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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 Surrey based Chairman operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Chairman 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.
Julian Ranger
Chairman & Founder of Digime
After early work integrating as an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in data interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to its sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian’s management responsibilities encompassed the complete range from Board level vision, direction and control to business development, operational, finance and technical leadership, including developing the iSMART process used for interoperability management by militaries worldwide today. Julian left Lockheed in 2007 as Vice President International Strategic Development, and set up his angel investment and consultancy business, J Ranger Ltd. Julian has invested and supported over 20 start-up businesses, highlights include: Astrobotic, aiming to be the first commercial lunar landing, rover and exploration business; Hailo, revolutionizing the licenced taxi market worldwide; DataSift, providing intelligent access to the world’s social data streams. Julian continues to build new businesses, currently founder and Chairman of digi.me which is reimagining the personal internet putting users back in control of their own data. Julian is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, and is also a Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut.
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About Digime, iBundle, J Ranger, Kantara Initiative, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, Worshipful Company of Engineers: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Robin Batchelor
Chairman of Everylife Technologies
Robin has been the cornerstone investor in the company since its initial financing in 2014 and became Chairman of everyLIFE in 2016. Prior to this Robin spent twenty years as an Investment Manager and Managing Director at BlackRock, Merrill Lynch and Mercury Asset Management where his team specialised in managing portfolios of fast growth, energy and energy technology companies around the world. Robin’s interest in the care sector came, like many others, from his growing personal experience of family members requiring top-quality care while living many miles apart.
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About Everylife Technologies: Everylife Technologies transforms social care through its intelligent care management platform, The PASSsystem.
Founder, CTO, and Chairman of PocketPills
Abhinav Gupta is a Co-Founder of :PocketPills. He also co-founded Rocket Fuel, a provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions. Prior to that, he was an engineering director at Yahoo!, where he led the development of their next-generation behavior-targeting platform.As a founding member of the behavioral targeting group at Yahoo!, he helped cultivate a start-up environment, building the team and platform from scratch. He holds a B. Tech in computer science from the IIT Delhi, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He has co-authored almost twenty patents in the areas of database queries and optimization, behavioral targeting, and web-based user analytics.
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About PocketPills, Pravega Ventures: Pocketpills is Canada’s leading online pharmacy, delivers medication by the dose, straight to customer’s door.
Gunter Dombrowe
Non-Executive Chairman of Adaptix Ltd
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About : Adaptix is transforming planar X-ray – the diagnostic imaging modality most widely used in healthcare worldwide.
Bill Potter
Executive Chairman of Futura Medical
William Potter became Chairman in June 2001. He is an adviser to the Nominations Committee and to the Remuneration Committee. He provides advice and expertise on product development matters bringing to bear his considerable experience. He has over 30 years of experience in research and development including bringing new products to market involving a wide range of medical devices. He has extensive knowledge of worldwide regulatory procedures, intellectual property issues and licensing. Dr Potter previously worked at London International Group plc, including seven years as Group Scientific Affairs Director, and at Smith & Nephew plc.
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About Futura Medical: Futura’s innovation strategy applies advanced science to develop products with compelling commercial potential using our advanced
Tony Cotterill
Founder and Chairman of BridgeHead Software
Tony has worked in IT for more than 30 years with 25 of those years spent building and managing software businesses in the UK, Netherlands and USA. As the founder of BridgeHead Software in 1994, Tony continues to lead the organization globally. He previously managed the European subsidiary of Raxco Software following its merger with UIS, where he had established and led UIS’ overseas divisions to profitability. Tony’s introduction to data and storage management was as an IT Director responsible for providing IT services to the civil engineering community. It was from this experience that he saw the need for an independent software provider that would focus on the complexities in data management.
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About BridgeHead Software: BridgeHead Software delivers data management solutions to healthcare organizations across the globe enabling them to improve patient care.
