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 Vice President operating in the Social space. If you think a Vice President 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.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
James Lamar Jacobs
Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology of Anakando Media Group
Mr. James Lamar Jacobs, “Jake”, joined the company in 2014. He is an accomplished engineering technologist and senior business executive with over 35 years of focused experience in a range of technology based roles across operations management, business process optimization and strategic planning. Jake has held executive management assignments at Honeywell, Teledyne, ITT, Cubic Defense and AVK Kyocera and most recently, as the CEO of consulting company, Lamarjean Group, Inc. He is a US Army veteran having served in a number of command roles with the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division. He received a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. And an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida and a Phd in Theology from North Western. As Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology, Jake plays a critical role in supporting the Anakando Media Group’s technology mediated strategic planning.
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About Anakando Media Group: The Anakando Media Group is a rapidly expanding and innovative digital media company with global interests.
Joel Churcher
Vice President Marketing & Partnerships – Britbox North America of BBC Studios
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About BBC Studios: BBC Studios is a global content company with British creativity.
Matt Bourn
Senior Vice President of MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations
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About MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations: One of the top mid-sized public relations firms & one of the 5 largest independent agencies in the US, with European headquarters in London.
Anthony Leaper
Senior Vice President and Sales GM – Enterprise Social Software at SAP of Insightfulinc
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About : Insightfulinc is a cloud-based enterprise search service that helps employees find the right people at the right time.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
