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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Wellness space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Maroof Ahmed
COO & Co-founder of Quit Genius
Maroof Ahmed is the COO of Quit Genius.
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About Quit Genius: Quit Genius is pioneering digital therapeutics for multiple addictions.
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Gabor Szedlak
Co-founder and COO of MindLabs
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About Car Throttle, MindLabs: MindLabs is the world’s first live mental health platform.
Constanza Di Gennaro
Chief Operating Officer of BioBeats
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Martin Hao
Chief Operating Officer of Healthera
Martin is an internationally experienced entrepreneur and engineer who is the lead inventor of Healthera’s core technology.
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About Healthera: Transforming the way a nation delivers its healthcare to its population, from prescriptions to personalised services.
Eliot Brooks
Co-Founder & COO of Thriva
Eliot Brooks is Co-founder and COO at Thriva. Prior to this, he perforemed various roles at Tandem Bank and was once a manager at Travelex. He bears a degree in economics from University of Oxford.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Kate Newhouse
Chief Operating Officer of Kooth
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About Kooth: Personalised Digital Mental Healthcare Available for All
Sam Fromson
Co-founder & COO of YuLife
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About YuLife: YuLife is a provider of life insurance and policies providing income in the event of critical illness.
Quitterie de Rivoyre
Co-Founder & COO of WholyMe
Quitterie de Rivoyre is the co-founder and COO of WholyMe.
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About WholyMe: WholyMe offers the healthiest, effective relief remedies. Our products are all-natural and 100% organic certified.
Nabil Ismail
COO of Plumm
Nabil Ismail is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Healing Clouds LTD. In his career spanning over 12 years, he had held designations at companies ranging from mortgage banking to telecom. He holds Masters degree in Computer Science and Business Administration with specialisation in Finance and Operations. Healing Clouds was hi foray into holistic healthcare with an aim to bring holistic healthcare to the world after his personal experience in the field. He also has an avid interest in painting and sketching when he is not learning something new.
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About Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Neil Harmsworth
Co-Founder & COO of Hussle
Co-Founder and Business Development Director at payasUgym.com. Focused on business innovation, finding new and better ways to do things and challenging ‘business as usual’. Constantly questioning why things are done the way they are and pushing people to think differently. The ‘ideas’ guy.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Steven Burton
Chief Operating Officer of Genius Sports
Steven Burton is the Chief Operating Officer of Genius Sports.
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About Genius Sports: Genius Sports is the official data, technology and commercial partner that powers the global ecosystem connecting sports, betting and media.
Sylvain Vuillen
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Findoc
Sylvain Vuillen is serves as a Chief Operating Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Charles King
Chief Operating Officer of ROVR Systems
Charles is an accomplished Applications Engineer and Operations and Technical Director with experience ranging from Siemens Magnet Technology to start-ups such as Capteur Sensors. Charles has a track record of successfully bringing technology to market and building and motivating highly effective technology development teams. He mixes skills in managing science-to-technology company growth with hands-on processing experience.
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About ROVR Systems, Wizdish, YASA: ROVR Systems Limited has built a Virtual Reality (VR) walking / running simulator.
Sean Downey
COO + Co-Founder of MagnaPass
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About MagnaPass: MagnaPass is a fitness eco-system, allowing Partners (studios/freelancers) ways to gain new clients & manage their business.
Vasileios Touronis
Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of My Online Therapy
Vasileios Touronis is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at My Online Therapy.
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About My Online Therapy: MyOnlineTherapy, a mobile mental health company, is the first of its kind virtual psychology clinic.
Michael Harrison
Co-Founder & COO of Gravity Fitness
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About Gravity Fitness: GraVity, a trampoline park company
Tristan Rushworth
COO & Co-Founder of Class-ify
Tristan is COO and Co-Founder of Class-ify. He has 15 years experience working with some of Europe’s largest businesses helping them with the strategies and funding to scale. Tristan started Class-ify after seeing the challenges his wife faced in building her own online coaching business and the various roles a solopreneur is required to master in order to build a successful business.
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About Class-ify: Class-ify’s mission is to create wealth for personal trainers. We provide all the software, sales & marketing tools and playbooks for personal trainers to build successful businesses – all in one place.
