Participating Company Profiles
Brandwatch is the world’s leading social intelligence company. The company’s flagship products, Brandwatch Analytics and the Vizia platform, fuel smarter decision making around the world. The Brandwatch Analytics plat- form gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them, em- powering the world’s most admired brands and agencies to make insightful, data-driven business decisions. The Vizia platform distributes visually-engaging insights to the physical places where the action happens. The Brandwatch platform is used by over 1,200 brands and agencies, including Unilever, American Airlines, Whirl- pool, Asos, Walmart, British Airways, and Dell. Brandwatch continues on its impressive business trajectory, recently named a global leader in enterprise social listening platforms by the latest reports from several inde- pendent research firms.
Sovereign House Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1UJ UK
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Giles Palmer
Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company. He started Brandwatch after leaving BSkyB in late 2005. Since its launch in August 2007, Brandwatch has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media monitoring companies, serving business across the globe for FTSE 100 companies to SMEs. His goal for the company is to help organizations find and engage with online conversations that matter. Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
At Brightpearl, we love retail and we’re on a mission to help omnichannel retailers be the best they can be. Over 1,200 small and medium-sized retailers, in 26 countries, use Brightpearl to automate their back-office process- es, freeing up their time to deliver great products and customer service. We manage more than 10m transac- tions and over $3b of business per year via our cloud-based retail platform, and we’re growing fast. We inte- grate with all the major e-commerce storefronts and marketplaces enabling us to get retailers up and running in half the time it takes the competition. Brightpearl is headquartered in Bristol, UK with offices in San Francisco and Austin, USA.
New Bond House, Bond St, Bristol, Glous BS29AG UK
Chief Executive Officer, Derek O'Carroll
Derek has a successful track record of creating value in the technology sector both as an entrepreneur and working in the corporate sector returning growth to underperforming businesses. Derek joined Brightpearl in May 2016 from Symantec, where he held numerous leadership positions over the past 10 years across their Enterprise, Small Business and Consumer divisions. Most recently, he served as SVP of field sales and marketing for Norton, responsible for $1.7bn of revenue globally. From 2006 to 2012 Derek ran the security practice for Symantec in EMEA. He established a team of 120 security professionals and was responsible for the successful business integration of information security acquisitions, including KVS, Vontu, Altiris, Verisign, PGP and Bindview. Derek joined Symantec through the acquisition of IM Logic.
From smart devices to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business hap- pens. CARTO is the platform that turns location data into better behavioral marketing, optimized delivery routes, strategic store placements and maximized assets. We are leading the Location Intelligence revolution. Every- one, from data scientists to business analysts, use our open, cloud software to understand where things hap- pen, why they happen and predict what will happen in the future
201 Moore Street Brooklyn, NY 11206 USA
Chief Operating Officer, Miguel Arias
Miguel Arias, COO, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach. His expertise encompasses tasks and challenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations. As COO at CARTO, he is currently leading the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid and NY offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up. He loves to teach and share experiences as a startup mentor, advisor, and entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School. Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.
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