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 Founder operating in the Ad Targeting space. If you think a Founder 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.
Matt Isaacs
Founder & Executive Chairman of Essence
As one of the founding partners, Matt helped shape Essence into the company it is today. That agency is now the world’s largest independent buyer of digital media with billings in excess of $650MM USD, is 480 people strong, and has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore and Tokyo. Current clients include Google, eBay, Financial Times and Barclays. Matt served as Global CEO of the agency until spring of this year. During his last four years in that role, both billings and headcount doubled every year. Today, as Executive Chairman, Matt oversees the Board, supports the execution of corporate strategy and helps to ensure the legacy of Essence exists well beyond the agency and the industry. Before co-founding Essence Matt was Chief Marketing Officer at Create Services & Goldfish Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group that handled all of the bank’s non LloydsTSB branded retail banking business across 15 brands and with £2B in assets. Matt’s ‘first career’ was in strategy consulting at McKinsey spin-off MMG, where he was part of the core team that built MMG Europe from 14 consultants to 400 across 13 offices. Matt lives on a small farm with his wife, 4 children, 5 hens, lots of sheep and bees in the depths of East Sussex, UK.
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About Essence: Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
Kirijen Vengadasalam
Founder of AdKnots
Kirijen Vengadasalam is a co-Founder of AdKnots.
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About AdKnots: Mobile App Marketing Agency
Sandeep Babu
Founder of AdKnots
Sandeep Babu is a co-Founder of AdKnots.
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About AdKnots: Mobile App Marketing Agency
Robert Hedberg
Co-Founder & CEO of GLIMR
Robert Hedberg is Co-Founder & CEO at GLIMR.
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About GLIMR: GLIMR connects the offline and the online world and allow retailers and brands to retarget their shoppers after they have left the store.
Alexei Poliakov
Co-Founder & CEO of Locomizer
Co-Founder at Locomizer
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About Locomizer: Matching Audiences to Locations
Peter Ward
Founder and CEO of Shoppar
20 years creating engaging customer experiences in retail. Extensive knowledge of how big brands like Diageo, Cadbury, Red Bull engage and sell to their customers. Previously on the POPAI UK Executive Board.
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About Shoppar: Generate digital content for Social Media advertising that performs
Nick Slater
Founder of Dibbz
Founder of Dibbz.
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About Dibbz: Dibbz is a mobile-based user engagement ad tech that introduces real rewards into apps and games for a great user engagement experience!
Elliot Sochall
Founder of Dibbz
Founder of Dibbz.
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About Dibbz: Dibbz is a mobile-based user engagement ad tech that introduces real rewards into apps and games for a great user engagement experience!
