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 CRM 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.
Sam James
Managing Director of Hassle.com
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About Hassle.com: Hassle.com is an online marketplace that matches busy people with local, trusted cleaners.
Phiroz Vandrevala
Managing Director of Diligenta
As the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Diligenta, a subsidiary of TCS focused on the life & pensions industry, Phiroz Vandrevala is responsible for driving the business strategy and operations of the organization and opportunities globally. Phiroz is also a Director on the Board of TCS, the global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions and part of the senior leadership team. With over 25 years of consulting and leadership experience with TCS, including as an executive director of the company since 2007, Phiroz had been involved with TCS’ foray into the life & pensions industry from the outset. He has overseen the transformation of Diligenta as the company offers new, effective solutions for the life & pensions industry using the TCS BaNCS platform. Prior to taking the leadership role at Diligenta, Phiroz was the Executive Director and Head, Global Corporate Affairs at TCS and played a prominent part in many industry initiatives as a former chairman and executive council member of the National Association of Software Companies (Nasscom), India’s apex IT industry body. In the banking & financial services sector, Phiroz has been part of numerous expert committees constituted by the Reserve Bank of India to guide the central bank in its policy-making efforts as well as IT advisory bodies in India and on the board of several prominent educational institutions. He is also the Director of Punj Lloyd Ltd. and a member of the firm’s audit committee. He is also Director of Jubilant FoodWorks Limited. Phiroz was the Co-Chair of the Indo-British Partnership (IBP) for over five years and is a board member of the Indo-British Partnership Network. Phiroz graduated from Calcutta and is a qualified chartered accountant. He worked with consumer goods firm ITC Ltd. for three years before joining TCS in 1982. In 1989, he set up Tandem Corporation’s operations in India before rejoining TCS in 1992. He has played many roles in all these years at TCS. He was born in Calcutta in December 1953 and currently lives in London with his wife Shashi
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About Diligenta: Diligenta, a UK-based FCA regulated subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is a leading provider of business process services
Grant Burke
Client Managing Director of Carat
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About Carat: Carat is a media agency that specializes in media planning and buying, and providing digital and non-traditional media solutions.
Goolshun S Belut
Managing Director of Smplicity
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About Smplicity: Smplicity is a London based salesforce partner that focuses on improving business performance with Salesforce
Dan Cleaves
Managing Director of Dealerweb
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About Dealerweb: Dealerweb is a cloud-based inquiry management systems that support retailers and manufacturers.
Vadim Chobanu
Managing Director of Enapps
Vadim graduated in Accounting and Finance from the University of Southampton. Having worked with ERP and accounting systems in a number of sectors, he became frustrated with what was on offer and in 2011 he co-founded Enapps to specifically challenge Sage & Tier 1 ERP systems.
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About Enapps: Enapps is an unique Business Management Software Solution Company.
Alex Lester
Managing Director of Elevate2
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About Elevate2: Helping companies to implement NetSuite’s ERP and CRM cloud business management solution.
Thomas Olsen
Managing Director of Lagoni Engineering
Thomas is the founder and Managing Director of Lagoni, a specialist consultancy firm operating within control systems and functional safety. He has over 10 years experience in this field of work, particularly within the Oil & Gas sector. Thomas began his career in 2002 after completing a degree in Electronic Engineering from DTU, a technical university in Copenhagen. He went on to complete his Masters of Science in London. Thomas founded Lagoni in 2008 and, as at 31 Dec ’16, has grown the business to a multi-skilled team and a turnover in excess of £2.5m in the latest financial year through his focus on growing a dynamic business that adapts and meets the clients needs.
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About Lagoni Engineering: Lagoni is a technical services provider with over 10 years’ operating experience in the energy sector.
Guy Weston
Managing Director of Creode
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About Creode, Open Path: Creode is a digital marketing business that helps companies transform their brands by combining technical skills with brand marketing.
Jonathan Anthony
Managing Director / CEO & Founder of adAPPt
Jonathan Anthony Following a long career in the broadcast industry Jon Anthony founded technology partner adappt.co.uk in 2011 with a focus on the convergent media space. adappt originally created a mobile platform with an emphasis on ease of consumption of information, which is used by banks, government organisation and NGOs. Recently Jon architected The World Health Organisation Event Information System and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network platforms, bringing a social media approach to critical systems knowledge sharing. Jon is a seed investor in Artificial Intelligence based data classifier TheHub.ai. TheHub.ai work with clients to structure, correlate and interpret disparate data streams.
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About adAPPt: adAPPt have highly experienced teams, with design, development and marketing portfolios from media multinationals and blue chip companies.
Neil McMurdo
Managing Director of Godel Technologies
Neil McMurdo is the managing director at Godel Technologies.
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About Godel Technologies: Godel Technologies is an agile nearshore development company, working with clients to provide high performing software development.
Richard Corderoy
Managing Director and Partner of The Oakland Group
Richard Corderoy is a managing director at The Oakland Group.
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About Oakland Group, The Oakland Group: The Oakland Group is a small consulting firm, specializing in the use and risk management of technology.
Mike Griffiths
Managing Director & Founder of Expert Agent
“I’ve been in the estate agency industry since 1977 – I did a Land Management degree, qualified in Leicester and then worked in volume residential sales in Leicester, Birmingham, Twickenham and the South West. I even ran my own agency for a year. I drifted into writing estate agency software for myself and turned that into a business in 1988. It became the biggest supplier of estate agency software through the ’90s and I was lucky enough to sell it to a now vanished Rightmove competitor in 2000. I worked for them for a couple of years, left, took some time off and decided that I wanted to get back involved – I missed the challenge of developing software. I was joined by my old business management team and we launched Expert Agent in 2004. At the time, a totally cloud-based solution was brave but it has certainly paid off! I genuinely understand the challenges that agents face, and genuinely enjoy thinking of ways that our products can help solve them. I’m ultimately responsible for ensuring that everything works well for you.”
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About Expert Agent: Expert Agent provides a complete workflow solution and essential systems for estate agents.
James Mitchell
Managing Director UK & Ireland of Kerridge Commercial Systems
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About Kerridge Commercial Systems: Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is a global provider of specialist ERP software and services.
Kevin Senior
Managing Director of Glasscubes
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About Glasscubes: Work Better Together – Connect your employees, customers and partners in a private online community.
Scott Aguais
Managing Director of Z-Risk Engine
Scott D. Aguais has over 28 years experience developing and delivering advanced credit analytics solutions to large banking institutions. He is currently MD of Aguais & Associates Ltd which provides the Z-Risk Engine solution for IFRS9 and Stress Testing. Prior tofounding AAA, he spent 10 years delivering credit models and analyticsthrough consulting at DRI/McGraw-Hill, AMS and KPMG. He then moved on to Algorithmics and has spent the last 12 years developing advanced credit models and supporting the successful Basel II Waivers at Barclays Capital and RBS.During this time Dr. Aguais and his team pioneered the design, development andimplementation of the first advanced Dual Ratings approach using bothPoint-in-Time (PIT) and Through-the-Cycle (TTC) risk measures to support avariety of financial business objectives – this PIT TTC ratings framework isnow a key component supporting IFRS9 and Stress Testing initiatives at banks.
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About Z-Risk Engine: Z-Risk Engine Supporting global banks and institutions with an advanced suite of Software Solutions for IFRS9/CECL and Stress Testing.
MD SenServe
Managing Director of SenServe Limited
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About SenServe Limited: SenServe offers customised IT solutions, App Development, Wi-Fi Solutions Web Solutions, IT Support Services and CRM Solutions
MD SenServe
Managing Director of SenServe Limited
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About SenServe Limited: SenServe offers customised IT solutions, App Development, Wi-Fi Solutions Web Solutions, IT Support Services and CRM Solutions
Matthew Nelson
Managing Director of ChurchBox
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About ChurchBox: A fully managed service, hosted in the cloud, that can be easily integrated into your website.
Matthew Nelson
Managing Director of ChurchBox
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About ChurchBox: A fully managed service, hosted in the cloud, that can be easily integrated into your website.
Jamie Hancox
Managing Director of BuyingTime
BuyingTime’s founder Jamie has enjoyed a successful sales career in publishing sales, advertising and software solutions. Jamie looks after their clients, develops pitches and propositions for them, and does much of the really boring contact analysis work that makes us so successful.
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About BuyingTime: BuyingTime is a sales engagement business that delivers complex sales propositions into large organisations.
Jamie Hancox
Managing Director of BuyingTime
BuyingTime’s founder Jamie has enjoyed a successful sales career in publishing sales, advertising and software solutions. Jamie looks after their clients, develops pitches and propositions for them, and does much of the really boring contact analysis work that makes us so successful.
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About BuyingTime: BuyingTime is a sales engagement business that delivers complex sales propositions into large organisations.
