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 Director operating in the iOS space. If you think a 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.
Orhan Hasanov
Director of SwiftGift
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About GiftMagic, SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
George Sutherland
Company Secretary & Non-Executive Director of TestCard Ltd
An experienced Company Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors who has demonstrated many years of success working with major fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and Medical companies. Personally managed business with most of the major retailers and has many years of experience in dealing with the NHS and Medical markets. Experience in raising corporate finance, pre and post IPO.
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About : TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Zoe Wong
Finance Director of Depop
Zoe is a finance and operations specialist within high-growth digital platforms. She is currently Director at Depop, an international ‘social shopping’ app that is hugely popular with Generation Z, with over 8 million users.
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About Depop: Depop provides a mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, discover, and explore various things.
Dawn Aldwinckle
UK & I Sales Director – Emerging Markets of NetSuite
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About NetSuite: NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
Lord Rothermere
Chairman of the Board of Directors of DMG Media
Lord Rothermere has been Chairman of DMGT and a Non-Executive Director of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC since 1998. Lord Rothermere worked at the International Herald Tribune in Paris and the Mirror Group before moving to Northcliffe Newspapers Group in 1995. In 1997 Lord Rothermere became Managing Director of the Evening Standard.
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About : DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Grant Altson
Director of Technology & Operations of DMG Media
Grant Altson is Director of Technology & Operations at DMG media.
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About Daily Mail, DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
James Welsh
Group Finance Director of DMG Media
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Eirik Moseng
Director, CTO of Digiment
Eirik Moseng is a successful tech entrepreneur from Norway. For over 30 years he’s been creating pioneering companies in the computer games, technology, telecom, and software space, with numerous successes and innovations to his name, including Digiment and Conspexit. He’s held various positions in multinational companies and he has held roles such as CTO, Technical Director and Senior Software Engineer.
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About : Digiment is an award-winning, leading independent game development and self-publishing company.
Ian Weston
Director of The Developer Network Ltd
Ian Weston helps companies find and build digital business solutions. After a 10 year period building aerospace control and training systems for agencies including the UK MoD, ESA, Inmarsat and Eumetsat, Ian Weston joined Psion and was one of the original management team when Symbian was formed in 1998 to kickstart the smartphone industry. At Symbian, he was responsible within the software engineering department for establishing structured project management approaches, including supplier selection and management, and eventually ran the delivery programmes for Symbian OS (which was the dominant smartphone OS for the industry’s first decade). Transferring to an outward-facing role, he then set up and ran the licensing arrangements for Symbian’s 300 technology partners, providing technical consultancy and training, while running the application developer support forums and Symbian Press. After leaving Symbian in 2005 he founded and co-founded a series of technical consultancy businesses focusing on smartphones and mobile web, covering technical training and accreditation, contract middleware development, mobile app development and mobile web services and products. He is currently active in the digital media space concentrating on mobile advertising and marketing solutions as well as educational training simulations.
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About Devnet Inc, The Developer Network Ltd: The DevNet specialises in the procurement, sourcing, implementation and management of web and mobile software development.
Elizabeth Sampat
Studio Creative Director of Future Games of London
Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer and activist. At work, she designs blockbuster titles that are played by millions of fans every day; when she comes home, she crafts personal games that are intimate, revealing, and push the boundaries of the relationship between game and player. In her spare time, Elizabeth also works to make the industry she loves a better place for women and marginalized people. She was on the IGDA Women In Games steering committee for two years; Marie Claire called her “The Game Changer” when they named her one of “20 Women Changing The Ratio” in male-dominated industries. Elizabeth’s personal work has been in the LA Times and on Rock Paper Shotgun, and her advocacy and talks have been covered on Polygon, Kotaku, The Escapist, and more. She’s also an accomplished writer outside of the game industry, and was a regular contributor at The Yearbook Office. Her book “Empathy Engines: Design Games That Are Personal, Political, And Profound” was released in early 2017. She is kind of a feminist, and definitely trouble.
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About Future Games of London, Future Games of London, SYBO Games: We make iPhone, iPad and Android games for all you lovely people 🙂
Ryan Doyle
Technical Director of Hello Games
I’ve been into games for as long as I can remember – one of my earliest memories is playing Robotron 2084. I was amazed, it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I was in a science fiction film, a universe where anything was possible. I was hooked. I eventually went to university to study Computer Science, and upon leaving I was lucky enough that Criterion must have been desperate for programmers as they furnished me with my first job in the games industry. I was elated – this was my dream! To be making games, to be able to provide other people with that fantastic feeling you get when you first boot up a new game and it (hopefully) pushes all the right buttons, makes you feel you’re no longer in the world you’re physically sat in but the one on the screen, the one in your head. I had a fantastic time working on the Burnout series, before moving to Kuju for the opportunity to be Lead Programmer on Geometry Wars: Galaxies (I’d been a massive Geometry Wars fan previously). This was another great place to work, a fun atmosphere and fun games being made. Hello Games was the next big step – to try something for ourselves. It’s been an exciting and educational journey, and hopefully we’ll produce games that will bring a smile to your face, or a laugh to your lips as that’s what games mean to me. Fun.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
Sean Murray
Managing Director of Hello Games
Hello! I’m the Managing Director here at Hello Games. I’m from Ireland originally but moved about a bit – including a few years in Australia growing up (apparently leaving me with a confused accent). My gateway computer was an Amstrad CPC, but I was really an Amiga boy from pretty early on. I wrote my first game when I was about six years old (it was a text adventure and it was unsurprisingly terrible). I tend to fall for arcadey, pure games that I can play with friends – classics are definitely Micro Machines, Mario Kart, Super Monkey Ball and Excitebike (I have a theory that I’m the greatest Mario Kart Battle player who has ever lived – unproven). My degree was straight Computer Science which generally frowned on anything games related. Becoming a game developer from there was definitely my dream job. I’ve worked bunch of places – before this I was a Tech Director at Kuju and worked lots of games including Burnout 3 and Black at Criterion as a Technical Lead.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
David Ream
Creative Director of Hello Games
People often ask me – “Excuse me, are you David Ream, Creative Director of Hello Games?” At this point I nod. “I thought so! I would love to know a bit more about you.” I am a polite guy, so I indulge them. I normally start by telling them about how it all started with my Dad and his hacked Atari 2600. Piles of loose ROM chips with stickers on that said things like Frogger, Adventure, Kaboom and Defender. We sigh together nostalgically. I waffle on about old PC games I used to love for a bit, then move on to how I went to University to do Maths and Physics, then a Masters in Computer Science. With my smarts established I next talk about moving down to London to work for Climax as a bright-eyed graduate coder. I take them on a wild journey from there out to Kuju in the game development heartlands of Surrey, including development of some sort on every platform of the time and including personal fanboy favourites such as being able to help create a new Geometry Wars game. If at this point their eyes have glazed over, I drop in casually that I am a keen musician, that I play the piano. That either gives them more useful insight into the David enigma or makes them think I am being a pretentious snot. Who cares? I have re-engaged them. I win! I round it all off by saying how much I enjoy working in games, and how the opportunity to be part of a tight team made up of my mates was one that I could not possibly pass up.They nod knowingly, smile and walk away thoroughly enlightened.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
Oliver Waters
Co-founder & Managing Director of d3i
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About d3i, Momento, Protospace: d3i is a software development studio specialising in iPhone/iPad app design and development.
Paul Ebert
Managing Director of Tabeo
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About Tabeo: We simplify payments and contact management for healthcare specialists. Grow your business and keep patients happy.
Ugur Akdemir
Founder & Creative Director of Lemonat
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About Lemonat: Lemonat is a digital product design agency that focuses on user-friendly web and mobile application design.
Daniel Counsell
Director/Founder of Realmac Software
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About Realmac Software, Realmac Software: Realmac is a software platform that develops applications for Mac and iOS operating systems.
Alex Seewald
Founder, Managing Director of Openshadow Ltd
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About Openshadow Ltd: Mobile software development. Research and Development. Project Management.
Joao Pescada
Founder & Technology Director of Suprasumo
Independent Technologist & Consultant for web apps
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About Suprasumo, Yummelier: Suprasumo is a friendly bunch of problem-solvers specialised in delivering interactive products such as, websites,mobile apps.
Esther Cochrane
Director of Eunoia Agency Ltd
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About Eunoia Agency Ltd: Mobile Technology Specialists
Nick Cochrane
Director of Eunoia Agency Ltd
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About Eunoia Agency Ltd: Mobile Technology Specialists
Bhairav Patel
Board of Directors of Sjapper
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About Defactor: Sjapper is a mobile application that makes it easy to find local products, events and exclusives in Kristiansand and South-Norway.
Stuart Grant
Founder·Director of Go-do-World
Stuart Grant is an entrepreneur, DJ, voice-over artist, author, musician, and multiple business owner. Stuart Grant runs a successful Mobile app and website creation company (GO DO WORLD) which also provides social media training. Stuart also runs The Digital Authors Toolkit, Pet Milestones, The Video Store, and recently launched Furrydays.com. Stuart Grant as a DJ was part of the Stuart Grant Radio Breakfast show on Kiss fm for 10 years and then worked in London for Global radio running two radio stations as Managing editor and Senior Producer including Capital Xtra. Feel free to email Stuart Grant with any questions. Stu@godoworld.com
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About Go-do-World: The company works to build mobile phone applications, websites and social media optimization for businesses.
Olly Tagg
Founder & Director of Corporate Mobile Recycling
Olly Tagg is Founder & Director at Corporate Mobile Recycling.
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About Corporate Mobile Recycling: CMR Ltd is a mobile phone recycling company trading for over 10 years reselling and recycling 70,000 mobile phones and electrical devices
Saeid Naelini
Managing Director of AMX Solutions
Civil Engineer and Bridge Expert with 20 years experience in the industry, including computer programming. As Director, Saied is responsible for the Strategy and Operations of Infrastructure Asset Management Ltd.. Saeid oversees the international business, working in the Middle East and across Europe.
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About AMX Solutions: AMX Solutions specialized in enterprise asset management software solutions spanning a wide range of market sectors.
Jack Symons
Director (Product) of Gamban
Jack Symons is Co-Founder & Director at Gamban.
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About Gamban: RegTech, Mobile, Healthcare
Fredrik Borestrom
Director of New Business, Global of Odyssey Mobile Interaction
I’m responsible for running our global sales team, setting our commercial strategy and working with the world’s leading advertisers.
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About Odyssey Mobile Interaction: Odyssey Mobile Interaction is a technology and media provider helping advertisers target and engage with mobile audiences.
Jonathan Ling
Director of Cover-Up
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About Cover-Up: Designers and creators of cases, covers and other great accessories for smartphones, tablets and ereaders
Jonathan Ling
Director of Cover-Up
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About Cover-Up: Designers and creators of cases, covers and other great accessories for smartphones, tablets and ereaders
