We're your team
of experts

We're your team of industry experts, investors and entrepreneurs. From the moment you join, we'll be on hand to guide you and your team towards your objectives, sharing knowledge, opportunities, shortcuts, best-practice and processes needed for you to grow.

Want to join our team?

Leadership & Operations

Founders Factory leadership and operational support.

Emma-Jane Willan

Chief Financial Officer

Brent Hoberman

Executive Chairman, Founder

Daisy Hutchison

Studio Program Manager

Damian Routley

Managing Director, Home & Hygiene

Farah Kanji

Global Talent Director

George Northcott

Vice President

Henry Lane Fox

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Isabela Chick

Managing Director, Beauty & Retail

Jeffrey Ng

Chief Scientific Officer

Kate Nussrainer

Executive Assistant to CEO

Louis Warner

Chief Operating Officer

Paul Egan

Chief Incubation Officer

Sarah Strickland

Accelerator Programme Coordinator

Corporate Development & Fundraising

Legal and commercial support on a wide variety of subjects as well as helping shape your strategy and fundraising story and getting you to tell it to the right people so you can get funded.

Alex James

Corporate Development Manager

Darren Mulvihill

Venture Portfolio Manager

David Hickson

Director of Strategic Development

Dylan Itzikowitz

Venture Associate

Frank Webster

Head of Corporate Development

Kelvin Au

Head of Venture

Maria Paola Emanuelli

Corporate Development Manager

Michelle Wilk

Venture Associate

Saloni Bhojwani

Venture Associate

Thomas Bacon

Venture Associate

Talent

Making sure you can recruit and retain a brilliant team that can deliver on your mission.

Akbar Karenga

Talent Coach

Becky Liu

Talent Associate

Farah Kanji

Global Talent Director

Selina Parmar

Head of Talent

Growth Marketing & PR

Strategic and hands-on support growing revenue and building your brand.

Amy Grimshaw

Head of PR & Communications

Emily Yoon

Growth Lead

Emma Wolfin

Growth Lead

Lee Bernasconi

Head of Growth

Olivia Martyn

Brand Marketing Lead

Timothy Masek

Growth Lead

Winnie Akadjo

Community Manager

Product

We help you and your team to build the right product the right way.

Fanni Fejes

Product Coach

Jacob George

Product Coach

Sebastian Sabouné

Head of Product

Design

We also help you and your team to build the right product the right way.

Bhav Mistry

Brand & Product Designer

Claire Morris

Head of Design

Flora Pearson

Product Designer

Liam Lewis

Product Designer

Max Karacun

Product Designer

Rae Gray

Integrated Graphic Designer

Engineering

Support on high-level R&D strategy, tech stacks all the way to low-level data schemas and hiring.

Andreea Chelaru

Engineer

Andrei David

Head Of Engineering

Andrei Gheorghe

Engineering Manager

Bogdan Ionescu

Engineer

Catalin Mustata

Engineer

Cosmin Manolescu

Engineer

Roland Batovski

Engineer

Data Science

We help you design and implement systems that extract knowledge out of data.

Gerard Cardoso

Portfolio Data Scientist

Jeffrey Ng

Chief Scientific Officer

Strategic Partnerships

We are here to help startups get traction with our investors and other businesses in our network. We can help across the sales pipeline, helping you run pilots and ultimately close contracts and partnerships.