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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 CEO’ operating in the Human Resources space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tony Jamous
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster®
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date. Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributed talent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO 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.
Gareth Jones
Chief Executive Officer of Headstart
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About Headstart: Headstart is diversity recruiting software focused on breaking the cycle of exclusion.
Andrew Bradshaw
Chief Executive Officer of SHL
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About SHL, SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Shay David
CEO of Retrain AI
Dr. David is the co-founder and CEO of Retrain.ai, ( www.retrain.ai ) where he connects people to jobs. Retrain is a talent-intelligence platform for Enterprises and Governments to seamlessly assess their workforce’s knowledge, qualifications, and skills, using artificial intelligence and machine learning, enabling them to retrain, recruit, and retain workers faster and more accurately than ever before. Retrain’s AI models captures skills shifts cycles and predicts the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing employers to understand better which skills are emerging, evolving and expiring, so they can re-train their workforce effectively while planning outside talent hiring rapidly, all while empowering job-seekers who have been displaced by automation or global crisis to be re-trained and get back into the workforce. Prior to retrain.ai Shay co-founded of Kaltura ( www.kaltura.com ), a leader in video streaming solutions. Through multiple roles ranging from CTO, CRO, and GM, he oversaw the company’s growth from inception to thousands of global customers including 700 universities and 25% of the Fortune 100, and over $100M in annual revenue. Prior to Kaltura, Dr. David co-founded Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters, and in his spare time enjoys yoga and angel investing. Dr. David’s academic expertise is collaborative and open-source information and communication systems. He earned his B.Sc. (magna cum laude) at Tel-Aviv Univesity with a double-major in Computer Science and Philosophy, his interdisciplinary M.A. at New York University on the economics of open systems, and his Ph.D. in Arts and Science from Cornell University on the topic of participatory information networks. He pursued his post-doctoral work on the issue of Access to Knowledge at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, where he is a visiting fellow.
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About Retrain AI: Retrain AI provides software using AI and machine learning to read job boards at scale and gain insight into where the job market is going.
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Hubble
Tushar is the Co-Founder of Spacious.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
Daniel Goldstein
Founder & CEO of Elements Talent Solutions
Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Elements Talent Consultancy. He founded the business in 2009 and first piloted the concept of Embedded Talent Consultancy roughly 5 years later. He is a passionate advocate of the true value of excellent talent acquisition professionals and is on a mission to change perceptions of an industry which has traditionally been characterised by poor standards and a consequent lack of trust.
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About Elements Talent Solutions: Elements Talent Solutions is a talent acquisition agency that specialises in partnering with high-growth technology firms.
Melissa Morris
CEO of Lantum
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About Lantum: Lantum is the online platform that enables healthcare providers to manage their clinical workforce.
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.
Matthew Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer of e-days
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About e-days: e-days is SaaS solution for employee absence management
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Stuart Hearn
CEO & Founder of Clear Review
Stuart has over 20 years’ HR experience and has spent the last 12 years specialising in performance management and technology. He was formerly International HR Director at Sony Music and later co-founded a specialist performance and talent management consultancy.
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About Clear Review: Clear Review is an award-winning, Continuous Performance Management and Engagement System.
Alberto Gabbai
Chairman and CEO of Cezanne HR
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About Cezanne HR: Comprehensive Cloud HR software for mid-sized UK & international businesses
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
James Lloyd-Townshend
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tenth Revolution Group
With over two decades of experience leading staffing firms, James Lloyd-Townshend is an experienced CEO with a strong track record of identifying under-served niche markets. He builds and scales highly profitable, market leading international cloud recruitment brands and training academies, all of which outperform their peers by several orders of magnitude. As Chairman and CEO, James has created a business that allows anyone with the ambition to succeed and reach their goals in an environment that is genuinely inclusive. James is an Economics and Accounting graduate from the University of Newcastle and has attended the executive program at Manchester Business School as well as several other business schools in Europe.
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About Tenth Revolution Group: Tenth Revolution Group is the global leader in cloud talent solutions, uniquely equipped to deliver digital transformation through people.
Benjamin Todd
CEO, Co Founder & Executive Director of 80,000 Hours
In under three years with Ben’s leadership, 80,000 Hours has grown from a student society, to an Oxford affiliated charity, featured on TED, the Washington Post, the BBC Today Programme and more. Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics and speaks Chinese. Before 80,000 Hours, he was the first undergraduate to intern as an analyst at a top investment fund. Rather than taking the job, he persuaded the Chairman to donate £60,000 to 80,000 Hours.
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About 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours is an evidence-based advice on careers that make a difference.
Anna Rasmussen
CEO & Founder of Open Blend
Anna Rasmussen is the CEO & Founder at OpenBlend.
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About Open Blend: The People Platform for People Managers. Our software facilitates coaching led one-to-ones to support an individual’s development journey
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Lilia Stoyanov
CEO of Transformify
Global strategic leader driving operations within finance, treasury, project management, product and business development areas in both Fortune 500 and fast growing fintech companies. Experienced in E commerce, On -line payments, On-line Gambling, Fintech, Business Transformation and Interim Management.
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About Transformify: Transformify Freelancer Management System (FMS) is the seamless way to manage and pay freelancers, consultants and contingent workers.
Chris Abbass
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Phil Blaydes
Founder and Co-CEO of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Nick Ross
Founder and CEO of Guider
Nick Ross is the Founder and CEO of Guider.
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About Guider: On a mission to create the best personal-development platform for employees worldwide, with mentoring and coaching at its core.
Riham Satti
Co-founder / CEO of MeVitae
Riham Satti, CEO of MeVitae is amongst the top 50 disruptive game changers in Thames Valley, top 100 influential UK tech business leaders and according to Forbes a ‘female founder taking the UK by storm’. As well as her involvement in the tech ecosystem and working with innovative start-up companies, Riham’s main interests lie in leveraging technology to unleash human capital and solve the biggest employment challenges, supported by the likes of Microsoft, European Space Agency and Oxford University – quoted as ‘disruptive recruitment technology innovation’ by Stephen Kelly (CEO of Sage). She is involved in several initiatives in promoting female founders and women in STEM. Riham is a computational neuroscientist from Oxford and Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London.
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About MeVitae, Tech London Advocates, techUK: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Sebastian Fallert
CEO and Co-founder of Ben
Sebastian Fallert is the CEO and co-founder of Ben.
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About Ben: Supercharge your benefits, save time and money
Neta Meidav
Co-Founder & CEO of Vault Platform
Neta Meidav is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Vault.
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Jamaal Brathwaite
Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs
Barbadian-British entrepreneur residing in Manchester, UK. Passionate about: start-ups, entrepreneurship, aviation, social enterprises, cloud technology, human capital, starting and globally scaling innovate business ideas and above all…., creating a more joyful, healthy & happy world. Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs®, the “Future of Hiring”. A next generation ‘jobs & recruitment’ platform that utilises revolutionary technology to further enhance the personalization and pairing experience moving past the current access barriers for candidates seeking jobs or visa versa. My first startup was NextGen Interview Ltd. Imagine being able to see and hear from candidates before organizing face-to-face meetings. Now let me introduce you to NextGen Interview: the newest way for employers to find qualified applicants and job-seekers to find their dream jobs in the most technologically efficient manner possible. It offered a convenient way to screen candidates which assists reducing interviewing costs during the recruitment process and enhancing branding. Prior to launching Jobseekrs® & NextGen Interview, I served as a Senior Sales Manager with the Appco Group (#1 Direct Marketing Company in the world), managing sales representatives from SRJ Marketing and was awarded the Sales Leadership Excellence Award in 2012. My goal is to be a globally successful and inspirational leader, who creates vision and opportunity for myself and for those around me. I want to be someone who leads by example and strives for success. I will always work hard to ensure optimum performance of my business. I like to think of myself an open, honest and approachable leader, who shares the trials and tribulations. I believe that it’s my generosity and fair approach which makes me a strong leader, and I will ensure that my businesses benefit from good people and their commitment to excel in their roles.
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About : Jobseekrs is the world’s first, video interactive job-site that mitigates unconscious bias when matching great candidates to suitable roles.
John Peebles
CEO of Administrate
Extensive experience designing and implementing complex products and processes across a variety of industries. He is experienced in all aspects of the software and product development lifecycle, growing startups, developing business plans and delivering against those plans.
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About Administrate, Turing Fest: The enterprise training management platform for business results.
Robert Walters
CEO and Founder of Robert Walters
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About Robert Walters: Robert Walters is a global, specialist professional recruitment consultancy.
Xenios Thrasyvoulou
Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour
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About PeoplePerHour: PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
Nitzan Yudan
CEO & Co-founder of Benivo
Nitzan Yudan,36 , Israeli in London, MBA at London Business School, and 12 years’ experience in tourism, IT, and finance. Nitzan is the founder of Flat-Club – the marketplace for medium term stays – from a few weeks to a few months. Nitzan is a popular speaker about entrepreneurship and business schools, and he also serves as a mentor at London Business School for entrepreneurship. Nitzan won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013 by JC & Investec Bank, and selected to Silicon 60 by the Evening Standard.
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About Benivo: Benivo is an award winning HR tech helping employers make every employee welcome
Mark Chaffey
Co-founder & CEO of hackajob
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About hackajob: Hackajob is a data-driven and engaging recruitment platform that matches top digital talent with exciting companies.
James Bryce
Founder and CEO of gweek
Entrepreneur in speech pathology and technology.
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About gweek: gweek is the category leader of Speech Intelligence. We help job candidates speak and communicate with natural agility.
Mark Kieve
CEO of Zao.com
CEO at Zao.com
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About Pixid, Zao.com: Zao offers social recruiting and employee referral program management software for companies.
Amir Qureshi
Chief Executive Officer of Thomas International
With a strong track record of success spanning over twenty years, Amir brings a great combination of operational and commercial acumen to Thomas. As Chief Executive Officer of Thomas International, Amir is passionate about working with business leaders, entrepreneurs and people managers, helping them to make the very best of their talent. Amir is incredibly trusting and encourages honesty, confidence and empowerment in the people he works with; where he will reward those people who deliver with the best opportunities. He is a proactive, results-orientated individual who inspires others into decisions and action. He enjoys a work environment that allows freedom within the role and appreciates those with a strong work ethic. His value to the team comes from his experimentation and in thinking ‘outside the box’, but is demotivated by those who don’t see tasks through to completion or follow up. Amir has a deep knowledge of market drivers to align business models, products, pricing and brands with consumer demand. Prior to joining the team, Amir’s career included progression to senior executive level with FMCG at The Coca-Cola Company. With his wife and three children, Amir lives in Buckinghamshire. His foundations are in his family and he invests as much as time allows to support them in all their hobbies and interests, from professional hockey to ballet.
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About Thomas International: Thomas International is a provider of psychometric assessment solutions with a focus on small to medium-sized businesses.
Anna Brailsford
CEO and Co-Founder of Frisbee
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About Frisbee: Frisbee is helping enterprises transform performance management through continuous feedback.
Mina Gouran
Senior Client Partner- CEO & Board Services of Korn Ferry
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About Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm
Khyati Sundaram
Chief Executive Officer of Applied
Prior to joining Applied, I co-founded a B2B AI-based pricing platform. I have over ten years of experience in product, fundraising and finance across both small and large organisations such as JP Morgan and RBS. I hold an MSc in Economics (specializing in game theory) from the London School of Economics and an MBA from London School of Business (with an exchange at the Wharton School).
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About Applied: Applied is the essential platform for debiased hiring. Using predictive, skills-based methods. Hire with purpose, supported by science.
Paul Roberts
Founder & CEO of Nomify
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About Nomify: Nomify is an app that provides the entire company’s employee engagement with news, events, nominations, and staff holiday planning.
Daniel Fellows
Founder & CEO of Get-Optimal
Daniel is founder and CEO at Get Optimal Content. Ex-Marketing Director at Indeed.com and also spent time in senior teams at Microsoft and Vodafone Group. Daniel is a highly accomplished data-driven sales, marketing and business leader. Having ran 250 client meetings in 18 months with the worlds leading HR and Talent Attraction leaders Daniel has built a contact network to win and win fast, locally and globally. He’s an accomplished data-driven marketer and commercial business leader, open, curious and committed to learning.He played a pivotal role in enabling LifeWorks to exit for $426m to Morneau Shepell in 2018. He’s built a vault of marketing expertise, a positive mindset and learning agility operating within series B, fast-paced startups and high growth startups right through to multi Billion dollar global organisations. He’s failed a few times along the way which is a great learning and helps keep his self-awareness and emotional intelligence balanced and online. He lives in London with his young family.
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About Get-Optimal: Get-Optimal is a UK based global technology company whose core product optimises Job Ads using AI and ML for diversity, inclusion and SEO.
Nick Court
Founder and CEO of The People Experience Hub
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About Cloud9 People, The People Experience Hub: Flexible employee feedback and survey platform (SaaS) provides everything you need to deliver an outstanding people experience.
Ann-Christine Roope
Founder & CEO of Ethan Partners
Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.
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About Ethan Partners: Ethan Partners is a specialized executive search firm.
Riko Muttik
Founder & CEO of PARiM
Founder of PARiM.
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About PARiM: Online Workforce Management Software. Scheduling, Absence Management, Time & Attendance, Payroll
Amanda Cai
CEO and Founder of Icontract Ventures Ltd.
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About Icontract Ventures Ltd.: iContract connects professional contractors with recruiters to match jobs
Sandeep Dhillon
CEO of Talmix
Sandeep Dhillon is the CEO at Talmix, having joined the business when it was MBA & Company as Director of Finance and Strategy at MBA & Company. Most recently he has fulfilled the role of Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Previously he was the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms EMEA Practice of GLG, a primary research firm that operates a network of senior industry executives who provide consulting services to venture capital, private equity and hedge fund clients. Prior to this he worked on a number of technology, media and telecoms M&A transactions whilst at Jefferies in the London TMT Investment Banking team and during his time at PwC both in London and San Francisco where he worked closely with Private Equity and Blue Chip Technology clients.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Tom Ladds
Founder & CEO of Hired By Startups
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About Hired By Startups: Hired By Startups provides onsite and external talent acquisition solutions to some of the UK’s fastest growing startups & scale-ups.
Paul Shilling
Co-Founder & CEO of Circle4x Ltd
Paul is an experienced and passionate business leader with a unique international experience working in multiple countries around the world. Focused on strategy, sales, and profitability through delivering great experiences. Paul started his career as a designer and engineer gathering unique experience of brand rollouts in the built environment with specialist knowledge of project management, cost, and risk management, construction, fit-out, interior furniture, signage, and graphics. Over the last 25 years, operating at the highest levels Paul has worked with many major brands across the automotive, petroleum, banking, retail, hotel and corporate sectors both domestically and globally. The diversity of these sectors and clients has given Paul extensive experience that helps support our clients with developing strategies for change, reducing its risk, maximising profits and ensuring it is ahead of the future trends.
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About Circle4x Ltd: Creative Strategy and Implementation Company on brand related human experiences
Matthew de la Hey
CEO & Co-Founder of inploi
Matthew is co-founder & CEO of inploi, a recruitment marketing platform built to connect great employers with the future of the workforce. With employer branding at its heart, inploi empowers companies to speak to candidates as consumers of workplaces, helping them to tell their stories with captivating videos, images, and written content in order to engage active and passive candidates. When actively hiring, inploi’s software is a powerful recruitment tool incorporating job post creation and distribution, applicant tracking, CV-parsing, candidate-job matching, proactive talent search, video profiles, instant messaging, video calling, file sharing, programmatic job advertising and more. For jobseekers, inploi provides a beautiful professional presence making it easy to access career-related information, apply for job opportunities, and connect and communicate with employers, and with each other. Matthew is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and a two-time Weidenfeld Scholar.
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About inploi: inploi is the future of talent engagement and job discovery.
Joseph McElmeel
CEO / Co-Founder of SymbaSync
Joseph McElmeel is co-founder, CEO, and Head of Product at SymbaSync. Joseph McElmeel believes in creating HR software that removes bias and provides employees equal opportunity. Working in newspapers, music, entertainment, education, and software, Joseph McElmeel and his teams have achieved the following recognition to date: ●“1998 Leo Kelly Spirit Award for Outstanding Achievement,” – USA Today/Gannett ● “2000 RIAA Platinum Record,” Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986-1996 – Capitol Records ● “2001 (8x) RIAA Platinum Record,” Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-1978 – Capitol Records ● “2002 RIAA Platinum Record,” The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds – Capitol Records ● “2002 Team Leader Award: Top Corporate Fundraiser,” American Heart Association ● “2009 #1 Pop-Punk Artist-Japan,” Billboard-Japan Music Awards ● “2010-2014 (5x) Best Business Award: Advertising, Marketing and Event Practices,” Musical Artist Enterprises, Inc. – Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce ● “2014 U.K. Finalist,” – KPMG Case Study Competition ● “2015 Global Finalist,” – Argos Enterprise Software Competition ● “2016 Trelawney Burgoyne Prize for Academic Performance and School Impact,” – University of Edinburgh Business School ● “2017 #1 Recruitment Software Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd – SME News ● “2018 #1 Scottish Enterprise Most Innovative Recruitment Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – SME News ● “2019 Nominee for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Nominated by RBS Bank ● “2020 HR Software Company of the Year,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Corporate Livewire Magazine ● “2021 Top U.K. Project Management Companies,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Welp Magazine
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About SymbaSync: SymbaSync creates instant access to up-to-date employee skills and interests to source for temporary and permanent project teams.
Laura Degiovanni
CEO and Founder of TiiQu
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About TiiQu: TiiQu is a trust mechanism derived by immutable verifiable sources about one’s ID, Work, Knowledge, Performances
Edward Hall
CEO of Qualification Check
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About Qualification Check: Qualification Check is an online, automated, and professional qualification checking solution.
Anas Nader
CEO and Co-founder of Patchwork
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About LocumTap, Patchwork: Patchwork is a health tech start up providing software solutions in attempt to solve temporary staffing challenges.
Matt Rantell
CEO & Founder of The Square
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About The Square: The Square is an award winning workforce management platform & hiring marketplace for construction businesses.
Ben Ayme
CEO of SkillSnap
https://skillsnap.com/profiles/1-ben-laurent-ayme
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About SkillSnap: SkillSnap is the only web-based recruitment platform which helps recruiters and hiring managers recruit LESS by identifying the best fit.
Ben Chatfield
CEO & Co-Founder of Tempo
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About Tempo: Tempo is a recruitment platform that connects business support professionals with the best employers.
Diane Lightfoot
CEO of Business Disability Forum
Diane joined Business Disability Forum as Chief Executive Officer in February 2017 after moving from her former role as Director of Policy and Communications for United Response, a leading national disability charity. During her 13 years at United Response, Diane led and developed the charity’s campaigning, public affairs and lobbying activity, with a particular focus on promoting employment for disabled people. She subsequently took on the strategic leadership of the organisation’s employment services as a whole and is passionate about the role that good work has in transforming people’s lives. Diane meets regularly with Business Disability Forum Partners and Members and also works closely with Government to help shape disability employment policy. She is a member of the Department of Work and Pensions’ Disability Confident Professional Advisers Group and the Disability Expert Advisory Panel for the Civil Service.
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About Business Disability Forum: Business Disability Forum is a not-for-profit member organisation.
Anouk Agussol
CEO and Founder of Unleashed
Anouk Agussol is the CEO and Founder of Unleashed.
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About Unleashed: Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.
Lynn Kingelin
Co-founder & CEO of Brand Concierge
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About Brand Concierge: Brand Concierge is a business services marketplace to hire a top agency in marketing, advertising, PR, and branding.
Daniel Ospina
Co-Founder and CEO of Conductal
Daniel is an Organization Designer. Through his company, Conductal, Daniel uses Social System Design to create incentives and processes that spark creativity and enable business agility at scale in startups and established organisations. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer on System Design at Oxford University, a Co-founder of Crossmodalism, an Associate Fellow of London University, and a Fellow of the RSA.
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About Conductal: Conductal help smaller organizations to scale and larger ones to manage communities and innovate.
Jo Ayoubi
Chief Executive Officer of Track Surveys
Jo Ayoubi is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Track Surveys. Prior to setting up Track, Jo was a learning and development director for the Corporate Finance business at Ernst & Young in London, where she was responsible for the training and development of over a thousand corporate finance professionals. Projects included learning management systems and online learning evaluations. At Track, Jo has advised on, and led the development of, 360 and other online applications for leading organisations including Fujitsu, Saudi Telecom and Frank Recruitment Group. She has also facilitated partnership programmes with leading advisors including Cambridge-based Moller Professional Services Group, and CIPD. Jo is the author of The Consultants’ Guide to Success with 360 Degree Feedback, and holds Bachelors (first class) and Masters degrees in French, Arabic & Politics from University College Dublin. Jo writes and blogs regularly on the topic of 360 Degree Feedback in performance and learning. Her recent papers include ‘Making Your 360 Degree Feedback more effective in delivering successful behavioural change’, and ‘Which Online 360? A 10-step checklist for choosing an online 360 Degree Feedback system’, published in association with Training Zone UK. Jo divides her time between London and Dublin, working with clients based in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Outside Track, Jo makes time to mentor students at Woodhouse College in London.
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About Track Surveys: Track Surveys is a company that provides leading-edge feedback and data reporting tools to support HR & Development, and Assessment.
Herbert Siu
CEO & Co-Founder of Quokka
Serial entrepreneur. Sharp insights with proven experience in UK PE/VC. Also a CFA & CPA.
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About Quokka: Quokka is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) employee engagement platform that develop engaged & high-performing teams
Albert Ellis
Chief Executive Officer of Staffline
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About Staffline: Staffline is a national recruitment organization with more than 350 locations across the UK along with specialist welfare to work division.
Ian Harwood
Founder and CEO of h2 Recruit Ltd
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About h2 Recruit Ltd: Specialist executive sales recruiter within the technology start up space based in London and New York
Eyal Ben Cohen
CEO/Founder of Verifile
Eyal Ben Cohen is the CEO and Founder at Verifile Ltd – Employment Screening Company. He worked for WorkPass Limited as CEO/Founder. He is a graduate of Cranfield University with an MBA in Business Administration.
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About Verifile: Verifile is a provider of global CV verification and background screening services.
Scott Erwin
Founder and CEO of HireHand
Scott Erwin is the founder and CEO at HireHand.
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About HireHand: HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses.
Nicholas Barton
Founder & CEO of The Barton Partnership
Nicholas founded The Barton Partnership in late 2007 and has succeeded in building a niche executive recruitment firm with an enviable reputation within the Strategy, Transformation and M&A arena. From a standing start, he has built a team of professionals renowned not only for their talent acquisition skills but also their subject matter expertise with offices in London, Europe, New York and Asia. Throughout his career he has specialised in, and successfully executed, on over 250 senior retained and contingent assignments across Commerce, Financial Services and Professional Services both in the UK and Internationally.
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About The Barton Partnership: The Barton Partnership is a niche Executive Recruitment firm providing permanent and interim solutions in strategy, transformation, and M&A.
Chathum Henegama
CEO & Co-Founder of XpressJobs
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About XpressJobs: XpressJobs is Sri Lanka’s premier Job Board. A marketplace tasked to help companies hire the best talent.
Ben Kaminsky
Founder & CEO of EVA.AI
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About EVA.AI: HR Tech Automation Platform
Simon Bates
CEO & Co-founder of Workteam
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About Workteam: Provider of HR employee management SaaS offering
Nikolaos Lygkonis
CEO & Founder of PeopleGoal
Co founder of PeopleGoal.
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About PeopleGoal: PeopleGoal is a configurable employee performance and engagement platform.
Craig Redmond
Founder & CEO of Zipier Payroll
Before founding Zipier in 2013, Craig worked as a developer for Microsoft. Craig tries to make life more interesting by travelling to exotic countries, and likes to think he speaks fluent Mandarin.
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About Zipier Payroll: Free cloud payroll, HR, and attendance for your business. All 50 states. Paystubs. Paychecks. Tax forms. Legal templates. All for FREE!
Guy Shelton
Founder, CEO of MAILPROFILER Technology Solutions UK
Entrepreneur & Investor. 20yrs tech & digital. Growing SaaS companies in EMEA, APAC & NA building start-ups & establishing companies overseas expansion often as their 1st man on the ground.
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About MAILPROFILER Technology Solutions UK: Consultancy
Ali Hanan
Founder & CEO of Creative Equals
All Hanan is an award-winning creative director who marketing sector for the last 19 years. Along the wa lack of diversity within the industry, so in 2015, she s project, now an award-winning organisation with the VCCP, HavasLondon, Ogilvy, The Engine Group, AMV pioneered a data-driven, people-powered model for Media Equality Standards, which has become the be companies a review, rating and a roadmap for lastin has worked in the advertising and she has seen the impact of the -t up Creative Equals as a side backing of companies including 1900 and many more. Her team liversity, the Creative, Digital and chmark for the industry, giving change.
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About Creative Equals: Creative Equals is here to work with industry, agencies and recruitment to create more pathways to success for female creative talent.
Dean Sadler
CEO of Tribepad
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About Tribepad: Recruitment Software Specialists. Products include Applicant Tracking System (ATS), Onboarding, Video Interviewing and Contractor Management
Dan Collier
Co-Founder, Director of Sales and Strategy & CEO of ElevateDirect.com
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About ElevateDirect.com: Productivity enhancement tool for recruitment across all workforce categories
Julia Manning
Chief Executive Officer of Relationships Foundation
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About 2020health, Relationships Foundation, University College London (UCL): Relationships Foundation develops relational thinking and engage with policymakers.
Magdalena Slowinska Janowitz
Co-Founder/CEO of Includeon
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About Includeon: An accessible platform matching remote jobs with disabled e-workers, creating a happy online workplace and a more inclusive society.
Lucinda Carney
CEO & Founder of Actus
Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Performance & Talent Management Software which increases productivity, engagement and compliance in organisations across the world. She is also a Business Psychologist and provides aligned Consultancy, Coaching and Training under the banner #HRChangeAgent. Actus Software was launched in 2012 and has since gone from strength to strength with more than 50,000 users across the Public and Private sector and growing rapidly. Based in the UK cloud, Actus provides comprehensive performance and talent management functionality, yet is quick to set up and easy to use embedding year-round people management activities, leading to optimum individual and business performance. Clients include Merseyside Police; Oxford City Council; a series of NHS Trusts and a number of high profile financial and blue-chip commercial entities. Actus also has an exciting roadmap, recently launching a compliance module for firms that fall under the extended Senior Management and Certification Regime (SM&CR). Actus Comply provides peace of mind with a secure, but accessible system of control specifically designed to meet the SM&CR requirements required by the FCA. In 2016 Lucinda was named Everywoman Tech Entrepreneur of the Year and the business demonstrates further credibility through a host of other accreditations including Cyber Essentials; IS0 27001 and presence on the Governments Digital Marketplace.
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About Actus: Actus performance appraisal software provides leading-edge technology solutions to embed year round performance management.
Justyna Nowicka
CEO of ASPIRE
Straight forward, direct, committed, hard working and inspirational entrepreneur.
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About ASPIRE: Inventing non-bias recruitment via #blockchain, globally. Changing the world of recruitment forever.
Jerry Pett
Co-Founder & CEO of Thymometrics
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About Thymometrics: Always-On & Pulse Employee Engagement Surveys and Employee Feedback Solutions
Dom Chapman
CEO of StemX
Dominic is the 23-year-old CEO and co-founder of StemX, one of the recruitment industries most innovative platforms, featured in Forbes, the Telegraph, Virgin Start Ups & The Global Recruiter. Alongside that, Dominic is also the director of Social Chaps, a new style marketing agency helping increase footfall for small businesses.
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About StemX: A collaborative video interviewing platform used by employers for smart recruitment and increased efficiency.
Adam Butwilowski
Founder / CEO of CiiVSOFT
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About Bubble Jobs, CiiVSOFT: Recruitment automation tools and technology
Mike O’Connell
CEO of Isosceles Finance
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About Isosceles Finance: Supporting ambitious businesses, from start up to exit, with strategic and operational finance, accounting and HR.
Jörgen Sundberg
CEO of Link Humans
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About Link Humans: Employer Branding, Driven by Data
Jörgen Sundberg
CEO of Link Humans
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About Link Humans: Employer Branding, Driven by Data
Zuke Okolo
CEO of Synergy At Work
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About Synergy At Work: Synergy At Work is an HR Robotics and Automation SaaS Platform, driving HR Process and cloud automation capability forward.
Nick Pye
CEO of Youmanage
With more than 25 years of leadership experience, and after holding a variety of executive positions spanning marketing, business development, and HR product strategy, Nick has been the CEO of Youmanage since 2010. Following the successful acquisition of the Youmanage business in December 2010, Nick has been leading the renewed vision and go-to-market definition, which saw an official re-brand and Youmanage product re-launch, which took place in August 2013. Subsequent to significant product development, design and internal team development, Nick continues to steer Youmanage from a small start-up to an industry-leading cloud HR software provider.
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About Youmanage: Youmanage – the true HR automation platform
Nick Pye
CEO of Youmanage
With more than 25 years of leadership experience, and after holding a variety of executive positions spanning marketing, business development, and HR product strategy, Nick has been the CEO of Youmanage since 2010. Following the successful acquisition of the Youmanage business in December 2010, Nick has been leading the renewed vision and go-to-market definition, which saw an official re-brand and Youmanage product re-launch, which took place in August 2013. Subsequent to significant product development, design and internal team development, Nick continues to steer Youmanage from a small start-up to an industry-leading cloud HR software provider.
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About Youmanage: Youmanage – the true HR automation platform
Teresa Fox
Founder and Co-CEO of Vennpoint Limited
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About Vennpoint Limited: We match and connect organisations, professionals and experts in an online marketspace
Paul Adams
CEO of PAI Group
Since forming PA Installations in 1982, Paul has used his determination and drive to successfully administer the group’s development and growth. Investing heavily in the company to benefit existing customers and to nurture new business, he has recruited and supported one of the industry’s most proficient teams for the last 30 years. Consequently, the PAI Group continues to remain at the forefront of the service sector for its professional practice and implementation of new technologies. As well as overseeing the organisation’s operations, Paul regularly meets with clients, taking an active part in both project design and completion. In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, he has also devoted time to contribute and promote the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA), holding the chairmanship for five years.
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About PAI Group: PAI Group, Inc. offers payroll, HR, tax filing and time and attendance keeping software and services to business enterprises.
Allan Vainu
CEO & co-founder of Gigpanel Ltd
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About Gigpanel Ltd: Gigpanel is a marketplace for companies in the hospitality industry to find part-timers.
Allan Vainu
CEO & co-founder of Gigpanel Ltd
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About Gigpanel Ltd: Gigpanel is a marketplace for companies in the hospitality industry to find part-timers.
Doug Strycharczyk
CEO of AQR International
Doug is the CEO of AQR and for AQR International – Founded in 1989, AQR is now recognised as one of the most innovative (and fast growing) test publishers in the world working in more than 80 countries. AQR established its reputation initially as a leader in Team Building and leadership development. Doug’s work has been featured on BBC Television where Prof John Adair described the material as “highly effective” In recent years, Doug has worked with Professor Peter Clough to define mental toughness and to create the world’s leading measure of mental toughness. Doug is now recognised as a leading authority on the application of mental toughness to the worlds of work, education, sport as well as social applications. His expertise is focused on helping organisations develop performance, increase retention and employee engagement and more effectively dealing with issues such as bullying and the impact of change. Doug has more than 30 years expertise in a variety of Line, HR & Consultancy roles with a number of blue chip businesses. Doug’s areas of expertise also include Organisational Development, Senior Management/Leadership Development and Top Team Assessment.
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About AQR International: One of the world’s leading edge international test publishers and business consultancies.
Adam King
CEO of TrafficLight Solutions
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About TrafficLight Solutions: Find a trusted freelancer instantly. Grow your talent pool effortlessly.
