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 Product operating in the Apps space. If you think a Product 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.
Mark Galvin
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Infobip
Leadership | Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Product Innovation | Product Differentiation | Mergers & Acquisitions | Technical Partnerships | SaaS | MarTech | CPaaS | CCaaS | Startups | Consulting | Founder | Board Member & Advisor
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About Infobip, Venubox: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Brian Shorland
Senior Director of Product Management of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Nikita Filippov
Chief Product Officer of ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
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About ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin: Business Banking and Admin service
Justin Gruss
Product Designer of Argent
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About Argent: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Colin Hemmings
Product Manager of Bitrise
Colin has been designing and developing large scale online services for over 9 years. His last role was developing DevOps tools in Alfresco’s Cloud Operations Team. Colin looks after the overall architecture for the Outlyer product to ensure we can scale to billions of metrics every minute.
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About Bitrise, Outlyer: Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform built to adress mobile’s challenges, empowering mobile teams to deliver their best work.
Jared Harding
Head of Product of Sweatcoin
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About Dynamify, Sweatcoin: Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Thomas Dunn
Product Designer of Buffer
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About Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Marius Lobontiu
Head of Product of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Denise Jones
Senior Product Manager of Letgo
Denise Jones is a 20-year veteran of the Seattle tech industry, at such companies as Microsoft, Corbis Corp., and Expedia. She spent ten years as a database engineer and architect, and transitioned to program and product management at Microsoft. In 2015 she transferred to Expedia’s London office, where she is the product owner for a backend site service that integrates data science algorithms. She is one of the co-presidents of Women at Expedia.
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About Hotels, Letgo: Letgo is a second-hand shopping app that helps users buy and sell locally.
Mark Winterburn
Chief Product Officer of Temenos
Mr. Mark Winterburn has been responsible for the product organization since joining in 2011. Mr. Winterburn has over 35 years’ experience in IT, 30 of them in financial services. Prior to joining Temenos, Mr. Winterburn held the position of VP Solutions Management & Product Development at Misys, and held a number of senior positions at Lloyds TSB, with a proven track record of driving large and complex IT change programmes. He has studied Leadership, Product, Cultural and Change Management at Harvard Business School, Cranfield University and Henley Management School. Mr. Winterburn studied a Software Engineering diploma at Coventry University, England.
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About Temenos: Temenos Group is a market leading provider of banking software systems.
Tony Wu
Head of Product of Fliplet
Head of Product at Fliplet
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About Fliplet: Enterprise app platform to create, manage and securely distribute apps without writing code or creating designs.
Rayan Saleh
Chief Product Officer of Dorm
Rayan Saleh is the Chief Product Officer at Dorm.
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About Dorm, RLC Ventures: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Ashly Harwood
Product Manager of Autologyx
Product Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx, Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Darius Kumana
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wrisk
Darius has worked in varied environments, holding executive/leadership roles in firms ranging from large corporates to small avant-garde firms, consultancies and green-field startups. He is an expert UX practitioner and led the Experience Design Practice for ThoughtWorks Europe (a top technical consultancy) for several years. During his time there he led several successful digital programmes, including large scale transformations for Thomson Reuters and launching TimeOut’s award-winning iPhone app.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Jinden Badesha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Shahab Ali
Product Manager of YapJobs
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About YapJobs: Real Time Hiring App for Hospitality & Retail
Stephanie Fujarczuk
Chief Product Officer of Made by Fire
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About Fiternity, Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Oliver Fisher
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Springpod
Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Vanessa Wachtmeister
Global Launch & Product Marketing Manager of Hotels
Vanessa Menchaca-Wachtmeister is a B2B Global Launch Manager at Hotels.com and an accomplished travel writer behind the blog: wanderonwards.co. Originally from Los Angeles, Vanessa has spent the last decade bouncing between Beijing, Boston, and London pursuing a career in tech whilst exploring over 40 countries. She has a BA from Boston College, a Masters in International Development from SOAS (University of London), and her real passion is teaching people how to travel farther, longer and for less. When she’s not on a plane, she enjoys learning languages, developing her skills, and cooking with her husband and cat.
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About Hotels: Hotels provides online hotel booking and reservation services intended to ease the travelling process.
Birju Ravaliya
Head of Product Design & User Experience of Camera IQ
Birju Ravaliya currently works as Head of Product Design & User Experience at Camera IQ.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Nick Eales
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Aforza
Nick Eales serves as a Chief Product Officer and one of the founders of Aforza.
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About Aforza: Aforza develops cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies.
Michael Bullion
Chief Product Officer of Glow Digital Media
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About Glow Digital Media: Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.
Wolfgang Hauptfleisch
Head of Product of ScoopLoop
Wolfgang grew up in Germany and has worked as a software developer and system administrator for more than 25 years. He studied musicology and logic at the University of Münster. He has worked in R&D on autonomous embedded systems and has a long experience in development and deployment of large web services. He oversees the development of our online services and leads our technical team.
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About ScoopLoop: ScoopLoop is a mobile application that enables its users to discover practical advice and share resources with their neighbors.
Mehram Sumray-Roots
Product Director of Expede IT Solutions Limited
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About Expede IT Solutions Limited: Expede is proud to be the home of ‘yada’ – the next generation of mobile event app allowing a true 360-degree view of all your events
Jack Rimington
Product Manager of Helipaddy
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About Coposition, Earlymarket, Helipaddy: Helipaddy is a global helicopter landing site database.
Jerome Iveson
Founder & Product Designer of Thrive
Jerome Iveson is a Chief Product Officer at GiveToLocal.
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About Fintegrate, GiveToLocal, Thrive: Beautiful Software for Creative Minds
Chris Holton
Head of Product of Zappar
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Royyuru Avinash
VP Products of tenCube
Royyuru Avinash is a VP Products at tenCube.
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About tenCube: tenCube enables its users to remotely lock and track down a lost device, retrieve a copy of the data securely, and remotely wipe off data.
Alex Burns
Founder and Head of Product of LuckyTrip
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About LuckyTrip: LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Ed Rochfort
Chief Product Officer of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Jim O’Reilly
Strategic Product and Innovation Manager of Ordnance Survey
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About Ordnance Survey: Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain providing the definitive spatial database.
Mitzi Lagerweij
Lead Product Owner of The App Business
Mitzi is a Lead Product Owner at TAB. Her work has encompassed the development of new propositions for Visa and TfL and accelerating product delivery for clients including Unilever, Shell and Tesco. Outside of project work, Mitzi initiated Women on the Rise to support the women of TAB as well as the business as a whole to truly embrace inclusivity and diversity as it continues to grow. Starting as a support network facilitating open discussion, it has grown into a company-wide initiative that continues to deliver positive change towards a more diverse TAB.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Richard Klee
Chief Product Officer of MusicQubed
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About MusicQubed: Founded in 2010 in London, MusicQubed is a pioneering digital music business.
Richard Klee
Chief Product Officer of MusicQubed
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About MusicQubed: Founded in 2010 in London, MusicQubed is a pioneering digital music business.
Arindra Das
Co-founder and Product Developer of Greenseed
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About Greenseed: Greenseed aims to transform gardening into a fun and social activity whilst encouraging people to go green.
Martin Tolliday
Chief Product Officer of P2i
Martin Tolliday is the Chief Product Officer at P2i.
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About P2i: P2i is a provider of nanocoating technology.
Matt Pritchard
Product & Co-Founder of Waffle
Matt Pritchard is a Co-Founder at Sellar and Waffle.
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About Sellar, Waffle: Waffle is an intelligent Messenger chatbot that enables restaurants to maximise their revenue through dynamic pricing.
Matthew Webb
Co-Founder & Product Manager of Olifun
Matthew Webb is Co-Founder & Product Manager at Olifun.
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About Olifun: Olifun is about spreading happiness. The joy of finding the pint of beer or that glass of wine.
Jack Symons
Director (Product) of Gamban
Jack Symons is Co-Founder & Director at Gamban.
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About Gamban: RegTech, Mobile, Healthcare
Liz Ward
MD and Product Lead of Antidate
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About Antidate: Antidate is the dating app for people who don’t like dating apps
