Director & Co-Founder play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Director & Co-Founder role. We have selected these Director & Co-Founder’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 Director & Co-Founder’s. The list is in no particular order!
John C. Drake
Director & Co-Founder @ iLOOKABOUT
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John C. Drake is the President and co-founder of Drake Goodwin Corporation, a London, Ontario investment firm with diverse interests in financial services, real estate development and manufacturing. Mr. Drake is the Chair of the Board of Critical Outcome Technologies Inc., a TSXV company whose business is focused on the identification, profiling and optimization of targeted small molecules potentially effective in the treatment of human diseases through a proprietary computational platform technology. Mr. Drake is also the Vice Chairman of Children’s Choice Learning Centers, a leading provider of corporate childcare in the United States. Mr. Drake was the Chairman of DGM Bank and Trust Inc., a privately-owned offshore bank located in Barbados, from 2002 to 2008, and a director of Discovery Air Inc., an aviation services company whose shares are listed on the TSX, from 2006 until 2008. Mr. Drake is the co-owner of Redtail Golf Course, an exclusive private golf course located outside of Port Stanley, Ontario. Mr. Drake was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 1st Hussars of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps. in 1999. Mr. Drake obtained his B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Western Ontario and was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1973 to 2012.
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Michael Holland
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ FE fundinfo
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Joint Managing Director Michael Holland – A graduate of Oxford University, Michael spent his early career with Citibank in the Middle East, New York and London, specialising in asset-based and off-balance sheet finance. In the late 80s with Craig Wilson he co-founded LSD Software Ltd which provided portfolio and pension administration software to advisers and institutions. LSD was successfully sold to a larger group in the mid 90s. At the same time, he and Craig co-founded Financial Express which has become an international provider of fund data, ratings and research.
Learn more about Michael Holland on Crunchbase…FE fundinfo is a provider of data, software and performance analytics to the financial services industry. Read more aboutFE fundinfo on Crunchbase…
Catherine Wines
Executive Director & Co-Founder @ Zepz
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Catherine is a qualified accountant with public company board experience and extensive commercial experience in the money transfer industry. Previously she was the Managing Director of First Remit, an international money transfer business subsequently acquired by Travelex Money Transfer where she became the Regional Director for UK, Ireland and Benelux as well as Operations Director. Catherine was one of the founding team members of WorldRemit.
Learn more about Catherine Wines on Crunchbase…Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world. Read more aboutZepz on Crunchbase…
Henry Graham
Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Wolf & Badger
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Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe. Read more aboutWolf & Badger on Crunchbase…
Cyrus Wadia
Payment Strategy Director & Co-Founder @ Modulr
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Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses. Read more aboutModulr on Crunchbase…
Robert Jan Teuwissen
Company Director & Co-Founder – Head of Investor Relations @ Chelton Wealth
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A progressive investment professional with 29 years of experience in trading the financial markets, combined with running an independent trading & advisory business for the last 2 decades. Having a consistent track record including managing trading desks and advising globally on interest rates and FX risk. Furthermore specialist in taking risk to generate above-average returns. Head of Trading management team running two different currency investment processes: an Absolute return discretionary forex process and a higher vol target systematic forex strategy. Products included absolute return funds and managed accounts, as well as active and passive currency overlay mandates. As a 29 year veteran of the commodity future & foreign exchange markets, I have been responsible for currency strategy and trading for several high profile clients who are allocated within the currency space. I have managed an alpha driven portfolio of G10 currencies, as well as a number of other hedging programmes and strategies. I have been responsible building out the Currency Desk, including infrastructure, technology, and reporting. Having started trading commodities futures & currencies on the ICE, LME, CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX in the early 90’s, I have gained the expertise to manage risk through times of calm, as well as times of extreme market stress, My years of experience have helped me model and analyse risk in both short and long-term time horizons, studying market fundamentals, and correlations across currencies. Specialties: Commodity & Currency Strategy, Trader Selection, Multi Strategies. Knowledge of Modern Portfolio Theory & Behavioral finance, skilled in applying the investment process across portfolio structures and investment vehicles.
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Tarlochan Toor
Medical Director & Co-founder @ MedicSpot
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MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine Read more aboutMedicSpot on Crunchbase…
Simon Deeny
Director & Co-Founder @ Conjura
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Conjura is a company that draws on expertise in consultancy, software engineering, data science and analytics. Read more aboutConjura on Crunchbase…
Doug Kessler
Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Velocity Partners
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Doug is a displaced Yank who started his career at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Soap and fabric softener bored him rigid so he jumped ship to specialise in B2B. Doug is a content marketing junkie. He’s a copywriter at heart but with a secret jones for analytics. And Lagavulin.
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BIlly Williams
Director & Co-Founder @ Cufflink.io
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Billy has worked in the IT professional services and Sales arena for over 20 years primarily on customer orientated data projects. He has been a Company Director for 2 successful UK Startup consultancy companies and has full sales cycle experience Billy has worked globally (UK, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, UAE, Egypt, Australia) for some of the largest multi-national Organisations across multiple different business streams. Billy has been involved within the Ethereum and wider Blockchain community for the past 3 years having attended DEVCON1, DEVCON4, EDCON and has forged links with key individuals within the DLT (Blockchain) Ecosystem and the Ethereum community. His previous role was as both SME (Subject Matter Expert) and Programme Manager in executing the GDPR Programmes at a large UK Airport and multinational Legal Firm based out of London.
Learn more about BIlly Williams on Crunchbase…Cyber Security Software as a Service Read more aboutCufflink.io on Crunchbase…
Jason Grima
Director & Co-founder @ Everly Wellness
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Everly Wellness is a technology healthcare company focused on providing honest, expertly researched and personalised nutritional products. Read more aboutEverly Wellness on Crunchbase…
Béla Hanratty
Investment Director & Co-Founder @ Align17
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Peter Fraenkel
Director & Co-Founder @ Gravitricity
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Gravitricity develops a novel storage technology which offers some of the best characteristics of lithium batteries and pumped storage. Read more aboutGravitricity on Crunchbase…
Andy Bell
Non-exec Director & Co-founder @ Boomf
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Boomf is an initial product, Boomf is a quite simply a better way to send a sentiment. Read more aboutBoomf on Crunchbase…
Denis Lonergan
Director & Co-Founder @ Somnus Scientific
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Somnus Scientific develops a suite of products to measure blood propofol concentration in real-time and without blood sampling. Read more aboutSomnus Scientific on Crunchbase…
Hugh Hudleston
Commercial Director & Co-Founder @ FIXR
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Hugh is a founding Director of FIXR. He most recently spent a year doing his MBA at Cambridge University before joining FIXR full time in June 2014. Hugh started his financial career at Matrix Corporate Capital in equity sales. Following Matrix, Hugh became a partner of a corporate advisory boutique, Hawkwood Capital, raising money for private companies. He is also Director of a fast growing visual recognition company, WeSee. Past exploits included launching 2 magazines. He is a keen sailor.
Learn more about Hugh Hudleston on Crunchbase…FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers. Read more aboutFIXR on Crunchbase…
Dale Lovell
UK Managing Director & Co-Founder @ ADYOULIKE
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Chief Digital Officer at Adyoulike – the European leader in native advertising. Successful track record in online start-ups and one of BIMA’s Hot 100 2015. Prior to Adyoulike Dale was co-founder of Content Amp, a content marketing service that merged with Adyoulike in March 2014. Proven at building creative content businesses, nurturing start-up teams, content development, developing brand content strategy and promoting the benefits of online content to all businesses and brands. An experienced content marketer, online editor, publisher and media professional. Experienced across the entire spectrum of online media with direct hands-on experience in numerous internet start-ups.
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Tom Stapleton
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ TravelLocal
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Tom is originally from Kent, in England and loves real ale and trains. In hindsight, TravelLocal wouldn’t have worked without this unique combination – he and Huw talked strategy on long train journeys and got creative at the local pub, all in the service of this travel revolution. Tom does many things for TravelLocal, but spends much of his day choosing and communicating with the amazing local travel companies with whom we work. He has worked in the travel industry since 2005 so knows where to look and what questions to ask. Tom’s favourite travel memory took place on the Trans-Asia express between Istanbul and Tehran where he shared a compartment and a bottle of wine with an Iranian couple. The scenery in Eastern Turkey was spectacular, and the train crossed Lake Van by ferry(!), but it was the mix of people on board that really made this journey special.
Learn more about Tom Stapleton on Crunchbase…Global managed marketplace for tailor-made holidays. Read more aboutTravelLocal on Crunchbase…
Melinda Kenneway
Executive Director & Co-Founder @ Kudos
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Kudos offers web-based tools and services to help researchers, institutions, publishers, and funders increase the impact of their research. Read more aboutKudos on Crunchbase…
Paul Haslam
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ The Web Bureau
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Paul is the Managing Director and co-founder of The Web Bureau. Paul has extensive expertise in Web Design, User Experience and Digital Marketing. As well as providing creative direction at The Bureau, Paul works closely with our clients, helping them to develop their digital strategy. Outside work Paul loves spending time with his two young boys Matt and Ollie. He also enjoys a spot of fishing, sea-kayaking, playing 5-a-side football and strives to BBQ at least once a week despite the unpredictable Northern Irish Climate!
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Charlie Rapple
Director & Co-founder @ Kudos
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I’m a geek marketer, and have spent my whole career at the cutting edge of the scholarly communications sector. I have an insatiable interest in new techniques and technologies, about which I speak and write regularly. I’m passionate about breaking down barriers and improving relationships between everyone involved in research dissemination, and as such am an enthusiastic volunteer for the industry association UKSG. I am also an Associate Editor of Learned Publishing. I hold a BA from the University of Bristol and a postgraduate MDip in Marketing. Prior to co-founding Kudos, I was a strategic marketing consultant with TBI Communications, and had previously held various management roles at CatchWord, Ingenta and Publishing Technology.
Learn more about Charlie Rapple on Crunchbase…Kudos offers web-based tools and services to help researchers, institutions, publishers, and funders increase the impact of their research. Read more aboutKudos on Crunchbase…
Jan Berghe
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Novalis Biotechnology Incubation
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Paul Beech
Director & Co-founder @ Pimoroni
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Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. Read more aboutPimoroni on Crunchbase…
Jonathan Williamson
Director & Co-Founder @ Pimoroni
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Pimoroni is a U.K.-based company that designs, manufactures, and sells quality products for makers, geeks, and educators. Read more aboutPimoroni on Crunchbase…
Andrew Williamson
Director & Co-founder @ Delv
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Delv is a management and advisory firm that address the real issue of late payments. Read more aboutDelv on Crunchbase…
Jonathan Burroughs
Director & Co-Founder @ Variable State
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Variable State is an independent video game studio based in London and Dublin Read more aboutVariable State on Crunchbase…
Jonathan Stefani
Business Development Director & Co-Founder @ WeFiFo
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WeFiFo connects people that love to cook with people who love to eat. Read more aboutWeFiFo on Crunchbase…
James Miles
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Liv-ex
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James Miles was born in Hong Kong and attended school and university in the UK. He started his career with Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong in 1991, before becoming an equities analyst and strategist with Asia Equity (which later became Banque Paribas and then BNP Paribas). He moved to London in 1997 and left banking in March 2000 to set up Liv-ex.
Learn more about James Miles on Crunchbase…Liv-ex is the global marketplace for the wine trade, to whom we supply data, trading, technology and fulfilment services. Read more aboutLiv-ex on Crunchbase…
Phill Adamson
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Paragon Rapid Technologies Ltd
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A leading product development and production support company, offering prototyping, manufacturing and supply chain management solutions. Read more aboutParagon Rapid Technologies Ltd on Crunchbase…
Ajan Reginald
Executive Director & Co-Founder @ Cell Therapy
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Cell Therapy Ltd is a British pioneer in Regenerative Medicine. Read more aboutCell Therapy on Crunchbase…
Rob Martyniak
Director & Co-Founder @ Meatcure Restaurants
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Meatcure is a restaurant that provides fast food and is located in Harborough, England. Read more aboutMeatcure Restaurants on Crunchbase…
Helen Townley
Non-executive Director & Co-Founder @ Xerion Healthcare
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Xerion Healthcare is the technology commercialization company of University of Oxford. Read more aboutXerion Healthcare on Crunchbase…
Steven Anderson
Executive Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Future Kings
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Responsible for all strategy and creative work, Steven oversees the output of the whole team to ensure the highest possible strategic and creative standards. A multi-award winning designer and creative director, he led the team that won the coveted Grand Prix Award at the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards.
Learn more about Steven Anderson on Crunchbase…Future Kings is a marketing and advertising firm. Read more aboutFuture Kings on Crunchbase…
Linda Howell
Director & Co-Founder @ iMetaFilm
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iMetaFilm will create a new industry sector which will digitise the world’s film heritage. Read more aboutiMetaFilm on Crunchbase…
Niraj Shah
Director & Co-Founder @ Nueta Ventures
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Niraj Shah, co-founder and director, has over five years of experience in developing web sites and social applications, developing more than 100 different apps since November 2007, for brands including Paramount Pictures, Nissan, Volvo, MTV, MySpace, GlaxoSmithKline, LOVEFiLM, Samsung, The Guardian, and many more.
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David Courreau
Director & Co-Founder @ find’m
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find’m is the first hybrid recruitment business with a video proposition. find’m brings a unique methodology that goes far beyond a job spec Read more aboutfind’m on Crunchbase…
Ben Mott
Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Future Kings
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Responsible for the overall smooth running of the business and building deep, long-term client relationships. Ben is the enabler, focussed on creating the perfect environment for the Future Kings team to deliver brilliant, effective work for their clients. Ben co-founded the company in order to build a great team, do great work with great clients and, more importantly, have fun doing it.
Learn more about Ben Mott on Crunchbase…Future Kings is a marketing and advertising firm. Read more aboutFuture Kings on Crunchbase…
Phil Stuart
Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Preloaded
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They make games that do more than just entertain. Read more aboutPreloaded on Crunchbase…
Aris Spiliotopoulos
Director & Co-Founder @ LuxOlympus Mayfair
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LuxOlympus Mayfair is a boutique Travel Agency authorized and regulated by the TTA (Travel Trust Association). Read more aboutLuxOlympus Mayfair on Crunchbase…
Michael Schlotfeldt
Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Plaudit Design
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Jacqueline Mautner
Director & Co-Founder @ Spannr
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Spannr is a B2B professional network for trades to connect to help share work, tools & advice and recruit & train their workforce. Read more aboutSpannr on Crunchbase…
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