Steve Karmeinsky

glassblowing, softball, and softball umpiring in London, United Kingdom

Steve Karmeinsky

glassblowing, softball, and softball umpiring in London, United Kingdom

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Steve has been in the industry for over 20 years. Initially designing hardware and programming in the medical electronics industry, then a stint at Cellnet (allegedly as a programmer, but rapidly moving into systems admin and network admin, designing and rolling out their wide area tcp/ip network - this was in the early '90s). After 5 years of trying to persuade Cellnet that the Internet was going to be big and being told that no-one would ever want the Internet at home let alone on their mobile phone Steve joined a small start-up called Demon Internet in 1994 and helped it grow to the largest consumer ISP. Demon was consumed by Scottish Telecom to become THUS. Steve had a variety of jobs at Demon/THUS ranging from Business Development, Product Management/Marketing/Development, helping with PR, Media relations and Regulatory. The role before he left was Head of Product Futures which meant developing a 5 year product roadmap across the whole of THUS' product portfolio. After leaving THUS Steve consulted for various companies and then joined Textic Ltd as Chief Strategy Officer again in a business development - product/technology role. Steve was also a director of UKEC Ltd which was the governing body for ENUM in the UK and is CSO of DBVu Ltd a centralised database monitoring and performance analytics company and a Director of Seldon.io a predictive analytics company.

Steve also CoFounded Placeholder Ltd developing innovative Bluetooth products.

Steve is also an early stage investor, usually in technology companies.

Steve CoFounded City Meets Tech (pitch events for start-ups , no pitch or deal fees)

  • Work
    • Placeholder
  • Education
    • BSc Microelectronics and Information Processing