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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 COO’ operating in the Infrastructure 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.
Aly Nurmohamed
Chief Operating Officer of Permutive
Aly Nurmohamed is the Chief Operating Officer at Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
William Saad
Co-Founder & COO of IHS Towers
Willam is responsible for shaping IHS’s long-term technology vision and driving innovation across the company.William has 18 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry. He has played a key part in the development and roll-out of Nigeria’s telecom sector, including building the first turnkey sites that marked the beginning of the country’s GSM revolution. Before establishing IHS, William was the Operations Director at CELIA Motophone Nigeria Limited. His responsibilities included designing, implementing and operating Motophone GSM, PNL and V-SAT networks in Nigeria. His achievements at CELIA include successfully implementing in 24 months the planned network expansion for one million subscribers. Before joining CELIA, William served as project manager at Lintel SAL where he designed and implemented GSM projects and was a Site Survey and Implementation Engineer at Libancell. William has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University of Beirut.
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About IHS Towers: IHS is a mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider.
Tony Lissaman
Chief Operating Officer Private Equity of 3i Group
Tony Lissaman In his role as Chief Operation Officer (COO), Tony is responsible for the operational running of 3i’s international Private Equity business. His responsibilities include the strategic development of the business, financial planning and reporting, business processes and systems, resource management, portfolio monitoring and valuations. Having previously qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, Tony joined 3i in 1998 initially working in 3i’s Group Finance team. Over his career at 3i, Tony has been involved in the reshaping of 3i’s Private Equity business, including its international development and integration. Tony has a Geography degree from Loughborough University and is a qualified chartered accountant.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Gary Fraser
Chief Operating Officer of Foresight Group
Chief Operating Officer at Foresight Group LLP.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Jason Pinto
Co-founder & COO of Pace Revenue
Jason is a co-founder at Pace. Pace has built the first solution that gives hotels real-time forecasting, price sensitivity analysis and automation. We use machine learning and statistics to turn pricing into a real-time exploration how to optimally match supply and demand. Our algorithms are proprietary and actively worked on by our science team. Prior to co-founding Pace Jason was a Partner at Amadeus Capital where he focused on opportunities in online services and fintech. Since joining the firm as an associate in 2007, he has worked closely with several Amadeus companies including Edgeware and Liquavista, helping Edgeware to a public listing on the NASDAQ Stockholm market and Liquavista to a sale to Samsung. He was also an active observer on the board of Unruly helping it exit to News Corp. Jason started his tech career as a lead member of a technology and product development team at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked on commercialisation of the world’s first electronic ink display. The technology has been widely deployed in a range of consumer products most notably Amazon’s Kindle electronic book. Jason holds Engineering and Science degrees from MIT, Stanford University and Cambridge University. Jason is mostly Trinidadian with a bit of Jamaican and American added in for good measure.
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About Amadeus Capital Partners, Pace Revenue: Pace is revolutionising revenue management with a suite of tools to deliver science, real-time and automation.
Nigel Moss
Chief Operating Officer of Wireless Infrastructure Group
Nigel joined WIG in 2014 from Lloyds Development Capital where he was Managing Director for Scotland. For the past decade Nigel’s focus has been managing investments in companies that have operating businesses with real assets. At WIG, Nigel ensures operations run smoothly for customers and plays a leading role in new infrastructure development.
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About Wireless Infrastructure Group: Wireless Infrastructure Group is an independent infrastructure company.
Sheila Flavell
Chief Operating Officer of FDM Group
With over 26 years of experience in both the public and private IT sectors internationally Sheila is passionate about enhancing diversity in the workplace and creating exciting careers for the next generation of digital talent. Sheila spearheads FDM’s global Women in Tech initiative and FDM’s Getting Back to Business Programme, aimed at providing opportunities for returners to work. In addition, Sheila’s experience and knowledge of the sector has been crucial in driving the Group’s global expansion programme.
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About FDM Group, Future Digital Media: FDM Group is a professional services provider with a focus on IT and business recruitment for graduates and veterans.
Tom Greenwood
Group COO / CEO-Designate of Helios Towers Africa
Tom Greenwood is the CFO & Group Chief Operating Officer at Helios Towers Africa.
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About Helios Towers Africa: Helios Towers Africa has operations in Ghana, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a sister company in Nigeria.
Tomás Sabat
Chief Operating Officer of Vaticle
Tomás is the Chief Operating Officer at Vaticle. He works closely with Vaticle’s open source and enterprise users who use TypeDB to build applications in a wide number of industries including financial services, life sciences, cyber security and supply chain management. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Tomás has spent the last seven years founding and building businesses in the technology industry.
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About Vaticle: Empowering engineers to solve complex problems – creators of TypeDB and TypeQL
James Lunn
Chief Operating Officer of Africa Mobile Networks
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About Africa Mobile Networks: Africa Mobile Networks is finances, builds, and operates mobile network base stations in Sub-Saharan Africa region.
Richard Sinclair
Chief Operating Officer of Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband
Richard Sinclair is the Chief Operating Officer at Zzoomm.
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About Zzoomm Full Fibre Broadband: Zzoomm is a leading Full Fibre broadband internet provider in the UK building a brand new broadband network
Charlotte Pawar
Chief Operating Officer of infini Group
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About infini Group, Trade Park Corporation: Infini delivers infrastructure services to governments, businesses, and intermediaries via its cloud-based grid architecture.
Rob Evans
COO of Logicalis
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Gary Jordan
Chief Operating Officer of euNetworks Group
Gary Jordan is Chief Operating Officer at euNetworks, responsible for all Operations functions within the business, including developing and maintaining the network, ensuring its physical integrity and performance. Also for the deployment of all customer services and bandwidth associated projects. He joined the Company in November 2008. Gary has held telecommunications operational roles for over 23 years. Prior to joining euNetworks, he held a number of senior posts in fixed and wireless design, deployment and operation of fibre, copper and GSM networks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a Senior Manager in Metromedia Fibre Networks, Gary was responsible for the engineering and construction of high capacity fibre networks in 16 cities across 8 European countries. Before this he held senior positions at Lucent Technologies EMEA, Southwestern Bell and Cox Communications. He was responsible for the planning and design of one of the first CATV systems to be introduced into the UK, which later became Virgin Media. Gary holds a University Higher National Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications and is trained in Advanced Project Management IPM from the Stevens Institute of Project Management New Jersey.
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About euNetworks Group: euNetworks is a Western European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.
Sarah Moger
Change Management/ COO of BOLD ROCKET
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About BOLD ROCKET: A new ‘people technology’ company on a mission to make people’s lives a little more wonderful in any way we can.
