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 Crowdfunding 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.
Sarah Harvey
Chief Operating Officer of Prodigy Finance
Sarah is an experienced leader who is passionate about growing innovative businesses. Recently the Head of UK at fast-growing fintech Square, and previously the COO of Tough Mudder, Sarah has worked across 22 countries and is no stranger to international landscapes. Sarah started her career with large company experience at Diageo and Bain & Company, and at not-for-profit organisations in Africa where she worked on projects ranging from supply chain management for a medical charity in the DRC to advising on public health financing facilities for the Gates Foundation in Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal. Sarah is also a board member for Securities Trust of Scotland Plc. Outside of work Sarah loves to read as many novels as possible whilst travelling, watch England play rugby and improve her boxing skills. MA Hons, University of Cambridge.
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About Prodigy Finance: Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school.
Richard Fitch
Chief Operating Officer of Spring Financial Group
Richard Fitch has been serving as Chief Operating Officer at Spring Financial Group since May 1, 2016.
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About MQube, Spring Financial Group: Spring Financial Group is set to transform the way people in the UK get a mortgage.
Alex Marples
Chief Operating Officer of Crowdfunder
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About Crowdfunder: Crowdfunding is an alternative way of raising money for great ideas from the people happen all over the UK and beyond.
Areti Kampyli
COO of Alice SI
10 years of corporate advertising & business development experience. Founded Yasmo (UK-2009) & turned it into a profitable business in less than 2 years. Former Corporate Advertising Manager at Ogilvy & Mather with an MSc in Media & Communications from London School of Economics. Founder of CliqStart – the grassroots activism app, where passionate people join forces with activist groups & politicians to fix political and social issues, through concrete actions.
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About Alice SI: Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Ben Lloyd
COO of Property Moose
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About Property Moose: The Property Crowdfunding Platform where members can invest from £10 and receive monthly rental income and any capital growth.
Sally Burton-Graham
COO of Crowd.Science
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About Crowd.Science: Crowd.Science is a crowdfunding platform that supports scientists build a community of funders for their research.
Ian McWilliams
COO & Co-founder of Inzura
Ian McWilliams is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years experience in the Telecoms and IT market covering both the Enterprise market and Mobile Network Operators. A business developer and leader for major business divisions in global vendors such as Motorola, Lucent Technologies & Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Ian brings a wealth of maturity and experience in managing strategic relationships and running large internationally diverse teams across EMEA, AsiaPac and the Americas. Ian also has extensive experience in multiple start-up companies, covering Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Application Development and Customer Support.
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About Inzura: Inzura’s customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines.
Jonathan Littlewood
Chief Operating Officer of Crowdstacker
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About Crowdstacker: Crowdstacker is a curated debt based investment platform.
Mark Selby
COO of Fruitful Homes™
* Formerly COO of Virgin Money Exco that raised £800m to bid for Northern Rock * Delivered 13% EBITDA growth in 2015 and 10% profit growth. Completed MBO * Led team that built Abbey National’s broker software responsible for ~£15billion annual originations (90% of total)
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About Fruitful Homes™: Fruitful combines real estate crowdfunding with modular home developments to make beautiful, affordable homes
Mark Selby
COO of Fruitful Homes™
* Formerly COO of Virgin Money Exco that raised £800m to bid for Northern Rock * Delivered 13% EBITDA growth in 2015 and 10% profit growth. Completed MBO * Led team that built Abbey National’s broker software responsible for ~£15billion annual originations (90% of total)
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About Fruitful Homes™: Fruitful combines real estate crowdfunding with modular home developments to make beautiful, affordable homes
Ben Washington
Founder& COO of Homegrown
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About BWCUK, Homegrown: Homegrown is a property crowdfunding platform.
