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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 Founder operating in the Mechanical Engineering 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.
Alexander Guslisty
Founder, CEO of BIG Atom
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About BIG Atom: Recycling company on a mission to end polymer waste. They develop, build and operate new generation infrastructure for processing waste.
Theo Saville
Co-Founder & CEO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Chris Emery
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Jarek Rosinski
Founder and CEO of Transmission Dynamics
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About Transmission Dynamics: Transmission Dynamics is an independent privately owned company
Richard Browning
Founder & Chief Test Pilot of Gravity
Richard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology start up Gravity. Launched in March 2017, Gravity has invented, built and patented an ‘iron man like’ flight system. Richard’s dream was to reimagine an entirely new authentic form of human flight leaning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by leading-edge technology. Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60m within 7 days of launch. Richard’s vision is to build Gravity into a world-class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire the future STEM generation to dare ask ‘what if’.
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About BP, Cass Business School London, Gravity, Gravity: Gravity is a British human propulsion technology company.
Hayley Bishop
Founder & Technical Director of Swytch
Hayley came onto this project right at the beginning – practically for the first heartbeat of the product after joining the team during the Shanghai Bike Fair in 2016. With 12 years’ experience in Software Development and Design she is responsible for the management and delivery of all of our online content, branding, and marketing material. She has worked on a number of large high profile internal software development projects whilst running her own Design and Development company for the past 5 years which makes project managing such an exciting project, a necessary skill for us to take full advantage of. In almost exactly the same way as our customers, business aquaintences, friends and family members, Hayley reacted to electric bikes and in particular the Swytch bike; she wanted to be part of this movement and to get her hands on a Swytch bike as soon as possible. And what better way to do that then join the team!
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Alexander Schey
CEO & Co-Founder of Vantage Power
Alexander Schey is the Chief Commercial Officer & Electrification at Allison Transmission .
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About Allison Transmission Holdings, Vantage Power: Vantage Power designs and manufactures powertrain electrification and connectivity technologies for heavy-duty vehicles.
Toby Schulz
Co-Founder & CTO of Vantage Power
Toby Schulz is the Director Electrification & Systems IRD at Allison Transmission.
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About Allison Transmission Holdings, Vantage Power: Vantage Power designs and manufactures powertrain electrification and connectivity technologies for heavy-duty vehicles.
Paul Domjan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ENODA
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About ENODA: ENODA provides the transition to a zero-carbon energy system in a way that is economically sustainable for all.
Mike Gascoyne
Founder & CEO of MGI Engineering
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About MGI Engineering: MGI Engineering provides technology and engineering solutions on improving various kinds of transportation.
Dominic Vergine
CEO and Co-Founder of Monumo
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About Monumo: Monumo is an electronic and mechanical engineering company that develops optimal electric motors.
Jianguo Lin
Founder of Impression Technologies
Jianguo has been the driving force behind the development of the HFQ process and has developed significant know how in the processing of hot and warm formed aluminium & steel . He currently heads the mechanics of materials division at Imperial, and previously was at Birmingham University.
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About Imperial College London, Impression Technologies: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Trevor Dean
Founder of Impression Technologies
Trevor has had a long and distinguished academic career. he has been involved with HFQ since its inception. Both Professor Lin and Dr Foster worked with him.
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About Impression Technologies, University of Birmingham: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Gary Gibson
Founder & Board Member of Ibex Innovations
Gary is the founder of IBEX Innovations, which he formed in 2010. He developed the fundamental technology behind IBEX and then successfully obtained venture capital backing for the company in 2012. Gary stepped down as CEO in 2013, moving into his current role as Chief Scientific Officer. He also takes management responsibility for the IBEX quality systems. Gary graduated with a PhD from Imperial College, London, in 1999, and then took up a research post at the University of Cambridge. After being offered a fellowship at Cambridge, he moved into research positions in high tech industries, working for a number of blue chip corporations, such as SDL and JDSU, and start-ups such as Intense Photonics. He headed many different research teams but then became fascinated with the interplay between commerce and technology. He shifted his focus to sales and marketing and account management, being promoted to become Deputy Director of Sales and Marketing at Bede X-Ray Metrology, a successful X-ray technology company based in Durham. Gary worked for Kromek for a number of years as a product manager and then Phase Focus, a high-tech start-up in microscopy, as Director of Sales and Marketing.
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About Dyman Advanced Materials, Ibex Innovations: IBEX X-ray detector technology adds materials information to silicon based detectors.
Nigel Hall
Founder & Managing Director of WHP Engineering
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About WHP Engineering: WHP Engineering is a multi-disciplined, engineering company dedicated to providing both standalone and turnkey solutions.
David Weir
Founder & Technical Director of WHP Engineering
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About WHP Engineering: WHP Engineering is a multi-disciplined, engineering company dedicated to providing both standalone and turnkey solutions.
Julian Sproule
Co-Founder of Hydraredox
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About Hydraredox: Hydraredox develops and manufacturers electrochemical energy storage based on proprietary vanadium redox technology.
Tamar Giloh
CEO and Founder of TamiCare
Tamar Giloh is the CEO and Founder of Tamicare.
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About TamiCare: Tamicare is an R&D, innovation and engineering company specializing in the field of textile and nonwoven materials.
Chris Dodson OBE DL
Chairman and Founder of Torftech
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About Torftech: Torftech group of companies develop, licence and provide the TORBED Energy Technologies to a wide range of industries.
Tim Plunkett
Founder and Director of Plunkett Associates
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About Plunkett Associates: Plunkett Associates providing knowledgeable resource through which companies could order prototype & low volume production parts.
