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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Environmental Engineering space. If you think a Founder 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.
Sebastien Blanc
Co-Founder of RESOLVE
Sebastien is the Chief Executive Officer at Skimlinks since 2018. He joined Skimlinks as Chief Revenue Officer in 2016 and brings over a decade’s experience building and growing technology start-ups in Europe, the UK and the US. Prior to joining Skimlinks, Seb led international expansion, operations and, subsequently, the US at Struq, a UK-based retargeting start-up successfully acquired by Quantcast in 2014. Sebastien is passionate about building great technology companies: he is also on the board of London HQ-ed MentionMe and Paris-based DoLead, 2 VC-backed companies in the martech space. Sebastien started his career founding a start-up in Berlin and working as an analyst for XAnge, a Paris-based VC investing in Europe and the US. Seb is an avid reader, long distance runner, gin-cocktail drinker and amateur classical piano player.
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About RESOLVE: Resolve is a huge effort that gives scientists an efficient way to put their carbon capture and storage research into practice.
Alexander Guslisty
Founder, CEO of BIG Atom
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About BIG Atom: Recycling company on a mission to end polymer waste. They develop, build and operate new generation infrastructure for processing waste.
Jonathan Sieff
Co-Founder of Polymateria
Jonathan Sieff is the Co-Founder of Polymateria.
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About Polymateria: Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
Lee Davy-Martin
Co-Founder of Polymateria
Lee Davy-Martin is the Co-Founder of Polymateria.
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About Polymateria: Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
Riccardo Segat
Founder & CEO of Amplio Group
During his career, Riccardo has worked on a number of private equity deals across Europe, which required international complex financial structuring. He was partner of AMP Private Capital a large international insurance company managing USD 2 billion of private capital in Europe, Asia and Australia. Prior to this, Riccardo was a Principal at Compass Partners, a USD 1 billion LBO fund focused on acquisition of non-core assets from large international corporations. Riccardo started his career in the Investment Banking group of Merrill Lynch in London and the Equity Capital Group at GE Capital.
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About Amplio Group, Envirogen Group, ReGen Future Planet: Amplio Group invests in renewable energy, alternative fuels, filtrations, recycling, environmental services and specialty care enterprises.
Adrian Griffiths
Founder & CEO of Recycling Technologies
Founder of RT in 2011. Previously a management consultant and engineer, Adrian has extensive commercial and technical experience in a variety of manufacturing sectors. He co-founded two successful UK businesses: OEE Consulting & Vendigital. Adrian holds a degree in engineering from Imperial College.
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About Recycling Technologies: Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste.
Alan Finlay
Chief Executive, Founder of Salunda
Alan has spent the past 15 years’ commercialising technology, including as co-founder and CEO at Microsaic Systems plc, where he conceived and launched the world’s first chip-based mass spectrometer products plus led a successful IPO exit. Alan has a MEngSc in Engineering from University College, Dublin.
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About Salunda: Salunda develops robust, contactless sensors for use in very harsh environments.
Antonio Cianci
Co-Founder & CEO of Airlite
Antonio Cianci is co-founder and CEO at Airlite® / AM Technology Ltd.
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About Airlite, Kauffman Fellows: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Arun Jayadev
Co Founder & Director of Airlite
Arun Renuka Jayadev is strengthening the cleantech team since November 2008. As a Principal, his primary task is to source and evaluate new deals and to support the current cleantech portfolio. An Indian native, Arun has exclusively focused on the cleantech industry in the last years. He has worked for Spanish S.I. Capital, a private equity firm investing in renewable energies, where he conducted extensive research on cleantech investments. Prior to this he has worked for a start up electric motorcycle company and also served as an advisor to an Australian Waste to Energy company. He has helped organize five clean technology forums across the world, e.g. the first industry-specific seminar in Spain, which brought together start-up companies, VCs and executives for the first time. Arun started his career as a consultant with Computer Associates on projects in India, the U.S. and various other locations. There, he has managed teams of up to 16 people. Arun holds a MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona in 2008, where he took also the opportunity to study one term at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles. In 2003, he finished a BE with a focus on computer science with distinction at the Rashtriya Vidhyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Massimo Bernardoni
Co-Founder & Director of Airlite
Massimo Bernardoni is co-founder and director at Airlite® / AM Technology Ltd.
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About Airlite: Airlite is a Bozen, Italy-based company that produces natural high performance paints.
Josh Thomas
Co-Founder, Head of Innovation of Karakoram
I’m Josh Thomas, an engineer, designer and innovation specialist with a career devoted to discovering and exploiting opportunities that arise when emerging technologies or business changes create new consumer and user needs. I build and lead cross-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, developers, strategists, stand-up comics, and experiential artists who focus on new approaches to creating digital and physical products, platforms and organizational design.
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About BuyLevel, Glorious Labs, Karakoram: Karakoram is an award-winning innovation consultancy that creates breakthrough solutions for the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Glyn Cotton
Co-Founder of WATR
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About WATR: WATR develops a water monitor that is self-powered, portable, easy to install, with a live data dashboard and notification alerts.
Scott Porter
Co Founder and CTO of WATR
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About WATR: WATR develops a water monitor that is self-powered, portable, easy to install, with a live data dashboard and notification alerts.
Matthew Ritchie
Co-Founder & CFO of Dendra Systems
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About Dendra Systems: We equip you with the data and tools to restore biodiverse ecosystems at scale.
Susan Graham
Co-Founder & CEO of Dendra Systems
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About Dendra Systems: We equip you with the data and tools to restore biodiverse ecosystems at scale.
Hannah Gardiner
Co-Founder, CEO of AirPublic
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About AirPublic: AirPublic measures and analyses air quality with fixed and mobile devices.
