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 CEO’ operating in the Productivity Tools space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Ali Alauoubiy
Co-founder & CEO of ProdX.ai
Ali shapes the strategies that harness big data to solve daily problems. His focus is firmly on technology, platform capabilities and business growth. He has 18 years of experience in leading technology, delivery functions and business transformation across a range of sectors including financial service, travel, private equity and professional service. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. And is currently completing the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. A transformational leader experienced in managing large scale transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, complexity reduction/simplification, globally distributed diverse teams, strategic business growth, turnaround, restructuring, and operation management. With a broad International career experience across the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa and North America. – Cross-functional leadership, management and coaching multi-cultural, and distributed (including remote) teams, including setting clear and measurable goals aligned to strategy and fostering collaboration across diverse teams – Leading complex enterprise and digital transformations (including Agile Delivery and DevOps, Change Management, Culture Change, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud Migration). – Delivering multi-million-dollar budget software integration and transformation projects in a broad range of sectors (Private Equity, eTrading, wealth & asset management, aviation and, professional services). – Effective internal and external stakeholder management experience across business units. – Previous work experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (2004-2008), financial.com (2008-2010), Mubasher Financial Group (2010-2012), National Net Ventures (2012-2014), Credit Suisse (2014-2015), Emirates Airline (2015-2017) and ESW Capital (2017-2019).
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About ProdX.ai: Bring transparency and objectivity to the workplace by empowering individuals to achieve more, powered by A.I. insights and coaching.
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon
Fraser Robinson is Non Executive Director at Taggstar
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About Beacon, Taggstar: Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Jerome de Lafargue
Co-founder & CEO of Zeroheight
Jerome de Lafargue is the Co-founder & CEO at zeroheight.
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About Zeroheight: Zeroheight is a DevOps platform that allows design teams to create up-to-date style guides and document their design system resources.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Peter Sweetbaum
CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud
Peter Sweetbaum is the CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud & he attended London Business School in 1995.
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Tushar Srivastava
Founder & CEO of Nurturey
Tushar Srivastava is a Founder & CEO at Nurturey. He has a professional background in Finance, Management Consulting and Technology.
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About Nurturey: Nurturey is the smartest Personal Assistant for parents
Philip Ashton
Co-Founder & CEO of 7bridges
From a background in analysis and development in management consultancy (Oliver Wyman) and specialist logistics provision (World Courier), Philip co-founded 7bridges to apply customised AI to logistics operations. MSci Cambridge University.
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About 7bridges: 7bridges is a smart logistics platform that delivers visibility and control over logistics processes.
Adrian Blair
CEO of Dext
Adrian Blair is the group CEO at Receipt Bank.
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About Dext: Empowering accountants and bookkeepers with the smart and forward-thinking solutions needed to make businesses better.
Tom Pickersgill
Co-Founder and CEO of Orka Technology Group
Tom Pickersgill is the Co-Founder and CEO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Simonetta d’Ottaviano
Co-founder, CEO of Nettoken
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About Nettoken: The control panel for your digital identity!
Jennifer Johansson
Founder & CEO of Placed App
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About Placed App: Placed is a mobile-first recruitment platform helping the high labour churn, service industries access permanent staff.
Ed Macnair
CEO of CensorNet
Ed Macnair is CEO and brings 30 years of sales and business development expertise in technology and IT security to CensorNet. He has a proven entrepreneurial track record of successfully developing technology companies and leads the company’s sales, marketing and product strategy. Ed joined CensorNet to accelerate the company’s product development efforts and aggressively grow the web security revenues through its global channel partners. He was previously founder and CEO of SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor, which was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013. Before Intermedia and SaaSID Macnair was CEO of Marshal, a global web and email security company which merged with US web security provider 8e6 Technologies to form M86 Security. Macnair has also held senior management positions with MessageLabs, Symantec, IBM and Xerox.
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About CensorNet: CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS) is a new-generation comprehensive cloud-based cyber security solution.
Jordan Fantaay
CEO of Fantoo
An innovator and lead in product design and development. Has been responsible for setting up manufacturing operations across Singapore, China, and Taiwan. Also responsible for bringing to market software and hardware patent pending products, in particular in some cases for fortune 500 companies. Has several Patents granted in his name and is continuing to seek opportunities in the consumer technology space. Is launching a disruptive consumer messaging software venture in 2012
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About Fantoo: Fantoo is a people centric, mobile and desktop, application for web apps, messengers, and notifications.
Syd Lawrence
CEO of The Bot Platform
CEO of The Bot Platform. Co-founded and sold various businesses. Serial Entrepreneur. First company at the age of 12.
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
Moody Boles
Founder & CEO of Imaginators
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About Imaginators: Imaginators is an online platform that helps people to showcase their work professionally and interactively.
Paul Donnelly
Founder and CEO of Teknov8
Paul Donnelly is the founder and CEO of Teknov8.
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About Teknov8: Teknov8 provides managed IT services to help businesses accelerate business activity and boost efficiency.
