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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 Principal operating in the Business Development space. If you think a Principal 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.
Christopher Steinau
Principal of Northzone
Christopher Steinau is the Principal of Northzone.
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About Disperse.io, Distribusion Technologies, Einride, Flink, Forto, Infogrid, Northzone, Personio, TIER Mobility, Wagestream: Northzone is an early-stage venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles.
Nihal Sinha
Principal of F-Prime Capital
Nihal is a Principal at F-Prime Capital based in the London office and focuses primarily on the biotech and healthcare IT sectors. Prior to joining F-Prime in 2013, he worked as a management consultant at BCG where he consulted to pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers. Nihal worked as a physician at Oxford University and UCL Hospitals where he completed his foundation training. Alongside his clinical work, Nihal conducted research in cognitive neuroscience at Queen Square. Nihal holds a MB BChir with distinction from the University of Cambridge.
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About F-Prime Capital: F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
Margaret Perchik
Principal of Prime Ventures
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About Prime Ventures: Prime Ventures invests in technology and leverages its capital, experience and network to actively guide them into global category leaders.
Muz Ashraf
Principal of TCV
Muz Ashraf is a Principal at TCV.
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About Klarna, Mambu, Redis, Spryker Systems, TCV: TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.
Peter Wood
Principal of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities
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About AURELIUS Equity Opportunities: Aurelius Equity Opportunities is an investment firm that provides equity, growth, debt and real estate investments.
Neha Tanna
Principal of Social Starts
Neha is a medical doctor in London. Neha spent years as a General Practitioner before transitioning to the Life Sciences industry, where she held various roles in pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MBA from London Business School, where she fell in love working with entrepreneurs and startups. She has since worked with a startup med-tech company, as well as several accelerators and VCs in the healthcare space, most recently with a global venture builder with a focus on early-stage tech companies. Neha is an angel investor, loves tennis and dance, and is a strong advocate for personal fitness and nutrition. She also has a soft spot for wildlife and conservation.
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About Social Starts: Social Starts is a venture capital partnership that focuses on the emerging science of individual health.
Marco Sperling
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Husnu Kilincoglu
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Lance Grant
Principal Solutions Consultant of Pegasystems
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Chris Hewertson
Principal | CIO | CTO | Board Advisory of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Ian Lynch
Founder & Principal Consultant of Active Consultants
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About Active Consultants: Active Consultants provides consulting services and solutions to improve business growth.
Ian Lynch
Founder & Principal Consultant of Active Consultants
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About Active Consultants: Active Consultants provides consulting services and solutions to improve business growth.
Ian Nock
Founder and Principal Consultant of Fairmile West
Ian Nock is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Fairmile West Consulting and has over 25 years of experience in high technology research, development, and operations. Since entering the TV industry in the late 1990s, he has worked in the setup and launch of many Satellite, Cable, IPTV, and OTT video platforms across Europe in diverse roles that encompass technology and operations from production to consumption. Ian moved into consulting in 2004, working with some of the most innovative vendor and operator companies in the industry. He founded Fairmile West Consulting (www.fairmilewest.com) in 2012 as a multi-national, high expertise Digital TV and Media consulting and professional services company, working with large/small operators and technology vendors on product/technology strategy, architecture, and delivery. Taking an early interest in the development of Ultra HD, Fairmile West has been a member of the Ultra HD Forum since 2015 and has been an active participant in their efforts around Interoperability, taking a leading part in those efforts with member companies and organizations. Ian graduated with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Engineering Technology in 1992 from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), undertaking research into medical automation, flexible packaging dynamics, and post-graduate research into artificial intelligence-based control systems with a number of published papers in those areas. He quickly jumped out of academia into the nascent Internet and Networking industry before moving into TV. He is a member of the IET, IEEE, RTS, and Fellow of the SCTE: The Society for Broadband Professionals.
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About Fairmile West: Fairmile West is the specialist TV & Media Technology and Business Consultancy
