Member Directory
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
Cássio Volcan is CTO of Layla.eco, a Barcelona-based company that helps short-term rental property managers use sensors to cut energy use and monitor guest occupancy. Cássio has worked as an engineering manager at Persado and describes himself as an engineering lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Bojan Oremuž is the founder and CEO of In.sist d.o.o., an IT company in Velenje, Slovenia, that helps manufacturers and other businesses digitalize their processes. Its customers work in plastics, metal, food, logistics and wood. The company's work includes MES solutions, paperless work orders, analytics, warehouse management systems, Datalab Pantheon ERP, computer networks, and websites and onlin
Jan Varljen is the founder and CTO of Productive, a web-based tool that helps digital agencies and other project-based businesses manage their work and see how profitable it is. Jan started out as a web developer at Infinum, a Croatian digital agency, where Productive began as an internal tool before it was spun out into its own company. A Ruby on Rails developer, he has a particular interest in a
Pere Grivé is CEO of iDISC, a Barcelona-based language services and technology company founded in 1987 that translates and localizes technical and commercial content into Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque and Galician for businesses expanding into new markets. Pere has also served as iDISC's general director and has talked about how the company built a global presence, with offices in Mexico, B
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
George Athanasopoulos is co-founder and CEO of Novibet, an Athens-based online sports betting and gaming company that he has led since October 2009. Before that, from 2008 to 2018, George was Chief Operating Officer of Centric Holdings SA. He was also CEO of Streaming Upload from 2018 to 2021 and has been CEO of Abraserve Limited since 2021. He speaks at industry events such as SBC Summit Barcelon
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
Marc Päpper is the founder of Cognition Pixels in Hamburg, where he works as a solo founder building in the AI space. Marc has a background in computer science and computational neuroscience. He founded Lemundo GmbH and served as its CTO, then became CIO at Mindpeak, where he built machine learning tools that help cancer experts with diagnostics. He also maintains open-source projects such as llm_
Otto Attila is the founder of Leto AI, a Munich-based company that builds AI software for public tenders in Germany. Leto searches procurement platforms every day for tenders above the EU thresholds, reads the tender documents and fills in the required forms for architecture and engineering firms, trade businesses and construction companies. Otto started Leto after seeing firsthand how slow and bu
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
Miguel Gonçalves is the founder and CEO of E-goi, a Portuguese omnichannel marketing automation platform that businesses use to reach and engage their customers. Before he started E-goi in 2008, Miguel worked in the web business and founded Maxideia in 2000, a web agency for small and medium-sized companies. He also speaks about the digital economy and customer experience, including at the QSP Sum
Entrepreneur, innovator and strategic builder, passionate about putting people at the center and helping organizations turn data into insight, insight into better decisions, and better decisions into real business impact at every level of the organization from engineering and operations to the C-suite. My work is centered on data, AI, automation and actionable observability, helping people and org
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
Hugo Braam is the co-founder and CEO of Virtuagym, an Amsterdam-based company that makes all-in-one coaching, management and engagement software for gyms, fitness businesses and the corporate health market. Before starting Virtuagym in 2008, Hugo worked as an intellectual property lawyer. He launched the company as a consumer fitness app and later moved it to business-to-business (B2B) software fo
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
Don Wilson is a partner at MaximRMS, which builds revenue management and dynamic pricing systems for hotels and the wider travel and hospitality industry. He has served the company as COO and earlier as Senior Vice President of Revenue Management Development. Since 2024 he has also been an advisory board member at Digit Bridge. Based in Paris, Don works on operations, pricing and commercial strate
Philip Petrescu is the CEO and co-founder of Caphyon, the Craiova-based company behind Advanced Web Ranking, a rank tracking and SEO reporting platform used by agencies, enterprises and freelance SEOs. He started working in software in 1996, and his interest in search engines led him to create Advanced Web Ranking in the early 2000s. Philip now leads the product as it extends tracking from classic
Arjan Herskamp is founder and CEO of Mydatafactory in Meppel, Netherlands. The company builds Mydatamatcher, an AI solution that automates quote and tender processes for distributors by matching requested products to their own catalog. Arjan has also led Calago, a firm of product information management experts, and has a background in product data work, including the Akeneo platform. He recently p
Jürgen Mayer is CEO and a shareholder of plazz AG, a Munich and Erfurt software company that builds no-code SaaS tools for event and employee communication, including the Mobile Event App and Polario, for companies, associations, trade fairs and event organizers. Before joining plazz in 2010, Jürgen worked in online business at ProSiebenSat.1, T-Online and Yahoo!, and he also founded exklusiv-golf
Noyan İDİN is the co-founder and CEO of Decktopus, an AI presentation builder that helps people create on-brand slide decks and proposals in minutes without doing design work. Before starting Decktopus in 2020, Noyan worked as a product manager at Algebra Global Technologies and co-founded Aracı, where he served as CTO. He studied electronics and communication engineering at Izmir Institute of Tec
Mike Strives is the founder and CEO of CopyPaste Lab, a product studio that builds and scales SaaS products using reusable code templates, AI tools and repeatable marketing playbooks. Mike founded Upvoty, a user feedback tool with feature voting, created the Zero to SaaS course and community, and has built software products as a solo founder since 2010. He now coaches early-stage SaaS founders on
Rutger Peters is co-founder of Threading Needles and founder and CEO of Gynzy, an online education company he started in 2009 that makes classroom software for schools. Rutger co-founded GameGate.com in 1998 and the internet games company Zylom in 2001. He later served as co-CEO of GameHouse and joined the supervisory board of Amsterdam fitness software company Virtuagym. He builds with AI tools s
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
Timo-Pekka Leinonen is CEO and co-founder of Master English, a Tampere-based company whose app helps adults in North, Central and South America as well as in the first markets in Europe to reach the advanced English skill they need for their careers, using AI and personalized learning. He previously led WordDive, a digital language learning service, and his core team has worked together for more t
Emeric Ernoult is the co-founder and CEO of Agorapulse, a Paris-based company that makes social media management software. Agorapulse is now building Archie, an AI tool that turns a person's expertise and everyday conversations into on-brand posts for LinkedIn, Instagram and other networks, which they review before publishing. Before Agorapulse, Emeric worked as a business lawyer and founded sever
Federico Elia is an independent developer in Genoa who builds open-source tools that let AI agents use the web without being blocked by anti-bot systems. He created AIHawk, an open-source AI agent that applies to jobs, and has worked as an engineer at SonicJobs, which builds AI agents that complete job applications. Federico now maintains stealth browser projects including invisible_playwright, in
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
James Kennedy is the co-founder and CEO of ProcurementExpress.com, a Dublin company that makes audit-ready purchase order software for organizations funded by federal, state and local government grants. James studied computer science at Technological University Dublin and started the company with partners in 2014, after early sales of an online purchase order system to UNICEF and Clarins showed th
I'm the creator and maintainer of Agentic Awesome Skills (AAS), an open-source ecosystem designed to help AI agents discover and use the right skills, tools, and workflows for real-world tasks. I'm currently building AAS Core, focusing on making agent capabilities more accessible, reusable, and interoperable across different AI environments. My background combines business, marketing, AI, and data
Josh Feldberg is co-founder and CTO of Lumo, a Barcelona-based company whose AI tool handles marketing content for small and medium businesses. Lumo learns a company's brand, drafts a week of content across channels, and waits for the team to approve it before anything goes out. Josh leads the technical side of the product.
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
Thomas V. Pilar is the Founder and CEO of Nogui, a Berlin company that builds AI coworkers for enterprise work. He has founded several companies, including Flinkit, where he served as Founder and Managing Director, as well as TopCheck and Mpax. He studied business at Humboldt University of Berlin and ESCP. At Nogui, Thomas leads a team that pairs experience from earlier startups with knowledge of
Gerard Grivé is Chief Innovation Officer at iDISC Information Technologies, a Barcelona translation, localization and software company. There he is building Koesive, an internal spin-off that gives global teams one governed workspace for multilingual content, with options from machine translation to fully human translation. Gerard has been at iDISC since 2011. He started as a project manager and l
Eliott Dupuy is the co-founder and CEO of Kleap, a Lausanne-based platform where people build websites, SaaS products and internal tools to launch and grow an online business. He studied at HEIG-VD, started Kleap Technologies in 2022, and also founded Robot-speed, which offers LLM citations, AI content automation and backlink exchange. Eliott is now expanding Kleap after its January 2026 pivot, ad
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
Ivan Vuković is co-founder and CEO of Kopai, which he describes as an AI reliability layer, and a partner at Reactor Studio, a Zagreb studio for agile software development. Ivan comes from site reliability engineering, and at Reactor Studio his focus is helping teams build the right product fast. He now works closely with Claude and Claude Code, building Kopai on a stack that includes ElevenLabs,
Steven Benson is the founder and CEO of Badger Maps, a mobile-first field sales platform that gives outside sales teams route planning, sales mapping, territory management and a CRM front-end in a single app. Before starting Badger in 2012, Steven earned an MBA from Stanford and worked in enterprise software sales at IBM and Autonomy, then at Google, where he worked with Maps and Earth. He now wor
Demian Voorhagen is the CEO and co-founder of Mirava, an Amsterdam-based tool that helps mobile app teams set and automate per-country pricing across iOS, Android and the web. Demian has worked as a founder and growth strategist with B2C subscription apps, has two exits behind him, and writes about regional app store pricing for RevenueCat. He also invests as an angel in mobile apps, SaaS and AI t
Peter Loving is the co-founder of Lumo, a Barcelona-based AI marketing tool that learns a company's brand, drafts its social content for the week and waits for approval before posting. It is built for founders, marketers and small agencies. Before Lumo, Peter ran UserActive, a design and development agency that did product design work for more than 50 B2B software companies. He also worked there h
Laurentiu JIGA is the Founder and CEO of Generatik, a platform that lets brands check mall availability and book indoor advertising campaigns in real time, starting with shopping centers in Romania. Before Generatik, Laurentiu founded Brand Management and spent about two decades building it into a national indoor advertising company in Romania, where he served as CEE Managing Director. With Genera
Ricardo Ghekiere is the founder of Patricia.app, a Brussels-based company building an AI coworker for small marketing agencies that works inside Slack or Teams and handles client reports, spend alerts, recaps and follow-ups. Before Patricia, he spent about ten years running marketing agencies, including Saasmic, which was acquired in 2025, and co-founded the AI headshot company BetterPic. Ricardo
Cristian Frunze is the founder of Ken, which runs done-for-you email and LinkedIn outreach for B2B companies and handles lists, copy, deliverability and sending on its own platform. Before Ken, Cristian built Smart Course, an eLearning platform in Romania that reached 50,000 students by the time he was 16. He started Ken by writing Python software to automate outbound, and ran it as an agency befo
