locally recruited and trained engineers are then able to maintain the systems resulting in over 90% reliability.
This approach is a consequence of Alison’s years of experience as an economist in the water sector and her visionary leadership to deliver a credible solution which is genuinely game-changing. The service ensures that if a dispenser fails, there is the technical expertise and capital necessary to fix it quickly, making the system sustainable for the future. Using local engineers also provides employment and development.
eWATER’s 24/7 service means improved health, education and economic prosperity for the communities it serves. Young girls don’t miss out on education walking for hours to collect water, as taps are nearby. This drastically improves their prospects and earning potential for their whole lives. Families are sick less often, meaning children are in school more and parents are able to work regularly and earn more income, improving their living standards. Midwives have told us they can now deliver babies safely at any hour as taps aren’t locked at night.
eWATER is also delivering a real impact in the battle with climate change. As communities can access clean water, they no longer need to burn wood or charcoal to boil their water to clean it. This dramatically reduces emissions produced. Finally, when communities pay for their water, it also means that far less water is wasted than at free taps.
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About eWATERservices: Using mobile technology for the accountable collection of user fees to pay for the maintenance of water supply systems forever.
Nektarios Liolios
Co-Founder and CEO of Startupbootcamp InsurTech London
Co-founder & Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading innovation program in the financial industry, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups. More than 15 years in the business, they last three with Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation and running the Innotribe Startup Challenge. Driven by entrepreneurship, collaboration and the desire to transform the financial industry. Global nomad, travel geek, sneaker freaker.
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About Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore, Startupbootcamp InsurTech London: Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation.
Aalok Y Shukla
Co-Founder & CEO of Straight Teeth Direct
Aalok Y Shukla is the CEO and Co-Founder of Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Rafael Jorda Siquier
Founder and CEO of Open Cosmos
As CEO and co-founder, Rafael leads the Open Cosmos team. From leading the team to deliver the first satellite mission within eight months, to managing the expanding team and range of customers today, Rafael has overseen the overall company strategy and directed its execution, all while working towards the original mission of democratizing access to space. After studying aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona and completing an MBA, Rafael has worked at large corporations, such as Airbus Defence and Space, as well as small, innovative space start-ups. His desire to make space more accessible led him to develop Open Cosmos while at the prestigious Entrepreneur First incubator program in July 2015. For his work leading Open Cosmos, Rafael has been recognized most recently as Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 by EuroConsult.
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About Open Cosmos: Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.
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.
Silvio Di Crosta
CEO of Domotz
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About Domotz: Remote Monitoring & Management in an IoT World.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Conall Laverty
Founder & CEO of Wia
CTO and Co-Founder at Roll TV
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About Wia: Wia unifies the IoT to help businesses better understand occupancy, air quality and energy to create smarter, safer and greener environments
Bob Skerrett
CEO, IMS, Insurance Division of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Iftikhar Ahmad Dar
CEO of ZIN TECHNOLOGIES
A Professional Who successfully led IoT/M2M SaaS/PaaS vision & strategy for one of the world’s largest MVNOs with more than 3 million global IoT/M2M deployments with fortune 500 companies to SMEs. My focus has always been by bringing value for end customer, competitive edge, transparency, scale and resilience into IoT/M2M Platform. A significant role played to bring 30% YoY growth in Wyless. An Entrepreneur Who founded a technology company back in 2007 to help its global partners achieve their IoT/M2M growth goals faster and at low price. A Leader Who dreams big, strategize and then put structured effort to achieve it for the better.
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About ZIN TECHNOLOGIES: Since 2007, We are successfully delivering for our customers in IoT | M2M | APIs | Mobile Apps | Software Development | Dedicated Staff.
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Nils Mattisson
CEO & Co-founder of Minut
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About Minut: Minut is a computer software company that specializes in product design, hardware, electronics, software, IoT, and smart home.
Bruno Johnson
CEO of Cascoda
Bruno Johnson is CEO at Cascoda Ltd.
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About Cascoda: Cascoda is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies low-power semiconductor radio devices for the internet of things.
Nick Allott
Founder & CEO of NquiringMinds
Nick is CEO and Founder of NquiringMinds, an award winning Technology Company specialising in the areas of IOT, Security and Data Analytics. Prior to that Nick spent 10 years in the Mobile Industry. As CTO for WAC (Wholesale Application Community Ltd), he helped set up a $30 million a cross operator industry initiative to create a web application wholesaling operation. This followed a stint as CTO of OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform Ltd) mobile, where many influential industry initiatives were borne, including the universal charging interface, and trusted environment specifications. Nick has worked both for and on behalf of Venture Capital. As CTO of the $40 million start-up fastmobile, he helped see this advanced communications company through to successful acquisition by RIM. Before this he was at Motorola’s European Internet division, looking after gaming, messaging and voice recognition platforms. A broad technologist at heart, earlier industry experience covers, gaming, data warehousing, engineering, oil, publishing and consultancy having held various executive and consultancy positions at Shell, Pearson Group, Dorling Kindersley and Neural Computer Sciences. A strong advocate of open source, Nick helped set up and is Director of the Webinos Foundation. Nick has a Degree in Cognitive Science from Nottingham University, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is an Advisory Board Member for VisionMobile and a Member of TechUKs CTO Council.
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About NquiringMinds: NquiringMinds data sharing and data analytics company
Dave Watson
CEO and Founder of Trendalyze
Dave Watson is CTO and Co-Founder of Trendalyze and works on developing the database search and analytics platform for various IoT projects. He holds number of UK and US patents and has led engineering in database middleware, OLAP and time series databases in the past.
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About Trendalyze: Trendalyze is a cloud-based time patterns, motif search, analysis, and monitoring platform for healthcare IoT data.
Kelvin Summoogum
Co-Founder and CEO of MiiCare
Kelvin Summoogum is the Co-Founder and CEO at MiiCare.
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About MiiCare: AI-Powered Digital Health Coach designed to keep older adults healthy, safe, and more connected to their loved ones
Lawrence Ross
CEO of PrismTech
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About PrismTech: PrismTech provides software platforms and tools for the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet and advanced wireless communications.
Ales Teska
CEO of TeskaLabs
Owner of SeaCat.
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About LibertyAces, SeaCat, TeskaLabs: TeskaLabs is a mobile application security provider.
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.
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Miroslav Kovac
Founder, CEO of Coffee Cloud
CEO at Coffee Cloud.
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About Coffee Cloud: Coffee Cloud, IOT Software Analytics for professional HoReCa coffee industry
Roisin Meehan
CEO and Founder of Verifoxx
Róisín Meehan is the CEO and Founder of Verifoxx.
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About Verifoxx: Verifoxx is an AIoT blockchain company that enables easy and secure identity verification of customers.
Peter White
Founder and CEO of Rethink Technology Research
Peter is the CEO of Rethink Technology Research and helped create the company in 2002.
Peter is the principal analyst on Rethink Energy, focusing on the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, taking in Wind, Solar, Energy storage and the new Hydrogen economy. He also touches on the digitalization of the grid, the effect of EVs on electricity supply and any new ideas in energy.
Peter’s coverage area takes in solar design including perovskite, multi-junction solar, crystalline silicon, as well as floating platforms, carbon-nanotube layering, all types of turbines and lithium ion batteries or other form of energy storage, green hydrogen production economics, undersea cabling, demand response utility systems and Distributed Energy Management Systems.
Peter was previously involved in technology since 1978. For 17 years at Rethink, his research was focused on video and digital networks. He has consulted with set top and home gateway manufacturers, encoder specialists, chip vendors, flash memory providers, security companies and TV UI specialists over that time.
If you want to email Peter, ask him a question or invite him to attend or speak at an event, then please email peter@rethinkresearch.biz
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About Rethink Technology Research: Experts in Wireless, Video and Renewable Energy. Rethink is the thought leader in emerging wireless technologies, video-based quadruple play and the energy transition.
Piotr Zarobkiewicz
Chief Executive Officer of Ovon Home
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About Ovon Home: We create stylish home automation, IoT devices that save energy and improve comfort. Globally active through Ovon Home and Ovon Technology.
Kosta Mavroulakis
Founder and CEO of Empact Ventures
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About Empact Ventures: Empact Ventures co-designs some of the leading startup, tech and non-profit initiatives for large private or public sector organisations
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Andrew Kron
CEO of Unet
I have an ability to create complex IT projects, that’s what i do.
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About Unet: Unet helps businesses stay in touch with customers.
Dan Collier
Co-Founder, Director of Sales and Strategy & CEO of ElevateDirect.com
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About ElevateDirect.com: Productivity enhancement tool for recruitment across all workforce categories
Richard Hancock
Chief Executive Officer of Blue Maestro
Richard Hancock joined Blue Maestro as Chief Executive Officer in 2012.
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About Blue Maestro: Environment and health monitoring solutions from developing innovative Bluetooth devices to hosting a cloud platform for sensor telemetrics.
Jim McCoy
Founder/CEO of Q-Branch Labs
Jim McCoy joined Q-Branch Labs as Founder/CEO in 2016.
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About Q-Branch Labs: Cybersecurity protection for remote and work from home employees
Pauline Issard
CEO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Joe HQ Luong
CEO of Crypta Labs
Joe is the CEO of Crypta Labs, an IoT security startup that is developing a quantum-based encryption chip and software to secure the Internet of Things, Prior to Crypta Labs, Joe Co-founded iProsper Media (a marketing agency and advertising platform focusing on Financial Services). Joe also founded financial websites MyEggNest, FinanceNews, and PensionCalculator. Joe is also an active advisory member for several UK tech Start-ups.
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About Crypta Labs: Crypta Labs is an award winning Mobile and IoT Security company.
Richard Vilton
CEO and Co-Founder of Emu Analytics
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About Emu Analytics: Emu Analytics provides real-time geospatial analytics and visualisation software for IoT, Smart Cities and Digital Twins.
Richard Vilton
CEO and Co-Founder of Emu Analytics
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About Emu Analytics: Emu Analytics provides real-time geospatial analytics and visualisation software for IoT, Smart Cities and Digital Twins.
Andreas Constantinou
CEO & Founder of VisionMobile
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About VisionMobile: VisionMobile is the leading analyst firm in the developer economy.
Marcin Piatkowski
Founder & CEO of JIVR
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About JIVR: JIVR is a hassle-free commuting bike, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of cycling, without any lifestyle compromises.
Gennady Lubarsky
CEO of Laser Spoke Limited
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About Laser Spoke Limited: A unique and affordable optical power monitoring system for cyclists.
Zhuoqun Li
CEO and Founder of ZifiSense
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About ZifiSense: ZifiSense is a telecommunications company.
Tirath Bansal
CEO of Myorb Limited
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About Myorb Limited: Myorb is an application that enables its users to upload and share data with others.
Paul Phillipson
CEO of Plasma Antennas
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About Plasma Antennas: Plasma Antennas is a developer of multi-beam antennas for small cell backhaul, broadband wireless access, and mesh network applications.
