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

Claire Morris

Chief Studio Officer

Damian Routley

Chief Commercial Officer

Farah Kanji

Chief People Officer

George Northcott

Vice President

Henry Lane Fox

Chief Executive Officer, Founder

Isabela Chick

Chief Strategy Officer

Kate Nussrainer

Executive Assistant to CEO

Levi Young

Sector Director, Home & Hygiene

Louis Warner

Chief Operating Officer

Paul Egan

Chief Technical Officer

Petya Georgieva

Office Manager

Sarah Strickland

Accelerator Programme Coordinator

Corporate Development

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

David Hickson

Chief Strategic Development Officer

Frank Webster

Head of Corporate Development

Maria Paola Emanuelli

Corporate Development Manager

Venture Investments & Fundraising

Team responsible for making investments in our accelerator and supporting portfolio with fundraising, from strategy and materials to cap tables and term sheets.

Camila Zattar

Venture Portfolio Associate

Darren Mulvihill

Head of Venture

David Hickson

Chief Strategic Development Officer

Edoardo Gentili

Venture Portfolio Associate

Edward Kandel

Investor (Fintech & Insurtech)

Isabela Chick

Chief Strategy Officer

Michelle Wilk

Investor

Olivia Brooks

Investor Associate

Sarah Kocianski

Strategic Insights Lead (Fintech)

Talent

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

Becky Liu

People Operations Lead

Farah Kanji

Chief People Officer

Raluca Ciobancan

Talent Lead

Growth

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

Emily Yoon

Growth Lead

Emma Wolfin

Growth Lead

Lee Bernasconi

Director of Growth

Liam Nolan

Growth Lead

Louis Butcher

Growth Lead

Olivia Martyn

Head of Brand Marketing

Timothy Masek

Growth Lead

Brand, PR & Events

Providing the best resources for our founders and helping our portfolio and team to get to the right people in our network.

Ellie Slaght

Head of Community & Events

Monira Matin

PR & Communications Lead

Olivia Martyn

Head of Brand Marketing

Rae Gray

Integrated Graphic Designer

Simon Lovick

Content Manager

Product

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

Inês Liberato

Product Coach

Jacob George

Head of Product

Valenice Balace

Product Coach

Design

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

Bhav Mistry

Head of Design

Flora Pearson

Product Designer

Isha Maggu

Product Designer

Liam Lewis

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.

Andrei Gheorghe

Engineering Manager

Bogdan Ionescu

Engineer

Catalin Mustata

Engineer

Roland Batovski

Engineer

Data Science

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

Ali Kokaz

Data Scientist

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.