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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 Product operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a Product 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.
Mark Galvin
Senior Director, Product Strategy of Infobip
Leadership | Product Strategy | Product Marketing | Product Innovation | Product Differentiation | Mergers & Acquisitions | Technical Partnerships | SaaS | MarTech | CPaaS | CCaaS | Startups | Consulting | Founder | Board Member & Advisor
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About Infobip, Venubox: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Len Padilla
Vice President Product Strategy of NTT Communications
Len is a highly knowledgeable IT professional with considerable experience in a variety of areas from scientific super-computing to shared and dedicated hosting to selective outsourcing. Len has worked in all technical aspects and management levels of IT: supercomputing and financial systems programing, administration of large server and content delivery networks, PCI-DSS certification, management of international operations teams, product engineering and strategy.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Kim Gasson
FFA & FFAvr Product Owner and CTO, Supply Chain of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Mike Greening
Product Director of CityFibre
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Paul Chapple
Director of Mobile Products and Services of Vodafone
Paul Chapple is Vodafone’s Mobile Products & Services Director. Paul is responsible for the strategic relationships with key suppliers as well as all aspects of hardware and services customization and development. Paul joined Vodafone from T-Mobile U.S. where he was Vice President of Supplier and Product Management. His primary focus was developing T-Mobile’s 5G and IoT road maps and then successfully bringing those products to market. His team managed the day-to-day relationships with established suppliers like Samsung, Apple and Google as well as finding new suppliers capable of meeting the evolving needs of the wireless ecosystem. Prior to T-Mobile, Paul held executive roles with both Samsung Electronics and Nokia Inc.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Nuno Costa
One Net Cloud Products Leader of Vodafone
Telecoms professional with over 14 year’s experience working across the telecommunications industry, with the main European telco companies. Developed market-leading solutions for both SoHo & SME segments, including Vodafone Unified Communications flagship product, One Net. Technology savvy interested in business intelligence and eager to learn new technologies and trends. Goal-oriented strategic business thinker. Enthusiastic traveler with a passion for exploring very corner of the globe.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Gemma Alvarez
Global Product Manager of Vodafone
Gemma Alvarez is the Global Commercial Product Owner for TOBi, Vodafones customer service chatbot, who is a trusted, helpful and easy concierge, here to support Vodafones customers. She helps carve out the future strategy of TOBi improving customer experience and pushing the boundaries of chatbots. Helping Vodafone Markets launch, accelerate the volume, improve the quality and innovate through TOBi. Previous to this, Gemma headed up Mobile Cloud Enterprise (Apps, Chatbots and Customer Experience Analytics), IoT and API Platform for Oracle UK in Business Development for almost 3 years. She was pivotal in launching the Intelligent Bot Cloud Service for Oracle helping many customers align chatbots to their core business, automating repetitive tasks. She has almost 7 years’ experience at Microsoft where she started off in the Sales Graduate Program, and then moved to a technical evangelist role where she worked on mobile apps, helping build up the app store and presenting to developers, business and UX around designing apps on the windows store.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Stephen Holmes
Chief Product Officer of Arqit Limited
Stephen Holmes is the Chief Product Officer at Arqit.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Sam Machin
Senior Product Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Birju Ravaliya
Head of Product Design & User Experience of Camera IQ
Birju Ravaliya currently works as Head of Product Design & User Experience at Camera IQ.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Jack Buechler
VP Business Development and Product Management of Talia
Jack Buechler is the Vice President of Business Development at Talia Ltd. He has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience in IT and telecommunications – making Mr. Buechler one of the industry’s leading experts. Past and current projects include definitions of satellite hub systems, integration of broadband satellite systems, terrestrial fibre services, VoIP service integration, Trunk VoIP systems, sales of integrated GSM satellite systems. Mr. Buechler has worked in many business sectors including Defence, Oil and Gas, Retail and Financial.Mr Buechler’s current position is at Talia Ltd – a top-tier network provider in the Middle East, Africa, America and Europe. Talia Ltd known as a market leader and experts in satellite, voice, video and broadcast solutions with their own WTA tier 3 certified teleport facility in Germany. Prior to working at Talia Ltd, Mr. Buechler has served at senior level positions at Loral Cyberstar, Orion Network Systems and Kingston Inmedia (Now Arqiva), and Advantech Wireless including: Vice President Sales EMEA, Head of Carrier and Internet Sales and product manager Satellite data products at BT.
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About Talia: Talia is a top-tier provider of Internet, voice, and video services
Neil Stevens
VP, GM Products & Marketing of Skype
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About Skype: Skype provides a telecommunications platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices.
Steven Lowe
Product Director Mobile of Gamma
Steve has over 23 years’ experience in the mobile telecommunications industry. Having held senior operational and product development roles at BT Cellnet and One 2 One, Steve established and led the Mobile Virtual Network Operator businesses of Kingston Communications and BT. For the past 14 years, he has provided hands-on consultancy services to a variety of mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators across Europe, including Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone. Steve joined Gamma in July 2018 to lead the development of its mobile business.
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About Gamma: Gamma is a leading supplier of voice, data and mobile products and services in the UK.
Peter Agnew
Product Manager MPLS VPNs and SD WAN of Gamma
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About Gamma: Gamma is a leading supplier of voice, data and mobile products and services in the UK.
Tanya Field
Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Novatiq
Tanya Field is the Co-founder and CPO of Novatiq.
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About Mobile Value Partners, Novatiq: Provider of privacy-first identity solutions that enable telcos, brands and publishers to verify and reach their audiences.
Samantha Cohen
Senior Product Marketing Specialist of CloudCall
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About CloudCall: CloudCall is a UCaaS provider that integrates communications with CRM platforms.
John Lewis
VP Product Management, Marketing and Partners, and CSO of Telensa
Jon has over 20 years’ experience in leadership and innovation roles at global technology companies including NEC, Toshiba and Motorola. These roles have covered fundamental research, product development and sales. Jon joined Telensa to broaden the company’s application portfolio and open new market segments. He holds a number of patents and has a PhD in engineering.
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About Telensa: Telensa makes wireless smart city control systems, including the worlds most deployed smart streetlight solution.
Javier Lecanda
Sr. Product Development Manager, Network On Demand of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Rui Ferraz
Global Product Manager Unified and Intelligent Communications of Colt Technology
Rui Ferraz’s main focus is simplification and acceleration, enabling users to focus on their work instead of the technological details around it. This objective has been the motivator of his professional life, be it in the early years spent working in Portugal Telecom and Vodafone as pre-sales and product management, as Unified Communication Director for Huawei Italy, and in his current role. Rui’s passion for UC is infectious, where he is always on the look for the next big thing in the UC space and how can it help customers. Rui is Portuguese and lived in Portugal (Braga, Lisbon, Porto) and Italy (Rome) before moving to the UK (London). He is a foodie, travel enthusiast and loves a good talk, feel free ping him for a talk.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Nigel Tromans
Product Manager of Colt Technology
Nigel has over 16 years’ telecoms experience at Colt, during which time he has been responsible for a range of key product developments and go-to-market launches spanning the Ethernet and Optical product portfolios. During this time Colt has been recognised as one of the world’s leading telecoms providers, regularly winning prestigious MEF awards and other accolades. He is currently responsible for Colt’s optical portfolio, which is delivered via a state-of-the-art Europe-wide WDM infrastructure and directly connects Europe’s key data centre markets, enterprise buildings and international cable landing points. Prior to joining Colt in 2000, Nigel worked as a Director and Network Consultant for a systems integrator, providing local and wide area network solutions for leading organisations in London.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Michael South
On Demand / SDN Product Management of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Mark Daley
Director of Corporate Strategy and Product of Epsilon Telecommunications
Mark plays a leading role in identifying and developing Epsilon’s cutting edge Cloud and communication strategies, with a focus on market and customer needs.A veteran telecommunications professional, Mark served 14 years with Telstra and other high profile Telecommunication companies such as NTT and eircom. Mark held leading Products and Marketing roles in Telstra’s move into the European market in the mid 90’s, and wrote NTT’s European ICT strategy in the mid 2000’s which they continue to deliver today, as well as winning NTT’s first ever World Communications Award. Mark has also held executive Marketing & Product Director positions at Cap Gemini TMN UK and spent 8 innovative years in the Mobile Roaming world including at WSI’s first US Roaming Hub and launching Syniverse’s first hosted intelligent network services portfolio. Recently, Mark spent 4 years at NetDev that had developed the next generation of web based OTT voice, video and WebRTC service functions, as well as developing the leading innovative Audio Conferencing platform at BT, which now includes Spatial Audio.
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About Epsilon Telecommunications: Epsilon is one of the largest independent providers of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems.
Pete Ellis
Chief Product Officer of Red Box
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About Red Box: Red Box is a Leading provider of communication recording solutions to store, retrieve, transcribe and analyse voice, IM, video and data.
Simon Leather
Head of Product Innovation of TalkTalk Business
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About TalkTalk Business: TalkTalk offering a full range of business-grade communications products and services, spanning internet access, data, voice and mobile.
