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 Surrey based CEO’ operating in the SaaS 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.
Paul Walsh
CEO & Founder of Infinity
Paul founded Infinity in 2010, and has a 20 year history of successfully launching tech-based companies.
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About Infinity: Infinity is a call tracking and hosted PBX service provider.
Tim Nicolle
Chief Executive Officer of PrimaDollar
Tim is the founder of PrimaDollar, which provides a low cost, transactional trade finance product on a global basis. Tim has been a senior investment banker (Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Unicredit Bank) and has also been a partner in a big-four global accounting firm (PwC). He has also founded two business previously: Demica (1998-2002) and Risk Limited (1989-1998). Demica is now a major global force in supply chain finance.
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About PrimaDollar: PrimaDollar is an ESGTech and Fintech for international supply chains.(real-time ESG data and Trade Finance)
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Dave Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of ClubSpark
Dave founded ClubSpark in 2012 with Nathan. He has a strong desire to see a growth in sports participation across the UK and globally, through the innovation of technology and the enabling power it provides to venues and participants alike. Dave is approaching 20 years in User Experience Design delivery and will stop at nothing to ensure the team delivers a first-class experience for our product users.
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About ClubSpark: ClubSpark is an award-winning, market-leading sports booking and management SaaS platform.
Peter Bance
Chief Executive Officer of Origami
Peter started working with Octopus in early 2012 as ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’. In this consulting role, he supports the management teams of a number of Octopus’ portfolio companies in the delivery of their growth plans, in particular when dealing with large corporations. Peter also helps to identify and assess prospective new deals for Octopus, specialising in businesses with intellectual property based technology and products. Outside of Octopus, Peter sits on a number of Boards of high growth businesses as a non-executive director, including Goodwolfe Energy, and is a member of a number of public-private organisations informing UK government policy on innovation and investment, including The Energy Technologies Institute. Prior to Octopus, Peter was CEO of Ceres Power, an AIM listed cleantech business, following an earlier career in corporate venturing and technology consulting at Generics Group and PA Technology.
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About Origami: Intelligent trading and automation software for short term power trading. SaaS.
