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 Managing Director operating in the Art 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.
Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
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Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
James Fricker
Managing Director of Sensat
James is a forward thinking Managing Director with a strong revenue focus, looking to push the boundaries of teams and innovation in order to drive value. Having graduated from the university of Lincoln with a Bsc in Psychology with Clinical Psychology, James started his career in the world of media with one of the UK leading publishing companies. With a strong affection to technologies, he transitioned into SaaS, leading the UK proposition of Mag+ in the digital publishing space, earning accreditation at the PPA awards with winning ‘Sales Team of the year’, he soon moved onto Fliplet to become the first commercial hire at a rapidly growing start up company, successfully commercialising the platform to its now global client base and growing revenue over 100% year on year in the 2 years he had there prior to joining SenSat.
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About Pavilion, Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Rory Miller-Cheevers
Founder & Managing Director of Hyphen
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About Hyphen: Data Intelligence and Performance Marketing
Monica Hyerim Lee
Founder & CEO / Managing Director of FrontRow Global
Monica Hyerim Lee is the founder and CEO at FrontRow Global.
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About FrontRow Global, Royal College of Art: Music Data Intelligence for Music Industry
David Holden-White
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
David Holden-White is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Graham Mills
Co-Founder & Managing Director of techspert.io
Graham Mills is the Co-Founder at techspert.io.
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About techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Ahmed Nuaman
Managing Director of Firemind
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures, Scout Solutions, Upcoming: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
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
Charlie Henderson
Managing Directors & Founder of FeedStock Ltd
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About FeedStock Ltd: FeedStock leverages AI and NLP technologies to enable financial services companies to satisfy both their compliance and commercial goals.
Abi Hanna
Managing Director of Instrumental
Ms. Abigail Hanna, also known as Abi, has been Managing Director of BC Music Media Ltd., (Formerly, Instrumental & Popshack) since January 2013. Ms. Hanna served as Head of Marketing at The Rights Company Limited since November 2003 until November 2006. Ms. Hanna looks after all the marketing needs for The Rights Company by working closely with distributors and talent to deliver a wide variety of marketing solutions to aid in the launch of new products. Prior to joining TRC, she was head of commercial marketing at Penguin where she worked on high profile launches from Victoria Beckham, Roy Keane, Darren Gough and Viv Richards. She also handled the Mind, Body, Spirit range and dealt with an annual marketing budget of over £1m. She holds BA in French & International Studies from Warwick University in 1994.
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About Instrumental: Our TalentAI platform uses machine learning to discover emerging talent, predominantly for the music and entertainment industry.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
Jonathan Knight
Managing Director of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
Charlotte Bearn
Managing Director of Art Republic
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About Art Republic: Art Republic is an online store that provides artworks, gifts and magazines including art advice services.
Rollo Carpenter
Managing Director of Existor
Rollo Carpenter is Managing Director at Existor.
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About Existor: Existor is a London-based company, creating conversational Artificial Intelligence software for business, education, and entertainment.
Chris Fieldsend
Managing Director of Achieve Intelligence
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About Achieve Intelligence, Office of Rail Regulation: Achieve Intelligence
Sean Schwarz
Founder and Managing Director of RAFT Recruitment
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About RAFT Recruitment: RAFT Recruitment is a recruiting firm that places executives, software, machine learning, and robotics engineers.
Mostafa Hashem
Managing Director and Lead Consultant of Smartlytics Consultancy
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About Smartlytics Consultancy: B2B Saas , AI/ML Solutions
Matthew Eaton
Managing Director, EMEA of GrayMeta
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About GrayMeta: GrayMet dramatically improves efficiencies by automating the creation of metadata with an innovative approach to extracting rich metadata.
Etan Ilfeld
Owner and Managing Director of Watkins Books
Etan Ilfeld works as Director at Tenderpixel. He is a owner of Watkins Media.
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About Watkins Books: Watkins Books is one of the oldest and independent bookshops.
Jeremy Sneller
Managing Director of TouchByte
Jeremy Sneller is Managing Director at TouchByte.
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About TouchByte: TouchByte provides real-time customer insight, recognition and validation of “PEOPLE in PLACES” using face recognition technology.
