VENTURECEO: A UNIQUE COLLAB TO CONNECT THE TECH ECOSYSTEM

Martina King joined Feature Space in 2012. Under King’s leadership, Feature Space has become the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, risk scoring events and preventing fraud and financial crime in more than 180 countries. The company has also raised more than £100 million in funding.

Husayn currently leads the team at Quench.ai that builds AI infrastructure to supercharge training & productivity. Prior to this he was CEO & co-founder of Onfido, an identity verification start-up. Founded with two friends from Oxford University, he successfully led a global team of over 500 people across seven regions and raised more than £143 million in funding. In February 2024 Onfido was acquired by Entrust, a US competitor. The deal was Oxford’s largest-ever return on investment for a student-led start-up.

Gabbi is a Partner at Stride.VC. He has led investments into companies including Knowunity, Screenloop, Chapter Two, Argo AI, and Seva among others. Prior to joining Stride.VC, he spent almost three decades as a founder - building, backing, branding (and occasionally breaking) startups, scale ups, and megacorps. He likes being tattooed. A lot ;)

Richard is the CEO at Allica Bank. Before joining Allica, Richard was group COO at digital bank Revolut. Prior to that he was CEO of OakNorth and held leadership roles at TSB and HSBC. 

Ted Talk giver and receiver of the British Empire Medial for her contribution to surgery and medicine, Nadine drew on her surgical experiences to found Proximie, enabling physicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any operating room from anywhere in the world.

Adviser to some of the world’s leading tech driven businesses, Kolvin was ranked by Legal 500 for data & technology as known for being ‘extremely responsive and client focused’. He has vast experience advising on legal issues related to the internalisation of technology: his work regularly involves complex, cross-border matters that raise multi-faceted IP, data privacy, consumer protection, and internet regulatory issues.

Wolf & Badger is a leading B Corp marketplace for independent ethical brands worldwide. George founded the company in 2010 with the goal of providing a platform for smaller brands to compete with larger, established players and offer a more exciting and responsible retail experience. With storefronts in London, New York and Los Angeles, W&B has generated over $400m of sales for independent brands in the last 5 years through its online marketplace. George also co-founded the health brand Raw Press, sat on the investment committee at London Fashion Fund and is now an active angel investor.

Jonno is a principal at IQ Capital. He focusses on companies in a broad range of sectors including AI/ML, robotics, energy and cybersecurity.

Mandeep is the former CEO & founder of Trouva, the SaaS-enabled marketplace for Europe's best independent retailers, which was sold in 2022. Trouva raised ~$50m from investors including Index Ventures, Octopus & LocalGlobe, and was one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies. Mandeep was named one of the 100 most influential people in Retail by Retail Week for 3 years running. He is now an Angel investor in over 80 B2B technology startups and a Venture Partner at Hoxton Ventures.

Paul is CEO at BMLL, an award-winning data and analytics company operating at the cutting edge of capital markets. He has over 30 years’ experience holding various global executive management positions in Investment Banking, Stock Exchange Management, Market Data Vendors and Brokerages. He formerly served as interim CEO of Euronext London and Global Head of FICC at Euronext NV, where he was responsible for the development and execution of strategy in Fixed-income, Rates, Foreign Exchange and Commodity markets.

Cat joined Albion in 2018 and focuses on backing founders across fintech, cyber & legacy industries. Prior to joining Albion she worked in New York and London as an Investment Banker with Goldman Sachs. She holds an economics degree from Harvard.

Tugce served as the CEO & founder of Streetbees, a groundbreaking global intelligence platform. Boasting a global user base of over 3.5 million in 189 countries, under her tenure the company closed a £30 million series B round and scaled new heights in success and innovation. She has now moved onto her next venture, alchemy.ai., building a proprietary frontier LLM to create meaningful human connections.

For over a decade, Ben has been helping high growth VC backed companies build go-to-market teams and scale business operations around the globe, quickly and cost-effectively. Passionate about making it 'less scary' to grow your business in new countries whilst remaining compliant & hire your 'A-team' globally with the experience to help you scale revenue & be successful in new markets.