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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 Founder operating in the E-Learning space. If you think a Founder 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.
Alex Klein
Co-Founder and CEO of Kano
Alex Kleinis Co-Founder and CEO at Kano Computing.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
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Priya Lakhani
Founder & CEO of CENTURY Tech
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company’s charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students’ learning outcomes. Priya has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum, an advisory board member to several educational/skills organisations, including a founding entrepreneur of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Mark Szulyovszky
Co-Founder and CRO of Drops
Co-founder and CRO, Drops
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About Drops, Imagegate, Plan B Labs: Drops is a game-based language learning application.
Tom Hooper
Founder and CEO of Third Space Learning
Matr is Tom’s second venture in education technology. In 2009 he founded BrightSpark, an online teaching business he sold to TES in 2012. He graduated with an MA in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Edinburgh, then worked in investment from 2003-9, when his start-up career began.
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About Third Space Learning: Third Space aims to help every student access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning
Shivam Sharma
Founder of Cybergenta
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About Cybergenta, Media4Info, Youth Cybersecurity Forum: Cybergenta is a global leader in information technology focused on data and cyber security, with teams working in the UK, Denmark and India.
Bertie Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
James Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Director of MyTutor
James is a driven, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, with experience in sales, leadership, strategy, product, digital marketing and fundraising. He started a fledgling events business at 15, which grew to a team of 30, catering for over 1,200 weekly guests. After completing a Philosophy degree at University of Birmingham, James worked for Barclays Wealth, in the Chief of Staff Team, within the Office of the Chief Executive, helping to set the Division’s strategic agenda and taking responsibility for the implementation of sponsored projects. James is a co-founder of MyTutor, creating a new world of one-to-one tuition. The team are unwaveringly focused on their mission to give every student access to 1-1 support. The platform provides live, online one-to-one lessons, delivered by bright, inspiring undergraduates studying at the UK’s leading universities – their secondary aim is to become the leading provider of work to these students. MyTutor uses AI-driven matching algorithms to ensure perfect student-tutor matches and every lesson is taught in an interactive online learning space, which facilitates live video and audio chat, document editing, file sharing and lesson recording. The company’s proudest achievement has been helping 92% of their pupils in 2016 hit or exceed their grade targets. James enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of education and business events. His other interests include sport (football, rugby, athletics), music (blues & hip hop), travelling, reading and all things startup. He has won a number of awards over the past few years, including Unltd’s ‘Do it’, Mercia’s ‘The Pitch’, O2 ‘Think Bigger’ and Santander’s ‘Spark’.
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Robert Grabiner
Founder and Executive Director of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Jack Bekhor
Co-Founder of Uptime App
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About Uptime App, WorkAngel: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Jamie True
Founder of Uptime App
Jamie is the CEO and driving force behind LifeWorks. Combining energy and positivity, he is deeply passionate about technology and how it can be used to create positive change in our world today. With a proven track record of growing technology companies from the ground up, Jamie set up his first business at the age of 17 which merged with its largest competitor in June 1997. He co-founded and invented Interclubnet PLC, creating an online trading platform that most major football clubs worldwide used to buy and sell players akin to a Bloomberg terminal “X-tranet”. In August 2000 the company floated on AIM with a market capitalisation of £30 million. Turnover in Year 1 totaled £8.1Million. In January 2004, Jamie launched a 9 patented service called ONSPEED which became the largest Internet accelerator in Europe. The group subsequently floated under a holding company called Z Group PLC in June 2005 for £25 million on AIM. In Jan 2010, Jamie started Grapple mobile, a patented mobile application platform. Grapple won the most Innovative Mobile Agency of 2012 and 2013 and was successfully acquired by Monitse PLC (MONI) AIM for up to £39million in Sep 2013. Jamie founded WorkAngel in 2013, the powerbrand that drives employee engagement, retention and satisfaction for some of the largest companies in the World. WorkAngel merged with Ceridian LifeWorks in 2016 with Jamie serving as the CEO of LifeWorks.
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About Doughlicious, Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Patrick Joseph Walker
Co-Founder of Uptime App
After 20 years building and launching some of the world’s most innovative digital video services, Patrick committed himself to the future of learning as the Co-Founder of Uptime, alongside seasoned entrepreneurs Jamie True and Jack Bekhor. Uptime’s mission is to inspire people everywhere to learn, grow and contribute to a better world. Before founding Uptime, Patrick was Director of Media Partnerships at Facebook and Instagram, leading content partnerships with media companies and public figures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Patrick began his career in international media and technology as a TV producer for Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. While living in Tokyo, he produced and directed award-winning educational and documentary TV programs and participated in the launch of the world’s first HDTV channel. He later joined the BBC as a Senior Broadcast Journalist in Japan and South East Asia where he used new technologies to tell stories from often extremely hostile environments. Patrick moved to London in 2000 to launch early stage digital video services, and became YouTube’s first international employee. He went on to spend eight years with Google and YouTube as the senior director of content partnerships, where he was responsible for launching and managing YouTube across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Patrick was also a founding investor and Chief Content Officer of Europe’s largest multi-channel network, Base79, and served as the CEO of Rightster, a leading content and audience development partner of YouTube and Facebook. Patrick holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an M.Ed in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in London with his family and regular escapes to the Scottish Highlands to connect with nature and digitally detox.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Sofia Fenichell
Chief Creative Officer & Founder of Mrs Wordsmith
Sofia Fenichell is the Founder & CEO of Rockpack & he attended Northwestern University in 1986.
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About Mrs Wordsmith, WONDER PLACE LTD.: Mrs Wordsmith is on a mission to illustrate the English language, so kids fall in love with words and with learning.
Jan Lynn-Matern
Founder and Partner of Emerge Education
I am a Founder and Partner at Emerge Education. Emerge Education is a European seed investor focused on companies that bridge the skills gap. Emerge specialises in providing its portfolio companies with access to market insights, partners and customers through its unique industry network. We have a particular focus on investing in challenger universities, bootcamps, workforce re-training programmes, and companies that help universities scale online.
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About Emerge Education: The only fund backed by the world’s leading education entrepreneurs
Joshua Wohle
CEO & Co-Founder of Mindstone
Joshua Wohle is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mindstone. In 2013, when Joshua co-founded SuperAwesome — a digital media ecosystem designed for children.
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About Emerge Education, Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
Patrick Cootes
Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Mindstone
Patrick Cootes is the Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Mindstone learning. As a secondary school teacher and Head of Sixth Form, Patrick has seen first-hand how the current education system leaves people feeling like failures when it’s the system itself that is broken.
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About Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
Stefan Keranov
Co-Founder & Engineering of Mindstone
Stefan Keranov is the Co-Founder and responsible for the Engineering activities of Mindstone. He is a web developer who’s worked on various content and membership platforms including SuperAwesome, Kaluza, and Very Connect.
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About Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
Dave Sherwood
Co-Founder & CEO of BibliU
Dave Sherwood co-founder and CEO of Bibliotech, a core etextbooks platform that provides academic libraries and students with unlimited access. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Teach Learn Grow Inc. Dave earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Straya, coming to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship shortly afterwards. Dave dropped out to found Bibliotech.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Peter Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Imployable
Peter Kelly is a Former Royal Marines Commando and the CEO and co-founder of Imployable. In 2018 Peter won the regional and national NatWest Great British Entrepreneur of The Year Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit
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About Imployable: Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career
Rajeeb Dey
Founder & CEO of Learnerbly
Rajeeb Dey joined Learnerbly as Founder & CEO in 2016.
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About Learnerbly: Learnerbly is a Learning Development Platform.
Leon Mueller
Co-Founder & CEO of PLAYBOOK
Leon Mueller is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bloom.
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About PLAYBOOK: Mobile Video Micro-Learning for professional education
Akif Yaldir
Founder, CEO of Case Future
I have strong experience in developing successful products and managing effective teams. My core strengths are fast-learning and following an output-oriented approach mainly for mobile products.
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About Case Future: Work on what you love! Find what you can learn easily with better efficiency, learn on mobile and grow your future.
Riaz moola
Founder & CEO of CoGrammar
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About CoGrammar, HyperionDev: CoGrammar scales human mentorship and code review 10 times more affordably.
Adit Trivedi
Co Founder, COO of Lingumi
Co-founder & COO of Lingumi who are providing the world’s best teaching service to children all around the world through Technology.
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About Lingumi: Lingumi is an edtech startup that teaches English to kids aged 2 to 6 using an app and a range of physical products.
Riya Pabari
Co-Founder of Framework
Riya Pabari currently serves Founders Academy as co-founder and CEO. Riya also serves founders Pledge as pledger. Prior to this, Riya has worked with Founders Intelligence as innovation manager for two years. She attended Cambridge University in 2005.
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About Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Asha Haji
Co-Founder of Framework
Asha Haji is the Co-Founder of Framework. She attended Harvard Business School in 2011.
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About Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Scott Woodley
Co-Founder of Tutorful
Scott is a qualified teacher, with a Masters in Law and a BA History degree. An idealist to the core, Scott always seeks to ‘make things better’ and perfect our service: hence our manic workload! He is a keen cyclist, runner and, generally, an avid sports enthusiast.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Mark Hughes
Co-Founder & CEO of Tutorful
Mark has a Masters and degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and has since worked as a Technology Analyst for one of the largest investment companies in the country. He brings the business mind and technological know-how to our organisation, and, as the creative genius of our team, has an ardent passion for ensuring that Tutorful provides a smooth, slick platform for everyone. Mark loves climbing and can normally be found hanging off mountains in the Peak District.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Jesse Lozano
Co-Founder & CEO of Pi-Top
Jesse Lozano is CEO and co-founder of pi-top. Since launching in 2014, with Ryan Dunwoody, pi-top has grown into a world leading maker platform built for students and teachers across the world. pi-top has now released their 3rd generation device and is used by over 2,000 schools and Code Clubs world wide. pi-top’s purpose is to give every learner the opportunity to be inspired by STEAM education.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Ryan Dunwoody
Co-Founder & CTO of Pi-Top
Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Damian Kimmelman
Founder and CEO of Batelle
Founder of Batelle, Co-founder of Founders Pledge, Rho.co and DueDil
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About Batelle, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Batelle is a modern childcare company that uses high-tech solutions to support mental, emotional, and physical development.
Jamie O’Connell
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Jamie O’Connell is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. He has over 13 years of edtech expertise and a skill set suitable to establishing early stage start-ups. He is currently putting his skills to use in his own firm, Life Lessons. He is deeply committed to balancing the educational competitive landscape and giving young people with the foundations they need to be successful in life. He went to Bangor University for his education.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
Nicole Rodden
Co-Founder of Life Lessons Education
Nicole Rodden is a Life Lessons Education co-founder. She is committed to providing young people with the foundations and skills they need to fulfill their full potential and prosper, regardless of their origin, gender, or sexual orientation. They developed Life Lessons to teach young people important life skills, beginning with relationships and sex education. She received her master’s degree in education and PGCE from UCL, as well as her bachelor’s degree in theological studies from the University of Bristol.
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About Life Lessons Education: Life Lessons is a company that specializes in teaching young people life skills via the use of educational technologies.
John Yeo
Co-Founder & CEO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Nelson Sivalingam
Founder and CEO of HowNow
Nelson Sivalingam is the Founder and CEO of One Minute City and the co-founder of award-winning production company Barking Mad.
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About HowNow, Wonderush: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Kuvera Sivalingam
CFO and Co-Founder of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Sophia Matveeva
Host & Founder of Tech for Non-Techies
Sophia is the CEO & Co-Founder of Style Counsel – Your personal stylist, wherever and whenever you need her. Style Counsel is an app where you can get feedback on your outfits from fashion bloggers & a friendly community. Available on the Apple App Store. Style Counsel’s tech analog is Houzz, which connects retailers, users and experts, and is valued at $2.3bn. Style Counsel was launched at Chicago Booth and coached in the Global New Venture Challenge, the accelerator which gave rise to Grubhub and Braintree. Before founding Style Counsel with the world’s best team, she worked at user generated news site Blasting News and studied for her MBA at Chicago Booth at the same time. She started my career in PR and has worked in London and Delhi. Originally from Moscow, she speaks Russian and French.
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About Enty, Tech for Non-Techies: Tech for Non-Techies is an online learning and training company helping non-technical professionals understand the field of technology.
Sean Dukes
Founder and CEO of Learnsmarter
Sean Dukes is the founder and CEO of Learnsmarter.
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About Learnsmarter: Learnsmarter provides on-demand training administration solutions for organisations of any size.
Duncan Cheatle
Founder/CEO of Learn Amp
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About Founders Pledge, Learn Amp, Rise To, Supper Club: Learn Amp is an online learning and performance management platform.
Guy Riese
Founder & CEO of Up Learn
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About Up Learn: Up Learn is an online education platform.
Kai Koch
Founder of Ahead App
Kai Koch is the Co-Founder of Ahead App.
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About Ahead App: Ahead is a personalized pocket coach that provides bite-sized, science-driven tools to boost emotional intelligence.
Clare Stewart Munn
Chief Executive Office, Founder of Box Media
Media Executive and entrepreneur passionate about communication, Ai and equal pay. Focused on disrupting how information is digested and expressed in the workforce. In 94 Munn’s script and animation treatment to entertain and educate children about Africa and the environment was licensed by Paramount/Simon & Schuster Interactive . In parallel she co-founded Penga Partners with a vision to disrupt communication and training in the workplace. This became Employment Law Training Inc. owned by Littler Mendleson. ELT-Inc.com became the first multidimensional, online site for compliance story based training. Instrumental in raising $15 million from Lazard and selling for multiple X 10 years later. After ELT, Munn became EVP of Global BD & Partnerships instrumental in raising Series B $22 million for Playback Media, a $28M venture back software and media company founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley to deliver cutting edge e- Learning videos to Global 50 companies. Even though both companies had successes, Munn realized broadband was not quite there to create her vision of streaming mixed media short format engaging episodic videos in the workplace and after founding an award winning boutique agency, The Communication Group, Munn concentrated on creating brand and digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, ebay, Danskin, Eddie Bauer etc. This became the 1st 50 Green Certified agency in SF. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence, and H2H, Human 2 Human. And soon after being an Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film with Netflix, Munn knew it was finally time to realize her vision of 20 years ago and Boxspring Entertainment was founded in 2016. Boxspring was the 1st 100 to sign the Equal Pay Pledge.
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About Box Media, Unreasonable: Reinventing Learning. An EdTech company producing short form media and technology tools focused on the Future of Work
Dorian Logan
Co-Founder & CTO of BrightTALK
has been the chief architect of BrightTALK™s technology since joining the company in 2004. Mr. Logan brings more than 20 years experience developing enterprise applications to his position as chief technology officer, working previously for IBM Global Services in the Interactive Media Center and Scient. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University (U.K.) with a bachelor™s degree in Computer Systems.
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Steve Dineen
Founder, Chief Storyteller & CEO of Fuse Universal
Founder and President of Fuse Universal.
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About Fuse Universal: The Fuse learning platform connects people with the knowledge and expertise they need to improve their skills and perform.
Ryan Kroonenburg
Founder of A Cloud Guru
Ryan is the first person to be recognized as both an AWS Community Hero and an Alexa Champion; and so far, over 135,000 students have taken his AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course. He loves being a cloud geek and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community as an online educator. Ryan’s courses are all cloud-based, and accommodate both absolute beginners and seasoned professionals. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn, where he frequently shares the latest from the Cloud.
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About A Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru is a social learning platform for cloud computing.
Charles Brook Shanahan
Sales & Co-Founder of GoSay
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About GoSay: GoSay creates digital products for the online education sector
Sam Mohammad
Founder of Faculti
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About Faculti: Higher Education E-Learning Platform
Joshua Powe
CEO & Co-Founder of LinkIt!
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About LinkIt!: Based in NYC, LinkIt! is a leading K12 assessment management and performance analytics platform focused on improving learning outcomes.
Joachim Horn
Founder & CEO of SAM Labs
Joachim Horn is a Founder at Sam Labs.
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About SAM Labs: SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
John Loveday
Founder of Toppa
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About Toppa: Toppa is a App Connecting ambitious learners with the knowledge & expertise of proven entrepreneurs and leaders.
Paul Hood
Founder of Toppa
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About Toppa: Toppa is a App Connecting ambitious learners with the knowledge & expertise of proven entrepreneurs and leaders.
Lucy Cranwell-Ward
Co-Founder of Upskill Me
Lucy Cranwell-Ward is the Co-Founder at Upskill Me.
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About Upskill Me: Upskill Me is an e-learning platform that helps students to grow their skills.
Ivy Cavendish
CEO & Co-Founder of The Science Writing Revolution
Ivy Cavendish is the CEO and co-founder of The Science Writing Revolution.
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About The Science Writing Revolution: The Science Writing Revolution is an academic-led initiative to revolutionize scientific writing.
Algernon Bloom
CoO & Co-Founder of The Science Writing Revolution
Algernon Bloom is the CoO and co-founder of The Science Writing Revolution.
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About The Science Writing Revolution: The Science Writing Revolution is an academic-led initiative to revolutionize scientific writing.
Jamie Bezencenet
Founder of The Expert Academy
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About The Expert Academy: The Expert Academy is a specialist creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality online courses.
Harry Williams
Co-Founder and Non Exec Director of Idyia Learning
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About Idyia Learning: Idyia Shakespeare is pioneering a brand new way to engage with Shakespeare.
Lucy Stonehill
Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeU
Lucy grew up in the UK and the USA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where she studied Literature and Psychology. Upon graduation, Lucy worked for the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, before leaving to launch her first business, an educational consulting firm tailored to the unique needs of international students and schools. In 2013, Lucy founded BridgeU to focus on the next challenge – fixing the broken transition between secondary and higher education. Lucy has been labelled an ‘Entrepreneur Role Model’ by the European Commission, and won Techpreneur of the Year in a 2015 at a ceremony hosted at the House of Commons celebrating leading female entrepreneurs. In 2016, Lucy was selected by Forbes as a ‘Top 30 under 30” European technology innovator.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Shaolan Hsueh
Founder of Chineasy
After taking a sabbatical from being a venture capital investor in London, ShaoLan is now focused on a social project, Chineasy. ShaoLan’s ultimate aim is to bring down the great wall of Chinese language and allow Eastern and Western cultures to communicate freely. Born in Taipei and now living in London, ShaoLan is an entrepreneur, geek, writer, traveller and dreamer. She has had several dramatic career changes in the past and, while studying for an MBA, wrote four best-selling books on software, awarded “book of the year” in Taiwan. In her second semester she co-founded her first venture, pAsia Inc. Under ShaoLan’s leadership, pAsia became a major player in the Internet sector in the Greater China area in the late 1990’s. After moving to London, she began investing in and advising young technology companies through Caravel Capital, which she founded in 2005 whilst studying at the University of Cambridge. She has also been a director of five UK-based technology companies. ShaoLan is a member of several management and advisory boards for nonprofit organisations in the UK, including the Saïd Business School of Oxford University, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Asia House, and the New School Network, an organisation backed by the British Government promoting educational reform.
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About Chineasy: Chineasy’s goal is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognising characters through simple illustrations.
William Britton
Founder & Chief Executive of AutonoMe
After completing his Video Production Degree and Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) specialising in Learning Disabilities he went on to teach ICT, Media and graphics to Adults with Learning Disabilities. William also worked for 5 years as an Assistive Technology specialist and combined his understanding of Learning Disabilities, Video production and technical knowledge to develop a prototype of AutonoMe. After receiving high praise he founded AutonoMe to build a 21st-century solution to the barriers to independence faced by the Learning Disability community.
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About AutonoMe, EasyVideo: AutonoMe is a support provider delivering independent living skills to people with learning disabilities.
Sophie Rochester
CEO and Founder of Yodomo | Making Made Easy
Founder of Yodomo, the creative experience platform. Improving wellbeing and supporting sustainability through making. Sophie is a digital content specialist with over 20 years experience across the digital and publishing sectors. She has worked at Random House. 4th Estate and Good Technology, and consulted for Pan Macmillan, Hachette, Penguin Random House, Nesta, British Council and Royal Society of Literature. Listed as one of the Top 10 Creative Entrepreneurs in the UK by the British Council and in the UK’s Top 100 ‘most influential and innovative’ in the Guardian Professional’s hClub 100 list, Sophie has global contacts across publishing and technology and has also consulted on a large number of digital publishing start-ups through her award-winning company The Literary Platform. In 2015, The Literary Platform was listed as #10 on the Fortuna 50 list of the UK’s fastest-growing women-led small businesses. Sophie has successfully raised funding through Arts Council England, National Lottery, Bath Spa University, Queensland University of Technology and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation for a number of digital content initiatives. She has spoken about the future of digital content at UNESCO Paris, Editech Milan, MIX Conference (Opening Keynote), Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, O’Reilly’s Tools of Change New York, London Book Fair, Bologna Book Fair and UKTI / British Council ‘Crossing the River’ digital conferences across Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. A keen maker herself, she lives in the heart of London’s designer maker community and understands the community that is Yodomo’s marketplace. Her professional network gives her access to the right tutors, businesses, brands – and staff – to bring to the Yodomo platform.
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About Meaningful Business, Yodomo | Making Made Easy: The Marketplace for Making. Discover online courses, live workshops and kits from our artists and makers.
Mehool Sanghrajka
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Learning Possibilities
Mehool H. Sanghrajka founded Enterprise MPC, which he served as its managing director from 2004 to 2007, in 1989 that became Learning Possibilities in 2007, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer since May 2007. Mehool has been working at the leading edge of the global education and educational IT markets for over two decades. Dr. Sanghrajka serves as a Director of Learning Possibilities Limited. Mehoo is a Member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and the Institute of Directors. He graduated from City University Business School in London.
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About Cloud Possibilities, Learning Possibilities: Learning Possibilities develops and provides a cloud based school learning platform for education and government customers.
Nick Ellenden
Director & Founder of secur-view AB
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About secur-view AB: Secur-view provides companies with sales, marketing, and channel development services, as well as the tools and programs they need.
Nicola Chilman
Founder of Doodle Maths
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About Doodle Maths, EZ Education (creators of DoodleMaths): DoodleMaths is a personalized learning application to improve math skills.
Tom Minor
Founder of Doodle Maths
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About Doodle Maths, EZ Education (creators of DoodleMaths): DoodleMaths is a personalized learning application to improve math skills.
Filippo Schiano di Pepe
Founder of GoPillar
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About GoPillar, GoPillar Academy, Start-Up Chile: GoPillar offers an online crowdsourcing platform that enables individuals to outsource interior design activities.
Patrick O’Reilly
Co-Founder & CMO of LearnCube
Patrick O’Reilly is a Founder at LearnCube.
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About eSplice, LearnCube: LearnCube is a Virtual Classroom Software and eLearning platform.
Gerard McBreen
CEO and Founder of Komodo Learning
Gerard McBreen is the CEO and founder at Komodo Learning.
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About Komodo Learning: Komodo Learning is an online mathematics home learning app for children.
David Lawlor
Co-Founder of Enforcd
David is co-founder and COO of Enforcd, and has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He is a senior product manager and content expert, who most recently led Thomson Reuters’ response to Dodd Frank and MiFID 2. As Accountable Product Owner he managed across all work streams to formulate strategy and execute on the firm’s product roadmap and was the key Thomson Reuters regulatory representative at all major industry events and groups. Earlier in his career David worked as an FX broker for ICAP, and an FX and Eurobond trader at UBS. He also spent a period of time running the content business for risk, for Deutsche Bank.
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About : Enforcd is a global regulatory intelligence platform that helps banks and others stay up to date with regulatory change and identify risks.
Tom Garbutt
Founder and Community Manager of Pobble
Tom Garbutt is a Co-Founder & Community Manager at LendMeYourLiteracy.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Jon Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Pobble
Jon Smith is a Co-Founder & CEO at LendMeYourLiteracy.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Simon Blower
Co-Founder & Operations Director of Pobble
Simon Blower is a Co-Founder & Operations Director at LendMeYourLiteracy.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Henry Smith
Co-Founder & Lead Teacher of Pobble
Henry has spent the largest part of his life inspiring children to take up their pencils and write. As an English teacher in rural India, a literacy coordinator at his school in Leeds and as a Co Founder of Pobble, his goal hasn’t changed much: to make writing ridiculously exciting.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Jinny Chivers
Founder of Cooking With Jinny
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About Cooking With Jinny, Lunar Aerial Imaging: Cooking With Jinny holds online cooking and baking classes for families and colleagues.
Fraser Williams
CEO & Co-Founder of Sourcely
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About Sourcely: Sourcely is the “Spotify” for eTextbooks and Academic Journals. Allowing students to rent content for short periods of time.
Ameen Jan
CEO, Founder of EDeQUAL
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About EDeQUAL: Focused on providing students and schools with international standard education in a blended learning classroom.
Aldo de Pape
Founder of TeachPitch
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About TeachPitch: TeachPitch provides tools and resources to allow educators to share different aspects of teaching and learning.
Rebecca Evans
Co-Founder of Prolifiko
Rebecca combined her experience in publishing with her passion for technology and design thinking as the first Head of Innovation for global academic publisher Emerald. She believes that innovation isn’t something that sits locked up in a specialist team; to change the culture of innovation you need to include staff across an organisation.
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About Prolifiko: Prolifiko is a digital productivity coach which helps start and stick at your writing projects.
Hrishi Mittal
Founder of Learnetto
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About Learnetto: A community where people learn professional skills from each other
Helen Richardson
Founder & Chair of Workpays
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About Workpays: Workpays provides apprenticeship, professional coaching, and educational training services.
Fadoua Saadi
Founder and CEO of PrivateTuitionOnline.Com
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About PrivateTuitionOnline.Com: PrivateTuitionOnline.Com offers tutoring subscription service that live tutoring affordable and productive through our internet classrooms.
James Moore
Co-Founder of Health Development & Performance Network
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About Health Development & Performance Network: Health Development & Performance Network provides education and learning courses to health professionals.
Kajetan Champlewski
Co-Founder of Questioneer
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About Questioneer: Questioneer is a maths revision tool that can generate an infinite number of practice exam questions.
Dan Trickey
Co-Founder of Questioneer
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About Questioneer: Questioneer is a maths revision tool that can generate an infinite number of practice exam questions.
Dan Trickey
Co-Founder of Questioneer
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About Questioneer: Questioneer is a maths revision tool that can generate an infinite number of practice exam questions.
Suzanne Doyle-Morris
CEO & Founder of InclusIQ
Suzanne Doyle-Morris is the Founder of InclusIQ Ltd. It was her experience leading Female Breadwinners, that made her increasingly convinced that it will take senior men, not just women, to achieve a fairer, more competitive and more enjoyable workplace for everyone. Suzanne’s clients have included Accenture, BAE Systems, Barclays, Citibank, Clifford Chance, EDF Energy, HP, Hogan Lovells, Morgan Stanley, Old Mutual Group, Pinsent Masons, Sanger Centre, Tesco, Unilever, University of Cambridge, UCL and Trinity College Dublin as well as various industry associations. She routinely facilitates and leads sessions at a range of FTSE 100 companies. Suzanne received her Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, where she focused on the experiences of women working in male-dominated fields. She is author of Beyond the Boys’ Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male Dominated Field and Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why They are the Future of the Modern Workplace. Suzanne is a Fellow of both the Professional Speakers Association and the Saltire Foundation. She is accredited by the International Coach Federation and is interviewed regularly by the press for her views on workplace diversity issues.
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About InclusIQ: InclusIQ provide inclusive leadership solutions designed to rewire inbuilt biases for a fairer, smarter and more competitive workplace.
Chris Rawlinson
Founder of 42courses
Chris Rawlinson is the founder of 42courses.com. He used to be the WPP Africa Stream director.
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About 42courses: 42courses is an e-learning platform that offers short, skills-based education courses brought by the biggest brands and thought leaders.
Tracey Blake
CEO and Founder of Swotties
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About Swotties: Swotties is an online learning platform that caters to students from elementary school through teenage, covering a wide range of subjects.
Brad Cohen
Founder of Tido Music
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About Tido Music: Creator of the Tido Music app, an inspirational resource and learning tool for pianists and singers of all abilities.
Glyn Estebanez
Founder of Nexus Labs (Surgical Teaching)
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About Nexus Labs (Surgical Teaching): Nexus Labs is an interactive learning resource for medical students.
Georgios Papadakis
Founder and CEO of Filisia
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About Filisia: Filisia is an edtech company that builds accessible IoT devices, iPad applications and machine learning tools for learning and therapy.
Christopher Thorpe
Founder and CEO of I Can Make
Christopher Thorpe is the founder and CEO of I Can Make and is responsible for the technology in the company. He is also the founder of jaggeree, a small full-service digital consultancy company.
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About I Can Make: I Can Make Ltd. designs and provides online entertaining and educational three dimensional printable kits.
Aimee Bateman
Founder & CEO of Careercake
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About Careercake: Careercake is a online learning platform.
