EF Alumni

Stuart Johnson

CTO, Simple Construction Software

Founded:

Simple Construction Software

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Construction, Enterprise Solutions

Location:

London

Cohort:

Social:

Stuart excels at shipping high quality enterprise software. He joined Y Combinator-backed Modernbanc as employee #1 at only 19 years old. When he was 18, he dropped out of university to co-found Wutzu, which was subsequently acquired. At only 17, he was a finalist in MIT Battlecode.

Company:

Simple Construction Software

No-code tool for automating contract changes in construction projects.

Andrius Sutas

CEO, Simple Construction Software

Co-founder & CEO of AimBrain (B2B deep-tech security, acquired), author of The Founder Handbook

Ivo Tedbury

Expert in distributed robots and computation for building construction

Gong Yiwei

Co-founder, VRcollab

Brings experience in network and distributed systems

Gideon Farrell

Astrophysicist with software experience

Raphael Scheps

Trained theoretical physicist, with experience in large-scale data analytics

Mo Shana’a

Experience improving productivity in construction, implemented digital transformation

Alan Mosca

Researched deep learning theory and optimisation methods, previously worked in quantitative finance

Dev Amratia

Led national review on AI, ex-project manager

Jameel Marafie

CEO, Headlight AI

Worked in business development, financial management and R&D consulting

Brittany Harris

Experienced civil engineer, recognised thought leader in building sustainable futures

Jade Cohen

Environmental advisor, managed environmental impact on Crossrail

Leopold Spenner

MSc Industrial Engineering, expert in cement and concrete industries

Robert Meyer

PhD in Machine Learning

Mohamed Tazi

COO, Spore Biotechnologies

Physics Engineer & 2x founder. Co-founded Gymlib, a leading B2B service solution he sold in 2022.

Christophe Auber

CEO, Greenspot AI

Math & CS Bachelors from Stanford. Led sales productivity & strategy projects at McKinsey.

Param Kumar

Product manager leading SaaS teams, Ex-Just Eat, Ex-PolyAI.

Mark Du

CEO, CloudSale AI

Head of Revenue at Caper AI ($350m acquisition, Instacart). Strategic sales to F500s at Deloitte.

Daniel Ruiz

CTO, Adelántalo

10+ years of technical entrepreneurship, NGO founder and mentor, and engineering leader at Fintechs.

Nael Cavazos

CEO, Adelántalo

3x founder, MBA candidate, mechatronics engineer, and self-taught CFO.

Nikhil Mudholkar

Computer Science at IIT Bombay. Data engineering at Tier Mobility & Capital One.

Giovanni Ughi

Serial entrepreneur. COO at Kreatize. 5yrs IB at Rothschild & Co.

Anastasia Wolter

Data Scientist turned Product Manager, leading tech teams to deliver multi-million $ AI software.

Peter Little

CTO, StartScreen

Software Engineering Graduate. Led teams at scale-ups and specialised in augmenting 3rd party UIs.

Phil Protomanni

CEO, Agota Health

Tech sales leader turned healthcare executive. Led COVID vaccination and testing team across Canada.

Alex Wilton

Experienced technologist and entrepreneur.

Chloe Burles

Experienced CEO and British record holder.

Maximilian Rolf

Former tech investment banker, advised leading B2B SaaS companies.

Leon Wisskirchen

WHU graduate. Serial founder and former Head of Operations at SumUp US. Full-stack web developer.

Duncan Ryan

Experienced developer in regulated environments, and integrating unstructured, disparate data.

Henry Course

Fintech expert and previous founder. He’s built products that serve millions of people.

Ben Champion

Ben is a 3rd time founder, fintech operator with one exit under his belt.

Chris Gudde

Self-taught data scientist & full stack developer. Led 1000+ teams in risk, compliance & operations.

Edward Alun-Jones

3x founder experienced in building, scaling B2B SaaS businesses & streamlining compliance workflows.

Daniel Parekh-Hill

3x founder. 5 years building, scaling and advising companies from MVP to IPO.

Rumessa Raja

CEO, Celerity Labs

Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

Samarth Shyam

3rd time founder, investor. Secured deals with large airlines and telco's in MENA and Europe.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Frederick Sia

Serial entrepreneur with MSc in Investment Management.

Ulysse Mizrahi

Serial early-start-upper, passionate about all things productivity

Raffaele Colella

2x passionate founder. Google Acquihired. MIT alum

Keshev Kulkarni

Created pricing engine for world's largest foodservice company; generated $52M+ incremental revenue

Ife Ishola

CEO, Speech Titan

Experienced Ops and Product Leader; ex-Glassdoor PM; ex McKinsey

Milton Calderon Donefer

Founded & scaled restaurant service organization across 10+ Canadian cities. Loran Scholar @ McGill

Sarthak Shrivastava

Has experience in logistics and building multiple business verticals at Indian startups.

Jay Bullen

Developed new, low-cost methods for water quality monitoring. PhD from Imperial College London

Andrius Sutas

CEO, Simple Construction Software

Co-founder & CEO of AimBrain (B2B deep-tech security, acquired), author of The Founder Handbook

Robert Van Den Bergh

Prev CEO & Founder @ VC backed robotics and AI company. Expert in growth marketing and partnerships.

Cameron Whitehead

Previously Senior Engineer at Series A tech company. Expert in building scalable consumer solutions.

Ben Allen

Experienced CTO; built & scaled products from 0-500k+ users for multiple venture-backed businesses

Ben Freeman

Experienced founder, built Tessian from 5-200+ people & $0-20m+ ARR, raising $130m (Sequoia, Accel)

Sam Daviau

Co-founder, UpBeing

SaaS tech and community leader with proven success in Operations, Partnerships and Product

Patrick Olden

Product-driven, technical CEO

Holger Nießner

Full-stack developer with experience leading engineering teams, MSc in Space Science and Technology

Bijan Farsijani

2x founder, hands-on experience with product and sales, Masters from Copenhagen Business School

Nicolas Carmont

CTO, Connect Earth

Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

Alex Lempka

CEO, Connect Earth

Experience founding and scaling businesses, worked in FinTech his entire career

Kartik Arora

Full-stack developer and engineering manager across fast-growing startups

Apoorv Singh

Experience scaling B2B SaaS sales across three continents

Michele Riccardo Esposito

Product-thinker & part-time coder

Jonathan Anderson

Experience in strategy and operations, lover of all things SaaS

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sean Billings

Cloud + ML engineer going heads down on production-grade ML systems with OutPoint, Cambridge, Amazon

Abhinav Yadav

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

PhD in computational neuroscience, st experience in dealing with big-data

Narasimha Suda

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

Master's in Physics and Mathematics, experience with data ranging from voice, images, and text

Mikhail Dubov

CEO, Chattermill

Full-stack developer with background in data analytics

Dmitry Isupov

Co-founder, Chattermill

Degree in Mathematics, background in quantitative marketing

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Deepti Chopra

Co-founder, Adaface

Engineer, former researcher at Caltech

Arnor Davidsson

Experienced in software engineering, product management and UX, MSc in Computer Science

Majed Chaaraoui

Experience in consulting and investment banking

Alex Kosenkov

Experience in high performance computing

Lottie Liebling

Experience in marketplace business development teams

Hardesh Singh

Qualified solicitor with experience in risk and compliance

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Camille Rougié

Previously worked in finance, launched new products for FinTech startup

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

PhD at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning

Tuhin Chakraborty

Software engineer, previously led engineering teams

Ashish Kumar

Co-founder, Konigle

PhD in Machine Learning, developed framework for pattern detection from unstructured data

Jatin Khosla

Experience architecting, building and scaling adoption of data driven digital products

Xavier Wilders

Graduated top of his year in his Master's in Computer Science

James Williams

CEO, Beyond Labs

Experience in finance, built high performance trading systems

Gaetano Checinski

CEO, LoopPerfect

Software architect, experience creating high performance solutions for enterprise

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Kanishk Shukla

CEO, Expertia AI

Proven expertise in sales, strategy and people

Shalabh Singh

Expert generalist with Machine Learning background

Puneet Lamba

Experienced in B2B business development and sales, consulted for India's top corporates and startups

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Dr Siddhartha

Expertise in multiple machine learning domains, in particular Natural Language Processing

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Ian Monk

CEO, Spotted Zebra

Ex-consultant and exited founder

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Nicolas Le Borgne

CEO, Thermosphr

Experience in startups, Master's in Economic Law from Sciences Po

Kannan Reghu

Experienced in product and tech, ex-VP of Engineering at Grover

Amita Goyal

Led large teams globally, worked with Fortune 50 CEOs on B2B sales, strategy and ecommerce

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Albert Reynaud

Ex-partnerships at Google, graduate from ESCP Europe Business school.

Guenther Eisinger

Co-founder (Operations), Ominpresent

Served in the Austrian Special Forces, ran his own international business

Matthew Wilson

Co-founder (Commercial), Omnipresent

Experienced entrepreneur and technologist

Chris Butcher

Engineer, experience scaling business to serve SMEs

Sho Sugihara

Experience working in NGOs on economic inclusion and consultancy

Nagmanjunath Shivakumar

CEO, PakkaProfile

Deep understanding of talent acquisition

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Aaron Lim

Expertise in high-end client engagement, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate

Sunny Saurabh

CEO, Interviewer.AI

Skilled in ideation, sales strategy and product vision

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Abdelhadi Azzouni

Conducted innovative research applying machine learning to optimise large scale computer networks

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Zehan Wang

CTO, Magic Pony Technologiy

Co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for $150M.

Rob Bishop

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Investor & co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for US$150M