Michael Seaman

Michael Seaman is the co-founder and CEO of Swipesum, a comprehensive payment processing and merchant services consultancy delivering innovative auditing solutions to businesses nationwide. Seaman founded Swipesum in 2016 with his brother, Stephen, to serve as Chief Payments Officer for businesses nationwide, combining industry knowledge, AI and proprietary software to create a transparent payments strategy that optimizes payment processing fees.

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Cynthia Sener

Cynthia brings nearly 25 years of experience to Chatmeter with a background in local SEO, product development, strategic marketing, revenue generation, and sales. Cynthia’s customer-centric approach to driving business value, growth, and revenue will support Chatmeter’s expansion into new verticals. She joined Chatmeter from a previous role as VP of operations and product at Rio SEO and has held leadership roles at data-centric organizations such as Acxiom, Hanley Wood, and Constellation Software. Cynthia is an active Forbes Council contributing author.

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Daniele Servadei

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Darpan Seth

Darpan Seth is the co-founder and CEO of Nextuple. He brings over 25 years of leadership experience in optimizing omni-channel fulfillment networks to the retail and grocery industries. At Nextuple, he has led the company’s vision and strategy since 2017. Nextuple is a firm that helps retailers, grocers and distributors elevate their omnichannel Order Management Systems by using a microservices architecture.

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Leigh Sevin

Leigh Sevin is the co-founder of Endear, the CRM and clienteling platform built for modern omnichannel brands. With a background in luxury retail and a decade of experience helping brands unify their online and offline strategies, Leigh is passionate about empowering store teams with data and tools that turn customer interactions into long-term relationships. She’s worked with beloved brands like Glossier, Allbirds, and Reformation, and regularly speaks and writes on the future of clienteling, customer loyalty, and retail tech innovation.

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Jim Shaw

Below he provides a summary of his career, his current role and what he does in his spare time.

Jim is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and has received several awards and industry recognition including South West Young Deal Maker of the Year in 2013 and nomination for South West Deal Maker of the Year in 2018. He is also listed as one the regions’ 42 entrepreneurs under 42 to watch.

After graduating from the University of Bristol with a Physics Degree, Jim pursued his interest in business by becoming a Chartered Accountant with PwC From there he moved into an Associate Director role with Target Corporate Finance where he provided lead advisory services to clients in a wide range of sectors including Aerospace & Defence, Energy & Renewables and Human Capital.

Over the last 15 years Jim has developed a deep expertise of mergers and acquisitions and has been advising clients across multiple sectors on complex M&A transactions. In that time, Jim has completed more than 70 M&A deals with a combined transaction value exceeding $670m (£500m)

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Jean Shin

Originally from New York, Jean now lives in Munich. Building on her 10 years of experience with Samsung’s DigitAll publication, she continues to cover the mobile industry. Jean is a supporter and board member of The Denan Project.

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Sandro Shubladze

Sandro Shubladze is the Founder and CEO of Datamam, where he’s spent the last decade helping enterprises turn chaotic data into clarity and competitive advantage. With a background spanning software engineering and financial auditing, Sandro brings a rare blend of technical depth and business insight to solving some of the world’s toughest data challenges. Under his leadership, Datamam has scaled to support global leaders like NASA, Oracle, and DHL, processing billions of data points into AI-ready intelligence. Sandro’s mission is simple: empower decision-makers.

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Mark Simon

With over two decades of experience in the tech industry, Mark has spent his time leading teams at a number of different companies, such as Explore Consulting and Evo, where he served as Chief Technology Officer.

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Vandana Singal

Vandana Singal is the Vice President and PDES Pre-Sales Head at Happiest Minds Technologies, based in Noida, with 23 years of experience in bridging the gap between technology and business needs. She has deep expertise in Pimcore solutions and implementation and is skilled in crafting compelling proposals, delivering impactful product demonstrations, and providing strategic consulting to drive client success. Vandana has a proven record of collaborating with sales teams to secure new business opportunities while ensuring clients receive tailored, value-driven solutions.

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Jane Sloan

 In her almost 10-year career in the Human Capital Management industry, she has driven multi-functional teams to effectively implement tools, technology and solutions that maximize the efforts of businesses across the world to build qualified, diverse talent pipelines.

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