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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 CEO’ operating in the IT Infrastructure space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine
Paul is a serial entrepreneur specialising in speech, language and artificial intelligence. In 2006, he co-founded Phonetic Arts, which developed speech software for the games industry. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, and Paul worked at Google as head of the text-to-speech group and as a research scientist until leaving in 2013. 2004-2006 Paul was a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, working and teaching in the Engineering department. During this time, he wrote Text-to-Speech synthesis, widely regarded as the definitive book in the field. In 2000, Paul co-founded Rhetorical Systems which was the world leader in text-to-speech. Rhetorical was acquired by Nuance in 2004. From 1989-2000, Paul was at Edinburgh University, where he gained his PhD, worked as a post-doc, tenured lecturer and eventually director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He is author of more than 80 academic papers.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
David Mills
Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
David Mills is Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe. David is responsible for the strategic direction of the company as well as the operations of Ricoh’s 20 operating companies across EMEA, marketing operations and the supply chain. He joined the Ricoh Group in 2008, having already held several senior roles in our industry including President of European operations at IKON. He then became the Managing Director of Ricoh UK, before joining the Ricoh Europe Board as Executive Vice President, and then COO. He became CEO of Ricoh Europe in April 2014.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Igor Chugunov
CEO & Founder of Credits
12 years in business, including IT fintech projects, bank and credit e-services, affiliate marketing company for banks and PDL companies. Four years of experience in the blockchain business. Working with CREDITS platform since 2016.
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About Credits, Credits: Credits App makes your money, crypto and investing experience easier
Silvio Di Crosta
CEO of Domotz
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About Domotz: Remote Monitoring & Management in an IoT World.
Oliver Jones
CEO of Chayora
Oliver is an international leader in complex property developments and long-term operating projects. He has 25 years experience in corporate real estate, critical systems and data centres and has led projects throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. He is a qualified property professional with strong corporate finance credentials through his London Business School MBA. Oliver works closely with major corporations and governments worldwide in delivering sustainable, innovative business and community solutions. Oliver was previously a Group Board Director and senior equity partner with EC Harris heading all global Corporate Real Estate and Critical Systems portfolios. He is also a Non-executive Director for Keysource Ltd. As a co-founder of Chayora, the principal areas of focus for Oliver are overall team leadership and co-ordination linked to investor management, securing tenants and raising the external profile of the company with key stakeholders.
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About Chayora, KrySource: Chayora is an infrastructure developer based in Hong Kong with a focus on building Data Centre platforms in China.
