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 President operating in the Marketing space. If you think a President 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.
Simon Cox
President & Chief Executive Officer, Molson Coors Europe of Molson Coors
A Master Brewer by training, Simon previously served as the Managing Director of the UK and Ireland for Molson Coors. He has held a number of senior leadership positions with Carlsberg and Molson Coors since he joined the industry in 1989. Simon joined Molson Coors in 2005 as Director of Supply Chain Strategy, based in Burton-on-Trent and developed increasing responsibility through senior positions as strategy director, then Managing Director – Independent On Premise, before taking over the UK & Ireland business in 2012.
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About Molson Coors: Molson Coors is a beer company and distributor that brews the world’s favorite beer brands.
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Asit Mehra
Executive Vice President of Omnicom Group
Asit is responsible for growing some of Omnicom’s key client relationships. He is tasked with developing and delivering bespoke “Screen to Shelf” solutions for clients that leverage the scale and creativity of Omnicom’s individual agencies, creating new, more effective ways of engaging with large global clients and ultimately their consumers. Asit has been with Omnicom for almost nine years, before which he spent 18 years at the Interpublic Group, where he held a variety of roles, ranging from running large multinational businesses, regions and offices. Asit is a true citizen of the world, having grown up and worked on both sides of the Atlantic and Asia.
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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Liam Negus-Fancey
Founder & President of Pollen
Pollen is a members-only community that curates and shares experiences for you and your friends to discover. As a marketplace of the best experiences in the world, our mission is to elevate lives by bringing people closer to the people and the things they love. From festivals, events, dining experiences, island escapes, and beyond, we want to help create unforgettable memories shared between friends old and new by allowing members to unlock a range of experiential rewards.
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Blair Robertson
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of TVSquared
Blair is a seasoned data scientist and visualization guru with a background in Artificial Intelligence. He has spent the past 13 years helping global companies improve decision-making and product development through the application of analytics. As TVSquared’s CTO, Blair is an expert in a range of statistical techniques such as data modeling, signal processing and machine learning, which he and his team deploy to continually improve the company’s technology platform. Throughout his career, Blair has focused on presenting complex technical concepts in an easy-to-consume, business-friendly way and has a reputation for designing analytic products that are highly visual and intuitive. Previous engagements have included time as principal analyst at Sumerian, where he led analytic engagements with dozens of the world’s largest companies. Blair has also acted as a private consultant for a wide-variety of data-driven companies in financial services, utilities and hi-tech, and as a financial technology consultant with Accenture Plc.
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About TVSquared: TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution.
Chris Deboer
President & CEO of GAIN Credit
“I joined Global Analytics because of the extraordinary quality of the team, the size of the global market, the commitment to excellence and the opportunity to make a difference in changing the industry.” Chris leads our business development and partnerships and has over 20 years of experience in sales, client partnerships and key account management. Prior to Global Chris managed a team of industry professionals tasked with maintaining and growing relationships with Fair Isaac Corporation’s five largest customers. There, he developed a team-based, relationship-driven sales model with a focus on gaining deeper relationships across the client base. Chris holds a MSEE and BSEE from the University of California at Santa Barbara and plays tennis competitively.
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About GAIN Credit: GAIN Credit is a fintech company dedicated to providing credit for people who are underserved by mainstream financial service companies.
Andrew Fullerton
President, EMEA of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Matthew Locsin
Vice President of Publicis Sapient
Matt Locsin is a Vice President at Publicis Sapient, where he leads the firm’s practice for innovation and drives Digital business transformation. He works with leaders and their teams to conceive, develop, and launch ‘what’s next’ and helps organisations to build their innovation competencies.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Alistair Richards
Global President of Guinness World Records
Alistair holds global responsibility for every aspect of the Guinness World Records brand. His impressive 30 year career in business management for global FMCG and entertainment brands has included senior positions at Colgate-Palmolive, the $16bn global leader in health and beauty, and Hasbro, the $4bn global toys and game company. Under his leadership Guinness World Records has diversified its brand offering, expanded its global reach and relevance, while maintaining a market-leading position through continued innovation.
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About Guinness World Records: Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement.
Nadine Causey
Senior Vice President of EMEA & APAC of Guinness World Records
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About Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records: Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement.
Julian Pullan
Vice Chairman & President International of Jack Morton Worldwide
Julian joined Jack Morton in 2002 as director of operations in London and became managing director in 2005. He joined the Global Executive Team in 2009, became President, EMEA in 2011 and was appointed President, International in 2015. Under his leadership, the International operation has grown significantly in size and reputation, including the foundation of Jack offices in Dubai, Germany, and South Korea. Today, Julian is Vice Chairman of Jack Morton Worldwide, stewarding the creative quality and output of the agency in addition to his continued leadership of the agency outside of the US. In his 30 years in the industry, Julian has led major communications campaigns and projects for most of the world’s leading brands. Julian remains a passionate creative at heart, winning many creative awards during his accomplished career. Teams under his leadership have earned over 500 awards, including well over 100 in just the last 2 years. He has served as a member of the board of the International Visual Communications Association, is a regular commentator within the industry trade press and event circuit and is a member of the Superbrands Council.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Jada Balster
Vice President, Marketing of Workfront
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About Workfront: Workfront providers cloud-based enterprise work management solutions for enterprise teams.
Dan Harrington
Executive Vice President, Consulting & Support Services of Teradata
Dan Harrington is executive vice president of consulting and support services for Teradata, reporting to Vic Lund. He is responsible for leading the global consulting organization focused on helping customers architect, implement and manage the analytic ecosystem, including Teradata products on premises, in the cloud, and open-source technologies. In addition, he guides the customer services organization as they deliver world-class support to customers around the globe, and the development of analytical business solutions. Dan has experience in all facets of the business, including sales, services, marketing and engineering and has held multiple leadership roles, including head of Teradata’s international sales and services organization, research and development and worldwide marketing. Dan started his career with NCR Corporation in 1985 in Dallas, Texas as a sales person, eventually becoming district sales manager for major commercial accounts. In 1991, he was appointed director of marketing for the U.S. communications industry. In 1993, he took on responsibility for NCR’s global expansion into the communications industry as assistant vice president for Worldwide Communications Industry Marketing. In 1994, he became vice president, Teradata Product Management, and in 1995 he was appointed vice president, Worldwide Teradata Marketing, where he helped successfully guide the company’s growth in data warehousing. Three years later he was named vice president, Worldwide Marketing for Teradata’s computer business. His European assignment began in 1999 when he was appointed area manager of Teradata Northern Europe and subsequently Dan became vice president of sales for Teradata Europe. During his assignment, the region achieved major growth in sales, profitability and new strategic customers. In 2005, he returned to the U.S. to head up Teradata’s Global Customer Services business and continued to hold positions of increasing responsibility. Based in Rancho Bernardo, CA, Dan earned a Master’s degree in business management and graduated with distinction from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Angelo State University, graduating summa cum laude.
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About Teradata, Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Lance Miller
Assistant Vice President of R&D Marketing of Teradata
Lance Miller is Assistant Vice President, R&D Marketing, for Teradata where he is responsible for marketing all services. Mr. Miller’s is a subject-matter expert in several areas of the software industry including: databases, data warehouses, decision support (DSS/EIS), data visualization, CRM, and very large database technologies. Before joining Teradata, Lance was Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CIO, and VP, Software Development for Customer Insight Company, CIO for Woodward-Clyde, VP Software Development for Cray, and VP Software for Solbourne. Lance holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA (Strategic Marketing) from Chadwick University.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Steve Murray
Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects of VF
Steve Murray is Executive Vice President, Strategic Projects at VF Corporation. He has more than 30 years of experience in the apparel and footwear industry. In his current role, Steve partners with VF’s Senior Leadership Team and Brand Presidents to drive and deliver integrated strategic projects across brands, functions and the enterprise. Prior to his current role, Steve served as President of the Vans® brand following VF’s acquisition of the brand in 2004, during which time many of the Vans foundational strategies were established and annual revenue for the brand tripled to approximately $1 billion. In 2009, Steve was appointed President of VF’s Action Sports coalition, where he was responsible for overseeing the Vans , Reef and Pro-Tec brands . A British citizen, Steve left VF in 2010, moving back to his native UK, before re-joining the company in April 2018. He has held several leadership roles with iconic youth brands. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Airwair International (Dr. Martens) and was responsible for leading the company’s transformation from a manufacturing-led, family owned entity to a consumer-focused, private equity-backed, global retailer. He also served as Global Brand President, Urban Outfitters and EMEA President for Deckers Brands. Earlier in his career, Steve was the Global Head of Apparel for Reebok International. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Studies from Middlesex University.
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About VF: VF offers a diverse portfolio of iconic outdoor and activity-based lifestyle and work-wear brands.
Paul ODonoghue
Vice President, Solution Engineering of uberall
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About uberall: Uberall powers sales through location data, using the innovative location marketing cloud.
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud
Senior Vice President Marketing of Connexity
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud is Senior Director, EMEA B2B Marketing Director for Yahoo. He has 20 years of experience in Marketing for the Media and Tech Industries both on the Sales and Publishing sides. Before joining Yahoo in 2009 he worked for magazine publishers in France: Marketing Director for Groupe Express Roularta (leading publishers for news, business and lifestyles magazines in France), Marketing Director for the women magazines division of Emap France (Women magazines), Marketing and Research for Groupe Expansion (Business magazines).
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About Connexity, Skimlinks: Connexity is a digital advertising company that works with merchants to determine which product offerings to put on publishers’ websites.
Alex Stil
President GroupM Services EMEA of GroupM
Prior to becoming President [m][PLATFORM EMEA I was CCO at GroupM Connect where I was commercially responsible for all real-time media management activity in the group. Before that I was leading digital in the EMEA region at Mindshare combined with leading programmatic media globally. I started my career at GroupM in 2008 as COO Mindshare Netherlands. Prior to joining Mindshare, I was CEO and co-founder of Reddion, the first online media agency in Europe, which was sold to WPP in 2007. With Reddion Alex worked for clients to develop their digital knowledge and assets and was overall responsible for all their digital campaigns. Quote: ‘can’t make everybody happy, you are not sushi‘ Passion for: Gadgets, Wildlife in Africa, Digital and my family.
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About GroupM: Global media investment management company for WPP’s media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence, m/SIX and Xaxis
Mark Curtis
President of enter:marketing
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About Accenture Interactive, enter:marketing, Fjord: Entermarketing is a marketing consultant for SMEs, start-up business, recruitment, sales force, marketing actions and strategies.
Niall McKinney
President of AVADO
After graduating from Oxford University, Niall started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. In 2000, he left to help create one of the first community websites for teenagers to chat, share photos and message each other called Wowgo. It turned out the year 2000 was too early for social media! Instead he joined IPC Media, a division of Time Inc., where he became Marketing Director at the age of 24, and launched Europe’s top selling men’s magazine. After Time Inc., he was appointed CMO of Travelocity Europe, with a seat on the European board. While overseeing a marketing team of 140, he recognized the learning curve involved in integrating digital within traditional marketing channels. He formed TKE to help organisations to bridge the digital capability gap. With offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sao Paulo, and a faculty of over 100 marketing experts globally, TKE helped leading marketing-driven organizations to integrate digital into their business. TKE was the official digital training partner for WPP globally and delivered training for the world’s top advertising agencies around the world. TKE also provided training for clients like Time Inc., News Corp, MTV, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Mars and Disney. The company trained over 10,000 people every year in digital skills across marketing, advertising sales, strategy, and content creation. In 2012, TKE launched 12ahead.com, a platform for cutting edge digital trends and case studies. In 2016, Niall sold The Knowledge Engineers to AVADO Learning, and became the company’s Managing Director of the international division, based across the London, Singapore, and New York offices. At present, Niall sits as the President of AVADO, North America.
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Roger Vidal
Vice President Of Engineering, Inventory Software Solutions of Cox Automotive
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About Cox Automotive: Cox Automotive is a digital marketing, software, e-commerce for consumers, manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide.
Neil Packham
CEO | President International of CDK Global
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About CDK Global: CDK Global is transforming how cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds are marketed, sold, and serviced around the world.
Russell Alexander
Vice President of Legal of CDK Global
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About CDK Global: CDK Global is transforming how cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds are marketed, sold, and serviced around the world.
Sam Yardley
Executive Vice President, North America of Two Circles
Since joining Two Circles, Sam has led a number of projects for professional clubs and governing bodies, both in the UK and increasingly internationally, helping them grow commercial revenue across ticketing, membership, retail and hospitality. Sam has fused his passion for sport with his background as a strategy consultant at Accenture, where he worked with a range of multinational companies, government ministries, and start-ups, and learnt how to make a mean spreadsheet. Sam definitely makes a better fist of watching sport than participating in it. Recent career highlights include the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, the Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, and finally seeing England beat a southern hemisphere side at Twickenham. Just don’t mention the last Ashes tour.
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About Two Circles, Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Dom Blacklock
Vice President Programmatic, International of Active International
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About Active International: Active International provides support services for businesses in utilizing organizational assets.
Sebastien Paillet
President and Co-Founder of Early Metrics
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About Early Metrics: Early Metrics is the first startup rating agency.
Philip Davies
President EMEA of Siegel & Gale
Philip Davies is a President EMEA at Siegel & Gale.
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About Siegel & Gale: Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy, design and experience firm. Using facts, intuition and creativity,
Sarafina Wolde Gabriel
Vice President of Strategy & Opearations of Lee-Ann Johnstone
Sarafina oversees the development of the Income Access brand. She is passionate about digital marketing and building relationships, and when she’s not consulting with our clients and affiliates, she enjoys laughing, travelling and running. She’s also a big fan of Arsenal FC, and you’ll never find her without music.
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About Lee-Ann Johnstone: A digital and affiliate marketing consultancy specialising in Affiliate Marketing Training, affiliate program management and marketing.
Michal Magdziarz
President & Chief Architect of DeepCrawl
Michal Magdziarz, Chief Executive Officer at DeepCrawl
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About DeepCrawl: The #1 technical SEO SaaS platform for enterprise businesses
Vincent Boni
MD Newsquest Dorset, Hampshire, Cornwall, Salisbury, Chairman of NQ Pension Fund, President DCCI of LOCALiQ
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About LOCALiQ: LOCALiQ is a local businesses provide navigate the complexities of modern digital marketing.
David Jowett
President of DAC Group
David oversees operations and portfolio strategy for DAC Group in Europe, focusing on DAC’s recent acquisition of Make It Rain and exploring new market opportunities for DAC Group. His significant expertise drives our geo-local digital offering, local brand management capabilities and strategic growth mandate within the UK and into European markets. David has more than 20 years of agency leadership experience in both mature and developing markets, and a high level of understanding and expertise in new market introduction and expansion strategies. In other words, he’s our trailblazer; our standard-bearer; our rhinestone cowboy, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo…
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About DAC Group: DAC drives transformational growth with integrated, data-driven solutions by combining digital media expertise to engage customers.
Neil Hendry
Vice President EMEA of Digital Barriers
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About Digital Barriers, Digital Barriers: Digital Barriers provides edge-intelligent solutions for the global surveillance and security markets.
Enrico Brosio
Co-founder & President of MarketOne
Brosio has led MarketOne’s London-based European operation since its inception in 2002. He has taken a lead role in developing MarketOne’s lead lifecycle management practice, and is actively involved with the professional marketing community across Europe. Brosio began his career with Deloitte Consulting where he defined business strategies and implemented operational improvement programs for global 500 clients. He then moved to France where he co-founded Gaiatel/Faxnet, a telecom service reseller for Cable & Wireless. Brosio subsequently relocated to London where he worked as a financial analyst with Merrill Lynch and in corporate development with Level 3 Communications. In 2000 he co-founded Avondi, Europe’s first venture-backed trade exchange. Enrico earned his BA from Trinity College and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About MarketOne: MarketOne is leading a new breed of integrated demand generation providers.
Paul Lees
President of CheckoutSmart
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About CheckoutSmart, CheckoutSmart: CheckoutSmart is a mobile application that gives you rewards for uploading pictures of shopping receipts.
Benjamin Hansz
Vice President of Simplaex
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About Simplaex: Simplaex is the company behind the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence-powered user targeting technology.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
Scott Smith
Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President of Vantis Life Insurance
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About Vantis Life Insurance: Vantis Life Insurance provides families affordable life insurance and annuity products.
Matt Allpress
President of Ingresso Group
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About Ingresso Group: Ingresso Group is a global distribution system for entertainment ticketing.
