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 Board Member operating in the Finance space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Terry Taylor
Board Member & CCO of The Access Group
Terry joined Access from Salesforce, where he spent four and a half years leading Customer Success. He has been a member of Salesforce EMEA and the Worldwide CSG leadership team. Formerly with Microsoft, AT&T and Citibank, Terry brings a wealth of leadership experience in fast growing and well established global technology brands.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Lord Francis Maude
Advisory Board Member of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Basem Salfiti
Board Member of Souqalmal.com
Based in London, Basem is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His portfolio includes CicekSepeti, Deliveroo, Menaclick and he currently serves on the board of directors of MarkaVIP, Souqualmal and Bank al Etihad in Jordan. Prior to joining Hummingbird, Basem was a Managing Director at Perella Weinberg Partners in London where he led the technology banking business in Europe. Prior, he was an Executive Director in the technology banking team at Morgan Stanley. Basem also held a number of executive management roles at BEST IC Laboratories, a semiconductor start up in Silicon Valley. Basem has a MBA with honors from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science with honors in Electrical Engeneering from Brown University. He is fluent in Arabic and English and speaks French.
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About : Souqalmal.com is the leading financial comparison site in the Middle East with operations in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
Bernard van Bunnik
Board Member of dopay
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About : dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.
Miguel Abadi
Board Member of HedgeCoVest/SMArt Xchange (SMArtX)
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About : Award Winning Unified Managed Accounts Technology. Exclusive provider to SS&C Advent’s UMA platform the SMArt Xchange (SMArtX).
Andy Golding
Board Member of Monedo
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About : Monedo uses machine-learning technologies to provide access to better credit for the underbanked.
Marco Taricco
Advisory Board Member of Satispay
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About : Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
James Alexander
Advisory Board Member of LANDBAY
James has been one of the main revolutionaries of British financial services over the past decade. He radically transformed the notion of financial intermediation as co-founder and UK CEO of Zopa, the world’s first peer-to-peer lending platform. Prior to that, he was Strategy Director of Egg, the groundbreaking online bank, where he launched the company’s digital TV and mobile services and the UK’s first and most successful account aggregation service. James is currently a Partner of The Foundation, a leading growth and innovation consultancy, where he has worked with clients including M&S, O2, Just Giving, Barclaycard, Tesco, Eurostar, The Guardian, Save the Children, A&n Media, Friends Life, Old Mutual and HSBC. He is also a Trustee for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a Trustee and former CEO of Green Thing and a Chair of GEN Community, an industrial provident society that delivers low carbon investments as well as social impact.
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About : Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.
