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 Birmingham based Manager operating in the Software 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.
Jafar Soltani
Senior Software Engineering Manager of Improbable
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Harry Jawanda
Group Product Manager of Allocate Software
Harry Jawanda is a young entrepreneur with a passion for technology. Harry has proven success as an athlete, and as an investment banking professional with Morgan Stanley. Harry’s role as CEO of WAMBIZ Limited is to drive technology strategy and idea generation. Formulating sales and marketing strategy are also his responsibilities in conjunction with the company’s COO, Andrew West. WAMbiz is at the forefront of social media’s user evolution developing industry specific “controlled” social networks. We believe that communities based on commonality foster loyalty and thus increased engagement and revenue generation for our clients. WAMbiz is the technological hub that enables a business to achieve closer alignment to it’s customers and provide better access to that business’ resources. Harry graduated with First Class Honours in Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) at Birmingham City University. Harry has also played field hockey for England for many years. He has won three English Premier Division titles among other accolades. In 2005, Jawanda proudly launched Youth Hockey Camps, a hockey coaching company he created to provide coaching camps for school children in England.
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About Allocate Software: Allocate Software is the leading workforce optimisation software applications provider for global organisations with large, multi-skilled
Patrick Sluder
General Manager, Sales and Marketing of BankTEL Systems
Recently Patrick Sluder was Senior Vice President of Retail Business Development at FIS. In this role he is responsible for overseeing New Business Development along with Strategic Client Relationship Management for Retail and non-Financial Industry. Formerly, Patrick served as Senior Vice President of Core Processing new business for Intercept Corporation for Community based financial institutions. Intercept was acquired by FIS in 1999 and Patrick was asked to continue his position in the new organization. Prior to joining Intercept Patrick served as Vice President of Sales for SBS Corporation that specialized in technology solutions for community based financial institutions. SBS was acquired by Intercept and Patrick continued to serve in his role of managing the Core and financial products for community based institutions.
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About BankTEL Systems, FIS: BankTEL Systems help financial institutions manage their expenses with easy-to-use software.
Andy Dalton
Regional Business Manager Midlands of Visiba Care
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About Visiba Care: Visiba Care is an e-health platform that allows healthcare providers to quickly and easily open their own digital practice.
Sam Nixon
General Manager of Jonas Sports
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About Jonas Sports: Jonas Sports provides enterprise solutions, as well as software and services for sports clubs and organizations.
Tim Ricketts
International Business Development Manager of MAC Solutions
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About MAC Solutions: MAC Solutions is a Technical Distributor for hardware and software products.
