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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 Vice President operating in the Advertising space. If you think a Vice President 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.
Asit Mehra
Executive Vice President of Omnicom Group
Asit is responsible for growing some of Omnicom’s key client relationships. He is tasked with developing and delivering bespoke “Screen to Shelf” solutions for clients that leverage the scale and creativity of Omnicom’s individual agencies, creating new, more effective ways of engaging with large global clients and ultimately their consumers. Asit has been with Omnicom for almost nine years, before which he spent 18 years at the Interpublic Group, where he held a variety of roles, ranging from running large multinational businesses, regions and offices. Asit is a true citizen of the world, having grown up and worked on both sides of the Atlantic and Asia.
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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Blair Robertson
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of TVSquared
Blair is a seasoned data scientist and visualization guru with a background in Artificial Intelligence. He has spent the past 13 years helping global companies improve decision-making and product development through the application of analytics. As TVSquared’s CTO, Blair is an expert in a range of statistical techniques such as data modeling, signal processing and machine learning, which he and his team deploy to continually improve the company’s technology platform. Throughout his career, Blair has focused on presenting complex technical concepts in an easy-to-consume, business-friendly way and has a reputation for designing analytic products that are highly visual and intuitive. Previous engagements have included time as principal analyst at Sumerian, where he led analytic engagements with dozens of the world’s largest companies. Blair has also acted as a private consultant for a wide-variety of data-driven companies in financial services, utilities and hi-tech, and as a financial technology consultant with Accenture Plc.
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About TVSquared: TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution.
Nadine Causey
Senior Vice President of EMEA & APAC of Guinness World Records
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About Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records: Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement.
James Prudhomme
Executive Vice President, International of Index Exchange
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Justin Barrett
Vice President EMEA of Brightcove
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About Brightcove, Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud
Senior Vice President Marketing of Connexity
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud is Senior Director, EMEA B2B Marketing Director for Yahoo. He has 20 years of experience in Marketing for the Media and Tech Industries both on the Sales and Publishing sides. Before joining Yahoo in 2009 he worked for magazine publishers in France: Marketing Director for Groupe Express Roularta (leading publishers for news, business and lifestyles magazines in France), Marketing Director for the women magazines division of Emap France (Women magazines), Marketing and Research for Groupe Expansion (Business magazines).
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About Connexity, Skimlinks: Connexity is a digital advertising company that works with merchants to determine which product offerings to put on publishers’ websites.
Lucia Mastromauro
Vice President, Global Head of Client Partnerships of Adform
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About Adform: Making display advertising simple, relevant, rewarding for advertisers, agencies and publishers
Bernard Periatambee
Vice President of Factual Development of Frantic Films
For the last sixteen years, Bernard has developed and produced numerous hit formats over a wide range of genres, from long running lifestyle brands and factual series to quirky reality formats, high volume studio talk shows and arts films. His credits include, Cash in the Attic, Natural Born Dealers, Built From Disaster, The Ugly Face of Beauty, The Farm of Fussy Eaters, among many. Since relocating to Toronto, he has been an important force in the development of successful series including, Still Standing (CBC), Buy It, Fix It, Sell It (HGTV), Anything But Average and Blood and Gold (Discovery).
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About Frantic Films: Frantic Films Canadian branded content and live action production company.
Sam Yardley
Executive Vice President, North America of Two Circles
Since joining Two Circles, Sam has led a number of projects for professional clubs and governing bodies, both in the UK and increasingly internationally, helping them grow commercial revenue across ticketing, membership, retail and hospitality. Sam has fused his passion for sport with his background as a strategy consultant at Accenture, where he worked with a range of multinational companies, government ministries, and start-ups, and learnt how to make a mean spreadsheet. Sam definitely makes a better fist of watching sport than participating in it. Recent career highlights include the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, the Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, and finally seeing England beat a southern hemisphere side at Twickenham. Just don’t mention the last Ashes tour.
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About Two Circles, Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Dom Blacklock
Vice President Programmatic, International of Active International
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About Active International: Active International provides support services for businesses in utilizing organizational assets.
Sarafina Wolde Gabriel
Vice President of Strategy & Opearations of Lee-Ann Johnstone
Sarafina oversees the development of the Income Access brand. She is passionate about digital marketing and building relationships, and when she’s not consulting with our clients and affiliates, she enjoys laughing, travelling and running. She’s also a big fan of Arsenal FC, and you’ll never find her without music.
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About Lee-Ann Johnstone: A digital and affiliate marketing consultancy specialising in Affiliate Marketing Training, affiliate program management and marketing.
Damien Savage
Regional Vice President US of Kainos WorkSmart
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About Kainos WorkSmart: Kainos WorkSmart is a leading provider of digital services and platforms.
Benjamin Hansz
Vice President of Simplaex
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About Simplaex: Simplaex is the company behind the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence-powered user targeting technology.
