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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Cambridge based CEO’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ali Alauoubiy
Co-founder & CEO of ProdX.ai
Ali shapes the strategies that harness big data to solve daily problems. His focus is firmly on technology, platform capabilities and business growth. He has 18 years of experience in leading technology, delivery functions and business transformation across a range of sectors including financial service, travel, private equity and professional service. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. And is currently completing the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. A transformational leader experienced in managing large scale transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, complexity reduction/simplification, globally distributed diverse teams, strategic business growth, turnaround, restructuring, and operation management. With a broad International career experience across the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa and North America. – Cross-functional leadership, management and coaching multi-cultural, and distributed (including remote) teams, including setting clear and measurable goals aligned to strategy and fostering collaboration across diverse teams – Leading complex enterprise and digital transformations (including Agile Delivery and DevOps, Change Management, Culture Change, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud Migration). – Delivering multi-million-dollar budget software integration and transformation projects in a broad range of sectors (Private Equity, eTrading, wealth & asset management, aviation and, professional services). – Effective internal and external stakeholder management experience across business units. – Previous work experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (2004-2008), financial.com (2008-2010), Mubasher Financial Group (2010-2012), National Net Ventures (2012-2014), Credit Suisse (2014-2015), Emirates Airline (2015-2017) and ESW Capital (2017-2019).
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About ProdX.ai: Bring transparency and objectivity to the workplace by empowering individuals to achieve more, powered by A.I. insights and coaching.
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Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder & CEO of DUST Identity
Ophir Gaathon is the CEO and co-founder of DUST Identity.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Richard Baker
Chief Executive Officer of GeoSpock
Richard serves a Chief Executive Officer of Geospock, as well as serving as Non-Executive Director for Falcon Media House, a London Stock Exchange listed global Internet Media Group. He is the Chairman of TAB U.K. Ltd, a Data Science company based in Cambridge. Formerly, Richard was the joint founder and CEO of Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), incorporated in Singapore, an electronic execution exchange for cash-settled, cleared derivatives and futures contracts. CLTX is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Recognized Market Operator (RMO) and as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) in the USA by the CFTC. CLTX provides a specialized order matching engine giving access to an anonymous central limit order book and block traded futures across multiple asset classes and contracts. CLTX was subject to a 100% majority acquisition by the European Energy Exchange, a Deutsche Bourse company in late 2016. Richard has held several senior executive positions in technology, media and telecommunications. He has served as a non-executive board member in the internet technology solution sector and has directed and co-founded a digital media consulting services firm. Richard has a passion for people, innovation, driving high standards and achieving high results. Richard holds qualifications in technology and communications and is a frequent speaker at conferences and roundtables.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Jason Hill
Co-Founder & CEO of BeTH
Jason Hill is Founder and CEO of BeTH, a medtech start-up and pioneer of human-device interface technology aimed at delivering unprecedented healthcare savings and comfort for patients worldwide. Specific expertise in the development products that rely on novel technologies and are differentiated by human centered design. Previously principal of Sonhill Research and Design with specialty in market research, product positioning design strategy and execution for of novel technologies for various start-ups and think tank Applied Minds. Jason co-authored research framework and served as a mentor at the D-Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has lectured on design at Harvard University. Jason received a Bachelor of Science with Honors from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) and certificate form highly selective graduate business school exchange program at INSEAD (Singapore).
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About BeTH: Human-device interface solutions.
Scott White
CEO of PragmatIC Semiconductor
Scott is an experienced serial entrepreneur, now leading his sixth technology venture as CEO of PragmatIC. He is also a board director at mobile visual search company Cortexica Vision Systems. Past successes include Azea Networks, which he grew from concept to eight figure sales levels before the business was acquired. He has lived and worked across the globe including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US and the UK.
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About PragmatIC Semiconductor: PragmatIC is a ultra-low-cost flexible electronics enabling novel solutions not practical with conventional electronics
Sandra Richter
CEO & Co-founder of Soofa
While at MIT, Sandra worked with municipalities in South Africa, Japan, China, and Europe on smart transportation systems in collaboration with companies like Volkswagen, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon to define smart city strategies and evaluate business models. She co-founded Soofa in 2014 to deploy smart, social, and sustainable city technology in neighborhoods all around the world. She is a city dweller in Cambridge, MA.
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About Soofa, Underscore VC, URBAN-X: Outdoor media for digital marketers big and small.
David Rodríguez Sánchez
CEO & co-founder of Food for All
David Rodríguez Sánchez is the CEO and co-founder of Food for All.
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About Food for All: Food for All makes quality food affordable to all, while stopping perfectly good and delicious meals from being wasted.
Zied Etleb
Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Curiato Inc.
Zied Etleb is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Curiato.
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About Curiato Inc.: Provides caregivers and patients a holistic, end-to-end, management system.
Peter White
Founder and CEO of Rethink Technology Research
Peter is the CEO of Rethink Technology Research and helped create the company in 2002.
Peter is the principal analyst on Rethink Energy, focusing on the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, taking in Wind, Solar, Energy storage and the new Hydrogen economy. He also touches on the digitalization of the grid, the effect of EVs on electricity supply and any new ideas in energy.
Peter’s coverage area takes in solar design including perovskite, multi-junction solar, crystalline silicon, as well as floating platforms, carbon-nanotube layering, all types of turbines and lithium ion batteries or other form of energy storage, green hydrogen production economics, undersea cabling, demand response utility systems and Distributed Energy Management Systems.
Peter was previously involved in technology since 1978. For 17 years at Rethink, his research was focused on video and digital networks. He has consulted with set top and home gateway manufacturers, encoder specialists, chip vendors, flash memory providers, security companies and TV UI specialists over that time.
If you want to email Peter, ask him a question or invite him to attend or speak at an event, then please email peter@rethinkresearch.biz
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About Rethink Technology Research: Experts in Wireless, Video and Renewable Energy. Rethink is the thought leader in emerging wireless technologies, video-based quadruple play and the energy transition.
Zhuoqun Li
CEO and Founder of ZifiSense
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About ZifiSense: ZifiSense is a telecommunications company.
Chris Sowa
CEO of ToonCrier Inc.
Passionate about developing new ideas into reality. Creator of ToonCrier, a mobile social platform where people can leverage characters and voice to share emotions and ideas. ToonCrier will be continuing to rollout new emotive technologies including using artificial intelligence for motion capture on mobile devices to let people express their emotions and communicate far beyond text. I have a global track record of success developing omni channel customer strategies, marketing strategies, big data strategies, and operational models used successfully by multi-national companies in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. By implementing these strategies and solutions, these companies have seen substantial increases in revenue and market share. Specialties: Innovation, speaking, entrepreneurship, digital strategy, big data, customer experience, marketing, product marketing, mobile app creation, management consulting, business strategy consulting, M&A, return on investment analysis, enterprise strategy, cloud strategy, new product introductions, and go-to-market strategy.
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About ToonCrier Inc.: ToonCrier’s Emotional Virtual Reality increases user engagement by empowering them to share how they feel about digital content.
Chris Sowa
CEO of ToonCrier Inc.
Passionate about developing new ideas into reality. Creator of ToonCrier, a mobile social platform where people can leverage characters and voice to share emotions and ideas. ToonCrier will be continuing to rollout new emotive technologies including using artificial intelligence for motion capture on mobile devices to let people express their emotions and communicate far beyond text. I have a global track record of success developing omni channel customer strategies, marketing strategies, big data strategies, and operational models used successfully by multi-national companies in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States. By implementing these strategies and solutions, these companies have seen substantial increases in revenue and market share. Specialties: Innovation, speaking, entrepreneurship, digital strategy, big data, customer experience, marketing, product marketing, mobile app creation, management consulting, business strategy consulting, M&A, return on investment analysis, enterprise strategy, cloud strategy, new product introductions, and go-to-market strategy.
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About ToonCrier Inc.: ToonCrier’s Emotional Virtual Reality increases user engagement by empowering them to share how they feel about digital content.
