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 Founder operating in the Environmental Consulting space. If you think a Founder 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.
Sebastien Blanc
Co-Founder of RESOLVE
Sebastien is the Chief Executive Officer at Skimlinks since 2018. He joined Skimlinks as Chief Revenue Officer in 2016 and brings over a decade’s experience building and growing technology start-ups in Europe, the UK and the US. Prior to joining Skimlinks, Seb led international expansion, operations and, subsequently, the US at Struq, a UK-based retargeting start-up successfully acquired by Quantcast in 2014. Sebastien is passionate about building great technology companies: he is also on the board of London HQ-ed MentionMe and Paris-based DoLead, 2 VC-backed companies in the martech space. Sebastien started his career founding a start-up in Berlin and working as an analyst for XAnge, a Paris-based VC investing in Europe and the US. Seb is an avid reader, long distance runner, gin-cocktail drinker and amateur classical piano player.
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About RESOLVE: Resolve is a huge effort that gives scientists an efficient way to put their carbon capture and storage research into practice.
Jeremy Oppenheim
Founder & Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
Jeremy was a senior partner at McKinsey until April 2016, where he worked for 24 years serving some of the world’s leading companies in the finance, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and energy sectors. He worked extensively with multilateral development banks, the United Nations and governments in both developed and developing countries. In 2007, he set up McKinsey’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice, supporting ambitious public, philanthropic and private sector clients to put in place low-carbon, resource-efficient strategies. Prior to this, Jeremy worked at the World Bank from 1988-1993, specialising in economic transformation programmes for middle-income countries. In 2013-2014, Jeremy was programme director of the New Climate Economy project. He sits on a number of non-profit boards, including Global Action Plan (as Chair), the Woods Hole Research Center and Rare (UK). Together with Martin Stuchtey, he is a founder and managing partner of SYSTEMIQ.
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About SYSTEMIQ: SYSTEMIQ supports disruptive early-stage digital/technology ventures with the potential to transform systems in the circular economy, energy
Adrian Griffiths
Founder & CEO of Recycling Technologies
Founder of RT in 2011. Previously a management consultant and engineer, Adrian has extensive commercial and technical experience in a variety of manufacturing sectors. He co-founded two successful UK businesses: OEE Consulting & Vendigital. Adrian holds a degree in engineering from Imperial College.
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About Recycling Technologies: Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste.
Bruce Bratley
CEO and Founder of First Mile
Bruce Bratley is the Founder and CEO of First Mile.
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About First Mile: First Mile provide super simple, low cost recycling and waste services for businesses.
Joseph Daniels
CEO and Founder of Project Etopia
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About Project Etopia: Project Etopia is a creating more economical and environmental developments through technological advancements.
Dapeng Yu
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Previsico
Dapeng Yu is a Professor of River Dynamics at Loughborough University. He is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Previsico.
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About Previsico: Previsico is a global provider of real-time, street level flood prediction, and analytical solutions, building round-the-clock resilience.
Nadim Nsouli
Founder & Chairman of Inspired
Nadim M Nsouli founded Educas, an education investment firm in 2013 to make an investment in Reddam House, a leading group of schools in South Africa. Since then, Nadim founded Inspired and led the growth of the group globally. Prior to that, Nadim was a partner at Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm with $40 billion under management. Nadim was also a member of Providence’s Global Investment Committee and led Providence’s Education investment efforts in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Providence in 2006, Nadim was the European head of The Gores Group, a special situations private equity fund based in Los Angeles. Prior to Gores, he founded and managed Lago Ventures, a venture capital firm. Previously, Nadim was a member of the media and telecommunications investment banking teams of Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan in London. Nadim started his career in New York as a corporate lawyer at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He received a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD with distinction, a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University.
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About Inspired: Inspired is a operator of premium schools in Europe, Australia and Africa.
William Gambier
Co-Founder & CTO of WASE
William Gambier currently works as the Co-Founder and CTO for WASE.
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About WASE: WASE provides a decentralized sanitation system with the goal of accelerating the global adoption of circular waste treatment.
Peter Fraenkel
Director & Co-Founder of Gravitricity
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About Gravitricity: Gravitricity develops a novel storage technology which offers some of the best characteristics of lithium batteries and pumped storage.
Thomas Anderson
Co-Founder & CEO of Grid Edge
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About Grid Edge: The way we use energy is changing
Daniel Wright
Co-Founder & CTO of Grid Edge
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About Grid Edge: The way we use energy is changing
Dominic Harris
Co-Founder of CarbonQuota
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About CarbonQuota: CarbonQuota is a science-based and independent carbon monitoring service for manufacturers.
Graeme Lee
Founder & CEO of Springfield Healthcare
Graeme Lee is a Founder & CEO at Springfield Healthcare.
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About Springfield Healthcare: Springfield Healthcare delivers personal and domestic care for people who need it in their own homes.
Danielle Connor
Co-Founder of PocketPals
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About PocketPals: PocketPals is an upcoming app that connects people with British wildlife and the environment through their mobile phones.
Matthew Brown
Co-Founder of PocketPals
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About PocketPals: PocketPals is an upcoming app that connects people with British wildlife and the environment through their mobile phones.
Lawrence Fathers
CEO and Co Founder of Act Now Limited
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About Act Now Limited: Mobile App
David Watson
Founder of Scour Prevention
David Watson is Founder at Scour Prevention.
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About Scour Prevention: Scour Prevention develops solutions to protect marine structures from scour, which occur around piles, foundations and subsea cables.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
Vesna Sokolovska
Founder of Green Culture World Foundation
Vesna has been an author of numerous pioneering projects and has been promoting the Balkan Cultures in the UK since 2006 through series of cultural events, such as art exhibitions, theatre performances, film festivals, concerts, literature readings, as well as educational projects on different subjects. Through her work, she is actively promoting the environmentally sustainable creative sector through raising awareness and hands-on activities such as the 3rd forthcoming Green Culture Fest and conference in September 2015. She’s been also part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Team. Vesna is a supporter and part of her local Friends of the Earth group, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts as well as a member of the Institute of Fundraising from London, UK.
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About Green Culture World Foundation: Enabling new generations of environmental leaders from the cultural sectors to lead this mission and act as Environmental Visionaries.
Vesna Sokolovska
Founder of Green Culture World Foundation
Vesna has been an author of numerous pioneering projects and has been promoting the Balkan Cultures in the UK since 2006 through series of cultural events, such as art exhibitions, theatre performances, film festivals, concerts, literature readings, as well as educational projects on different subjects. Through her work, she is actively promoting the environmentally sustainable creative sector through raising awareness and hands-on activities such as the 3rd forthcoming Green Culture Fest and conference in September 2015. She’s been also part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Team. Vesna is a supporter and part of her local Friends of the Earth group, and a member of the Royal Society of Arts as well as a member of the Institute of Fundraising from London, UK.
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About Green Culture World Foundation: Enabling new generations of environmental leaders from the cultural sectors to lead this mission and act as Environmental Visionaries.
