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This list showcases the top London based COO operating in the Analytics space. If you think a COO is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Omid Ashtari
Chief Operating Officer of Streetbees
Omid is General Manager at Citymapper and deals with everything business related that needs to be taken care of! He recently joined Citymapper after spending 2.5 years as a MD of Foursquare where he grew the international user base and revenue through strategic partnerships and ad sales. Before that he spent 7 years with Google in Dublin, London and San Francisco. During his Google tenure he held multiple positions in sales and business development, working with a broad range of clients and partners across the globe. This meant closing strategic deals for products like Google Search, Maps, Product Search, Google+ and selling the full suite of Google ad products. Omid holds a bachelor’s degree in European Business Administration from Cologne Business School Germany and graduated with Honors. He is currently based in London, UK.
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About Citymapper, Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Alexander Jevons
COO of Hummingbird Technologies
Alexander Jevons is the COO at Hummingbird Technologies.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Daisy Hill
Chief Operating Officer of Zzish
8 years in high-growth tech ventures after creating her own music education startup. Organises chaos at Zzish. History geek, wannabe boxer.
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About Zzish: Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.
Varun Sahni
Co-Founder & COO of CreditEnable
Varun Sahni has built and operated multiple successful companies over the past 20 years across emerging and developed markets ranging across financial services, healthcare and high technology firms. He is co-founder of Impact Investment Partners a UK based FCA regulated asset manager which operates across multiple markets and sectors. Prior to which he was head of Acumen India and has worked with Unilever, CARE and Oxfam to build up their SME portfolios. Varun is on a range of global advisory boards and fund investment committees focused on emerging markets and sustainable investing. He has been widely quoted in international media over the years and is a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics, a TED Fellow and an Asia Society Global Young Leader. Varun has an MA from Columbia University, and is also a Chevening Scholar.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Christopher Varin
COO of Cazana
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About Car and Classic: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Lennert Acke
COO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Chris Wray
COO of SYD
An experienced business consultant with 30 years strategic, financial, IT and operational consulting experience covering service delivery, account and practice management roles for Arthur Andersen, Andersen Consulting, Price Waterhouse and Deloitte. The role I perform best is one of integration – vertically between strategy, business design and delivery or horizontally across different competencies. In the role of account partner, business architect or program director, I have led the delivery of major business design and program delivery engagements for both small and large service based organisations. Line management responsibilities include managing consulting practices at a national, industry, service line, competency, regional and local office level.
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About SYD: Predictive population analytics for enterprise & AI virtual companion for employees
Richard Groves
Founder & COO of UXCam
Founder & COO of UXCam.
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About UXCam: Deliver the perfect app experience
Gianluca Carrera
COO of Reward Insight
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About Reward Insight: Reward is a global data monetisation company that helps the worlds largest banks and retailers understand and change consumer behaviour
Helen Mayhew
COO Europe of QuantumBlack
Helen is Chief Operating Officer for Europe at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company. She has guided global organisations on their analytics journeys, advising top executives and leaders on the potential for insight and innovation through advanced analytics. As COO, she is scaling the company and its impact around the world as she helps clients do the same. Examples of her work include: Implementing advanced geospatial analytics to model the impact of consumer changes on the footprint and property portfolio of a retailer, which helped the client understand the drivers of revenue performance, giving a new view of their business Leading an advanced analytics approach to bring new techniques to a retail bank, improving performance of its mortgage sales teams; also embedding tools and mindsets of data driven decision making across frontline staff Leading a project to predict and reduce government exposure to private sector insolvency, delivering both on-the-ground training and an interactive seminar series to build capabilities of the analytics team Helen is also the founder of McKinsey’s Analytics Academy and a thought-leader in progressing ethical and sustainable AI standards. Before joining McKinsey, she was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and spent time on secondment at both Tesco and the Bank of England. She also worked at the European Commission, supporting the Directorate-General for External Relations. Passionate about sailing, Helen is a former world champion and was a training partner to team Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics.
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About QuantumBlack: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Sophie Newton
Co-Founder and COO of Brainlabs
Sophie Studied mathematics at Oxford and graduated top of her year, winning the Gibbs Prize. She first Worked in strategy consulting, Where She Advised FTSE 100 boards on Their executive remuneration packages, Ensuring alignment with company strategy. After a year at galas directing Reviews some of the UK’s Largest goings, Including the Royal Opera House, she Moved in to the exciting world of PPC. As a Director and Head of Innovation at Brainlabs, her task is to revolutionize paid search marketing through mathematical. Sophie has-been Invited to speak at SMX East and HeroConf, Where She Was named ‘most actionable speaker’, and has-been Recognised as a leading woman in advertising, Recently winning the Women of Tomorrow awards.
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About Brainlabs: Brainlabs is a data-led marketing agency, helping businesses build experimentation-led marketing through display, CRO and analytics.
George Thomas
Chief Operating Officer of Xeneta
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About Xeneta: Xeneta is the leading ocean freight rate benchmarking and market intelligence platform and index.
Sacha Carton
Co-Founder & COO of Airfinity
Sacha is co-founder & COO at Airfinity – a science information and analytics company. He is a data, tech and media entrepreneur who previously co-founded ad pepper media (FRA: APM), Adbrain (sold to NSDQ: TTD), Scala Ventures and advisory firm Ogmenta and has been an investor, advisor and director in multiple media, data, adtech, PE and M&A companies in Europe and the US.
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About Airfinity, Scala Ventures: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Francois Devillez
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of AlphaSwap
Francois is a Blockchain consultant and entrepreneur. He previously consulted at Espeo Software, Larvol and various multinationals. Francois has a Master in Law from Free University of Brussels, a Master in Tax Management from Solvay Business School and a Master in Business Management from Vlerick Business School.
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About AlphaSwap, Forbes, Forbes Business Council, LARVOL: AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Maxime Jeanniard
COO of OpenGamma
Maxime is Chief Operating Officer at OpenGamma. He is responsible for designing and implementing business operations, from Product and Marketing to Onboarding and Support. Previous to his role at OpenGamma, Maxime worked at HSBC in Derivatives Clearing Technology and, prior to that, spent 5 years at Calypso Technology. His roles have included Market Specialist in the Clearing and Collateral areas, and also Analyst positions at Calyon and Accenture.
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
Duncan Mann
COO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
David Haines
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of SteelEye
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About SteelEye: SteelEye provides Trade & Communications Oversight & Regulatory Reporting through an integrated & cloud-based platform.
Avinoam Baruch
Chief Operating Officer of Previsico
Avinoam (Avi) Baruch is the Chief Operating Officer at Previsico.
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About Previsico: Previsico is a global provider of real-time, street level flood prediction, and analytical solutions, building round-the-clock resilience.
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
William Addison
Founder , Director & COO of SeeQuestor Ltd
William Addison is the Founder & Director at Scientific Venture Partners.
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About DUGUUD, Qbiotix, Scientific Venture Partners, SeeQuestor Ltd: SeeQuestor is designed to increase the speed at which police and security teams analyse video as part of investigations.
Kathryn Corrick
COO and Research Director of Represent
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About Represent: Building the tools for a better democracy.
Paul Brothers
COO and Co-Founder of Convosphere
Paul is a seasoned sales and operations specialist with 5 years’ experience in the social media industry having set-up and run the successful EMEA operation for a US based social media listening platform company. Paul has an enviable network of contacts in the industry and has built an impressive sales pipeline which is already delivering a stream of new business and revenues.
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About Convosphere: Convosphere offers an advanced analytics platform and supporting services organized into focused, vertical offerings.
Annabel Dickson
COO of Makerble
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About Makerble: Makerble enables charities to track, review and share their impact
