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 Edinburgh based CEO’ operating in the Enterprise Software 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.
John Peebles
CEO of Administrate
Extensive experience designing and implementing complex products and processes across a variety of industries. He is experienced in all aspects of the software and product development lifecycle, growing startups, developing business plans and delivering against those plans.
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About Administrate, Turing Fest: The enterprise training management platform for business results.
Andrew Richards
CEO of Codeplay Software
Andrew Richards is founder and CEO of Codeplay Software Ltd, a highly successful business that has evolved since 2002 creating compilers and other software development tools for gaming and mobile phone products. Much of this experience is now being applied to enable heterogeneous processing products for machine learning and vision processing. Andrew also brings strong leadership in open standards definitions, specifically chair of the Khronos SYCL for OpenCL group and chair of Software Working Group for the HSA Foundation. Andrew graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Computer Science and Physics.
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About Codeplay Software, The Melting Pot Edinburgh: Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Stuart Fraser
CEO of Wallet.Services
Stuart’s role spans technology vision, product architecture, finance, and overall leadership. Stuart successfully founded and built the first Scottish domestic cyber security and cryptography company DNS before its ultimate sale to Dell Corp. He has a wide appreciation of the application of technology and the risk and issues of information security and continues his involvement with the cyber community. Stuart completed his MSc in High Performance Computing at EPCC and was founding CTO at online Identity provider MiiCard, specialising in advance Internet Identity technologies. Over the last few years Stuart has brought his skills to bear on the emerging blockchain technologies which culminated in the creation of Wallet.Services.
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About Wallet.Services: Connecting and protecting business and society.
Leah Hutcheon
Founder & CEO of Appointedd
Leah Hutcheon is the founder and CEO of Appointedd, an Edinburgh-based startup revolutionising the way small businesses sell their timeslot appointments online. From personal trainers to massage therapists, serviced offices to large corporations, Appointedd enables online booking on any device in any timezone. Appointedd offers businesses access to CRM, marketing and business management tools, and fits seamlessly with 25+ two-way integrations. Appointedd has launched the world’s first truly multi-timezone online booking system, enabling people to take bookings across different timezones seamlessly. Leah is a proud Ambassador for Women’s Enterprise Scotland, Director of Future Leaders for Entrepreneurial Scotland and #ScotEDGE Award winner. An Entrepreneurial Spark supported company, Appointedd was featured in BBC documentary, The Entrepreneurs. – See more at: https://leah.appointedd.com/#sthash.9u1vWztJ.dpuf
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About Appointedd: Appointedd is a cutting-edge online booking and scheduling solution that makes it easier for you to connect with your customers.
Ashutosh Natraj
CEO & CoFounder of Vidrona
Oxford University Researcher turned entrepreneur with 9 years of experience in academia and industry across the world such as IBM Research. Ash holds a PhD in Robotics and Computer Vision for UAVs(Distinction), Erasmus Mundus (ViBOT) scholar with 3 Masters in Robotics and Computer Vision.
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About Vidrona, Vine Rangers: Vidrona is a British AI Based Predictive Prescriptive Analytics Company for the Utilities. It helps utilities to increase RoI.
Keith Neilson
CEO and Co-Founder of Craneware
Keith Neilson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Craneware.
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About Craneware: Craneware provides automated revenue integrity solutions to improve financial performance in healthcare organizations.
Daniel Rodgers
Founder & CEO of QikServe
Daniel is a serial entrepreneur involved in a number of ventures before seeing an opportunity to disrupt global hospitality with digital self-service. Daniel has delivered on market opportunities, such as kiosk, to ensure QikServe is on the digital pathways that lead to mobile self-service.
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About QikServe: QikServe is the enterprise platform for guest self-service in hospitality.
