Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer role. We have selected these Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer’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 Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer’s. The list is in no particular order!
Jonathan Seaton
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Twinkl
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Twinkl is a provider of teacher-created lesson planning, teaching, and assessment materials. Read more about Twinkl on Crunchbase…
Yves Guillemot
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Ubisoft
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Fresh out of business school, Yves Guillemot and his brothers embarked on an adventure in the nascent video game industry and founded Ubisoft in 1986. Early on, Yves understood that creating original content in-house and growing proprietary brands would be key to Ubisoft’s success. His vision to use technological breakthroughs as an opportunity to innovate, create brands and win over market share proved hugely successful over the years. With a strong focus on organic growth and efficiency, he has developed an organization recognized for its unrivalled collaborative mindset and for being highly competitive, with over two thirds of production based in cost-competitive countries. Yves has led Ubisoft’s evolution over the years with player engagement at the core of the company’s development. Ubisoft is one of the pioneers and a leader of the open world genre, which has become one of the industry’s most popular gaming segments. Ubisoft also develops successful multiplayer games and delivers state-of-the-art live operations that engage fans in the long term. Under Yves’ tenure, Ubisoft launched three of the world’s four best new videogame brands of all time ─ with Tom Clancy’s The Division leading the way ─ a remarkable achievement. The company’s unique capacity as a creator of blockbuster entertainment franchises has created massive value for Ubisoft’s shareholders. As the owner of its brands, Ubisoft today is in a unique position to broaden its franchises’ reach to a much wider audience through movies, TV shows, theme parks and consumer products. Under Yves’ direction, the company is taking an innovative approach by keeping creative control over its major projects ─ a first in the industry ─ to ensure consistency with the franchises’ DNA. Over the past 30 years Yves has led Ubisoft in its evolution from a local video game distributor, to a global entertainment leader. Yves has grown alongside the industry and has a deep understanding of what it takes to survive in a fast-moving, high-risk environment, at the crossroads of creation and technological disruption. His strong business acumen is sought out by multinationals such as Lagardère and Rémy Cointreau whose boards he sits on. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2009, and Glassdoor elected him one of the Top 3 most beloved CEOs in France in 2015.
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Alex Khein
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ BlueCove
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BlueCove is a new scientific asset management firm. Read more about BlueCove on Crunchbase…
Lucienne Elms
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Horse Scout
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Lucienne Elms is a British, professional equestrian sportswoman Dr of Chiropractic, and equestrian specialist. Aluminum of BlackBoxVC Tech Accelerator Silicon Valley. As founder and CEO of Horse Scout, Lucienne is now utilising her 17yr deep Industry equestrian experience, tech understandings to fulfil her vision of creating the leading global equestrian commercial engines via Horse Scout Group.
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Georg Ludviksson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Meniga
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Georg is a co-founder and oversees Product Management activities at [UpDown](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/updown-com). Georg Ludviksson is an MBA candidate at the Harvard Business School and holds a BS degree in software engineering from the University of Iceland. Georg Ludviksson has over seven years of experience as an IT entrepreneur. In 1998 he co-founded Dimon Software, an Icelandic enterprise mobility company, which he helped guide to profitability as a major software provider to Nokia. From 2004 to 2006, he was the VP of Sales for Men & Mice, a provider of specialized network management software to many of the world’s largest organizations.
Learn more about Georg Ludviksson on Crunchbase…Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data. Read more about Meniga on Crunchbase…
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ TG0
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TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls. Read more about TG0 on Crunchbase…
Bethany Koby
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Technology Will Save Us
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Bethany is a mom, CEO, designer, educator and art director interested in creating brands, businesses and experiences that help imagining a more positive and collaborative future. Bethany has been selected as one of the Designer’s that Matter by Wired Magazine, one of the Top 50 Creative Leaders by Creative Review and has spoken at TED Kids, Resonate and Maker Faire, to name a few.
Learn more about Bethany Koby on Crunchbase…Technology Will Save Us is a technology startup that offers DIY gadget kits, activities, and online resources for children. Read more about Technology Will Save Us on Crunchbase…
Christopher Leburn
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Chromacity
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Dr. Christopher Leburn leads the growth of Chromacity. He is a former Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow and holds a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews in ultrafast solid-state lasers. He has previously held research and technical management roles at both Heriot-Watt University and the University of St Andrews, where he was Assistant Director of a £12M EPSRC ultrafast photonics consortium. Christopher submitted his business idea towards the 2012 Converge Challenge, a business competition designed to tease technology out of the research base and into the commercial sector. Having secured 3rd place in this competition, Christopher, along with his co-founders, incorporated Chromacity in early 2013. As the company formed Christopher undertook a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship to enhance his commercial capabilities. Christopher developed a range of skills that has allowed him to successfully secure investment and build a team that can design, manufacture and deliver highly reliable, compact, cost effective ultrafast laser sources for a range of different customers.
Learn more about Christopher Leburn on Crunchbase…Chromacity Lasers is a spin-out from Heriot-Watt University, one of the UK’s leading technical universities with a focus on photonics. Read more about Chromacity on Crunchbase…
Cameron Shearer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Superscript
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Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses. Read more about Superscript on Crunchbase…
Lukas Lohove
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Zizzle
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Lukas developed his passion for understanding Chinese characters at UC Berkeley. When not learning Chinese, he enjoys riding boards – be it on snow, water or concrete.
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Rory Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ AgriBriefing
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Rory co-founded Briefing Media in 2010. Prior to that, Rory has spent over 20 years in senior positions across a wide range of international business media companies.Rory began his career in marketing at commodities and financial information specialist Metal Bulletin before joining Emap to help develop a digital subscription business for the Middle East. After marketing director positions at Risk Waters Group and Incisive Media. Rory became a divisional managing director for Incisive Media in 2005 leading an acquired division in North America. Rory currently serves as the company’s CMO with specific responsibility for agribusiness content, price discovery, subscription development and the event portfolio. He is a former director of the Specialised Information Publishers Association.
Learn more about Rory Brown on Crunchbase…AgriBriefing is a business media company that specializes in pricing, data, marketing solutions, news, market intelligence, and insight. Read more about AgriBriefing on Crunchbase…
Majed Chaaraoui
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Insurami
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Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate Read more about Insurami on Crunchbase…
Ger O’Meara
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Spirable
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Building a future where video is always contextual, reactive, and inspires action. Read more about Spirable on Crunchbase…
Michaela Jeffery-Morrison
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Maddox Events
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Maddox Events is the world’s only B2B company exclusively dedicated to creating large-scale conferences. Read more about Maddox Events on Crunchbase…
David Jackson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ EeBria
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EeBria is different from other websites. Read more about EeBria on Crunchbase…
Henry Pinchbeck
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ 3D LifePrints
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3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model Read more about 3D LifePrints on Crunchbase…
Martin Baker
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ One Team Logic
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One Team Logic provides high quality software, advisory services and training. Read more about One Team Logic on Crunchbase…
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