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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 VP’ operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Neil Holloway
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions of Microsoft
Neil Holloway has been Corporate Vice President, Sales & Partners for Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) since July 2012. In this role he reports to Rocky Blanton, CVP of the Enterprise and Partner Group, and is responsible for Sales operations worldwide for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP product suites; the development and health of the Microsoft Dynamics channel ecosystem and customer service programs; as well as ERP & CRM sales worldwide via Time Zone teams, field and integration with the broader Microsoft sales organizations. During the prior 5 years as VP Business Strategy for Microsoft International, Holloway was a key strategic partner for the corporate business groups and segments, and field leadership, being at the forefront of some of the largest change initiatives the company has implemented, and better positioning the company to capture the opportunities in the transition to a world of cloud, services and devices. Since joining Microsoft in 1990, Holloway has held a number of strategic roles in its UK subsidiary. He was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft Ltd. in July 1998 and subsequently was appointed Vice President of Microsoft EMEA in April 2000. Holloway has an MPhil in Operational Research and Control Engineering from Cambridge University and a BSc Hon. in Mathematics from the University of Bath. In 2008, in recognition of his contribution to international business, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Bath.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ashling Kearns
Vice President of UK&I Marketing of Salesforce
Ashling Kearns is the Vice President of UK&I Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Chris Hemingway
Regional VP, ISV Sales; SalesForce EMEA of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andrew Sutherland
Senior Vice President, Technology & Systems, EMEA of Oracle
Dr. Andrew Sutherland is senior vice president of technology and systems for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for growing Oracle’s EMEA market share in these key business areas. In this role he develops business strategies and manages competence in Oracle’s technology and systems offerings across the region. He is also responsible for the interaction with Oracle’s product development teams. Sutherland joined Oracle in 1995 and has more than 30 years’ experience in emerging technologies and their application to business challenges. His specific expertise is in the design of solutions incorporating mobile and internet technologies. Immediately prior to joining Oracle, Sutherland established a high tech company that developed technological solutions to the problems of the sensory-impaired. The company received prestigious innovation awards from the Department of Trade and Industry. Before this he was deputy director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a research and development consultancy attached to the University of Edinburgh. During his time there, Sutherland helped win and subsequently oversaw the development of projects in commerce, industry, and the public sector. In 1988, Sutherland designed the UK’s first parallel-processing speech- recognition system. Based on parallel processors, it operated in real time. Under his management, this technology was successfully applied to problems encountered in aviation, medical reporting, and police reporting. Sutherland has contributed to more than 15 technical publications on multimedia and business issues, including entries in a major encyclopedia. He holds a first- class BSc in electrical and electronic engineering from Edinburgh University, a PhD in digital-signal processing, and an MBA in workflow analysis. Sutherland is also a chartered engineer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ian Davis
Vice President Of Product Management of Oracle
Ian is the Vice President Of Product Management for Oracle’s suite of Commerce solutions, both on-premise and Cloud. His team of Product Managers, Business Analysts and UX Designers are responsible for the next-generation of Oracle’s Commerce offering. Ian has been in the eCommerce business for over 15 years, through which time he has seen the evolution from simple web tools through to today’s sophisticated Commerce applications. He has lead the transition of licensed product business to SaaS business models, and knows what that can involve for a software company.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
James Stanbridge
Vice President of Oracle
James Stanbridge, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, is a leadership practitioner based in United Kingdom, having spent the past 10 years living in Asia, moving to Shanghai, China in 2005 and to Singapore in 2009. During his corporate career, James successfully attracted, hired and developed diverse teams of technologists in China, Singapore, India, Japan as well as Europe for Oracle, Microsoft, Alta Vista and Yamaha Motor in a multinational, corporate leadership career spanning more than 20 years. James is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), has been an Executive coach in the ‘Excelerrate’ program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a former Board member of the not-for- profit organization Lifeline Shanghai. He is currently the CTO of a Singapore based NGO fighting human trafficking and travels to Cambodia to support Sala Bai, a school for young women who are at risk of trafficking.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paul Donnelly
Vice President, Corporate Application Services of Oracle
Vice President, Corporate Application Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chris Talago
VP Communications, EMEA and APAC of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nikki Stones
VP Demand Generation of Privitar
As Head of Marketing, Nikki is responsible for Privitar’s brand development, marketing strategy and communications. She also supports the company’s go-to-market and sales plans. She is a highly accomplished B2B marketer, with over 15 years expertise spanning early stage tech start-ups through to some of the world’s largest enterprises including KPMG, Schlumberger and Accenture, where she held senior, strategic roles. She has broad sector experience across Financial Services, Energy and Pharmaceuticals. Nikki has a complementary blend of marketing and technology skills and is highly accomplished at building teams from the ground up. Nikki has a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism and is Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Stephen Spence
VP of Engineering of Privitar
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
David Percy
VP, Professional Services of VMware
David Percy is the Vice President, VMware Professional Services
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Pavel Kilovatiy
VP Engineering of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Alexandra Gee
VP Marketing & Communications of WANdisco
Alex worked as a broadcast journalist for over ten years at CNN International, ITV News, Channel 4 News and Al Arabiya. She was part of the team which set up Al Jazeera English in Doha and went on to manage the channel’s coverage in Central and South Asia. After leaving journalism Alex advised a number of foreign governments and ultra high net worth individuals on reputation and crisis management and went on to work with entrepreneurs and fast growth businesses on profile raising, branding and marketing.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Simon McCann
AVP, UKI & BENELUX of Collibra
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About Collibra: Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation.
Terry Bishop
VP Customer Success, EMEA of RiskIQ
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Terry Bishop
VP Customer Success, EMEA of RiskIQ
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Avi Corfas
VP, Latin America & Director, Central Europe of Skybox Security
Mr. Avi Corfas serves as Vice President of Sales – Asia-Pacific & Latin America at Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas served as Head of International Markets of Skybox Security, Inc. Mr. Corfas serves as Advisor of WorkLight Inc. He served as Vice President of worldwide Sales and Managing Director of Europe, Middle East & Africa of Skybox Security, Inc., since April 2004. He served as Vice President of Skybox Security, Inc. since April 2004. Mr. Corfas served as Executive
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About Skybox Security: Skybox Security is a global leader in security analytics for cybersecurity management.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Sonalee Parekh
SVP Finance, Head of corporate development M and A and Investor relations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sonalee is a seasoned corporate advisor who adds more than 20 years experience in the global technology, media, and telecommunications industries to our leadership group. She has held senior leadership roles at several international investment banks, including Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies. Parekh currently serves as the SVP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Melissa Kantor
VP of People Analytics and Insights of The LEGO Group
Melissa Kantor is Vice President of People Analytics and Insights at The LEGO Group. She is an accomplished Programme and Changes Director with substantial experience delivering global HR, IT, Digital and Analytics initiatives for the world’s leading corporates across sectors, including the Big Four, global financial institutions, IT and bio-techs, as well as Silicon Valley-based start-ups. Her varied background also includes delivery of Finance, Supply Chain, Quote to Cash and other change initiatives.
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About The LEGO Group: The LEGO Group is a family-owned company that specializes in the development of children’s creativity through playing and learning.
Richard Young
Vice President, Vault CDMS of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Charles Lawson
GM & VP EMEA of Egnyte
Sales management professional with extensive experience in building and managing teams for lead generation and sales with early, mid and late stage start up technology companies. Have personally sold and managed teams in SaaS and enterprise software selling models. Specialties: team building, pipeline development, lead generation, sales opportunity qualification & closure, sales coaching, SaaS sales, and enterprise software sales.
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About Egnyte, PropelPLM: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Gordon Thomson
VP, EMEAR Specialist Sales of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Connon MacRae
VP Technical Operations, INTL of Ticketmaster
Long time Ticketmaster veteran who started in the UK London call centre selling tickets as a casual worker back in 1997. He got lucky, got help and worked hard. As a result, he now leads the Technical Operations group for the International team at Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is over 40 years old and during that time, Connon has seen a number of Technology and Culture shifts.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Darren Crowder
Vice President and Head of Solution Engineering of TIBCO
Darren Crowder is the vice president and head of solution engineering at TIBCO.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Thomas John
VP EMEA Channels of Five9
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About Five9: Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Natalie Gross
VP, Brand and Marketing, EMEA of EPAM Systems
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Kriti Sharma
VP of Artificial Intelligence of Sage Group
Kriti Sharma is VP of bots and AI at Sage. She was recently named in Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30. She built her first robot at the age of 17, designed to bring chocolates to its controller. The software bots she works on at Sage today are designed to helping business builders do less admin, and more of what they love. Sharma is a trailblaser for smart machines that work and react like humans to help to make business admin invisible. Sharma is the creator of Pegg, the world’s first accounting chatbot, launched to market in 2017 which now boasts users in 135 countries.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Colin Cooper
Sage People Vice President & Founder of Sage Group
Colin Cooper serves as sage people vice president and founder at The Sage Group.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Adam Parker
EVP Data of Sage Group
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About Sage Group, Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Tim Norris
VP Sales EMEA of mParticle
Tim Norris is the VP of Sales EMEA at mParticle.
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About Habu, mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Matthew Locsin
Vice President of Publicis Sapient
Matt Locsin is a Vice President at Publicis Sapient, where he leads the firm’s practice for innovation and drives Digital business transformation. He works with leaders and their teams to conceive, develop, and launch ‘what’s next’ and helps organisations to build their innovation competencies.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Mark Little
VP Engineering of Red Hat
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About InfoQ, Institut national des sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Institut national des sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Java Community Process, Newcastle University, OASIS, Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
James Prudhomme
Executive Vice President, International of Index Exchange
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Jada Balster
Vice President, Marketing of Workfront
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About Workfront: Workfront providers cloud-based enterprise work management solutions for enterprise teams.
Charlie Mayer
SVP Global Sales of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Louis Cointepas
Vice President, Americas Customer Success & Market Development of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Andy Slater
VP & Managing Director EMEA of Actifio
Having joined Actifio in 2011, Andy leads the EMEA sales execution. Prior to this role, Andy was pivotal in heading up the services and installation customers in the region. Prior to Actifio, Andy lead sales and operations at TecTrade, a data protection and storage partner based in the UK. His 15+ years in roles as Chief Operating Officer and Sales Director allowed him to build strategic customer and regional relationships.
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About Actifio: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
David Farmery
Vice President, Message Automation of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Steve Ferris
EVP Global Customer Success & Co-Founder of ForgeRock
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About ForgeRock, ForgeRock: ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open source identity and access management products.
Doug Norton Bilsby
VP, Industries Retail & CPG of ForgeRock
Doug Norton-Bilsby is responsible for setting the direction of all ForgeRock’s client facing activity in the Retail and Consumer Products arena globally. He is charged with defining the strategy for the operation and ensuring its consistent execution through Sales, Pre-Sales, Marketing and Product. He also leads and sets the direction for all Partner and Alliance activity for the market across the region. Doug joined ForgeRock in January 2017. Doug comes to ForgeRock after spending the past five years helping early stage Mobile Commerce technology businesses build international operations. Prior to this Doug has led the European and International businesses of market leading Enterprise Technology Companies including Experian, Oracle and IBM. Doug holds a number of Professional Business and Management qualifications including a Masters.
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About ForgeRock: ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open source identity and access management products.
Justin Barrett
Vice President EMEA of Brightcove
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About Brightcove, Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Patrick Legro
Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer Staples Europe of Staples Europe
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About Staples Europe, Staples Europe: Staples Europe is an online platform that enables Staples customers to submit, track, and find rebates.
Yigal Elstein
Vice President UK&I of Tricentis
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About Tricentis: Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks.
Neil Fowler
VP Engineering of Micro Focus
Neil Fowler has held a variety of senior technical and leadership positions over two decades. With significant experience of helping hundreds of customer deliver modernization projects he has been at the forefront of product architecture and strategy across COBOL, Mainframe Solutions, CORBA and Host Connectivity.
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About Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
David Griffiths
SVP Sales & Marketing of 4me
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About 4me, 4me: 4me is an IT and Enterprise Service Management & Workflow application, providing complete visibility and control of service cost & quality.
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Shak Akhtar
SVP Finance Automation & Customer Experience Officer at Redwood Software of Redwood Software
Shak combines his abundance of financial and IT experience to fulfil his global responsibilities role. This includes spearheading the adoption of robotic process solutions by enterprises across their back-office operations and chairing client led financial transformation workshops.
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About Redwood Software: Redwood Software is an international company providing job scheduling, report distribution and SAP solutions.
Charlie Doubek
Vice President, Advanced Services EMEA of Arkadin
Charlie Doubek has been in the Telecommunications industry for 15 years working for providers such as MCI-Verizon, Genesys, West Corporation, and now NTT with experience in the NA, EMEA, and APAC markets. His primary focus has been professional services related to the adoption of collaborative services and technical integrations for the last 10 years. Now he is focusing on end to end digital transformation services around cloud datacentre and intelligent communications.
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About Arkadin: Arkadin provides businesses with online collaboration solutions using audio, web and unified communications tools.
Richard Belgrave
CRO & VP, AI Sales of Leverton
Richard is UK Managing Director of LEVERTON.A former Corporate Financier with a passion for revolutionising how individuals work with data and documents.
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About Cabot Financial, Leverton: Leverton is AI-powered data extraction and contract analytics platform.
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Quentin Roquefort
SVP Engineering of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Vincent Bonnet
Chief Commercial Officer, SVP, International Sales & Strategic Partnership of Octo Telematics
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About Octo Telematics: Octo Telematics researches, develops, and manages telematics applications and systems for the insurance and automotive markets.
Simon Negus
EVP Worldwide Sales of Tenefit
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About Tenefit: Tenefit provides a simple, secure, and real-time solution for enterprise-grade digital transformation.
Helen Attia
VP Worldwide Sales of Kadence
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Darren Loveday
SVP of Customer Engagement of Thunderhead
Darren Loveday is the SVP of Customer Engagement at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Wil Lynch
SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy of Thunderhead
Wil Lynch is the SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Mark Brewer
VP – Service Industries of IFS
Mark has been helping organizations drive business transformation for over 20 years. From bringing Service Lifecycle Management solutions to market with Servigistics to introducing Connected FSM to the marketplace with IFS, Mark has worked with some of the world’s largest service organizations including Coca-Cola, Dell, GE Healthcare and ThyssenKrupp. In March 2017, Mark was named one of the most influential people in field service by Field Service News.
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About IFS: IFS develops and delivers enterprise software solutions such as ERP, EAM and Service Management.
Simon Croome
Founder & VP of Engineering of Ondat
Simon Croome is the Founder & VP Engineering at StorageOS.
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About Ondat: Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Kenneth Pouliot
Global SVP of Sales of Percolate
Ken Pouliot serves as global SVP of sales at Percolate, leading the company’s sales, account management, business development, system engineers, channel, enablement, and sales operations teams.
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About Percolate, SheerID: Percolate is a content marketing platform offering solutions to introduce visibility into the marketing process.
Imogen Tugcu
VP Services of Artesian Solutions
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About Artesian Solutions: Artesian is the company intelligence service which is changing the way B2B sales people work.
Rich Clark
VP Product Management of Artesian Solutions
At Artesian we’re building something amazing. Simple, but amazing. Our mission is to make B2B Sales Professionals – our users – Awesome. Deriving actionable insights from thousands of data sources every minute of the day, we’re helping our users create shortcuts in their day to make them better, more effective Social Sellers. I’m highly experienced in all aspects of the delivery of effective, usable and profitable software products. I’m passionate about creating great experiences with technology, and using it intelligently to change the world, one inefficient task at a time.
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About Artesian Solutions: Artesian is the company intelligence service which is changing the way B2B sales people work.
Barry Lyne
VP Sales of Panaseer
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Sean Sewell
Co-Founder | VP Revenue of Partnerize
Sean is the Co-Founder and VP Revenue EMEA of Performance Horizon, an online marketing technology provider based on a suite of performance marketing products and services. Sean has over 7 years of online experience. Formerly Commercial Director for AOL, Sean spent two years heading up buy.at and AOL lead generation products, budgets, and growth strategy. Tenacious and strong relationship builder at all levels, responsible for building growing the Performance Horizon client global client portfolio. Sean studied Marketing at University of Bedfordshire as well as at Erasmus International Business School in Rotterdam.
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Paul Taylor
VP, UK Revenue of Partnerize
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Paul Taylor
VP, UK Revenue of Partnerize
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Patrick Hannon
Vice President – Corporate Development of Frontier Silicon
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About Frontier Silicon: Frontier Silicon is a supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices.
Bob Heads
VP Systems Engineering of Frontier Silicon
Bob is VP of Group Engineering for Toumaz with responsibility for both the Frontier Silicon and Sensium Healthcare engineering teams. In his early career Bob was a digital hardware and software engineer, before progressing to manage large, global multi-skilled engineering teams. He managed the Engineering team for 3Com’s LAN business, overseeing the development of silicon, hardware and software solutions. Bob was also instrumental in setting up the joint venture between Huawei in China and 3Com. At Frontier, he has led the engineering team which has delivered the world’s leading DAB digital radio technology solutions. Bob has a first class honours degree in Computer Engineering from Manchester University.
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About Frontier Silicon: Frontier Silicon is a supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices.
Kris McKenzie
SVP International Sales of Calabrio
Kris McKenzie is responsible for Calabrio’s EMEA operations and go-to- market efforts. He oversees sales, operations, strategic partnerships and customer success. Kris joined Calabrio with more than 20 years’ experience in global enterprise SaaS technology and 14 years of management and sales leadership. Kris brings extensive expertise in helping companies implement solutions to develop a deep understanding of their customers. Most recently, Kris served as Global VP Market Development at SAP Hybris Cloud, where he drove revenue and customer success through long-term corporate alliances, partnerships and other collaborations. Prior to SAP Hybris, Kris was SVP Global Sales at Yieldify where he ran the global sales team across London, New York, Sydney and São Paulo. He also served as the EMEA Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales for ExactTarget, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2014. Kris holds a B.Sc. degree in Business Information Systems from De Montfort University.
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About Calabrio: Calabrio is a software company that provides an easy to use workforce optimization suite for contact centers.
Charles Milton
VP Strategic Alliances of CensorNet
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About CensorNet, Forghetti: CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS) is a new-generation comprehensive cloud-based cyber security solution.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Dorothy Mead
VP Marketing and Brand of Talmix
Dorothy is a technology and b2b marketing veteran who has worked with multinational organisations, consultancies and with early stage businesses in London and Cambridge UK to drive commercial traction and growth. Blending a deep knowledge of traditional and digital marketing techniques, she currently is responsible for building the Talmix brand globally and creating programmes to support revenue growth and market share in the Enterprise, Private Equity and Management Consultancy segments.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Dorothy Mead
VP Marketing and Brand of Talmix
Dorothy is a technology and b2b marketing veteran who has worked with multinational organisations, consultancies and with early stage businesses in London and Cambridge UK to drive commercial traction and growth. Blending a deep knowledge of traditional and digital marketing techniques, she currently is responsible for building the Talmix brand globally and creating programmes to support revenue growth and market share in the Enterprise, Private Equity and Management Consultancy segments.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Richard Agnew
AVP EMEA North of ExaGrid Systems
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About ExaGrid Systems: ExaGrid Systems offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions and systems for information technology companies.
Richard Agnew
AVP EMEA North of ExaGrid Systems
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About ExaGrid Systems: ExaGrid Systems offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions and systems for information technology companies.
Richard Newton
co-founder + VP marketing of Clarify
Co-founder of OP3Nvoice. VP Marketing.
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About Clarify, Screendragon: The world has moved beyond text. Our platform makes searching AV files simple for developers to integrate into their applications.
Mike Brooksbank
Managing Director & VP EMEA of Pingar
As Managing Director, Pingar API Limited, VP EMEA, Mike Brooksbank manages Pingar operations in the United Kingdom Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Mike’s work at Pingar comes after 24 years in the software industry, where he has held senior and executive positions in sales and management. His recent experience includes work as Managing Director UK and Vice President EMEA for Kofax image capture and business process automation solutions. Earlier in his career, Mike held executive and senior management positions at Citadon, Xchange Inc, Serena Software, and Systar Limited. And, before working in the software industry, Mike served as an officer in the Royal Air Force.
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About Pingar: Pingar offers products and services that enables businesses to find, organize, and manage content.
Laine Napier
Vice President Xpect Divison of Intelligent Software Solutions
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About Intelligent Software Solutions: Intelligent Software Solutions, a software development and services company, provides development and consultancy services.
Arun Gupta
Vice President, ServiceNow Global Delivery of Crossfuze
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About Crossfuze: Crossfuze is a provider of consulting, design, implementation services, and resale of the ServiceNow® technology platform.
Andy Powell
VP Customer Experience of VersionOne
A During his 13-year career in the software development industry, Andy Powell has assisted in numerous enterprise agile rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre. Since joining VersionOne in 2006, Andy has served in various roles that include product management, leading VersionOne’s sales engineering team, and serving as a product evangelist for the company’s strategic initiatives. Recently, he has helped lead VersionOne’s strategy with respect to agile program and portfolio management. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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About VersionOne: VersionOne is a management tool supporting agile software development methodologies.
Andy Powell
VP Customer Experience of VersionOne
A During his 13-year career in the software development industry, Andy Powell has assisted in numerous enterprise agile rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre. Since joining VersionOne in 2006, Andy has served in various roles that include product management, leading VersionOne’s sales engineering team, and serving as a product evangelist for the company’s strategic initiatives. Recently, he has helped lead VersionOne’s strategy with respect to agile program and portfolio management. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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About VersionOne: VersionOne is a management tool supporting agile software development methodologies.
Richard Sheppard
Vice President of Sales of Oblix
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About Oblix: Oblix develops identity-based security and provides web access management solutions for e-commerce networks.
Amanda Steward
VP, Marketing of Pushfor
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About Pushfor: Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
Steve Cater
VP Growth of Mo
I am passionate about the opportunity for technology and communications to improve our lives. My specialist subjects are marketing, delivering and managing growth, brand strategy and creating high performing teams. 10+ years experience in the creative industries building leading consumer brands in innovative ways. Now leading marketing and communications for a talent-focused marketplace changing the way that companies resource and manage their contingent workers. More here: www.yunojuno.com Let’s do this.
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About Mo: The Future of Employee Engagement
