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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 Manager operating in the Digital Media space. If you think a Manager 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.
Morten Sondergaard Pedersen
Manager of PeopleFund
Born and raised in Denmark, Morten’s innate talent for entrepreneurship overpowered his academic desire to finish business school and over the past 30 years he has been involved in over 200 companies globally. A rare entrepreneurial professional with personal experience of several complete business cycles. 20 years of board and shareholder level experience, yet still capable of hands-on execution of projects. Created, managed and monetized over U$ 750 Million of enterprise shareholder value. Real-world expertise in creating and directing highly effective strategies and their execution. Proven track record of business formation, fund raising, incubation, revenue development, growth, territorial expansion, capital realization and exit strategies. On top of the usual corporate experience, Morten combines personal entrepreneurial experience and invaluable international commercial skills, guided by a clear vision and a passion for creating value. Experienced in both emerging and established markets. He possess strong social and motivational skills resulting in very strong team performances. After selling his first business within the chemical industry he moved into hightech telecommunications in the late 80’s creating various companies in Europe, United Kingdom, Hong Kong & Brazil. In the late 90’s, ventures from within the telecommunications market lead to the creation of various Internet startups and digital TV companies. In 2005 Morten reassessed his business strategy and over the past years has taken on a role as a VC, sharing the opportunity of success with talented, likeminded people. Currently residing in London, projects now include multi family property development within the UK market Neighbour.co.uk
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About IDC Ventures, PeopleFund: PeopleFund is a global pioneer in value added investments focused on technology, internet and media.
Damian Benstead
Event Partnerships Manager of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Rafi Zelikowsky
Senior Manager & Business Performance EMEA of Tableau
Rafi leads a team of Sales Operations Analysts at Tableau Software, the world’s leading visual analytics and business intelligence software. Prior to this role, she spent 5 years building out the European-wide Product Consulting team at Tableau from 6 to 34 individuals. Now, her passion is to bring Tableau’s mission of helping people see and understand their data to the company’s internal analytics and business practices. Originally from Los Angeles, Rafi moved to London to complete her one-year Masters at the London School of Economics over seven years ago.
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About Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Andrew Crail
EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering & Enterprise Solutions of Akamai Technologies
Andy Crail is the EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering, Enterprise Solutions at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Paul Jackson
Senior Manager of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Amy Nicholson
Product Manager of Financial Times
In 2016 Amy graduated from Makers Academy, a coding bootcamp in London, and joined the Financial Times as a junior developer. After 18 blissful months of coding she decided to dive into the curious world of Product and has since been a product manager working on FT.com.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
John Dollin
Senior Product and Engineering Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kaj Phoenix
Mobile Product Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
David Lyons
Manager, Solution Consulting EMEA of Saba Software
David Lyons is the Solution Consultant Team Leader at Saba Software in EMEA. He has over ten years of experience in advising C-level and HR professionals on the best technical solutions to meet their business needs across a range of industries including Financial Services, Telco, Utilities and Education.
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
Karen Blackett
Country Manager of WPP
Karen is a proven business leader with a track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams and consistently delivering business growth and success. She is currently UK country manager for WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, and Chairwoman of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK. Karen champions diversity and equality of opportunity throughout the advertising industry. In 2012 Karen launched the first ever Government backed Apprentice Scheme for the sector. In June 2014, Karen received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours and in 2015 Karen was the first business woman to be named Britain’s Most Influential Black person in the Power List. In November 2018 Karen won the Inspirational Leader category at the Ethnicity Awards. Karen is an external advisor to the UK Government Civil Service. Karen was recently appointed Race Equality Business Champion by the UK Prime Minister.
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About WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Yasmeen Cappuccini
Project Manager of Channel 4
Yasmeen leads multiple teams delivering strategic, commercial and legislative projects across the breadth of business at Channel 4. Having worked for Channel 4 since 2006, Yasmeen is now a subject matter expert in a number of areas within the company. Channel 4 is a British, public service, free-to-air television network delivering innovative ground-breaking content to the public. This includes, as a top priority, diversity in TV and the media both in the content they commission and within every level of the organisation. Yasmeen is part of the Channel 4 ‘Women in Tech’ working group, currently focussed on retaining, recruiting and development. Prior to working at Channel 4, Yasmeen worked at Atos Origin within Systems Integration in a variety of roles on a wide range of Public Sector projects. With a BSc in Computer-Aided Chemistry from the University of Surrey, Yasmeen has always enjoyed applying computation solutions to practical problems. Coupled with a comprehensive background in systems analysis and solutions architecture, Yasmeen is passionate about technology and advocates smart, pragmatic solutions.
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About Channel 4: Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.
Emily Oxley
Senior Customer Success Manager of Zephr
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Jeffrey Amos
Global Compliance Manager of Argus Media group
Jeffrey Amos is Global Compliance Officer for the Argus Media group of companies. Jeffrey ensures that the company’s global price assessments are derived in strict conformity with its official methodologies and that all Argus staff are actively aware of their personal accountability to deliver compliance. From 1991 to 2008, Jeffrey worked at BP, fulfilling various roles in the UK and Russia including financial and fiscal development, financial control, group operations assurance and as Commercial Director for BP’s UK ground fuels business.
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About Argus Media group: Argus Media group is a global energy and commodity price reporting agency.
Rupert Lane
Finance Manager of Hybrid
Rupert Lane is a finance manager at Hybrid.
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About Hybrid: Hybrid is a media company that creates content for brands across digital platforms.
Monita Ness
Key Account Manager of Ocean Outdoor
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About Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Helen Beacham
Marketing Manager of Ocean Outdoor
Helen Beacham is a Head of Marketing at Ocean Outdoor.
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About Ocean Outdoor, Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Peter Luscombe
Community Manager of people.io
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About people.io: We’re giving people ownership of their data to enable the next evolution of human connectivity.
Phil Charnock
Marketing Manager of Draw and Code
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About Draw and Code, SwapBots: Draw and Code is a software company that is engaged in a variety of technology based projects.
Nadia Kelsey
PR / Bookings Manager of Xzero Entertainment
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About Xzero Entertainment: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Alishaan Khizer
Business Development Manager of Imperium Media
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About Imperium Media: Helping companies to maximize their potential on new and existing technologies.
Charlie Vaughan
Digital Campaign Manager of MOI Global
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About MOI Global: MOI Global is a Creative B2B Marketing agency helping tech Brands by using their creative network, digital content and media powerhouse.
Lili Strokosz
Social Media Manager of Chipper
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About Chipper: A company based on happiness and brightening everyone’s day with multitudes of content.
Katharina Rauch
Partnerships Manager of CITINITE.
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About CITINITE.: Foursquare meets the nightlife and entertainment industry
