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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 Advisor operating in the Apps space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Will Armitage
Advisor of 365Scores
William Armitage is the Co-Founder & CFO ,Advisor of The Game Day.
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About The Game Day: 365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel.
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Richard Brown
Advisor of ChromaWay
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About : ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.
Alex Stephany
Board Advisor of JustPark
Alex Stephany is the Founder and CEO of Beam. Previously, he was CEO of JustPark and remains a Board Advisor. He is the author of The Business of Sharing, published by Macmillan, and an expert on the sharing economy. Before working in startups, he worked at a niche strategy consultancy and trained as a corporate lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP. He holds a Double First Class Honours Degree from Oxford University.
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About Beam, Founders Pledge: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Shaun Springer
Advisory Board Member of Bink
Shaun Springer, is a dynamic and seasoned global commercial marketer with experience gained across a wide range of industries, sectors and brands from MasterCard, Sky, BT to Sainsbury’s. He has been heavily engaged in building successful programmes and brands and most recently MasterCard’s Iconic Priceless Brand & Priceless Programmes as Head of Brand, Digital, and Consumer Marketing. Also, from his entrepreneurial and creative approach throughout his career, in defining and understanding consumer insights and their passions he has significantly driven business value across key business areas such as, Loyalty, ARPU, Sponsorship and Retention.
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About : Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Ed Matthews
Advisory Board Member of Bink
Investment Banker being lead advisor for FTSE100 and 250 companies and is a specialist in the Retail and Luxury Sector
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About : Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Nick Mueller
Lead Advisor of SMARTIFY
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About : SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member of Satispay
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About : Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
Julian Lennon
Advisor of Pixhug
John Charles Julian Lennon , known simply as Julian Lennon ( Liverpool , 8 April 1963 ), is a singer-songwriter and guitarist British . Julian is the eldest son of the former lead singer and guitarist of the Beatles John Lennon , and the only son of his first wife, Cynthia Powell.
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About : Pixhug is a social change platform that connects social media with social responsibility.
Deane Short
Advisors of bubble app
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About : Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Mark Davies
Advisors of bubble app
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About : Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Jean-Stephane Gourevitch
Advisor of Mespo
Jean-Stéphane Gourévitch has over twenty years’ International, European and UK senior management experience in the Digital and Mobile Communications ecosystem in particular in key Regulatory, Public Policy/Affairs and Strategy fields. He has specialized and is currently advising clients on the strategic, business, regulatory and policy risks and opportunities resulting from the emerging Digital and Mobile Convergence Ecosystem such as Mobile Money, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallets but also m-Health, m-Education, m-Content, Machine-to-Machine Communications and Smart connected living (Smart Buildings, Smart Cars, Smart Cities). He has held senior management positions with a number of blue-chip International telecoms and media businesses such as Everything Everywhere Ltd. (EE), Orange, Global Crossing, France Telecom, Verizon Business, Colt Technology Services Ltd, leading and advising on strategic, operational, policy/regulatory, compliance and lobbying issues in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia. He has worked for OFCOM, the UK digital communications regulator, focusing on strategic and policy work on spectrum and mobile technologies issues. He has also held senior management positions with Deloitte Consulting and with strategic marketing and PR/Communications firms. He has two main functional expertise pillars: First pillar: European and International Affairs; Public Affairs; Regulatory Strategy, Public Policy; Compliance; Competition Policy; Government Relations. – Second pillar: Corporate Strategy/Planning; Competitive; Market & Policy Intelligence; Issue management; Crisis Management and Communications; Stakeholders Relationships Management.
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Mark Falcon
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
James Ashe-Taylor
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Richard Dallas
Advisor of Mespo
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About : Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Angela Goldberg
Team Advisor of Agily
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About : Agily is a collaborative and team goal management app improving organisational alignment, business agility and competitiveness.
Natalia Krupina
Formerly Marketing Director, currently Advisor of Pulp
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About : Pulp allows its users to get the most diverse selection of wines from independent producers.
Riccardo Santoro
Co-Founder, currently Advisor of Pulp
Riccardo is a co-founder of Pulp. Riccardo has 9 years of experience in management consulting, the last 3 of which advising startups on growth strategies.
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About : Pulp allows its users to get the most diverse selection of wines from independent producers.
Yan Cui
Advisor of Lumigo
Yan is a polyglot developer and architect, he is a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally. Yan is the author of AWS Lambda in Motion, a co-author of F# Deep Dives, and he keeps an active blog at http://theburningmonk.com where he shares his thoughts on topics such as AWS, serverless, functional programming and chaos engineering.
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About Lumigo: Lumigo provides Troubleshoot Serverless Applications at the speed of light.
Manisha Prabhakar
Educational Advisor of Synap
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About Synap: Synap is online education platform using AI to revolutionise learning.
Tom Pakenham
Advisor of Represent
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About : Building the tools for a better democracy.
Dennis Kerslake
Advisor of ConnectiD
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About : ConnectiD, the smartest address book, wants to change consumer behaviour and organise the worlds contact information
Caroline Fiennes
Advisor of Makerble
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About : Makerble enables charities to track, review and share their impact
Ross Lovegrove
Board of Advisors of Doobiz
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About : Contact Sharing 3.0, Doobiz makes your business life much easier, faster and real.
David Ehrlich
Board of Advisors of Doobiz
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About : Contact Sharing 3.0, Doobiz makes your business life much easier, faster and real.
Janet Thomas
RIsk Advisor of Moneymailme
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About : Moneymailme is a mobile application that enables its users to receive and transfer payments with others.
Derek Southall
Advisory Board Member of NAVA
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About : NAVA is a dependable city exploration application to personalise content based on individual preferences and interests.
David Solomides
Advisory Board Member of NAVA
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About : NAVA is a dependable city exploration application to personalise content based on individual preferences and interests.
