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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 Director operating in the Language Learning space. If you think a Director 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.
Actar Arya
Founder and Managing Director of DA Languages
Actar is the Director of DA Languages and is extremely passionate about the language industry. In fact she had worked as a freelance interpreter prior to starting up DA Languages in 1998.
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About DA Languages: DA Languages Ltd is a South Manchester based interpreting and translation agency working across the UK.
Patrick Eve
Co-founder & Non Executive Director of TranslateMedia
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About TranslateMedia, ZigZag Global: TranslateMedia provides professional translation, localisation, and transcreation services for documents, websites, and content marketing.
Andrew Davison
Founder & Managing Director of Teacher Finder
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About Teacher Finder: Looking for a language teacher? We can help you find one quickly and easily.
Andrew Davison
Founder & Managing Director of Teacher Finder
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About Teacher Finder: Looking for a language teacher? We can help you find one quickly and easily.
Dan Fairs
Non-Executive Director of AutonoMe
Dan Fairs is a highly experienced engineering manager, software architect and consultant specialising in backend architecture and development, and technical team building and mentoring. Dan was Founder and Technical Director at SecondSync, and created the SecondSync data platform. SecondSync was acquired by Twitter in April 2014. Dan then went on to manage a team of engineers at Twitter UK until his departure in 2016.
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About AutonoMe: AutonoMe is a support provider delivering independent living skills to people with learning disabilities.
Hanan Khalifa
Director of Education Reform & Impact of Cambridge English
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About Cambridge English: Cambridge English provides language assessment for learners and teachers of English.
