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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 Product operating in the Food and Beverage space. If you think a Product 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.
Sally Matthews
Chief Product Officer, Chief Finance Officer of Gousto
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Iain McNeill
VP Digital Product of Gousto
Iain McNeill serves as vice president of digital product at Gousto.
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Fernando Fanton
Chief Product & Technology Officer of Just Eat
Fernando Fanton is a technologist and strategic leader with executive experience in the technology sector. His diverse background and extensive experience has allowed him to effortlessly span across strategy, marketing, product development, and engineering. JUST EAT is the world’s leading digital marketplace for takeaway food delivery.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Eliza Becton
Co-Founder | Head of Product of Bevi
Eliza Becton is our CEO and product lead.Her background is in user-experience design at various startups,with end-to-end experiences from ideation to market research to prototyping. Eliza graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Masters in Industrial Design, and from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Bevi: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
David Bryans
Founder and Products Developer of Barenaturals
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About Barenaturals: Barenaturals is a world friendly and candle company. They make natural candles & organic skincare balms with nature’s greatest ingredients.
James Terry
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of Dishpatch
James Terry Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Dishpatch.
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About Dishpatch: Bringing the UK’s best restaurants home. Exclusive menus, delivered across the country.
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Krzysztof Czerkawski
Production and supply chain administrator of Ministry of Cake
I am enthusiastic, honest and reliable person. I have the initiative to work on my own as well, as working well within a team environment. I’m always straining to excel as my academic history and my employment experience reflect. I have plenty of experience that has helped me to adapt to new environments and take on bigger responsibilities. I am a cheerful bubbly person with a good sense of humour. I live an active lifestyle and enjoy gaining new skills as well as discovering new people, places and things. I strongly believe that the company will benefit enormously from my skills I have Master of Since degree in Chemical and Process Engineering – my specialisation is Process Engineering and postgraduate studies “Quality Systems Manager and Quality Systems Auditor“. I’ve made lots of additional curses and training. In my professional life, I’ve taken apart in the creation of interesting projects such Start Of Production, preparing them for implementation, running, monitoring they works, dates collection for statistic rapports. To my responsibilities belong management, continuous improvement, cost saving actions maintain high standards of products quality and overall efficiency incest in different kind of processes. I’d have many occasions for using with production, workshop and warehouse managing systems and quality improvement tools and techniques such FMEA for different stages, 5S, FIFO, TPM, Kaizen at many organisations and in various positions. Thanks this I’d collected many examples of good practices. I have knowledge of the wide spectrum of professional software and experience with PLC and automatic production as well as prototyping – individualisation tools in the international environment.
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About Ministry of Cake: Ministry of Cake manufactures slices of own-label cakes and gateaux.
Peter Sparks
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of KoolBeans
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About KoolBeans: Order ahead from the best independent coffee shops
Stephanie Bradley
Product Manager of Caterforce
Stephanie Bradley is the product manager of Caterforce.
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About Caterforce: Caterforce is a foodservice buying and marketing consortium in the UK.
