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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 Infrastructure 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.
Michael Winterson
Managing Director of Equinix
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About Equinix, SixFortyEight: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Jon Koplin
Managing Director EMEAR, Cisco Investments and Corporate Development of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
David Ladipo
Managing Director of Azura-Edo IPP
David Ladipo is the managing director of Azura-Edo. David earned his PhD at University of Cambridge.
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About Azura-Edo IPP: Azura-Edo IPP is a 450MW open cycle gas turbine power station being constructed near Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria.
David Cumberworth
Managing Director International of Virtual Instruments
David Cumberworth is Managing Director at Virtana, responsible for the International business. Prior to joining VI, David was Vice President WW Sales for HiveIO following their acquisition of Atlantis Computing where he was WW VP Field Operations. David was responsible for sales, marketing and technical services teams and grew the business, channels and go to market strategy. In his previous role at Citrix Systems, David was responsible for managing the Enterprise Sales team which ran both Global accounts and large FTSE 100 accounts in the UK. David was responsible for closing deals with global accounts including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Before joining Citrix, David ran the Server Based Computing Business Unit for Computacenter in the UK, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services in Europe with 10,000 employees and £2.5 billion in revenue.
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About Virtual Instruments: Virtual Instruments offers IT infrastructure performance management solutions for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Keith Ali
Managing Director of Creative ITC
Managing director and co-owner of Creative – a $25 million global business with 11 offices across five continents – Keith is responsible for running daily operations. He also designs and executes the group’s strategic plan, enabling clients to digitally transform for continued growth and profitability. As well driving international expansion, Keith has brought synergistic ventures on stream. Today, the business draws on the technical skills of Creative ITC, the innovation and experimentation of Creative Customer Experience and the IoT aggregation know-how of Creative Everything Connected. Previously, Keith was head of technical strategy at Cisco, responsible for anticipating market transitions and building value propositions to seize emerging business opportunities. As part of that role, he was a member of the technical leadership team, driving growth of £1.5 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Cisco, Keith spent eight years overseas running IT departments throughout APAC and the US. As global head of infrastructure for Arup, he consulted for public and private sector clients.
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About Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Mark Hutchinson
Managing Director UK of Xantaro
Mark Hutchinson is responsible for Xantaro‘s UK business. He has been in the IT industry for 25 years and began his career in sales with EMC before moving on to senior sales roles and senior management roles in the software industry with Computer Associates, Groupe Bull and IBM, all of which focused on Enterprise Management solutions. Prior to joining Xantaro he was the Managing Director of Telindus Belgacom ICT and a member of the International Executive Committee for a period of 8 years. Mark‘s focus has always been on creating and developing growth through strong customer engagement models based on integrity and transparent relationships with shared insight to the customer needs. His extensive background has enabled a broad business knowledge combined with international experience and specific exposure of working in the telecommunications sector.
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About Xantaro: Xantaro is a vendor-independent service integrator focussing on carrier-class networks & services, cloud infrastructures and orchestration.
Jason Cogley
Managing Director of Fiera Infrastructure
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About Fiera Infrastructure: Fiera Infrastructure is an IT infrastructure company located in Toronto.
James Thomlinson
Managing Director & Partner – Engage of Bell Pottinger
James is Managing Director of Engage by Bell Pottinger, which today sits at the heart of one of the world’s leading communications agencies. During his 11 year career at Bell Pottinger he has planned and executed campaigns for a wide-range of international clients. From looking after FTSE 100 brands, tourist boards, multinational hotel companies and start-ups on integrated communications briefs, James has also delivered complex digital projects, such as influencer marketing campaigns; websites; apps; intranets; online branding collateral; corporate films; webcasts; animations and infographics.
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About Bell Pottinger: Bell Pottinger was founded in 1987 and became a partnership following a management buyout from Chime plc in 2012.
Eltjo Hofstee
Managing Director Leaseweb UK of Leaseweb
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About Leaseweb: Leaseweb is a cloud hosting provider offering advanced infrastructure solutions for a global market.
Eltjo Hofstee
Managing Director Leaseweb UK of Leaseweb
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About Leaseweb: Leaseweb is a cloud hosting provider offering advanced infrastructure solutions for a global market.
