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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 VP’ operating in the Business Information Systems space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Kriti Sharma
VP of Artificial Intelligence of Sage Group
Kriti Sharma is VP of bots and AI at Sage. She was recently named in Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30. She built her first robot at the age of 17, designed to bring chocolates to its controller. The software bots she works on at Sage today are designed to helping business builders do less admin, and more of what they love. Sharma is a trailblaser for smart machines that work and react like humans to help to make business admin invisible. Sharma is the creator of Pegg, the world’s first accounting chatbot, launched to market in 2017 which now boasts users in 135 countries.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Colin Cooper
Sage People Vice President & Founder of Sage Group
Colin Cooper serves as sage people vice president and founder at The Sage Group.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Adam Parker
EVP Data of Sage Group
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About Sage Group, Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Matthew Locsin
Vice President of Publicis Sapient
Matt Locsin is a Vice President at Publicis Sapient, where he leads the firm’s practice for innovation and drives Digital business transformation. He works with leaders and their teams to conceive, develop, and launch ‘what’s next’ and helps organisations to build their innovation competencies.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Dennis Parker
SVP, Customer Success of K2
Dennis is the SVP, Customer Success and early employee of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. — the developer of K2. He assumed his current position in 2003, when the company was created in South Africa. Since inception he has been involved in customer facing roles in sales, support and service delivery.
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About K2: K2 is a low-code digital process automation in the cloud.
Paul Schulz
EVP, Technology and Innovation of Skedulo
To innovate and create unique online products and services that have the capacity to change the way people work and play in a globally networked world. 24 years technical software development experience including 18 years in the field of mobile and online technologies with 12 of those years being in the role of Chief Technical Officer. Entrepreneurial advocate, strategic consultant and experienced architect and developer of “operator grade” large-scale (‘LAMP’ and ‘REST’ based) internet and wireless service platforms. Extensive programme, project and people management of mobile and internet service engineering teams across the full project lifecycle. Solid experience in the development of business plans for early stage internet/wireless concepts and the operation/lifecycle of early stage ventures. Proven “hands-on” technical track record coding & delivering products with internet, online video and mobile technologies with both in-house and outsourced technology teams. Specialties CTO, VP Engineering, Game Development, AWS, very broad deep online and wireless technologies – messaging, internet and client (iOS, Android), very broad and deep internet, game and video technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Java, HTML, CSS, XTHML, Javascript, AJAX, REST based architectures, H.264, FMS, CDNs, Video Asset Management, Drupal, IAB VAST & VPAID
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About Skedulo, WISTLA: Skedulo is a workforce management and scheduling platform for deskless workers.
