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 CMO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Sayoko Knight Teitelbaum
Chief Marketing Officer & Co-founder of Toura
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About Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Toura: Toura is a scalable app creation tool for a variety of mobile platforms to share content experience, information and entertainment.
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Anna Ferenczy
CMO of Codecool
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About Codecool, Tribe of Brands: Codecool finds, trains and matches IT talents to your company’s needs.
Andrew Davies
Chief Marketing Officer of Paddle
Andrew is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Episerver, after it acquired Idio in November 2019, the business he co-founded. He also advises, supports & invests in early-stage startups, helping them problem-solve around proposition development, people & teams, and B2B/SaaS marketing. Previously, he co-founded Idio, serving as CMO and also leading people ops. He helped build the business to a market-leader in B2B personalization, with a very successful B2B SaaS account-based-marketing approach, a superb team in NYC, SF & London, and enterprise clients including IBM, BNY Mellon and Fitch Group. Idio raised $13m+ from angels & institutional investors. He also sits on the board of Ninety, an agile digital transformation consultancy with clients including Generali, Axa, Allianz & Zurich. Ninety is a social enterprise, with 90% of distributable profits given to alleviate global poverty.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Angela Tang
Chief Marketing Officer of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Aris Papageorghiou
Co-Founder & CMO of Intelligent Ultrasound
Aris Papageorghiou is the Professor of Fetal Medicine at University of Oxford.
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About Intelligent Ultrasound, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Ultrasound Diagnostic Services, University of Oxford: Intelligent Ultrasound develops software that improves the quality, reliability, and diagnostic power of medical ultrasound.
Hayley M.
Chief Marketing Officer of Aula
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About Aula: Aula is a social learning platform that brings university content and learning experiences online.
Pat Geary
Chief Evangelist & CMO of Blue Prism
Pat Geary is the Chief Evangelist at Blue Prism and has over 30 years of international marketing experience across a range of large multinational and start up software and hardware businesses. Pat was CMO at Searchspace, the world’s first enterprise AI platform, launched the worlds first 64-bit computer at DEC and also launched the world’s first global Internet TV platform at Livestation. Pat joined Blue Prism in 2008 as Chief Marketing Officer when it was a small start up and he invented the term Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in 2012 which has now become a global IT software category of which Blue Prism is the market leader. Pat is a member of the Advisory Board of the CMO Council, a winner of CMO of the Year 2016, a member of the NOA “A list” 2016 and he holds an honours degree in Computer Science.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
David Miller
CMO of Mercaux
David Miller is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mercaux
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About Mercaux: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Varun Kabra
Chief Marketing Officer of Proton
Varun Kabra is the Chief Marketing Officer at Proton.
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About Proton: Proton was started in Switzerland in 2014 by scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default through an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day. Our first product, Proton Mail, is now the world’s largest encrypted email service.
Subsequent Proton products such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive leverage the same advanced encryption that gives our users full control on how and with whom their data is shared.
Our products are open source, developed by a team of 400, and supported by an active community in more than 180 countries.
Today, Proton is making privacy universally accessible with over 70 million sign ups, including journalists, some of the world’s largest organizations, and people around the world.
Andrey Eliseev
CMO of BeMyEye
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About BeMyEye: BeMyEye is a European crowdsourced in-store data as a service (DAAS) provider.
Lynda Lowe
Chief Marketing Officer of Condeco
Lynda is a product and marketing specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She has been at Condeco from the beginning, driving go to market strategies, new business growth and the evolving the brand worldwide. Her experience across both marketing and sales gives her a deep understanding of Condeco’s market and client’s needs enabling her to develop powerful, effective marketing strategies.
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About Condeco: How tomorrow will work: Our workspace booking solutions give you everything you need to work flexibly.
Simon Shah
Chief Marketing Officer of Redwood Software
Simon spearheads marketing to support continued market growth and innovation. Earlier he pioneered sales and marketing for Mattel and Cadbury Schweppes in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Post MBA, he led EMEA marketing for Oracle and Global CRM for Sage Group Plc.
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About Redwood Software: Redwood Software is an international company providing job scheduling, report distribution and SAP solutions.
Michael Charalambous
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President Of Commercial Operations of FuelPlus
Michael joined FuelPlus in 2016 and is responsible for global marketing and communications, based in their UK office. Michael has been helping scale-up great technology companies for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining FuelPlus, he was the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Director of Marketing for Diligent Corporation, a $100m Delloite top 50 growth company. Michael started his career at British Airways and has held senior marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Oracle, Carbon Trust and Opower. Michael has a degree in aeronautical engineering and a masters in strategic marketing.
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About FuelPlus: The FuelPlus Group is the leading provider of fuel administration and management software to the aviation industry.
Sarra Mander
CMO of The Small Robot Company
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Jason Hemingway
CMO of Thunderhead
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Hideki Hashimura
CRM Transformation Strategist and CMO of REDK Software Engineering
Hideki is a Digital Transformation expert driven by customer strategy (CX, CRM and Customer Centric Strategic Development). Project director for enterprise CRM software and digital architecture implementation projects. With more than 10 years of experience delivering successful CRM projects and consulting to build customer-centric strategies and the technology frameworks to support them. Value orientated and highly skilled at conceptualising, creating, mapping and carrying out CRM solutions.
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About REDK Software Engineering: Open Source solutions
John Dillon
Chief Marketing Officer of Exact
John Dillon is the chief marketing officer of Exact.
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About Exact: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Richard Bambury
Co-Founder & CMO of ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.)
Richard is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. He is heavily involved in patient care and academic research. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the the Ainsworth Scholarship from UCC in 2012, the John Quale Travel fellowship in 2013 and is a lead co-investigator on a Prostate Cancer Foundation-Movember Challenge Award worth $1 million in 2014. In his career to date he has presented over 40 original research abstracts at national and international oncology conferences including ESMO, ASCO and ASCO GU. His work has been published in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is dedicated to improving cancer patient care through ongoing innovation and research.
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About ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.): The go-to app for oncology professionals.
Cindy Etsell
Chief Marketing Officer of Vizolution
Cindy Etsell is Chief Marketing Officer at Vizolution
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About Ezra Coaching, Lee Hecht Harrison, Vizolution: Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Alan Gleeson
CMO of NorthRow
Alan is a B2B Marketing Consultant based in London. Alan previously established Palo Alto Software’s UK subsidiary, which focused on the sales and marketing of Business Plan Pro, the best selling business planning software product. In recent years Alan has been heavily involved in the transition to a SaaS offering called Liveplan.com Prior to that Alan was a business development manager at Barclays Plc the leading global financial services provider. He joined Barclays on their graduate programme in 1998 from University College Cork, Ireland and spent 5 years there, including time at Clearlybusiness a London-based innovation unit within Barclays. Alan has an MBA from Oxford University, an MSc and B.Comm from University College Cork, Ireland and a Post Grad Diploma in eCommerce from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also on the board of the Irish International Business Network (www.iibn.com) You can follow Alan on Twitter @alangleeson or view his website at www.alangleeson.com
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About Carmichael Communications, NorthRow: NorthRow helps businesses to efficiently protect themselves from financial crime, from failures to comply with related legislation.
Alison Levy Bringé
Chief Marketing Officer of Launchmetrics
Alison is the Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics. She joined Fashion GPS in 2013 as the Global Director of Brand Development. Previously she held roles at companies such as IMG Fashion and Net-A-PORTER managing Marketing & PR. She has also spent time guest lecturing at Parsons, The New School, Condé Nast College and Il Sole 24Ore’s Business School. Alison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising & Communications from the Univ. of Central Florida and a Masters from SDA Bocconi’s School of Management.
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About Launchmetrics: Launchmetrics is a provider of social influencer data and insights technology intended to connect the industry through technology.
Zsuzsa Kecsmar
Co-founder & CMO of Antavo Loyalty Management Platform
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About Antavo Loyalty Management Platform: Antavo is the leading customer loyalty technology for fashion and retail.
Rob Beck
CMO of Elephants don’t forget
Rob Beck is the CMO of Elephants don’t forget. He is also the current director of Stich Creative.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
John Follett
Chief Marketing Officer of Demand Metric
Before joining Demand Metric, John was a consultant for the Government of Canada. Now, he oversees all aspects of marketing for Demand Metric and its partners. Outside of work, John loves spending time at the cottage with his family.
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About Demand Metric: Agile project management software built for Marketers powered by 1,000+ practical tools & resources.
Adrian Niculescu
CMO EMEA of CloudCoin
Adrian is the CMO EMEA at CloudCoin Consortium, and the Regional Director for the UK & Romania at Faster Capital Dubai. Adrian has 20 years of experience in building and developing companies, and 10’000 students in his online and offline marketing and business courses since 2013. He mentored 30 tech start-ups since 2014, spoke at 500 gig events, and has been coaching, consulting, and mentoring on all continents since 2010. He completed 250 real estate transactions since 2008. He also possesses copywriting skills, notably in sales pages, e-mails, funnels, facebook ads, and ads on other platforms. His tech skills include Blockchain, RAIDA, Marketing automation expert, Clickfunnels, Sales Manago, Infusionsoft, Leadpages, and Facebook. His marketing skills include marketing, product, and startup launch strategies. He is addicted to personal development and continuous improvement, loves to speak at events about subjects he has practical experience, while keeping as primary focus to add value to the audience.
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About CloudCoin, FasterCapital: CloudCoin is the first cross-reality currency that can be imported and exported from games and spent in the real world.
Patrick O’Reilly
Co-Founder & CMO of LearnCube
Patrick O’Reilly is a Founder at LearnCube.
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About eSplice, LearnCube: LearnCube is a Virtual Classroom Software and eLearning platform.
Huw Thomas
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of SG Digital
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About SG Digital: SG Digital offers customers the widest portfolio of content available across our OpenSports and OpenGaming platforms.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
