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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 Human Resources 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.
Patrick Wehrmann
Group Managing Director & CEO, StepStone UK of StepStone
Patrick Wehrmann joined StepStone 2012 as member of the supervisory board. In February 2014 he was appointed to his current role as Group Managing Director with specific responsibilities for the group businesses (Totaljobsgroup, Jobsite, SAON UK) in the UK, Mergers and Acquisitions and international HR. Before joining StepStone as Group Managing Director, Patrick served as Managing Director of Axel Springer Digital Classifieds. In this position he held several supervisory and advisory board positions in the digital classifieds businesses of Axel Springer worldwide. Previously, he was Commercial Publishing Director / CFO of the BILD Group and the Axel Springer Magazine Division as well as COO/CFO of the Axel Springer Magazine and International Division. In the beginning of his career he held several positions in the French, German, US and UK businesses of Axel Springer. Patrick graduated in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel. He also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Dijon (France) and at the University of Colorado.
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About StepStone: StepStone is a leading international provider of software and services for the human capital management sector.
Alex Fourlis
Managing Director UK of CareerBuilder
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About Broadbean, CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is an online platform specialized in HR Software-as-a-Service to help companies with the recruitment process.
Haitham Al-Khatib
Managing Director of Clearmove
Founder @ Clearmove
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About Clearmove: Clearmove specializes in the fields of relocation services, global mobility, travel, and enterprise solutions.
Andrew Lavelle
Co-Founder & Managing Director of TalentPool
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About Alvius, TalentPool: TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates.
Paul Owen
Managing Director of Sales Talent Spotters
Paul set up Sales Talent Spotters in 2011 to help companies find and retain good salespeople and to help people with the proven ability to sell – or the potential to sell (his particular passion) – to find great jobs. Like many business people, he identified a gap in the sales recruitment market having experienced recruitment services that claimed to do much but failed to deliver. Prior to setting up Sales Talent Spotters, Paul spent 15 years developing market-leading services alongside successful sales teams. Highlights included a property company which he grew by 400% in 5 years and a trade body he set up from scratch to over 400 members in 3 years. In 2012, as part of his mission to find new sales talent, he launched the nationwide skills programme – Let’s get Britain selling!© – to introduce thousands more people to the world of sales. It is now delivered at over 30 universities across the UK. A regular and engaging speaker at business events on all things sales, he is a judge of both National Sales Awards and Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
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About Sales Talent Spotters: Sales Talent Spotters is an exceptional recruitment firm.
Andrew Griffin
Managing Director of Oakhall
Andrew Griffin is the managing director of [Oakhall Ltd](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/oakhall#/entity). Previously, he was the senior vice president of industry and investor relations at [Monitise](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/monitise). Prior to Monitise, Griffin worked at Robertson Stephens and UBS, holding positions as technology equity analyst. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from the [University of Southampton](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-southampton-2#/entity).
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About Oakhall: Oakhall is a specialist and unique firm of consultants that helps boards and executive teams increase there company performance.
