Our Team

Alexandra Syzova - CEO

Alexandra is a business development and digital marketing professional with 10+ years’ executive experience in developing growth strategy and increasing sales, driving partner and stakeholder management, programme and project management. She has been recognized for successfully developing and rolling out strategic initiatives in public and private sectors.

Alexandra led world class programmes at London Business School, Microsoft and Cisco before she decided to fully focus on helping organisations grow through optimising sales and marketing readiness. She takes pride in providing the best customer experience and evangelises data driven approaches to achieving results.

While thriving in a digital environment, Alexandra nurtures her passion for women’s leadership and diversity that can be traced back to her MA and PhD research where she spent significant time identifying key factors impacting women’s professional success.

Damien Allison - Non Exec Director

Damien is a big picture thinker who works at an executive level to identify opportunities and drive their technical delivery. He is a highly experienced technical leader with extensive skills in systems architecture, product management and team management which he employs to deliver complex distributed systems that address business needs.

Prior to his recent role with Google, Damien founded a number of highly successful startups in e-commerce and booking related technologies where he developed and landed highly complex platforms. He also has a solid track record in larger organisations contributing to product strategy at companies including Google, eBay, Klarna, BT, HP and Facebook.

Tristan Bailey - Technology Strategy

Tristan has held senior positions with mobile startup CrowdButler, JohnLewis, TimeOut and Apex Group, where he managed development and analytics. Now he advises and delivers strategy with development to B2B companies looking to improve sales through better workflow. Tristan aligns analytics with business goals and develops applications to support them. He likes giving back to the community through mentoring and hosts a podcast to share learning from other people’s success.

Mike Lloyd - Deep Tech

Mike’s passion is to simplify Deep Tech to enable organisations to grow, and to help people to learn.

After a long and successful career at Microsoft, Mike founded learn-tech.io – a company dedicated to democratising Deep Tech and helping people develop technical, scientific, mathematics, engineering and business knowledge and skills. learn-tech.io now has products and services across the UK, Singapore, China and Australia. Mike is the author of the 'AI Demystified' and 'How to Make a Mind?' courses. He has delivered keynote speeches across the world on a range of technology related subjects and has worked at senior level in over 30 countries.

Karim Djerboa - Business Expansion

Karim has held executive positions in companies spanning start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations in four distinct industries; IT, ICT, MedTech and Human Capital Growth across the USA, the MENA region and Europe. His career has always evolved around business development, Go-to-market strategy implementation and generating revenue streams. He loves sharing knowledge and does so by mentoring and conducting business related workshops.