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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 Cambridgeshire based CEO’ operating in the Education 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.
Brendan Webb
Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Education Group
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About Cambridge Education Group: Cambridge Education Group provides academic, creative, and English language programs in Europe and the United States.
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Aaron Ralby
CEO and founder of Linguisticator
I am a scholar and linguistic passionate about learning languages and helping others do the same. I hold a PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University, an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge, and a BA in Modern Language sand English from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. I know 20+ languages to varying degrees of fluency and founded my startup Linguisticator in 2013 in order to share my love of languages with others. The inspiration behind my startup lies with the memory techniques used by medieval monks to recall reams of scripture. Learners who use Linguisticator’s courses are taught how to build a memory palace in which to store the entire grammar of the language they are learning. In 2013, the UK’s Ministry of Defence gave us a grant to develop a scalable English language course for use in North Africa. This was trialled successfully in Tripoli, Libya, and actually performed better than traditional classroom-based instruction. Our English course is currently available free of charge to Arabic-speaking refugees who want to learn English. We have since created courses for Arabic (MSA), French, German, Italian and Spanish. We are working on courses for Farsi, Portuguese and Russian at the moment.
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About Linguisticator, Macunx VR: Linguisticator designs rigorous and intensive online language courses for adult and young adult learners.
Nicolaas Matthijs
CEO, Founder of Fronteer LTD
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About Fronteer LTD: Creating awesome Educational Technology experiences
Nicolaas Matthijs
CEO, Founder of Fronteer LTD
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About Fronteer LTD: Creating awesome Educational Technology experiences
Raoul-Gabriel Urma
CEO and Founder of Cambridge Spark
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. His research centers on programming languages and software engineering. He is an author of the upcoming book Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming published by Manning. In addition, Raoul has written over 10 peer-reviewed articles and given over 20 technical talks at international conferences. He has worked for large companies such as Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs, as well as for several startup projects.
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About Cambridge Coding Academy, Cambridge Spark: Cambridge Spark is a leader in personalised Data Science training.
Flóra Raffai
Chief Executive Officer of The Cambridge Access Validating Agency
Flóra Raffai is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cambridge Access Validating Agency (CAVA), a membership organisation committed to helping adults achieve their aspirations through education. More than 4,000 students undertake a CAVA Access to HE Diploma every year, across CAVA’s 30+ further education college members.
Flóra is the Chair of Trustees at the Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service (CCVS) and she is the Founder and small organisation coach at Rapport Coaching. Flóra has spent her career working with charities and non-profits, with 7 years as Chief Executive. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MSt in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. She recently published her first book ‘Chief Everything Officer: a field guide for small organisation leaders’.
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About The Cambridge Access Validating Agency: The Cambridge Access Validating Agency creates, validates, certifies, and awards access to Higher Education degrees.
Mark Dawe
Chief Executive Officer of The Skills Network
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About The Skills Network: The Skills Network develop and deliver innovative technology-enabled training and skills solutions to individuals and organisations.
