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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 Belfast based Director operating in the Information Technology 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.
Glenn Russell
Director of Development of Puppet
Glenn is an engineer at Puppet Labs Belfast, working on both the server and client side. Prior to Puppet Labs, he worked at IBM Security Systems building and deploying SIEM and vulnerability management solutions. He has worked in roles ranging from Oracle DBA, TSE to development manager.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Ross Webster
Founder & Director of BrightPay – Payroll Software
Ross is a highly competent software architect, programmer, graphic designer and user experience specialist. With a passion for innovation, Ross excels at creating software applications that solve real-world problems, simplify the complex, and delight customers.
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About BrightPay – Payroll Software, Thesaurus Software: BrightPay offers a payroll software package for payroll managements.
Helen Ferris
Delivery Director – Digital Services of Kainos
Helen Ferris is Director Of Kainos Software.
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About Kainos, Kainos, Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Adam Donnelly
Head of Cloud Services Sales/ Business Development Director, Azure Cloud Services of Kainos
Adam is passionate about technology and people. He has worked for Kainos for 17 years and has been central to the development of Kainos’s cloud business, its partnership with Microsoft and the development of its industry leading cloud engineering teams. Adam is a champion of the principle that is at the heart of Kainos success – that a culture of nurturing highly talented people is key to driving positive outcomes for customers and long term business success.
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Keith Turkington
Managing Director of Fluent Technology
Keith has a Masters in Computer Science, a Certified Diploma in Accounting & Finance, is a Chartered Manager, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered IT Professional, a Member of the British Computer Society & a Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner. He brings almost 30 years of business experience to his role as MD as well as a background working for a grant-giving organisation. His main areas of responsibility are finance, strategy and business development and, like all business owners, never really switches off from work but when he does he loves to travel, play golf and cook. .
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About Fluent Technology: Fluent Technology are experts in business transformation through better information management.
David Cordner
Technical Director of Fluent Technology
David Cordner is One of Fluent’s co-founders. When David’s not designing game changing features for Flexi-Grant®, he’s trekking up the Mourne Mountains, travelling or trying to digest every trend and new idea he can through podcasts & articles.
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About Fluent Technology: Fluent Technology are experts in business transformation through better information management.
Dee Harvey
Founder & Director of Controvert
Over 20 years experience in interactive media production at the highest level, and a graduate of NYU.
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About Controvert: Controvert creates and develops media content using immersive technology.
Ken Roulston
Founder & Managing Director of CMI
Ken Roulston has worked in IT for over thirty years and has extensive experience in the IT Services arena. Ken started out as an engineer before realising that the selling of IT services and hardware was what interested him most. He joined the original CMI and through organic and acquisitive growth he was instrumental in the formation of Aurora UniComp, which was subsequently purchased by the Viridian Group and becoming Sx3, now Capita Plc. He then went on to spend time in Telecoms and the Internet industry and his most recent role before CMI was as Country Manager in Ireland for Parity PLC. Ken’s goal is for the CMI team to offer an unrivalled level of customer service. He says he doesn’t have a lot of spare time so what little he does have is taken up with a course at Queens University on Genealogy, walking the dog and cooking.
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About BTA, CMI: CMI is a company offering manufacturer business streamlining and growth services.
Michael O’ Neill
Managed Services Director of CMI
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About CMI: CMI is a company offering manufacturer business streamlining and growth services.
Michael ONeill
Director of AquaQ Analytics
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About AquaQ Analytics: AquaQ Analytics is a software company & provider of big data & data science services to clients within the capital markets sector.
