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 United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Property Management 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.
Tom Allason
Founder and CEO of Residently
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About eBay, Residently, Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
Cem Savas
CEO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Cem Savas is the chief executive officer & co-founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
George Spencer
Founder and CEO of Rentify
George Spencer is founder and CEO at Rentify, a software platform which helps landlords market, manage, and make money from their properties. Prior to Rentify George enjoyed a brief but eventful career encompassing web development, brand marketing, and advertising; where he was notable only for being unsuccessful in persuading the British public to eat more of a certain wheat-based breakfast cereal. Since then, George has been working on Rentify and helping to make landlords’ lives easier across the United Kingdom.
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Daniel Attia
Founder & CEO of YOPA
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About YOPA, YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Alexander Limpert
Co-Founder and CEO of GuestReady
Before launching GuestReady, Alex was a Country Managing Director in Taiwan and Philippines at Rocket Internet owned foodpanda, a global food delivery company. Prior to this, he was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in London, where he advised leading companies across a variety of industries including travel and hospitality. He holds an MSc with Distinction from London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Business Administration from University of St.Gallen (HSG). Alex has travelled to more than 50 countries for business and leisure, and therefore understands the needs of the modern business traveller and how any property can be turned into a guest-ready Airbnb home.
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About GuestReady: GuestReady is a platform for real estate management with a focus on short-term rentals.
Nick Katz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of acasa
Nick Katz has worked in the US and the UK for nearly a decade in just about every segment of the real estate industry possible. He’s bought and sold commercial buildings, improved the energy efficiency of hotels, and deployed software to large property portfolios. In 2013 Nick joined VC backed Honest Buildings as Head of Europe before launching Splittable. Nick loves the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home. He’s an expert at dealing with housemate issues having rented and shared nine properties in London.
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About acasa, Locatable: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Ali Celiker
Founder and CEO of British Pearl
Ali Celiker is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of British Pearl. He is an experienced financial professional and entrepreneur and has spent the last 19 years in financial services. He thrives on building innovative businesses with inspirational people and is principally interested in the alternative finance market , with a focus on equity and debt based collective investment platforms. Prior to establishing British Pearl Ali worked within the global capital markets as a trader and sales person. This included Vice President, Head European Financing Trader at Paloma Securities London Limited and Associate Director, Interest rates sales trader at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc. He has also worked for BNP Paribas, J.P.Morgan and Martins Brokers (UK) PLC. He holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Econometrics from Kent University and other banking related professional qualifications.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
James Jenkins-Yates
Founder & CEO of Houst
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
Russell Gould
CEO & Co-founder of Vesta Property
Russell has held leadership, director, operating board, advisory and senior level positions across the FinTech, digital, technology, travel retail, holiday tour operating and cruise, financial services, insurance and banking sectors. He also started and ran two new ventures in consulting and digital business finance (selling one of them). He has extensive experience across the full e-commerce model including – new product development, omni-channel marketing and branding, including customer acquisition, retention (CRM & eCM), customer conversion (look to book / user experience) and performance optimisation (decision science / analytics). He has managed large online businesses (+£500m sales), built start-ups and worked in major FTSE companies, built large high performance teams, lead the redesign and launch of many websites including the full rebuild and implementation of over seven completely new e-commerce platforms (including a full multi-million pound ATG implementation). Russell has over 30 caps representing England and achieved a Bronze Medal at the 2015 Touch World Cup in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a Gold Medal at the 2013 Touch Home Nations in Dublin, a Gold Medal at the European Touch Championships 2012 in Italy, a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Edinburgh and a Silver Medal in the 2010 European Touch Championships in Bristol. For more information visit http://www.englandtouch.org.uk/
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About Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Sam Mitchell
CEO of Strike
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About Strike: Strike (formerly known as HouseSimple) is an online estate agent agency.
Adrian Melrose
Co Founder & CEO of Inn Style Ltd
Adrian is a South African born Chartered Accountant who qualified at Deloitte. He is currently the co-founder, seed-investor and executive chairman of Inn Style Ltd, a startup that provides a cloud based admin and booking solution to owner managed accommodation owners.
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About Inn Style Ltd: Inn Style is an intelligent, easy-to-use property management system for hotels, inns, B&Bs and self-catering properties.
Marc Trup
Founder, CEO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Jack Jenkins
Founder and CEO of Resooma
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About Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Alexander Lyakhotskiy
Founder & CEO of Pass the Keys
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About Pass the Keys: Pass the Keys is an airbnb management company offers an expert Airbnb and short let management service.
Paul Toon
CEO of Liqquid
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About Elevate Investments, Liqquid: Liqquid is a real estate liquid marketplace that makes purchasing and selling property simple.
Gary Cottle
CEO of Metrikus
Gary has been involved in real estate for the last 20 years both professionally and personally. Professionally, he has been responsible for originating, structuring, arranging, financing, and risk managing multi billion-pound Real Estate backed portfolios over the last decade. Gary was previously EMEA Head of Global Markets at Nomura with a $120bn investment portfolio, and more than 1,000 front office professionals across Trading, Structuring, Origination and Sales.
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About Metrikus: Metrikus is a smart building platform that integrates sensors to create more sustainable, healthy, and productive places to live and work.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Nathan Doughty
CEO of Asite
Nathan joined Asite as CTO in 2002 and led the initial development of the Asite platform before taking the Group COO role in 2006, and the Group CEO role in 2020. Prior to Asite, Nathan was Product Development Director at Bidcom and CTO for Spill Industries. Nathan’s early career included time with KPMG Consulting and software start-ups in Boston and New York City. He has over 25 years of experience in IT services with extensive knowledge of software as a service platforms and the global AEC space. Nathan is a father of two and a life-long sailor.
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About Asite: Asite’s vision is to connect people and help the world build better.
Nigel Purves
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayhome
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About Let Engine, Wayhome: Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit
Calum Brannan
CEO & Founder of Howsy
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About Howsy: Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants.
Maxime Leufroy-Murat
City Relay Founder and CEO of City Relay
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About City Relay, FG Properties, Outswitch: London’s premier short let management company. Short lets, but smarter.
Ben Prouty
CEO & Co-Founder of Shepper
Builder of innovative new on-demand services. Previously part of the early Zipcar and LOVESPACE teams.
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About Poncho, Shepper: Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people
Torsten Hartmann
CEO of Credit Peers
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About Credit Peers: Credit Peers is a privately held company that makes commercial property lending accessible to everyone.
Camran Khan
Founder & CEO of brightLET
My passion for technology has featured me among the top 10 best CTO’s in the Country, with awards and recognition from Barclays, NatWest, and KPMG to name a few. In 2017, I was scouted by the University of Cambridge as one of the top 20 disruptive CEO’s in the UK to join Judge Business School (JBS). I have a very strong interest in Machine Learning (ML), AI solutions, Blockchain, and clever automation to reduce huge operational overheads. I have successfully worked closely with brands such as; Microsoft, Intel, EA Games, Coca-Cola, Virgin Media, Mo Farah, Microsoft, Intel, Dabs.com, and Amazon.
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About brightLET: brightLET is a UK based multi-award winning automated property rental technology for landlords, tenants, and tradesmen!
Utsav Goenka
Founder & CEO of Vyomm
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About HomeHapp, Vyomm: Vyomm is a revolutionary platform that brings together home buyers, sellers, and estate agents.
Sebastien Goldenberg
CEO and Co-Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Seb is co-founder and CEO at TheHouseShop.com, UK’s largest property marketplace. It offers free property advertising for private landlords, private sellers and estate agents. TheHouseShop is disrupting the whole property ecosystem, using technology to make rental transactions fully-digitized, safe, secure and cost-effective. TheHouseShop is also the only fully secure property website, where every private advertiser is verified. Seb is the also chair of the start-up and SME club at the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK.
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Ravi Sibal
CEO of Homelease
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About Homelease: Homelease creates innovative solutions to address problems across the housing and property sector.
Rebecca Peach
CEO & Founder of I Am The Agent
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About I Am The Agent: I Am The Agent is a unique online estate and letting agent with a no commission fee structure.
Gray Stern
Founder & CEO of Dot Residential
A New Zealand native with a banking background, Stern founded Dot in 2018. Frustrated with the innate inefficiencies of the property market, Dot’s mission is to decouple housing from bureaucracy using intelligent processes. Gray previously co-founded Landbay, a fast-growing marketplace lender that provides mortgage finance to the UK’s private rented sector.
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About Dot Residential, LANDBAY: Turnkey investment properties optimised for short-term rentals
Conall Laverty
Founder & CEO of Wia
CTO and Co-Founder at Roll TV
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About Wia: Wia unifies the IoT to help businesses better understand occupancy, air quality and energy to create smarter, safer and greener environments
Jak Ollett
CEO of Habu
I’m an entrepreneur with an unrelenting focus on design and technology. I’m CEO & Co-Founder of Habu, a startup developing an elegant new toolset for mixed-use space & event management businesses. Habu is a quick and simple management tool for shared workspaces. It automates all the tedious and recurring tasks like billing and meeting room bookings, allowing space managers more time to focus on what’s important.
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About Habu: Workspace software. Simplified.
Jon Notley
Co Founder & CEO of Zero Deposit
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About Zero Deposit: A trading name of Global Property Ventures Limited.
Tom Wallace
Founder & CEO of Re-Leased Property Software
Tom Wallace is the Founder and CEO at Re-Leased Property Software.
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About Re-Leased Property Software: Re-Leased is a centralised cloud-based property management software designed for landlords and property managers.
Uma Rajah
Co-Founder & CEO of CapitalRise
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About CapitalRise: CapitalRise is a Property Investment Platform.
Riccardo Iannucci-Dawson
CEO of Yourkeys
Entrepreneur
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About Yourkeys: ‘Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties.
Bharat Lad
Chief Executive Officer (Founder) of DadShed
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About Aaron Mani, DadShed, RoomAgree: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Yann Murciano
CEO of Blend Network
Yann was previously an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, working in London as Global Head of Base Metals Trading. Prior to the decade he spent there, Yann was part of the ABN Amro team where he worked as an FX Option Trader. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Economics and a Master of Sciences in Banking – Finance & Insurance from Paris Dauphine, and a Master of Arts in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University. His pioneering spirit enabled the establishment of high-value P2P lending to aid UK SMEs and key investment vehicles for independent lenders and institutions.
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About Blend Network: Blend Network is a peer-to-peer property lending marketplace that connects lenders directly with borrowers.
Jamie Holmes
CEO of VU.CITY
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About VU.CITY: SaaS scale-up helping real estate professionals make better design and planning decisions, faster
Colby Short
Co-Founder and CEO of GetAgent
Founder of GetAgent.
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About GetAgent: GetAgent is the easiest way to find an estate agent to market or manage your property.
Eleanor Bowden
CEO & Founder of Nest Funding
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About Nest Funding: Nest Funding helps people own their home and the new way to buy a home without a deposit.
Freddie Pritchard-Smith
CEO of Savvy
Freddie has nearly a decade of experience within the Central London commercial office market, so he fully understands the metrics which both landlords and tenants consider when making real estate decisions. With a great interest in workplace and wellness, Freddie is passionate about using technology to improve these elements for both landlords and tenants through Savvy.
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About Savvy: Savvy make decisions based on real-time data to improve your tenant’s working experience.
Tim Struth
CEO of QuoinStone Investment Management
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About QuoinStone Investment Management: QuoinStone Investment Management is a specialist UK focused, value-add real estate investor
Matthew Whitaker
Founder and CEO of Gkhouses
Matthew is a student of the book Good To Great and is passionate about building gkhouses to become the best property management company on the planet; and maybe even the universe if Elon Musk will hurry up. To do that, he spent the first seven years of gkhouses in the trenches but now focuses most of his time facilitating growth in other markets. Entrepreneurship runs in the family. His wife runs a successful business called Engaged. You can usually find Matthew at the baseball field with his son, at a dance recital with his daughter or at his favorite restaurant with his wife, when he’s not in the office. And if you can’t find him any of those places, it probably means he’s traveling.
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About Gkhouses: Gkhouses is a professional property management services company, managing single family homes.
Merilee Karr
Founder & CEO of UnderTheDoormat
Merilee has travelled the world to over 60 countries – and feels at home in many of its major cities. A strategist, property management and partnership expert formerly working for a global energy company, she has always been inspired by authentic and memorable travel experiences. When she’s not feeding her own wanderlust, she loves hiking, cycling, skiing and taking part in the occasional triathlon. Merilee has a passion for changing the world. 12 years working for Shell and being able to observe different cultures around the globe, gave birth to her desire to actually start making a difference in the way things are done. Combining her drive for initiating change with her love of travelling, Merilee realised the potential for tourists to experience a new destination like a local while allowing homeowners to earn extra income with piece of mind through the growing sharing economy.
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About UnderTheDoormat: Our mission is to redefine the future of accommodation.
Nicola Gammon
CEO of Shoot
Her professional background is in the IT sector, with over 15 years’ experience as a senior sales director and business strategist. She has worked for companies including Messagelabs, the leading provider of managed email security services to businesses worldwide; The Cloud, Europe’s largest WiFi operator; top international telecommunications company Cable & Wireless; and Computacenter, independent supplier of IT infrastructure services. Combining her IT expertise with her love of gardening, Nicola was prompted to launch shoot following the steep but inspiring learning curve she herself experienced when designing and maintaining her own beautiful garden in North London. Having originally impulse bought plants from the garden centre, she then watched as many withered and died, unsuited to the soil and general conditions in her garden. Not being the sort of gardener to research and keep notes, but knowing that her new plants needed ongoing care, she realised there was a need for a gardening service that reminded her when and how to care for the plants in her garden. With the launch of shoot, Nicola’s mission is to enable gardeners of all abilities to really make the most of their gardens, as easily and effortlessly as possible.
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About Shoot: Shoot is striving to be the UK’s premier gardening and garden management website.
Luke Barnes
Co-Founder & CEO of Fruitful Homes™
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About Fruitful Homes™: Fruitful combines real estate crowdfunding with modular home developments to make beautiful, affordable homes
Grant MacCusker
CEO of Letting Cloud
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About Letting Cloud: SaaS based proptech platform enabling landlords, agents and tenants to rent property in a modern way.
Muhammad A. Bhatti
CEO of Apex Housing Group
The founder of Apex Airspace and Apex Housing Group, Arshad is responsible for developing the business strategy and delivering consistent growth. He is a pioneer in airspace development and highly passionate about how innovative development methods can produce new housing supply. He utilises a hands-on and personable approach to provide day-to-day operational and personnel direction, ensuring functional efficiency and sustainability across the company.
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About Apex Airspace Housing, Apex Housing Group: Apex Housing Group specialises in property management and social housing solutions plus property
James Davis
Founder & CEO of Upad
James Davis is a Founder & CEO at upad.
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About Upad: Upad is the UK’s largest online letting agency.
