Chairman of Ballistra Group and currently MD of Cancom UK. Formerly Chairman of OCSL and Senior Vice President of Sales for Enterprise Services Business UK&I at Hewlett Packard Ltd. Grew Enterprise Services in the UK&I, to a $2.2 billion revenue business. Active investor in start-ups.

23 years in business consulting and senior management, leading projects for Shell, Citibank and BP. EMEA Ops leader for Hewlett Packard and consulting experience across many of the large global consulting companies. A Start-up leader and an expert in building scalable business strategies.

20 years in financial markets including corporate banking with UK Merrill lynch and extensive commercial experience across various sectors. Passionate start-up enthusiast focused on pairing new technologies with strategic enterprise partners. A driving force behind Ballistra’s commercial and investment activities.

20+ years’ experience in cyber security leadership, strategy and consulting comprising 10 years’ in senior management roles within Big 4 consultancy environments (Deloitte / KPMG). An experienced leader in cyber security with an extensive multi-sector track record in delivering performance improving, cost saving and compliance programmes. Jamie also leads our Ballistra Technologies division.

New York based, Preston has spent 20 years in Tech. Since his first role at Apple, he has helped Investors, Businesses & Founders build teams in Consumer/Tech, Sports, Hospitality, HR and Fintech, working with The Elliot Group, MSL, 7shifts, Yelp, TeamSnap, Ticketmaster, Expedia and Yahoo!

Madrid based, Mario is Founder of Demtech International and brings over 25 years of international business experience in fintech, Payments mCloud, CyberSecurity, IoT, BigData and creation of outsourced sales teams and channel partners. Delivering global scaling sales he has supported over 700 technology companies around the world to engage customers across Spain and Latin America. A Mentor and investor at VC Top Seed Labs since 2012.

With over 30 years in finance, investment and research Will has developed a global investor network. Prior roles include Head of Emerging Markets Research at HSBC where he was an award-winning technology analyst. Will’s expertise includes company valuations and investor communications.

With 30 years as a business entrepreneur, investor, advisor and connector. Engaging technologies with enterprise customers and investors, Frank has a deep network with Tier 1-and 2 organisations in France.

Gerald Janes has spent his entire career in technology, having worked at senior levels in multinationals and the public sector as well as running his own businesses. Formerly a Group CTO of a FTSE 30 company and Interim Chief Architect at one of the U.K. Government’s largest Ministries. For over 20 years Gerald has been engaged with Silicon Valley’s Venture Capital ecosystem, with a finger on the pulse of emerging technologies in the US, UK and Europe. He researches the impact of their worldwide application into enterprises, acting as a consultant, board advisor and ‘critical friend’ to a number of organisations, and a mentor to start-ups and their founders

Gil represents private and publicly traded companies, Israeli companies and foreign companies in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters in hi-tech, industry, services, defense and homeland security and various other sectors. Gil’s work includes setting up companies, corporate investments and financing, corporate governance and director and shareholder relations, joint ventures, manufacturing, sale, supply, licensing, agency, distribution and many other forms of complex commercial transactions.