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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 Manager operating in the Software Engineering space. If you think a Manager 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.
Steve Knight
Country Manager UK of Builder
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About Builder: Builder helps people build their technology without having to become an engineer or hire a team.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Isaac Kamga
Manager, Google Developer Group Buea of Google Developers Group
Isaac Kamga is the founder and manager of the Google Developer Group Buea www.gdgbuea.org, a community nonprofit funded by Google and ActivSpaces Cameroon. (The group GitHub can be found here.) Through the group, Isaac develops programs that have introduced over 300 youths to computer programming. The group currently hosts the largest number of female open source contributors and has produced over 30 Google Summer of Code participants from Cameroonian Universities. For the past two years, Isaac has served as country mentor for the 14 Google Developer Groups in Cameroon, where he pushes for more collaboration on common open source projects. Isaac has made research contributions in graphics, which he started when he was a Google Summer of Code Student under BRL-CAD. He is a co-organizer of the annual Silicon Mountain Conference, which brings together over 700 developers, creatives, and tech enthusiasts to the mountain area of Cameroon for a day of code labs, inspiration, and fun.
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About Google Developers Group: Google Developer Groups (GDG’s) are for developers who are interested in Google’s developer technology.
Dale Archer
Senior Business Development Manager of EPAM Systems
With an addiction to all things tech and social media, not to mention a background in Biz Dev within Social Media Tech at the likes of SocialBro and SocialBakers, the opportunity to take the lead on a Social iPhone app was too hard to turn down! Loves Pugs, Gadgets, Football and snapchat and hates bad shoes, bad manners and wires!
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Stuart Baker
Senior Product Manager of Granta Design
Stuart is a Senior Product Manager responsible for Granta’s Enterprise Integration products. As a product management leader, Stuart has two decades of experience developing engineering software and has a keen interest in technical partnerships and the interoperability of Granta’s portfolio with third-party systems.
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About Granta Design: Granta helps engineering enterprises to manage and apply vital information about engineering materials.
