Thank you for attending the 2018 Digital Masters Awards Thank you for attending the 2018 Digital Masters Awards. This year’s shortlisted nominees have been instrumental in building some of the Europe’s most celebrated digital businesses, are world-leaders in their functions and are drivers of innovation and creativity. We are delighted to be able to honour them, and celebrate their successes tonight. Now in their fifth year, the Digital Masters Awards stand alone as the benchmark for leadership within digitally-driven businesses. This is largely thanks to the efforts of our distinguished judges, who, every year, thoroughly scrutinise the credentials of a long list of executives, and through extensive and sometimes heated debate, make the challenging decisions of selecting the 11 Green Cube winners. We can’t thank them enough. A particular thank you to Daniel Waterhouse for chairing this year’s panel with great skill and judgment. Find out more about the 2018 judges on the following page. We are also very grateful to our sponsors Silicon Valley Bank and EY for supporting the Digital Masters Awards. We look forward to seeing you all again in 2019! The Up Group
Judging Panel Our charity partner - Beam
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Excellence in People & Talent
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Excellence in Data
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Excellence in Marketing
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Excellence in Product
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Excellence in Technology
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Excellence in Commercial Management
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Excellence in Finance
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Excellence in General Management
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Excellence in Digital Transformation
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Rising Star
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CEO of the Year
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Attendees 31-38
With thanks to our 2018 Digital Masters partners
The Judging Panel Message from the Chairman of the Judging Panel It has been an honour for me to chair the panel for the fifth Digital Masters Awards, and a pleasure to review the brilliant careers of some of Europe’s truly outstanding leaders. This is my fourth year as a judge, and I am consistently amazed by the sheer quality of the nominees and I congratulate them all for being shortlisted.
Sitar Teli Connet Ventures
As ever, choosing a winner for each category is hard, and I want to thank my fellow judges for their dedication to this task. I hope you’ll agree that the 2018 winners fully deserve their Green Cubes. By shining a light on the unsung heroes of the digital revolution, the Digital Masters Awards reminds us of the importance of congratulating the talented individuals driving growth for both their company and within the sector. I am thrilled to have seen this event grow over the last five years into the absolute independent benchmark for executive talent within the European tech sector, and I am delighted to have played a role in its ongoing success.
Martin Mignot Index Ventures
Lucian Schoenefelder KKR
Daniel Waterhouse Balderton
Christian HernandezGallardo White Star Capital
Maurice Helfgott
Dan Hynes
Stephen Dando
Andrei Brasoveanu
Simon Calver
Danuta Gray
Amery Capital
Atomico
Capital
Accel
BGF Ventures
Direct Line
David Ewing
David McGovern
Joanna Santinon
John Pearson
David Pemsel
Christian Saller
ECI Partners
Exponent Private Equity
EY
Bought By Many
Guardian Media Group
Holtzbrinck Ventures
Roisin Donnelly
Robert Verwaayen
Tracy DorĂŠe
Michael Jackson
Manu Gupta
Saul Klein
JUST EAT
Keen Venture Partners
Kindred Capital
Mangrove Capital Partners
Lakestar
LocalGlobe
Mark Lewis
Michiel Kotting
Darren Shapland
Rakhi Goss-Custard
Erin Platts
Gerard Grech
MoneySuperMarket Group plc
Northzone
notonthehighstreet.com
Rightmove plc
Silicon Valley Bank
Tech Nation
Andrew Miller
Jane Thompson
David Grigson
Peter Read
Nick Hugh
Ciara Smyth
Terra Firma Capital Partners
The Fusion Labs
Reach plc
Vitruvian Partners
Telegraph Media Group
Former King & Paddy Power Betfair
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Excellence in People & Talent WINNER
Starting with the heart of the organisation, people and talent. This year’s nominees led their organisations through phenomenal growth while maintaining cultures which are so critical to their organisations. Many of them also work externally to help other scale-up organisations and champion the need for diversity in all its forms.
Katarina Berg Chief HR Officer, Spotify
Andrea Pattico Chief People Officer, MVF
Spotify as a business and HR as a function have both come a long way since Katarina joined the company in late 2013. She has led the people strategy development and execution through the company’s whirlwind transition from start-up to a mature, international, and, recently, successfully listed public company.
Andrea has repositioned MVF’s HR team to a People Team with the mandate to be culture champions. In the past 12 months, the team launched an award-winning onboarding program (StartSmart) and a Management Development Academy which has since been accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management. Andrea’s strategy to move MVF from a ‘perkplace’ to having a holistic Health and Wellbeing strategy was recognised as a differentiator for the Company’s ranking in the Sunday Times Top 100 – MVF moved from No. 6 to No. 2 in the UK, and to No. 1 in London.
Katarina and her team are focused on the company’s long-lasting hyper growth and move into new markets. The company strategy operations, mission, and values also sit with her, and the People team are building both culture and the business by enabling, engaging and empowering employees. “Think global, act local” is the Spotify philosophy for people, culture, and compensation. Spotify is diverse, innovative and ever-changing, and being data-driven is core, so Katarina’s mission has been to grow leadership, reinvent processes, disrupt HR and make sure the digital infrastructure provides all the necessary data to establish an environment where creative and passionate people can be their very best.
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Andrea’s work has not only impacted employee engagement and culture, it has significantly improved core processes. This has resulted in reducing hiring time by 50%. Andrea and her team also hired for double the roles originally forecast by the business as it went through a period of rapid growth.
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Ellie Romer-Lee VP People, Onfido
Maren Kroll VP HR, Harry’s
Ann-Marie Cooper Head of HR, Europe, Intuit
Since Ellie joined Onfido in 2014, the company has grown to 180 people across six locations on three continents – and it continues to grow strongly, having seen a 4x increase in revenue in the past 12 months.
The last year has been big for Harry’s – in addition to launching in the UK, the brand has expanded into key US retailers including Walmart, and continued to expand its directto-consumer presence and brand. Maren’s contribution within the People function has included creating an open feedback culture centred on shared values and building an atmosphere of trust, transparency, innovation, and leadership.
In the last 18 months, Intuit’s customer growth has increased by 173% and the company has won two awards: 2018 Financial Software Vendor of the Year award and 2018 Customer Success Champion of the Year. During this time headcount has increased by 40% and employee engagement has increased from 78% to 89%. Resulting in two additional awards for Culture: Number 3 UK Great Places to Work & Employer of the Year for Gender Diversity.
With such rapid scaling, Ellie enables business performance by ensuring that the right people are in the right roles, with the right responsibilities and mandates. In particular, Ellie stresses the need for the People function to ‘unblock sticking points’ within the company’s operations. Ellie has spoken to start-up CEOs at seed events, run workshops for other players in the tech industry, and mentors at a scale-up academy – thereby contributing her expertise across the growth curve.
As well as designing a new compensation framework and performance review system that incorporates a strong element of peer review, Maren also led a project to redesign the physical office into a more open-plan space, as well as introduced company German and English classes.
Ann-Marie is proud of helping the business scale and helping to build the culture and engagement during a phase of high-growth. She created a Personal Development Programme with a focus on leadership, engagement and development and also launched the first employee annual kick-off event: GetTogether – 97% of employees said they felt more connected as a result of attending the event.
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Excellence in Data WINNER
Data and digital go hand in hand. Leaders in this category have driven change through data inside their organisations, and created personalised experiences for their customers outside the organisation.
Tom Betts Chief Data Officer, Financial Times
Vince Darley VP Growth, Deliveroo
Tom and his team have led a transformation at the FT and have been one of the earliest in their industry to develop and invest in data. All decisions are now underpinned by data, from Finance and HR to the newsroom. His team’s work has shown a link between reader engagement and higher revenue. Other innovative data driven technology include “Janet Bot”, a scanning technology, that lets editors know if the homepage is too maleorientated.
Vince has played a significant role in Deliveroo’s incredibly fast growth. The business grew 600% in 2016-17, and the product & data improvements made by Vince’s team have led to substantial commercial impact. He has hired and developed a team of 60 senior data scientists to embed algorithms and analytics across all product areas.
Results of all this work speak for themselves. The FT had its best ever year last year, with 15% year-on-year growth despite falls in print subscriptions.
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He has led the push to improve understanding of marketing costs across all channels, getting both the board and management team to buy-in to a new approach to marketing decisions. This has led to radical changes to what was spent where, and a complete restructure of the digital marketing teams. Vince is now focusing on crucial growth initiatives, including scoping out expansion of the Deliveroo Plus subscription programme to reward loyal customers, the referral programme to accelerate new customer growth, and new product developments which aid both restaurants and customers.
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Katia Walsh Chief Global Data & Analytics Officer, Vodafone
Janne Koivunen Director, Business Intelligence, Rovio Entertainment Corporation
Rafael Herrera Chief Data Officer, AUTO1 Group
Katia has built some of the world’s largest secure data-holding platforms. Her team’s work is enabling Vodafone to enhance its services by using large, anonymised data sets to better anticipate the likely needs of customers in different situations.
Janne is part of the Games business unit management team and he leads a team of 16 professionals working on data science and analytics for one of the world’s best known entertainment companies, Rovio Entertainment, the creator of Angry Birds. Janne ensures everyone on his team is embedded in the business and plays a vital role in creating the best mobile games in the world.
In two and a half years, AUTO1 Group has grown from 30 to 4,500 employees. Rafael has created fully automated reporting for all of the firm’s 11 B2C markets and 40 B2B markets. He has scaled the company’s data and technology capabilities to cope with this level of hyper growth. He has created advanced predictive analytics to give managers a granular understanding of the company’s complex and fragmented market.
Janne is proud of his amazingly talented team that has established a “data culture” in an industry that traditionally prioritised creativity over data-informed decisions. Janne’s team plays a key role driving data knowledge across Rovio’s organisation, ensuring Rovio’s Games as a Service strategy can be fully optimised. He and his team have been pivotal in managing the ROI on marketing spend, which played a big part in helping the company reach 55% revenue growth in 2017, and break the all-time milestone of four billion game downloads in 2017.
Rafael was the sole data and analytics leader when he joined, and he has now built a team of 20. He reports to the founder and CEO, and also established the recruitment and HR performance management processes for the company globally.
Katia has also built a highly qualified team of 300 data professionals – including world leaders in their fields. She is rolling-out an educational programme within Vodafone on machine learning and has created an internal research community where Big Data and Advanced Analytics team members are able to spend 15% of their time on cutting-edge research.
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Excellence in Marketing WINNER
The role of marketing continues to grow in importance as the link between growth, brand and customer experience becomes more clear. This year’s shortlist have implemented innovative cross platform campaigns and delivered often triple digit growth for their businesses.
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John Veichmanis Chief Marketing Officer, Farfetch
Maya Moufarek Chief Marketing Officer, Pharmacy2U and ChemistDirect
Farfetch has seen tremendous growth in the last year, passing the $1bn turnover point and operating in 190 countries.
ChemistDirect and Pharmacy2U merged in 2016 and Maya became CMO for the whole group. Since the merger, Maya and team have overhauled the brand strategy and the entire online experience.
John and his team are responsible for all demand generation, with marketing at the core of this. Previously brand and digital performance marketing were two separate teams. As CMO he has brought them together and is proud of uniting these teams. He has fundamentally driven a new approach to marketing at Farfetch. A quarter of his team are data scientists and analysts, and another quarter are engineers. Importantly they are all working together to solve customer problems.
Pharmacy2U is the fastest growing pharmacy group in the UK. Website traffic and online registrations have risen dramatically and customer acquisition has grown 350% yearon-year. This is equivalent to opening 15 physical pharmacies a month. Maya and team have also quantified the effects Pharmacy2U has on patients and the NHS. The firm has been invited to advise on how to ease the strain on the NHS, including meeting with Theresa May’s special advisor.
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Darryl Bowman Chief Marketing Officer, Funding Circle
Katie Prentke English Chief Marketing Officer, Nutmeg
David Sandström Chief Marketing Officer, Klarna
As global CMO Darryl is challenging the ways companies market to small and medium sized businesses. Having undertaken a global rebrand in multiple languages, Funding Circle has the ambition to become one of the few global brands in the SMB space. To support this ambition, Funding Circle has recently begun a provocative integrated advertising strategy. Darryl’s team spans the US, UK and Europe. As a result of their brand efforts, coupled with their deeply analytical approach to performance marketing, Funding Circle has helped companies around the world unlock 75,000 jobs and generate £4bn of GDP globally in 2017.
Katie joined Nutmeg in June 2016 as Commercial Director, and is now CMO, where she is responsible for Marketing and Product.
Key to David’s role at Klarna is moving the business from its solely B2B brand, into being a combined B2B/B2C offering. Working towards this has meant moving away from a ‘traditional marketing team’ to a more agile, task-oriented working groups organised by competency.
In her role, she has led much of Nutmeg’s continued growth and success. She has expanded Nutmeg’s above-the-line marketing activity, increased the company’s digital marketing capability, and developed its partnerships and referral programme. She has also launched a number of the business’ key products, including Nutmeg’s mobile app. Nutmeg was one of just three providers to launch the new Lifetime ISA (LISA) product on the day it was made available by HMRC. This is a testament to Katie’s leadership and customer focus.
More broadly, Klarna is pushing into the realm of truly global reach – now working alongside international players such as ASOS, Google, and Ticketmaster. David is confident that – particularly in terms of marketing-driven commercial partnerships – the company will continue its transformation into a global digital brand over the next year.
Under Katie’s leadership, the business has reached a number of impressive milestones – most notably, being the first robo-advisor in Europe to reach £1bn in AUM and over 50,000 customers at the end of 2017.
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Excellence in Product WINNER
The product leaders in this category combine bold vision, world-class team leadership, excellence in delivery, and a commitment to creating amazing experiences for their users.
Kyle McGinn Director, Product, Workplace by Facebook
Ephraim Luft Chief Product Officer, Farfetch
Kyle leads product management for Workplace, a collaboration platform made by Facebook. The whole company use the product internally and it launched to the public in October 2016. They now have over 30,000 organisations using it globally, from start-ups (Spotify), to multi-nationals (Walmart). It’s entirely built out of Facebook’s London engineering site and the team work very closely with the global sales team to gain direct market feedback on the product.
In his role, Ephraim leads the product management, product design, data science and product analytics functions across Farfetch. He has led the product management of Farfetch’s platform ecosystem, including the Farfetch marketplace, white label business and retail innovation business unit. Ephraim leads a team of 300, which grew from 20 employees in just three years.
The team build features unique to Workplace (like Office365 and GSuite integrations) but also incorporate features from Facebook itself to Workplace. For example, Kyle and team integrated Facebook Live into Workplace in only a few weeks, fully customising the streaming programme to ensure it was suitable to use in a company environment.
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The company now has a much deeper understanding of its customers and its relationships with them: the customer engagement score from its app has been double that of any competitor. Ephraim has been instrumental in this and in creating innovative products for the firm’s platform; these use machine learning to bring in a much wider range of suppliers. This has increased customer engagement with the platform. Farfetch also launched the platform in Arabic and has done so far quicker than their competitors.
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Niv Liran Chief Product Officer, AUTO1 Group
Emil Martinsek VP Product Management, GetYourGuide
Piero Sierra VP Product, Skyscanner
In almost six years, AUTO1 Group has grown to over 3000 employees, generates revenue of over €2bn and is now Europe’s leading car trading platform. Niv runs a team of 170 engineers, along with 20 product managers and five designers.
GetYourGuide is the leading booking platform for travel activities. Headquartered in Berlin with offices across the globe, the company employs a global team of over 450 employees, and has raised a total of $170m in VC funding, most recently a $75m Series D in November 2017.
Skyscanner was purchased by Ctrip at the end of 2016 for £1.4bn. The parent company has given them independence in their strategic decisions but provided backing to scale the business.
AUTO1 Group’s reinvention of the entire used-car buying process for a purely online experience was a large undertaking, and Niv was particularly instrumental to the success of AUTO1 Group’s product that involves buying cars from private sellers and selling them to the professional market. He works closely with the CTO and has made a raft of important technology decisions that helped them to scale the business quickly and make the founders’ vision a reality.
As VP of Product Management, Emil has played a vital role in GetYourGuide’s growth strategy, particularly in scaling performance marketing capabilities. Products built by Emil and his team connect the company with tens of millions of consumers across digital touchpoints. More recently, Emil’s team has driven market-leading mobile growth, on pace to account for the majority of GetYourGuide bookings in the year ahead.
Piero has been directly involved in all Skyscanner’s biggest initiatives across the past two years, including the introduction of their Direct Booking product that keeps customers on Skyscanner to complete bookings. This has raised conversion rates by more than 150% for returning users. It has been transformational to the business, and partners now include British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair and Virgin Australia. Piero has also worked on Smart Search that uses machine learning to find the most relevant flights for a customer, and made the whole platform app first.
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Excellence in Technology WINNER
The technologists in this year’s shortlist have played a pivotal part in setting the direction of their businesses, producing technological breakthroughs that are now commonplace in many homes and on many devices across the world.
Dr Caroline Hargrove Acting Chief Technology Officer, McLaren Applied Technologies Over the past few years, Caroline has helped to position McLaren Applied Technologies as the growth engine of the McLaren Group, delivering performance advantage in the motorsport, automotive, public transport and health industries, as well as collaborating with Deloitte UK to create data-driven products for the aviation and manufacturing industries. Having contributed to the increased rate of new product development, she has also helped maximise the efficiency of the company’s R&D programmes. Caroline participated in roundtable reviews of the industrial strategy and was recently awarded a fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Ronen Benchetrit Chief Technology Officer, Zopa Ronen has been fundamental in preparing Zopa for its second decade of business. He has greatly diversified the tech stack and teams which has driven many improvements – the most obvious being the diversity and velocity of talent that Zopa can now hire to support business growth. He has also provisioned the architecture for their proposed bank launch, putting more structure into tech and product delivery as well as leading the productisation of IT and Operations. These changes have put the business on the right path to further scale in a sustainable way and to face increased regulation and scrutiny as Zopa becomes a bank. Finally, Ronen has taken Zopa’s crossfunctional Tribes and Squads to the next stage of their evolution whilst increasing their level of engagement. He has created an environment where all squads can deliver per their autonomous roadmaps with speed and quality, without compromising safety or the demands of a regulated environment.
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Paul Cutter Chief Technology Officer, Paddy Power Betfair
Holly Mesrobian Director, Software Engineering, Amazon Video
Derek Wise Chief Technology Officer, Grapeshot
As Paddy Power Betfair’s first CTO as a merged business, Paul faced a significant challenge from the outset: the digital integration of two already large businesses, bringing two successful brands together onto a single technology platform. Achieving this within two years of the merger is something that Paul considers his primary achievement so far.
Holly is a Director of Software Engineering for Amazon Prime Video, based in the UK. She moved here three years ago from the US where she led the charge as Director of Engineering for Fashion at Amazon. She began her career in technology more than 20 years prior as a developer and since has held numerous international technology leadership roles including General Manager of Real Networks’ Platform Engineering team, and CTO of Cozi which was acquired by Time, Inc.
Derek has led a transformation of Grapeshot’s technology division over the last year, growing a world-class team of top-tier engineers and data scientists, and instilling a culture of transparency, pace, and innovation.
This is particularly the case given that the integration ended up being much more than the ‘sum of its parts’, involving (for example) the creation of an entirely new data architecture and a new private cloud hosting platform. The result of this is that, more than simply fulfilling a necessity, the digital merger has created a lasting point of strength for the combined business.
At Amazon in the UK, she leads a global software engineering organisation focused on ensuring a high-quality viewing experience for Prime Video customers across hundreds of different device models worldwide.
Working closely with the founder, Derek has been a crucial member of Grapeshot’s executive leadership team in the build-up to, and through the process of, Oracle’s acquisition of the business in April 2018. Grapeshot is a provider of brand safety and pre-bid contextual solutions to over 5,000 of the world’s leading marketers. Every month, over 38 billion programmatic ad impressions are enhanced using Grapeshot’s Contextual Intelligence Platform in dozens of languages, resulting in well over 100% year over year growth for the company.
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Excellence in Commercial Management WINNER
The achievements of this year’s nominees include global expansion, hyper organic and acquired growth, rapid internationalisation and progressive digital transformation of commercial teams.
Melissa Di Donato Chief Revenue Officer, SAP
Stuart Collingwood GM EMEA, Anki Inc.
Melissa joined SAP in November 2016 and was asked to turn the global ERP sales team into a fast-moving cloud-based business. She has grown the team of 10 she inherited to over 500 people in 12 countries. The ERP business is now the fastest growing natively built part of SAP, and the fastest growing division in the company’s history.
Anki is a leading robotics and AI company. Founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduates in San Francisco, Anki is defining a new category of consumer entertainment products through the pioneering use of technology usually confined to laboratories and research institutes.
Melissa has built a fully operational, global sales team across all customer segments. She helped identify and hire the team and provided training on how to attract, win and provide the service to make customers successful. She has also created a culture that is recognised as future-focused: passionate, disruptive, fast-paced, innovative and successful.
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Stuart drove the expansion of Anki into Europe in 2014 and in 2017, was instrumental in the successful introduction of Cozmo, Anki’s AI powered robot into the region. Cozmo was the best-selling toy of 2017 on Amazon in the UK and France, the UK’s best-selling premium priced toy and the UK’s best-selling toy in the forth quarter of 2017. Instrumental to Anki’s success in Europe has been the balance of tailoring the company’s ‘go to market strategy’ to each of the European territories it operates in, whilst bringing across the unique culture of Anki from its US HQ.
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Paul Fifield Chief Revenue Officer, UNiDAYS
Alan Clark VP Sales, Sage Business Cloud People
Andy Sleigh Chief Commercial Officer, ClearScore
UNiDAYS have never raised external capital and Paul has led the profitable revenue growth from $2m in 2014 to $40m in 2017. UNiDAYS had 90% YoY revenue growth in 2017 in the UK, with 300% YoY in the US.
Alan’s journey began at Fairsail, where as part of the company’s leadership team, a £110m valuation was achieved in its sale to Sage last March. Having rebranded to Sage Business Cloud People, a global HR and People system, the team has recently broken into new, rich geographies including Australia, Canada and Germany. Having recorded 95% revenue growth year-on-year, the goal is to utilise this market expansion to maintain momentum. A key to this being the continued development of strong customer profiles – something Alan plays a leading role in. As well as seeing incredible growth in the business, Alan also highlights the extent to which he has developed people internally. The sales team has scaled from six to 53 during his tenure.
ClearScore doubled its user base to over six million registered users in the UK in the past 12 months and more than doubled UK revenue to around £30m. In March, it was announced that Experian would buy ClearScore for circa £275m, less than two and a half years after its launch.
In the last six months, Paul has built a commercial team from 30 to 120 people across the New York, Sydney, London and Nottingham offices with senior hires from Google, Facebook and AOL. Paul also negotiated and closed the deal with Apple in Cupertino to embed their verification technology into over 1 billion devices globally to power the Apple Music student program in 114 countries. And over the last 12 months secured global partnerships with over 100 major corporates including Samsung, L’Óreal, Dominos, Nike and Vodafone.
A lot of ClearScore’s success has been down to using data to underpin decision-making. Andy played a key part in initiating and executing the work behind that. He has led groundbreaking work in collaborating with ClearScore’s lending partners to co-create new products that address under-served market segments. Working with Justin Basini, CEO & Founder, Andy has also reorganised the company into a Tribes and Squads model. He also oversaw 10x growth in his team to over 30 people throughout 2017.
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Excellence in Finance WINNER
Working for bold and dynamic CEOs to deliver hyper growth is a challenge every CFO faces. Our shortlist has raised multi-millions in capital and achieved multi billion pound valuations.
Andy Botha Chief Financial Officer, ZPG
Ian Cole Chief Financial Officer, WorldRemit
Andy has been part of ZPG’s revenue growth story from £107m in 2015 to an estimated £310m in 2018, driving its market capitalisation from £800m to £2.2bn.
WorldRemit’s mission is to give people the power to share money instantly, anytime and anywhere, transitioning senders from costly offline remittances to safer, faster and lower cost online methods.
Since joining in 2016, Andy has taken the finance lead on six acquisitions and six startup partnerships, leading on several equity and debt rounds, including the firm’s first £200m public market bond raise in just eight weeks. In May 2018, ZPG was also acquired by the US PE firm Silver Lake for $3bn. Andy has been instrumental in sharing ZPG’s investor relations equity story, driving clarity internally on strategy, and in aligning the wider leadership and team to execute against that. Andy is proud of the team he’s built, developing a 40 strong finance group who can thrive in, and actively support, ZPG’s entrepreneurial environment.
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Ian is building a best in class Finance team at WorldRemit – over the last twelve months he and his team have helped over two million customers instantaneously complete more than 10 million transactions, sharing over £2bn of remittances. Ian’s philosophy of a “Positive, no surprises, financial environment focused on growth and shareholder return” has meant that during his two-year tenure annualised revenue has grown from £25m pa to over £80m pa – with even greater acceleration in 2018 and an IPO on the horizon.
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Fiona Greiner Chief Financial Officer, MATCHESFASHION
Juan García Braschi Chief Financial Officer, Cabify
Michael Bannon Chief Financial Officer, Improbable
As CFO, Fiona was integral to the sale of MATCHESFASHION to Apax Partners for $1bn in 2017 and ran the diligence process for MATCHESFASHION. She has also owned the development and implementation of the company’s data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) tools, which are fundamental to the company’s growth plans.
As CFO, Juan has been instrumental in Cabify’s growth across the past five years. This included expanding the firm’s presence from four countries to 13 in less than six months and raising $400m in funding since April 2016.
Michael is Improbable’s CFO, overseeing the company’s financial strategy. He joined Improbable after spending over 10 years as an investor at TPG Capital, a global private investment firm with over $70bn of assets under management.
His finance team designed a process and led allocation of funds to each business area or geographical region based on profitability and ROI ratios, and pushed the teams in charge to improve on those ratios.
Soon after joining as CFO, Michael played a key role in the successful completion of Improbable’s $502m Series B in May 2017.
She is proud of helping investors understand why the company is so special, and in the finance team’s ability to prove it with data as well. The firm has seen strong top line growth, is managing that growth profitably, and hitting its KPIs.
Juan also played a key role in setting-up a transportation company in Spain, attracting €100m investment and hiring a management team across late 2017/early 2018, in acquiring Easy Taxi in April 2016, and consolidating the industry in Latin America.
Leading the finance team, Michael has worked to ensure that Improbable is able to manage and deploy its funds effectively to make the best hires, build its SpatialOS platform and develop an ecosystem around its technology.
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Excellence in General Management WINNER
Our nominees in General Management span crypto currencies to dating. What they all have in common is they have navigated their organisation through growth, complexity and disruption.
Pascal Gauthier President, Ledger
Ariane Gorin President, Expedia Partner Solutions
Through its raising of a $75m Series B – led by Draper Esprit – Ledger has become the best funded crypto start-up in history. Pascal was instrumental in advising the business through this – keeping its foundations strong, reinforcing its existing resilience, and maintaining a clear view of Ledger’s objectives and ambitions.
Ariane manages Expedia’s B2B technology solution, Expedia Partner Solutions (EPS). EPS’ mission is to unlock the power of the Expedia Group for its partners. EPS works with businesses across a wide range of travel verticals, including some of the world’s biggest companies, from United® and Norwegian Air Shuttle to Despegar and Traveloka.
Pascal’s primary role is now to build on this funding by getting the company organised, including hiring a world-class team (he has recruited over 120 people in the last 18 months) that can properly handle the complexity of Ledger’s software/hardware offering. Pascal sees his role as essentially ‘future-proofing’ Ledger – retaining its revolutionary nature while giving it the strategic roadmap, and capabilities, necessary for evolutionary scaling.
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Since 2014, the business has focused on growth segments, invested in new platforms and re-engineered its go to market model. Ariane has been central to driving this, as she believes in empowering her team to be at their best. Expedia’s partner business has been one of its fastest growing areas and is recognised by CEO Mark Okerstrom as one of Expedia Group’s key growth drivers.
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Eamon Jubbawy Co-founder, Onfido
Sarah Harvey Head of UK, Square
Cherry Freeman Co-founder, LoveCrafts
With its products now seeing use amongst major blue-chip clients – such as BBVA, with two additional global banks launching soon – Onfido has grown 4x in the last 12 months.
Square was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has been active in the UK since March 2017. Sarah joined the business in 2016 to prepare for and drive the launch, and in that time has built a team to approaching 40 people.
Cherry has led three rounds of fundraising with a Series C in April 2017 securing £26m of investment. She then transitioned from her role managing finance and marketplace into the position of COO where she has taken responsibility for marketing, retail and operations.
Leading all executive hiring at Onfido, Eamon has been at the centre of the company’s recent management build-out – which has seen a CPO, CRO, and CFO brought on board, and which will soon include a further two C-suite executives. This has mirrored the growth of Onfido’s wider team, which has opened New York, Singapore, and Delhi offices in the last 12 months. Adding to this, Eamon says that Onfido has been able to maintain a tight-knit working culture throughout this growth phase.
Sarah oversees a range of business functions including Sales & Marketing, business development and strategy, as well industry relations. Sarah and her team are focused on bringing card payment technology to the 3.7 million small businesses that do not currently take cards. In the first year of trading, 75% of the businesses that signed up for Square were from outside of the capital, demonstrating how card payments could help to revitalise small business communities up and down the country.
She has delivered significant improvements in customer experience which have reduced customer contacts by over a third. In parallel she has overseen a focus on profitability which has delivered a four-fold increase in trading margins since November last year.
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Excellence in Digital Transformation WINNER
Our leaders in Digital Transformation are changing organisations on a different scale. They are creating new experiences and products that engage huge customer bases like never before.
Patrick Miceli MD, Group TV & Digital Platforms, Sky
David Devany MD Online, Iceland
In the last 18 months, Patrick is particularly proud of the successful launch of the Sky OTT platform across Europe. He had end-to-end responsibility for its roll-out to the UK, Italy and Germany, including strategy, team and org design. A streaming platform was built in-house to scale globally with the ability to reach a broadcast level of quality through IP.
Under David’s leadership, Iceland has become the UK’s fastest-growing online grocer. Since his start, year-on-year growth has increased up to 60%, outperforming all other grocers in the sector by a considerable margin.
Patrick was also pivotal in the launch of Sky Q, a new Box generation, which was rolled out in the UK in 2017 and in Italy and Germany in 2018, with features such as fluid multi-screen viewing, voice command and personalised, algorithmic recommendations. Patrick is in charge of a large engineering software team (1600 software developers) and recently drove a deep reorganisation of the Technology team, improving the professionalism and talent across the functions.
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The team has grown significantly under David’s direction and his success in revolutionising Iceland’s online product has been celebrated by several notable industry-recognised bodies, including Which?, Good Housekeeping, IGD and the Golden Grocer, who each named Iceland ‘Best Online Supermarket’. David’s strong leadership and visionary approach has inspired the team to reach for the top and achieve consistently high results in a challenging online market.
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Tom Bureau CEO, Immediate Media Co.
Sigga Sigurdardottir Chief Customer & Innovation Officer, UK, Santander
Paulette Rowe MD, Barclaycard Payment Solutions, Barclays
Despite a decade at the helm of media companies, Tom says that the past 18 months have been the most exciting. Exponent Private Equity sold Immediate Media in a valuable exit of £270m at the beginning of 2017 after a competitive sales process.
In just under three years at Santander UK, Sigga has built a digital transformation division into a strategic and fully operational function that constantly challenges the bank to think differently about the needs of its customers.
Paulette and team were responsible for a record £250bn of card traffic in 2017, with Barclaycard now processing one in three of all UK card payments. As the second largest European acquirer, Paulette has been at the forefront of many recent innovations, including the rollout of contactless payments across the TfL tube and bus network.
Tom and his team have taken a heritage business, invested in technology and digital capabilities, and created a completely different platform. The company has grown to 1,300 staff and had 2017 revenues of £210m. Tom has created the right cultural environment to make that a success. He is also proud of the teams he’s built around him, often by hiring people with the right skills from adjacent industries.
Her leadership and influence can be seen in the impact she has had on how Santander now better serves its customers, approaches collaboration and achieves the level of agility needed to successfully innovate. Alongside implementing a new governance structure for innovation, she is also driving the bank’s FinTech strategy and end to end digital processes. More broadly, Sigga plays an important role in shaping and supporting the future of the FinTech ecosystem, sitting on the senior steering committee for the FinTech workstream at the Financial Services Trade and Investment Board.
Since joining, Paulette has repositioned the business from a traditional processor of f2f payments via in-store terminals to a business offering omnichannel services to some of the biggest names in retail. Paulette was responsible for a transformation programme in which Barclaycard Payment Solutions become the first scale acquirer to successfully migrate its entire portfolio of customers to a new acquiring platform in 2017. In response to the unprecedented level of innovation and change, Paulette has also rolled-out a wellbeing programme, Thrive, helping colleagues focus on self-care and better manage their work-life balance. DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 25
Rising Star WINNER
Digital Masters Awards have always been about celebrating the individual. Our new category for 2018, Rising Star, shines a light on the next generation of leaders, through their sheer drive and innovation in their respective fields and companies.
Alice Delahunt
Helder Dias Ribeiro VP Engineering, Farfetch
Throughout her time at Burberry, Alice led the global Digital Marketing team, Social Media team and Brand team.
Farfetch has grown enormously over the past 18 months, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Helder’s Engineering function. This has grown from one to five engineering offices, and from 210 to 560 internal engineers.
Chief Digital Officer, Ralph Lauren & Former Global Director, Digital & Social Marketing, Burberry
As Global Director of Digital Marketing, she drove Burberry’s digital strategies across Burberry.com, 20 Social Media accounts with 50M+ fans, Email, SEO, Messaging apps and Innovation. This included partnering with leading digital platforms such as Google, Snap and Tencent, as well as innovating with new technologies such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. Alice joined Ralph Lauren in April 2018 in the newly created role of Chief Digital Officer. She reports to the CEO and is responsible for elevating the company’s global digital platforms and enhancing the digital experience for consumers across all channels to drive consumer acquisition, retention, value and revenue.
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This expansion has driven, and will continue to drive, the continuous developments in tech – across all areas, including architecture and data – that Helder sees as key to Farfetch’s success. When organisations scale the way that Farfetch has, Helder sees it as necessary to ‘throw away the rulebook’ – creating the sort of rapid iterations that have, for example, driven a 30% increase in commitment delivery rates.
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Chad West Head of Marketing & Communications, Revolut
Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado Alice Newton-Rex Head of Growth, VP Product, Ebury WorldRemit
Revolut is one of Europe’s fastest growing FinTech companies, becoming a Unicorn in two and a half years, having not spent any money on marketing.
Ebury has achieved exceptional growth over the last year. With 50% revenue growth, 60% staff growth (from 380 to c.630), and eight new offices, Ebury’s place in the FT’s 1000 Fastest Growing Companies – for both 2017 and 2018 – seems well-deserved.
Chad joined the company in 2017 to drive brand awareness and growth. He set his own strategy to build a community of excited and engaged customers. Chad sees Revolut as the ‘rebels of finance’, taking on the corporate banks with loud stunts, humanising content and using emotional marketing via gifs and emojis. Chad has put the customer first in Revolut’s approach, polling new product names and organising local events which has led to the customers becoming their main marketing source; they share their experiences and engage with the ‘Rev Academy’, a blog Chad created to break down financial jargon for people from any demographic to relate to.
Playing a major part in these achievements has been Ebury’s Growth team, which Juan assembled around 18 months ago, and which has underpinned the company’s growing revenue. More directly, he has introduced cutting-edge data tools to significantly improve customer conversion rates, put in place new processes and frameworks to accelerate scalability, and helped achieve a successful product and geographical expansion into new emerging markets. Going forward, Juan looks to continue enabling Ebury to scale while maintaining its productivity and social impact. Juan is looking to continue to expand the company’s CSR programme - which he helped built out, alongside his own function over the last 18 months.
WorldRemit has grown annual revenue by 50% in the past year and raised Series C funding. As leader of the firm’s product organisation, Alice has been central to these efforts. 2018 has also seen Alice and team expand WorldRemit’s product set beyond international money transfer for the first time; For example, this included a new mobile wallet for Africa. Alice joined WorldRemit as their first product manager four years ago, and went on to build the product and design teams from scratch, which have doubled over the past 18 months. In this time, she has established a customerfocused approach to product development and has helped the company make use of the best of new technology including applying advanced machine learning techniques to fraud. WorldRemit now operates in 150 countries and Alice travels a lot to speak to users on the ground. Over the next few years, she will work on broader strategy and help the company move towards an IPO. DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 27
CEO of the Year WINNER
Of all of the categories, CEO of the Year was the most hotly contested. During the judging process, everyone on our shortlist was a worthy winner through growth, pivoting their organisation, entering new markets or achieving incredible valuations.
Demetra Pinsent CEO, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Justin Basini CEO & Co-founder, ClearScore
In the last 18 months, Demetra has been heavily involved in building out a strong C-suite team to shoulder the next phase of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty’s growth. This involved and onboarding a COO, CMO, CTO and CFO, alongside commercial leads for North America, UK & Middle East, Europe and APAC.
ClearScore has been difficult to miss in recent months – its £275m sale to Experian has made headlines, particularly given the relative youth of the business: the figure comes out to around £11.4m of company value per month of operation.
Demetra was instrumental in securing investment from US-based Sequoia Capital, and been critical in expanding distribution into the Middle East. This involved the opening of two stores in Kuwait and Doha and launching the brand in Hong Kong in partnership with Lane Crawford. The brand has achieved global reach in record time. She is particularly proud of the in-house technology team assembled in 6 months to further enable the company’s ambitious digital agenda.
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Driving this valuation, Justin has led the company through true user scale – the company has more than doubled its active user base in the last 18 months to 6.5m users in the UK, generating over 2.2m active monthly users. In parallel, Justin has developed a world class team of 180 people across four continents. Justin highlights the company’s success in South Africa: working alongside the CFO and a Chief of Staff, and shielding the rest of the business from any disruption, Justin built ClearScore’s Johannesburg team, which quickly evolved into a 400k user business, from scratch.
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RUNNER UP
Ulric Jerome CEO, MATCHESFASHION
Jeronimo Folgueira CEO, Spark Networks
Jason Stockwood Group CEO, Simply Business
Over the last five years, MATCHESFASHION have transformed from a buying and merchandising oriented company – making all of its sales in-store – to a global online organisation which now carries out 95% of it’s business online. In the same period, it has moved from being largely national to be truly international, with around 82% of transactions originating outside the UK: the United States now has MATCHESFASHION’s largest customer base.
Jeronimo became the youngest European CEO of a NYSE listed company when Spark Networks SE (LOV) went public in November last year. He prepared for a successful merger, and subsequent IPO, in only six months, which saw Affinitas merge with Spark Networks. Share price has increased 50% in the first six months of trading.
Jason is scaling a successful business and doing so in a “people first” way. Two recent awards are proof of this: first, Simply Business won a B Corporation certification for its environmental and social performance; and second, Jason won overall Best Leader at the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For awards, voted for by his own employees. These are in addition to winning the Best Company award back to back in 2015/16.
Ulric credits this, to a significant degree, to the company’s creation of an impressive team – now standing at around 900, up dramatically from 120 five years ago. In particular, Ulric stresses that he has embedded in this expanded team a powerful set of organisational skills – allowing it to undergo the sort of scale it has experienced without losing momentum.
Key to this success is how Jeronimo prepared the team for the transition. He instilled the mindset of being a ‘tech-first company’, invested in technologies in-house and hired a top-class management team whilst maintaining the young, international, entrepreneurial culture. The company now has over 300 employees worldwide, with 220 in Berlin. Jeronimo, from a corporate financial background, is hugely driven by results. He has taken the company through two acquisitions, doubled revenues and their overall performance is outstanding.
He has written a book – due out in September – that explains how he thinks capitalism should evolve and how executives should lead businesses successfully in the next 50 years. This involves putting people first, focus on building trust and embedding a culture of experimentation. Jason has also ensured that all employees benefit from the growth of Simply Business by everyone being a shareholder and receiving payouts with each of the three transactions in the last five years.
DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 29
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Job Title
Company
Name
Mark Allcock
Chief Innovation Officer
10x Banking
Yale Varty
Marketing Director
Joy McCormack
Director, Board Development
3i Group
Dan Hynes
Partner & Head of Talent
Simon Cole
CEO
7digital
Simon Lloyd
CMO
Duncan Grierson
Senior Venture Partner
Rafael Herrera
Chief Data Officer
AUTO1 Group
Andrei Brasoveanu
Principal
Accel Partners
Niv Liran
Chief Product Officer
AUTO1 Group
Seth Pierrepont
Investor
Accel Partners
Andrew Brem
Chief Digital Officer
Andrei Brasoveanu
Principal
Accel Partners
Andy Edge
Chief Commercial Officer
Harry Nelis
Partner
Accel Partners
Michael Kent
CEO & Founder
Karthik Srivats
Co-founder
Ahauz
Chad Jennings
Chief Experience Officer
Babylon Health
JoĂŁo Rocha
Co-founder
Ahauz
Gary Mudie
CTO & COO
Babylon Health
Andrius Sutas
CEO & Co-founder
AimBrain
Rabin Yaghoubi
Former Chief Commercial Officer
Babylon Health
Olivier Buffon
Head of Business Operations EMEA
Airbnb
Stephen Dando
Operating Partner
Bain Capital
Hadi Moussa
Head of EMEA Partnerships
Airbnb
Melissa Bethell
Senior Advisor
Bain Capital
Ed Lascelles
Partner
Rosaleen Blair CBE
CEO & Founder
7percent Ventures
Albion Capital Group
Job Title
Company ASOS Atomico Auden
Aviva Away Resorts Azimo
Daniel Waterhouse
General Partner
Alexander Mann Solutions
Paulette Rowe
MD, Barclaycard Payment Solutions
AllBright
Daniel Winner
EVP Digital Partnerships, Ventures & Innovation
Harsh Mehta
Principal
Debbie Wosskow OBE Co-founder Suzanne Egleton
Global Digital Director
Anne Glover
CEO
AllSaints
Amit Gairola
GM, Europe, Amazon Lending
Amazon
James Moore
GM, Music Tickets
Amazon
Juliet Warkentin
Director, Marketing, Amazon Fashion
Amazon
Andrew Milburn
Director, Global Digital Product Management
Maurice Helfgott
Executive Chairman
Andy Chung
Europe Lead
Stuart Collingwood
GM, EMEA
Rohit Agarwal
VP & GM, AOL Media, Europe
Rita Clifton
NED
Amadeus Capital Partners
Balderton Barclaycard BBC Worldwide BC Partners
Sean McDonald
Chief Commercial Officer
Alex Stephany
CEO & Founder
Beam
Seb Barker
COO
Beam
Julian Keenaghan
Head of Engineering
Beam
Iain Sawbridge
Chief Marketing & Digital Content Officer
Beano
Paul Miller
CEO
AngelList
Harry Briggs
Former Partner
BGF Ventures
Anki, Inc.
Simon Calver
Partner
BGF Ventures
AOL
Aron Gelbard
CEO & Co-founder
Bloom & Wild
Phill Burton
COO
Bloom & Wild
American Express Amery Capital
ASOS
bd4travel
Bethnal Green Ventures
DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 31
Name
Job Title
Company Bloomon
Name
Job Title
Koen Thijssen
MD & Founder
Sitar Teli
Partner
Candice Lo
Partner
Blossom Capital
Kim Stringer
HR Consultant
Brett O’Farrell
Venture Partner
Blossom Capital
Allan Stewart
Chief Strategy Officer
Simon Guild
Chairman
Boilerjuice
Todd Latham
CMO & Head of Product
Bruce Macinnes
Chairman
BrandAlley UK
Shachar Bialick
CEO & Founder
Giles Palmer
CEO
Brandwatch
Tim Barker
CEO
Breed Reply
Company Connet Ventures Crimson HR Croud Currency Cloud Curve DataSift
Carrie Babcock
Investment Manager
Naz Ozertugrul
Investor
Sara Murray OBE
CEO & Founder
Buddi
Thea Rogers
VP Global Communications & Policy
Deliveroo
Bernhard Niesner
Co-CEO & Founder
busuu
CTO
busuu
Director of Corporate Strategy & Development
Deliveroo
Rob Elkin
Alberto Menolascina
Juan García Braschi
CFO
Cabify
Vince Darley
VP Growth
Deliveroo
Michele Swaine
Director, Product Development
Robert Miller
Chief Legal Officer
Deliveroo
Mark Hipperson
CTO
Julian Elliott
Chief Data Officer
Dentsu Aegis Network
Vinay Solanki
Head of Commercial Growth Fund
Elly Hardwick
Head of Innovation
Deutsche Bank
Harminder Matharu
Global Performance Marketing Director
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Matt Heiman
MD & Founder
Diagonal View
Mark Roden
Chairman
Dhruv Kumar
CTO
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
David Shackleton
CEO
Ding
Demetra Pinsent
CEO
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Sean Cornwell
CEO
Direct Ferries
Maya Moufarek
CMO
ChemistDirect
Luca Marini
Commercial Director
Direct Ferries
Gary Dannatt
CFO
ChemistDirect
Danuta Gray
NED
Direct Line
Kate Miller
Chief Commercial Officer
City Pantry
Ian Marsh
Principal
DN Capital
Omid Ashtari
President & Head of Business
Citymapper
Oliver Thomas
CEO
Tanya Cordrey
NED
Clarks
Brian Caulfield
Venture Partner
Draper Esprit
Guy Buckley-Sharp
CFO
ClearScore
Angela Crouch
MD UK
DreamCloud
Justin Basini
CEO & Co-founder
ClearScore
Gianluca Carrera
Chief Solutions Officer
dunnhumby
Andy Sleigh
Chief Commercial Officer
ClearScore
Ian Cairns
Customer Director
Martin Tynan
Senior HR Director, EMEA & APAC
Chris Bunch
Head of Europe
Juan Manuel Quesada Delgado
Head Of Corporate Development & Growth
Thomas Allder
CMO
CMME
David Ewing
Partner
ECI Partners
Jason Powell
CEO
CMME
Alston Zecha
Director
Eight Roads Ventures
Brett Haylock
Product Director
CNN
Michael Stephanblome
Investor & Venture Partner
Eight Roads Ventures
comparethemarket.com
Elisabeth Ling
SVP Product Analytics, Research
Jesper With-Fogstrup COO 32 p DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018
Camelot Group Centtrip Channel 4
Cloudera Cloudreach
Delin Capital
Ding
Doctify
easyJet Ebury
Elsevier
Name
Job Title
Company
Name
Job Title
Company
Guy Halfhead
COO
eMoov
Nic Brisbourne
Managing Partner
Russell Quirk
CEO & Founder
eMoov
Joe Krancki
Partner
Joe Steele
CEO
Encore Tickets
Steve Green
VP Product
Funding Circle
Episode 1 Ventures
Forward Partners Frog Capital
Simon Murdoch
Managing Partner
Cathy Calver
VP Marketing
Donna Darthuizen
Advisory Board Member
Jonathan Zatland
Chief Commercial Officer
Huw Lloyd
Chief Strategy Officer
Mariano Albera
CTO, EAN
Alex Platts
Commercial Director
Barbara Rauber
Senior Associate
Exponent Private Equity
Christoph Barchewitz Co-CEO
Global Fashion Group
David McGovern
Director
Exponent Private Equity
Romain Voog
Former CEO
Global Fashion Group
Joanna Santinon
Tax Partner
EY
Nicola Anderson
VP Marketing
GoCardless
Richard Goold
Partner, Head of Tech Law
EY
George Berkowski
Chief Product Officer
GoCompare
Justin Prichard
Partner, TMT Corporate Finance
EY
Jackson Hull
COO
GoCompare
Guy Carr
Partner
EY
Faisal Galaria
Chief Strategy & Investment Officer
GoCompare
Brad Little
Group Head of FMCG, Entertainment & Automotive
Filippo Bonsanti
VP Marketing
Julien Codorniou
VP Workplace
William Reeve
CEO
Antonio Gulli
Site & Engineering Director
Acacio Cruz
Engineering Director
Kate Butler
Head of Leadership Recruitment EMEA
FarePilot
Yasmina Brihi
Senior Director, Marketing EMEA
Farfetch
Michael Farry
VP People
Gousto
Kyle McGinn Director, Product Management, Workplace John Pearson
Chairman
Jason Rees
CEO
Darryl Bowman
CMO
Funding Circle
eporta
Layla Kidwai
Director, Global Talent Acquisition
Funding Circle
eRetail Europe
Josef Gatzek
Group CFO
Get Your Guide
Eve Sleep
Kim Faura
Chief Commercial Officer
giffgaff
Everseen
Mike Fairman
CEO
giffgaff
Expedia
Anna Bance
CEO & Founder
Expedia
Nils Chrestin
CFO
Facebook Bought By Many
Girl Meets Dress Global Fashion Group
GoEuro Goodlord
Helder Dias Ribeiro
VP Engineering
Tom Betts
Chief Data Officer
Financial Times
Claudio Alvarez
Partner
Cait O’Riordan
Chief Product & Information Officer
Financial Times
Graham Bosher
NED & Co-founder
Graze
Mark Wood
Former CTO
Graze
Emily Walker
Executive Talent
Fixter
Ross Priestley
Commercial Director
FJ Labs
David Pemsel
CEO
Garreth Griffith
Chief of Staff
Inken Braunschmidt
Chief Innovation & Digital Officer
Robert Whiteside
VP Global Sales
Firefly Learning
Steve Crossan
Venture Partner
firstminute capital
Frédéric Dermer
Chief Product Officer & Co-founder
Jose Marin
Co-founder
Sean Gilchrist Digital Transformation Foreign & Commonwealth Lead Office
GP Bullhound
Greylock Partners Group IMD Guardian Media Group Habito Halma plc
DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 33
Name
Job Title
Company Hambro Perks
Name
Job Title
Company
Kate Burns
CEO, Media Tech
Michael Elalouf
CFO
iwoca
Paul Cassar
Chief Digital Officer, Hearst Magazines UK
Hearst
Seema Desai
Head of People
iwoca
Megumi Ikeda
GM & MD, Hearst Ventures Europe
Hearst
Harry Powell
Director, Corporate Analytics
Claire Davenport
CEO, UK
Jedidiah Francis
Director
Jed.ai Labs
Stan Laurent
Partner
Sophie Birshan
Head of Retail Analytics & Insight
John Lewis
Jacky Wright
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Ben Carter
Marketing Director, UK
Christian Saller
General Partner
Roisin Donnelly
NED
Just Eat
Narek Verdian
Senior Director, Technology
Anthony Eskinazi
CEO & Founder
JustPark
Kristof Fahy
Chief Customer Officer
Anna Gudmundson
Strategic Advisor
Adam Jay
SVP, Product & Global Marketing
Marek Fodor
Chairman
Linda Grant
Chairman
Ben Verwaayen
Partner
Keen Venture Partners
Ana Harris
International People Services
Tracy DorĂŠe
Partner
Kindred Capital
Rob Kniaz
Partner
Chris Bischoff
Senior Investment Director
Mike Warriner
Digital Chief Innovation Officer
HSBC
John Maton
Chief Data Officer
HSBC
Reginald Warlop
Global Head of Digital, Wealth Management
HSBC
Jan Miczaika
Partner
Rafaele Petruzzo
NED
iBe TSE
David Devany
MD, Online
Iceland
Vince Smith
Partner
Anton Bell
CMO
Matt Hooper
SVP Global Marketing
Michael Bannon
CFO
Dominic Jacquesson
Director, Talent
Index Ventures
Martin Mignot
Partner
Index Ventures
Ricardo Pereira
Partner
inProp Capital
Caroline Drucker
Strategic Partnerships EMEA
Robert Swerling
COO
Mikko Hietanen
Chairman
Paul Kanareck
MD, Online
Christoph Rieche
CEO & Founder
HelloFresh Highland Europe HM Revenue & Customs Holtzbrinck Ventures HomeAway Hostelworld Group Hotels.com HouseSimple.com Houzz Hoxton Ventures
HV Holtzbrinck Ventures
Iceni Capital iGaming Analytics IMImobile Improbable
Investec Corporate & Institutional Bank
34 p DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018
Io-Tahoe ITV iwoca
Lucian Schoenefelder Director Demetrios Zoppos
Executive Chairman
Simon Davies
CEO & Founder
Anna Fredrixon
Head of HR
Sergio Dias
Partner
Jaguar Land Rover
Just Eat
Kanani London Kantox
Kinnevik KKR Klevio Krowd9 KRY L1 Retail
Michael Casey
Senior Partner
L1 Retail
Manu Gupta
General Partner
Lakestar
Dharmash Mistry
General Partner
Lakestar
Manu Gupta
General Partner
Tony Gill
Global Chief Data Officer
Angelie Panteli
CFO
Ben Brabyn
CEO
Alex Mowle
Global Talent Director
Tara Reeves
Partner
Lakestar Lebara Mobile LendInvest Level39 Liberty Global LocalGlobe
Suzanne Partner Ashman Blair
LocalGlobe
Saul Klein
General Partner & Co-founder
LocalGlobe
Andrew Shapin
CEO
Cherry Freeman
Co-founder
Long Tall Sally LoveCrafts
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Job Title
Company
Edward Griffith
CEO & Founder
Jose Ojeda
COO
Lyst
Chris Morton
CEO & Co-founder
Lyst
Annabel Jack
Chief Commercial Officer
Robert Weston
Global Brand & Marketing Director
Fiona Greiner
CFO
Christoph Homann
Corporate VP Digital
Dr Caroline Hargrove Acting CTO
LoveCrafts
MADE.COM Marks & Spencer MATCHESFASHION McDonald’s
McLaren Applied Technologies MediaCom
Name
Job Title
Company
Damaris Chief People Officer Anderson-Supple
NewDay
Darren Cairns
CMO
Neyber
Jennifer Boulanger
Director, Talent Acquisition EMEA
Barry Smith
Chairman & Co-founder
Paul Murphy
Partner
Northzone
Christopher Steinau
Entrepreneur
Northzone
Justin Cooke
Venture Partner
Northzone
Matt Kennedy
Investment Manager
Northzone
Michiel Kotting
Partner
Northzone
Jess Taylor
People Director
notonthehighstreet.com
Darren Shapland
Chairman
notonthehighstreet.com
Nike Noah Media Group
Deirdre Mcglashan
Chief Digital Officer
Andrew Graham
NED
Mediatonic Games
Feargal Mooney
NED
Meetingsbooker.com
Tracy Maraj
Chief HR Officer
MeteoGroup
Martin Stead
CEO
Nutmeg
Jane Thompson
NED
Michael Kors
Katie Prentke English CMO
Nutmeg
Judy Gibbons
NED
Michael Kors
Neil Alexander
CFO
Nutmeg
Bruce Macfarlane
Managing Partner
Julie Haugen
Chief Product Officer
Tobin Ireland
Partner
MMC Ventures Mobile Value Partners
Natalie Board Director Hugh Tydeman
Modern Times Group
Myles Stephenson
CEO
Modulr
Scott Gallacher
Chief Commercial Officer
Moneyfarm
Neil Brettell Chief Commercial Moneysupermarket Group plc Officer MoneySuperMarket Group plc
Briony Garbett
Customer Director
Simon Thompson
Chief Product Officer
Alex Macpherson
Chairman
Octopus Ventures
Alan Cairns
Venture Partner
Octopus Ventures
Nader Khosrovani
Product & Growth Marketing Director
Oddschecker
Amy Miller
Director, Digital Product and Technology UK&I
ODEON & UCI Cinemas
Henri Moissinac
Head of Business Development, EMEA
Chris Webster
COO & MD
Sarah Drinkwater
Director, Tech & Society Solutions Lab
Oliver Garner
Chief International Officer
Ellie Romer-Lee
VP People
Mark Lewis
CEO
Chi Evi-Parker
Marketing & Digital Director
Rowena Knapp
Chief of Staff
MOO
Nick Ruotolo
COO
MOO
Toby Coppel
Partner & Co-founder
Cristina Sagarduy
VP Performance Marketing
Justine Roberts CBE
MD & Co-founder
Mumsnet
Eamon Jubbawy
Co-founder
Nell Boase
Chief Product Officer
Mumsnet
Ylan Steiner
Partner
Andrea Pattico
Chief People Officer
Brendan Hegarty
Commercial Director
Louise Rogers
NED
Nick Perrett
MD
Monica Vinader
Mosaic Ventures MotorK
MVF New Scientist
Oakam Oasis Ocado
Ofo Oliver Sweeney Omidyar Network On the Beach Onfido Onfido
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe OVO Energy P Ventures DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 35
Name
Job Title
Company P101
Name
Job Title
Company
Giuseppe Donvito
Partner
Tim Parsons
CFO
Vince Gunn
Former CEO
Sofa.com
Eirik Svendsen
Chief Innovation Officer
Reach plc
Ciara Smyth
Former Chief Integration Officer Paddy Power Betfair
David Grigson
Chairman
Reach plc
Jason Keane
CEO
Philip Green
CFO
Reach Robotics
Chris Wilkinson
Head of People, Talent & Culture
Paws.com
Alex Gayer
CFO
Receipt Bank
David Nefs
Growth Marketing Director
Paws.com
Henry Crawford
Director
Davide Cervellin
Director, Analytics EMEA & APAC
Daniel Robb
CMO
Rentalcars.com
Kevin Cornils
MD, International
Sharon Baylay
NED
Restore plc
Yannick Barriol
CMO
Chad West
Head of Marketing & Communications
Tara Alhadeff
Principal
Permira
Rakhi Goss-Custard
NED
Rightmove
Cheryl Potter
Partner, Head of Consumer
Permira
Guy Elliott
NED
Royal Dutch Shell
Permira
Martin Symes
Former CMO APAC
Patient
PayPal Peloton PeoplePerHour.com
Francesco De Mojana Partner
Pharmacierge
Rated People
RedKite Intelligence
Revolut
Sabre Corporation
Edward Ungar
Co-founder
Nick Goode
EVP Product
Sage
Jonathon Brown
COO
Photobox
Van Diamandakis
EVP Global Marketing
Sage
Dave Wascha
Chief Product Officer
Photobox
Alex Kayyal
Europe Head, Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce
Jo Lavender
Brand & Marketing Director
Photobox
Alex Hole
VP Samsung Ads
David Giampaolo
CEO
Pi Capital
Melissa Di Donato
Chief Revenue Officer
Daniel Fisher
MD, Europe
Playbuzz
CEO, Spain
Sean Seton-Rogers
General Partner
Estanis Martin De Nicolas Rian Liebenberg
Chief Platforms Officer
Schibsted Media Group
Jan Rutherford
Partner
Scottish Equity Partners
Gilles Despas
CEO
Phillip Luff
MD UK & EMEA
Sebastian Fallert
MD UK
Nish Kukadia
CEO
David Du Pré
Director, EMEA
Tom Wilson
Partner
PROfounders Capital
George Hadjigeorgiou Co-founder
Project Sapiens
SAP Schibsted Media Group
Daniel Gandesha
Founder
Jana Eisenstein
EVP Advertising Platform Solutions
ProSiebenSat.1
David Goggin
Chief Talent Officer
Publicis Media
Adrian Blair
NED
Purplebricks Group
Chris Wigley
COO
QuantumBlack
Mike Aspinall
CFO
Questionmark
Patrice Louvet
CEO & President
Ralph Lauren
Valeria Juarez
SVP Digital Commerce, International
Ralph Lauren
Sasha Berson
Former Executive Director, Strategy & Customer Intelligence
Howard Smith
Group President, International
Ralph Lauren
Stephen Lowery
MD, Global Markets
Alice Delahunt
Chief Digital Officer
Ralph Lauren
CEO
Rated People
Erin Platts Head of Relationship Banking, Europe
Silicon Valley Bank
Celia Francis Adrienne Minster
Chief Commercial Officer
Rated People
Simon Bumfrey
Silicon Valley Bank
36 p DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018
Property Partner
Samsung
Head of Corporate Banking
Scout24 Scripps Networks Secret Escapes Secretsales Secure Code Warrior Seedcamp Shop Direct Silicon Valley Bank
Name
Job Title
Company
Name
Job Title
Company
Cameron Jones
Chief Commercial Officer
SilverRail Technologies
Miranda Cresswell
CMO
Tails.com
Sarah McDonald
Senior Director, Commercial
SilverRail Technologies
James Davidson
CEO & Co-founder
Tails.com
Jason Stockwood
CEO
Matus Maar
Managing Partner & Co-founder
Alicia Navarro
Co-founder
Olivier Van Calster
CEO
Talmix
Gidon Katz
MD, Now TV
Sky
Gerard Grech
CEO
Tech Nation
Lyssa Mcgowan
Chief Commercial Officer, UK
Sky
Bethany Koby
CEO & Co-founder
Patrick Miceli
MD, Group TV & Digital Platforms
Sky
Tim Frankcom
Former COO
Bryan Dove
CEO
Skyscanner
Nick Hugh
CEO
Dave Thomson
Head of Product, Flights, Car Hire & New Ventures
Skyscanner
Andrew Miller
MD
Piero Sierra
VP Product
Skyscanner
Gnosoulla Chief People Officer Tsioupra-Lewis
Matt Fenby-Taylor
Senior Director, Product
Skyscanner
Eve Henrikson
Director, Online Trading
Gareth Heald
CFO
Small World FS
Chris Blaxall
CFO
Tharsus Group
Smedvig Capital
Jane Thompson
CEO
The Fusion Labs
Elen Macaskill
Global Customer Director Chairman
Simply Business Skimlinks
Talis Capital
Technology Will Save Us teemo Telegraph Media Group Terra Firma Capital Partners Telegraph Media Group Tesco plc
Jonathan Lerner
MD
Christophe Parcot
Chief Revenue Officer
Jeronimo Folgueira
CEO
Spark Networks
Tim Trotter
Michael Schrezenmaier
COO
Spark Networks
Eyabo Macauley Head of UK Sales & Partnership
The Walt Disney Company
Katarina Berg
Chief HR Officer
Spotify
Susan Standiford
COO
The ZEAL Group
Sarah Harvey
Head of UK
Square
Rachel Sheridan
Chief Commercial Officer
Anne Boden
CEO
Starling Bank
Sophie Hill
CEO & Founder
Megan Caywood
Chief Platform Officer
Starling Bank
Troy Suda
SVP Product
Lisa Rodwell
Interim Chief Brand Officer
Starling Bank
Séverine Philardeau
MD, eCommerce
Time Out
James Bilefield
Chairman COO
Global Marketing & Communications Director
Topshop
David Saenz
Sheena Sauvaire
Tim Gentry
Advisory Board Member
Anna Kuriakose
Chief Product Officer
Dylan Collins
CEO & Founder
Eric Collins
COO
Finbarr Joy
Group CTO
Antonio Capo
Partner
Sharad Rathke
Head of Corporate Finance
Carolin Krenzer
CEO & Co-founder
Noel Eves
CMO
Swoon Editions
Sophie Krishnan
GM, UK Consumer
Debbie Williamson
Co-founder
Swoon Editions
Renier Lemmens
Chairman
Tarek Zacharia
Managing Partner & Founder
James Goldhill
Director
SoLocal Group
Sthree Stuart StylePoints SuperAwesome Superbet SVG Capital
Syntegrus
The Body Shop The Up Group
Thread Threads Styling Ticketmaster
TotallyMoney.com Touch Surgery TPG Capital Trailmix Trainline TransferGo Transform, Engine Group
DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018 p 37
Name
Job Title
Company
Leigh Phillipson
Sales Director
Treatwell
Thea Fineren
Former Group Head of People
Treatwell
Glen Walker
Co-founder
Trouva
Mandeep Singh
CEO & Co-founder
Trouva
Alex Loizou
CTO & Co-founder
Trouva
Andrew Ground
CEO & Co-founder
TutorFair
Robert Hodgkinson
COO
TVPlayer
Carl Olivier
Director, Product Management
Caroline Chayot
HR Manager EMEA
Fraser Robinson
Senior Advisor
Uber
Jambu Palaniappan
Former Head of Uber Eats EMEA
Uber
Alex Gallagher
CMO
UNiDAYS
Paul Fifield
Chief Revenue Officer
UNiDAYS
Andy Meikle
Former Chief People Officer
UNiDAYS
Olivier Garel
CEO & MD
Luciana Telles
CMO
Roy Vella
MD
Christian Miccio
VP Data Product
Twilio Twitter
Unilever Ventures Uniplaces Vella Ventures VEON
Jon Gisby
Head of Europe
Ben Johnson
Partner & Co-founder
Vitruvian Partners
Will Turner
Special Partner
Vitruvian Partners
Luuk Remmen
Principal
Vitruvian Partners
Jussi Wuoristo
Partner & Co-founder
Vitruvian Partners
Thomas Studd
Partner
Vitruvian Partners
Peter Read
MD
Vitruvian Partners
Katia Walsh
Chief Global Data & Analytics Officer
Peter Ward
Co-founder
Benjamin Samuels
Director, Enterprise Sales EMEA
Christian Hernandez Managing Partner Gallardo
Vevo
Vodafone WAYN WeWork White Star Capital
Asi Sharabi
CEO & Co-founder
Wonderbly
Robert May
Chief Commercial Officer
Wonderbly
38 p DIGITAL MASTERS AWARDS 2018
Name
Job Title
Company
James Frost
Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer, UK
WorldPay
Alice Newton-Rex
VP Product
WorldRemit
Hilary Moir
Head of HR
WorldRemit
Ian Cole
Group CFO
WorldRemit
Catherine Wines
COO & Co-founder
WorldRemit
Mariano Dima
Board Director
WP Engine
Stewart Duncan
Chief Data Officer
Wrisk
Ben Poynter
CEO
Yopa
Gav Thompson
Former CMO
Yopa
Dr Florian Jodl
VP People
Jon Notley
CEO & Co-founder
Ronen Benchetrit
CTO
Christian Jennings
Group Finance Director
ZPG
Zalando Zero Deposit Zopa
Matthew Cohan
Chief Product Officer
ZPG
Lorraine Metcalf
Chief Talent Officer
ZPG
Andy Botha
CFO
ZPG
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