Best Startup
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 Mobile 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.
Ziran Sun
Principal Open Source Engineer of Samsung Electronics
Ziran Sun is an Open Source Engineer at Samsung Research UK. She has been involved in a few open source projects, including webinos, blink/chromium, and IoTivity. Currently, Ziran is looking at web IoT and related areas.
Follow Ziran Sun:
About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Andy Sutton
Principal Network Architect of BT Global Services
Andy Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Architecture and Technology. He is responsible for end to end 5G network architecture with a particular focus on RAN and backhaul/x-haul strategy and architecture. He has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry, mainly in radio access, transmission and transport network strategy, architecture and design. Andy Sutton’s research interests include; distributed and centralised RAN architectures and protocols, RAN dimensioning, QoS and mobile backhaul (optical transmission, microwave and millimetre wave radio systems, network architecture and protocols along with synchronisation and time distribution in telecommunications networks). During his career Andy has worked for Mercury Communications Ltd, Orange, H3G, EE and now BT. Andy is a Visiting Professor at the University of Salford and a research mentor at the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. He sits on the industry advisory boards of the EU FP8 H2020 iCirrus project and Tweether project. He contributes to International telecommunications standardisation activities and several industry forums. Andy is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and Fellow of the ITP.
Follow Andy Sutton:
About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Paul Gunning
Principal Researcher of BT Global Services
Paul Gunning is a Principal Researcher in the Converged Networks practice at BT Research & Innovation investigating Optical, Ethernet, and Software Defined Networking. He received his BSc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University in 1992. Paul joined BT in 1994, was awarded an MSc in Laser Physics (1995) and a PhD in Photonic Switching (2001) from Essex University.
Follow Paul Gunning:
About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Stephen Greenslade
Principal Solutions Architect of EE
Stephen is a Principal Solutions Architect at EE, operator of the UK’s largest mobile network. He has architected major network projects such as NGN Gi, IP interconnect, femtocells, EE WiFi on the London Underground and QoS enablement. Architecture lead during EE’s successful response to the UK government’s tender to provide mobile network services for the Emergency Services Network, he has 20 years of architecture experience with mobile operators starting with his first telecoms role in Accra, Ghana. Stephen graduated from the University of Cambridge, is a member of the IET and holds an MBA.
Follow Stephen Greenslade:
About EE: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
Sylwia Kechiche
Principal Analyst, IoT of GSMA
As the principal IoT analyst in GSMA Intelligence, Sylwia leads the IoT product development. Her responsibilities range from sizing the IoT opportunity, including the role of operators, to researching and analysing IoT technologies, applications and business models. Sylwia has also moderated and presented at a number of conferences. Sylwia previously worked in telecommunications, media and technology with Pyramid Research.
Follow Sylwia Kechiche:
About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Elliot West
Principal Engineer (Data) of Hotels
Elliot is a principal engineer at Hotels.com in London where he designs tooling and platforms in the big data space. Prior to this Elliot worked in Last.fm’s data team, developing services for managing large volumes of music metadata.
Follow Elliot West:
About Hotels: Hotels provides online hotel booking and reservation services intended to ease the travelling process.
Gary Munro
Principal Consultant of Consult Hyperion
Gary is a globally recognised retail payments expert with specific focus on digital transactions from the point of sale & mobile and services perspective. He leads Consult Hyperion’s POS practice, advising clients such as mastercard, eftpos, Worldpay, American Express and Visa on the commercial and technical requirements for enabling secure digital payment solutions. He often works on the specification, design and implementation of state of the art payments technologies which challenge the current models. Prior to joining Consult Hyperion Gary led Gemalto’s POS Division in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, prior to and during its acquisition by VeriFone. He has 28 years’ experience in electronic payments, with over 13 years’ experience of tailoring point of sale solutions to meet the specific requirements of the larger UK Acquirers, including Worldpay and HSBC Merchant Services.Gary holds a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde.
Follow Gary Munro:
About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Elson Sutanto
Principal Analyst of Juniper Research
Elson Sutanto is a principal analyst at Juniper Research.
Follow Elson Sutanto:
About Juniper Research: Juniper Research specializes in the evaluation of opportunities across the mobile telecoms, content, and applications sectors.
Jason Durk
Principal Consultant of 3Squared
Follow Jason Durk:
About 3Squared: 3Squared is a mobile app developer company which has developed apps like Festive Finge
David Everett
CEO and Principal Consultant of Microexpert
David Everett is a leading authority on the security design of electronic payment systems. With a cryptographic background and extensive knowledge of the tamper resistant properties of smart cards and HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) David is able to assist clients with a deeper understanding of electronic payment systems and digital currencies. His expertise also includes novel approaches to securing data in the cloud and IOT. David is the CEO of Microexpert which provides consultancy services in electronic payment and transaction systems. The company has been advising clients on digital security for over 30 years. David is the co-founder of Tibado, a central ledger electronic cash system and prior to that was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mint to analyse the future of electronic payments which culminated in the design of MintChip, an electronic cash system for both the physical and virtual worlds. Previously he was engaged by NatWest bank to design a fiat based digital currency system using public key cryptography that became known as Mondex. This also led to the invention of Multos, a secure multi-application Smartcard OS with a PKI based control module. David also represented the UK banks on the original research work designed to improve card verification methods. This eventually led to the chip and pin system adopted internationally today. As a consultant to eftPOS UK David undertook the security design of a national debit card system which resulted in the first significant commercial use of public key cryptography. Previously he was contracted by CHAPS, the UKs Clearing House Automated Payment Scheme as co-designer of the security scheme. As a cryptography consultant, David is particularly able to help his clients with the business and technical architecture of modern electronic payment systems, authentication, IOT security and digital currencies. Apart from his numerous lectures David also undertakes training sessions on various aspects of electronic payments and transactions.
Follow David Everett:
About Microexpert: Microexpert are an independent data security consultancy and are leading experts in the application of cryptography.
