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 Partner operating in the Social space. If you think a Partner 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.
Emily Kasriel
Head of Editorial Partnerships and Special Projects of BBC
Emily Kasriel develops strategic partnerships and thought leadership for the BBC World Service Group which includes the BBC World Service, BBC World TV and BBC.com and reaches over a quarter of a billion people every week on TV, radio and digital. Emily is also an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. She has had an award winning career as a broadcaster and editor at the BBC – creating, running and presenting The Forum, the landmark weekly ideas show on the BBC World Service after running their Arts and Religion departments, and has reported and produced for the BBC across five continents. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph and the Financial Times and chairs panels and discussions at conferences and events. Emily is also a BBC Executive Coach, on the board of The Wingate Foundation which supports charities, and the advisory board of Spark Inside, an NGO which transforms the lives of young people who have offended.
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About BBC, BBC, Windgate Foundation: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Matt Gallop
BBC Education Partnerships Producer of BBC
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Caroline Drucker
Director of Strategic Partnerships EMEA of Instagram
Vice, SoundCloud, Etsy, and now Instagram – the NEXT regular knows her stuff.
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Till Behnke
Founder and Managing Partner of nebenan.de
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About nebenan.de: nebenan.de is a social network for neighbors.
Joel Churcher
Vice President Marketing & Partnerships – Britbox North America of BBC Studios
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About BBC Studios: BBC Studios is a global content company with British creativity.
Richard Phillips
Managing Partner of Wantfeed
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About Sycomp, Wantfeed: Wantfeed lets you store and curate things from around the web into your own personal wantlist.
Saverio Cianfrone
Director Music Partnerships of Crowdmix
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About Crowdmix: Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.
Ruth Mortimer
Managing Partner of Econsultancy
Ruth Mortimer is Managing Partner for Econsultancy, which provides digital transformation services through content, research, training, capability work and data. She was formerly the director of the award-winning Festival of Marketing and content director for Centaur Marketing, which comprises Marketing Week, Econsultancy, Festival of Marketing, Creative Review, Design Week, Celebrity Intelligence, Fashion/Beauty Monitor, Year Ahead and Foresight News. She is a PPA award-winning writer and author of five books on marketing. She is regularly asked to host events for brands such as Google and remains on the advisory board for the Festival of Marketing, which under her tenure, featured high profile figures such as Apple founder Steve Wozniak, 13 simultaneous stages, an awards scheme, a gig and a partner fringe programme.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Alison Bukhari
Director – Business Development and Partnerships (U.K) of Dasra
Alison has a unique insight into what it takes to scale an organization, create wide impact, and become a sector leader in India. She brings distinctive experience to her role as a Director of Investor Relations at Dasra from her seven years working in India during the early years of growth at Magic Bus, now one of India’s leading child development organizations, as well as her time as a senior specialist in British and Anglo-Indian art at Christie’s, the art auction house. Alison has opened Dasra’s UK office and is forging strong connections with a wide variety of donors and partners in the European philanthropy and impact investing space. Alison has a Masters with Joint Honours in German and History of Art from the University of Edinburgh, as well as a diploma in Cross-Sector Partnerships from Cambridge University, part one of an MA in International Development.
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About Dasra: Dasra builds collaborations with organizations providing valuable consulting on strategic, management.
Pavneet Khurana
People + Culture Partner of Unleashed
Pavneet Khurana is the People + Culture Partner at Unleashed.
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About Unleashed: Unleashed works with early-stage start-ups and scale-ups to build a better and more successful business.
Guendalina Cobianchi
Business Development & Partnerships of V-Nova
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About V-Nova: Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Deana Smart Zegna
Partner of Sonet Digital
Deana Smart Zegna is a partner at Sonet Digital Ltd.
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About Sonet Digital: Sonet Digital is an Internet marketing agency that specialises in online visibililty, brand awareness, and digital strategies.
Deana Smart Zegna
Partner of Sonet Digital
Deana Smart Zegna is a partner at Sonet Digital Ltd.
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About Sonet Digital: Sonet Digital is an Internet marketing agency that specialises in online visibililty, brand awareness, and digital strategies.
Maya Bogle
Founder and Head of Agency Partnerships of Talenthouse
Maya Bogle is one of the Founders of Talenthouse, a platform dedicated to developing creative talent around the World with the technology to become the largest source of creative solutions for brands. Talenthouse meets the rapidly growing demand amongst brand owners to deliver these solutions at speed, at scale, with cultural relevance and at competitive cost. Maya is championing this cause and has over 25 years experience in media. She speaks regularly at conferences including Cannes Lions, Social Media Week New York, AdWeek Europe, Crowdsourcing Week Singapore, the London F.ounders Conference, Tech City Insider, the Media Summit Manchester, Ibiza Music Video Festival, Silicon Beach EU, NOAH and numerous educational establishments.
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About Talenthouse: 14.6 million strong global creative community power leading brands globally
Charlie Dawe
Director of Strategic Partnerships, London Ops of RECOVR
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About RECOVR: Creators + Patrons + Charity = ☮. Reevaluating the Value of Music. We ♥︎ #creators #mycelia #FairTradeMusic #blockchain #VR + You.
John Welbourn
Director of Partnerships of Gnatta
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About Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
Doug Ayres
Founding Partner of Policy Radar
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About Policy Radar: Discover & analyse the opinions of UK members of parliament across News, Social Media & Hansard
Simon Hobbs
Founding Partner of Policy Radar
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About Policy Radar: Discover & analyse the opinions of UK members of parliament across News, Social Media & Hansard
David Anthony Kennedy
Silent Partner of Brands on Digital
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About Brands on Digital: Brands on Digital is a digital marketing agency for brands.
Jon Cronin
Partner and Head of Lansons Broadcast & Content of Lansons
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About Lansons: Lansons is a full service strategic consultancy, specialising in corporate, media and political communications.
Jon Cronin
Partner and Head of Lansons Broadcast & Content of Lansons
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About Lansons: Lansons is a full service strategic consultancy, specialising in corporate, media and political communications.
James Blackman
Managing Partner of Cocoonfxmedia Ltd
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About Cocoonfxmedia Ltd: We’re experts in Web Design and Marketing offering full design consultation and marketing service for companies around
James Blackman
Managing Partner of Cocoonfxmedia Ltd
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About Cocoonfxmedia Ltd: We’re experts in Web Design and Marketing offering full design consultation and marketing service for companies around
Glen Tapper
Creative Partner of Cocoonfxmedia Ltd
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About Cocoonfxmedia Ltd: We’re experts in Web Design and Marketing offering full design consultation and marketing service for companies around
