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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 Nottingham based Director operating in the Consulting 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.
Martin Gill
VP, Research Director – Digital Strategy and Experience of Forrester Research
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About Forrester Research: Forrester is a research and advisory firm that provides businesses with business and technology-related consulting services.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Richard Roome
Services Director of Little Fish (UK)
A father of two young and energetic boys aged 3 and 6 Richard has his hands full at home but in his down time he enjoys playing tennis and cricket, long days watching cricket and catching up with friends. At Littlefish Richard is Services Director and co-owner, responsible for existing clients, transitioning new clients, contract renewals and service improvements. Passionate about the Littlefish service, Richard has been responsible for shaping the Littlefish Service Delivery teams and with an attention for detail is driven to ensure the service is of the highest quality. After initially working in the Wind Energy industry undertaking Environmental Impact Assessments, he has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, initially from a technical perspective moving thereafter to operational and service management roles. Richard has been involved in a number of successful high growth start-up ventures as well as Operational Management and Service Account Management roles for major clients at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services.
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About Chimata Gold Corp, Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Joe McCarthy
Sales Director of Little Fish (UK)
Also a new father, Joe is getting to grips with a baby boy and enjoys reminiscing about uninterrupted night’s sleep, travel, wine, road biking, days at the cricket and old property restoration. Joe is Sales Director and co-owner at Littlefish and looks after new business growth, contract negotiations, commercial partnerships and marketing. He is a Law and Economics graduate from Liverpool University with over 15 years of B2B IT sales experience, commercial modelling and contract negotiation. He first cut his teeth at British Telecom before moving up the gears at small to mid-market IT & Telco firm PSU Technology Group. As Head of Sales for the IT Support division at PSU, Joe secured major national private and public sector contracts for mid-range IBM, Unix and Wintel support contracts and implemented the sales and marketing plan from the IT maintenance division. Business Development Manager roles at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services have given him broad exposure to IT Outsourcing and constructing tailored, managed IT services contracts in the public and private sector. Joe was awarded Managed Services salesman of the year at Capita IT Services in 2008, before joining the executive management team that acquired Littlefish in 2010. Joe looks after all front-line new business and has grown Littlefish total managed service revenue by >25% YoY to date.
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Matthew Ainslie
Director DevOps & Cloud Engineering of PAREXEL
Matthew Ainslie serves as director of cloud engineering and devops at PAREXEL.
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About PAREXEL: PAREXEL is a biopharmaceutical services company that focuses on the development and commercialization of new medical therapies worldwide.
Matt Berry
Client Services Director of Hallam
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Ben Wood
Director of Strategy and Transformation of Hallam
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jake Third
Managing Director of Hallam
Jake is Hallam’s Client Services Director, where he introduces clients to Hallam’s team of experts and strives to deliver an outstanding client experience. Jake’s strengths are in consultative business development, analytical thinking, and digital marketing strategy. Jake believes that being truly customer-centric results in increased client-satisfaction, better relationships, and superior performance for both parties. Long-term success is rooted in sustainable and ethical business. As such, it is Jake’s aim that Hallam only enters into partnerships that are mutually beneficial, leading to the shared success of both parties. In 2018, Jake was made a Director of Hallam following 4 years of driving business growth. In the same year, he was Commended as Young Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors (IoD). In his spare time, Jake’s interests include meditation, charity-work, exercise, and a belief in life-long learning. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Business.
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jon Martin
Technical Director of Hallam
Jon is Hallam’s Technical Director and is the primary source of technical leadership and innovation for Hallam web team. Jon has a wide range of knowledge covering the entire cycle of development, from project management, specification, development, hosting architecture and after site support. He is also a certified Scrum Master. Having operated within the IT industry for 15 years and specifically within web and development for over 10, Jon has a wide range of experience within many areas of the technical industries. Jon setup BigSpring with Julio in 2008 and after merging with Hallam in 2017, continues to lead the development and technical side of our operations. Previously Jon worked with DSGi PLC in a variety of technical roles, most recently within Business Intelligence. Prior to that, he was a graduate of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Jon is a lover of music (particularly all things Rock & Metal), plays guitar, is extremely tall, and practices Bushido Martial Arts.
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About BigSpring, Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jon Martin
Technical Director of Hallam
Jon is Hallam’s Technical Director and is the primary source of technical leadership and innovation for Hallam web team. Jon has a wide range of knowledge covering the entire cycle of development, from project management, specification, development, hosting architecture and after site support. He is also a certified Scrum Master. Having operated within the IT industry for 15 years and specifically within web and development for over 10, Jon has a wide range of experience within many areas of the technical industries. Jon setup BigSpring with Julio in 2008 and after merging with Hallam in 2017, continues to lead the development and technical side of our operations. Previously Jon worked with DSGi PLC in a variety of technical roles, most recently within Business Intelligence. Prior to that, he was a graduate of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Jon is a lover of music (particularly all things Rock & Metal), plays guitar, is extremely tall, and practices Bushido Martial Arts.
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About BigSpring, Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Aaron Dicks
Managing Director of Impression Digital
Aaron Dicks is Managing Director of Impression, a UK search marketing and web development agency which was founded in 2012. Impression is award winning for its Digital Strategy and search engine marketing campaigns, and works with companies of all sizes, from funded startups through to SMEs and PLCs.
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About Impression Digital: Impression Digital is a strategic-thinking team of digital marketing experts with a creative edge.
Tony Brookes
Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Jim Bullock
Director of iFormulate Ltd
Jim Bullock is co-founder and director of iFormulate Ltd. Previously Jim was CEO of Intelligent Formulation Ltd which promoted formulation technology in the UK After a D.Phil from Oxford, Jim led R&D projects in imaging at Ilford Ltd and activities on crystal engineering and dye formulation and chemistry at ICI/Zeneca. At BASF, in UK and Germany, Jim headed formulation development for colours and held marketing, strategy, R&D and regulatory affairs functions for BASF’s global biocides business. Jim was also a board director of Agion Technologies, USA.
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About iFormulate Ltd: iFormulate Ltd benefits its clients by providing consultancy, innovation projects, training.
Jim Bullock
Director of iFormulate Ltd
Jim Bullock is co-founder and director of iFormulate Ltd. Previously Jim was CEO of Intelligent Formulation Ltd which promoted formulation technology in the UK After a D.Phil from Oxford, Jim led R&D projects in imaging at Ilford Ltd and activities on crystal engineering and dye formulation and chemistry at ICI/Zeneca. At BASF, in UK and Germany, Jim headed formulation development for colours and held marketing, strategy, R&D and regulatory affairs functions for BASF’s global biocides business. Jim was also a board director of Agion Technologies, USA.
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About iFormulate Ltd: iFormulate Ltd benefits its clients by providing consultancy, innovation projects, training.
Phil Ely
Managing Director of EHS Data
Phil is the Managing Director of EHS Data, and started with MonitorPro in 1996. Coming from an Environmental Engineering background, with a passion for technology, Phil brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and a commitment to protecting the environment to the company.
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About EHS Data: EHS Data providing environmental data management solutions to a variety of organisations in over 40 countries worldwide.
