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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Managing Director operating in the Digital Marketing space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Maximilian Bleyleben
Managing Director and Chief Privacy Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
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Paul Wright
Managing Director (UK / FR / ME / TR) of AppsFlyer
Paul Wright Based in London, Paul leads AppsFlyer’s growth and expansion in the UK market. Paul has worked in the online marketing industry for over 18 years, building and shaping businesses for some of the worlds largest agencies, advertisers and technologies.
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Christopher Hogg
Global Head of Platform Sales at Lotame
Chris Hogg leads Lotame’s EMEA operations where he is responsible for maintaining and increasing existing business and overseeing new customer acquisition. Chris has more than 17 years of experience in digital ad technology and operations for Independent News and Media, France Telecom – Wanadoo / Orange UK and Unanimis. Chris has held senior management roles for the last 9 years, successfully recruiting, training and leading large teams to deliver commercial results.
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Paolo Pironi
Managing Director of MightyHive
Paolo oversees EMEA business development at Adbrain. He previously worked as the Director of Business Development at Videoplaza (now an Ooyala company), where he helped build and commercialise their programmatic publisher platform. He previously spent 5 years in media and ad tech sales at Google and Doubleclick.
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About MightyHive: MightyHive is a programmatic solutions provider that simplifies complicated programmatic media buying for advertising organizations.
James Elias
Managing Director of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Jonathan Lewis
Managing Director of Outdoor Plus
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About Outdoor Plus: Outdoor Plus is a digital advertising business.
Kostas Alekoglu
Managing Director of Caliston
Serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of Caliston Digital, a results-driven marketing agency based in London, UK.
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About Caliston, SmartFi: ROI-driven Digital marketing agency
Matthew Entwistle
Group Managing Director of Two Circles
Matthew’s twenty-year career includes senior roles in strategy consulting, marketing and commercial operations. His business passion is understanding customers and using that insight to drive tangible commercial results. He has worked across consumer and retail businesses in the UK, Europe, US and Asia, including time as Tesco’s Non-food Marketing Director and Tesco.com’s International Director. As Group Managing Director at Two Circles, he is responsible for delivering great client results in every country in which we work. As a fervent football fan, Matthew has been supporting Manchester City for the past 34 years from Maine Road to the Etihad Stadium. Having played football in his younger years he continues to keep fit and is now a keen gym-goer.
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Matthew Brown
Managing Director of Data & CRM of Karmarama
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About Karmarama: Karmarama is a full service communications agency, combining creative excellence with technology-inspired solutions
Kevin Gibbons
Managing Director of BlueGlass Interactive
A leading light in the search industry, SEOptimise founder Kevin Gibbons is a web expert with over 10 years’ experience. He has specialised in the field of search engine marketing since 2003, advising a wide range of industry sectors on increasing their online visibility by using the latest search engine marketing techniques. A highly respected expert blogger on the latest developments in search engine marketing, Kevin writes regularly for SEOptimise, Econsultancy and Search Engine Land, plus he is highly followed on Twitter. At SEOptimise Kevin oversees the search marketing team, the strategy of online marketing projects, client account management and promotes the business within the search industry.
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About BlueGlass Interactive, Re:signal, WeLoveDates: BlueGlass Interactive is a digital marketing agency providing integrated SEO, content marketing, and paid search services.
Andrew Furlong
Managing Director of REO
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About REO: REO creates digital customer experience services for businesses.
Eric Tomaszewski
Founder / Managing Director of Itoma Lux
Eric Tomaszewski is the Founder & Managing Director of Itoma Lux. He founded Itoma Lux in 2017 after 10 years of corporate experience with companies like Ocado, Magna Exteriors and Magna Interiors, Ishida Europe Ltd, and Kimberly-Clark.
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About Itoma Lux: We enable PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT with FINANCE and then de-risk it and increase chances of commercial success with MARKETING & SALES solutions.
Craig Somerville
Managing Director of The Reload Group
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About Reload Digital, The Reload Group: The Reload Group is a set of digital marketing and consulting firms that offer these services to their international clients.
Richard Robinson
Managing Director of Xiem
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About Xiem: Xeim provides marketing intelligence, training, advice, and connections to companies in order to empower and improve their performance.
Paul Henderson
Managing Director of Summon Digital
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About Summon Digital: Specialist PPC and SEO agency based in London
Mark Joseph
Managing Director of Vouch Global
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About Vouch Global: Vouch Global is a digital and marketing agency that focuses on influence marketing, social media, content creation, media buying and SEO.
Stuart Millson
Cofounder and Managing Director of Broker Compare
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About Broker Compare: Broker Compare is a price comparison tool that helps investors find the right online stockbroker for their needs.
