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 Director operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a 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.
Richard McBride
Managing Director of Edesix
Richard McBride is Managing Director at Edesix.
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About Edesix: Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
John Bernard
Marketing Director, EMEA of Dexcom
John Bernard EMEA Marketing Director UK Marketer of the Year 2013. Marketing ‘Vision 100’ 2014. Shortlisted ‘Digital Marketer of the Year 2014’. Founder (1996) and CEO of successful housing start-up sold in 2007. Investor. Board Member x 2.A multiple award-winning, commercially focused marketer, with an ability to use customer insight to create powerful marketing solutions. A bright, confident and self-motivated individual with a track record of using marketing to exceed specified global annual targets of over €1 billion revenue. Henley MBA qualified, with over 20 years’ telecoms, media and technology experience. Speciality of launching products into market using advertising, PR, product marketing, digital, channel activity and sponsorship. Over ten years’ experience of managing marketing budgets of over £15m successfully to exceed sales targets. Not just experience with old-school marketing, though. Expert online marketer who know how to create a buzz through inbound marketing or viral traffic through the web, social media and content discovery. Writing a good press release just doesn’t cut it anymore so now also an industry blogger who understands how the current state of the web operates and knows how to make it work. Enjoy working at both the strategic and tactical levels, developing people and teams, owning and improving business performance both internationally and within the UK. Currently the EMEA Marketing Director of Dexcom.
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About Dexcom, MENA Digital Awards: Dexcom develops, manufactures, and distributes continuous glucose monitoring systems for diabetes management.
Rod Stafford
Business Development Director of Sepura
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About Sepura: Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of digital radio products
Howard Baker
Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of Powerphotonic
Howard Baker received B.Sc.in Physics and Ph.D. in Laser Physics from Manchester University. Postdoctoral research at Manchester was on pulsed iodine photo-dissociation lasers. In 1980, he became a Lecturer in Applied Physics at Hull University, with research on mercury halide and TEA CO2 lasers and magnetic switching circuits for electrical pulse generation. In 1987, he became Senior Lecturer in Physics at Heriot-Watt University allowing research specialisation in both laser physics and laser engineering. He played a leading role in development of scalable lasers with RF discharge excitation, and CO2 planar waveguide and array lasers were pioneered. The work aided the establishment of a currently successful laser manufacturer in the UK. This expertise in the new CO2 laser technology led to applications research on laser drilling of circuit boards, machining of unfired LTCC ceramic laminations and precision micro-machining and polishing of silica optics. His main interest has been in high power diode lasers, used directly or as pump units for solid-state lasers. A novel diode pumping scheme led to world-leading performance from planar waveguide solid-state lasers. He devised a new technique for fabricating optics to correct the poor beam quality of diode laser bars, combining a novel wavefront measurement technique with custom laser micro-machining. He co-founded PowerPhotonic Ltd, aimed at commercialising this process. Current research continues on the use of laser direct-writing techniques in optics manufacture, and application of laser-cut optics in the general area of high average power industrial diode lasers. A new area is ceramic technology research on vacuum sintered, transparent laser materials for solid-state laser amplifiers and laser-machined LTTC ceramic substrate technology for diode laser packaging.
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About Heriot-Watt University, Powerphotonic: Powerphotonic designs and fabricates freeform refractive micro-optics for laser beam correction and beamforming.
Douglas Martin
Managing Director of MiAlgae
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About MiAlgae: MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company .
