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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 Manager operating in the Business Intelligence space. If you think a Manager 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.
Giulia Toniolo
Account Manager of Bloomberg
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Christine Flounders
Engineering Manager of Bloomberg
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Simon Holgate
Technical Research Manager of IBM Research
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About IBM Research: IBM Research provides research and developments related to the technological industry.
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Chloe Nicholls
Product Marketing Manager of SimilarWeb
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Ian Painter
General Manager, Air Operations of Cirium
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About Cirium: Cirium brings together aviation and travel data and analytics to keep the world moving.
Rob Bishop
IT Infrastructure Team Manager of RSA Insurance Group
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About RSA Insurance Group: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
Sigal Mamistvalov
Manager, Customer Success of Optimove
Sigal Mamistvalov is the Customer Success Manager at Optimove.
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About Optimove: With an actionable CDP at its core, Optimove’s CRM Marketing Hub autonomously transforms customer data into actionable insights.
Kevin Restivo
Research Manager, 5G and Enterprise Mobility of IDC
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Galina Spasova
Research Manager of IDC
Galina Spasova is a research manager in IDC’s European Imaging, Printing and Document Solutions (IPDS) team. In her role, she is involved in providing market analysis and insights and business planning advice and delivering consulting projects. Galina’s experience enables her to aid the development of new products and services for customers of IDC Europe. Her recent research focuses on topics, such as the Future of Work and the return to the office post-COVID-19. Spasova is also part of the European Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact (TSSI) Practice, in which she offers strategic direction and advice to ICT players on the business value of sustainability. Prior to joining IDC, Spasova gained experience in research in a number of different areas, including service providers and platforms, electronics, media, and political and country risk. She has extensive knowledge of primary research methods and analysis techniques, having previously worked on research product development and completed large scale projects for major clients such as Samsung and the European Commission. Spasova holds a master’s in international conflict studies from King’s College London. She is fluent in English, Russian, and Bulgarian, and also speaks Italian. You can follow Spasova on Twitter @GalSpasova and on Linkedin SpasovaGalina.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Angela Salmeron
Research Manager, IT and Telecoms industries of IDC
Angela Salmeron has over 10 years of experience in the ICT industry and is currently a research manager with IDC’s EMEA Enterprise Mobility research service, based in London. In this position, she provides strategic analysis, insight, and consulting on the supply and end-user adoption of emerging technology trends in the enterprise mobile market. She also helps manage IDC’s EMEA Enterprise Mobility CIO Survey. Salmeron is a regular speaker at industry events such as seminars and conferences. Prior to this role, Salmeron was responsible for fixed business network services, where she provided research and consulting on fixed data networks initially, and later on voice and hosted unified communications. Specifically, her research focused on the evolution from legacy to emerging technologies, such as Ethernet on data services, and hosted IP Centrex and SIP trunking on voice services. Her position involved providing industry developments, competitive analysis and strategic market forecasts.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Jerry Catallo
Sales Support Manager of Alscient
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About Alscient: Alscient specialise in IT consultancy, software development and systems integration.
Graham Ballinger
Project / Programme Manager of Alscient
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About Alscient: Alscient specialise in IT consultancy, software development and systems integration.
Nicola Douglas
Marketing Manager of Feedback Ferret
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About Feedback Ferret: Feedback Ferret make it easy for companies to improve your customer experience using text analytics.
Lance Concannon
UK Marketing Manager of Sysomos
Lance has over a decade of PR agency experience as a social media specialist at agencies including Immediate Future and Text 100, working with brands such as Sony Electronics, IBM, Oracle, BP and Accor amongst others. He recently joined Sysomos as the UK marketing manager.
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About Sysomos: Sysomos offers social media monitoring and analytics products that gives insight needed to make smarter business and strategic decisions.
