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 Mining 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.
Anand Verma
Founder & CEO of Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.)
Anand Verma @anandverma Anand is the Founder and CEO of climate tech startup Expect. A London-based company committed to decarbonising greening companies, profitably. Prior to my recent ventures, I was the Owner, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys), an award winning Global Digital and Innovation company headquartered in London with studios all over the world. Successfully acquired by Infosys in 2017 to accelerate Design and Innovation for Infosys and its clients globally. I also led Infosys’ digital capabilities in EMEA and was a part of the Infosys leadership team. I am also deeply involved with leading design school and university partnerships for Infosys. I am a digital visionary, innovator and successful entrepreneur who understands new products and services, revenue growth, operations and people. I have over 20 years’ experience in management consulting, digital and tech businesses. I have built a successful career by consistently delivering value through digital and customer-centricity. I love creating value by reducing complexity in the digital world at both speed x scale. Prior to founding Brilliant Basics, I was one of the youngest Presidents and CEO’s at Interpublic Group (IPG) leading IPG Mediabrands Ventures in EMEA, a global advertising and media conglomerate where I led digital Operations, Innovative Products and Services and M&A. And previous to that I held leadership roles at Sapient (now a part of Publicis), AKQA (now a part of WPP) and Modem Media (now a part of Publicis). I am an active investor, adviser, non exec board director, academia, podcast host and speaker. Related Information: – Anand was a co-founder of atp.io in 2012, a Marketing Tech Platform. – Anand was a cofounder of Everpress, a product incubator. – Anand was a co-founder of haberdash app, a digital textile printing startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Weekly, a media startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Mesmerise, a VR and AR Tech Platform. – Anand was the Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys) – Anand was INED for HML Holdings Plc, next generation Property Management company. Exited to Harwood Capital PE. – Anand was a Senior Leader at Infosys, Sapient, Publicis.Sapient, Interpublic Group IPG, AKQA…
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About Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.): Expect. is the decarbonisation management platform for large enterprises and heavy industries.
Giacomo Bugini
CEO of BTCMiner Cloud EU
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About BTCMiner Cloud EU: BTCMiner is Bitcoin miner with fully automatic process
Martin Horgan
Chief Executive Officer of Centamin
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About Centamin: Centamin plc is a gold mining company focused on the Arabian-Nubian Shield.
Jon Morrell
CEO of Vast Visibility
Jon Morrell is the CEO at Vast Visibility.
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About Vast Visibility: Vast Visibility is a technology and online marketing company that is dedicated to the insurance industry.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Kristofer Mansson
CEO of Silobreaker
Kristofer entered the technology industry in 2000 when he took on the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology venture in Stockholm owned by OMX and the Boston Consulting Group. Before the millennium he spent 15 years in Financial Services as Vice-President at Salomon Brothers and Managing Director of AIG Financial Products, both in London. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
Paul Knight
Chief Executive Officer of Blue Phoenix Group
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About Blue Phoenix Group: Blue Phoenix offers a unique bottom ash recycling service to the municipal waste incineration industry, based on best available technology.
Mark Hansen
CEO of Concord Resources
Mark Hansen is the CEO at Concord Resources Limited.
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About Concord Resources: Concord is a global commodities group with a focus on non-ferrous metals and their associated raw materials.
Roland Phelps
President and CEO of Galantas Gold Corporation
Roland Phelps graduated from Leeds University in 1976 and is a qualified Chartered Mining Engineer, Geologist and Registrant of the Engineering Council. He has worked in Canada in precious / base metal mining and major mining engineering projects. He has held senior mine management positions in the UK. He is a director and founder of Welsh Gold plc (a small mining company and prestige jewellery brand). He has other investment interests in property and construction.
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About Galantas Gold Corporation: Galantas Gold is a mining company that produces by-product gold, silver, and lead.
Jim Williams
Chief Executive Officer of Arian Silver Corporation
Jim Williams is a geologist with over 30 years’ experience in exploration, development and mining both underground and open pit operations, evaluation and management. Mr Williams holds BSc, MSc and D.I.C. degrees in Geology, Geo-mechanics, mineral exploration and evaluation. In addition Mr Williams is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Materials (FIMMM), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Geologist (CGeol), European Engineer (Eur Ing) and European Geologist (Eur Geol) and is therefore a “Qualified Person” under the rules of the Toronto Stock Exchange and a “Competent Person” under the rules of the London Stock Exchange. Mr Williams has published work including a diamond policy study review in Sierra Leone on behalf of the UK government, and has worked as an expert witness for a leading London-based law firm
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About Arian Silver Corporation: Arian Silver is a public company (AIM + TSX-V) operating a portfolio of producing silver mining projects in Mexico.
Jeremy Wrathall
Founder and CEO of Cornish Lithium
Jeremy Wrathall is the founder and CEO of Cornish Lithium.
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About Cornish Lithium: Cornish Lithium is focused on exploring for lithium within the hot springs.
Jacob Laurvigen
Group CEO & Co-Founder of Dexi
Jacob Laurvigen has been helping businesses achieving above expectations and personally invested in multiple successful start-up’s!
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About Blockware, Dexi, Mozenda: Dexi provides the leading Data Extraction and Data Automation Software.
Craig Hayman
CEO of AVEVA
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About AVEVA: AVEVA is an engineering IT software provider to plant, power, and marine industries.
Arthur Hanna
Senior Advisor & CEO of World Energy Council
Board member Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies. Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at Loughborough University. Fellow, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines. Responsible for supporting a number of agendas focusing on the development of strategies to promote energy transition across multiple energy sources. Arthur retired from Accenture in 2016 after 26 years working in the Energy consulting sector. He was a Senior Managing Director, leading the Global Energy Strategy business. Prior to joining Accenture in 1990 he spent 10 years with BP in a variety of international roles spanning the Middle East and Europe.
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About World Energy Council: World Energy Council is a UN-accredited global energy body dedicated to delivering a sustainable energy system worldwide.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Kuba Misiorny
CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Kamila Hankiewicz
Co-founder and CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Tim Livesey
Director & Group Chief Executive Officer of Oriole Resources
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About MINEXIA, Oriole Resources, Ormonde Mining plc, Strategia Worldwide: Oriole Resources PLC is an AIM-listed exploration company, operating in Africa and Europe.
