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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 Managing Director operating in the Internet space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Michael Winterson
Managing Director of Equinix
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About Equinix, SixFortyEight: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
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Russell Poole
Managing Director, UK and The Nordics of Equinix
Russell joined as UK managing director in April 2000, bringing with him nine years of experience in the UK telecommunications and internet industries. From 1998 to 2000 Russell was a director of MessageNet Ltd – an internet security and messaging security provider. Responsible for sales and operations, he also led the development of e:)scan – Europe’s first e-mail virus and content control service. In October 1999 MessageNet was acquired by Articon-Integralis AG.Between 1993 and 1998, Russell was the national sales manager for General Telecom – the business telecoms division of General Cable Plc. During this time he grew the business from four sales people and £3m annual revenue to 35 sales people in three locations and £25m annual revenue. Russell attended Nottingham University, where he read production engineering. Following twelve months travelling, he commenced his managerial career at Coca-Cola and Schweppes where he enjoyed a successful career as a national account manager.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Sebastian Gray
Managing Director of Dugout
Sebastian began his career with Quest Software working in their Microsoft sales team, leaving after a number of years to establish his own company developing mobile apps. This progressed into user interactions and digital media and led him to create Sport Digital, a digital media company that specialises in the management and commercialisation of the digital landscape for athletes, actors, musicians and celebrities. Two years after its founding, Sport Digital now looks after over 300 athletes, including Gareth Bale, Anthony Joshua, and Adam Lallana, utilising and developing their digital and social media footprint with the long-term objective of optimising their digital media value.
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About Dugout: Dugout is an innovative new digital football platform.
John Paul
Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data of Liberty Global
John Paul is Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data for Liberty Global and is based in the Company’s London office. He is responsible for the development of new advertising models, partnerships and employment of data across the company. John has over 25 years experience in the broadcast and cable sector with a focus on operations and emerging product strategy. Before rejoining Liberty Global in 2014 he was CTO of Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Australia), COO of Australia Network, and Founder & Managing Partner of Trident Media Partners where he advised Tier 1 media firms: NBC, News Corporation, Telstra and Foxtel on strategy and infrastructure. Prior to this, he was part of UGC, Liberty Global’s predecessor, where he worked in Australia on the launch of AUSTAR and its triple-play products and helped the company explore investment opportunities in Asia. He was a principal architect of Australia’s early pay TV industry – with Australis Media and has served on the boards of SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby) and Freeview Australia. He began his career in family trade publishing businessTV Editorial Corporation and NBC Affiliate operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from American University and is a Dux graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College.
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Frederik Poelman
Managing Director of team.blue Denmark
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About Combell Group, Intelligent, team.blue Denmark: team.blue provides hosting and cloud solutions.
Isabella Lane
Managing Director of Smarter
Isabella is responsible for ensuring that the visions and strategic plans of the Board and CEO are realised and translated into the day-to-day running of the business. Isabella has oversight of each department from finance to customer services keeping the various teams motivated and driven to reach Smarter’s goals and targets. As a founding partner at Smarter, Isabella has extensive experience in all aspects of the business. Being instrumental alongside the CMO for strategic partnerships, Isabella has worked with some of the largest names in the industry e.g. Bosch, Unilever, Amazon, John Lewis.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
Dana Pressman Tobak
Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Hyperoptic
As joint founder and Managing Director of Be Un limited, the record-breaking 24 Meg broadband provider of 2005, Dana took the business from start to launch in just six months. By placing the consumer at the heart of success (Be customer support continues to win awards to this day) and generally refusing to take no for an answer, Dana has been building successful global businesses for over 20 years. Co-founder and director of Hyperoptic, Dana brings expertise in commercial agreements, financial business practice and purchasing, and an unshakeable vision for Hyperoptic’s success.
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About Hyperoptic: Hyperoptic is a fiber-based internet service provider.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Damian McGloughlin
Managing Director of HomeBase
Damian McGloughlin is CEO at Homebase UK &Ireland.
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About HomeBase: HomeBase is a home improvement and garden retailer.
Claire Cherry
Investment Partner/UK Director of Social Starts
Claire covers the consumer sector across Europe and the US. Prior to Social Starts, she ran the seed and pre-seed consumer fund at True, backing businesses across beauty, femtech, sexual wellness, mental health, and many more. With almost a decade of experience in venture, Claire is passionate about supporting entrepreneurs breaking new ground. Outside of investing, she can be found hiking the cliffs of Guernsey with her dog, or attempting to grow vegetables (sometimes successfully) in her garden.
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About Social Starts: Social Starts is a set of early-stage venture funds that uses analytics to uncover and invest in the strongest companies in the strongest segments. Based on a uniquely data-driven methodology, Social Starts has discovered and backed companies with huge value in e-commerce, employment platforms, digital brands, next-generation food, and education. The current fund, “Social Starts Health and Happiness,” focuses on startups that help people live longer, live better, or both.
Martin Arumemi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of EE
Arumemi-Ikhide is the MD and Founder of EE. He also serves as the MD of Hansworth Ltd and General Manager of Engineering for Rockson Engineering. In both Hansworth and Rockson Engineering he is responsible for the leadership, execution and construction of the 4 NIPP power plants in FGN. He has lead the firm to the successful commissioning of the first phase of the 1074MW Alaoji CCGT plant. He is also progressing the completion of the 225MW Omoku, 225MW Gbarain and 338MW Egbema OCGT also based in FGN. Prior to joining Hansworth, Dr Arumemi-Ikhide worked for GE Power and Water for more than seven years as a Senior Project Manager, overseeing the execution of several landmark projects. At GE he was the Project Manager for two combined cycle plants that were using GE 9FB based in Spain and Turkey notably. Whilst at GE, he was on the fast track of the firm’s world renowned leadership programme. Dr Arumemi-Ikhide holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Warwick University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Birmingham. He possesses and is attending a number of business management executive courses including leadership programme from Boston University and is currently completing a leadership programme at Oxford University Business School.
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About EE, Rockson Engineering: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
Arthur Holcombe
Managing Director of Snupps
Responsible for operations, marketing and business development. Arthur has 15 years experience building dynamic startups and early growth companies in the wireless and Internet sectors. Previously Arthur was the Chief Revenue Officer at MobileWave, an AIM listed Company, and prior to that worked at Coordinate Technologies (Founder), The Cloud, Coremetrics (co-Founder; sold to IBM) and Dow Jones China. Arthur is a graduate from Georgetown University, with an MBA from Thunderbird.
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Christian Woolfenden
Managing Director of Photobox
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About Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Kris Brown
Co-Managing Director of Piksel
As joint Managing Director of Piksel’s Media & Entertainment business, Kris holds primary responsibility for the growth of the company’s products, operations and architectural direction. During almost two decades in enterprise software, Kris has worked on architecture, design and delivery for clients spanning healthcare, financial services, the public sector and, of course, media and entertainment. Having initially joined Piksel in 2010, he returned to the company in 2014 following a period spent in-house at a major media technology company. Prior to his appointment as joint managing director, he served as the company’s Head of Product. Kris is focused on organisational culture, business transformation, metadata management and highly available data intensive systems. Kris studied at the University of Durham, where he attained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Kim Ludlow
Managing Director of mySupermarket
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Dominic Grounsell
Managing Director – UK & Eire Sports Brands of Entain
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Patrick Wehrmann
Group Managing Director & CEO, StepStone UK of StepStone
Patrick Wehrmann joined StepStone 2012 as member of the supervisory board. In February 2014 he was appointed to his current role as Group Managing Director with specific responsibilities for the group businesses (Totaljobsgroup, Jobsite, SAON UK) in the UK, Mergers and Acquisitions and international HR. Before joining StepStone as Group Managing Director, Patrick served as Managing Director of Axel Springer Digital Classifieds. In this position he held several supervisory and advisory board positions in the digital classifieds businesses of Axel Springer worldwide. Previously, he was Commercial Publishing Director / CFO of the BILD Group and the Axel Springer Magazine Division as well as COO/CFO of the Axel Springer Magazine and International Division. In the beginning of his career he held several positions in the French, German, US and UK businesses of Axel Springer. Patrick graduated in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. He also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Dijon (France) and at the University of Colorado.
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About StepStone: StepStone is a leading international provider of software and services for the human capital management sector.
Patrick Simpson
Managing Director, Renewals of CPA Global
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About CPA Global: CPA Global provides intellectual property services.
Oliver Brough
Managing Director, EMEA of Trusona
Olly Brough serves as the Managing Director of EMEA at Trusona.
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About Trusona: Trusona secures identity authentication, removes passwords from the user experience, and elevate login experience.
Mark Wilkinson
Managing Director, EMEA & APAC of Profitero
Mark leads Profitero’s EMEA sales team, partnering with consumer brands and retailers to improve their eCommerce performance. Mark joins Profitero following his 18-year tenure at IRI. Most recently, he was Sales Director in the Technology Solutions group where he helped major FMCG organizations get the most from a diverse range of data to improve their key business processes. Mark has worked with Kellogg’s, Danone, Nestle, Mars and Heineken, helping these companies improve global business performance, in store execution, on shelf availability and multi-channel retailing (including eCommerce). Mark studied business at the University of Sheffield and is based in London.
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About Profitero: Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands around the world.
Georgina Holt
Managing Director UK+ of Acast
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About Acast: Acast is an audio-on-demand and podcast platform that hosts, monetizes, and distributes audio content globally.
Mark Feingold
Managing Director of Reward Sciences
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About Reward Sciences: Reward Sciences is an easy-to-use platform that enables organizations to incentivize and reward human behaviors wherever and whenever.
Lorenzo Franzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Zipjet
Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JP Morgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.
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About Zipjet: Zipjet is an online laundry and dry cleaning service that enables its users to order laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery services.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Dan Vanrenen
Managing Director of Taskeater
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About Taskeater: Taskeater builds low-cost offshore teams for high-growth companies
Liz Lumley
Managing Director of Rainmaking
Liz Lumley is Managing Director, Thought Leadership at Rainmaking – a corporate innovation consultancy and Startupbootcamp-branded accelerator programmes. Lumley served as managing director of the 2015 Startupbootcamp FinTech London accelerator programme and she has spent over 20 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. In addition to being an internationally recognised conference speaker and moderator, she is also a regular host on Brett King’s Breaking Banks radio show on the VoiceAmerica Business channel.
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About Rainmaking: Rainmaking is a startup incubator that launches startups, builds them into solid businesses, and eventually exits them.
Helene Panzarino
Managing Director of Rainmaking
Helene Panzarino is a highly experienced FinTech Programme Director, Investment Readiness Consultant, Exited Entrepreneur, and Educator, and most recently MD of the global Rainmaking Colab FinTech Programme, a world-first, post-accelerator programme connecting Series A+ FinTechs to Tier 1 banks financial institutions. Helene successfully created and launched the Inaugural Programme of Education and Events for Innovate Finance and is an Associate Professor with LIBF, the Lead Fellow (and creator) on a world-first FinTech Pathway in a Masters in Tech Entrepreneurship Degree for UCL, and co-creator and lead delivery partner on the Imperial College FinTech Executive Education Programme. Her specialist subject areas are Digital Banking and Alternative Finance (SMEs). She is a regular judge, speaker and moderator for the FIA Award, Global Mobile Congress, The Alt Fi Finance Awards, EFMA (European Finance), Money Live on FinTech/Corporate Collaboration, the Retail Banking Conference, and Lendit. Helene is a member of The FinTech Advisory Board for the BSI (British Standards Institute), and representative for UK in the EU. Named on the Computer Weekly 100 Women in Tech Award 2019, she was also recently inducted into the St George’s Leadership Foundation at Windsor Castle. She is currently co-writing a book on the reinvention of banking.
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About Rainmaking: Rainmaking is a startup incubator that launches startups, builds them into solid businesses, and eventually exits them.
Tim Scoffham
Managing Director of New Media Services Pty Ltd
Tim has worked with emerging platforms within digital marketing (mainly in mobile) for over a decade and has been part of a number of start ups that went on to be acquired by larger corporate organisations. Prior to working on more specialised technologies Tim worked for some of the UK’s most recognised media companies in Channel 4, Virgin Media and the BBC. Now the Managing Director or NewMediaServices, a global communications company – Tim provides on and off line communication platforms for companies to maintain and manage customer relations as well as help to increase offline communication for online sales.
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About New Media Services Pty Ltd: New Media Services Pty Ltd Manage Communications and Content of Consumers.
Andrew Fisher
European Managing Director of Blucora
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About Blucora, Chairman Mentors International, Marks & Spencer, RightMove, Thomson Directories Business Ventures: Blucora is a provider of Internet-related services that operates a diverse group of internet businesses.
James Elias
Managing Director of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
Emily Shelley
Managing Director of Alamy
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About Alamy: Alamy is the world’s largest online photo agency for stock, video and live news.
Tony Xu
Founder and Managing Director of Perfocal
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About Perfocal: Perfocal is the easiest way to hire an awesome photographer, on-demand.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
Daniel Mohamed
Founder & Managing Director of Urban Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Urban Intelligence
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About Urban Intelligence: Data-Driven Property Development
Akshay Ruparelia
Founder and Managing Director of Doorsteps
Akshay Ruparelia is the Founder of Doorsteps.
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About Doorsteps: Doorsteps is a UK-based online estate agents.
Stephen Homer
Managing Director of PostSnap
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About PostSnap: We’re PostSnap an independent, privately owned online photo printing service going strong since 2015!
Edward Spicer
Managing Director of CCR Data
A true entrepreneur, Edward founded CCR with Henry Sykes in early 1996 and over the last 15 years has built the company from 3 people into what it is today. Currently responsible for the day to day running of CCR and over the 15 years has been responsible for producing and developing some major blue chip accounts and channel partners most of which are still using CCR’s service today. Prior to this he had a successful career in the city, alongside setting up and running various other businesses. Edward is married with 2 children and his interests include country sports, tennis (and more recently pool), and growing unedible organic vegetables.
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About CCR Data: CCR Data provides a software platform that helps businesses keep track of customers that have moved elsewhere recently.
Richard Lamb
Managing Director, UK of Jellyfish
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish works as a digital platform, supporting and drives digital transformation by providing strategy, technology, and training.
Rob Mossop
Managing Director of Minttulip
Rob Mossop and Mint Tulip have a wealth of experience in delivering workplace modernisation projects. Rob has been at the forefront of leading a business dedicated to the identification, quantification, and realisation of real world business benefits through the expert blending of the best Modern Workplace technology, with Mintulip’s inclusive digital transformation framework, exceptional technical expertise, and class-leading workplace adoption and change capabilities. Furthermore Rob and Mintulip have a world class change and cultural management practice, to help businesses adopt cloud technologies.
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About Minttulip: Minttulip specialises in delivering tangible and measurable business benefit to customers.
Deshini Newman
Managing Director – EMEA of (ISC)2
As Managing Director for EMEA, Deshini Newman leads the (ISC)² team across the region. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing strategy for the EMEA region and supporting the (ISC)² global vision and mission. Before Joining (ISC)2, Deshini held several education leadership roles, at Edexcel International, Pearson Group, and most recently Cambridge Assessment English, where she held positions as Global Manager of Strategy, Assistant Director, Global Business Development and Global Head of Higher Education and Adult Sector. Cambridge Assessment English has provided English language assessments and qualifications since 1913, and is part of Cambridge Assessment Group, Cambridge University (UK).
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About (ISC)2: (ISC)2 is the official organization that maintains and administers the CISSP certification exam.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Lucie Marchelot Shukla
Co-Founder – Managing Director of Straight Teeth Direct
Lucie Marchelot Shukla is a Co-Founder – Managing Director at 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.
Amit Sadhwani
Managing Director, Founder of GLABOO
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About GLABOO: We’re a global management consulting firm that provides holistic services and advice to some of the world’s largest companies.
Oliver Waters
Co-founder & Managing Director of d3i
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About d3i, Momento, Protospace: d3i is a software development studio specialising in iPhone/iPad app design and development.
Daniel Yates
Managing Director and Founder of Pitchup.com
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About Pitchup.com: Making it a doddle to book campsites in 65 countries. Member of Financial Times FT1000 fastest-growing companies in Europe 2018/19/20.
Keith Turkington
Managing Director of Fluent Technology
Keith has a Masters in Computer Science, a Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance, is a Chartered Manager, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered IT Professional, a Member of the British Computer Society & a Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner. He brings almost 30 years of business experience to his role as MD as well as a background working for a grant-giving organisation. His main areas of responsibility are finance, strategy and business development and, like all business owners, never really switches off from work but when he does he loves to travel, play golf and cook. .
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About Fluent Technology: Fluent Technology are experts in business transformation through better information management.
Frank Staiger
Founder, Managing Director of Via Studios
Frank Staiger is Managing Director and founder of Via Studios. He has over twelve years experience in online design, development and digital management with a growing and exciting client portfolio including both private and public sectors. He has worked with many art directors, studios, developers and clients during his career. Via is the engine room driving his unstoppable passion for the internet and the digital sector. What’s more, the experience he brings to projects mediates between excitement for new channels and a sound business sense of what will work to deliver on the bottom line. Before founding the company back in 1998, German-born Frank was working freelance for many years in the media industry, including production and team management for large magazine publications. He also worked in branding, graphic design, pre-production and typography for traditional advertising agencies across Manchester.
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About Via Studios: Online Design, Usability and Development
Karl Mendez
CEO & Managing Director of CWCS Managed Hosting
Karl Mendez is CEO & Managing Director at CWCS Managed Hosting.
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About CWCS Managed Hosting: CWCS Managed Hosting is the UK’s leading hosting specialist. We offer a fully comprehensive range of hosting products, services and support.
Antonio Giugno
Co-Founder/Managing Director of Portrayt
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About Portrayt: We create digital strategy, experience and engagement.
Diana Campbell
Managing Director of Zoek
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About Zoek: Zoek is the new job search site and app that uses state of the art technology to find you the perfect job match.
Daniel Watts
Founder & Managing Director of Aluminati Network Group
Daniel leads the Aluminati team and has overall responsibility for defining the company’s technical and business strategies and with his deep sector knowledge he leads product innovation. Daniel founded the company in 2002 when he graduated from Oxford with an honours degree in Computation. An expert in online engagement, Daniel is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences and is in regular attendance at multiple CASE events per year. In his spare time Daniel enjoys the physical and mental challenges of basketball and has also coached the Darwin College ladies team to Cambridge championship titles for 4 consecutive years.
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About Aluminati Network Group: Aluminati Network Group provide online services and platforms to unite alumni, student and member networks.
Rollo Carpenter
Managing Director of Existor
Rollo Carpenter is Managing Director at Existor.
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About Existor: Existor is a London-based company, creating conversational Artificial Intelligence software for business, education, and entertainment.
Felix Winstone
Managing Director of Talkative
Felix Winstone is a Co-Founder and Director of Talkative, a pioneer of web calling and browsing technologies.
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About Talkative: Talkative enables companies to communicate with their customers through websites/apps.
Mark Weller
Managing Director of Nextgenaccess (NGA)
s Managing Director, Mark originally trained as a property surveyor getting involved in the Cellular deployment of analogue mobile networks in 1993. Mark set up Cellular Design Services Ltd in 1995 growing the company from scratch to a turnover of £10m in 2003 operating in the UK, Holland and Belgium. Mark successfully sold CDS to Interregnum a Merchant Bank in 2002. In 2012 Mark led the acquisition of the Rail business Alan Dick Ltd from Lloyds Development Capital having sourced the funding from Core Investments. Mark was instrumental in growing the business from a turnover of £4.4m to £22m completing a successful trade sale to Panasonic in June 2016.
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About Nextgenaccess (NGA): Nextgenaccess (NGA) is a ultrafast network builder .
Somi Arian
Managing Director of Smart Cookie Media
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About Smart Cookie Media: Smart Cookie Media bridging the gap between digital natives and established brands.
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Nick Wood
Managing Director of Com Laude
Nick is Managing Director and co-founder of Com Laude with Lorna Gradden. Nick has a real passion for the domain name industry and believes that it is currently an emerging industry in a time of great change. It’s a time where best practice is not well-established and not always relevant. However, it is fascinating and challenging to be working with some of the world’s leading brands, helping them to create and implement strategy. He spends considerable time immersed in the ICANN environment representing client issues in policy discussions and staying abreast of the latest changes, to help keep clients abreast of the latest developments and enable them to make informed decisions about their online IP strategies. Nick is also deeply involved in several IP organisations: as a director and council member of MARQUES, the European association of brand owners, an associate member of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys and a committee member at the International Trademark Association. For many years, Nick has acted at the cutting edge of rights protection in domain names, having edited “The Perfect Sunrise”, the influential booklet on pre-launch rights protection measures. He is a member of the editorial board of Managing Intellectual Property magazine, co-author of Domain Names: Global Practice and Procedure, published by Sweet & Maxwell and co-author of the rights protection mechanisms recommended to ICANN for the launch of new gTLDs.
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About Com Laude, Valideus Ltd: Com Laude is a specialist domain name management company.
David Wadsworth
Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, UK of WMC Global
David Wadsworth oversees the WMC Global Group’s strategic financial direction as he plans, manages, and reports on group finances. His more than 40 years in financial management ensure the success of the group’s entrepreneurial endeavors. David brings extensive management and business development experience as a chartered accountant, having specialized in mobile technology, marketing and media, and property companies. His expertise in managing and resourcing business development for venture capital and investment finance groups enables him to evaluate markets and identify financial and business opportunities for the WMC Global Group—supporting its continued growth. In his role as managing director, David leads his team in opening new opportunities in the United Kingdom, as well as pursuing new opportunities and markets in Europe, and manages the effective delivery of products and solutions to clients. David earned his MA in History at the University of Oxford.
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About WMC Global: Worldwide Brand and Customer Protection At Scale
Eric Duneau
Managing Director of INCUBIQ
Eric Duneau is the Managing Director at Incubiq.
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About INCUBIQ: Incubiq is a computer software company that brings disruptive technologies to market, covering all stages from inception to success.
Tania Vie Riba
Founder & Managing Director of Vie carratt
Tania Vie Riba is the founder and managing director at Vie Carratt.
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About Vie carratt: Vie carratt provide digital marketing, communication services and management advice to enable innovative start-ups and technology.
Daniel Keighron-Foster
Managing Director of Steamhaus
Daniel is our Managing Director and started Steamhaus in August 2015. Back in 2000 Daniel set up Melbourne Server Hosting and grew it to become one of the North West’s most respected and successful independent hosting companies. Melbourne’s specific focus was on customer service, resulting in the business consistently growing at a rate of 40% per year. Daniel ran Melbourne for a total of 12 years, through to its sale in 2012; at this point having a turnover of £3.5m and a team of around 40 staff. In 2012, after exiting Melbourne, Daniel decided to spend some time focusing on starting a family. His twins were born in 2014. They’ve kept him and his partner incredibly busy since. Really, really busy. Daniel realised early on in 2015 that the cloud and DevOps are where the future lies in regards to hosting. Before he knew it, Steamhaus was incorporated and he was leading a team of experts. When Daniel isn’t working or being a Dad, you’ll find him either at the gym or at his piano playing at the skill level of a five-year-old.
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About Steamhaus: Steamhaus is a cloud and devops consultancy that enables businesses to leverage the power of public cloud providers.
Bhavik Haria
Managing Director of Cincera Productions
Bhavik Haria, Director of video production agency Cincera Productions, has over 5 years experience in helping businesses tell their story in the digital world through the power of videos. His fresh outlook on video marketing and how to use it to increase sales has helped hundreds of businesses to reach new audiences and increase their profits. Cincera have helped tell stories for businesses such as Kaplan Financial UK, Arup, Arcus and charitable organisations such as the RSPCA and London”s Air Ambulance. Bhavik is committed to deeply understanding how online video is transforming businesses around the UK and can show you how to do the same for your own business.
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About Cincera Productions: Cincera is here to provide professional cinematography and photography services for all types of businesses.
Stuart Young
Managing Director of Etive Technologies
Stuart Young is a managing director at Etive Technologies.
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About Etive Technologies: Etive which is expanding its Birmingham operations, is capitalising on the government’s desire to move all public services online.
Roger Gosine
Founder & Managing Director of RMG Professional
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About RMG Professional: Taking Digital technologies to market: strategy, partnering and go-to-market consulting andi
Lida Weng
Managing Director of OElite
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About CapitalStackers, OElite: OElite is an intelligent IT platform engineered to help SMEs administer websites, daily operations and more located in Bury.
Gary Nuttall
Managing Director of Distlytics
Gary Nuttall Over twenty-five years working on all aspects of information delivery with a passion for promoting better informed decision making. Industry experience includes Retail, Pharmaceuticals, NHS, Alcohol and Commodities Trading. Moved into the insurance sector in 2010 with Chaucer Syndicates where he built up the Business Intelligence practice. In early 2016 he founded Distlytics Ltd with the aim of providing insight, consultancy and expertise in Distributed Ledger / Blockchain technology and its application in the commercial insurance sector. Gary is a self-confessed Fintech enthusiast who runs the London-based Meetup Mashup Group, is a mentor on the Startupbootcamp Insurance programme and is a founding partner in RiskForge an insurance accelerator/incubator initiative. A regular presenter, panellist and organiser of events around Analytics, IoT and Blockchain he’s excited by the ever accelerating pace of change that technology provides.
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About Distlytics: Distlytics offering advisory, consultancy, education and training services.
David Brownley
Managing Director of Digitally Brilliant Ltd
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About Digitally Brilliant Ltd: Digital Marketing & Web Design Made Simple. We build great Websites and Marketing Campaigns which Gain Quality Leads and Revenue.
Toni Vallen
Managing Director & President of Seton Services Ltd.
Toni Vallen served as Managing Director and President of Seton Services Ltd. since 1988. Before joining Seton, Toni served as Vice President for Manufactures Hanover, a International Private Banking Deparment, and she also worked in Citicorp a Latin American Department and the Mexican Government as an U.S. representative officer for the Public Works Bank. Toni Vallen has a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University, New York City and Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Literature at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Toni aims to help small and mid-sized companies to portray their investments and financial state in the best possible light. She is an expert in integrating finance, investment management and other financial responsibilities.
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About Seton Services Ltd.: Offers international small-cap companies access to all aspects of financial public relations in regard to building an investor network.
Kevin Senior
Managing Director of Glasscubes
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About Glasscubes: Work Better Together – Connect your employees, customers and partners in a private online community.
Justine Cross
Managing Director of EMEA Channels
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About EMEA Channels: EMEA Channels develops appropriate channel programs for the targeted region of businesses.
Rob Borley
Managing Director of Dootrix
Rob Borley is the founder and managing director of Dootrix, a software engineering that helps clients accelerate their businesses through mobile, cloud and IoT software solutions. Working with clients such as Confused.com, Heathrow Airport, P&O Ferries, Clancy Docwra and Surfers Against Sewage, Rob leads a dynamic team of designers and developers, creating the next generation of mobile apps, PaaS first cloud software and best in class IoT solutions for enterprise.
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About Dootrix: Dootrix designers, developers, creatives, technologists and strategists dedicated building best in class cloud, mobile & IoT applications.
David Brown
Managing Director of Travel Airport Plus
David is one of the company Directors and looks after the financial side of the business amongst other things. With a very competitive edge, Dave can out tennis, golf, party lot of us. Dave is a really keen traveller and has recently enjoyed visiting Vietnam, Cambodia and India. Ask him about huts on the beach and he’ll be off. He’s a Man City season ticket holder, despite our best efforts to convince him there are other things that hard earned money can be spent on.
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About Travel Airport Plus: Airport Travel Plus is providing discounted rates and deals available on airport parking.
Leon Calverley
Managing Director of Door4
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About Door4: Door4 is a digital agency that provides business-focused e-commece websites, online promotion and internet consultancy.
Ami Davies
Managing Director of Brand Ami
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About Brand Ami: A dynamic and forward thinking business, using breakthrough technology to develop a portfolio of location based Bluetooth solutions.
Thelma Kalentzoti
Founder, Managing Director of Shoutcube
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About Shoutcube: Shoutcube is a chat app that will change the way the user communicates.
MD SenServe
Managing Director of SenServe Limited
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About SenServe Limited: SenServe offers customised IT solutions, App Development, Wi-Fi Solutions Web Solutions, IT Support Services and CRM Solutions
MD SenServe
Managing Director of SenServe Limited
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About SenServe Limited: SenServe offers customised IT solutions, App Development, Wi-Fi Solutions Web Solutions, IT Support Services and CRM Solutions
Steve Clarke
Managing Director of FinTech Connect
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About FinTech Connect: FinTech Connect is a free global network offering for the fintech industry, hosting live events, a connection portal, and original content.
Steve Clarke
Managing Director of FinTech Connect
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About FinTech Connect: FinTech Connect is a free global network offering for the fintech industry, hosting live events, a connection portal, and original content.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
Ben Mills
Managing Director of Desk Dragons Interactive Limited
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About : Desk Dragons Interactive builds globally recognized gaming IPs and brands for next generation platforms.
Ben Mills
Managing Director of Desk Dragons Interactive Limited
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About : Desk Dragons Interactive builds globally recognized gaming IPs and brands for next generation platforms.
Matthew Nelson
Managing Director of ChurchBox
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About ChurchBox: A fully managed service, hosted in the cloud, that can be easily integrated into your website.
Matthew Nelson
Managing Director of ChurchBox
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About ChurchBox: A fully managed service, hosted in the cloud, that can be easily integrated into your website.
Aaron Russell
Managing Director & CTO of File Sanctuary
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About File Sanctuary: Internet Service Provider, Managed Service Provider
Chris Paton
Managing Director of Quirk
Chris Paton A former Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Marines, with a wealth of operational experience, Chris’ military career included advising on Afghan Strategy and plans to the Cabinet Office and National Security Council, and he was responsible for the design of the drawdown of the UK presence in Afghanistan. He saw active service in a wide range of places including Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Georgia and Afghanistan. In 2010, Chris co-authored a HBR article on planning in fluid situations. This then led to him leaving the military to create Quirk Solutions Ltd. Chris has worked with BUPA, Heineken, Standard Life Investments, Shell and a wide range of SME businesses. He uses his leadership, strategy and planning experience to give organisations increased coherency, direction and efficiency. Chris is also one of the UK’s premier exponents of Business Wargaming; stress testing plans to identify risks and opportunities. Bi-lingual in French and with a Masters Degree in International Liaison and Communication, he spent 6 months of 2013 in Benin, providing French-speaking performance consultancy to a client. An avid rugby man, Chris also enjoys outdoor sports, trying to surf, and expending vast amounts of nugatory effort failing to make his garden look presentable.
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About Quirk: Quirk is a independently owned digital marketing agency.
