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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 Managing Director operating in the Computer 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.
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member of ActiveViam
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
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Abder Guezour
Managing Director of Greycon
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About Greycon: Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling, forecasting & manufacturing execution systems.
Li Wang
Managing Director of Biosite Systems
Li is a founding member of the Biosite team. Li oversees strategic direction and commercial operations, ensuring value is delivered to all clients. Li has a strong background in algorithm system design and development.
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About Biosite Systems: Biosite delivers biometric fingerprint technology solutions to the Construction sector.
Olivier Choron
Managing Director, EMEA of Impartner
Olivier Choron joined Impartner in June 2018, when Impartner acquired Tremolo Software. Olivier was the CEO and Founder at Tremolo, the provider of News on Demand and Social on Demand, products which have now been added to the unique Impartner PRM portfolio. With 25 plus years of channel marketing expertise, gained in Europe and in the US, at companies such as 3Com and Nortel Networks, Olivier is a well-recognized figure in the channel. Having run global channel marketing programs for these companies and having run UK-based purechannels, a channel marketing services firm he founded 12 years ago, Olivier has advised many organizations on how to best structure their channel programs and how to best enable their partners, including Adobe, Vodafone, Trend Micro, Zyxel, and Samsung, among others.
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About Impartner: Impartner delivers robust SaaS-based partner relationship management and marketing automation platform solutions.
Tomo Ohno
Managing Director of Kudan
Tomo OHNO founded Kudan back in 2011. A cross-border business developer and entrepreneur. After nearly a decade as a management consultant at Accenture Tokyo, Bangkok, Amsterdam, and London, he led the turnaround of a small UK based software company into a global player, and directed successful exit of a game licensing company. The company was successfully sold to a Japanese game console manufacturer. He also successfully set up computer game publisher Zen United. Zen United created a new industry finding game content abroad and localising and deploying into local markets. Tomo’s passion is to create business value across boundaries, adapting organisations and their business models to sell across multiple countries and deliver technical value across markets.
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About Kudan: Kudan is accelerating evolution of AR/MR/VR and automobile/drone/robot by developing computer software algorithms as Artificial Perception. Kudan went public at Tokyo stock exchange in December 2018
Malcolm Hudson
Managing Director of Engaged CRM
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About Engaged CRM: Engaged CRM is a provider of cloud based software solutions for high volume on & offline businesses.
Dave Froker
Managing Director of Focusrite
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About Focusrite: Focusrite is a global music and audio products group supplying hardware and software products used by professional and amateur musicians.
Nathan Baranowski
Managing Director & Head of Strategy and Solution Design of Digital Wonderlab
Nathan has over 15 years experience in transformation, technology and innovation. For the last seven years he has worked across a number of health and social care providers to enable them to transform their business through technology. Nathan is an accomplished transformation programme director, entrepreneur and strategist and owner of his own technology business – ojo solutions.
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About Digital Wonderlab: Digital Wonderlab helps customers realize new digital possibilities through elegantly developed technologies.
Nigel Bowdery
Managing Director, EMEA of Thales e-Security
Nigel Bowdery is a Managing Director, EMEA at Thales e-Security.
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About Thales e-Security: Thales e-Security is a leading supplier of data protection and cyber security solutions to the financial services, government technology.
Peter Prater
Managing Director of Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure
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About Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure: Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure is a provider of computer-aided dispatch and GIS software solutions.
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.
John Clelland
Managing Director, Founding Partner and Owner of Proteus-Cyber
John is the Managing Director, founding partner and owner of Proteus-Cyber Ltd. He is an expert in encryption and security systems with over 25 years’ experience architecting specialist IT systems.
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About Proteus-Cyber: Proteus-Cyber Ltd are specialists in Integrated Risk Management software.
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.
Anthony Payne
Managing Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Anthony Payne
Managing Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Andy Greener
Founder & Managing Director of Komodo Design
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About Komodo Design: We help great teams build exceptional digital products that people prefer to use.
Michael Rapley
Managing Director of Mediatron
Michael Rapley is a managing director of Mediatron for the last 18 years.
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About Mediatron: Mediatron Ltd is a leading European Specialist Distributor of Computer Control Equipment.
Jamie Doig
Managing Director of FCS Software
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About FCS Software: FCS Software provides expertise in the development of local government software.
Robin Coles
Managing Director EMEA of XCCommerce
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About XCCommerce: XCCommerce is a leading software development and implementation company.
Steve Lucas
Founder and Managing Director of Skillstream
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About Skillstream: Skillstream is the leading contingent workforce management technology.
Paul Taylor
Founder & Managing Director of Laser Wire Solutions
Paul Taylor is a Founder & Managing Director at Laser Wire Solutions.
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About Laser Wire Solutions: Laser Wire Solutions is the expert manufacturer of Laser Wire Strippers for the removal of insulation from high performance wire and cable.
Adam Murphy
Managing Director of Shnuggle
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About Shnuggle: Shnuggle is an innovative company that designs modern, clever baby products for the mid-high end of the market.
Jonathan Holmes
Managing Director & Founder of Milky Tea
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About Milky Tea: A digital game and animation development studio based in the north west region of the United Kingdom.
Jonathan Holmes
Managing Director & Founder of Milky Tea
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About Milky Tea: A digital game and animation development studio based in the north west region of the United Kingdom.
Alastair Hall
Managing Director of Howells Associates Ltd
Alastair joined Howells in 1999 as a Client Services Consultant. Providing account management on key client accounts, he has worked in a number of roles helping Howells to earn their reputation for providing bespoke and flexible solutions for their clients. In January 2009, Alastair was appointed Managing Director of Howells Associates Ltd with overall responsibility for the strategic development and delivery of their extensive range of services.
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About Howells Associates Ltd: Howells Associates have provided innovative and market leading services for share scheme administration.
Nik Plevan
Founder and Managing Director of eTalent
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About eTalent: eTalent gives businesses access to an effective recruitment tool which includes personality and behavioural profiling.
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.
Adam Gallacher
Managing Director of RSK Orbital
Adam is a problem solver in the truest sense of the phrase and works closely with clients to build relationships, understand objectives and provide innovative solutions. A quick thinker that first looks to understand your core goals and objectives.
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About RSK Orbital: RSK Orbital provide aerial survey photography using UAV, helicopter or fixed wing depending on your requirements.
