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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 VP’ operating in the Social space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Claire Valoti
VP International of Snap
Claire Valoti is General Manager UK Sales of Snapchat, Inc. and chair of Mobile Marketing Association. Claire became Head of Agency Relations at Facebook and Media Director at Weve. She also joined O2 Media Telefónica UK as Managing Director and MindShare as Head of Digital Display & Mobile and Business Director. Claire studied BA Hons, Politics at University of Nottingham.
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About Mobile Marketing Association, Snap: Snap operates as a privately-owned multinational camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Connon MacRae
VP Technical Operations, INTL of Ticketmaster
Long time Ticketmaster veteran who started in the UK London call centre selling tickets as a casual worker back in 1997. He got lucky, got help and worked hard. As a result, he now leads the Technical Operations group for the International team at Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is over 40 years old and during that time, Connon has seen a number of Technology and Culture shifts.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Åsa Nyström
VP of Customer Advocacy of Buffer
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About Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
James Lamar Jacobs
Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology of Anakando Media Group
Mr. James Lamar Jacobs, “Jake”, joined the company in 2014. He is an accomplished engineering technologist and senior business executive with over 35 years of focused experience in a range of technology based roles across operations management, business process optimization and strategic planning. Jake has held executive management assignments at Honeywell, Teledyne, ITT, Cubic Defense and AVK Kyocera and most recently, as the CEO of consulting company, Lamarjean Group, Inc. He is a US Army veteran having served in a number of command roles with the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division. He received a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. And an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida and a Phd in Theology from North Western. As Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology, Jake plays a critical role in supporting the Anakando Media Group’s technology mediated strategic planning.
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About Anakando Media Group: The Anakando Media Group is a rapidly expanding and innovative digital media company with global interests.
David ONeill
VP Sales of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
James Stanier
SVP Engineering of Brandwatch
James currently holds a VP Engineering role at Brandwatch. He is an experienced manager of engineers and team leads. He has development experience on both ends of the spectrum: from quick prototyping of ideas to getting them scaled up into production-ready distributed systems.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Jamie Hoyle
SVP of Product of MirrorWeb
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About MirrorWeb: We archive thousands of websites a year, hundreds of social media accounts, and index billions of documents.
Jeff Moriarty
EVP/Chief Product Officer – Digital of Nexstar Broadcasting Group
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About Nexstar Broadcasting Group: Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is one of the nation’s leading diversified media companies.
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.
Kenneth Pouliot
Global SVP of Sales of Percolate
Ken Pouliot serves as global SVP of sales at Percolate, leading the company’s sales, account management, business development, system engineers, channel, enablement, and sales operations teams.
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About Percolate, SheerID: Percolate is a content marketing platform offering solutions to introduce visibility into the marketing process.
Sean Bennett
SVP of Sales of Triptease
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About Triptease: Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
Helga Alvarez
Co-Founder & VP Engineering of Leaf
Helga Alvarez is the Co-Founder & VP Engineering at Leaf Grow.
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About Leaf: Leaf, previously Leaf Grow, is a tech company that provides end-to-end performance marketing services for ambitious eCommerce businesses.
Kate Barry
VP Advertising Solutions EMEA of Amobee
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About Amobee: Amobee is a global digital marketing technology company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel.
Matt Bourn
Senior Vice President of MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations
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About MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations: One of the top mid-sized public relations firms & one of the 5 largest independent agencies in the US, with European headquarters in London.
Jeff Slack
EVP Business Development of TOK.tv
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About Aston Martin F1 Team, JS3 Sports Ltd, TOK.tv: TOK.tv is a sports social network that allows millions of fans to talk to their friends, while watching a game on TV.
Anthony Leaper
Senior Vice President and Sales GM – Enterprise Social Software at SAP of Insightfulinc
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About : Insightfulinc is a cloud-based enterprise search service that helps employees find the right people at the right time.
Craig Sweeney
SVP, Global Strategic Talent Solutions of WilsonHCG
Craig Sweeney is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Talent Solutions, at WilsonHCG.
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About WilsonHCG: WilsonHCG is a RPO and human capital consulting firm that offers talent consulting and executive search services to its clients.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
Magaly Jaquard
VP International Sales of Headoo
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About Headoo: Headoo is a Visual Marketing technology that helps brands create and maintain a personal connection with all of their customers.
Magaly Jaquard
VP International Sales of Headoo
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About Headoo: Headoo is a Visual Marketing technology that helps brands create and maintain a personal connection with all of their customers.
