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 Film 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.
Jian Li
Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Manager of Sky UK
Jian Li is Principal Data Scientist in Sky. He leads a data science team with a main focus on machine learning research for Sky’s content discovery products and services including search and recommendation. His research covers various topics including deep learning, natural language processing, ranking, metadata enrichment and semantic knowledge inference. Before joining Sky, Jian was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he developed the personalised email classification product for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services. This product has been used by 50 million customers globally by the end of 2015. Jian holds a Ph.D in computer vision and experimental psychology from University of Bristol.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
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Johnny Carr
Group Event Cinema Manager of Vue Entertainment
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About Vue Entertainment: Vue Entertainment is a cinema developer and operator of multiplex cinemas in the UK.
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Nadia Kelsey
PR / Bookings Manager of Xzero Entertainment
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About Xzero Entertainment: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
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Adam C Evans
Senior Product Manager of We Got POP
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About We Got POP: The platform for all people on production in film, TV and commercials.
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Tasha Collins
Production Manager of Flying Tiger Productions
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About Flying Tiger Productions: Video and Film production