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 Transportation 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.
Nicolas Brusson
Co-Founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer in October 2016, Nicolas oversaw BlaBlaCar’s global operations and international growth as Chief Operating Officer since 2011. He led the company’s corporate development, overseeing eight acquisitions, expansion to twenty markets, and three successive rounds of fundraising. Nicolas is a strong advocate of agile structures that allow quick iterations in fast-growing environments. He is also a supporter of autonomous local teams and acqui-hires, a strategy he implemented to expand BlaBlaCar’s footprint on a global scale. Nicolas is a regular speaker at leading international conferences and in the media, where he comments on the European startup scene, innovative growth strategies, and mobility. Prior to joining BlaBlaCar, Nicolas worked for several startups in Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom, before moving on to executive and investor roles, including spending time as a Venture Capitalist at Amadeus Capital Partners in London. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters in Optics from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique and a Masters in Applied Physics from Paris XI University. Nicolas is also an active angel investor and tweets @nbrusson. Nicolas holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Optics from the Ecole Superieure d’Optique and an MSc in Applied Physics from Paris XI University.
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About BlaBlaCar, Deliveroo, Doctolib, SIDE Capital, Stripe, Zenaton: BlaBlaCar is a long distance carpooling platform that connects drivers with empty seats and passengers to share travel costs.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Anton Chirkunov
Founder & CEO of Wheely
Anton Chirkunov is the Founder and CEO at Wheely.
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
James Swanston
Founder & CEO of Voyage Control
James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making freight deliveries. James is an advisor to Lord Mawson OBE for the St Paul’s Way Transformation Project, one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects based in East London, with a focus on encouraging students to look at science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and enterprise. James is the chair of the Transport Working Group of the Energy Managers Association, founded by Lord Redesdale to help major UK businesses to help address the challenges of energy scarcity and climate change. He was recently listed in the Tech City Almanac as one of the 100 key figures helping to redefine digital business in London. He is a director of Green and Tonic, a fast growing networking group for sustainability leaders in London and has previously assisted the Sustainable Development Commission on smart mobility and was awarded the Greenbang award for smart transport in 2011. James regularly speaks at events on sustainability and entrepreneurship topics. He has been granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, one of the City of London’s oldest livery companies and has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He has served as an officer in the Australian and British Armies, including tours of duty in Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq, Falkland Islands and Afghanistan; he currently commands the City of London Fusiliers Company of the London Regiment. He spent several years in Australian military intelligence, where he established a multi-discipline team working on the fusion of intelligence collection and analysis across different technical intelligence sources, for which he was awarded the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation’s Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Australian Joint Operations Command Commendation for service in Iraq. James completed three bachelor degrees concurrently from Griffith University in Law, International Business and Modern Asian Studies, a Diploma in Export Management and a Masters in International Relations and Asian Politics (University of Queensland). James is a qualified Justice of the Peace.
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About Voyage Control: Voyage Control is a cutting-edge ‘Air Traffic Control’ for inbound logistics management. Powerful, efficient, and easy to use.
Shai Weiss
Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Atlantic Airways
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About Gevo, Virgin Atlantic Airways: Virgin Atlantic Airways is a British airline serves over 30 fabulous destinations worldwide.
Stephen Fitzpatrick
CEO and founder of Vertical Aerospace
Stephen Fitzpatrick is the CEO and founder of OVO energy and Vertical Aerospace.
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About Kaluza, OVO Energy, Vertical Aerospace: Vertical Aerospace builds technology to revolutionize how people fly, by making air travel personal, on-demand, and carbon-free.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
Aaron Gowell
Co-Founder and CEO of SilverRail Technologies
Aaron Gowell, Company Founder and CEO, SilverRail Technologies Prior to founding SilverRail in 2009, Aaron built one of the largest travel technology and distribution companies in the US: National Leisure Group (NLG), a $1 Billion ecommerce leader in vacations & cruise. NLG pioneered several early online travel technologies including the cruise industry’s first online booking platform and one of the first dynamic packaging systems. Previously, Aaron honed his survival skills in US Army’s 82nd Airborne and at global management consultancy Bain & Company. Aaron was also a founding member of General Catalyst Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Boston where he was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Amer Hasan
CEO of minicabit
Amer Hasan is Founder & CEO at minicabit.
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About minicabit: Smart marketplace to connect customers & business with all types of cab service providers of today and those in the mobility future
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo
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About Zeelo: Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
Philipp Mintchin
Co-Founder & CEO of Splyt
CEO & Founder of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Bola Adegbulu
Co-Founder and CEO of Predina Tech
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About Predina Tech: Building the Location Risk Intelligence platform for the future of Auto Insurance and Mobility
Azmat Yusuf
Founder / CEO of Citymapper
Mr. Azmat Yusuf is a Founder at Citymapper Limited.Yusuf previously worked at Google, as well as in the venture capital and equities fields for international banks. He started the app in 2011 as a guide for Londoners to navigate the city’s bus network. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in both Electrical Engineering and Economics and received his MBA from INSEAD in 2009.
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About Citymapper: Citymapper is a transport app for cities.
CEO & Co-Founder of Trafi
Martynas Gudonavičius is CEO and co-founder of Trafi. Joining the company at an early stage, Martynas has since then spearheaded global expansion and focused on the commercial side of the business. Before joining Trafi, Martynas was Head of Emerging Markets at InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network and tech platform. Previous to that, Martynas acted as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe for Adform.
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About Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Iain Ross
CEO of Golar LNG Partners
Chief Executive Officer, Golar Management Ltd. Iain Ross has served as Chief Executive Officer since August 21, 2017. Between 2002 and joining Golar, Iain held various executive level positions with project delivery firm WorleyParsons Limited. Positions included Group Managing Director, Development, an ExCo position with responsibility for leadership of the Global Hydrocarbons, Iain has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and certified International Director from INSEAD.
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About Golar LNG Partners: Golar LNG Partners is an owner and operator of LNG carriers and floating storage and regasification units.
Akin Arslan
Founder, CEO of TIRPORT
Akin Arslan is the founder and CEO of TIRPORT.
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About AB PLUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TIRPORT, TTT GLOBAL: End-To-To-End Logistics Operation Management, Digital PODs, Instant Vetted Truckers
Tazio Puri Negri
CEO of Blue Bus Innovation
Tazio Puri Negri is the founder and chief executive officer at B.Bus.
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About Blue Bus Innovation: B.Bus is a transportation company that provides a private shuttle that connects hotels to airports in Luton and Stansted Area.
Randel Darby
CEO of AirPortr
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About AirPortr: AirPortr is a Software and Service company developing and delivering innovative baggage services for passengers, airlines and airports.
Liam Griffin
Founding Family & CEO of Addison Lee
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About Addison Lee: Addison Lee is a private hire services company that provides services through its vehicles for passengers and couriering needs worldwide.
Sebastian Steinhauser
CEO & Founder of Parcelly
CEO & Founder at Parcelly. Most recently building an international last- and first-mile logistics tech platform. Prior to that, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions.
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About Parcelly: The tech platform that enables retailers and carriers to resolve last-mile delivery and first-mile fulfilment challenges
Ahmad Bakhiet
Founder & CEO of Sellplex
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About Sellplex: Intelligent algorithms and automated rules to help sellers maximise profits across ecommerce platforms.
Daniel White
CEO and Founder of Signol
Dan is a behavioral and environmental expert with extensive experience of devising and delivering successful innovations. Over the last 10 years, Dan has been at the forefront of applied behavioral science and has conducted several water and energy field experiments. Dan also lectures at University College London in applying field experiments to change energy consumption behavior.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Ed Hodges
CEO of HelloDone
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About HelloDone: Automating social messaging for online retail brands
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
Steve Evans
Chief Executive Officer of XeroE
Steve Evans founded XeroE in April 2018, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About XeroE: XeroE is the UK’s leading emission-free, final-mile delivery provider.
Nobu Su
Owner and CEO of TMT Shipping Group
Mr Nobu Su is a businessman and technology innovator in the field of shipping and communications technology, as well as a philanthropist and vocal proponent of increased participation of Asian shipping companies in the global market. As CEO, Chairman and owner of the Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT) Shipping Group, Nobu Su has a strong vested interest in shipping communications, and is currently developing Ocean Net, which will function as a mobile network of data transmitters and receivers mounted on ocean-going ships, creating a wireless network across the ocean – an internet for ships. Inventions of Nobu Su’s that are in current commercial use include an under-deck piping system for ships, and he has registered numerous patents for innovations in the fields of cellular services, mobile networks, and anti-fraud technology. He has patented a technology called Time Stamp that is designed to prevent email fraud through a user-unique time signature. Nobu Su has led TMT Shipping Group to operate more than 20 carriers of different classes and for different types of freight, including: VLCC’s, LNG carriers, several Capesize dry-bulk carriers, vehicle freight Ro-Ro carriers, and cement carriers. The company’s business partners include Chevron and COA, the largest independent American cement producer and importer. Under his direction, TMT has also been a prominent player in the global market for freight futures (FFA’s). Nobu Su graduated from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, with a B.Sc. in economics, and has also received an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Outside of his professional life, Nobu Su is a philanthropist, and is the first Asian IMD alumnus to endow a chair, the Nobu Su Professorship of Global Leadership, at the institution. Professor Katherine Xin was appointed as the first Nobu Su Chair. The endowment is part of his goal of promoting Asian corporate integration into the global economy. He has stated on several occasions that he considers it his responsibility as a corporate leader to promote pan-Asian participation in global markets. He says that he believes that “that the world needs a more balanced economy with a full role for the middle classes and business leaders of Asia’s regions.”
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About TMT Shipping Group: Today Makes Tomorrow shipping group, Taiwan
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Matt Seaman
CEO of GoMedia Services
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About GoMedia Services: GoMedia is the market leading provider of personal passenger infotainment services to train and coach operators.
Ian Churchill
CEO of EP Morris
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About EP Morris: EP Morris is a provider of specialist integrated transport software, BSOG certification and concessionary fares consultancy.
Mauricio Villamizar
CEO of Pop & Rest
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About Pop & Rest: Our platform connects local workers and travellers with sleep & meditation pods. Book by the hour to recharge
Johan Herrlin
CEO of Ito World
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About Ito World: Ito World solves transportation challenges across the globe by delivering real-time transit data feeds & a platform for agencies & operators
Rashide Carvalho
Founder and CEO of Whipgo
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About Whipgo: Whipgo.com is a platform where you can rent vehicles in seconds without the hassle of rental agreements and documents.
Marcin Piatkowski
Founder & CEO of JIVR
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About JIVR: JIVR is a hassle-free commuting bike, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of cycling, without any lifestyle compromises.
Steve Dukes
CEO of CommuterClub
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About CommuterClub, Pixsta: CommuterClub offers a software solution that enables businesses to manage season ticket schemes.
Pete Ferguson
Co-Founder CEO of Prospective
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About Prospective: Autonomous Networked Operations
Markus Kantonen
CEO, founder of Stormcharge Limited
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About Stormcharge Limited: Stormcharge provides the autonomous vehicles market with the safest, most scalable and most cost effective command and control environments.
