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 B2B 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.
David Anderson
Chief Operating Officer of Hubble
David Anderson is Chief Operating Officer at HubbleHQ. He is also with Pi Labs Property Innovation as mentor. Prior to this, he was head of finance at Thread.com and COO at Silicon Milkroundabout.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
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Jamie Powell-Tuck
Chief Operating Officer of ZigZag Global
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About Dolphin Finance Corporation, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Pravina Pindoria
COO & Co-Founder of Tallyfy
Pravina Pindoria is the Co-founder & COO at Tallyfy
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About Tallyfy: Tallyfy is beautiful workflow software that lets you document, track and improve all your repeatable processes
Mate Knezovic
Chief Operating Officer of AGRIVI
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About AGRIVI: AGRIVI is a global agritech company with the market leading farm management software
Nir Dupler
CRO & COO of Fornova
Nir Dupler is Chief Revenue Officer at Fornova.
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About Fornova, Pavilion: Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.
Sukhi Jutla
Co-Founder & COO of MarketOrders
Sukhi Jutla is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of 3 books. She is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. She is a leading international speaker, influencer and thought leader in tech and a qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer. She is recognized by a number of industry awards including the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, Management Todays ’35 Women Under 35? and named a Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. In April 2018 Sukhi made global headlines when she became the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author.
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About Department for International Trade, Haymarket, MarketOrders, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University of West London: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Parham Rakhshanfar
COO, Co-founder of Huzzle
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About Huzzle: Meet the Career Companion for Gen-Z. #huzzle, don’t hustle
William Lorenz
COO of Kwanji
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About Kwanji: Online FX Comparison Platform Bridging Emerging & Traditional Markets
Estelle Lloyd
COO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Obi Ejimofo
COO & Operations Director of Asoko Insight
Obi is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur now focused on implementing new business models in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the former managing director of Lamudi Nigeria and previously a senior manager at Thomson Reuters and Philips Electronics, designing and delivering global enterprise programmes. London Business School (MBA); University of Nigeria (BEngr)
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About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Narelle Morrison
COO of Babel PR
Narelle is co-founder of the agency and one of the most respected technology PR professionals in the world. She makes sure we achieve the goals set for every client campaign and that Babel progresses continually towards achievement of its own goals; short, medium, and long term.
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About Babel PR: A public relations agency, with offices in London and Boston, focused on the technology, media and telecoms industries.
Tristan Rushworth
COO & Co-Founder of Class-ify
Tristan is COO and Co-Founder of Class-ify. He has 15 years experience working with some of Europe’s largest businesses helping them with the strategies and funding to scale. Tristan started Class-ify after seeing the challenges his wife faced in building her own online coaching business and the various roles a solopreneur is required to master in order to build a successful business.
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About Class-ify: Class-ify’s mission is to create wealth for personal trainers. We provide all the software, sales & marketing tools and playbooks for personal trainers to build successful businesses – all in one place.