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Michael Thamm
Chief Executive Officer , Costa Crociere S.p.A. @ Carnival Cruise Line
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Michael Thamm has been chief executive officer of Costa Crociere S.p.A. since July 2012. In this capacity, he has full responsibility for the following brands: AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises and Ibero Cruises. He previously served as president of AIDA Cruises from 2004 to 2012 and Senior Vice President Operations of AIDA Cruises from 1993 to 2004. Prior to joining AIDA Cruises, he held various management positions within the cargo shipping division of Deutsche Seereederei (DSR). Thamm, who holds a master’s degree in Economics, is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Cruise Council (ECC), which represents the interests of the world’s most important shipping lines in Europe. He was named North European Cruise Personality of the Year 2011, an award selected by Seatrade and V. Ships. In March 2012, the international cruise associations ECC and Cruise Lines International Association appointed Thamm spokesman for the cruise industry in Germany.
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Abeed Mohamed
Co-Founder & CRO @ Birdie
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Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home. Read more about Birdie on Crunchbase…
Roman Itskovich
Co-Founder & CRO @ At-Bay
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Roman is the co-founder of CyberJack, a venture backed cyber insurance startup. Previously, he built an online lending business at Ebury, a Greylock backed Fintech firm, was on the investment team of Bain Capital, and was a consultant with Mckinsey&Co. Roman holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Sean Salloux
CRO @ Baanx Group
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Sean has over 20+ years in mobile, crypto, banking security, amongst other sectors, and was part of creating the first e-wallet on a credit card (back in 1999!) for Gemalto, MasterCard, Korean and Japanese banks. He was employee #1 for Gemalto’s $700M corporate VC arm, the largest in Europe at the time, and invested in and acquired companies in the crypto/mobile/e-wallets/mobile and security space in US, EU, and Asia. Since then, he has been CEO of start-ups to PLCs, and has built many successful management teams. Including: mobile, security/IoT/crypto/PKI, and impact investing in clean tech, as well as advising many tech founders, including 2 unicors when they were start-ups and less than 10 employees (Vungle, WorldRemit). He have set up and/or been a technical advisor to a number of VCs, PE, and Hedge Funds in technology over the years including, Endeavour Ventures, Harvard Management Company, etc.). Recently, he has been working with companies in FinTech, space including Baanx to develop the World’s 1st Crypto-Financial Services Network.
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Hamza Farrukh
Vice President, Macro Rates Sales @ Goldman Sachs
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Martin Froggatt
Executive Vice President – Abercrombie & Kent USA @ Abercrombie & Kent
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Rob van Straten
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) @ EVBox
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Richard Leftley
EVP Micro Insurance @ Micro Insurance Company
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Richard began working in microinsurance in January 2002 after leaving Benfield Greig, a leading reinsurance intermediary, where he worked as a reinsurance broker responsible for the African account and worked in a team covering the Middle East and South East Asia. Richard pioneered the introduction of insurance products within the Opportunity Network, which led to the establishment of the Micro Insurance Agency, which subsequently became MicroEnsure. He is an industry expert in the field of microinsurance and also serves on the steering committee of the ILO “Micro Insurance Innovation Fund,” a $35m fund provided by the Gates Foundation.
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Mark Szulyovszky
Co-Founder and CRO @ Drops
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Satish Jayakumar
CRO @ Typeless
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Chris Scattergood
CRO & Founder @ FundamentalVR
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A key part of his role at Fundamental, Chris visits leading surgeons, educators, hospital groups, bodies and device manufacturers across the US to understand their educational needs and requirements for successful integration into our learning platform, and continue to develop our product to support those needs. As one of the co-founders of Fundamental, in 2014 Chris and his co founder saw the opportunity to invest in Virtual Reality as the next tech platform after mobile to revolutionise the way we communicate, share and learn together. From his experience in the Healthcare sector, it was clear that VR presented a clear opportunity to make a real difference in way education could be delivered for Health care professionals.
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Neil Holloway
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions @ Microsoft
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Neil Holloway has been Corporate Vice President, Sales & Partners for Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) since July 2012. In this role he reports to Rocky Blanton, CVP of the Enterprise and Partner Group, and is responsible for Sales operations worldwide for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP product suites; the development and health of the Microsoft Dynamics channel ecosystem and customer service programs; as well as ERP & CRM sales worldwide via Time Zone teams, field and integration with the broader Microsoft sales organizations. During the prior 5 years as VP Business Strategy for Microsoft International, Holloway was a key strategic partner for the corporate business groups and segments, and field leadership, being at the forefront of some of the largest change initiatives the company has implemented, and better positioning the company to capture the opportunities in the transition to a world of cloud, services and devices. Since joining Microsoft in 1990, Holloway has held a number of strategic roles in its UK subsidiary. He was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft Ltd. in July 1998 and subsequently was appointed Vice President of Microsoft EMEA in April 2000. Holloway has an MPhil in Operational Research and Control Engineering from Cambridge University and a BSc Hon. in Mathematics from the University of Bath. In 2008, in recognition of his contribution to international business, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Bath.
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Jamie Mellalieu
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) @ UserZoom
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Jon Hook
CRO @ Homa Games
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Jon Hook is a mobile marketing executive and entrepreneur experienced in building, launching and running mobile technology and media businesses. He was a co-founder of Odyssey Mobile Interaction, which was acquired by Phunware in December 2014. Jon is currently General Manager of Advertising at Phunware. He is also a board advisor at Avanatta, Kaizen App and BPA EMEA. Hook’s agency experience includes time as Head of the Mobile Practice at MediaCom and Client Services Director at Carat. He was named in Media Week’s 30 Under 30, is a member of the IAB Mobile Council and recently became one of The Drum’s Mobile Top 50. He also speaks regularly at industry events including Cannes Lions, Mobile Media Summit New York and London, AdWeek New York and London, Digital Shoreditch, MMA Forum London, Mobile Venture Summit (Chicago) and TUNE Postback.
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Tom Burt
Partner, Crossover fund @ Sofinnova Partners
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Phil Geraghty
Chief Crowdfunding Officer @ Crowdfunder
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Phil joined Crowdfunder from TouchLocal where he was co-founder and Product Director, overseeing the rolling out of the UK’s largest network of Business Directories. Touch Local was created after the purchase of Phil’s startup company City Online Ltd, created whilst at Southampton Uni studying Computer Science
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Nir Dupler
CRO @ Fornova
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Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting. Read more about Fornova on Crunchbase…
Akbir Khan
CRO @ Spherical Defense
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Angela Evans
Microsoft 365 Business Group Lead – UK @ Microsoft
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Angela is responsible to for the go-to-market strategy, product management and P&L performance of the Microsoft 365 business in the UK. In our mission to reinvent productivity and empower every person and organisation on the planet to achieve more we are delivering a continuous flow of new functionality and applications that deliver on the mission. The Microsoft 365 product portfolio includes: Office 365, Windows, EMS, Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, One Drive, Exchange, Skype for Business, Skype, Yammer, Project, and Visio. Angela joined Microsoft in 2016 leading the Microsoft Office Category management team in the consumer business, transitioning into the business group lead for Office in September 2017.
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Kat Mitchell
CRO @ MPB
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MPB is an online platform specializing in used photography and videography kit. Read more about MPB on Crunchbase…
Nigel Vaughan
Technical CRO Lead @ Conversio
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Conversio focuses on sales growth through analysis, insight, and continuous testing. Read more about Conversio on Crunchbase…
Lars Wikstrom
Thought Leadership across software and technology to optimise TCO @ HSBC
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Lars Wikstrom thinks a lot about how financial services firms need to innovate to be able to compete in the future against the up and coming FinTech revolution. Recognised as a thought leader and innovator who questions the status quo by exploring disruptive technologies and concepts he has accrued significant experience of working within leading Tier One investment banks, as well as challenger banks and with technology service providers and tech vendors. Most recently he worked in Enterprise Architecture with Fidelity Investments, but also with Deutsche Bank, HSBC and IBM. A Swedish national but living in London, he still maintains his passion for cross-country skiing on roller-skis around London parks and Box Hill.
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Francis Turner
Co-Founder, CRO & UK Managing Director at Adyoulike , BIMA Hot 100 2015 @ ADYOULIKE
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Zbigniew Wojna
Co-founder & CRO @ Tensorflight
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Zbigniew Wojna is deep learning researcher and founder of TensorFlight Inc. company providing instant remote commercial property inspection (for risk factors for reinsurance enterprises) based on satellite and street view type imagery. Zbigniew is currently in the final stage of his Ph.D. (already with more than 1000 citations) at the University College London under the supervision of Professor Iasonas Kokkinos and professor John Shawe-Taylor. His primary interest lies in finding and solving research problems around 2D machine vision applications usually in big scale. Zbigniew in his Ph.D. career spent most of the time working across different groups in DeepMind, Google Research, and Facebook Research. It includes DeepMind Health Team, Deep Learning Team for Google Maps in collaboration with Google Brain, Machine Perception with Kevin Murphy, Weak Localization Team with Vittorio Ferrari and Facebook AI Research Lab in Paris. His company TensorFlight Inc. was featured as top 2 AI startups among few hundreds by InnovatorsRace50 and closed seed funding last year.
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Marco Tedone
Global Head of API, Integration and Microservices Practice @ HSBC
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HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services. Read more about HSBC on Crunchbase…
Adam Male
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) @ Mashroom
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Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants. Read more about Mashroom on Crunchbase…
Jude Cook
CEO, Co-Founder, Investment Based Crowdfunding Platforms @ ShareIn
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Jude has been hooked on crowdfunding since 2011. She’s a chartered accountant who loves hearing about exciting new companies and passionate about fuelling their growth.
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Eddy Swindell
Co-Founder, CRO @ Fresh Relevance
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The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done.. Read more about Fresh Relevance on Crunchbase…
Karl Schäckermann
Microsoft Account Executive @ Microsoft
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Subhash Desai
CRO @ Monedo
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Eric Yeatman
Professor of Microengineering @ Imperial College London
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Eric M. Yeatman has been a member of academic staff in Imperial College London since 1989, and Professor of Micro-Engineering since 2005. He is Deputy Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and has published more than 200 papers and patents, primarily on optical devices and materials, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). He is also Co-Director of the college’s Digital Economy Lab, and Principal Investigator of the multi-faculty project Digital City Exchange. He is a Fellow and Silver Medalist of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the IEEE. Yeatman is also co-founder and director of Microsaic Systems plc, which develops and markets miniature mass spectrometers for portable chemical analysis. His current research interests are in energy sources for wireless devices (particularly energy harvesting), radio frequency and photonic MEMS devices, pervasive sensing and sensor networks.
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Johnathan Johnson
Executive Director NES Fircroft @ NES Fircroft
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NES Fircroft is one of the world’s largest technical and engineering recruitment specialist, offering jobs in Oil & Gas, Energy and Power. Read more about NES Fircroft on Crunchbase…
Richard Gilder
Co-Founder and CRO @ SalesMethods
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SalesMethods is the leader in sales performance software for Salesforce that empowers sales team success. Read more about SalesMethods on Crunchbase…
Salman Malik
Micro-investor @ Crowdcube
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Crowdcube enables individuals to invest in small companies in return for equity or an annual return. Read more about Crowdcube on Crunchbase…
Richard Belgrave
CRO @ Leverton
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Calum Maclean
Microclimate Team Leader @ BSRIA
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BSRIA engineering, technical & market research experts provide independent & practical help in design, construction. Read more about BSRIA on Crunchbase…
Lillie Harris
Azure Business Lead, Western Europe, Microsoft @ Microsoft
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Adam Bruce
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) @ SecurEnvoy
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SecurEnvoy provides mobile phone-based tokenless two-factor authentication solutions. Read more about SecurEnvoy on Crunchbase…
Tom Williams
CRO & Founder @ Voxpopme
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Linda Parkinson-Hardman
Adoption and Change Management Practice Lead (PT) Microsoft 365 @ Silversands
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Linda Parkinson-Hardman
Adoption and Change Management Practice Lead (PT) Microsoft 365 @ Silversands
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Elaine Murray
Head of Marketing for Microsoft UCaaS @ Arkadin
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Elaine Murray is the Global Marketing lead at Arkadin for Microsoft Intelligent Communications. As such she is responsible for the branding and awareness of Microsoft technology solutions across the company, in all regions. With over 14 years’ experience in IT, Elaine began her career working as a Marketing Specialist for an IBM Partner in 2005, before joining Applicable, a specialist Microsoft messaging and collaboration partner, as their Global Head of Marketing in 2010. In 2017, Elaine joined Arkadin as their Global Microsoft Lead where she has developed the relationship with Microsoft and supported the successful delivery of the latest Intelligent Communications platforms, leading to the role she holds today. Elaine holds an Honours Degree in Commercial Computer Systems Management and Information Technology, alongside a Master’s Degree in Marketing.
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Andrew Birnie
Systems & Applications Manager, Automotive Microcontrollers @ NXP Semiconductors
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Jamie Hart
Head of Investor Research and Crowdfunding @ The Pitch Clinic
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Paolo Costa
Microsoft Research Cambridge @ Microsoft
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Mike Harriss
CRO @ Trunarrative
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His passport says Michael and he is the man who will lead their growth with partners across the globe. On the TruNarrative team, he’ll rack up more air miles than he knows what to do with. Having spent the last twelve years in the ID and Fraud space, he knows this world inside out. Mike strikes the perfect balance between technical know-how and commercial skill.
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Aaron Rendell
Microsoft Cloud Principal Architect @ Transparity
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Transparity are a leading Microsoft Gold and Direct CSP Partner delivering business transformation through public, private. Read more about Transparity on Crunchbase…
Jonny Laughton
CRO / CMO ‘on demand’ @ Expand Venture
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Enabling tech companies scale through technology, experience, leverage and capital. Read more about Expand Venture on Crunchbase…
Duncan Tickell
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) @ Immediate Media Co.
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Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company. Read more about Immediate Media Co. on Crunchbase…
Rob Janering
VAT Director – Crowe UK @ Crowe LLP
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Danny Denhard
Director of Crowdfunding & Growth @ JustGiving
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JustGiving is an online platform for charitable fundraising and non-charitable crowdfunding for good causes. Read more about JustGiving on Crunchbase…
Kristy Hill
Microsoft Learning Consultant @ Microsoft
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Dan Fernandez Cao
Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist @ Microsoft
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Emily Jiang
Liberty Architect for MicroProfile and CDI @ IBM
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Toby Brown
Lead EMEA Domain Specialist and Microsoft Cloud Technologies @ Citrix Systems
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Toby Brown has over 20 years of experience specialising in Citrix and Microsoft virtualisation, cloud and infrastructure solutions. The last 18 months have been focussed on working with the EMEA Microsoft team, designing go-to market propositions and education and enablement strategies for customer and partners.
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