Member Directory
@yauhenbYauhen Bichel is a Staff Software Engineer and co-founder of MoleCare, a skin health app that helps people track their moles over time and spot changes. The app has been listed in the NHS App Library since 2020. Yauhen has more than 14 years of experience building ML systems, data pipelines and cloud backends, and contributes to the open-source OpenSRE project for AI SRE agents. He is now working
Steve Castle is a co-founder of DataSapien, a London company whose device native AI platform runs inside a brand's existing customer app, on the customer's own device and with their permission, to deliver private personalisation. He is a chartered accountant (FCA), founder and CEO of DataCave, and a group board director with international experience in insurance and financial services. Steve is al
Zeeshan Idrees is the founder and CEO of IndustryGeniuses, a London company that uses AI to improve go-to-market work for B2B revenue teams. It pairs senior operators with AI agents to find accounts and build pipeline. Before starting the company in 2020, he built go-to-market programmes for Salesforce, Deloitte, Toys R Us and a number of B2B startups. Zeeshan is also known for his work in digital
James Devlin is the founder of Lemonet, a platform that helps brands get cited in AI models such as ChatGPT by writing content, pitching publishers and securing mentions beyond their own websites. He also works as a fractional growth leader, investor, advisor and non-executive director, helping SaaS and eCommerce companies grow through organic channels. Since 2024, James has been on the founding t
Fergal O'Connor is the founder and CEO of Buymedia, which he started in 2015 to build an AI platform that helps marketing teams plan advertising across all media and make data-driven decisions about where to spend. Before founding the company, Fergal spent about 20 years in media ad sales at various levels internationally. Today he is focused on letting marketers build AI versions of their custome
Junru Xiong is the London-based founder of IncarnaMind, an open-source tool that lets people chat with several PDF and text documents at once using GPT, Claude or local open-source language models. Junru is also a data scientist at DoorFeed, a real estate company, and previously worked at Rolls-Royce. IncarnaMind has passed 800 stars on GitHub, and his other projects include a multi-agent simulati
Loic Alix-Brown is the Founder and CEO of Intavia, a London company building an AI receptionist and back office layer for dental and healthcare practices. Before Intavia, Loic co-founded Flick, a social media tool that helps creators, entrepreneurs and brands with Instagram scheduling, hashtags and analytics, and he studied at Imperial College London. He is now focused on handling inbound calls fo
My journey has been quite unconventional. I began as a mathematician, driven by a passion for beauty and structure. During my PhD in Cambridge, I worked alongside some of the world’s brightest minds. But I wanted more: to make a tangible impact beyond theory. That led me to McKinsey. I led teams working on high impact challenges across the globe. The journey was exhilarating! I, however, wanted to
Mark Camp is the founder and CEO of Propello Cloud, a Manchester company whose white-label loyalty platform helps mid-market and enterprise brands launch rewards programmes and keep customers. Mark has more than 20 years of marketing experience, studied marketing at the University of Central Lancashire and has led Propello since 2018 with COO George Charlesworth. Brands using the platform include
David Snipp is the founder and CTO of London-based Stardraw.com Ltd, which makes system design and documentation software for AV integrators and runs Stardraw Cloud, a no-code platform for building custom design applications. David founded Stardraw.com in 2000 and was its CEO until 2012. That year Global Caché acquired the intellectual property behind the Stardraw Control platform and appointed hi
Fred Thompson is co-founder and CTO of Clarus Software, the Manchester company behind Clarus WMS, cloud-based warehouse management software for logistics, supply chain and ecommerce businesses. Fred has led technology at Clarus since 2015 and has also been involved with Build Empire and Thirst, using technology to support logistics and professional development. He builds with Claude, Claude Code a
Steven Ledgerwood is the CEO of Capsule CRM, a Manchester-based company that makes simple CRM software for growing businesses, covering sales, marketing and project management. Steven joined Capsule as CEO in January 2023. He came from FINDOLOGIC, where he was Chief Revenue Officer, and before that he spent about 20 years in sales, marketing and customer success, mostly at technology companies. He
Karthik Dasari is the founder of Forma, a retail software platform built by acquiring and combining specialist software businesses, and managing director of Tern Capital in London. Karthik founded Tern Capital in 2011 as a hands-on technology investor that acquires and grows software companies, with recent deals including Sofco, RMS Metrofy and Mind of My Own. Through Forma, he is bringing togethe
Stoyan Ivanov is CEO and co-founder of nFuse.ai, a London-based company that uses AI to automate B2B ordering for FMCG wholesalers and distributors, connecting large food and beverage brands with small shops. He spent about 20 years at Coca-Cola, where his roles included general manager and work in route-to-market and ventures, and he served as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in
Gonzalo Ruiz is the founder and CEO of Alurys, a London-based company building Remedi.OS, a multi-channel intelligence platform that helps group purchasing organizations, cooperative groups and large business groups in B2B distribution manage supplier, customer, member and employee interactions with AI agents. Before turning founder four years ago, Gonzalo held engineering leadership roles at Goog
Tariq Tayub is the founder of Sellective Co., a London-based firm that builds sales systems and helps companies turn a strong offer into consistent sales. As a sales architect, Tariq designs the sales setup that sits between an offer and a closed deal. That can mean reducing how much founders have to sell themselves, training teams, fixing follow-up or building new sales teams. He has led Sellecti
