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 Manager operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a Manager 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.
Diego González-Zúñiga
Program Manager of Microsoft
Zúñiga is a computer engineer from Costa Rica. He holds a doctorate in Informatics and a master degree in Multimedia from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a master degree in Information Systems from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. These studies served as a starting point for his 3D journey, studying stereoscopic Graphical User Interfaces, and more recently VR, where he focused on WebVR and is interested in defining the “semantics of depth”. He currently works for Samsung Research UK, as a Senior Engineer/Web Advocate for the Samsung Internet browser. You can find more information about his projects at diekus.net.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marianne Roling
General Manager Global System Integrators for TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL of Microsoft
Marianne joined Microsoft in 2005 to lead the EMEA business for the Mobile Communications Business, managing the growth of Windows Mobile, working closely with mobile device makers, mobile operators, resellers and software developers. In 2007, she then took on global responsibility for the strategy development of the global expansion program of Microsoft’s Mobile Business and subsequently was asked to lead the Global Sales of Windows Phone. In 2011, Marianne moved to the Central and Eastern Europe team to become the Managing Director for the Operator Channels working on joint partnerships of Microsoft Devices and Services. In the summer of 2014, she became Partner and GM in CEE for the division that leads the Partner network, Corporate Account Sales, and SMB sales, covering a large majority of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for the 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Marianne brings with her a wealth of relevant industry experience, in both the fixed line and mobile space across Europe, USA and Latin America.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Hugh Milward
General Manager, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Manuela Pichler
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rakhi Sachdeva
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Rakhi Sachdeva is a Customer Success Manager for Modern Workplace Solutions working with Public Sector customers in the UK. Rakhi has worked in global customer success & partner management roles across Dynamics 365 & Modern Workplace solutions both in India and UK. She comes to Microsoft with over 11 years of work experience in Business Development, Customer Service and Project Management positions. Rakhi is an active member of Women at Microsoft Community and is a vivid supporter of events like Microsoft YouthSpark Program for middle and high school girls, TechHer (A learning Event for women) to help bring more women in the technology world. Rakhi is super enthusiastic about working with customers around their Diversity & Inclusion efforts. She also loves working with UK charities to promote Microsoft’s Tech for Good initiative which provides non-profit organisations an opportunity to understand how technology can solve their business problems.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rebecca Jones
Program Manager – Mixed Reality Studios of Microsoft
Becky is a developer and specialist in emerging technologies. Her company builds mixed reality prototypes and solutions for clients using Microsoft HoloLens, with a keen focus on elucidating best practices for user experience in this new paradigm. Becky also organises the meetup group Mixed Reality London.
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About Bektio, Microsoft, Portal Entertainment: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ken Liu
Talent Acquisition Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Elena Cordova Russ
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Elena Cordova Russ has been a Customer Success Manager in the technology industry for the past 7 years. She is currently working on the Financial Sector at Microsoft helping customers maximise the value of their O365 investment. Her focus is to identify and align her customer’s business objectives to the Modern workplace solutions and increase their productivity and collaboration. Elena has also been an accessibility champion at Microsoft where she discovered how much technology can help everyone.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jerome Bugnet
Senior Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Jordan Fish
Project Manager of Enki
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About Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Rishi Tank
Regional Sales Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Chisara Nwabara
R&D Technical Program Manager of Pivotal
Chisa is a Service & Product Specialist experienced in helping enterprises across diverse industries and stages of development improve their operational performance and capabilities through the application of evidence-based programme management methodologies. As Pivotal’s Research & Development Technical Program Manager in London, she works across various product teams to make feedback loops and communication more effective through the use of experimentation, process engineering and service design. As Pivotal’s EMEA Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead, Chisa supports the EMEA region in continuously improving Pivotal’s organisational culture to be more psychologically safe and equally opportunistic for Pivots. This work also entails building bridges between Pivotal and local communities, as well as being a representative face in public spaces where Chisa works to be visible to peers and those looking for role models that she found where lacking in the earlier stages of her tech career.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Dale Archer
Senior Business Development Manager of EPAM Systems
With an addiction to all things tech and social media, not to mention a background in Biz Dev within Social Media Tech at the likes of SocialBro and SocialBakers, the opportunity to take the lead on a Social iPhone app was too hard to turn down! Loves Pugs, Gadgets, Football and snapchat and hates bad shoes, bad manners and wires!
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Sonny Bardhan
Senior Manager, Intellectual Capital of Omidyar Network
As a senior manager on the intellectual capital team, Sonny advances Omidyar Network’s strategy, research, impact and learning agendas across regions and initiatives. Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2014, Sonny served as an investment manager at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where he developed strategy, built the investment pipeline, and originated and developed high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sonny previously served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both the financial institutions group and the social sector office. He began his career at Capital One, and has also worked with Innovations for Poverty Action and UnLtd. Sonny received an MPA in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Reynolds Fellow in social entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford and a first class MA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Wayne Lloyd
Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation / Blockchain / AI Company Name of Publicis Sapient
Having spent the vast majority of his career providing centralised technology solutions to investment banks and large corporate companies around the world, Wayne now advocates the adoption of decentralised ways of working since discovering blockchain in early 2016. As the official UK Ambassador for EOS Nation, Wayne represents the worlds most cutting edge blockchain technology project, specifically designed for enterprise adoption. A member of the Blockchain Council and a Founder Member of The Oxford University Blockchain Foundation, Wayne believes society is approaching the era of the democratization of value through tokenisation and as the Blockchain & Crypto asset advisor for the largest Digital Marketing Agency in the world Wayne presents’ thought leadership to how this event horizon is set to disrupt multiple industries in the not too distant future.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Martin Percival
Pre-sales Manager UK&I Commercial vertical of Red Hat
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About Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Jon Cowie
Senior Manager, Customer Architecture of Progress
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About Progress: Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Hugh Daly
General Manager, Message Automation of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Daniel Bull
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
Daniel Bull is an Investment Manager at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the sourcing, financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies. Prior to joining CLP, Daniel worked as an Assistant Vice President in the Venture Capital Group at Comerica Bank in San Francisco. Daniel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
George Bartlett
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
George Bartlett is an Associate at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Rinat Nazmutdinov
Manager of Intentex
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About Intentex: Next-generation text-analysis technology that lets you understand how others are impacted by the the way you communicate.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Monita Ness
Key Account Manager of Ocean Outdoor
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About Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Helen Beacham
Marketing Manager of Ocean Outdoor
Helen Beacham is a Head of Marketing at Ocean Outdoor.
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About Ocean Outdoor, Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Derek Botten
Lead, Product Manager of Witlingo
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About Witlingo: Witlingo is a B2B SaaS company that helps companies launch Voice First Experiences on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby
Derek Botten
Lead, Product Manager of Witlingo
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About Witlingo: Witlingo is a B2B SaaS company that helps companies launch Voice First Experiences on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Zaid Sulaiman
Technical Delivery Manager of Constant Commerce
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About Constant Commerce: We are the only platform to offer marketers every tool to support an end to end shopper journey from inspiration to (any) checkout
Dian Ivanov
Manual & Automated Test Manager of Constant Commerce
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About Constant Commerce: We are the only platform to offer marketers every tool to support an end to end shopper journey from inspiration to (any) checkout
Aaron Romero
Marketing Manager, UK of Flock
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About Flock: Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that speeds up and simplifies communication and boosts productivity.
Froso Ellina
Product Design Manager of Pivotal Labs
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About Pivotal Labs: Pivotal Labs develops web and mobile products that develops enterprise infrastructures for business platforms.
Bjorn Goosen
Product Manager of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Nicola Douglas
Marketing Manager of Feedback Ferret
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About Feedback Ferret: Feedback Ferret make it easy for companies to improve your customer experience using text analytics.
Sean Barber
Marketing Manager of Quick Mobile Fix
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About Quick Mobile Fix: Repairs mobile phones and tablets for low prices and offers free postage and sell refurbished mobile phones.
