Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member role. We have selected these Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member’s. The list is in no particular order!
Projjol Banerjea
Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member @ Zeotap
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Projjol has 10+ years of experience in product management, marketing and business development. He’s the founder and Chief Product Officer of zeotap, a premium data collective that aims to democratise enterprise data for better decision-making across industries. Projjol’s prior roles include those as Chief Product Officer at premium network Moboqo, acquired by mobile advertising company Applovin, as well as VP Marketing & Business Development at mobile supply side platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay), acquired by RNTS Media for $190 million. Projjol was awarded an MBA by Oxford’s Saïd Business School in 2009. At Oxford, he was a member of the university’s lightweight rowing team. He also holds an MS in HCI from Indiana University’s School of Informatics and a BA in Computer Science (highest honours, Phi Beta Kappa) from DePauw University. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Projjol was selected as a Fellow by StartingBloc, an international fellowship of young leaders who share a keen interest in corporate responsibility, cross-sector partnerships and sustainability. In addition to physical activity, he enjoys reading (mostly non-fiction), music and travel; weaknesses include wine and dark chocolate. Projjol has extensive experience speaking at events, including CES, ad:tech, TM Forum, Game Connection and Mediabistro conferences, and has also been published in and/or interviewed by Wired, TechCrunch, Economic Times, Business Standard, Tech in Asia, MediaPost, AdExchanger, PocketGamer and KillerStartups, among others.
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Faisal Galaria
Board Member & Non Executive Director @ Green Man Gaming
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Faisal Galaria is the CEO of Blippar the Augmented Reality company. He previously served as Global Head of Business Development at Spotify Limited, as Managing Director of Europe and Asia at Kayak and was early member of the Skype team. At Skype as Director of Europe, he was responsible for key partnerships across the US, Europe the Middle East, with companies such as Sony, Bebo, British Telecom, Dixons and HP. Prior to joining Skype, he was a member of the Policy Executive of the UK’s telecom and media regulator Ofcom. At Ofcom, he played a senior role in the high-profile negotiation and valuation of distribution rights for Premier League Football and co-authored the Telecoms Strategy Review. He started his career in wireless and Internet consulting and was a senior member of Cluster Consulting, which was acquired by Diamond Technology Partners (NASDAQ: DTPI) for $930 million in 2000. He has been educated across Europe and graduated with honors from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) with a Bachelor’s in Management Sciences in the UK. He also holds an MBA from IESE in Spain.
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Mark Lyle Schneider
Board Member @ UnitedGlobalCom
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Mark Schneider was co-founder of leading European cable group UPC, which was subsequently acquired by Liberty Global in 2005. Mark has served on public and private company boards of companies operating in over 20 countries around the world, including United Artist Entertainment, UIH, UnitedGlobalCom, UPC, SBS Broadcasting and Blockbuster Video. With his background in international cable and telecommunications, Mark brings strong operating knowledge and an extensive network of contacts to the Board.
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Basem Salfiti
Board Member @ Souqalmal.com
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Based in London, Basem is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His portfolio includes CicekSepeti, Deliveroo, Menaclick and he currently serves on the board of directors of MarkaVIP, Souqualmal and Bank al Etihad in Jordan. Prior to joining Hummingbird, Basem was a Managing Director at Perella Weinberg Partners in London where he led the technology banking business in Europe. Prior, he was an Executive Director in the technology banking team at Morgan Stanley. Basem also held a number of executive management roles at BEST IC Laboratories, a semiconductor start up in Silicon Valley. Basem has a MBA with honors from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science with honors in Electrical Engeneering from Brown University. He is fluent in Arabic and English and speaks French.
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Touker Suleyman
Board Member @ Cablato
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Touker Suleyman is a multi-millionaire Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur and investor. In 2001, his company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes & Curtis, and in 2008 he purchased UK fashion label Ghost. More recently, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley & Cox.
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Adam Knight
Board Member @ Social and Sustainable Capital
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Laurence Molke
Founder / Board Member @ QRails
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Paul Farnell
Co-Founder & Board Member @ Litmus
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Paul Farnell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Litmus. After moving the company across the pond, Paul has come to love Boston and driving on the right side of the road. He can often be found anyplace with a good charcuterie plate.
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Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member @ Nourished
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Jeff Burde
Board Member @ EVRYTHNG
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Jeff has over 20 years of experience as an international finance leader across diverse investments and geographies. He is an active investor in marketing technology companies that connect brands and advertisers directly with consumers. Jeff also serves as Vice Chairman – Head of the Americas of personalized video start-up Idomoo Inc. and Board Director of media and measurement platform TruEffect. Previously in his role as the Managing Director Asia Pacific for Merrill Lynch, he oversaw key businesses spanning Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Martin Avetisyan
Chief Growth Officer, Executive Board member (NYSE: FTCH) @ Farfetch
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Michael Langguth
Board Member @ Poq
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John Powell
Board Member @ Alfresco
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John Powell is the former CEO and current board member of Alfresco Software. He is also a board member of Dataloop.io. Previously, John was COO of Business Objects and a sales executive at Oracle Software.
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David Axmark
Board Member @ import.io
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David Axmark is one of the founders of [MySQL AB](/organization/mysql) and a developer of the free database server, MySQL. He has been involved with MySQL development from its beginning along with the fellow co-founder [Michael Widenius](/person/michael-widenius/).
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Alexander Padhaiski
Board Member @ London Startup Society
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Alexander is a board member at London Startup Society, an investment banking platform that connects young entrepreneurs and young investors. He also works as operations analyst at Scheidt & Bachmann. Alexander attended City University London and studied international political economy, global financial regulation.
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Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member @ ActiveViam
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Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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Richard Mergler
Board Member @ Presence Orb
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Doug Swanson
Strategic Advisor and Board Member @ Malwarebytes
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Doug Swanson is the Vice President of Development at Malwarebytes. Along with CEO and founder Marcin Kleczynski, Doug got his start in online anti-malware communities, helping to keep the malware forces of darkness at bay. He joined Malwarebytes in 2008 and built most of the original technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, including the core scanning engine, kernel-level detection and removal technology, and the realtime protection module. Doug currently manages all client development at Malwarebytes and supervises the ever-growing development team. Doug holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, and an M.S. in Physics from Princeton University.
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Scott Coates
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member @ Wireless Infrastructure Group
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Scott launched WIG as an independent infrastructure company in 2006 and together with the management team has led its growth into a key player in the industry. Before joining WIG Scott was an infrastructure investor focused on the telecoms sector. Scott founded and also serves as Chairman of the European Wireless Infrastructure Association.
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Joshua Alliance
Board Member @ OpenWeb
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Joshua Alliance serves on Board of SimilarWeb, a global leader in Web Measurement & Online Competitive Intelligence, Moon Active,social games developer and Spot.IM, a conversation network where people can share ideas and have discussions on various topics.
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Paul Field
Board Member, Advisor and Investor @ Inn Style Ltd
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CEO EMEA, TouchCast. Partner, bMuse. Director, Higgaboom. Advisor, Dugout. Advisor to Amaliah and Lead Investor. Board Member and Investor, Inn Style Ltd. Investor, The Memo. Ignite Accelerator Investor and Mentor. Free Word Board Member. Consultant. Ex Daily Mail executive
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Robin Davis
Executive Director and Board Member @ Actica Consulting
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Robin is a pro-active technology advocate and independent advisor to Government, Public Safety and Transportation organisations. He has an in-depth knowledge of the procurement and implementation of complex Mission Critical systems. Over the last 25+ years, he has acted as senior advisor on a number of large-scale Mission Critical programmes around the world. He has been involved in every element of the strategic process supporting clients in their strategy, business justification, evaluation, selection, purchasing and implementation of technology projects aimed at driving efficiencies and business benefits. Robin is a board director at Actica Consulting, a UK Technology Consultancy house and the current chairman of the TCCA Transportation Group and Chairman of the TCCA Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) Strategic Case Group.
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Jonathan Tross
Board Member @ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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Jonathan Tross has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. He also chairs the NICE Audit and Risk Committee and is a Remuneration Committee and Appeal Panel member. Jonathan is a former senior civil servant with considerable experience in delivering public services and social policy, particularly in the fields of health, social security, child protection and the rights of individuals. Since leaving the civil service he has worked for the Local Government Association, was a trustee for six years at Citizens Advice, the national body for the citizens advice movement, and has been an external case reviewer for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. He is also currently a Non-executive Commissioner at the Independent Police Complaints Commission (from 2009) and a non-executive Director of UK Biobank (from 2013).
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Greg Reeve
Advisory Board Member @ Growth Street
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Greg is the CEO for TranssNet Payments, a new entrant into the African Payments scene, backed by Transsion Holdings, Mediatek and NetEase. TranssNet is introducing a full suite of financial services, accessed directly from and embedded in the handset, providing an out of the box experience. Transsion Holdings are the manufacturers of Tecno, Itel and Infinix mobile Phones. In the African Business most admired Brands in Africa 2018 they were ranked 7, 16 & 28 – three brands in the top thirty! NetEase is valued at $43Bn and is China’s largest games company.
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Raphael Crouan
Founding Board Member & Chair for the SMEs in the AIOTI @ EASME – EU Executive Agency for SMEs
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Raphael is the Managing Director & Founder of the Startupbootcamp Internet of Things (IoT) Program in London. He’s a Founding Board Member & Chair for the SMEs in the AIOTI (Alliance for IoT Innovation) at the European Commission. He also founded the French IoT Think Tank – alongside key actors of the industry – to advise the government & support the French ecosystem on IoT trends & key challenges. After spending a few years in Telco & the last 14 at Apple (lately as Head for the Strategy & Business Development for iPhone & iPad in Business in EMEIA), he decided 3 years ago to turn the page on his Corporate life & come back to his love of entrepreneurship & innovation-driven companies.
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Gabriela Ruggeri
Board Member @ Socialmetrix
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Joseph Munns
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member @ Bakedin
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Joe spent the majority of his career in various senior management positions at IBM UK, before moving to the food industry to lead Bakedin. He has previous experience in M&A, leading the integration of the Maidenhead based Butterfly Software into IBMs development organisation.
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Fabio Di Prima
Board Member @ Silver Sky GLobal Capital
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We constantly look for exciting, global property development and investment opportunities where we participate in the development of outstanding projects, both commercial and residential We partner with start-up and growth stage companies, leveraging our deep core industry and operational expertise as well as our global network. Our team provides the resources, talent and strategic guidance to help create lasting value, and enable them to reach their full potential
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Anton Kaszubowski
Advisory Board Member @ Betfect
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Francesco Moccagatta
Vice Chairman Independent Board Member @ CreditAccess Asia
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Francesco Moccagatta obtained a degree in Political Sciences at University of Milan, with a specialization in macroeconomics.Moccagatta has gained a strong experience in corporate governance since he served for several years as Managing Director for important financial institutions such as Banca IMI (Intesa San Paolo Group) and DC Advisory Partners.Moccagatta has served as Director in CreditAccess Asia since 2011.
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Boutros Noujaim
Board Member @ LeCab
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Ben Holmes
Board Member @ Kry
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Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm’s consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet, Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts). Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors. He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.
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Debu Purkayastha
Board Member @ Mercy Corps
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Debu Purkayastha is currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Octopus Ventures, a premier European venture capital firm. Prior to Octopus, till early 2014, Debu spent 6 years at Google. Debu was Principal – New Business Development at Google with a wide product mandate spanning several key strategic focus areas globally. Previously, Debu was Google’s Principal – Corporate Development spearheading its global M&A and Investment efforts including the acquisition of ITA Software (travel search), DailyDeal.de (offers), Gizmo5 (VoIP), Phonetic Arts (text to speech), Green Parrot Pictures (video image processing), Zynamics (security software) amongst several others. Debu is also a founding member of Google “Campus”, a seven-storey co-working space for startups in East London’s Tech City. Debu sits on the Board of MercyCorps (NGO), Advisory Board of Sadara Ventures (VC Fund) & previously used to sit on the Boards of Fon (wireless) & Mobile Planet (mobile apps). Prior to Google, Debu headed Sabre’s Corporate Development/M&A team in EMEA & in a past life was a Telecoms/Media/Technology M&A Banker with Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in Wall Street, Silicon Valley & London. Debu has a MBA from London Business School & is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Debu spends a fair bit of his personal time working with leading NGOs & governmental institutions in several politically sensitive areas including Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir etc. focusing on economic development initiatives. A certified cricket nut & film fanatic, Debu is also passionate about white-water rafting & hiking.
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Laurie Pinto
Board Member @ Baker Sport Capital
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Evgeny Shadchnev
Co-founder & Board member @ Makers
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Evgeny is a co-founder of Makers Academy. After graduating from uni with a masters degree in computer science, he worked for several years as a software developer in London. He knows first-hand how hard it is to hire software developers and how easy it is to get a job for those who can code, so he’s now building Makers Academy to help more people to code well.
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Harry Phinda
Board Member @ Unicef UK
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Harry Phinda, 18, from London has been involved with UNICEF UK since 2009. Harry is currently one of two Youth Advisors to the Board of Trustees, a role where young people actively take part in the governance issues of UNICEF UK. Harry’s previous activities for the organisation have been his participation in the 2009 J8 Summit in Rome – a weeklong conference for young people to exchange and debate ideas about how to best improve global conditions for children and to then present their recommendations to the G8 summit which runs in parallel. Harry actively campaigns for UNICEF UK and is a youth spokesperson for the organisation. He is particularly passionate about the affect of climate change on developing nations and had the opportunity to witness first hand UNICEF’s work in this area when he travelled to Barbados on a UNICEF UK field trip. Outside of UNICEF UK, Harry is in his first year of university studying for an undergraduate degree in International Relations. As part of Harry’s enthusiasm for youth participation he has held other major roles such as President of his college where he represented over 1,000 students and has been a member of Croydon’s Youth Council where he met weekly with the council to address issues affecting young people in the borough.
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Linda Seymour
Board Member @ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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Linda Seymour (BA, MA, FRSA) has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since the end of 2009. Linda brings a breadth of knowledge and expertise in health, public health and social care from a career spent in academia, the NHS and the not-for-profit sector. She was a research Fellow at Brighton University, focusing on effective approaches to community development and their impact on health and wellbeing in vulnerable groups. Linda has been a board level director on the commissioning side of the NHS, at East Sussex Health Authority; and on the provision side at South Downs Health NHS Trust and at Sussex Partnership NHS Trust. Her work in public health included roles in tobacco control at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and at the Health Education Council (HEC). Linda had a key role in evaluating the Health Education Authority’s Health at Work in the NHS programme and she is an experienced critical appraisal skills trainer, imparting the tools to assess the rigour and reliability of quantitative and qualitative research. She was Head of Policy at the former Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, specialising in promotion of mental health and wellbeing, multiple morbidities and employment and mental health. She is a trustee of MIND, the national association for mental health, where she sits on the audit and the business management committees and a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Public.
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Margaret Helliwell
Board Member @ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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Margaret Helliwell has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. Maggie is currently Vice Chair of NICE, a role in which she has the board responsibility for the Technology Appraisal Appeal process. A practising GP in West Yorkshire, Maggie has 40 years experience of working in the NHS. She was formerly a national GP advisor to the Department of Health, a member of the National Prescribing Centre Steering Committee, a medical director and clinical governance lead for a Primary Care Trust, and Deputy Medical Director and Caldicott Guardian of her local district general hospital.
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Loukas Saridis
Board member @ Oseven Telematics
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Mike Fauconnier-Bank
Board member @ The Portfolio Collective
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Gary Gibson
Founder & Board Member @ Ibex Innovations
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Gary is the founder of IBEX Innovations, which he formed in 2010. He developed the fundamental technology behind IBEX and then successfully obtained venture capital backing for the company in 2012. Gary stepped down as CEO in 2013, moving into his current role as Chief Scientific Officer. He also takes management responsibility for the IBEX quality systems. Gary graduated with a PhD from Imperial College, London, in 1999, and then took up a research post at the University of Cambridge. After being offered a fellowship at Cambridge, he moved into research positions in high tech industries, working for a number of blue chip corporations, such as SDL and JDSU, and start-ups such as Intense Photonics. He headed many different research teams but then became fascinated with the interplay between commerce and technology. He shifted his focus to sales and marketing and account management, being promoted to become Deputy Director of Sales and Marketing at Bede X-Ray Metrology, a successful X-ray technology company based in Durham. Gary worked for Kromek for a number of years as a product manager and then Phase Focus, a high-tech start-up in microscopy, as Director of Sales and Marketing.
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Jean Viry-Babel
CEO, Board Member @ xRapid
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Juha Uotila
Board Member @ Hookle
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Juha is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School, one of the leading business schools in the UK. An internationally recognized scholar with expertise in innovation and platform strategies, Juha serves on Hookle’s board as a non-executive director and strategy advisor.
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Simon Beeching
Board Member @ Syntec
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After studying modern languages at Oxford and business administration at INSEAD in France, Simon joined the executive board of the Thomson Holidays Group. As managing director of three well-known travel businesses he gained client-side experience of contact centre management in this fast-moving consumer industry. After setting up a marketing and sustainability consultancy, he became chairman of an international e-learning company and also Visiting Industry Professor at Regent”s Business School London, Simon was appointed as an executive director of Syntec in 2011, to support growth and strategic development in leading-edge contact centre management solutions. Beyond work Simon enjoys family travels; ski-ing; tennis; and playing the flute and saxophone.
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Simon Bird
Investor / Board Member @ Dizinga
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Katalin Tischhauser
Board Member @ Monetas
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James Alexander
Advisory Board Member @ LANDBAY
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James has been one of the main revolutionaries of British financial services over the past decade. He radically transformed the notion of financial intermediation as co-founder and UK CEO of Zopa, the world’s first peer-to-peer lending platform. Prior to that, he was Strategy Director of Egg, the groundbreaking online bank, where he launched the company’s digital TV and mobile services and the UK’s first and most successful account aggregation service. James is currently a Partner of The Foundation, a leading growth and innovation consultancy, where he has worked with clients including M&S, O2, Just Giving, Barclaycard, Tesco, Eurostar, The Guardian, Save the Children, A&n Media, Friends Life, Old Mutual and HSBC. He is also a Trustee for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a Trustee and former CEO of Green Thing and a Chair of GEN Community, an industrial provident society that delivers low carbon investments as well as social impact.
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Scott Sullivan
Board Member @ CyberCity 3D, Inc.
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Scott Sullivan is President and on the CyberCity 3D Board of Directors. As such, he lends his proficiencies in business and accounting to assist in the Company’s operations. Mr. Sullivan, an Australian Chartered Accountant, has worked in London as an Investment banker and subsequently sold a successful consultancy firm. He now invests in disruptive innovative companies, at the same time providing financial and management advice to them. An accomplished entrepreneur, he’s behind the advancement of numerous companies, utilizing his knowledge of running and structuring them. Mr. Sullivan also acts as a Director for City Athletic Limited and the Dorking Lawn Tennis and Squash Club Limited.
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Rafael Neville
Board Member & Assistant Manager @ Advanced Virtual
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Costis Kompis
Advisory Board Member @ DMR
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DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights. Read more about DMR on Crunchbase…
Shaun Springer
Advisory Board Member @ Bink
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Shaun Springer, is a dynamic and seasoned global commercial marketer with experience gained across a wide range of industries, sectors and brands from MasterCard, Sky, BT to Sainsbury’s. He has been heavily engaged in building successful programmes and brands and most recently MasterCard’s Iconic Priceless Brand & Priceless Programmes as Head of Brand, Digital, and Consumer Marketing. Also, from his entrepreneurial and creative approach throughout his career, in defining and understanding consumer insights and their passions he has significantly driven business value across key business areas such as, Loyalty, ARPU, Sponsorship and Retention.
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James Brown
CTO and Board Member @ CloudMade
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James Brown, CloudMade’s CTO, has been working in the field of telecommunications, geo-spatial data, database/ERP and retail industries for over 25 years. Jim has spent most of this time on creating new products and building/running technical groups and consulting practices. Jim has great experience working with a mix of large corporates (places like Kmart, Oracle and EDS) and startups/smaller technology organizations (places like Symbian, Sonopia, and SurfKitchen). He has been keeping his hands on technically around database, technical architecture and app development.
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Dan Hennessy
Board Member @ Benu Networks
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Darren Jobling
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member @ ZeroLight
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With over 25 years as a leader in the technology industry, Darren has built two pioneering organisations directly from the North East of England, establishing ZeroLight in 2014. The company has secured landmark deals with Audi, Pagani, JLR and Toyota, providing premium visualisation solutions both in dealership and online. Rated as one of the region’s Most Influential People for 5 years running, Darren is a committed entrepreneur, innovator and curator of technological talent.
Learn more about Darren Jobling on Crunchbase…ZeroLight is a creator of the world’s most advanced car configurator solution. Read more about ZeroLight on Crunchbase…
Liv Boeree
Co-founder and Advisory Board Member @ Raising for Effective Giving – REG Charity
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Peter Hoole
Board member @ Wirehive
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Terry Taylor
Board Member & CCO @ The Access Group
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Terry joined Access from Salesforce, where he spent four and a half years leading Customer Success. He has been a member of Salesforce EMEA and the Worldwide CSG leadership team. Formerly with Microsoft, AT&T and Citibank, Terry brings a wealth of leadership experience in fast growing and well established global technology brands.
Learn more about Terry Taylor on Crunchbase…The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software. Read more about The Access Group on Crunchbase…
Miguel Abadi
Board Member @ HedgeCoVest/SMArt Xchange (SMArtX)
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Adel Kambar
Founding Angel & Board Member @ Mobile Decisioning
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Rona McCandlish
Board Member @ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
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Rona McCandlish has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. Rona began her career in the NHS as an auxiliary nurse in 1974 in Scotland. She trained as a registered nurse, then a mental health nurse and has been a practicing midwife since 1985. She was Chair of the National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health from 2004-2007 and was Chair for the NICE Postnatal Care Guideline Development Group. In 2008 she was appointed a Non-executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and has recently been re-appointed as a NED for ‘new’ NICE (the National Institute for Heath and Care Excellence). Rona was appointed as Midwifery Professional Adviser for the Professional Leadership Team at the Department of Health in 2009. She took up this role on secondment from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University where she set up the ground-breaking Birthplace in England research programme. Her portfolio at DH included professional regulation and she worked closely with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on midwifery issues. She was Clinical Professional Member of the DH team for the independent review of indemnity and insurance cover for health professionals. As DH lead for the Midwifery 2020 Programme in England she worked with members of the public, women using maternity services and their families, midwives, educationalists, doctors and a wide range of other health and social care professionals to shape policy for midwifery education, practice and services. She now works as National Professional Advisor – Midwifery at the Care Quality Commission.
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Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member @ Satispay
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Mehdi Mahfoud
Advisory Board Member – MScPM, PRINCE2, MPM, CSMA @ MyTrustedWill
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Mehdi has a Masters Degree in Project Management from the famous 6 stars Lancaster Management School in UK. He holds an Engineering degree in Petroleum with 11 years of extensive Project Management experience and Business Consultancy in UK, MEA and North Africa region. Mehdi is a PRINCE2 Certified Practitioner, CILC – Certified Coach, MPM and Certified Strategic Management Analyst. Before launching his own private business: Tassili Training Center, Mehdi was the Special Advisor to H.E. Ambassador of South Korea to Libya on Economy and Public Diplomacy Strategy. He is a Dev. Consultant and Advisor for various governmental bodies and the President of LY-Chapter of the American Academy of Project Management.
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Derrick Dale QC
Board Member @ Idea Drop
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Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people. Read more about Idea Drop on Crunchbase…
Bernard van Bunnik
Board Member @ dopay
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dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically. Read more about dopay on Crunchbase…
Steve Hall
Non Executive Board Member @ Crown Hosting Data Centres
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Crown Hosting Data Centres helps in delivering efficiency and transparency of data centre hosting utilisation. Read more about Crown Hosting Data Centres on Crunchbase…
Daniel McRitchie
Board Member @ PlaceSpeak
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Eva-Marie Mancuso
Board Members @ Community College of Rhode Island
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Eva-Marie Mancuso has been Managing Partner with the law firm of Hamel, Waxler, Allen and Collins for over twenty years. She is an accomplished trial attorney, having attained the status of board certfication by examination as a civil trial specialist in 2000 by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Having served as lead counsel in several complex jury trials, she has been recognized by her peers as a leader, particularly in her elected role as President of the Association for Justice, the trial bar for Rhode Island. Mancuso began her career as Assistant Attorney General for Rhode Island and Assistant District Attorney for Bristol County, MA. She also has served as Adjunct Professor at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) and as Faculty Advisor to the National College of District Attorneys. Mancuso earned a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, where she was Student Bar Association President and earned the Outstanding Graduate Award for Public Service. Mancuso is active in many legal and community organizations both locally and nationally. She is a former Vice President of the URI Alumni Association and served as a CCRI Foundation Trustee. She was also the R.I. Representative to the National Lawyers/Teacher Partnership. Mancuso has been honored as the R.I. Business and Professional “Woman of the Year,” is a recipient of the South County “Business Woman of Achievement” Award, and received the “Outstanding Service Award” from the URI Alumni Association. As a member of the Board of Governors for Higher Education from 2011 to 2013, Mancuso chaired the Government Relations Committee and served on the board’s Facilities, Finance and Management Committee and the Personnel Committee. She was appointed Chair of the newly-formed Rhode Island Board of Education in January of 2013.
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David Carratt
Board Member @ Falcon.io
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David is one of Europe’s experts on e-commerce and online marketing analytics. He was on the worldwide and European board of Sybase’s professional services business, while the company’s headcount grew from 100 to 1500 in just four years. He was also the first institutional investor in Cramer systems, sold in 2006 for one of the highest cash prices ever paid for a European software business. When David is not creating or building businesses, he enjoys long distance walking, skiing and sailing
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Paul Fisher
Board Member @ Council of Better Business Bureaus
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Paul Fisher serves as an Associate at Advent Venture Partners. Paul Fisher served as Corporate Development Director at Forward Internet Group Ltd. He served as a Director at Forward Partners . Paul Fisher was responsible for acquiring new businesses, investing in new projects via Forward Investment Partners and incubating new brands. He is an investor in WorldStores, Mint Digital, and Picklive. Paul Fisher serves at Citigroup CIB. Previously, he was an investor with Advent Ventures, where he invested in FarFetch and worked with web companies Qype and DailyMotion. He was an Associate Director and an early investor at FirstCapital Ltd. where he joined in 2000. Paul Fisher worked in a number of early stage technology companies, including GlassesDirect, Rawflow, Reevoo.com, and OmniPerception. He worked on M&A for Cassium Technologies, Smart421, and Aim Software. He was an Executive Officer at City Bank Ltd. and worked at Salomon Smith Barney. He serves as a Director of Zulu Beauty Limited and Eqos Limited. Paul Fisher serves as Director of Trace One Limited. He studied Corporate Finance at the Securities Institute. Paul Fisher holds a B.A. in Politics from the University of Warwick.
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Lord Francis Maude
Advisory Board Member @ OakNorth
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Steve Pashley
Co-Founder, Board Member & Managing Director – Business @ Health2Works
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Co-founder of Health2Works 25 years experience in consulting to the NHS Curious, resilient and committed to making a difference to people’s lives, health and wellbeing
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David Lussey
Non-Executive Board Member @ infi-tex
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David is a director on the board of Infi-Tex Ltd. Infi-Tex is a smart textiles company with an incredible patented textile switching and sensing technology that allows textiles to be turned into switches and sensors without losing the look and feel of the textiles. Infi-Tex textile switches and sensors are washable and ideally suited for use in the rapidly growing field of wearables, connected textiles and pressure mats to create products such as interactive bed sheets, jackets, active wear, safety gear, fabric clone-phones and sensory walls, floors and furniture. David Lussey left the Royal Air Force in 2000 to build a technology business following a career as a specialist in defensive missile, communication and radar systems. He is an award-winning inventor with numerous patents to his name. As inventor of quantum tunnelling composites, co-founder, former CEO and CTO of Peratech, he took the company through start-up and venture capital to established commercial production and the winning of the prestigious Queen’s Award in 2012. He also co-invented and co-founded ‘Softswitch’. David has worked with industry and academe in order to promote British Technology internationally. He was part of the team which won the BVCA Management Team of the Year in 2012 and gained four Technology Strategy Board SMART Awards. His inventions have been internationally recognised by a Tomorrows World Award, a Millenium Products Award, a Saatchi & Saatchi Award (judged by Edward De Bono), a British Engineering Excellence Award, a NASA Award and a Printed Electronics Award. David won European AV Technologist of the Year 2013 for his work and is a specialist in new material development, nanotechnology and printable electronics. H recently established Lusstech Ltd to launch his latest invention a new and unique printable electronic material called C-Squared which will alter the future of printable switches and sensors and which is used within Infi-Tex’s textile technology, taking it to a new level.
Learn more about David Lussey on Crunchbase…infi-tex are a smart sensor company, with a new class of patented smart pressure sensitive materials. Read more about infi-tex on Crunchbase…
Hugh Ilyine
Founder & Board Member @ ProFactor Pharma
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Hugh Ilyine has had an extensive international career in company leadership, operational and marketing roles over the last twenty years. He has undertaken CEO roles in companies active in developing, registering, manufacturing, marketing and distributing IP backed products in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. His previous experience includes Director, VP and COO at Stem Cell Sciences plc including a successful IPO on AIM in July 2005; establishing the Bio-Science Division of Bonlac Ltd in Melbourne, Australia and a 17 year international career with Rhone-Poulenc’s Agrochemical division including four years as Managing Director of the company’s JV in Indonesia, with supervisory management of Malaysian operations, followed by similar responsibilities for its Australian and New Zealand operations. During his career, he has led and closed a significant number of supply and licence agreements with small and large firms in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Learn more about Hugh Ilyine on Crunchbase…ProFactor Pharma provides commercialise and supply recombinant blood factors for the treatment of haemophilia. Read more about ProFactor Pharma on Crunchbase…
Hugh Ilyine
Founder & Board Member @ ProFactor Pharma
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Hugh Ilyine has had an extensive international career in company leadership, operational and marketing roles over the last twenty years. He has undertaken CEO roles in companies active in developing, registering, manufacturing, marketing and distributing IP backed products in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. His previous experience includes Director, VP and COO at Stem Cell Sciences plc including a successful IPO on AIM in July 2005; establishing the Bio-Science Division of Bonlac Ltd in Melbourne, Australia and a 17 year international career with Rhone-Poulenc’s Agrochemical division including four years as Managing Director of the company’s JV in Indonesia, with supervisory management of Malaysian operations, followed by similar responsibilities for its Australian and New Zealand operations. During his career, he has led and closed a significant number of supply and licence agreements with small and large firms in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Learn more about Hugh Ilyine on Crunchbase…ProFactor Pharma provides commercialise and supply recombinant blood factors for the treatment of haemophilia. Read more about ProFactor Pharma on Crunchbase…
David Gales
Board Member @ Voxpopme
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Frances Outram
Board Member @ HSE – Health and Safety Executive
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Frances was appointed to the Board of the Health and Safety Executive in October 2010 for a period of three years. Her appointment has been extended for a further three years until end of September 2016. Her wide ranging career in the private sector has spanned a number of different industries with the last 20 years primarily spent in HR Director positions with Forte Hotels, the Portman Building Society and the SHL Group, where she ended her private sector career in 2007. Frances has held public sector NED positions since 2000 and was previously a Non Executive Director with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where she was Vice Chair and Senior Independent Director. She was a Non Executive a Director with Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust and has remained with the Trust in the role of a Mental Health Manager Associate. She is a Lay Advisor to the NHS Wessex Deanery.
Learn more about Frances Outram on Crunchbase…The Health and Safety Executive is a national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety, and illness. Read more about HSE – Health and Safety Executive on Crunchbase…
Bill Edwards
Executive Advisory Board Member @ Kennet Partners
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Bill Edwards is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board and has served on the board, advised and/or invested in several Kennet portfolio companies including Revolution Prep, Intelepeer and Daptiv. Bill was part of the founding executive team at Siebel Systems, serving as vice president of engineering and later as chief technology officer. During his tenure, from 1993 to 2005, Siebel grew rapidly achieving revenues of almost $2 billion in just six years, went public and ultimately was acquired by Oracle for $6 billion. Siebel was one of the most capital efficient high value exits in enterprise software having raised only $8 million prior to its IPO. Prior to Siebel Systems, Bill worked with three other Silicon Valley companies that had successful IPOs during his tenure. He was responsible for graphical authoring systems at Macromedia, was senior vice president of engineering, research and development at Frame Technology, and held engineering management positions at Convergent Technologies and Apple Computer. Bill began his career at Intel. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
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Conor Mulrooney
Co-Founder, COO & Board Member @ Phagenesis
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Conor Mulrooney is the COO and co-founder of Phagenesis®. He has over 15 years of product and business development experience in the medical devices and diagnostic sectors as a senior manager (MIMIT, UMIP, Tepnel PLC) or board representative (Myconostica, Iduron). He is the primary inventor in multiple patents in molecular biology, robotics and medical devices.
Learn more about Conor Mulrooney on Crunchbase…Phagenesis is engaged in the development of a device to treat dysphagia, a condition that disables the safe swallowing of food. Read more about Phagenesis on Crunchbase…
Ali Mazanderani
Board Member @ Upstream
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Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets. Read more about Upstream on Crunchbase…
Nadav Zohar
Board Member @ Soluto
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Isabel Garvey
Board Member @ Abbey Road Red
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Emma Blaylock
Director, Board Member @ Optalysys
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Emma is an experienced business strategist. She specialises in corporate strategy, corporate development, business development, M&A, media, high tech, consumer electronics, consulting and project management
Learn more about Emma Blaylock on Crunchbase…Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing. Read more about Optalysys on Crunchbase…
Ed Matthews
Advisory Board Member @ Bink
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Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes. Read more about Bink on Crunchbase…
Victoria Muir
Chief Talent Officer; Board Member and Global Head of People, Performance & Culture @ Prescient Healthcare Group
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Prescient Healthcare Group was founded in London in 1995, originally specializing in competitive insights. Read more about Prescient Healthcare Group on Crunchbase…
Walter Kerins
Director – Board Member @ CS Networks
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CS Networks, a telecommunications service provider, offers professional services and premium quality IT solutions for the mobile industry. Read more about CS Networks on Crunchbase…
Anj Matthews
Board Member & Director @ SoccerHubb
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SoccerHubb is a social network platform for football that includes social media suite, interactive multimedia, and live news feed. Read more about SoccerHubb on Crunchbase…
Paul Pascoe
Board Member @ Idea Drop
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Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people. Read more about Idea Drop on Crunchbase…
Peter Frankental
Board Member @ Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Peter is Economic Relations Programme Director at Amnesty International UK and Chair of the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition, UK. Previously he was Economic Relations Strategy Adviser at Amnesty’s International Secretariat. Peter joined Amnesty International in 1998 from Business in the Community, where he specialised in developing the role of the private sector in social and economic regeneration programmes. His previous career included six years as a business analyst with Johnson Matthey and four years as a systems analyst within the National Health Service. Peter’s first degree was in Mathematical Statistics. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics (MSc Econ) and the Institute of Latin American Studies (MA). Peter is a founding trustee of two organizations in the refugee field – Music in Detention which delivers music workshops in immigration detention centres, and the Helen Tetlow Memorial Fund which provides small grants to refugee organizations. Peter is co-author of Human rights – is it any of your business?, a management primer on human rights jointly published in April 2000 by Amnesty International and the International Business Leaders Forum. He has published numerous papers on the theme of business and human rights including, Can Branding Reinforce Human Rights?, published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in Visions of Ethical Business.
Learn more about Peter Frankental on Crunchbase…Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse. Read more about Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Crunchbase…
Heiko Schilling
Technology Advisory Board Member @ Gousto
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Heiko Schilling launched his first startup in 1989. Since then, his passion for algorithms, data, and software has led his to start two more business ventures at the same time that he was completing four academic degrees and working for several large corporations. He had joined TomTom in 2007, where he has lead TomTom Navigation – with his team they are responsible for delivering the software components (APIs,SDKs,Apps) for the TomTom products that are used by several hundred million people every day.
Learn more about Heiko Schilling on Crunchbase…Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation. Read more about Gousto on Crunchbase…
Anthony Day
Co-Founder & Board Member @ CloudApps
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CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours Read more about CloudApps on Crunchbase…
Sheree Atcheson
Advisory Board Member @ Women Who Code
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Ursel Barnes
Board Member @ TalkLife
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The Social Network That Saves Lives Read more about TalkLife on Crunchbase…
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