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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Managing Director operating in the Training 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.
Vanessa Eke
Managing Director EMEA of Lingo Systems
Vanessa joined LanguageLine Solutions as Managing Director and Vice President for UK and Europe in 2006. Following her Honours degree in English Literature, she embarked upon her professional career, first training with Peat Marwick in London (now KPMG) and then moving to VNU Business Publications where she enjoyed a successful career spanning sales, marketing and operational management roles. This broad base of experience led to her role of Commercial Director for Financial Times Business where she gained further international and dot com experience. Building upon this base, she was invited to become Commercial Director and, subsequently, Managing Director for Nielsen Media Research UK and AdEx International. Vanessa is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars spanning both the public and commercial sectors.
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About Lingo Systems: Language Line is a translation services provider to the public and private sectors.
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Richard Oppenheimer
Founder, owner & Managing Director of Appraisal360
Richard is the founder and owner of Appraisal360. It was during his career as a Chartered Engineer in the telecommunications industry that he had his first experience of 360 degree feedback and was an instant convert. He decided to bring together his experience of designing and operating online information systems with his interest in leadership and personal development. And so Appraisal360 was born in February 2006. Richard strives to make the world a better place – and with Appraisal360 he hopes to make people’s working lives that little bit more fulfilling and rewarding. He believes passionately that tools are there to do a job, and not the other way around, so simplicity, clarity, flexibility and robustness have been built in from day one.
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About Appraisal360: Appraisal360 is a leading provider of online 360 feedback tools, off the shelf, bespoke or branded. Training and support too.
Matthew C Martino
Founder & Managing Director of Lets Fly Academy
Matthew Martino (Full Name) – Matthew Mathetes Chihwai Martino born 27 October 1992 is a British Entrepreneur, Film Producer and Author. Educated at Shenfield High School in Brentwood , Martino has always held a passion for writing – He has always focused on educational writing and research. His first book Lets Fly which was published by DM Aviation was well received by pilots and aviation enthusiasts around the world. During his early years Martino showed all the qualities required to maintain proven success.
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About Lets Fly Academy: An online resource academy which was built to provide information and resources to aspiring pilots and aviations enthusiast.
Stuart Martin
Managing Director of QA Ltd
Stuart has been with QA since 2000, having previously worked in the training and online education space for IBM and then Ten-TV. Stuart joined QA in the role of Account Manager and went on to become Sales Director of the Learning division in 2005 – where he led the sales organisation through the successful mergers with Interquad, Xpertise and Remarc. Stuart has been at the helm of the Learning division for the last 10 years, responsible for the strategy and development of the sales, marketing and delivery functions to enhance relationships with customers and partners. 2018 saw Stuart step across to lead QA Consulting, focusing on enablement programmes that help customers become self-sufficient in the development and support of their technologies.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Ben Pike
Managing Director of QA Ltd
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Julie Noone
Managing Director – QA Higher Education of QA Ltd
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
James Elias
Managing Director of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
David Loseby
Managing Director of Barkers
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About Barkers: Barkers offers a wide range of procurement services tailored to the needs of its clients.
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Robert Tozer
Managing Director of Operational Intelligence Ltd
Robert’s wide and extended experience in the Mission Critical Facilities industry working on design, reliability, energy efficiency and commissioning together with his academic achievements have provided him with the theoretical and practical tools to develop innovative solutions. These include free cooling designs, commissioning strategies, air management metrics and data centre energy assessment tools. He is author of over 40 papers on reliability and energy efficiency and refrigeration, has authored several patents on data centre free cooling designs, has written many white papers (in English and Spanish) and speaks regularly at Data Centre Dynamics conferences. He was recently awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Industry at the inaugural DCD LATAM awards. He is a Visiting Fellow at South Bank University and has participated in many technical committees (ASHRAE, CIBSE, BREEAM, The Green Grid, and European Code of Conduct).
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About Operational Intelligence Ltd: OI offer consultancy services and training in risk and energy assessments to help clients improve critical facility performance.
Debbie Barrow
Managing Director of Virada Training
Debbie Barrow is the Managing Director of Virada Training, a triple award-winning training company. A key speciality is providing innovative training aimed at the challenges of selling today, providing a service and developing the trust of today’s demanding customers. Before founding Virada Training, Debbie won awards for customer satisfaction when she faced thousands of dissatisfied, angry and delayed passengers during 60 to 90 hour work weeks at overseas airports. She was also for many years, a top sales and service performer, via the phone (outbound and inbound), in-stores and in the field. She continues to research topics including developing credibility and trust of demanding customers today and; the attributes and mindsets of top sales and service performers. This enables delegates to benefit from 25 years of knowledge about creating specific mindsets and developing credibility and confidence using body language, six aspects of voice, ‘conscious’ selling and ‘words that work’.
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About Virada Training: Virada is a triple award-winning training provider, designing and delivering innovative courses in sales, customer service.
Michaela Reaney
founder and Managing Director of Gradvert
Michaela is the founder and MD of Gradvert. She drives the company’s strategic direction and commercial focus as well as staying close to many of our clients and universities. Michaela has a decade of experience in global talent management and recruitment with FTSE100 organisations. An authoritative figure in the news on education, employability and and policies effecting young people, she takes great pride in driving a brand and organisation that supports the development of professional skills and behaviours in our future leaders.
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About Gradvert: UK’s leading graduate recruitment and training companies
Jamie Paterson
Managing Director of PTM Group
Jamie heads up the board as Group MD providing strategic leadership and motivation to the group board and the wider team. Jamie is an enthusiastic leader and can be infectious with his positivity and ideas. Jamie is responsible for the growth, strategic direction and corporate relationships on behalf of the business. Jamie is an astute business professional and is very much the corporate face of the group, developing relationships throughout the region in the support of the group’s corporate aims and objectives. Jamie is very passionate about the group’s values and the group’s brand and is the unofficial “head of design and all things visual”, often earning him yawns and sighs from board and staff members alike! A Chartered Surveyor by profession, Jamie has been running PTM Group and its previous incarnations since it was founded in 2010. He is currently studying towards an MBA at Durham University and lives in Longframlington with his wife, two children and a goldfish.
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About PTM Group: PTM Group is a specialist group of training companies who deliver high quality vocational training through government funded apprenticeship.
Graham Cherrett
Managing Director, Sales Specialist & Master Trainer of The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training
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About The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training: The Longley Sales Academy empowers sales leaders & sales professionals to make the right call, at the right time, to excel in their careers.
Graham Cherrett
Managing Director, Sales Specialist & Master Trainer of The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training
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About The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training: The Longley Sales Academy empowers sales leaders & sales professionals to make the right call, at the right time, to excel in their careers.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
