Founder Institute Mentors

London Spring 2024

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the London program below.

Mentors

Aaron Johnston

Co-Founder and CEO, Kintell Limited

Abdellah Aouf

Chief Executive Officer, GO Platform

Abhinav Jain

Co-Founder and CEO, PowerMarket

Abhishek Jain

Director, Napbooks Private Limited

Adam Spector

CEO & Founder, levy

Adam Winograd

Senior Brand Marketing Manager, Fiverr

Adam Barlow

Head of Operations, Landscape Investments

Adeo Ressi

CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab

Afzaal Mauthoor

Senior Partner, Profoundly

Ajit Jain

Senior Manager , OWN

Alex Canning

Solicitor, Russell Cooke

Alex Tzukerman

CPO, eConsult Health

Alex Sandwell

Solicitor, Fladgate LLP

Alex Mc Pherson

Founder, Ignition Law

Alexander Swaab

Senior Program Manager, Btomorrow Ventures

Alexandra Di Nella

Partner, Productwise Talent

Alexandra Hamilton

Associate Solicitor, Russell Cooke

Ali Jehangir Siddiqui

FI Mentor

Aline Hemmo

Consultant, Pilsoft

Aliya Nur Babul

Venture Partner, Global Millennial Capital

Alon David

Product Group Director at Fiverr, Fiverr

Amelia Santos

Co-Founder, Innuos

Ana Iorga

CEO, Buyer Brain

Ana Bakalinova

Head of International Product , BBC

Andrea Ramoino

Managing Director, Electronic Money Business, Solaris

Andrew Lockley

Investor and Strategy Consultant, Andrew Lockley

Andrew Osipov

Founder & CEO, Visual Craft

Andrew Davidson

Angel Investor, Self

Andrew Sears

Senior Associate, Seedrs

Andrii Seleznov

Founder, Petiole

Andy Willers

Co-Founder, fulfat

Andy Cox

Co-Founder & Tech Recruiter, Tech4

Angela Bradbury

Founder, Chime Advisors

Anishka Prasad

Head of Strategy & Operations. , Future VC

Anjali Westwood

Founder, Maternia Care

Anthony Rose

Founder & CEO, SeedLegals

Anthony Calpas

Managing Partner, Karukera Capital

Antony Kagoo

Head of Innovation, Communications, Media and Information Services Industry - UK, I & EU, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Antony Turner

Freelance Program Director & COO | Dragoman in the age of AI, FI Mentor

Arcui Usoara

Founder/CEO, Iaculus

Arnaud Saint Paul

Founder, Give Labs

Aron Lajko

FI Mentor

Ash Ali

CMO- Angel Investor- Mentor - Advisor- I Care (about founders), CO-founder of Uhubs - Author of "The Unfair Advantage"

Ashish Dhanda

Co Founder, Alexander Rosse

Ashish Kumar Mittal

VP Product, Founder, Investor, Ex-Zalando, N26, Flipkart, Open Bank

Ashu Savani

Co-Founder, TryHackMe

Assim Ishaque

Co-Director, Founder Institute Midlands, Director, The Entrepreneurs Trust

Aveem Alvi

FI Mentor

Azita O'Shaughnessy

Managing Director, Accounts Haven Ltd

Becky Kingham

Head of Digital Trading and Merchandising, Sky UK

Ben Alderton

Founder & CEO, Solo60

Bernadine Bröcker

CEO , Arcual

Bernard Chanliau

Growth Strategist / Business Coach , BC Team Coaching Ltd

Brian Proffitt

Partner, Disruptive Capital Finance

Callum Quirk

Campaigns Associate, Seedrs

Can Cihan

Mr, Telefonica

Carlo Tommasino

Vice President of Operations & Expansion, Feedr.co

Caroline Mcqueen

FI Grad, Syntillate Ltd

Cassius Kiani

Founder & Head of Product , Mora.com

Charles Goguet

Managing Director, Dybaw Venture Capital SA

Charles Frank

Partner/Co Founder, Keystone Law/Founder Catalyst

Charlie Foot

CEO, Bili Ltd

Charlie Cliff

FI Mentor

Charlie Regis

Co-Founder, Styliff Tech

Charlie Edge

FI Mentor

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Chris Clark

Chris Clark, Sportsfusion

Chris Chapman

Managing Partner, Numitas

Chris Foltz

Entrepreneur In Residence, Founder Institute + Responsible Solutions Ltd + IRG 100 CMO's & Change Agents

Chris Ware

Co-Founder | Marketing Leader | D&I champion, IfNotYou

Chris Webb

Founder & CEO, GreenGrowth

Christina Trampota

Managing Director, Innovate :: Grow :: Scale

Colin Howes

Founder, Series-A

Dan D'souza

Intrapreneurship and New Ventures Senior Manager, L Marks

Dan Lester

Founder, Ideonate

Daniel Johnson

Founding Partner, We Scale Startups

Danny Matthews

Founder, Short Story Ventures

Dave Plunkett

Chief Collaborator, Collaboration Junkie

David Bell

Director, Hampleton Partners

David De Min

Founder, Velapp

David Bernatowicz

Investment Professional, RoundShield Partners

David Murray-Hundley "The Grumpy Entrepreneur"

Chairman / None Exec Director/Investor, E Fundamentals, Brabham, The Bunch, endInSight VC, Pario Ventures, Fleet-e, Overlande

David Knowles

CTO, Big Bus Tours

David Luck

Co-founder and CEO, Capital on Tap

Dennis Kirpensteijn

Managing Director, Faraday Ventures

Diana Matei

Fractional Product Leader & Consultant , DM the PM

Dimitris Polychronopoulos

Oslo Chapter Director, FI Mentor

Dustin Betz

Director of Operations, White Rose Ventures

Eda Leka

Global Head of Customer Retention, Ex Head of Transformation & Strategy, HelloFresh

Eduard Steimle

Associate, Campaign Development Team Seedrs , Seedrs

Eduardo Cannizzo

Senior Associate , Seedrs

Elena Suciu

Founder, RSVP Business Angel

Eline Van Der Velden

CEO, Particle 6 Productions

Ella Rauen Prestes

Founder and CEO, Fitbakes

Emilie Vanpoperinghe

Founder, OddBox

Emilie Vanpoperinghe

Co-Founder, OddBox

Emily Koolen

Leadership & Founder Coach, Facilitator & Scale-Up Ecosystem Leader, Koolen Consulting

Emin Can Turan

CEO at Can & Co and AnalystPro | GTM Expert | Oxford Published | Fortune 500 | SME Growth Catalyser | Championing Founders with science-led marketing., Can & Company

Emma Clark

CEO & Co-Founder, The Sauce

Fabian Geyrhalter

Founder and Principal, FINIEN

Femi Opaneye

Founder & CEO, Pane Ventures

Fidel Fatodu

Founder, Corporate and Institutional Broker, Pitch Black Ventures

Francesco Perticarari

Founder & Managing Partner, Silicon Roundabout Ventures

Francois Paillier

CEO, Circagene

Gabriel Isserlis

Founder , Tutti

Gabriel Barcaru

Managing Partner, BRIDCON Business and Management Consulting

Gali Arnon

CMO, Fiverr

Galina Markova

Angel Investor, Angel Investor

George Sharpe

Co-Founder, fullfat

George Comninos

Ventures Manager, CCEP Ventures

Georgina Owens

CTO, Liberis

Georgios Kolovos

Global Lead Strategic Partnerships, PayPal

Greg Smyth

CTO, Urban Jungle

Gunes Erturk

Director, ex-Barclays

Guy Wilmot

Partner, Russell Cooke

Haris Kiani

Mr , Bubl Venture Studios

Hasan Kubba

Founder, The Unfair Advantage

Hector Hughes

Co-Founder & CEO, Unplugged

Hok Him Poon

Co Founder & CTO, Pirical

Howard Watt

Venture Capital Lawyer, Fladgate LLP

Hugh Richards

Head of Products and Solutions, LSEG

Huw Thomas

Co-Founder, Counterfactual Ventures

Ian Watson

Managing Director, c

Ian Kerr

FI Mentor

Idowu Akinde

Founder, Boolean Labs

Irfran Khalil

Founder, Accounting Contact Ltd.

Jacobo Hachuel

Mr, Pangaia

Jade Bouhmouch

Managing Partner, Ambo Ventures

James Church

Co Founder, Robot Mascot

Janne Saarikko

Director, Food Ecosystems Accelerator, Founder Institute

Jason Ricks

Founder, Managing Director, Vidify

Jean Bernier

CEO y Founder, AnniQ & SQT

Jeff Hancock

Founder & CEO, coinpass.com

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Management, APIs, Developer Experiences, Marketplaces, API Strategist

Jessica Richards

UX & Product Design Research Consultant, Creative Product Consulting

Jim Brenner

Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Jing Zhao

Senior Operations Manager, Amazon

Jo Frears

Leader in IP/Technology Law, future law, Lionheads Law LTD

Joe Jordan

Associate & Mentor, Supernode Global

John Mushriqui

Entrepreneur in Residence, Microsoft

John Wong

Senior Manager, Moove

Johnny Thwaites

FI Mentor

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Jonathan Okanlawon

Co-Founder/Board Executive , Global Croft Ltd

Jonathan Lin

FI Mentor

Jonny Rose

Head of Content, Idio

Jordan Stephanou

Senior Fundraising at Crowdcube, Crowdcube

Josephine Waddington

CEO & Founder, London Style Network (trading as StyleSwap)

Josh Nathan

Business Strategy and Operations Analyst, Palantir

Jules Buker

Business Development Manager at Crowdcube, Crowdcube

Julien Lancha

CCO and Co-founder, Advizzo

June W Choi

Managing Partner, Serval Ventures

Kamal Hassan

Founding Partner, Loyal VC

Karl Shaikh

Founder , Interpreters-On-Call

Karl Thomas

MD / NED / Consultant, NA (Portfolio Career)

Kasia Cheng

Raise Investment Associate. , Seedrs

Katherine Gilroy

Associate, Campaign Development Team Seedrs, Seedrs

Katie Booth

Equity Fundraising Manager, Crowdcuube

Ken Cheung

Co-Founder & President, Our Happy Company

Kenneth Winther

Founder & CEO, Moonwalk

Kevin Edwards

Managing Director - European Credit Sales & Trading, BTIG

Kimberly Ofori

Founder , Growth Republic & GV Studio

Kit Desai

Founder, Kit Desai

Lance Cottrell

Founder, Feel the Boot

Lara Sibley

Patent Attorney, Marks & Clerk

Larry Goddard

Test Automation Architect | Speaker | Mentor , Oxford University Press

Laura Tran

Partner, The Craftory

Lauren Chan Lee

Senior Director of Product Management, Care.com

Laurence Krieger

COO and CPO , Tide

Lavina Ramkissoon

Africa's Voice - Chairperson and Director #aiMom, Founder Institute

Liam Morris

UX Designer / Founder, Liam Morris Design

Liliana Montoya

FI Mentor

Linda Carlberg

CEO/Founder/CCO, SpotSyt Inc.

Liron Smadja

Marketing, Global expansion, Fiverr

Louise Doyle

FI Mentor

Lucia Cerchlan

Co-Founder, Lumus Investment

Luis Losada Ferreira

CEO & Founder, Beth Thouin Consulting

Luke Mohr

MR LUKE MOHR, GO MAMMOTH

Mahati Kumar

Staff Software Engineer , Meta

Mara Rada

CEO & Chief of Strategy, Feral (thinkferal.com)

Marco Del Carlo

Managing Director, Tempo Underwriting

Marco Scotti

Founder, Figaroo

Marco Poliafico

Mr, N/A

Marie Kyle

FI Mentor

Mark Little

Co-founder & CMO , Pynk

Mark Kleyner

Co-Founder, Dream VC

Mark Stanbury

Co-Founder , VenuBox

Mark Yearwood

Head of Commercial and Sponsorship, Adlabs

Mark Rogers

Advisor, Investor, Ditch Carbon

Martin Prendergast

CEO, Laduma

Martynas Pranckevicius

FI Alumni, Habu Technologies

Mathieu Flamini

FI Mentor

Matt Milligan

EY Startup Network Lead & Business Design at EY-Seren, Deephound, Match Maker Ventures

Matthew Roberts

Senior Equity Campaign Manager//Portfolio Manager, Crowdcube

Matthew Jefferies

Partner, Marks & Clerk

Max Bergman

CEO and Co-founder, fram^

Maximilian Geerling

Product Manager, IT, Burberry

Meraj Qazi

Director of Product Management, SensorFlow

Michael Jackson

Founder , Elderstreet Investments Limited

Michael Barrett

Partner, Marks & Clerk

Mike Suprovici

Head of Acceleration, VC Lab

Milan Amin

Head of Growth Hacking, EBO AI

Minal Shah

Ms, Freelance

Moheeth Rehman

Lead Product Manager, Coinbase

Nadia KANOUN

CEO, Senior Adviser, Trainer & Coach, IHSCEN for Startups

Nadine Zerrini

Corporate Innovation Leader, Harvard University

Nadine Campbell

Founder, ACE Entrepreneurs

Naily Makangu

Founder & Director, Athena Leaders

Nathan Evans

Co-Founder, fulfin - financing ecommerce

Naveen Lakkur

Founder & Chief Innovation Coach, Institute of Inspiring Innovation

Neciah Dorh

CEO and Co-Founder, FluoretiQ Ltd.

Neil Patel

CEO / Founder, Kabuni

Newton Paskin

President & CEO, Explorer Technologies

Nicholas Devas

Equity Fundraising Manager , Crowdcuube

Nimesh Patel

CEO & Founder, Kabuni

Nina Tumanishvili

Founding Member, Odin

Noah Wallach

Founder, Hope OS

Olivia Higgs

Co-Founder, Rassa

Omar Haneef

CIO, Small Ventures

Omer Ozener

CEO and Co-founder, Hello Klean

Onyekachi Onwudike-Jumbo

Dr, JASHConnect

Osman Haneef

UK Director, Founder Institute

Ozgur D

Mentor, FI

Patrick O'Connor-Read

AI || Blockchain || Product, Architect & CTO

Patrick M. Powers

Founder, Acceleration Mastermind

Paul Sulyok

Founder and CEO, Green Man Gaming

Paul Dinulescu

Founder, Codica / Silicon Roundabout Community

Phil Mc Sweeney

Exec Chair / Investor / Mentor, Angel Think

Phillip Hunt

CEO, Mobikats

Phnam Bagley

Partner and Creative Director, Nonfiction Design

Pietro Invernizi

Deal Flow and Fundraising, The Family

Pilar Fernandez Hermida

Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand

Pouria Kay

Mentor, Founder Institute

Pranav Bhanot

Solicitor and Founder, Wyn Legal

Prof. Ashley George

President, Tech For Good

Puay Lim Yeoh

Commercial Director, Glints

Rachel Sheppard

Digital Strategist & Startup Mentor - Helping Female Founders Launch & Grow Their Businesses Around the Globe, Founder Institute HQ

Rachna Bhonsle

Senior Vice President, AlixPartners

Raid Naim

Head Of Digital Transformation, Futurice GmbH

Ramona Liberoff

COO Innogy Innovation Hub, Unreasonable Group

Rashesh Joshi

Co Founder & MD, Alexander Rosse

Reisa Matsuda

Community Manager, Google Japan

Rhea Singhal

Founder and CEO, Ecoware

Richard Cristina

Co-founder (MentorLabs), Founder (Bloom), Principal Director (Founder Institute)

Richard Codron

Co-Founder & Startup Mentor, Localiiz

Richard Blakesley

FI Mentor

Roberto Rudie

CEO, AIX Capital

Roei Samuel

CEO & Co-Founder, Connectd

Rohin Patel

Founder & CEO, Pillo

Roland Whitehead

CEO, Quru Limited

Ron Benegbi

CEO, Uplinq Financial Technologies

Ross Kelly

Associate, Campaigns, Seedrs

Roza Szafranek

CEO & Founder, HR Hints

Russell Brand

CEO & Founder, Responsible Solutions Limited

Ry Morgan

Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy, Unmind

Ryan Micheletti

Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute

Ryan Brodie

Founder , muzmatch

Saalim Chowdhury

Managing Director, Techstars

Sacha Waters

Senior Equity Fundraising Manager, Crowdcube

Sally Johnstone

Senior Associate, Russell Cooke

Sam Merullo

CEO, ScootFleet Group

Sam Simpson

Co Founder, FounderCatalyst

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sandeep Dama

Founder & Partner, Lotus Partners

Satish Gaekwad

Advisor, Mentor & Founder's Friend, Psyon Ltd

Scott Collen

Accelerator Lead | Investor, Outlier Ventures

Scott Simpkin

Senior Campaigns Associate, Seedrs

Scott Lever

FI Alumni , Zobi

Sean Casey

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Space Center

Seckin Uysal

Founder & Agency Director, Curious Brand

Seetal Fatania

Founder & CEO , J'adore adorn

Serhat Aydogdu

Investor, D4 Ventures

Serkan Ferah

Founder, PitchSpace

Seven Jacobs

Start-Up and VC Lead, Colorintech

Shahryar Barati

Founder and Director, Project Ventures

Sharon Handy

VP People , Exclaimer

Shaun Sharkey

Senior Equity Fundraising Manager , Crowdcuube

Shib Matthew

Founder & Executive Chairman, YunoJuno

Shreyas Deshmukh

Product Manager, Google UK

Simon Portman

FI Mentor

Simone Bertolone

Managing Director and Partner , Orka Ventures

Slava Oganezov

CEO & Founder, Finverity

Sofia Barroso

Head of Growth, Hybr

Stacy Carlson

X, X

Stefano Tresca

Chairman, Sixth Society

Stephan Gasteyger

co-Founder, Wonego

Steven Hess

CEO and Founder , WhiteCap

Subomi Salami

Product Manager, Meta

Suhas Ghante

Entrepreneur, SVEthos

Susan Daker

CEO, FI Graduate , BAMBINISTA

Sush Bapna

GP, Ventures

Svetlana Hoffmann

FI Mentor

Temitope Adeosun , MBA

Head of Product Marketing, Talisman Tech

Tessa Bryant

PR Manager, Seedrs

Thierry Clarke

Founder & CEO, Investor Connected

Tilda Molho

Growth Coach, Marketplace and eCommerce Expert, Digital Growth

Tim Lewis

Non-executive Director, Storemates, Linkd & Gigride

Tim Barker

CEO, Datasift

Tim Seears

General Partner, Fourth State Ventures

Tom Charman

Co-Founder/CEO, Rassa

Tom Edwards

Senior Digital Director, Archetype PR

Tom Green

Co-Founder, Verticode

Tom Hadley

Founder, Sufu

Tom Hunt

Founder & CEO, Fame

Tomas Zalatoris

CEO, Clouder

Tommy Breen

Senior Advisor, The Growth Stage.

Torben Friehe

Director, HelloHub

Torrey Smith

Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx

Trevor Longino

Chief Marketing Officer, Unito

Victoria Cameron

Investment Associate , Ceniarth LLC

Vik Bhatia

Founder, Scopify.ai

Vik Li

Investment Director, Ericsson Ventures

Vishal Reddy

The Entrepreneur-ologist , entrepreneurology.network

Vishal Shanbhag

Co Founder, Inbotiqa & NeuroByte

Vlad Panait

Managing Partner & founder, Sparking Capital

William O'Brien

Director, Corporate Development Ltd

Yemi Oluseun

Founder/ CEO - Fintech, SaaS Business Growth, Automation & Change Management, The Change Hive

Zach Dioneda

Director of Brand Marketing at Fiverr, Fiverr

Zaya Kadyrova

Principal, EBRD Technology Venture Capital

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