Best Startup
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 CEO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Andrea Pignataro
CEO of ION Investment Group
Andrea Pignataro spent his early career as a bond trader before he founded ION Trading, a global provider of multi-asset class trading software, in 1999. He sold 30 percent of the company to TA Associates in 2004. In 2016, it is thought that he still retains a vast majority of the shares of the company, with the amount owned by TA Associates dropping to about 10 percent of the company.
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About ION Investment Group, Ion Trading: A Dublin, Ireland-based provider of l software to financial institutions and corporations
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Sara Murray
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Buddi
Sara Murray (M.A. Oxon) is a serial entrepreneur. She founded Ninah Consulting, which uses proprietary software to advise clients, including GSK and Coca-Cola, on marketing effectiveness, and sold it to Publicis Groupe. In 1999, Sara founded Inspop, which owns the brand Confused.com. She built and sold the online company to the Admiral Group. She was a non-executive Director of Schering Health Care and a founding board member of Seedcamp. Sara won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2009 and sits on the Technology Strategy Board Governing Board. Sara was awarded an OBE for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2012 and is a qualified helicopter pilot.
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About Buddi, Confused.com: Buddi is an innovative, high-growth and british technology company that develops location and health monitoring technologies.
Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Jamie Grant
CEO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
Christian Lane
Founder and CEO of Smarter
As the CEO of Smarter, Christian Lane is a seven-time award-winning Entrepreneur and has over 15 years experience in building successful companies. As a retail expert, Christian was mentored by Theo Paphitis via an investment in his first company which revolutionised design and acquired listings in thousands of stores worldwide. Now on a mission to connect the future of buying groceries, Christian has secured retail listings with the world’s largest retailers to deliver a new way of shopping. “Our technology has enabled a traditional industry to grow as the future is based on the connection between people”. Smarter is now a leading connected home company and has been voted by ‘Tech Track’ as one of the fastest growing startups in London.
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About Smarter: Smarter develops connected kitchen products that bridge the gap between the traditional and smart kitchen.
John Finney
Founder and CEO of Isotropic Systems
John Finney is a satellite and telecoms industry veteran with over $2 billion in new revenue creation directly attributed to his leadership, he pioneered significant success for start-ups Huawei (founded Huawei in Europe) and O3b (founding employee and Chief Commercial Officer) along with other major leadership roles such as global business unit leader for Alcatel-Lucent. John has been identified as a Top 40 Executive by Global Telecoms Business three years in succession.
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About Isotropic Systems: Isotropic Systems, the leading multi-link satellite ground terminal provider, have created the world’s only antenna able to simultaneously connect with satellites in all orbits after demonstrating its multi-link terminal can connect to satellites in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, simultaneously.
Mark Oleynik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Moley Robotics
An accomplished Ph.D. mathematician, computer scientist and proven trailblazer. Results focused, his career to date is characterized by delivering demanding major projects to time and to budget. Prior to founding Moley Robotics, Mark was a co-founder and a major shareholder of a number of companies working in a healthcare sector in Russia and internationally. Earlier in his career, Mark exercised his passion for building successful products at Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University and smaller companies. Mark Oleynik is a driven leader and passionate robotics and healthcare expert.
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About Moley Robotics: Moley Robotics develops robotic kitchen with oven, hob, sink, and two dexterous robotic arms that allow it to cook.
Chris Blackford
CEO & Co-founder of Sky-Futures
As COO, Chris drives the strategic development of Sky-Futures’ operational and technology frameworks and the development of new partnerships with leading companies across a range of markets. Chris combines extensive drone experience with a strong understanding of the technical and operational complexities and, indeed, the capacity of drones to provide cutting-edge solutions across industries.
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About Sky-Futures: Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection and data services to the industrial inspection market.
Sharon White
CEO of Ofcom
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About Ofcom: Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator.
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Founder and CEO of Archdesk
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About Archdesk, One Billion: Archdesk is a cloud-based software, specifically designed & developed for the construction industry in mind.
Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer of Faculty Science
Dr Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of ASI. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field. In the two years since founding ASI, Marc has overseen its growth to more than 50 employees, and expanded its offer from a small fellowship scheme to a cutting edge range of software, training, project and advisory services. He has also led over 50 data science projects, with clients ranging from multinational companies like EasyJet and Siemens to the UK Government and NHS. His work has been covered by the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Independent and many more. Previously, Marc was the Marie Curie Fellow of Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His research has been published in many high impact journals and cited hundreds of times. His PhD in Quantum Computing was awarded the Stoneham prize, published in Nature, and covered in the New York Times.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Matt Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of Bare Conductive
Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive Ltd, an award-winning startup based in East London, UK. Bare Conductive designs and manufactures a unique set of electrically conductive materials and hardware that provide low cost, modular sensing for multiple applications. Matt earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art/Imperial College London in 2009. Before studying at the RCA, Matt studied economics and worked as a professional mechanic for sports racing cars in Colorado, USA.
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About Bare Conductive, LAIIER, Royal College of Art: Bare Conductive is a design and technology company that uses printed electronics technology to integrate electronics into the environment.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Sergey Ogorodnov
Founder and CEO of Voltaware
A co-founder of Voltaware and responsible for business development. Sergey has 20+ years working experience with focus on telecoms and was CEO of the largest provider of fibre optics and mobile connectivity solutions to major Russian operators, but has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. His hobbies include tennis, running, and chess.
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About Voltaware: Voltaware is a start-up electricity monitoring company based in London.
Simon Beresford-Wylie
Chief Executive Officer of Imagination Technologies
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Timothy Burne
Chief Executive Officer of Plastic Logic Germany
Highly skilled and respected results oriented CEO, with large and small company experience. Energetic and pragmatic people manager. Skilled at restructuring organisations to meet market demands and stakeholder expectations. Proven ability in building and managing both domestic and international sales, engineering and operations teams. Skilled in high-level sales and business development and in driving P&L all with an absolute commitment to the bottom line. An experienced project manager with a demonstrated focus and ability to deliver major products to market on schedule and on budget. Good relationship builder and communicator at all levels. An engineer by training, inquisitive, practical problem solving ability coupled with strategic thinking and commitment. International outlook, appreciating regional product market differences and multinational corporate culture. Specialties: Technology, Restructuring, Offshore Supply, Overseas Sales, Channel Sales, Fundraising, Sales and Purchases (Company), VC, Boot Strapping, Cash Control, NPI, Project Managment
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About Plastic Logic Germany: Plastic Logic Germany leads the way in developing, manufacturing and commercializing flexible electrophoretic displays (EPD).
Oliver Montague
CEO of Swytch
Oliver is the company founder and inventor of the patent pending SWYTCH system. He studied engineering at Oxford University and since graduating worked for 4 years in sustainability and engineering R&D before going full time working for himself in the eBike industry. Whilst studying at Oxford Oliver developed the first ever electromagnetic metamaterial motor (for which he was awarded the prize for the top Masters Thesis in the year). Sadly, the motor had no commercial application, but it was cool nonetheless! More importantly , this marked the start of a life-long pursuit to develop electric motor systems that were innovative but also commercially viable.
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Mark Bernstein
Founder & CEO of Wearable Technologies
Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, Mark has spent the bulk of his career taking early stage technology companies from inception to exit. He has been involved in five IPOs, and has sat on UK LSE and AIM public company Boards for 20 years, including Moss Bros. Plc, a leading UK clothing retailer. Mark has worked with VCs and strategic equity partners including IBM, Motorola, BT, Sky and Dixons.
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About Visijax, Wearable Technologies: Wearable Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes intelligent clothing that are embedded with washable electronics.
Richard Parsons
CEO, Instinet Europe Limited of Instinet
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About Instinet: Instinet, along with its subsidiaries, provides online security brokerage and electronic trading services.
Jordan McRae
Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs
Jordan McRae is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs where they’re developing a wearable hands free / ear free voice platform using cutting edge innovations in bone conduction technology, voice recognition, and digital signal processing.
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About Mobilus Labs: Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications.
Paul Atherton
CEO & Co-Founder of Wayv Technologies Ltd
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About Wayv Technologies Ltd: WAYV products provide up to 30 minutes of instant and constant heat, whenever and wherever you may need it.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Kirill Shilov
Founder & CEO of Sky-Drones
Kirill Shilov – Founder / CEO Sky-Drones, holds his MSc degree with honours in Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Flight Dynamics and Control and BSc degree with honours in Applied Math and Physics. Kirill has extensive scientific, engineering and business experience. Before starting Sky-Drones full time Kirill was engineer at Autonomous Control Systems Lab in Tokyo, Japan and Perspective Robotics GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland.
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About Sky-Drones: We accelerate the development and adoption of commercial drones for enterprise by building connected hardware and software products.
Jon Vollemaere
CEO of R5FX
Jon Vollemaere is a Co-Founder of LetsTalkFX and FXecosystem. Jon Vollemaere serves as Chief Executive Officer at R5FX Ltd. Jon Vollemaere served as Head of Marketing at FXecosystem Inc. Jon Vollemaere was a Partner of OHM, Inc. since 2007. Jon Vollemaere has over 15 years experience in International Finance and Technology, he is a diverse and deep base of expertise in Business Development. From 1992, he worked for Product , Business Development, Sales- Reuters Ltd – New Zealand, New York, London. Since 2001, he worked for Business Development – Currenex Ltd – Europe. From 2004, he worked in NZ Financial Markets Manager – Westpac Institutional Bank – Australasia. Jon Vollemaere served as Head of Sales of FXCMpro – Europe since 2005. He is successful in expanding New Business Ideas into greenfield regions across the World. He has sold and managed a wide variety of technology solutions ranging from highly complex Enterprise Software to GUI design. He is a Specialist in Business Development, New Ventures, Channel Sales, Negotiation, and Relationship Management of small and large revenue clients, he uses Creative Solutions, and an Innovative Approach to finding revenue streams and customer satisfaction for his clients. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Fair Trading Technology. He is FintechFX entrepreneur. Jon Vollemaere holds a Bachelor of Commerce ( Finance & Commercial Law) from Auckland University, New Zealand is AFMA accredited, holds certificates in both Foreign Exchange & International Finance Markets and in Film Studies from New York University.
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About R5FX: R5FX is an electronic platform for interbank liquidity pool.
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Tom Mason
Co-Founder and CEO of Bramble Energy
Tom has led the engineering and manufacturing development of the PCBFC since 2013. He was involved in the development of the PCBFC whilst working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCL. With initial proof of concept shown, Tom was appointed as the technical lead of an InnovateUK funded manufacturing project (101979). As a co-founder of Bramble Energy Tom joined the company as a director and Chief Technology Officer when the company spun-out of the universities in late 2016 before moving to the role of CEO in September 2017. With close to 10 years of electrochemistry experience, Tom is the foremost authority on all things PCBFC. Tom’s appointment to the role of CEO brings a fresh approach to leading the Bramble Energy team.
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About Bramble Energy: Bramble Energy is an innovator energy technology company that designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost, and fuel cell stack
Alex Szymborski
CEO of Contained
Alex has worked in the technology sector for more than 20 years & played a part in the digital growth of the mobile industry across Europe as part of Global Crossing and Level 3 which is where he developed his interest in automotive IoT solutions. In recent years becoming more deeply involved in the MVNO market through privately backed ethnic MVNO, Kontakt Mobile & now as a director of Contained.io, a complete e2e industrial IoT solution provider as well as working in the eCommerce segment creating gateway solutions for Service Providers to access the experimenter market.
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About Contained: Contained is creates solutions using the latest cloud technologies.
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
Andrew Raymond
CEO of Bolero International
Andrew Raymond is the CEO for Bolero International. He joined the business in September 2017 as the Global Head of Sales and was appointed CEO in March of 2019. Andrew’s mission is to grow the Bolero user base by bringing to market new and innovative client solutions which leverage Bolero’s capabilities and which complement emerging market opportunities and technologies. Andrew has more than 20 years of global sales and client management experience with leading solution providers such as FIS / SunGard, Algorithmics and SmartStream, and has a background of innovation and client delivery in transaction banking and capital markets. Prior to Bolero, Andrew was in a senior European sales management role for FIS (formerly known as SunGard), a financial software and technology services company. Throughout his career he has launched numerous new product offerings in close collaboration with clients across diverse areas such as collateral management, corporate actions, reconciliations, credit scoring, derivatives middle office and risk reporting. Andrew is based in London and is a US Citizen who holds a BS in International Business and an MBA in Finance.
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About Bolero International: Bolero is a global leader in the handling of electronic trade finance documentation and automatic settlement.
Ashley moore
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Power
Ashley moore is a Founder at Sustainable Power.
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About Sustainable Power: Sustainable Power is specialising in the development and production of high efficiency mCHP co-generating appliances.
Sebastian Potter
CEO of Hackaball
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About Hackaball: Hackaball encourages kids to learn about technology, play together and be physically active.
John Kennedy
CEO of Adlens
John Kennedy is a versatile CEO with over 15 years of achievement rapidly growing private equity backed businesses, gained in consumer brand and retail companies, including B2C online. Specialties include general management; supply chains; operations; data analysis; project/programme management; marketing, both online and offline.
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About Adlens: Adlens is pioneering the development of lenses that change focus like the human eye – enhancing vision in XR, VR and eyewear.
John-Pierre Clark
Founding CEO of Stimply
Founder, investor and chatbot nuthead! 2016: Founder at TOPFINANCE 2014: Launched the data crunching platform Stimply.com 2013: Sold ArgentMag.com (french financial comparison site) to Marketshot SAS 2006: Sold a leading UK foreign currency comparison site
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About Kohdao Ltd., Stimply, Top 10 Ventures Ltd.: Stimply is a personal shopping assistant for home appliance and electrical products.
John Nussey
Co-founder & CEO of Ding
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About Ding: At Ding we make beautiful smart home products. Our first is a smart doorbell which allows you to talk with the person at your door.
Joe Sillett
Co-Founder and CEO of The Funky Appliance Company
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About The Funky Appliance Company: The Funky Appliance Company is a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of stylish, functional electric steam irons.
Selasie Ocloo
Founder and CEO of Seyann Electronics Ltd.
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About Seyann Electronics Ltd.: Seyann Electronics offers mobile payment solutions for emerging markets.
Chris Field
CEO of Kontron Mobile Computing
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About Kontron Mobile Computing: Kontron Mobile Computing designs, manufactures and markets rugged computers for a variety of industries and applications.
Richard Edwards
Co-founder & CEO of Repairly
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About Repairly: Repairly is a U.K.-based startup that offers on demand technology repair services for phones, tablets and laptops
