Daniel Saunders
Chief Executive Officer at ThriveMap
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Saunders is a technologist-turned-investor and advisor focused on applying innovation to large-scale business challenges. With an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, he began as a software engineer at Symbian (acquired by Nokia) before moving into strategy and economic development, including serving as Chief of Staff for Economic Development at the Israeli Embassy. As CEO of L Marks, he leads a global platform that has launched over 90 corporate innovation programs with partners such as BMW, Lloyd’s of London, and Arsenal FC, embedding open innovation to drive real business impact. The L Marks model discovers over 10,000 early- and growth-stage companies every year, with more than 400 companies participating in labs and a 72% commercialisation rate, yielding over $1.4B in follow-on funding. He has invested in 38 early-stage companies and serves on boards across Laurel, Wrisk, Smartcom, DigitalBridge, Storekat.com, Howz, WeFiFo, Headstart App, ThriveMap, Asylum Labs, WeddingPlanner.co.uk, and Skillzzgaming. Based in London, Daniel fuses deep technical depth with strategic ecosystem-building to accelerate authentic digital transformation inside corporations and across startup ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (68)
python10
bash10
security-automation10
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shell10
torque10
cli10
artificial-intelligence10
console10
iterm210
zsh10
script10
command-line10
system-administration10
xonsh10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DanielSaunders/SyntheticDocuments
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:25 pushes in 4 months
deep-learningneural-networksimage-processingsynthetictrain
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