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About Mentors Partners

Aaron Rajan / Unilever

Director, Innovation & Delivery Digital Marketing Services

Aaron is obsessed about finding value by deepening our understanding of the dynamics between People, Brands, Technology and Society. I've had the rare privilege of working across almost all of Unilever's global brand portfolio, and executed technology projects in over 100 markets - from strategy through to execution.

Alan Moore / SMLXL

Founder

Alan Moore’s invaluable and unique creative insights present us with an alternative way of working and existing – a better way – in which “participatory leadership” is the new operating system of the workplace where wellbeing and creating value for the collective good is the new currency of our economy. He articulates what most people are ...

Alex McCracken / Silicon Valley Bank

Vice-President

Alex McCracken is Vice-President at Silicon Valley Bank which provides funding solutions to technology companies. Prior to SVB, Alex was an Investment Manager at TTP Ventures, a venture capital fund based near Cambridge. Alex also co-founded TISS Ltd to develop security systems for commercial vehicles and grew TISS to achieve worldwide sal...

Alex Van Someren

Alex Van Someren / Amadeus Capital Partners

Partner

Alex is a General Partner in the Seed Fund at Amadeus Capital in Cambridge, UK.Alex has worked in the technology industry since the 1980s. He co-founded ANT Ltd in 1990 to produce networking products, including Web Browser software licensed to the Oracle Corporation. ANT plc was listed on the London AIM market (AIM:ANTP) in 2005.In 1996 he co-founded nCip...

Alliott Cole / Octopus Investments

VC

Alliott is a Principal in the Ventures team at Octopus Investments. He focuses on web services and consumer innovation. Key investments he has been involved in at Octopus include: the food ecommerce business Graze; the travel site Secret Escapes; and, the fast growing commerce platform Rangespan.Alliott sits on the Board of the UK Business Angel Associati...

Andrew Cronk / TempoDB

Cofounder & CEO

Andrew co-founded TempoDB after struggling for years with time series data generated from connected devices and sensors. A full believer in the promise of IOT, he has also seen the technical challenges associated with it.TempoDB is his third startup and first to raise outside investment. After completing the TechStars Cloud accelerator in 2012...

Andrey Kessel / ATZ Management

Founder, Entrepreneur & Investor

Andrey’s experience is a combination of investing into and working in startups. During his time with Amadeus Capital Partners, Andrey has worked as an investor and Board member with a number of investments, mergers, exits, company development, etc. Prior to Amadeus, Andrey gained substantial operational experience in technology start-ups, which covered ...

Annette Kramer / Annette Kramer Consulting

Performance and Business Development Consultant

Annette Kramer has brought her performance and business development practice from New York to London in April, 2009. Her work with companies to craft and deliver more compelling stories has helped them to break into new markets, raise investment, and excel at sales.Her clients include corporates such as Ogilvy and Microsoft, government agencies such as UK...

Anthony Hicks / PayPal

Head of Strategic Integrations - EMEA Innovations

Anthony is a software developer with over fifteen years experience in web based application development encompassing a broad range of programming languages, technology vendors and techniques. Throughout his career he has worked in solution architecture and technical consulting to a variety of industry sectors, building a range of bespoke application...

Billy Boyle / Owlstone

Co-Founder

Since co-founding Owlstone, Billy has been overseeing the development and implementation of the detection technology with nanotechnology foundry partners. The Owlstone detector is a revolutionary dime-sized device that can be programmed to detect a wide range of chemical agents that may be present in extremely small quantities. Since inception, Owlst...

Bindi Karia / Silicon Valley Bank

Vice President - Accelerator

Bindi currently leads Silicon Valley Bank’s early stage efforts as "Vice President – Accelerator"Having devoted much of her career in and around the startup ecosystem, most recently as the Venture Capital/Emerging Business lead at Microsoft UK where for five years, Bindi led BizSpark in the UK. She focused on how Microsoft could drive success for ea...

Brad Feld / Foundry Group

Partner

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars.Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Big...

Bruce Beckloff / ARM

VP Corporate Development

Bruce has been at ARM since January 2001 and has held a variety of position during those 12 years. Most recently he served as head of Corporate Development responsible for corporate strategy development, M&A, and investments activities. Recently, Bruce has joined the UKTI as the Corporate VC Strategic Advisor. He will be assisting ...

Charles Cotton / Neul

Chairman

Charles is an experienced director of public companies listed on Nasdaq, Euronext Amsterdam and the LSE and private companies in the USA and Europe. His business passions include building successful global technology companies and spreading the word about the Cambridge Phenomenon.He is Chairman of Cambridge Phenomenon Ltd and Neul Ltd in Cambridge and a D...

Chris Chapman / My Business FD

Founder

Founder of My Business FD, Chris has worked in a variety of full time FD roles in many sectors across the UK and internationally. He started My Business FD in 2008, which is a rapidly growing team of some of the UKs most entrepreneurial Finance Directors, providing support to ambitious SMEs on a part time and flexible basis.Chris now sits on the boar...

Chris Mairs / Metaswitch

Chief Scientist

Chris joined Metaswitch as one of the founding team in 1981. Prior to this, he acquired a degree in Computing from Cambridge University and worked for IBM on mainframe and communications systems software.In the early years, Chris was lead architect for all the company’s communications products. Next, he was responsible for the creation and development o...

Christopher Martin / Robert Bosch Corporate Research

Senior Manager

Christopher Martin is currently a Senior Manager at Robert Bosch Corporate Research, serving as a Senior Expert in the topic of Internet of Things and Services (IoTS). His work has helped guide Bosch strategy up to the Board-of-Director level in understanding and responding to technology and market forces in the IoTS, including defining new business opp...

Chris Sponiar / Unilever Ventures

Investment Associate

Chris joined Unilever Ventures, Unilever’s captive venture capital fund, in 2011. His role covers all aspects of the investment lifecycle, with a primary focus on the digital marketing sector. Prior to joining Unilever, Chris spent three years as a strategy consultant with Booz & Company in Sydney and London. The majority of Chris’s proj...

Chris Wade / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Chairman of the Board of ‘MePlease’ Inc. founded in 2009 based in San Francisco and London where he leads the technology and commercial entrepreneurs in building a company that is driving the transition of real world marketing to online social marketing viewed via all personal devices. Chris is also Chairman of the 2008 start up ‘Mobile Acuity’ ba...

Christopher Grew

Christopher Grew / Orrick

Partner

Chris Grew, a partner at Orrick, is a member of the Emerging Companies Group in the London office, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Chris joined Orrick in 2008.Before joining Orrick, he was a co-founder of the London office of Heller Ehrman and a member of the Venture Law Group at that firm. Prior to that, he was a partner ...

Chrysanthos Chrysanthou

Chrysanthos Chrysanthou / Amazon Web Services

Business Development

Chrysanthos recently joined Amazon Web Services to lead Business Development with Venture Capital firms, Accelerators, and other components of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Previously he was COO of Living PlanIT, a B2B technology company enabling the development of innovative, intelligent sustainable urban-sc...

Colette Ballou / Ballou PR

Founder & President

Colette is the founder of Ballou PR, a European PR firm that focuses on high-growth technology and internet companies. With the Ballou PR team, we’ve had a string of well- documented client success stories including the exit of Musiwave for $100M+, the entry of Facebook into France, and the entry of Eventbrite into Europe. Along the way, we've redef...

Colin Willis / Hotspur Capital Partners

Founder & CEO

Colin has 13 years of experience in Venture Capital / PE across all deal types (Rescues, Start ups, Dev Cap, MBO’s IBOs) with a focus on early stage technology businesses. He set up Hotspur Capital Partners in November 2007 which is an investor group of high net worth individual who have been/are successful entrepreneurs themselves building and th...

Damien Tanner / Pusher

Co-founder

Damien C. Tanner is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor. To date he has co-founded several companies including New Bamboo (agency), MediaCore (video platform for education) and Pusher (realtime web messaging as a service).

David Cleevely / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

David Cleevely (FREng, FIET) was appointed the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge in 2009.He is the Chairman of CRFS, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). In 19...

Dawson King / Cambridge Healthcare

Founder

Dawson is the founder of Cambridge Healthcare, a venture funded and internationally award winning healthcare startup based in Cambridge, Beijing and London.Winner of the Institute of Engineering and Technology Innovation Award for best IT Technology and Health Investor Award for IT innovator of the year.How are you? is 100% free to NHS patients and health...

Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi

Founder

Eben is a founder and trustee of the foundation, and is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.

Eze Vidra / Google

Head of Campus

Eze Vidra is the Head of Campus at Google located in TechCity London.Prior to that Eze worked as a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager at Google London, being responsible for the launch of Google Shopping Spain and establishing business relationships in the commerce space across EMEA. Most recently, Eze was the Principal Product Manager of AOL...

Federico Pirzio-Biroli

Federico Pirzio-Biroli / Playfair Capital

Investor

Fede is a London based angel investor, primarily investing in seed level, early stage technology-based startups through his investment vehicle, Playfair Capital. Its current portfolio includes Duedil, Flattr, On Device Research, Mobius Motors, Mixlr, Stratajet, Fourth & Main, Believe.in, Rummble Labs, Vinetrade, Blottr, Storybricks and Birdback.B...

Gary Atkinson / ARM

Director Embedded Marketing

Gary is based in Cambridge, UK, but spends his time traveling the world talking to people who already have or may have a use for embedded or deeply embedded ARM-based processors. Areas that use lots of embedded processors or microcontrollers are the Automotive, Smart Energy, Medical and Industrial Automation industries. He is particularly interested in ho...

Gerard Grech / Nokia

Global Head of Content Strategy & Portfolio Development

Gerard serves as Nokia’s global head of content strategy & portfolio development. Prior to that in New York, he was global head of content distribution, running the planning and programming operations of the App store and pre-loads. Prior to Nokia, Gerard was at Orange in London and Paris, as group director of strategy and business development for t...

Gerd Kortuem / Open University, UK

Professor of Ubiquitous Computing

Gerd is a Professor of Ubiquitous Computing at the Open University, UK.Gerd is interested in the intersection between the physical, social and digital worlds. In terms of research areas I focus on ubiquitous/pervasive computing, the Internet of Things and human-centered computing. He is particularly interested in innovation, design and archit...

Glenn Tracey / PerkinElmer

Director - Business & Technology Incubation

Glenn has 15 years’ experience established in a number of roles including both regional Business Unit and R&D directorship, where he has been at the forefront of innovation and gone on to successfully commercialize a range of analytical devices, including opto-electo-mechanical architectures, user-application software, informatics and scientific ser...

Hermann Hauser / Amadeus Capital Partners

Partner

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited....

Iain Gavin / Amazon Web Services

Director

Iain is the UK and Ireland country manager for Amazon Web Services.Iain’s background is in software development. He started writing complex real-time software applications before he moved to Rational Software where he spent 15 years. The final 3 years were spent at IBM after the acquisition of Rational Software. Iain was the executiv...

James Collier / Neul

Co-founder

James is the co-founder and CEO of Neul.James has been a leader of R&D and business development activities since 1987. He was co-founder of CSR, serving as CTO, head of R&D and plc board member from 1999 to 2010. In that position he had line responsibility for 800 staff in UK, France, Sweden, India and US. He was also the director in charge of ope...

Jens Lapinski / Forward Labs

Partner

I am a partner at Forward Labs, which I co-founded in early 2012. At Labs, we build profitable startups at high speed using lean startup principles.Before Labs, I founded and was CEO of aiHit, a provider of automated company data to the business information industry. aiHit is backed by Amadeus and VTB Capital and sells to some of the world's largest infor...

Jeremy Basset / Unilever

Director, New Businesses Unit

Jeremy joined Unilever Australia in 2003 as a graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney. He held numerous roles in both Australia and New Zealand, including leading finance for Unilever’s Foodsolutions business. In 2008, Jeremy moved to Singapore where he led the commercial team responsible for Unilever’s €500m Foods business in China, Sout...

Jeremy Parsons / Red Gate

New Business Team

Jeremy Parsons taught himself programming at the library, some years before coming face-to-face with actual computers. ‘Beebsoft Enterprises,’ founded with sixth form friends, sold literally several cassettes of software by mail order. He didn’t make his fortune, but he did get hired by one of the pioneers of the PC industry to hack out software as ...

Jim Mann / Spontly

Founder

Jim Mann is a serial entrepreneur whose passion for fierce challenges and the development of new concepts has been with him since he graduated from Durham University. Jim has considerable experience in marketing web based businesses through organic Search Engine Optimisation, paid for online advertising, online and offline PR and selective use of ap...

John Lunn / PayPal

Director of Platform and Integration

John has been building payments and fraud systems on the internet for over 15 years and has advised many of the successful and less successful start-ups on their payment strategies. Originally a java certified developer and now an all purpose hacker and start-up mentor. John heads up the technology for PayPal’s new developer network PayPal X in the EU.

John Stokes / Real Ventures

VC

John is a Partner at Real Ventures. Prior to this, John co-founded Montreal Start Up in November 2007. He is currently Managing Partner of the Fund and sits on the boards of Beyond the Rack, Book Oven, Oneeko, Emotify, KeenKong, Mobilito and Standout Jobs.John has more than 15 years of experience, both as a founder and an investor, in start-up,...

Jon Bradford / Springboard

Co-founder & CEO

Jon is the co-founder and CEO of Springboard.He starts start-up accelerators and loves to help start-ups and their founders achieve their true potential. Over the last 2 years, Jon has helped to start 12 multi-company accelerators from Montreal to Moscow. Since launching Europe’s first bootcamp accelerator in 2009 - The Difference Engine – ...

Jonathon Southam

Jonathon Southam / Amazon Web Services

Business Development

Amazon Web Services - UK / Startups Business Development.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk

Krzysztof Kowalczyk / HardGamma Ventures

VC

Managing Partner at an early stage VC fund HardGamma Ventures and founder of GammaRebels startup accelerator (among Highly Commended in The Europas 2011). Mentor with Startup Highway, Seedcamp, Springboard, Startup Bootcamp andStartup Sauna, referrer with HackFwd.com and advisor to Star...

Laura James / Makespace Cambridge

Cofounder

Laura has worked extensively in technology and leadership roles in R&D, startups and more. Her first involvement with Internet of Things technologies was at AT&T Labs in both Menlo Park and Cambridge. Laura was the first employee and VP Engineering at AlertMe.com, developing an easy to use innovative connected home platform and security system. As...

Lorenzo Wood / LBi

CTO

Chief Technology Officer at LBi

Luke Hakes / Octopus Investments

Principal

Luke is a Principal in the Ventures team, with a broad range of interests and experience. A former scientist and technology consultant he is somewhat of a geek in sheep’s clothing and loves deep technology and complex stuff.Luke plays an active part in all aspects of Venture, from hunting out the next big investment and working with the fantastic entrep...

Mandy Waite / Google

Google Developer Relations

Mandy works in Google Developer Relations on the Google Cloud Platform, covering App Engine, Compute Engine, Big Query and all of the data storage options that they connect to. She's a staunch advocate on behalf of the Developer, representing their needs to product & engineering teams within Google. Prior to Google, Mandy worked at Sun Microsyst...

Mark Littlewood

Mark Littlewood / The BLN

Founder & CEO

Mark is the founder of The BLN. He was part of the founding team at Library House, an investment research business based in Cambridge serving the global venture capital & banking communities. He led the business development activities for the organisation & built a network of angels, early stage, venture & corporate investors.Previou...

Markus Turber / Intuity

Founder

Markus Turber is a founding partner of Intuity. He likes thinking and planning innovative design and service solutions. The design of desirable, sustainable and smartly interconnected solutions makes him tick. He is in charge of research projects for Bosch, Daimler, Telekom Laboratories and Carl Zeiss where he was involved into numerous projects...

Martin Kelly / IBM Venture Capital Group

Partner

Martin is the partner responsible for establishing IBM Venture Capital Group in EMEA in 2007. In this role Martin identifies and manages IBM engagement with VCs and entrepreneur communities.

Martin Mignot / Index Ventures

Associate

Martin is a member of the Index Ventures London office working as an analyst in the technology team in 2010.Previously, Martin was an analyst at UBS in London, where he was part of a team advising a range of large cap media and telecoms clients, including ITV, Vodafone and Zain, as well as numerous private equity funds.Martin holds a Masters in ...

Mat Clayton / Mixcloud

Co-founder & CTO

Mat Clayton (aka The Daddy) is ludicrously good at building web apps, and even better, likes to build things quickly. He's got lots of experience with social media apps and knows Django inside out.

Matt Reed / Unilever

Open Innovation Director

Matt is currently an Open Innovation director at Unilever. He specialises in technology out-licensing and digital technology. Matt works closely with Unilever’s New Business Unit and he is leading the development and commercialization of a new digital technology platform that allows business partners to tap into Unilever’s deep expertise in consumer i...

Mike Gera / Various

Mike mentors start-ups and companies going through change drawing on his venture capital and CEO experience. As a partner at Pond Venture Partners, Mike worked with founders to create new companies, spin technology out of leading universities, define the strategy and the business plan and make key early hires. Mike has also applied his penchant ...

Mike Yagley / TempoDB

Cofounder & CTO

Mike co-founded TempoDB after struggling for years with time series data generated from connected devices and sensors in the energy, defense, and automotive industries. A natural learner and lover of technology, Mike thinks deeply about the best ways to process, store, and analyze the mountains of data generated from IOT.TempoDB is his third startup...

Nat Billington / Synergy Energy

Director

Nat is a director of Synergy Energy, which is building a portfolio of early stage green tech businesses and conducting research into electrical energy efficiency and storage technologies. Previously Managing Director, Map of Medicine, responsible for early stage business growth, product development and sales for health information business acqui...

Nate MacLeitch / Quickblox

Co-founder

Nate is Chairman of QuickBlox, a cloud hosted PaaS, which provides easily adaptable functions and features for mobile and web/facebook apps. QuickBlox is division of app development company Injoit. He is also a mentor/investor of Springboard Mobile. Previously he was COO of Twistbox & co-founded AMV Holdings. Earlier in his career he was Head of Sales...

Neil Davidson / Red Gate Software

Co-founder & joint CEO

Neil Davidson is co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software. Red Gate employs some 200 people, has no VC funding and has been in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for 4 years running. Red Gate founded the Springboard incubator in 2009 and is a regular sponsor of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs. Neil is also chairman of the Cambridge Network...

Niall Murphy / Evrythng

Co-founder

Niall is a technologist and serial-entrepreneur. Previously Niall co-founded The Cloud in 2003 to realize a vision of a ubiquitous mobile internet enabled by low cost WiFi technology, the company was acquired by British Sky Broadcasting (a subsidiary of News Corporation) in 2011. He was also recently CEO of multi-platform gaming software firm Ideaworks3D ...

Nic Brisbourne / DFJ Esprit

Partner

Nic Brisbourne is a partner at DFJ Esprit.Nic has been in Venture Capital since 2000. In that time he has worked in London, Europe and Silicon Valley. His main areas of focus have been software and media. Nic’s investment experience includes Zeus Technology (acquired by Riverbed for $140m), and buy.at (acquired by AOL for $125m). He curre...

Paul Ford / SoftLayer

VP Community Development

Paul Ford is a serial entrepreneur, global technology evangelist, innovator, strategist and startup advisor serving as the Vice President of Community Development and Chief Ecosystem Builder at SoftLayer Technologies in Dallas TX.SoftLayer is the worlds largest and most advanced independent Infrastructure as a Service Company. Paul is responsible for...

Paul Golding / AlphaPunk

Chief Alpha Geek & Co-Founder

Paul is a widely respected and unassuming technologist in mobile and Web with 16 patents and the leading book in mobile applications, now available in Chinese. He has been Chief Architect, CTO and various senior tech roles for companies across the world, from start-ups to multi-nationals. He started one of the first mobile apps companies in Eur...

Paul Kinlan / Google

Developer Advocate Google Chrome

Paul is a Developer Advocate on Google Chrome and he focuses on HTML5, open web technologies and the Chrome Web Store.He is passionate about working closely with developers to help them bring awesome applications to the web (because that is the future). Prior to Google he used to earn a living off building apps that used Google’s Infrastructure – and ...

Paul May / Imperial Innovations

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Paul joined Imperial Innovations, initially as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, in early 2011 with a focus on supporting new start-ups in the engineering and physical science sectors After an early career as a professional senior engineer in large international corporates including IBM (US) and Sharp (Oxford) he discovered the thrill of the start-up.Over the...

Peter Cowley / Various

Angel investor & Entrepreneur

Peter Cowley studied Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge University, now lives near Cambridge and owns/runs small businesses in technology and construction. Peter has spec-built several domestic houses and refurbished many others, including the £1.7 million Cambridge Advice Centre. Peter has been voluntary chair, treasurer and ...

Peter Whale / Cambridge Wireless

Board Director

Peter is Director of Product Management for Xiam Technologies.Peter leads multi-disciplinary international teams in the inception and development of innovative software products, applying advanced machine learning techniques to the fields of device optimisation, device experience and content discovery.Peter leads the team who put together the annual confe...

Pilgrim Beart / AlertMe

Founder

Pilgrim Beart has more than 20 years experience leading innovation in ground breaking, high- technology companies, three of which he co-founded. After a degree in Computer Engineering, Pilgrim designed innovative computer systems at start-ups in Cambridge and Oxford, then for six years led technology teams in three start-ups in Silicon Valley. In 1998 ...

Richard Green / Ubisense

CEO

Richard initially trained as a mechanical engineer and has over twenty-five years of experience in the software industry. Having established Smallworld as one of the leading geographic information system companies serving utility and telecoms companies in Europe and the US, the company subsequently listed on NASDAQ in 1996 and was acquired by GE in 2000 f...

Richard Marsh / DFJ Esprit

Partner

Richard has worked in start-ups and venture capital since 1997 and is an experienced entrepreneur as well as a venture capitalist.He founded and built Datanomic, a Cambridge-based software company which was a pioneer of Data Quality software and was acquired by Oracle.As an investor, Richard has worked across software, hardware, mobile and cleantech secto...

Rob Moffat / Balderton Capital

Principal

Rob is a Principal at Balderton Capital.His role is to find and evaluate potential new investments: investing $200k to $20M in European companies with $B potential.He also works with portfolio companies including Archify, Housetrip, Touchlocal and Wooga.Prior to joining Balderton Capital Rob worked for Google in London, as a Manager in...

Robert Koning / Serial Entrepreneur

Robert Koning, an award winning Entrepreneur and Business Coach. He had his first startup at an age of 21 and grew several successful businesses ever since. He likes revolutionary and naughty approaches using the latest web technologies and developments. He is an entrepreneur, business angel and coach. He studied Electronic Engineering in the Nether...

Robert Sansom / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Dr. Robert Sansom is an active angel investor and mentor to high-technology start-up businesses in the UK and US.He was the founder of Cambridge Angels, a group of seasoned technology and bio-technology entrepreneurs who invest in and mentor technology start-ups in the Cambridge area. Prior to being an angel investor, he was co-founder and Chief Technolog...

Robert Swann / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Dr Robert Swann was Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing at Alphamosaic Ltd, a fabless semiconductor company specialising in multimedia processors for handheld devices such as mobile phones and media players.Founded in April 2001 by Robert and colleague Steve Barlow, Alphamosaic developed an innovative two-dimensional DSP architecture for low-p...

Rogan Angelini-Hurll

Rogan Angelini-Hurll / PROfounders Capital

Founding Partner

Rogan is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. Most recently Rogan Angelini-Hurll headed the Citi Pan European Media Research team, covering both UK and Continental European companies including TV and radio broadcasters, consumer, business and professional publishers, directories, advertising agencies and entertainment companies.Prior to join...

Russell Buckley

Russell Buckley / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Russell is an angel investor and advisor to a range of early stage startups in Europe, as well as regularly speaking and writing about mobile, exponential change and the future of technology. Previously, Russell was an early employee of AdMob, before it was acquired by Google in 2010. He has been in mobile marketing since 2000 and has subsequent...

Ryan Shuttleworth

Ryan Shuttleworth / Amazon Web Services

Technical Evangelist

Ryan Shuttleworth is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. In his role Ryan educates customers on the technical and business aspects of cloud computing, mentors start-ups and coaches developers in enterprises on their move to the cloud. Having held senior roles in successful SaaS companies, Ryan has lived and breathed the transition to cloud infr...

Sandy McKinnon / Pentech

Partner

Sandy has over 18 years experience in commercialising technology innovations, the last 7 of these as a partner with Pentech. Prior to Pentech, he was Director of Knowledge Transfer & Technology and Research Services at Heriot-Watt University where he helped in mentoring and fund raising of twelve spin-out companies.Prior to this, he was a freel...

Sarah du Heaume

Sarah du Heaume / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Sarah du Heaume started out in media buying in the mid-eighties. Putting her languages to use, she soon specialised in international B2B, with a particular focus on the tech sector. Nine years later she set up her first business, Just Media, in London. Founding clients were predominantly Silicon Valley based companies, so establishing a San Francisco oper...

Sarah Turner / Angel Academe

Founder

Sarah has spent most of the last 20 years working in and around digital media in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. She works with start-ups and growth stage companies as advisor, supporter and connector; and with larger organisations and multinationals to develop their peripheral vision by identifying areas for innovation and the best partners and processes to...

Scott Sage / DFJ Esprit

Principal

Scott is based in the London office of DFJ Esprit, a Pan European VC firm with over $1b in assets under management. Scott invests into mobile, consumer internet and enterprise software companies. He currently works with Lyst, MoviePilot, SportPursuit, StrikeAd and Redkite Financial. Previously, Scott worked in research, marketing, b-dev and finance roles ...

Sherry Coutu / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.Sherry specialises in consumer internet, information services and education. She has made angel investments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in two venture capital firms.Last year she was voted as the best CEO mentor / advis...

Simon Jones / Camdata

Director

Experienced CEO and management consultant providing coaching, mentoring, consulting and Non-exec Director support to aspirational companies and individuals.

Simon Stevens / Trinamo

Founding Partner

Founding Partner at Trinamo LLP assisting clients with sales turnaround and sales acceleration via the implementation of best practice sales and marketing process improvements and change programs. My work at Trinamo has covered many vertical markets and companies at all life stages, from start up through to global enterprises.Prior to joining Trinamo...

Sitar Teli / Connect Ventures

Partner

Sitar is a venture capitalist with over seven years of experience in early-stage investments and portfolio management, having previously been an investment manager at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. Sitar focuses on product-led consumer internet and mobile companies and has invested in companies including SoundCloud, Citymapper, Space Ape Games and Ha...

Stefan Ferber / Bosch Software Innovations

Director for Communities & Partner Networks, Internet of Things

Stefan is the Director for Communities & Partner Networks in the Internet of Things and Services at Bosch Software Innovations. I have more than twenty years experience in software development, software processes, software product lines and software architectures for embedded, computer vision and IT domains. Since 2009 I was the Product Manager for th...

Steve Karmeinsky

Steve Karmeinsky / City Meets Tech

CSO, DBVu & CoFounder

Steve has been in the industry for over 20 years.Initially designing hardware and programming in the medical electronics industry, then a stint at Cellnet (allegedly as a programmer, but rapidly moving into systems admin and network admin, designing and rolling out their wide area tcp/ip network – this was in the early ’90s).After 5 years of trying to...

Stewart McTavish

Stewart McTavish / IdeaSpace

Director

Stew is the Director of the University of Cambridge IdeaSpace, a new startup space concept for the East of England. Before being appointed to the IdeaSpace Stewart was the founder and Managing Director of mo.jo, a Cambridge based angel funded startup that created and managed open innovation communities for corporate clients. Clients included Cancer Resear...

Stewart Townsend

Stewart Townsend / DataSift

Head Client Services

Stewart has spent ten years in Pre-sales, Partner Relations, Marketing and Business Development in the IT industry. Having been at Oracle working on social media strategy for Enterprise 2.0 he has an understanding of the corporate account base, whilst for the previous nine years at Sun Microsystems, Stewart has worked with independent software vendors, ch...

Tacis Gavoyannis

Tacis Gavoyannis / TPG

Founder & CEO

He has more than 25 years of marketing and international business development experience in the telecoms and datacoms sectors, having worked in a range of senior management roles for British Telecom International, Motorola, Cable & Wireless, Mercury Communications, RR Donnelley, De La Rue Systems Ltd, Callahan Broadband Wireless Inc, Orange PLC, TNS P...

Tim Rea / ePlanet Ventures

Director

Tim Rea maintains a portfolio projects related to investment and new business creation. Tim started his career with British Telecom developing novel materials for optical devices before moving into a general technology strategy role where he undertook substantial work on mobile and Internet related projects. He left BT to found an enterprise software star...

Tony Kypreos / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Tony is a founding investor in Springboard Accelerator, a shareholder / board member of Lingospot Inc, and ScreenReach Ltd. He is also a shareholder in P2i Labs, Minimonos, apiary.io, Hubflow and a board adviser to Upstream Systems.Previously he was Group Managing Director of Bauer Digital one of the world’s largest privately owned media companies where...

Tracy Hopkins / Neul

VP Sales

Tracy is a VP Sales of Neul who believes technology is an enabler for a SMART world and that 'there really is no spoon'.

Trevor Overall / My Business FD

Investment Director

Investment Director and Co-Owner of My Business FD, Trevor Overall has a wealth of experience having been an entrepreneur, Fund Manager and Investment Network Manager.Trevor has raised money for his own enterprises as well as others and now takes responsibility for investor contacts, fund raising and commercial activities.He is passionate about helpi...

Usman Haque / Pachube

Founder

Usman is director of Haque Design + Research, the founder of Pachube (now known as Cosm.com), a real-time data infrastructure and community for the Internet of Things (acquired by LogMeIn Inc in 2011, where he currently leads the Urban Projects Division) and former CEO of Connected Environments. Trained as an architect, he has cre...

Vamsi Sistla / Various

Serial Entrepeneur

Vamsi Sistla is currently CTO of an early stage (world’s first) Panoramic Video Streaming Platform for Live Concerts. He is also strategic and technical advisor to various startups (CrowdValley, OpenBucks & others). He is an active Angel investor in two of the leading Angel funds in NYC & co-invests with TIE Angels in Silicon Valley.Vamsi Sistla...

Vladas Lašas / Various

Serial Entrepreneur

Vladas Lašas studied, lectured and did research on Computer Vision at Kaunas University of Technology. He holds doctorate in Computer Science. He presented results of his research at conferences in Japan, USA, Germany, Russia and other countries. He is co-founder and/or co-owner of several companies in Lithuania, including: UPS Authorised Service Contrac...

William McQuillan

William McQuillan / Frontline Ventures

Partner

William is a Partner at Frontline Ventures, a new early stage technology focused venture capital firm. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Osmoda.com, an online sales platform targetting some of Europe top emerging fashion brands. Prior to this he was one of the founding employees of Ondra Partners, a start-up investment-banking boutique. ...

Yannick Roux / Forward Venture Partners

Associate

Yannick is part of the Corporate Development team at Forward Internet Group, a privately held web holding company that acquires, invests in and builds web, media and ecommerce companies. Since he joined Forward, he has been involved in the acquisitions of Top10 Media and Factory Media, as well as in originating, evaluating and executing a dozen ...