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 CIO’ operating in the Energy space. If you think a CIO’ 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.
Kaveh Pourteymour
Chief Information Officer of Neptune Energy
Kaveh Pourteymour is Vice President & CIO at Seadrill.
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About Neptune Energy: Neptune Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company.
Claire Dickson
CIO Downstream of BP
As the CIO for Downstream at BP, Claire is accountable for the provision of IT to global marketing and manufacturing operations businesses from Crude to Customer, including Refining, Petrochemicals, logistics networks (road, barge, rail), pipelines, airports, the Castrol business and 18,000 retail sites globally. Claire is a transformational CIO. She is executing a leading IT Strategy to simplify the old legacy estate to prepare the company for a resilient future at the same time as accelerating digital, building digital platforms that enable speed to market of new customer offers and intelligent operations. As senior female leader in BP, she mentors and actively coaches leaders, creating a pipeline of STEM talent for the future.
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About BP: BP delivers heat, light and mobility products and services to people all around the world.
Mike Young
Group Chief Information Officer of Centrica
Mike brings a wealth of experience in managing global IT functions in partnership with customer-facing units, and using big data and digital technologies to drive revenue growth and improve the customer experience. Before joining Centrica he was group chief information officer with the media and digital marketing company Dentsu Aegis Network where he was responsible for all aspects of IT and data in a portfolio spanning 140 countries. Prior to his time at Dentsu Aegis Network, Mike was with the Post Office, where he was chief operating officer, serving on the Post Office board and that of its subsidiary, Post Office Financial Services. He also chaired the operating and transformation boards, and held senior executive positions at Orange, Verizon and BT.
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About Centrica, Centrica: Centrica is a multinational energy and services company developing innovative solutions, offers, and products.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-Founder of Vestemi
Mark has a computer systems engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 7 years working in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Dan Mauger
CIO & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Dan is an experienced developer of enterprise information and ecommerce systems and has an MSc in Information Systems from City University for which he won a departmental award. Dan leads on the development of Demand Logic’s core software, from the underlying data management engines to the front-end web application.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
