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 CEO’ operating in the Consumer Software space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Sari Anabtawi
CEO & Co-Founder of Snupps
Responsible for the overall vision and strategic direction. Sari has 25 years of experience in banking and venture capital. He was Executive Director of Abraaj Capital and previously a founding partner in Sivana Holdings. He served on the board of several startups including Century Exploration, Learningbyte, Advantiv. Sari started his career at IBM and Andersen Consulting. He later held senior positions at Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Sari holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College and an MBA from Georgetown University.
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About Smith Barney Harris Upham & Co., Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Gideon Lask
CEO & founder of Buyapowa
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About Buyapowa: Buyapowa is the global leader in referral marketing. Your customers have friends, let’s make them customers too.
Alex Rainey
CEO of Pluto
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About Pluto: Pluto helps travel lovers discover inspiration, plan their trips and connect with like-minded people. It’s like Pinterest, but for travel.
James Walker
Founder & CEO of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
Mathew Prior
CEO of TrustedHousesitters
Mathew is a successful and highly respected global travel and leisure leader with significant experience across multiple industry sectors, business models and geographies. He has led and grown some of the most iconic experiential leisure brands across the globe, ranging from Crystal Ski, the UK’s largest ski tour operator, to Le Boat, the European leader in self-drive boating vacations based in France, to Sunsail & The Moorings, the worldwide leader in yacht charter vacations based in the USA. He is currently CEO of TrustedHousesitters, the leading online marketplace for in-home vacation pet care. He has a reputation as a capable and popular leader, balancing clear strategic thinking and decision-making with a robust approach to strategy execution in international organisations, harnessing the power of digital technology to deliver new and innovative customer experiences along the way. He has led both high growth businesses and those requiring the strong leadership of a performance turnaround, and his experience has led him to gain a strong understanding of doing business in the UK, continental Europe and the USA. Mathew lives in Brighton with his family and enjoys skiing, sailing, and all sports that are based upon a moving ball.
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About Travelopia, TrustedHousesitters: The world’s largest sharing economy marketplace for vacation pet care
Saurabh Goyal
Founder and CEO of Satoshi Systems Limited
Saurabh, our Chief Product Strategist, has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing, designing and developing trading systems. One of the earliest bitcoin & blockchain backer, Saurabh is passionate about emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and AI for the fintech industry. He spends most of his free time with his boys (aged 5 and 8) teaching them chess and programming.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Jordan Fantaay
CEO of Fantoo
An innovator and lead in product design and development. Has been responsible for setting up manufacturing operations across Singapore, China, and Taiwan. Also responsible for bringing to market software and hardware patent pending products, in particular in some cases for fortune 500 companies. Has several Patents granted in his name and is continuing to seek opportunities in the consumer technology space. Is launching a disruptive consumer messaging software venture in 2012
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About Fantoo: Fantoo is a people centric, mobile and desktop, application for web apps, messengers, and notifications.
Paul Durose
Chief Executive Officer of X Tag
Paul Durose is the CEO of GAs Tag, a company that develops a gas safety platform for housing associations, private landlords, registered engineers, and homeowners.
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About X Tag: X Tag develops a gas safety platform for housing associations, private landlords, registered engineers, and homeowners.
Bhavin Shah
CEO of Chooz.Pics Ltd
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About Chooz.Pics Ltd: Visual decision making applications
