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 Managing Director operating in the Video space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Graeme Ankers
Managing Director of FireSprite
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About FireSprite: FireSprite is a video game development studio.
Ken Friar
Club Secretary & Managing Director of Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal Football Club’s longest-serving director, Ken Friar OBE has been a mainstay of the Club for more than 60 years. During this time, Mr Friar, as he is affectionately known by all, has done just about every job at the Club including working as Club Secretary and Managing Director. He was a driving force behind the Gunners’ move from Highbury to Emirates Stadium and continues to lead the Club’s activities in the property sector.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kris Brown
Co-Managing Director of Piksel
As joint Managing Director of Piksel’s Media & Entertainment business, Kris holds primary responsibility for the growth of the company’s products, operations and architectural direction. During almost two decades in enterprise software, Kris has worked on architecture, design and delivery for clients spanning healthcare, financial services, the public sector and, of course, media and entertainment. Having initially joined Piksel in 2010, he returned to the company in 2014 following a period spent in-house at a major media technology company. Prior to his appointment as joint managing director, he served as the company’s Head of Product. Kris is focused on organisational culture, business transformation, metadata management and highly available data intensive systems. Kris studied at the University of Durham, where he attained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Dominic Grounsell
Managing Director – UK & Eire Sports Brands of Entain
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Mark Morris
Managing Director of Introversion Software
Mark has oversight of all of Introversion’s activities and acts as the arbiter between the Creative and Sales-driven ideologies of Chris and Tom.
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About Introversion Software: Introversion Software is an independent game developer and publisher.
Emily Shelley
Managing Director of Alamy
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About Alamy: Alamy is the world’s largest online photo agency for stock, video and live news.
Richard McBride
Managing Director of Edesix
Richard McBride is Managing Director at Edesix.
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About Edesix: Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
Richard Pennington
Managing Director and Co-Founder of FourNet
Richard Pennington is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FourNet.
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About 4NET Information Technologies, FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Farhad Divecha
Managing Director of AccuraCast
Farhad Divecha is the managing director of AccuraCast. He oversees all search engine marketing, advertising and technical development work. A recognised authority in the field of search engine marketing and mobile search marketing, Farhad is a regular speaker at industry conferences and is quoted in numerous popular publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and CNet.
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About AccuraCast: AccuraCast is a digital marketing agency based in London, UK.
Michael Boniface
European Managing Director of Reloaded Games, Inc.
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About Reloaded Games, Inc.: Reloaded Games is a publisher of massively multiplayer online games, including War Rock, Sword of the World, and Knight Online.
Jason Perkins
Managing Director of Curve Digital
Jason Perkins currently works as the Managing Director for Curve Digital. He previously worked at blue52 limited as the Director.
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About Curve Digital: Indie developer & publisher of fine video games.
Francis Turner
Co-Founder, CRO & UK Managing Director at Adyoulike , BIMA Hot 100 2015 of ADYOULIKE
Francis Turner is the Co-Founder & CRO at ADYOULIKE.
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About ADYOULIKE, ADYOULIKE, Content Amp: Advertising, Reinvented.
Dale Lovell
UK Managing Director & Co-Founder of ADYOULIKE
Chief Digital Officer at Adyoulike – the European leader in native advertising. Successful track record in online start-ups and one of BIMA’s Hot 100 2015. Prior to Adyoulike Dale was co-founder of Content Amp, a content marketing service that merged with Adyoulike in March 2014. Proven at building creative content businesses, nurturing start-up teams, content development, developing brand content strategy and promoting the benefits of online content to all businesses and brands. An experienced content marketer, online editor, publisher and media professional. Experienced across the entire spectrum of online media with direct hands-on experience in numerous internet start-ups.
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About ADYOULIKE, Content Amp: Advertising, Reinvented.
Colin Gray
Managing Director and Founder of The Podcast Host ltd.
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About The Podcast Host ltd.: The Podcast Host aims to help any business get their word, their personality & their brand out to a larger audience, all through podcasting.
Dane Streeter
Managing Director of SharpStream
Dane Streeter is co-founder and Managing Director of SharpStream, one of the worlds leading audio streaming service and technology companies. For over a decade, Dane has provided media enterprises with service for the largest, era-defining audio streaming technologies and is responsible for the delivery of over 15 billion annual hours of digital audio content to over 35 million individuals throughout the world. Dane’s passion for audio streaming came in 2004, at the age of 16, listening to early internet broadcasts of live gigs from popular locations such as Ministry of Sound London, and A State of Trance in Holland.
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About SharpStream: SharpStream is the leading streaming platform for smart streamers…
Mark Mulligan
Managing Director and Analyst of MIDiA Research
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About MIDiA Research: MIDiA Research is a media and technology analysis company that offers consulting and syndicated research services.
Brandon Wu
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Markd
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About Markd: Markd is a gaming industry that focuses on providing competitive games.
Ryan Nicol
Managing Director of Ceres Productions Ltd
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About Ceres Productions Ltd: A video production company based in London, offering high quality video & event filming services direct to the corporate market.
Bhavik Haria
Managing Director of Cincera Productions
Bhavik Haria, Director of video production agency Cincera Productions, has over 5 years experience in helping businesses tell their story in the digital world through the power of videos. His fresh outlook on video marketing and how to use it to increase sales has helped hundreds of businesses to reach new audiences and increase their profits. Cincera have helped tell stories for businesses such as Kaplan Financial UK, Arup, Arcus and charitable organisations such as the RSPCA and London”s Air Ambulance. Bhavik is committed to deeply understanding how online video is transforming businesses around the UK and can show you how to do the same for your own business.
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About Cincera Productions: Cincera is here to provide professional cinematography and photography services for all types of businesses.
Luke Beauchamp
Managing Director of Advertising Production Resources (aka APR Consulting)
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About Advertising Production Resources (aka APR Consulting), City Quests Media: Advertising Production Resources is a media production company offering media production management and cost optimization services.
Matt Byrom
Managing Director of Wyzowl
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About 4040 Media, Wyzowl: We create videos to explain a product or service. We make it easy, fun and interesting for people to find out about your business.
Nia Thomas
Managing Director of Boom Cymru
Nia Thomas is Managing Director at Boom Cymru.
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About Boom Cymru: TV Film and Video Production Company
Matthew Eaton
Managing Director, EMEA of GrayMeta
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About GrayMeta: GrayMet dramatically improves efficiencies by automating the creation of metadata with an innovative approach to extracting rich metadata.
Mark Lockie
Managing Director, Landmark Identity, Strategic Advisor, Science Media Partners of Landmark Identity
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About Landmark Identity: Landmark offers knowledge in the identity sector and offers marketing, events, community building, research and content services.
Rodney Jackson
Managing Director of Cojac Limited
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About Cojac Limited: Cojac has invented and patented an award winning 6-axis controller for PC gaming.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Paul Maidement
Partner – Managing Director of TRIARC
Paul joined TRIARC in 2016 to develop TRIARC Learning and to develop the company’s international partnerships. Paul’s career at the BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide spanned almost 20 years during which time he ran a number of business units in the digital media and content spaces. Most notably he ran the clip sales arm BBC Motion Gallery which licensed video material around the world. In addition Paul also oversaw BBC Worldwide Learning, the division producing content from archive to map against learning requirements. Paul helped BBC Worldwide secure a long term contract for BBC Motion Gallery with Getty Images and he then took the opportunity to realise his ambition to run his own business, Kite Media Limited which was established in January 2015. At a time when content continues to be king, Paul helps organisations curate and commercialise their material – usually video – which more often than not has been languishing on the shelf. In addition Paul’s experience has proved invaluable to a number of start-up or immature businesses in the digital media market and he helps them with their planning, investment and ‘go to market’ activity. Paul has associates around the world and Kite Media’s client base is truly global.
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About TRIARC: Stock footage Licensing Platform
Alex B. McKinley
Founder and Managing Director of Share Talk
Alex.B. McKinley is the Founder and Managing Director of Share Talk.
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About Share Talk: Share Talk is a free communications portal that gives users access to exclusive interviews, videos, blogs, iOS, and Android mobile Apps.
Aaron Wood
Managing Director & Producer of Slurpy Studios
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About Slurpy Studios: Slurpy Studios offers a complete range of in-house facilities to take a project from concept to delivery.
Aaron Wood
Managing Director & Producer of Slurpy Studios
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About Slurpy Studios: Slurpy Studios offers a complete range of in-house facilities to take a project from concept to delivery.
Frank Crouwel
Managing Director of NW Systems Group
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About NW Systems Group: NW Systems Group is a company that is a Specialist supplier and integrator of IP-based CCTV & Security Systems.
Monty Halls
Founder & Managing Director & Executive Producer of Seadog Television and Film Productions
Monty is a well known BBC presenter, having fronted three series of BBC 2’s ‘Great Escapes’, as well as ‘Great Barrier Reef’ and ‘The Fisherman’s Apprentice.’ He has also presented films and series’ for Discovery, The History Channel, Channel 5, National Geographic, and Channel 4. More recently he has created several series concepts, including ‘Dive Mysteries’ and ‘The Great Shark Chase’, and has worked more actively as a producer and originator of new content.
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About Seadog Television and Film Productions: Seadog is an independent television and commercial production company founded by Monty Halls.
Francis Namouk
Managing Director of Videum
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About Videum: Videum facilitates an online platform that enables its users to find and publish videos related to health and wellness.
