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 CMO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Phil Lloyd
Chief Marketing Officer of Carwow
Phil is CMO. He joined from a mobile gaming start-up based in San Francisco USA, having previously been a senior marketer at Paddy Power Betfair. He made the big move down from ‘the North’ to London after uni as a graduate.When he’s not chasing his two young kids around the house, he has a keen interest in vegetarian food, the state of our current politics and the regular trauma of being a Blackburn Rovers fan.
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Matthew James Low
Chief Marketing Officer at QPQ of QPQ
Matthew James Low is the CMO at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Martin Lamming
Chief Marketing Officer of MasLife
Martin Lamming is the Chief Marketing Officer of MasLife.
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About MasLife: Financial services, Well-being, AI
Nina Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of O2
Nina is the Chief Marketing Officer at O2, with commercial profit and loss accountability for the consumer and SMB mobile business. She is also responsible for marketing across O2, including brand, marketing communications, data analytics, customer experience, devices and sustainability. Nina joined O2 from Barclaycard, where she oversaw the launch of innovations such as Payband and Bespoke Offers. Prior to Barclaycard, Nina was SVP of Global Brand Management at IHG, where she led the successful re-launch of Holiday Inn, the largest of its kind in the hospitality industry. Before that, Nina held a variety of roles at Diageo over 9 years including Commercial Strategy Director, Brand Director for Baileys and Pimms and Global Brand Director of Reserve Brands. Nina’s early career after business school was in consulting. She is a non-executive Director of Barratt Developments plc and is a trustee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Tim Knight
Chief Marketing Officer of IntelliSense.io
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Andrey Eliseev
CMO of BeMyEye
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About BeMyEye: BeMyEye is a European crowdsourced in-store data as a service (DAAS) provider.
Lynda Lowe
Chief Marketing Officer of Condeco
Lynda is a product and marketing specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She has been at Condeco from the beginning, driving go to market strategies, new business growth and the evolving the brand worldwide. Her experience across both marketing and sales gives her a deep understanding of Condeco’s market and client’s needs enabling her to develop powerful, effective marketing strategies.
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About Condeco: How tomorrow will work: Our workspace booking solutions give you everything you need to work flexibly.
Lauren Fortune
Chief Marketing Officer of Teneo
Lauren avidly promotes consistent customer experience across all global touch points at Teneo. Her interest is in building customer relationships that are mutually beneficial, leading to innovation that enhances business for both Teneo and our customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Ian McGregor
Chief Marketing Officer of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Michael Charalambous
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President Of Commercial Operations of FuelPlus
Michael joined FuelPlus in 2016 and is responsible for global marketing and communications, based in their UK office. Michael has been helping scale-up great technology companies for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining FuelPlus, he was the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Director of Marketing for Diligent Corporation, a $100m Delloite top 50 growth company. Michael started his career at British Airways and has held senior marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Oracle, Carbon Trust and Opower. Michael has a degree in aeronautical engineering and a masters in strategic marketing.
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About FuelPlus: The FuelPlus Group is the leading provider of fuel administration and management software to the aviation industry.
Tom Mursell
CMO of Timeular
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About Tendersave, Timeular: Unlock your time. Effortless time tracking SaaS to help you lead a more rewarding work-life.
Andrew Webber
Chief Marketing & Client Relations of Whitespace
Andrew Webber – newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Whitespace Ventures. Prior to that Andrew worked for just over ten years at Microsoft in both European and UK roles. In that time Andrew had responsibility across a range of Go To Market teams including tech startups engagement, video game developers engagement and top UK Universities. He was also the EMEA Marketing Lead for Microsoft Financing and saw that business unit grow from $250m to over $2.1 Billion in 2 years. In his time at Microsoft Andrew has been reognised both Gold and Platinum Leadership awards but was also listed in the MCV Top 100 Most Influential People in the UK Games Industry. He also was proud to have conceived and launched the Greenshoots Video Games Investment programme which is still going strong now under ownership of Xbox in Europe. As the new CMO of Whitespace Ventures Andrew has responsibility for their Go To Market planning & execution including the Corporate Partnerships programme.
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About Whitespace: We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.
Andrew Brown Allan
Chief Marketing Officer of Trak Global Group
Previously founded an award-winning creative agency and strategy consultancy, working with some of the world’s biggest brands. Andrew is keen on technology and innovation, with a real focus on delivering remarkable customer experiences.
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About Trak Global Group: Trak Global Group provides its partners with the very latest in technology to enable and support telematics insurance propositions.
Cindy Etsell
Chief Marketing Officer of Vizolution
Cindy Etsell is Chief Marketing Officer at Vizolution
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About Ezra Coaching, Lee Hecht Harrison, Vizolution: Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Arun Shenoy
CMO and SVP Global Sales of Serverfarm
Arun Shenoy is the CMO and SVP Sales at Serverfarm.
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About Gibss, Serverfarm: Serverfarm is a data center company providing a complete data center oversight from facility to IT infrastructure management.
Alison Levy Bringé
Chief Marketing Officer of Launchmetrics
Alison is the Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics. She joined Fashion GPS in 2013 as the Global Director of Brand Development. Previously she held roles at companies such as IMG Fashion and Net-A-PORTER managing Marketing & PR. She has also spent time guest lecturing at Parsons, The New School, Condé Nast College and Il Sole 24Ore’s Business School. Alison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising & Communications from the Univ. of Central Florida and a Masters from SDA Bocconi’s School of Management.
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About Launchmetrics: Launchmetrics is a provider of social influencer data and insights technology intended to connect the industry through technology.
Jenni Young
Chief Marketing Officer of Tappit
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About Appcelerate, Tappit: Tappit is the only truly global RFID cashless solution.
Nic Orfang
CMO of Simply Mystro
Nic Orfang is the CMO at Simply Mystro.
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About Simply Mystro: Saas, fintech , banking , blockchain , validations
Alexander King
CMO of Fixflo
Saas revenue leader
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About Fixflo: Fixflo is a repair reporting and maintenance management software system.
Alexander King
CMO of Fixflo
Saas revenue leader
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About Fixflo: Fixflo is a repair reporting and maintenance management software system.
Decio Emanuel
Chief Marketing Officer of SageCity
Decio Emanuel is the chief marketing officer at SageCity.
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About SageCity: SageCity develops tools that are needed to run business operations easily, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible.
Kevin Tewis-Allen
CMO of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Matthew Pate
Co-Founder & CMO of Sandbox
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About Sandbox: Revolutionising retail through flexible, shared spaces. Helping brands engage, test and sell emerging technology products.
Bjorn Laku
Director & CMO of Cashbook Finance
Mr. Laku is an experienced Business Development Manager skilled in Project and Brand Management, Strategic Planning, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing. Past industry experiences include “Big 4” Management Consulting, Telecommunications, Specialty Foods, and the Digital Industry.
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About Cashbook Finance: FCA registered company offering Invoice Finance & Factoring services in the UK.
David Bush
Founder and CMO of Dronecloud
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About Dronecloud, Future Aerial: Dronecloud is a platform created to manage a complex drone operation with ease from start to finish.
Huw Thomas
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of SG Digital
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About SG Digital: SG Digital offers customers the widest portfolio of content available across our OpenSports and OpenGaming platforms.
Catherine Williams
CMO of Altmetric
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About Altmetric: I measure the attention that scientific articles receive from social media, mainstream media sources and the grey literature.
Catherine Williams
CMO of Altmetric
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About Altmetric: I measure the attention that scientific articles receive from social media, mainstream media sources and the grey literature.
David Hicks
CMO of Altitude Tech
David Hicks is an innovative market analyst with a dedication to sales orientated results. Hailing from an Account management background, He provide a dynamic ability to adapt to a fast-moving technology market and provide solutions for a close knit team of professional developers, allowing them to bring products to market in a versatile and ever-changing market.
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About Altitude Tech: Altitude Tech is founded by professionals and students in the area of robotics, electronics and product design.
David Hicks
CMO of Altitude Tech
David Hicks is an innovative market analyst with a dedication to sales orientated results. Hailing from an Account management background, He provide a dynamic ability to adapt to a fast-moving technology market and provide solutions for a close knit team of professional developers, allowing them to bring products to market in a versatile and ever-changing market.
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About Altitude Tech: Altitude Tech is founded by professionals and students in the area of robotics, electronics and product design.
